Wednesday, October 22
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OpenAI launched a web browser. That sound you just heard was Google executives waking up in a cold sweat. OpenAI announced its own web browser yesterday, ChatGPT Atlas, which incorporates the company’s signature AI chatbot. “With Atlas, ChatGPT can come with you anywhere across the web...all without copying and pasting or leaving the page,” OpenAI wrote in a blog post. The browser, which directly competes with Google’s Chrome, is only available on macOS for now, but is “coming soon” to iOS, Windows, and Android. Shares of Google parent company Alphabet dropped by a few points following the announcement.
The Trump–Putin meeting was called off. Less than a week after announcing that President Trump would soon meet with Vladimir Putin in Hungary to discuss ending the war in Ukraine, the White House said the rendezvous is not happening any time soon. According to ABC News, a White House official argued that the meeting was no longer necessary after Secretary of State Marco Rubio and his counterpart, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, “had a productive call.” Russia has not budged from its maximalist position that the “root causes” of the war must be addressed before it agrees to a ceasefire.
Netflix posts rare earnings miss due to Brazilian tax dispute. The streaming giant fell short of both Wall Street’s and its own expectations in Q3 after it had to pay $619 million to settle a dispute with Brazilian authorities, dampening what otherwise might have been another strong quarter for the company. Netflix said it would have exceeded projections for its operating income without the tax dispute and does not expect it to impact future results. The wildly popular animated film KPop Demon Hunters helped power Netflix to more than $11.5 billion in revenue last quarter despite the hiccup in South America.—AE
Robert Reich
Friends, the Sleeping Giant is Roaring
Friends,
On Saturday, 7 to 8 million of us took to the streets to demonstrate against Trump.
That’s not all.
Every major media outlet — including Fox News — has refused to sign Pete Hegseth’s unconstitutional demand that they report only what the Defense Department wants them to report or lose their press credentials. They’ve all turned in their press credentials, which means no one is turning up for Hegseth’s press briefings.
What’s the sound of a press briefing without the press?
Seven of the nine universities Trump “invited” to join his university compact — in which they give up academic freedom for a priority place in government funding — have said, essentially, f*ck no.
At A Glance
Scroll through a painter's witty dog portraits.
Calculate what the 2026 tax rate changes mean for you.
Why the British royal family changed its name. (w/video)
Ranking America's best college towns.
What makes a place seem "haunted"?
Visualize the mass of record-breaking pumpkins.
Eleven legitimate words that totally sound fake.
When ChatGPT helps you win the lottery.
In partnership: Over 39k investors backed this robotics first-mover.*
Clickbait: UK woman plays clarinet during her brain surgery.
Historybook: Original Metropolitan Opera House opens in New York City (1883); Oscar-winning actress Joan Fontaine born (1917); Actress Annette Funicello born (1942); President John F. Kennedy alerts Americans to Cuban Missile Crisis (1962); Reggae artist Shaggy born (1968).
In The NEWS
Sports, Entertainment, & Culture
> Toronto Blue Jays clinch ALCS title with 4-3 win over the Seattle Mariners in Game 7, setting up World Series matchup against the Los Angeles Dodgers beginning Friday (More)
> Police say former NFL running back Doug Martin, 36, died after a struggle with officers attempting to detain him during a home break-in Saturday in Oakland, California; no other details were released (More)
> Broadway actors reach tentative labor deal with commercial producers; musicians' union still negotiating to avert strike (More) | Ticketmaster to ban multiple accounts and shutter resale software in response to federal lawsuit alleging collusion with brokers (More)
Science & Technology
> Federal regulators launch probe into Waymo robotaxis following reports one of the Alphabet-owned company's autonomous vehicles drove around a stopped school bus in Atlanta (More)
> Researchers develop chip implant and glasses that partially restored vision to patients with advanced age-related macular degeneration—first eye prosthesis to give functional sight to those with incurable vision loss (More)
> Scientists discover blood marker of multiple sclerosis present years before symptoms appear, potentially enabling earlier diagnosis and treatment (More)
Business & Markets
> US stock markets close higher (S&P 500 +1.1%, Dow +1.1%, Nasdaq +1.4%) (More) | Apple shares close at record after iPhone 17 series outsell iPhone 16 in the US and China within first 10 days of availability (More)
> The US and Australia sign critical mineral deal that includes plans for up to $8.5B in projects (More) | What are critical minerals? (1440 Topics)
> OpenEvidence—3-year-old startup likened to ChatGPT for doctors—raises $200M at a $6B valuation; now reports 15 million consultations per month (More)
Politics & World Affairs
> Colombia recalls its ambassador to the US amid ongoing tensions over drug trafficking allegations and US military strikes (More) | Bolivia elects centrist as president, ending 20 years of socialist government (More)
> At least six universities reject Education Department compact offering preferential access to federal funding in exchange for adhering to list of commitments, including on international student enrollment, transgender participation in sports (More)
> Supreme Court agrees to consider whether people who regularly smoke marijuana can legally own a firearm (More)
SOURCE: 1440 NEWS
Simpliification
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Being retired, limits the amount of money you can spend, because you have substantially less money coming in than you did while working... UNLESS, you have a shitload of money saved or invested and you can add dividends to your income.
