Writing Exchange (Cheri Baker): Hate responders
So there’s a hate preacher harassing people nearby with a megaphone. Someone made a Reddit post asking for help, and before long a guy dressed like Jesus showed up holding a sign that reads “I don’t know him.”
Someone else arrived and started blowing a loud whistle every time he tries to spout his garbage. This asshat is being drummed off the streets by what is essentially a Monty Python theater troupe.
Nov 02, 2024 at 08:50 PM
Daily Beast: Bill Maher Reluctantly Makes His Last Minute Case for Kamala Harris
But ultimately, Maher begged undecided voters to go for the Democrats next week to avoid “the rule of a mad king.”
“Do I love everything about Kamala? No, who told you you get to love everything? Do I wish she came up with a better reason to be president than ‘I’m not Trump’? Yeah, it would have been very helpful. But let’s not forget: I’m not Trump is still a really great reason,” he said at the end of his monologue.
SMH: Renewable energy is roaring back, crushing coal to historic lows
Stronger winds and heavier rainfall have boosted renewables and pummelled coal to its lowest share of the east-coast grid on record for the past two months.
Globe: Alberta Premier Danielle Smith receives 91% support in UCP leadership vote
Alberta Premier Danielle Smith raked in support from 91 per cent of United Conservative Party members who voted in her leadership review Saturday, crushing internal pockets of dissent and solidifying her place as the head of the province’s right-wing.
The UCP said 6,085 people registered at its annual meeting in Red Deer, and 4,633, or 76 per cent, cast ballots in the leadership review.
ExplainingComputers (YouTube): Top 5 New SBCs 2024 — plus 12 more contenders!
The best new single board computers for makers and enthusiasts of the past 12 months. Read this description later if you do not want to know the boards before you watch the video!
The ExplainingComputers Top 5 New SBCs of 2024, together with the videos in which I first reviewed them, are as follows:
- Radxa X4: Radxa X4: An N100 Pi
- Radxa Rock 5 ITX: Arm PC Build (Rock 5 ITX)
- Odroid M1S: Odroid M1S: Great Valu…
- Banana Pi BPI-F3: Banana Pi BPI-F3: Octa…
- Lichee Pi 3A: Lichee Pi 3A: RISC-V S…
You can also quickly locate any of my SBC video reviews — Arm, x86 and RISC-V from this page: www.explainingcomputers.com/sbc.html
Women’s Health: 10,000 Steps Is A Myth. Here’s What Science Says You Should Do Instead.
A 2019 study for which Dr. Lee was the lead author found that the risk of death dropped by about 40 percent for women in their 70s with as few as 4,400 steps per day, or less than half the recommended number. The risk continued to drop with more steps, but then plateaued at about 7,500 steps. The optimal step count for people younger than 60, though, was about 8,000 to 10,000 a day, per a separate study.
Other studies have examined how many steps are enough, and suggest that if you’re looking for a good number, 7,500 will do for adults, says Cayla McAvoy, PhD, a senior evaluator for the Florida Department of Health and a research consultant at Tudor-Locke’s walking lab.
UPI: FCC commissioner blasts Kamala Harris' appearance on ‘SNL’
Brendan Carr, the senior Republican member of the Federal Communications Commission, has criticized Kamala Harris' appearance on the final Saturday Night Live episode ahead of the 2024 presidential election.
Carr, writing on social media, called Harris' appearance on the sketch comedy show a “clear and blatant effort to evade the FCC’s Equal Time rule.”
“The purpose of the rule is to avoid exactly this type of biased and partisan conduct — a licensed broadcaster using the public airwaves to exert its influence for one candidate on the eve of an election,” Carr wrote.
“Unless the broadcaster offered Equal Time to other qualifying campaigns.”
MacRumors: Vision Pro With M5 Chip Rumored for 2025, Apple Also ‘Considering’ iPhone-Connected Glasses
Apple plans to release an updated Vision Pro headset with its as-yet-unannounced M5 chip in 2025, according to Apple supply chain analyst Ming-Chi Kuo. The current Vision Pro is equipped with the M2 chip, which debuted in 2022.
MacRumors: Canon Now Accepting Orders for Spatial Video Lens Previewed at WWDC
Canon’s new stereoscopic RF-S7.8mm F4 STM DUAL camera lens for spatial video recording recentlybecame available for pre-order. In the U.S., pricing is set at $449.99, and orders are estimated to be delivered in mid-November.
Apple and Canon announced the lens at WWDC in June. The lens attaches to Canon’s EOS R7, enabling the mirrorless camera to record 3D videos for playback on AR/VR headsets like Apple’s Vision Pro and Meta’s Quest 3. More details about the lens are available on Canon’s website, and in our coverage of the WWDC announcement.
Last Updated: 03.Nov.2024 23:59 EST
