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108 protesters arrested at Emerson College in Boston, 93 people at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles and 34 at the University of Texas at Austin as a result of student demonstrations in the wake of the war in Palestine

World

Jamaica plans to remove British King Charles III as head of state according to the country's foreign minister Alando Terrelonge, British monarchs have ruled over Jamaica since 1655
Russia will not let a US decision to confiscate Russian assets go unanswered and that the confiscation undermines the principle of private and state property according to Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov, the statement comes after the US Congress approved a possible transfer of assets to Ukraine
Michael Kabuni, lecturer in political science at the University of Papua New Guinea, says Joe Biden's claim that his uncle, Ambrose J Finnegan Jr, was eaten by cannibals in Papua New Guinea when he crash-landed there and the body was never recovered, is offensive, not because of the cannibalism which is a fact but that the president implies that the islanders thought it would have been a good meal
Bishop Mar Mari Emmanuel who was stabbed during mass last Thursday in Sydney says he forgives the perpetrator on the grounds that Jesus never said an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth and that you should never return evil for evil but for good
15-year-old Muslim stabs Assyrian Bishop Mar Mari Emmanuel, at the Christ The Good Shepherd Church in the suburbs of Sydney, Australia, during ongoing mass on Monday night that was broadcast live on the Internet, the church writes that they ask for your prayers at this time and that it is the bishop’s wish that you also pray for the perpetrator
Norway and the US are building a satellite station on the island of Andøya in northern Norway, where a base for long-range drones is also planned, located 800 kilometers west of the capital of Russia's Northern Fleet, Severomorsk, outside Murmansk
The Canadian intelligence service CSIS says in a report that Pakistan and India probably tried to influence elections in Canada, the Indian influence is said to be in regards to concerns that diaspora Indians in Canada will be sympathetic to the Sikh separatist Khalistani movement or harbor pro-Pakistani political views
French President Emmanuel Macron writes on X that some have compared the photos of him together with Brazilian President Lula da Silva as wedding photographs, which he admits it was because he thinks France loves Brazil and Brazil loves France
Black wheelchair-bound Ade Adepitan visits the whites-only village of Orania in South Africa on behalf of Britain's Channel 4 for the documentary Whites Only: Ade's Extremist Adventure and says first, in disappointment after being kicked out of the church, that he thought this was just about friendship and community, and then that it is too simplistic to brand everyone in Orania as racist but that if you live in the desert for 30 years not mixing with anyone, that’s going to lead to prejudice
Chairman Alexander Soros appoints Indian-Kenyan human rights lawyer Binaifer Nowrojee as president of the Open Society Foundations and outgoing Briton Mark Mallock-Brown says he is very proud of what they have done to prepare the organization for a future where all the obvious truisms of the international liberal order have been turned on their head and that they have had to reinvent how they promote human rights and open societies

