Sunday, September 28
In The NEWS
New York City gunman had CTE, medical examiner finds.
The 27-year-old shooter who killed four people this summer in the NFL headquarters building was found to have low-stage chronic traumatic encephalopathy. CTE is a degenerative brain disease linked to repeated head trauma, which causes symptoms including memory loss, confusion, and aggression. The disease is commonly associated with football (which the shooter played in high school) and can only be diagnosed after death.
Supreme Court approves emergency request to withhold $4B in foreign aid.
The high court, in a 6-3 decision, temporarily blocked a lower court ruling that required the Trump administration to spend more than $4B in foreign aid appropriated by Congress before the funds expire Sept. 30. The conservative majority said enforcing the order would likely cause greater harm to Trump's foreign policy than to aid recipients. The liberal justices dissented, arguing the issue merited a full briefing or oral arguments.
UN delegates walk out on Netanyahu's speech.
Dozens of delegates left the UN's New York headquarters yesterday before Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's address. Speaking to a half-empty hall, Netanyahu directed his remarks to hostages held by Hamas, citing that Israel had put speakers around Gaza and took over phones to broadcast his words. He vowed to continue Israel's military campaign and admonished countries—including France and the UK—that recently moved to recognize Palestinian statehood.
Immigration officers detain Iowa school superintendent.
The superintendent of Des Moines Public Schools, Ian Roberts, was detained Friday for being in the US illegally. A final order of removal was issued against him last year and he had no work authorization. Roberts was found in possession of a loaded gun, a hunting knife, and $3K in cash after fleeing from immigration officers during a traffic stop. Roberts, who was born in Guyana and had entered the US in 1999 on a student visa, had led the Des Moines school district since 2023.
Anthropic to triple international workforce.
The San Francisco-based AI startup's Claude chatbot now serves over 300,000 enterprise customers. Nearly 80% of usage comes from outside the United States, with per-person adoption in South Korea, Australia, and Singapore surpassing the US. The $183B company is opening its first Asia office in Tokyo, hiring for over 100 roles across Europe, and recruiting leadership in nations including India and New Zealand.
The Netherlands returns looted fossils to Indonesia.
The Dutch government agreed to return over 28,000 fossils to Indonesia, after a commission ruled they were wrongfully removed during the late 19th century. Local communities, for whom the fossils held spiritual and economic value, were coerced into revealing sites to Dutch settlers. The soon-to-be-repatriated Dubois Collection, housed in a Dutch natural history museum, includes a skull fragment considered the first fossil evidence of Homo erectus, an ancestor of modern humans.
'Rocky Horror Picture Show' turns 50.
Originally a 1975 film adaptation of a stage musical, "Rocky Horror Picture Show" follows a stranded couple who stumble into the mansion of a flamboyant scientist and his eccentric guests. The film initially flopped, earning roughly $1M ($6M today) before being pulled from theaters. It has since become a cult classic, earning around $160M worldwide, and remains the longest-running theatrical release in history.
SOURCE: 1440 NEWS
Wealth - Politicians - Success - Happiness
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- If politicians really cared about the people, they would vote themselves term limits...
- If politicians really cared about the people, they would eliminate ALL WEALTHY BASED TAX SHELTERS...
- If politicians really cared about the people, they would tax LARGE NON-PROFITS LIKE HARVARD UNIVERSITY...
I became interested in politics in 1966 and none of these items have ever been discussed by politicians on with side for over FIFTY YEARS almost SIXTY YEARS.
This leads me to believe it will never happen, and if it never happens then the MIDDLE CLASS will never be any better off than they always have been due to salary increases counterbalanced by inflation and economic growth.
However, there are several people who have managed to crawl out of the middle class and become wealthy like:
- Actors/Actresses
- Musicians
- Athletes
- Writers/Artists
- Entrepreneurs
- Visionaries
What is interesting about these exceptions is that they only represent TEN PERCENT OR LESS of the current population.
Trying to get ahead unless you possess some of these unique skills is like SPITTING IN THE WIND...
The best strategy is to focus on yourself, accept where you are, don't be influenced by greed or jealousy, eliminate debt, carve out your unique future and save as much as you can for retirement...
You will not become WEALTHY, but you will have a successful life, and if you can eliminate all the outside influences and sales techniques, you will have a relatively stress free and happy life.
