Thursday, October 16
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SCOTUS seems poised to limit Voting Rights Act. The Supreme Court seemed open to curbing the use of the Civil Rights era law to allow states to consider race in drawing electoral maps during a second round of oral arguments yesterday in a case over the creation of Louisiana’s second majority-Black electoral district. The court’s conservative majority questioned whether using race as a factor in determining Congressional districts, which the law permits to remedy the suppression of Black voters, should have an end point in time. If the court finds that it should, the change could help Republicans win more seats in Congress. But despite current redistricting battles, it might not impact the midterm election cycle since a ruling is unlikely to come before this summer.
Judge temporarily blocks firing federal employees during shutdown. A federal judge in San Francisco issued a temporary restraining order barring the Trump administration from firing government employees as the government shutdown drags on. In a case brought by two labor unions, the judge said the firings are illegal, and the administration had used the shutdown “to assume that all bets are off, that the laws don’t apply to them anymore and that they can impose the structures that they like on the government situation that they don’t like.” The decision came soon after President Trump’s budget director, Russell Vought, said the administration planned to eliminate more than 10,000 roles.
BlackRock and tech giants to buy data center company for $40 billion. Stop us if you’ve heard this one before, but there was a major deal announced yesterday in the AI space. A consortium of investors that includes BlackRock’s Global Infrastructure Partners, Nvidia, Microsoft, and xAI, among others, is buying Aligned Data Centers. Aligned, currently owned by Macquarie Asset Management, designs and operates data centers in North and South America. The deal, expected to close next year, comes amid a race to build more data centers as AI models hoover up computing power.—AR
Robert Reich
He’s 10 days older than I am, but I'm years younger. Here's why.
Friends,
I recently had a minor health scare — not unusual when you’re pushing 80. Everything is fine, at least for now.
But it got me thinking.
Trump is 10 days older than me. He doesn’t look the model of robust health.
Even though we’re almost the same age, Trump has one big health problem I don’t have: his hatefulness.
“I hate my opponents,” he says.
Hate is a corrosive. It eats away at one’s health. It attacks a hater’s central nervous system by releasing stress hormones like cortisol and adrenaline. It compromises a hater’s cardiovascular system with high blood pressure and heart disease. It weakens immune systems, making the hater more vulnerable to all sorts of illnesses. It weakens gastro-intestinal systems, causing stomachaches, nausea, and other digestive problems. It leads to difficulties falling and staying asleep. It causes muscle tensions that harm the jaw and neck, such as clenching and teeth grinding, and contributes to headaches and migraines.
At A Glance
Experts share 65 essential children’s books.
The two numbers making math teachers miserable.
How HBO became one of the most influential networks in television. (via YouTube)
Why some get a "second wind" at bedtime.
The rapper 50 Cent, adjusted for inflation.
ChatGPT to soon allow sexting for verified adults.
... and how people around the world view AI.
The origins of witch symbols like hats and broomsticks.
In partnership: This is shaping up to be the "it card" of 2026.*
Clickbait: Chicago's "rat hole" wasn't a rat after all.
Historybook: Marie Antoinette executed (1793); Author Oscar Wilde born (1854); The Walt Disney Co. founded (1923); Actress Angela Lansbury born (1925); Tony-, Academy-, and Emmy-winning actress Shirley Booth dies (1992).