Miscellaneous

German-American businessman Karl-Erivan Haub was declared dead in 2021 after disappearing in the Swiss Alps in 2018 but is now suspected to be alive and his brother is being investigated for perjury at the death declaration after journalist says the disappearance may be linked to a Russian mistress and that there are photographs of him in Moscow from 2022
American philosopher Daniel Dennett dies at age 82, one of the so-called Four Horsemen of New Atheism alongside Richard Dawkins, Christopher Hitchens and Sam Harris and his 2003 TED talk "The Illusion of Consciousness" has been viewed more than four million times
The British pub Lower Red Lion in St Albans is being noticed for its sign that says animals are welcome but children not, after a photograph by a guest spreads online, owner David Worcester says they have had the policy for eleven years, that one child is enough to disturb the peace of customers and that all other pubs in the city are child-friendly
Brazilian MMA fighter Renato Moicano says after winning a fight that, among other things, he is a huge advocate of the First Amendment, that he wants to fucking carry all the fucking guns, loves private property and that if one care about ones country one should read Ludwig von Mises and his six lessons of the Austrian economic school
Chef Gordon Ramsey's York & Albany pub in central London is occupied by six professional squatters who barricaded themselves with kitchen equipment in connection with the temporary closure due to an upcoming change of partnership and put up a legal notice on the front door stating they have the right to stay
Former American football star O.J. Simpson, who became world famous after being charged with the murders of his ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson and her new boyfriend and the subsequent trial 1995 in which he was acquitted, dies of cancer at the age of 76
The book "Gender Queer" by Maia Kobabe, banned in schools in Florida and Texas, tops the American Library Association's list of most challenged books for the third year in a row, followed by the books "All Boys Aren't Blue" and "This Book is Gay"
27-year-old Briton Russell "Hardest Geezer" Cook runs across Africa from south to north in 352 days, starts urinating blood on day 43, is subjected to armed robbery on day 64, captured by Congolese villagers with machetes for money on day 102 and says after the finish line that he is pretty tired
The food museum in Rome, Museo della Cucina, exhibits more than 400 historical meals such as the lunch on the Titanic the day she sank, Fidel Castro's flight lunch during round trip to Mexico in 1960, the meal Hitler and Mussolini ate in Venice 1934 during their first meeting ever and Queen Victoria and emperor Alexander II meal in 1874 during their first meeting in 35 years
Chloe Cole, who through surgery and hormone therapy tried to change gender to boy at 16 and then regretted it, takes the floor at Disney's annual general meeting by saying, among other things, that "Disney has become the Ursula that is stealing the voices of thousands of little Ariel’s" and that the company during CEO Bob Iger runs a gender ideological agenda

Media

X is ordered by the Federal Court of Australia to remove videos of last week's stabbing of Bishop Mar Mari Emmanueli in a Sydney church by Muslim teenager and is now being criticized by Prime Minister Anthony Albanese for its refusal and the announcement that they will take it to court
Wikipedia spends more money on left-wing causes than running an encyclopedia, asks its readers for donations but has assets of USD 250 million, donates USD 24 million mostly to the left-wing organization Tides Foundation, which collects anonymous donations to pass on and, among other things, to Knowledge Equity Fund working to work against Eurocentrism and white male imperialist and patriarchal supremacy
Alexandre de Moraes, judge of the Superior Electoral Court of Brazil, starts investigation against Elon Musk who announced that he does not intend to comply with the Brazilian court order to censor accounts on X with a daily fee of almost 20,000 USD per account for failure of censorchip, Musk calls for impeachment or resignation of de Moraes
Sweden deports Chinese journalist Chen Xuefei Axelsson, resident in Sweden for 20 years and has as an editor at Green Post collaborated with Chinese intelligence and worked closely with the Chinese embassy
The Scottish legislation, the Hate Crime and Public Order Act, comes into force on 1st of April, which states, among other things, that it is a crime if a person communicates material to another that a reasonable person would consider to be threatening, offensive or insulting and that it is likely to lead to hatred against a specific group
Austrian nationalist activist Martin Sellner gets his account back on X and Elon Musk asks if it's legal in response to his post about him being arrested by police in Switzerland during a speech, last month it was reported that Germany was considering banning the Austrian from entry
The children's channel Nickelodeon employed four now-convicted sex offenders, including Brian Peck who corresponded with serial killer John Wayne Gacy, and several of the child actors now talk about their experiences in the new documentary Quiet on Set, the writer and producer Dan Schneider denies any wrongdoing
Elon Musk cancels planned collaboration with former CNN profile Don Lemon about a new showon the platform after Musk was interviewed in a first episode and that during the negotiation Lemon reportedly demanded a free Tesla Cybertruck, 5 million USD in advance, 8 million USD in salary, shares in X, private flight to Las Vegas and hotel for him and his fiance
Tucker Carlson publishes interview with Mike Benz, CEO of the Foundation For Freedom Online (FFO), which provides a detailed account of the censorship industrial complex, how it was created, why it was created, which agencies and organizations operate it and its key people, and how it was used and is being used for mass censorship and political influence on social media within the US and in the rest of the world, as well as to invert the meaning of democracy
19-year-old Marco Troper, son of YouTube's former CEO Susan Wojcicki and nephew of 23andMe's founder and Sergey Brin's ex-wife Anne Wojcicki, is found dead in a dormitory on the UC Berkeley campus and according to grandmother Esther Wojcicki, he must have inhaled drugs and that they don't know what kind pending toxicology report

