Senator Elizabeth Warren is leading calls for the Federal Trade Commission to investigate Trump Mobile for failing to ship gold phones, months after collecting deposits.
There's at least one Jan. 6 participant currently working in the Trump administration, and the top Democrat on the House Judiciary Committee wants to know how many more may have been hired.
DHS is weirdly using import/export rules to expand its authority to identify online critics. read more
A Waymo self-driving car has accidentally ended up on the tracks of a light-rail line in the city of Phoenix, Arizona. The driver vacated the vehicle safely, but as revealed in an onlooker's recording of the event, the Waymo kept driving along the train tracks, raising alarms about safety and coordination accuracy. And because the driver had already sensed the perilous moment and exited the vehicle, there was nobody to subsequently intervene and cancel the trip.
A measles outbreak in South Carolina that began in October is now wildly accelerating, doubling in just the past week to a total of 434 cases, with 409 people currently in quarantine. read more
@#9
John Hall - Plutonium is forever (live) (1979)
www.youtube.com
Lyrics excerpt ...
...
Everybody's wondering if mankind is cursed
He's ruining the sky and the ocean even worse
But I'll predict the cause of his eradication from the earth
Oh, oh, oh, oh, plutonium is forever
Now, oil slicks someday will disappear
We'll stop dumping PCBs in a few years
But there is one pollutant that we should really fear
Oh, oh, oh, oh, plutonium is forever
But will it go away?
For our purposes, never
It will be here past today
Yes, plutonium is forever
Now, carbon monoxide can only steal your breath
Asbestos poisoning give the workers a horrible death
The aerosol and the Concorde make sure there's no ozone left
Now, some want the oil companies to have to face divestment
And some want the utility to be denied the rate adjustment
But now they're all after plutonium, they think it's such a good investment
Because oh, oh, oh, oh, plutonium is forever
...
@#6 ... " because AI is going to create a world of abundance"
That's the same hooey we got about computers. ...
"Too Cheap to Meter": A History of the Phrase
www.nrc.gov
... Donald Hintz, Chairman of the Nuclear Energy Institute, said at 2003 conference that the nuclear industry had been "plagued since the early days by the unfortunate quote: 'Too cheap to meter'." Those four words had become a standard catchphrase for what critics claim were impossibly sunny promises of nuclear power's potential. ...
@#1
From the "Monday letter" ...
democrats-judiciary.house.gov (PDF)
... We know that several participants in the January 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol have been rewarded with high-ranking positions in the Department of Justice (DOJ).
However, it remains unclear how many more have been invited to join the ranks of this Administration, including among the masked Department of Homeland Security (DHS) agents and officers that have dragged, tackled, beaten, tased, shot, and killed citizens and non-citizens alike in communities across the country.
On January 6, 2021, Jared Wise, then a former Supervisory Special Agent with the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), stormed his way into the Capitol Building. As he did so, he taunted and threated police officers defending the building and the ones inside, screaming: "You guys are disgusting. I'm former -- I'm former law enforcement. You're disgusting. You are the Nazi. You are the Gestapo. You can"t see it. ... Shame on you! Shame on you! Shame on you!" Mr. Wise goaded and cheered on other rioters who were beating police officers, repeatedly chanting: "Yeah, ---- them! Yeah, kill 'em!"1
Mr. Wise has never expressed remorse or contrition for his criminal actions.
When President Trump issued his blanket pardon for January 6th rioters, Mr. Wise escaped accountability for two pending felony charges, civil disorder and assaulting, resisting, or impeding officers, as well as four other offenses, including unlawfully entering the Capitol.2
All these charges were dismissed when President Trump pardoned Mr. Wise and nearly 1,600 other rioters, including hundreds of cop beaters, on his first day in office.
Today, Mr. Wise serves as senior adviser in the office of the Deputy Attorney General, alongside another January 6th participant, Ed Martin, the U.S. Pardon Attorney and head of the DOJ Weaponization Working Group.3
A J6 enthusiast and defense counsel, Mr. Martin live-tweeted from the insurrection, likening the bloody mayhem to "Mardi Gras in DC."4
Together, Mr. Wise and Mr. Martin have led this Administration's efforts to fire, demote, and harass the dedicated career prosecutors, FBI agents, and support personnel who did their professional and civic duty holding to account the persons who committed crimes on January 6th. ...
Out in left field ...
Sorry Dave, I'm afraid I can't do that! PCs refuse to shut down after Microsoft patch
www.theregister.com
... We're not saying Copilot has become sentient and decided it doesn't want to lose consciousness. But if it did, it would create Microsoft's January Patch Tuesday update, which has made it so that some PCs flat-out refuse to shut down or hibernate, no matter how many times you try.
In a notice on its Windows release health dashboard, Microsoft confirmed that some PCs running Windows 11 23H2 might fail to power down properly after installing the latest security updates.
Instead of slipping into shutdown or hibernation, affected machines stay stubbornly awake, draining batteries and ignoring shutdown like they have a mind of their own and don't want to experience temporary non-existence. ...
Related ...
Graham contradicts Trump on Iran executions stopping
www.newsnationnow.com
... Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) says the Iranian regime is still killing protesters at an alarming rate, contradicting President Trump's statement Wednesday that Iran has stopped indiscriminate executions of anti-government demonstrators.
"Every indication that I've seen says that the Iranian regime's killing of protesters is still very much in full swing. The death toll is mounting by the hour. Hoping that help is on the way," Graham wrote in a post on the social platform X.
Graham, who has become increasingly influential with the Trump administration on foreign policy, signaled he wants to see the president move forward with plans to strike Iran to deter the brutal crackdown on protesters.
Trump on Wednesday said Iran was stopping the executions in the face of potential military action.
"We've been told that the killing in Iran is stopping -- it's stopped -- it's stopping," Trump told reporters.
"And there's no plan for executions, or an execution, or execution -- so I've been told that on good authority." ...
@#1
Wait, what?
Something that Pres Trump has done might be "potentially deceptive?"
And that is a surprise to anyone?
Asked differently, who might have been the good folk who sent in that $100 deposit?