Don't wait until you have retired to come to this realization.
What Is Space-Time? Breaking Down Einstein's Big Idea
Oftentimes, we think of space as an endless, mostly empty vacuum, a silent backdrop where planets, stars, and galaxies play out their dance. We also think of time as something separate, a steady ticking that carries us from one moment to another, from past to the present, and into the future.
However, modern physics demonstrates that these two ideas are not so easily kept separate from each other. In fact, space and time are woven into a single fabric: space-time. Albert Einstein's special relativity revealed that space and time adjust themselves depending on how you move.
Space-time is not just a backdrop where celestial objects are the main players. It's real, dynamic, and it shapes our universe. Imagine it as an invisible construction that holds everything in place. It guides how objects in the universe move and how the events unfold.
Space-time is not just a backdrop where celestial objects are the main players. It's real, dynamic, and it shapes our universe. Imagine it as an invisible construction that holds everything in place. It guides how objects in the universe move and how the events unfold.
Without space-time, one could not talk about where or when. Let's explore how Einstein's ideas reshaped our understanding of reality and why they remain some of the most profound ideas in science.
Saturday, September 27
Headlines
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President Trump says “there will be others” prosecuted after Comey. A day after the Justice Department secured an indictment against former FBI Director James Comey—which followed Trump publicly complaining that criminal charges were not being filed against his perceived political foes—the president told reporters yesterday that he expects more. “It’s not a list, but I think there will be others,” Trump said. He did not specify who he was referring to, but before Comey was indicted, the president posted on social media that the attorney general should pursue Comey, Sen. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.), who led an impeachment against Trump, and New York Attorney General Letitia James, who brought a civil case against Trump.—AR
The Jimmy Kimmel Live! boycotts are officially over. The late-night show returned to the combined 72 ABC local stations of Sinclair and Nexstar last night after the affiliate-owners previously refused to air it over comments Kimmel made about the murder of political activist Charlie Kirk. ABC brought Kimmel back to the air on Tuesday after a suspension its parent company, Disney, imposed on Sept. 17 under pressure from President Trump and the FCC, but Sinclair and Nexstar continued to preempt the show. The program delivered huge ratings throughout the week. Nexstar was the final holdout after Sinclair announced it was bringing Kimmel back yesterday afternoon. Nexstar made its announcement a few hours later.—DL
ByteDance reportedly will get to keep half of TikTok’s US profits. Details of the deal aimed at keeping TikTok available in the US (and keeping US–China relations on track for trade talks) continue to emerge, with Bloomberg reporting yesterday that the app’s Chinese parent company will likely keep ~50% of its American profit even after selling US operations to an investor group. Sources told the publication this would be through a licensing fee for TikTok’s algorithm, as well as a share of profits proportional to its equity stake. This may help explain why the deal is said to value TikTok at $14 billion—a bargain basement figure compared to the up to $40 billion analysts expected.—AR
At A Glance
Bookkeeping
> 19 feet, 6 inches: Length of the longest fingernails on a man's hands; Vietnamese artist spent 34 years growing them.
> Over 5,000: How many words were added to the 12th edition of Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary; new entries include "adulting," "rizz," and "dad bod."
Browse
> First and only man to go up and down Mount Everest without bottled oxygen.
> How much you should give as a wedding gift in 2025.
> Ranking North America's 50 best restaurants.
> Mapping plastic surgery trends, from butt lifts to breast implants.
> See the furry "Wookie" of the deep sea.
Listen
> Centuries-old debate over the sound of a musical note.
> How to have better conversations.
Watch
> This lab makes diamonds for tech, not jewelry.
> Why there's a 61-mile conveyor belt in the Sahara Desert.
> Learn to plate your food like a chef.
Long Read
> How Singapore become obsessed with shade.
> Bruce Springsteen agreed to a biopic, now what?
> Polar bears and dolphins are victims of accelerated aging.
Best of the Week: Why some people thought the world was ending yesterday.
Historybook: Rosetta Stone is first deciphered (1822); First Black US senator Hiram Revels born (1827); Production of Ford Model T begins (1908); Legendary athlete Mildred "Babe" Didrikson Zaharias dies (1956); Actress Maggie Smith dies (2024).