Politics

Protest movements generate attention online but have limited effects on political attitudes, researchers who studied protests in US from 2017 to 2022 say all had zero effect, except BLM protests after death of George Floyd which shifted views on race and benefited Democrats
The documentary Flynn about General Michael Flynn reaches number one on Amazon's bestseller list, follows Flynn's life through the ranks of the US military, the twists and turns following his tenure as national security adviser to Donald Trump and is said to provide an insight into the workings of the deep state
Sinn Féin's Michelle O'Neill becomes Northern Ireland first minister after two years of deadlock due to the Democratic Unionist Party's terms on renegotiating the 2021 Brexit deal to support the government, O'Neill says she believes there will be a referendum on Irish unity within 10 years
Scandal-ridden George Santos (R), expelled from the US House after a vote, making him the first member to be expelled in more than 20 years, he has not been convicted of a crime but has been indicted on 23 counts related to various types of fraud
Florida's governor Ron DeSantis (R) announces proposal to permanently ban Covid-19 mandates in the state, includes banning mask and vaccine requirements, prohibiting Covid passports in the state and prohibiting employers from hiring or firing based on vaccination status, also promises to
Jordan Bardella, 27, succeeds Marine Le Pen as leader of the National Assembly, says he wants to maintain continuity and build on the legacy of his predecessor
Vandals in New Zealand write LABOUR on election posters during local elections in the country last week to smear candidates from the party represented by Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern, party members call it an attack tactic, the right gains ground in most cities while the incumbent government plans to tax farmers for their climate impact
Greta Thunberg says that it would be a very bad idea for Germany to focus on coal power when the nuclear power plants are still in place, would be shut down this year but is still being debated within the German government, she also says that it is completely forbidden in Sweden to talk about reducing energy use and that people then say ‘Oh no, this is communism and so on’, which she says is completely insane
Liz Truss wins race to be elected leader of the ruling Conservative Party and the new UK prime minister, defeated former finance minister Rishi Sunak by 57% to 43% in the final runoff which was a smaller margin than opinion polling had suggested, the 47-year-old foreign minister campaigned as a tax-cutting, anti-woke candidate who would take a hard line on post-Brexit dealings with the EU
Boris Johnson resigns as Tory leader after even new Chancellor Nadhim Zahawi told him that the situation is unsustainable, remains as PM until the October party conference

