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Sports, Entertainment, & Culture
> Time magazine taps WNBA Rookie of the Year Caitlin Clark as its 2024 Athlete of the Year (More) | North Carolina tops Wake Forest 1-0 to win 2024 NCAA women's soccer national championship (More)

> Two more hotel workers charged in Argentina in a case related to the death of One Direction's Liam Payne (More) | Former cycling world champion Rohan Dennis pleads guilty to charge related to the death of his wife, Olympic cyclist Melissa Hoskins (More)

> Mariah Carey's "All I Want for Christmas," which debuted in 1994, tops Billboard Hot 100; the song extends its record with six distinct runs atop the chart (More)



Science & Technology
> Construction uncovers a 1,375-year-old pyramid along the site of a future highway in central Mexico; structure dates to the pre-Hispanic Metztitlán kingdom (More)

> James Webb Space Telescope measurements confirm gap in cosmological model, suggests additional factor needed to explain why the universe is expanding at a faster rate than its early stages (More) | What do scientists know about the Big Bang? (More)

> New cancer treatment eliminates bladder and lung tumors in mice without side effects by combining targeting drugs and engineered radioactive antibodies (More)


Business & Markets
> US stock markets close lower (S&P 500 -0.3%, Dow -0.4%, Nasdaq -0.3%); investors await new inflation data from November, set to be released today (More)

> Federal judge temporarily halts supermarket chain Kroger's proposed $25B acquisition of rival Albertsons pending Federal Trade Commission proceedings; Washington judge then permanently bars merger from the state, citing competition concerns (More)

> Walgreens shares close up nearly 18% on reports of potential sale to private equity firm Sycamore Partners, marking the highest one-day jump in shares in the pharmacy chain's history (More)


Politics & World Affairs
> Franklin Fire near Pepperdine University in Malibu, California, burns over 2,800 acres as of this writing, places 12,500 people under evacuation orders (More) | See live updates (More)

> Suspect in fatal shooting of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson appears in Pennsylvania court for extradition hearing to New York (More) | See profile on the suspect (More)

> Polygamous sect leader—who worked to start an offshoot of Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints—has been sentenced to 50 years in prison this week in Arizona for child sex abuse (More)

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Generations

 

Every so often, we must understand and accept the fact that it is time for the younger generation to take responsibility for managing our country.

All to often, it is easy for us to accept the fact that it is easier to trust 80-year-old politicians than it is to trust 50-year-old politicians.

There is wisdom in age, I agree, but there is also a blind acceptance of this is how we used to do things rather than being open to trying something new.

The other issue that we never seem to wrestle with, even though it bothers many of us, is the fact that politicians seem to be more interested in re-election than they are in doing the right things for their constituent because they do not seem to mind.

We should have TERM LIMITS for all FEDERAL OFFICES including all Justices even in the Supreme Court.

ROTATING OFFICIALS would ensure that we do not become blinded by affiliation to the party versus serving the people.

YOUNGER PEOPLE 

TERM LIMITS

Somewhat Political

 

Humanity Reaching SINGULARITY

By one unique metric, we could approach technological singularity by the end of this decade, if not sooner.

A translation company developed a metric, Time to Edit (TTE), to calculate the time it takes for professional human editors to fix AI-generated translations compared to human ones. This may help quantify the speed toward singularity.

An AI that can translate speech as well as a human could change society.

In the world of artificial intelligence, the idea of “singularity” looms large. This slippery concept describes the moment AI exceeds beyond human control and rapidly transforms society. 

The tricky thing about AI singularity (and why it borrows terminology from black hole physics) is that it’s enormously difficult to predict where it begins and nearly impossible to know what’s beyond this technological “event horizon.”

However, some AI researchers are on the hunt for signs of reaching singularity measured by AI progress approaching the skills and ability comparable to a human.      READ MORE...

John Lennon - Imagine - 1971

Freedom of Speech

 

I am a believer in free speech that includes both sides of the argument not just one.  Let me hear both sides so that I can make up my own mind.  I dislike someone telling me how I should think.

If I think one way and that way is later discovered to be wrong, then sobeit...  it is wrong...  and we move forward onto the next concept.

I have listened to the rhetoric of both the liberals and conservatives and have discovered that both sides are obviously biased, but it seems that the conservatives as less biased than the liberals.

Not only less biased, but they are far LESS LIKELY to pass along misinformation or disinformation aimed at discrediting the opposing side.

Unfortunately, I know many people who are absolutely confident that the misinformation that they heard is correct and it matters not what I say, I will never be able to change their minds.

I have stopped trying and just accept whatever it is that they want to believe...  and let it go at that.

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