My wife and I have been retired for ten years, will soon be entering our eleventh year and have had no problems with our incoming and outgoing money because we CHANGED OUR LIFESTYLE before we retired.
Our Changed Lifestyle
ONE - No Debt... been debt free for over 15 years
TWO - buy year old vehicles that have been leased with low mileage
THREE - buy ONLY what you need, not what you want
FOUR - save as much money as you can all the time
FIVE - shop for deals which includes vacations... M-F is cheaper than staying through the weekend.
SIX - don't be greedy, includes one's eating habits
SEVEN - eat healthy and exercise to prevent medical issues
EIGHT - downsize your living accommodations to save money
NINE - live simply but with class
TEN - pay off credit cards before interest is due
One of the issues that many Americans deal with is having the discipline to stop buying toys that you don't really need but think that it makes you look good to your neighbors.
When we downsized our home, we literally threw away or gave away to Habitat for Humanity over HALF of our household belongings that included clothes.
We've not missed anything, in fact, we still think we are holding onto more than we really need.
CONTROL YOUR GREED AND SIMPLIFY
NASA and India unveil the first images from the most powerful radar satellite ever built
The most advanced Earth radar satellite ever launched, NISAR’s first test images are already showing how it could transform the way we monitor the planet, from tracking crop health to spotting earthquake risks.
And it hasn’t even kicked into full science mode yet.
Built through a rare U.S.-India partnership, this spacecraft is packed with new radar technology that can scan deep into forests, farmlands, and even under layers of ice.
Its main job is to watch how Earth changes over time – and give scientists and decision-makers the data they need to act.
Tuesday, October 21
Wonderings 18
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Does our universe have a fabric that is to say... what is in between all the asteroids, planets, stars, and moons?
For instance, the air around us that is unseen is still there... can we call it a fabric, or is it a veil of some sort?
Some believe that all that stuff up there and out there is either dark matter or dark energy or a combination of both.
Dark energy is a mysterious force that causes the universe to expand at an accelerating rate
Dark matter is a hypothetical, invisible form of matter that makes up about 85% of the matter in the universe, with its existence inferred from its gravitational effects on visible matter.
Some believe that neither dark energy nor dark matter exist, while at the same time they do not have an explanation for what all that stuff is that surrounds the planets, asteroids, stars, and moons, etc.
So...
that leaves a bit of a mystery, to say the least, and leaves some of wondering...
We know that there is something that surrounds us here on earth that we breathe and call it AIR or ATMOSPHERE but none of are really sure if that is all it is... or, if it is something more of which we know nothing or very little.
We believe because we have been told by our teachers that the universe is VOID of air... and yet, intuitively we know something must be out there.
We also know that our universe continues to expand and that our universe has a temperature which indicates that our universe is subject to ENTROPY... that means it will eventually self-destruct for lack of a better word.
If our universe self-destructs because of ENTROPY what happens to HEAVEN???
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US and Australia make rare earths deal to counter China. With China clamping down on the export of rare earth minerals needed to make electronics amid the trade war, President Trump and Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese signed an agreement—which the White House described as a “framework”—with plans for projects worth up to $8.5 billion combined. It calls for each country to invest $1 billion in some of those projects within the next six months. But China still dominates, currently controlling 70% of rare earths mining and 90% of the processing, and access to them will likely be a big part of the discussion when Trump meets with China’s Xi Jinping next week.
Trump can send the National Guard to Portland, appeals court rules. Overturning a lower court’s ruling barring the president from deploying National Guard troops to Portland, OR, the Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit issued a 2-1 ruling yesterday that the president had likely “lawfully exercised his statutory authority.” The lower court judge had found that President Trump’s justification that Portland was like a war zone, so troops needed to be sent to quell protests at an ICE facility, was “untethered to the facts,” but the appeals court majority said that the administration’s view was entitled to more deference. The dissenting judge, however, called that both “absurd” and unconstitutional. However, a second lower court order continues to prevent Trump from sending troops for now. Disney streamer unsubscribes doubled amid Kimmel suspension. The numbers are out, and it looks like Disney+ and Hulu took a big hit in September when Disney yanked Jimmy Kimmel off the air over comments he made about Charlie Kirk’s murder. Subscription-analytics company Antenna found that Disney+ cancellations doubled in September to 8% from 4% in August, while Hulu defections spiked to 10% from 5%—with some 3 million subscribers ditching Disney+ and 4.1 million cancelling Hulu. That’s an unusually big change for streaming services, whose cancellation rates are usually pretty steady. Ratings for Jimmy Kimmel Live! have been up since the host’s return.—AR
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