Opinion

Communism was ideology of Antichrist during 20th century, unholy alliance of anti-communism was kathechon which after its triumph morphed into neoliberal attempt to create new world order and a global state, says Peter Thie in interview by Tyler Cowen about political theology
Andrew Beck: Ten years ago, Javascript's creator, Brendan Eich, was forced out as CEO of Mozilla, which he co-founded, as a result of donations he made to lobby groups opposed to the legalization of same-sex marriage, which I felt at the time was a major escalation of the culture war and made me realize that the ideological conformity to the top-down, programmatic transformation of the country was all that mattered
Robin Hanson: Global monoculture is a dangerous mistake which is on track to repeat historical patterns of population collapse, centuries of minimal development and increasing illiberalism, no cultural counterforce has realistic chance of reversing the trends but high tech could prevent some of the problems ahead
Curtis Yarvin and Christopher Rufo debate whether the American Revolution was a left-wing project and whether returning to the original American republic is a worthy goal for the right
George Carter: The circle around Bronze Age Pervert understands, through Nietzsche, that nature uplifts the strong, healthy and beautiful and downgrades the weak, deformed and diseased, that the point of life is not procreation but the pursuit of eternal glory, which Bronze Age Pervert terms the Faustian spirit, and because the right has always sided with natural hierarchy, conservatives should not fear this energy despite its clear paganism
David Sacks: A Chinese invasion of Taiwan would be the most complex military operation in modern times, the island's coastline is either shallow or has high cliffs, the weather allows for an amphibious operation only a few months a year, the country has mountainous geography, has a long time to react on China's mobilization and China has not participated in a major war in 70 years
Philip H. Dybvig: Speaking of Claudine Gay, most people's dream, especially the oppressed, seems to be to become oppressors, just like the strong correlation between those who abuse children and those who were abused as children, first they claim to represent the oppressed and then they destroy all counter-revolutions
Cremiux Recueil: Elites have distinctive genetics shaped by selection pressure, an effect that takes a long time to dissolve, Copts are relatively successful today and have been heavily selected when the cost of not converting to Islam was high, Jews were encouraged early to send their first born to school and discriminated Indians in Fiji were driven to focus on education
Christian Caruzo: I don't understand dictators' obsession with TV shows, Venezuela's former dictator Hugo Chávez started the program Aló Presidente in 1999 three months after taking power, which was imitated by leaders of several Latin American countries and successor Nicolás Maduro has continued on the beaten path
Brian Robertson: That two national polls show that Robert F. Kennedy Jr. leading both Trump and Biden among voters under 45 is sending shockwaves through Washington to the point that the New York Times in an article dismisses its own opinion poll and the establishment's strategy seems to be to get Kennedy to spend all money on security as the Biden administration denied him protection from the Secret Service, as well as burying his campaign under mountains of legal fees

Europe

22 percent of German residents between the ages of 14 and 29 would vote for Alternative for Germany if there were elections today, the highest for any single party, according to the study 2024 Jugend in Deutschland, support for the Greens falls from 27 percent in 2022 to 18 percent in 2024 and for the SPD from 19 to 8 percent
Russia's Deputy Defense Minister Timur Ivanov, one of his close collaborators and a construction boss, is arrested this week on suspicion of bribery, Ivanov maintains his innocence but no comment from the other two yet
The wings of the Moulin Rouge windmill in Paris collapses overnight Thursday and the cause is still unknown, every week technicians check the mechanism and they did not note any problems according to a source
The Greek nationalist party the Spartans is banned by the Supreme Court from the European Parliament elections in June and eleven members of parliament from the party are under investigation on suspicion of being controlled by the former spokesman of the now-banned Golden Dawn party, jailed Ilias Kasidiaris
The hate speech charges against Finnish MP and former minister Päivi Räsänen following her 2019 tweet and 2004 pamphlet on same-sex marriage will be heard in the Supreme Court of Finland after being acquitted in two instances, she says the investigation has been going on for almost five years and has consisted of more than 13 hours of interrogation
69-year-old Grand Duke Henri of Luxembourg plans to abdicate in favor of his son Guillaume, 42, at a date he has yet to disclose, saying all this has been planned in family consultation
Belgian police shut down The National Conservatism Conference, which Hungary's Viktor Orbán and Britain's Nigel Farage were due to attend, two hours after it started, citing the risk of public order, co-organizer Frank Füredi of the right-wing think tank MCC says they are trying to use a technical reasons to make a political point
Fire erupts at the stock exchange building of Copenhagen from 1625, Børsen, and its tower collapses, Deputy Prime Minister Troels Lund Poulsen says it's their own Notre Dame moment and Culture Minister Jakob Engel-Schmidt says 400 years of cultural history go up in flames
Residents of the district Bulwell in Nottingham in England with a 2.7 percent Muslim population oppose the planned construction of a mosque and a woman at a meeting says she thinks they are now considered the local racists but that it feels like they are being driven out and that the area will be completely overtaken
Banquet hall with walls covered with frescoes of mythological figures associated with the Trojan War discovered by archaeologists during the excavation of the Roman city of Pompeii buried by the eruption of Vesuvius in 79, the dining room is 15 by six meters and, among other things, a meeting between Paris and Helena can be seen on the black painted walls

