A bunch of older links, sorry.
"An Indian spacecraft blazed its way to the far side of the moon Friday in a follow-up mission to its failed effort nearly four years ago to land a rover softly on the lunar surface, the country's space agency said."
"Last month was the hottest June on record going back 174 years, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. It's the latest temperature record to fall this summer, as the El Niño climate pattern exacerbates the effects of human-caused climate change." The previous record was June 2020. We're boned.
"An aggressive sea otter in California is hassling locals by riding boards she stole from surfers in the lineup… Steamer Lane is a legendary point break nestled along the rocky shores of Santa Cruz, home to swaths of experienced surfers, as well as a 5-year-old female sea otter with a growing reputation for repeatedly confronting surfers and kayakers." I'm Team Otter.
"A group of 43 healthcare workers at the Ascension St. John Emergency Department have voted to unionize, according to the National Labor Relations Board… The union includes doctors, advanced practice clinicians, physician assistants and nurse practitioners." I wish them luck. They're gonna need it. Also, I think it's interesting about how they view residents. Cause I gotta tell ya, I've said this directly to attendings, and they strongly refuse to train or correct the residents. Also it's great that they close rooms in the ED when they're short staffed. That certainly doesn't happen where I work.
"When you go on a diet, you don’t just lose fat – you lose muscle too. This can have many repercussions – not only on your fitness and strength, but on your metabolism… To lose weight (body fat), you need to be in a calorie deficit. This means consuming fewer calories than your body uses, or exercising to burn more calories than you consume." Eat less, exercise more. But if you cut carbs, your body will have to convert protein for your brain to work.
"A committee of 25 international experts has determined that aspartame may "possibly" cause cancer in people, according to a report released Thursday by the World Health Organization… But the U.S. Food and Drug Administration says it disagrees with this new classification, pointing to evidence of safety. In a written statement, an FDA official told NPR that aspartame being labeled by the WHO 'as "possibly carcinogenic to humans" does not mean that aspartame is actually linked to cancer.'" Just going to point out that the FDA tried to ban aspartame in the 90s and couldn't as NutraSweet (as it was called then) was too deeply integrated into the food supply to just yank it off the market and ended up having to defend it in the face of several attempts to sue to take it off the market.
"Elon Musk said (awhile ago) that Twitter is struggling with a 'heavy debt load' due to losing 50% of advertising revenue, resulting in the platform having a negative cash flow." Negative cash flow is tech bro speak for "hemorrhaging cash." Brownie, you're doing a heck of a job.
"Light is almost certainly the fastest thing around. So it makes sense that "light-based wireless communications," or LiFi, could blow the theoretical doors off existing radio-wave wireless standards, to the tune of a maximum 224GB per second." Just an example of why many of the "new things" are a load of garbage. One, this is why we have fiber optics. Two, the benefit of light isn't the speed, it's the bandwidth (how much data can be carried at once), and really, this is just hyped up IR connections. (Grokked from John, I think)
"While the Supreme Court scuttled President Biden's efforts at widespread debt forgiveness, these borrowers are about to get an email from the U.S. Department of Education, notifying them that their debts will soon be automatically erased."
"A Russian general in charge of forces fighting in southern Ukraine has been relieved of his duties after speaking out about problems faced by his troops, a move that reflected new fissures in the military command following a brief rebellion by mercenary chief Yevgeny Prigozhin." Ah, we've reached the "firing generals" stage of this conflict. Not that this guy doesn't sound like a fucking delight to be under his command.
"Emails shared with CNN by the Texas Department of Public Safety detail a trooper-medic expressing concerns to a supervisor over the inhumane treatment of migrants along the border in Eagle Pass, Texas… In the email, the trooper said medics 'were given orders to push the people back into the water to go to Mexico' and were also ordered not to give water to the migrants." Cruelty is the point.
"One hundred seventy-four defendants from 37 states who were charged for their participation in the January 6th insurrection have said they were answering Donald Trump’s calls when they traveled to Washington and joined the violent attack on the Capitol. CREW’s examination of court filings, transcripts, and news items regarding defendants in January 6th cases shows that defendants—ranging from convicted seditionists such as members of the Proud Boys and Oath Keepers to individual members of the public—considered Trump their leader and believed they were following his lead by joining the insurrection." One, delusional, two, not a defense, three, doesn't mean too much in trying to convict TFG (that Fucking Guy).
Oh look, real voter fraud… "A Shaker Heights attorney accused of illegally voting in the last two general elections should be acquitted, in part, because he cast ballots in two states by accident, his attorney argued to a judge… James Saunders, a 56-year-old former lawyer for the Internal Revenue Service, did not mean to commit a crime when he cast ballots in both Cuyahoga County and Broward County, Florida, counties where he owns property and has been registered to vote since before 2009, his lawyer said during closing arguments…" Wait, it's another Republican. Never mind.
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