In The NEWS
Sports, Entertainment, & Culture
> D'Angelo, four-time Grammy-winning R&B artist who helped pioneer neo-soul music, dies of cancer at age 51 (More) | Music world reacts to D'Angelo's death (More)
> Defending champs UConn top women's basketball preseason AP Top 25 poll with South Carolina and UCLA rounding out the top three (More)
> Spotify and Netflix announce partnership that will see select Spotify video podcasts streamed on Netflix beginning in early 2026 (More)
Science & Technology
> Instagram to limit content shown to teenage users by applying PG-13 movie rating standards to accounts of individuals under 18 years old; feature expected to be fully rolled out in the US, the UK, Canada, and Australia by end of year (More)
> Researchers excavate three Iron Age shipwrecks off the coast of Israel using advanced 3D modeling and digital mapping; discovery offers rare maritime evidence of Mediterranean trade from the 11th to sixth century BCE (More)
> MRI brain scans show premature babies who regularly listen to recordings of their mothers' voices develop stronger language pathways; intervention could be used to mitigate risk of language delays often associated with premature birth (More)
Business & Markets
> US stock markets close mixed (S&P 500 -0.2%, Dow +0.4%, Nasdaq -0.8%) as Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell hints at interest rate cuts and US-China trade tensions escalate (More)
> Stellantis to invest $13B in US manufacturing over the next four years; plans to create five new vehicles, increase domestic production by 50%, and create 5,000 jobs at Midwestern plants (More)
> Walmart enters partnership with OpenAI to let customers search for and purchase products directly from ChatGPT; retail giant's shares closed up 5% (More)
Politics & World Affairs
> Man who set fire to Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro's (D) home sentenced to at least 25 years in prison (More) | Supreme Court rejects Infowars founder Alex Jones' appeal of nearly $1.5B Sandy Hook defamation penalty (More)
> President Donald Trump posthumously awards Charlie Kirk the Presidential Medal of Freedom (More) | Congress remains at an impasse over spending proposals after House-passed measure fails to advance in the Senate for the eighth time (More)
> Hamas returns the bodies of four more hostages after an Israeli military agency warned it would halve the number of aid trucks entering Gaza over concerns Hamas is returning bodies more slowly than agreed (More)
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Amazement
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There is always something happening in the world today that amazes me... so, recent events should not surprise me... and yet, they do.
President Trump has negotiated a tentative peace deal between Hamas and Israel that has resulted so far, in the remaining hostages being released, and all the Palestinian prisoners being released as well.
The WORLD has stated quite unequivocally that this would never have happened under the administration of any other President...
AND YET...
The Biden administration is now claiming credit for laying the necessary foundation that, in and of itself, was necessary in order for Trump to accomplish this magnificent feat.
What a stockpile of GARBAGE...
THE DEMOCRATS...
HAVE A HATE FOR DONALD TRUMP
so deep
they cannot stand it when he accomplishes anything, so they resort to the claim that it started with them...
How untrue is this.,
In Trump's first term he laid the foundation for this to happen in the middle east with the Abraham Accords.
No Democrat ever thought about doing something like that.
No Democrat ever GAINED THE RESPECT of middle eastern leaders that Trump has gotten and those LEADERS in the middle east will be the first to tell you that.
The hypocrisy and the LIES that the Democrats continue to spout out of mouths is astounding and provides constant fuel for my amazement.
China unveils ‘world’s first’ humanoid robot that resists dust, rain, heat
Chinese technology company Deep Robotics has unveiled the DR02 humanoid, an industrial robot designed to function in all weather conditions.
The Hangzhou-based company also claimed that it’s the first humanoid robot in the world to achieve an IP66 protection rating, capable of resisting dust and rain.
Most robots in the market struggle to work in real-world conditions with temperature changes, which limits their practical use.
Wednesday, October 15
Wonderings 12
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I don't think we are here to serve God, believe in Jesus, and get into Heaven for the rest of eternity.
Although,
the Ten Commandments and the Golden Rules are excellent as well as outstanding tenants to follow.
I also don't think that we are here to become wealthy and/or powerful, acquire as many assets as we can, or advance technology as quick as we can.
Those are smokescreens and diversions... odd as that may sound to you. I think they were put here intentionally to see how we would deal with them.
AHHHHH,
did you catch that?
They were put here...
That assumes that someone or something put them here.
So, who would that be?
The Bible's God or someone else?
I vote for someone else... with the understanding that this someone else is an EXTRATERRESTRIAL.
I also believe that the Bible's God, and our Creator are extraterrestrials from another spacetime or perhaps from another dimension or universe. (SEE WHITE HOLES)
This/These extraterrestrials created by setting into motion events that lead to the creation of our universe.
HOW?
Well...
project yourself millions of years into the future and imagine an extraterrestrial race that had evolved from evolution. These extraterrestrials were alive just before the universe ended...
OR...
just before the universe reached that point of singularity where the end connected to the beginning. It is inside this point of singularity where spacetime stands still. It is at this point of singularity that a black holes entropy creates a white hole and a brand new universe is formed... that we refer to as the BIG BANG.
The last person living inside that singularity, that extraterrestrial (what humans might have evolved into) becomes the GOD/CREATOR of this new universe... and rules and guidelines are shared in the hopes that this new universe will somehow benefit from the old one's experience.
This never happens.
So, our purpose is to just live and want for nothing except that for which you really need to survive.
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