North America

Homosexual couples are more likely to be exposed to risks linked to climate change compared to heterosexual couples according to a report from the UCLA School of Law, is motivated by the fact that the probability is higher that they live in poorer communities
108 protesters arrested at Emerson College in Boston, 93 people at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles and 34 at the University of Texas at Austin as a result of student demonstrations in the wake of the war in Palestine
US House of Representatives votes for additional USD 61 billion in aid to Ukraine, prompting Democrats to wave the Ukrainian flag in the chamber
37-year-old self-proclaimed investigative journalist Max Azzarello sets himself on fire near the trial of Donald Trump, writing on Substack that the motive is to draw attention to the fact that we are victims of a totalitarian con and that the government is about to hit us with a apocalyptic fascist world coup, the fire was extinguished by police and he is now in hospital in critical condition
Florida woman sentenced to one month in prison for stealing and reselling Joe Biden's daughter Ashley's diary, in which it says Joe and Ashley took "probably not appropriate" showers together and that she was hypersexualized at a young age
35-year-old Shant Soghomonian starts a fire inside a property outside US Senator Bernie Sanders' office in Vermont on Friday, Sanders not there at the time, no one is injured and the perpetrator is arrested on Sunday
Those forced by New York police to remove their hijabs while being photographed are entitled to between USD 7,000 and USD 13,000 under a settlement totaling USD 17.5 million after two Muslim women filed a class action lawsuit against the city in 2018
Baltimore's black mayor Brandon Scott says DEI, diversity, equality and inclusion, is used as racist term by people who don't have the guts to say the N word
US President Joe Biden's fundraiser at Radio City Music Hall in New York with Barack Obama and Bill Clinton interrupted during Stephen Colbert's interview by pro-Palestinian protesters chanting, among other things, "you have blood on your hands"
American independent presidential candidate Robert Kennedy Jr. picks Google founder Sergey Brin's ex-wife, 38-year-old Nicole Shanahan, as his running mate, she donated USD 25,000 to the Biden Victory Fund during the 2020 presidential election and says during the introduction speech that she is now leaving the Democratic Party since they have lost their way

Latin America

Argentina's President Javier Milei confirms his relationship with 43-year-old actress Fátima Flórez has ended after they started dating eight months ago, saying it is as a result of her overwhelming professional success as she has received numerous job offers in the US and Europe
Argentine President Javier Milei and Commander of the United States Southern Command, Laura J. Richardson, meet in Ushuaia in southern Argentina and announce the establishment of a naval base in the city, in March Richardson gave a presentation on the necessity to neutralize China and Russia in Latin America and Milei points to Antarctica as a motive for the construction of the base
Ecuadorian police raid the Mexican embassy in the capital Quito and arrest Ecuador's former vice president Jorge Glas, who is accused of corruption and bribery and sought political asylum at the embassy, ​​leading to Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador breaking diplomatic relations with the country
Argentina's President Javier Milei says during a speech at the opening of Congress that his reforms will be introduced with or without the support of the political leadership and that if they seek conflict, they will get conflict, is also proposing a social contract for the political class based on ten principles such as the inviolability of private property, non-negotiable fiscal balance and tax reductions
Argentina's former president and Javier Milei's predecessor, Alberto Fernández, is being indicted on Thursday for embezzlement by improperly favoring certain insurance brokers in the handling of public insurance contracts, the husband of Fernández's private secretary, the insurance broker Héctor Martínez Sosa, is also charged
The local government of the province of La Rioja in Argentina defaults on debt payment of USD 26 million on Monday, the green bonds were issued after a restructuring in 2021 due to a default in 2020 and was mostly invested in wind farms, one of which was sold for USD 171 million, which in turn was then invested in two more wind farms
Surplus in Argentina's state budget for the first time since August 2012 and President Javier Milei writes in response to Economy Minister Luis "Toto" Caputo's post on X "let's go, Toto", that zero deficit is non-negotiable followed by his traditional rallying cry "Long live freedom, damn it"
Brazil's former president Jair Bolsonaro formally accused of participation in coup attempt, is being given 24 hours to return his passport, he is also accused of spying during his administration and this week the police raides the home and office of his son Carlos and other related properties
Sebastián Piñera, President of Chile between 2010 and 2014 and between 2018 and 2022 dies in helicopter crash, had a fortune of an estimated USD 2.4 billion
Argentine President Javier Milei's reform package is sent back to square one and Milei refers on X to list of what he believes are the loyalists and traitors, and the government writes in a statement that they got their positions waving the banner of change just to betray their voters

