WashPo: Michigan has big turnout in first day of early voting statewide
This is the first year of early in-person voting in Michigan, and the one-day numbers on Saturday smashed voter performance during the primaries.
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In addition, more than 1.4 million have cast ballots by mail in the state.
WashPo: Letters: “Deeply, fundamentally saddened.” “Disappointment, disgust and despair.”: The Post decided not to endorse. Readers have questions.
Disappointment, disgust and despair are just some of the feelings I had when I read that The Post decided to refrain from making an endorsement for president. I read this just after I read The Post article “How Trump talks: Abrupt shifts, profane insults, confusing sentences.”
That article describes the former president’s incessant lying, frequent vulgarity, incoherent ramblings and inability to follow through on a thought. The article in effect makes the case for why Donald Trump should not be endorsed, while Vice President Kamala Harris’s behavior continues to make the case for why she should be endorsed.
Daring Fireball: Joz Teases Mac Announcements Next Week
Greg Joswiak, on X:
Mac (😉) your calendars! We have an exciting week of announcements ahead, starting on Monday morning. Stay tuned…
Presumably these will include M4 refreshes of the MacBook Pro lineup (as foretold by those bizarre leaks to Russian YouTubers two weeks ago), iMac, and Mac Mini. And the Mac Mini, reports Mark Gurman, is set to sport an all-new, much-smaller form factor.
TorStar: Ford government to ban foreign students from medical schools
Premier Doug Ford is planning to bar new foreign students in medical schools and offering free tuition to 1,360 Ontarians if they agree to work as doctors in the province for five years after graduating.
BBC: Abercrombie & Fitch: How my investigation led to sex trafficking charges against ex-boss
In a federal courtroom in New York, for the first time I’m face to face with Mike Jeffries — the multi-millionaire ex-fashion boss I’ve spent three years investigating for the BBC. He stares at me directly, lips pursed, and chin raised, as he sits before the judge.
As a result of my reporting, he was arrested this week by the FBI and charged with running an international sex trafficking and prostitution business along with his British partner, Matthew Smith, and their middleman James Jacobson.
Authorities acted after hearing my podcast series, The Abercrombie Guys, in which I unearthed evidence that Mr Jeffries, 80, and Mr Smith, 61, had been at the centre of a sophisticated global operation involving a network of recruiters and a middleman scouting young men for sex.
SFChronicle: UC Berkeley chemists develop powder to suck carbon dioxide from air [gift link]
A team of UC Berkeley chemists have developed a potential solution in the form of yellow crystalline powder, a half-pound of which can absorb as much carbon dioxide annually as a tree.
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Deployed at scale, the material could significantly reduce the amount of carbon in the atmosphere in a way no other technology can, said Omar Yaghi, professor of chemistry and UC Berkeley and lead author of a paper announcing their discovery, which was published Wednesday in the journal Nature.
*NYT: Trump Rally at Madison Square Garden: Election Live Updates
Former President Donald J. Trump is speaking now at his Madison Square Garden rally in New York, a gathering that began with a series of warm-up speakers who delivered a litany of racist remarks, vulgar insults and profanity-laden comments.
Tony Hinchcliffe, a comedian who was one of the early speakers, called Puerto Rico an “island of garbage” in a set that also included derogatory remarks about Latinos generally, African Americans, Palestinians and Jews.
NYT: Two Students Created Face Recognition Glasses. It Wasn’t Hard.
A month later, he found out just how strange. He had been an unwitting guinea pig in an experiment meant to show just how easy it was to rig artificial intelligence tools to identify someone and retrieve the person’s biographical information — potentially including a phone number and home address — without the person’s realizing it.
A friend texted Mr. Hoda, telling him that he was in a video that was going viral. Mr. Nguyen and a fellow Harvard student, Caine Ardayfio, had built glasses used for identifying strangers in real time, and had demonstrated them on two “real people” at the subway station, including Mr. Hoda, …
Last Updated: 27.Oct.2024 21:42 EDT