In The NEWS
Sports, Entertainment, & Culture
> The 2025 MLB regular season wraps up this weekend; see latest playoff picture (More) | Seattle Mariners' Cal Raleigh becomes the seventh player to hit 60 home runs in a single season (More)
> "Jimmy Kimmel Live!" brings in 6 million viewers, its largest audience in more than a decade, in his Tuesday return after being suspended by Disney last week (More)
> Golf's Ryder Cup, a team competition pitting the US against Europe, kicks off today from the Bethpage Black Course in New York (More) | UEFA reportedly to suspend Israeli soccer teams from international competitions over the war in Gaza (More)
Science & Technology
> OpenAI launches ChatGPT Pulse, a paid feature that generates personalized subject matter briefs for users overnight (More)
> Scientists find more sea creatures living on toxic sunken World War II warheads than in the surrounding seabed, raising questions about how marine life responds to pollution (More)
> New Earth-mapping satellite captures North Dakota farmland and Maine's coast in detail; the joint US-India mission will track shifts in land and ice to help forecasters and first responders address natural disasters (More)
Business & Markets
> US stock markets close down (S&P 500 -0.5%, Dow -0.4%, Nasdaq -0.5%) (More) | US trade deficit falls to two-year low in August, per federal trade report (More)
> President Donald Trump approves deal divesting TikTok's US operations from Chinese owner, ByteDance, to new joint venture including Oracle, private equity firm Silver Lake, and Abu Dhabi’s MGX; China must approve deal (More) | Trump announces new tariffs on goods including pharmaceutical drugs, furniture (More)
> Starbucks to lay off 900 nonretail employees, will close hundreds of North American locations as part of $1B restructuring plan (More) | Elon Musk's xAI sues OpenAI for allegedly stealing trade secrets about Grok chatbot (More)
Politics & World Affairs
> Denmark temporarily shuts down several airports after drone sightings in four locations, including an air base housing F-16 and F-35 fighter jets (More)
> Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas speaks before UN General Assembly, puts forth governance plan for postwar Gaza excluding Hamas (More) | Microsoft cuts off cloud services to Israel's military following reports they were used to surveil Palestinians (More)
> White House directs federal agencies to plan mass firings in the event of a government shutdown next week (More) | Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth summons hundreds of generals and admirals for a rare meeting next week (More)
SOURCE: 1440 NEWS
Trump Syndrome
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It would appear that all the violence in the USA over the last year, has been coming from LIBERALS who are blaming the crime wave on the CONSERVATIVES for creating policies that the LIBERALS don't like or want. So, since it is the CONSERVATIVES are pushing these agendas, it is their fault that the LI BERALS are resorting to violence.
I don't know now anyone would think this is logically appropriate.
Besides... if the LIBERALS don't like CONSERVATIVE values, let's just kill them so we don't have to listen to them.
Another issue that I think is CUTE is that the LIBERALS are against anything that Trump wants... so, following that logic, if TRUMP SAID...
- Don't chew on hornets, Liberals would want to chew on hornets
- Don't shoot yourself in the foot, Liberals would want to shoot themselves in the foot
- Wash your hands after having a bowel movement, Liberals would not wash their hands
Sounds crazy, but if you think about it, Liberal are opposed to everything Trump wants:
- No Illegal Immigrants
- No tax on tips or overtime
- No tax on social security
- Small Federal Government
- Strong military
- Employ more law enforcement
I wonder what LIBERALS WOULD DO if Trump said he wanted to PAY OFF THE NATIONAL DEBT???
Would they want to keep the national debt and perhaps increase it???
Something to think about...
Shouldn't our leaders do what's best for the citizens and not what is best for the political party they represent?
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The AI-powered humanoid robots coming for your job (or at least your housework)
Figure AI, a startup based in San Jose, California, has drawn attention in recent months for its sleek, humanlike black-and-gray robots doing basic tasks like folding laundry and putting away groceries.
Now, the company has also drawn a fresh round of funding that values the company higher than other corporate titans, including Delta Air Lines and Adidas.
Figure said Tuesday that it had raised over $1 billion from investors at a valuation of $39 billion. The announcement comes amid a blistering year of investment in companies developing humanlike robots. It reflects “a shared belief in a future where this technology becomes a natural part of daily life,” Figure founder and CEO Brett Adcock said on Tuesday.
Friday, September 26
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