Asia

40-year-old man kills six people and injures three in a shopping center in Sydney, Australia in a knife attack and is shot dead on the spot by a female police, is not suspected to be an act of terrorism as the man previously known to the police
Presenter Alan Titchmarsh's jeans are being blurred in North Korea since the series Garden Secrets began airing on state television in 2022 after being banned in the country since the 90s because of its symbol of US imperialism, the trousers were symbol of resistance in East Germany until the fall of the Berlin wall
Japan's thousand year old festival, Sominsai, which involves nearly naked men purifying themselves in a river, praying for a fruitful harvest and then competing for a talisman, is being held for the last time at the Kokuseki Temple in Oshu because, according to monk Daigo Fujinami, the difficulty of organizing a festival of this size since there are so many rituals and work that must be done behind the scenes and according to the article because of Japan's aging population
Pakistan's former Prime Minister Imran Khan and his wife Bushra Bibi are sentenced to 14 years in prison for corruption shortly before the country holds elections on February 8, Khan is already in prison and his ban on running for office is extended from five to ten years
The Pacific nation of Nauru resumes diplomatic relations with China, causing Taiwan to cut ties with the country, only 12 independent states currently recognize Taiwan while three are island nations in the Pacific Ocean
The candidate of the ruling Democratic Progressive Party, William Lai, wins the presidential election in Taiwan, while mainland China views Lai as a separatist and urged Taiwanese voters not to vote for him
More than a third of unmarried Japanese under the age of 50 have never been in a relationship, according to research by Recruit Holdings Co. who since 2017 have conducted research on the topic, among men who do not want to get married the most common reason was the cost involved and for women it was that they did not want to compromise their freedom and independence
Students in Indonesia storm refugee camp for Muslim Rohingya from Burma shouting "kick them out" and "reject Rohingyas in Aceh" and UNHCR says the events were triggered by a coordinated online campaign of misinformation and hate speech, 1,500 Rohingya have arrived in Indonesia since November
Sri Lanka arrests 15,000 people in week-long Operation Yuktiya, which means justice, to crack down on drug trafficking as authorities say the country is being used as a transit country
Artificial rain is being used for the first time in Pakistan to tackle poor air quality with the help of a group from the United Arab Emirates who are increasingly familiar with the method used to create rain in the arid country

