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The tie for today at work:

A.I. Should First and Foremost be working on How A.I. can use Less Electricity…

Good resistance news: An 'Achilles heel' discovered in antibiotic resistant bacteria. Scientists in Canada found the critical vulnerability: bacteria need zinc. Deprive them of the nutrient & their stability is disrupted making them susceptible to antibiotics again www.genengnews.com/topics/infec...

My latest blog. An open discussion on changing healthcare Blogmaverick.com

The FTC is officially banning hidden junk fees from hotel and ticket prices

Is everyone paying attention?

I've seen a child with tetanus, I've treated near fatal infections after chicken pox, and I've pronounced children dead from COVID whose parents refused to have them vaccinated. We have lost our minds... and are about to lose so many of our precious children.

Funny because true.

"Lower prices," he said. But Trump's tariffs on our top trading partners could mean just the opposite.

"Why don't we take, ironically, a page from Donald Trump's book?"

A list of top UK politicians were banned from entering Russia today, as Moscow continued its tit-for-tat diplomatic feud with London and accused senior Labour figures of “Russophobic” leanings.

Daisy is a conversational artificial intelligence chatbot created by British mobile phone company O2 to help combat fraud by tricking phone scammers into thinking they are speaking to a real person.

After Matt Gaetz dropped out of contention for Trump's Attorney General post, a hilariously over the top Elon Musk post about Gaetz resurfaced.

Hegseth apparently doesn’t understand how the word “no” is used or what it means.

"Trump put Musk in a driver’s seat," Steele wrote. "Vance is just along for the ride — if only he could get in the car."

“Authoritarianism is not born overnight — it creeps in.”

Florida schools and colleges have become a testing ground for conservative policies meant to limit or expunge what Republicans describe as “woke” indoctrination. Rather than trying to regulate what a professor can say, the new strategy aims to remove entire courses.

OPINION: "Why did they break for Donald Trump? Lots of worthy people are going to spend lots of time exploring that question. I won’t, though. What I know is that Trump campaigned on easily proven lies. What I also know is his supporters chose to believe them."

Friends, I’m delighted to see how many of you have joined me here on Bluesky. I thought I’d take a moment to share my course, Wealth and Poverty, which I released in its entirety on YouTube not too long ago. Now, perhaps more than ever, I hope you’ll consider joining me in the classroom.

Tech billionaire Elon Musk could soon be hauled before the UK parliament to answer for his platform X’s part in stoking the riots that tore through the country this summer. 🔗 www.politico.eu/article/elon...

At screenings of "Wicked," some fans have defied theater etiquette by singing along with their favorite characters, much to the chagrin and annoyance of other viewers. Many have taken to social media to issue a strict edict: Shush.

HR 9495 provides no due process or oversight, creating a tool for political retaliation under the guise of "fighting terrorism." Trump would abuse this power to retaliate against any org that challenges his agenda. The 52 Dems who initially supported it must reverse course.

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Here are some of the ways sweet potatoes benefit your body, along with ideas for how to prepare them on Thanksgiving Day, and every day.

He’s putting the propagandists in charge of policy. How Russian of him.

He's kind of a Bluesky OG but I just Officially Verified @jaketapper.bsky.social go.bsky.app/U9juDW4

JUST IN: More than 40 Hong Kong democracy leaders sentenced to lengthy jail terms as Beijing tightens grip

"Mitch McConnell, who had — okay, who had polio — who had polio — I have a hard time thinking that Mitch McConnell, who had polio and knows the benefit of those vaccines and eradicating those diseases that almost wiped out children, would throw his hands up in the air and say, oh it's RFK."

Can you blame her? https://buff.ly/3CnIhhN

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Rep. Abigail Spanberger (D-VA) on Friday raised alarms about former President Donald Trump's efforts to forgo FBI background checks for his cabinet picks.

NEW: We put together a practical, realistic guide to limiting your exposure and protecting your privacy in uncertain times. No paywall for this one @agreenberg.bsky.social and @lhn.bsky.social report: www.wired.com/story/the-wi...

Be like Mark Hamill.

The world’s biggest battery maker says Elon Musk’s 4680 cell ‘is going to fail’

Our economy is far larger than it was decades ago. Where have most of the gains gone? To the top. Any path forward must include a fight to restructure the economy toward more widely shared prosperity. This isn’t a blue state vs. red state phenomenon. It’s a class phenomenon.

After X owner Elon Musk helped Donald Trump successfully run for office, some X users are jumping ship for the decentralized Twitter clone Bluesky.

These appointments prove that insisting people achieve and be promoted based on “merit” was never really their real concern.

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This is the last time any of us will be happy so I’m going to wallow in it.