MIDDLE EAST

Africa

Botswana President Mokgweetsi Masisi says in response to German authorities' proposal to limit the import of hunting trophies that they would like to offer 20,000 elephants to Germany and will not take no for an answer, says the number of elephants has increased explosively as a result of conservation efforts and that the country had to pay the price
Niger suspends, with immediate effect, its military cooperation with the United States which allowed US military and personnel to operate and maintain an airbase in the country, comes after US officials visited Niger to discuss so-called democratic transition
UN peacekeeping forces withdraw from Mali after ten years, operation Minusma was the UN's second deadliest operation with 310 dead soldiers, in September Mali, Niger and Burkina Faso created a defense pact called the Alliance of Sahel States
The muslim militia Boko Haram killed 20 people with a roadside bomb on their way back from the burial of former victims in Yobe state in Nigeria on Tuesday and on Monday the shot dead 17 people in the village of Gurokayeya who, according to the police, refused to pay a special tax
Egypt bans girls from wearing the niqab in school following Education Minister Reda Hegazy's statement that covering the hair is optional but not the face
Air attack by the country's military on Sudan's capital Khartoum, which the paramilitary group RSF controls, kills at least 20 people, the country's military and RSF have been fighting since April for control of the capital
Gabon military proclaims coup d'état immediately after President Ali bongo wins his third election and coup leader and ousted president's cousin, Brice Clothaire Oligui Nguema, who bought properties worth USD 1 million for cash, is now believed to be taking over the country
The coup plotters in Niger say they have reason to prosecute ousted president Mohamed Bazoum for high treason and the pan-African organization Ecowas is gathering forces to intervene if a peaceful solution cannot be achieved
The opposition leader in Senegal, Ousmane Sonko, who has been on hunger strike since his arrest in late July has been hospitalized, he has been in conflict with the authorities since 2021
France supports the pan-African organization ECOWAS in their ambition to find a solution in Niger after the coup d'état, according to French Foreign Minister Catherine Colonna who believes that Niger's apparently ousted president Mohamed Bazoum is the only legitimate leader of the country

Economy

Central bank of Zimbabwe launches the new currency Zimbabwean Gold, ZiG, said to be backed by USD 100 million in foreign currency reserves as well as 2,522 tonnes of gold, according to the head of the central bank the currency is being launched because of the instability of the Zimbabwean dollar exchange rate and the inflation and he says there is a need to restore trust
Donald Trump's media company Trump Media & Technology Group, which owns the social media platform TRUTH Social and went public on March 26 this year, reports a 2023 loss of USD 58 million and its stock is down as much as 26 percent on Monday, the IPO added nearly USD 4 billion to the former president's fortune
US production of oil in 2023 highest ever for a country for the sixth year in a row, according to a report by The Energy Information Administration, despite the fact that Joe Biden, as part of trying to accomplish his campaign promise to eliminate fossil fuels has signed 200 executive orders in regards to that
Sam Bankman-Fried is sentenced to 25 years in prison for his role in the fall of the crypto exchange FTX and the company Alameda Research in which clients lost deposits of 8 to 11 billion USD, lawyer Mark Mukasey said, among other things, that his client does not make decisions with malice in his heart but that he makes them with math in his head
The California-based transhumanist Extropian movement, which emerged around 1990, laid the groundwork for cryptocurrencies as they were heavily inspired by Friedrich Hayek and used his ideas in building computer networks and philosophizing about digital currencies
Europe's market share of global plastic production decreased from 22 percent in 2006 to 14 percent in 2022, while China's increased from 21 to 32 percent over the same period, according to a report by Plastic Europe, the EU and the UK, Norway and Switzerland produced a total of 58.8 million tons in 2022
The US bill CHIPS Act, which promises USD 39 billion in subsidies to facilitate the establishment of semiconductor factories in the US, contains 19 sections that deal with helping minorities, a week after the Biden administration promised its implementation, Intel has paused its factory in Columbus, TSMC pushed back production at the factory in Arizona and Samsung postponed its first Texas factory
Amazon Web Services acquires nuclear-powered data center in Pennsylvania from Talen Energy Corporation for $650 million and signs contracts to supply energy for ten years from the nearby nuclear power plant Susquehanna Steam Electric Station
American hamburger chain Wendy's will in 2025 start experimenting with changing prices daily based on demand, as all restaurants are planned to have digital menus by then
Elon Musk is suing OpenAI and its CEO Sam Altman for violating the company's founding agreement to prioritize humanity over profit, the lawsuit says the company has turned into a de facto closed-source subsidiary of Microsoft, Musk co-founded the company and served on the board until 2018

Technology

The German state of Schleswig-Holstein replaces the Microsoft Windows operating system with Linux and the Microsoft Office software package with LibreOffice on its 30,000 computers, the Minister-President writes that they have no influence on such solutions and a possible outflow of data to third countries and that they have a great responsibility towards citizens and businesses to ensure that their data is kept safe and that they must ensure that they are always in control of the IT solutions
Data containing US telecom company AT&T's information on an estimated 7.6 million current and 65.4 million former customers is posted on cybercrime forum, the data includes name, address, phone number, birthday and social security number
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has invested in and chairs the nuclear power company Oklo as well as the nuclear fusion company Helion Energy and said in 2021 that the two limited commodities today are intelligence and energy, 57 percent of Americans were in favor of expanded nuclear power in 2023 compared to 43 percent in 2020
The developer of humanoid robots, Figure, enters into an agreement with OpenAI for the development of the robot's brain and receives USD 675 million from Microsoft, OpenAI Startup Fund, NVIDIA, Bezos Expeditions and Intel Capital, among others, in an investment round that values ​​the company at USD 2.6 billion
Google's image generation program Gemini has a very difficult time generating white people regardless of the request from the user and on direct request to depict a white man the response is given that the request cannot be fulfilled as it specifies a certain ethnicity and that Gemini's aim is to create images that are inclusive and representative, product manager Jack Krawczyk has over the years written about systemic racism in the US and argued that white privilege is fucking real
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman wants to raise USD 7 trillion to invest in increased semiconductor manufacturing capacity to facilitate the development of artificial intelligence
Tech giants announce agreement at Munich security conference on how to deal with AI-generated images, so-called deep fakes, which deliberately mislead voters, Meta's head of global affairs, Nick Clegg, says everyone recognizes that no one tech company, no one government, no one civil society organization is able to deal with the advent of this technology and its possible nefarious use on their own
OpenAI launches tool for creating video through artificial intelligence called Sora but is so far only available to a small percentage of beta testers, the company also says they are developing a tool that should be able to recognize if the video was made in Sora
The company Axiom Space's space mission Axiom Mission 3 with the SpaceX spacecraft Crew Dragon with Swedish astronaut Marcus Wandt ends with landing in the water off the coast of Florida after three weeks of space travel to the International Space Station, conducted among other things experiments in muscle stimulation, genetically modified plants, bone density and sleep patterns
The British company Hybrid Air Vehicles receives an order from the French tourist company Grands Espaces for the Airlander 10 aircraft, which can fly at low altitude and at low speed, land without infrastructure and is spacious enough to be equipped with several rooms and common areas for tourists, launch is not expected until 2028

Science

Chinese Academy of Sciences publishes map of moon in the scale of 1:2,500,000 which took 100 scientists more than a decade to compile
Researcher Nathan Cofnas is fired from Emmanuel College, part of the University of Cambridge, for violating its diversity and inclusion policies ​​when he argued that the number of black professors at Harvard would approach zero in a meritocracy and that they would not hold any high-profile positions outside of sports and entertainment
Nobel laureate in physics 2013, Peter Higgs who predicted the existence of the Higgs boson in particle physics in 1964 which was later confirmed at CERN in 2012, dies at the age of 94, was born in Newcastle in 1929 and worked at the University of Edinburgh for almost all of his career
Lyrics have become simpler and more repetitive, according to an Austrian study of 353,320 English-language songs from five decades and five genres published in Nature, including multiple aspects such as vocabulary richness, readability, complexity and the number of repeated lines
Attitudes related to critical social justice correlated with depression, anxiety and lack of happiness but not more so than being on the political left in general, according to two studies in Finland with a total of 5,878 participants, women twice as likely to agree with statements positive to the so-called critical social justice
The Swedish professor of epidemiology Martin Kulldorff was fired from his position at Harvard University for opposing vaccination mandate, writes that ignoring Sweden's actions during the lockdowns is like ignoring a placebo control group, that he could not publish his support for the Swedish solution in the American media, that the state helped Twitter to censor anti-vaccine posts and that science cannot survive in a society that does not value truth and strive to discover it
Statistically significant negative correlation found between penile length in the flaccid state and IQ according to study by Cuntong Wang and Yihe Wangding with data from 115,387 men aged 18 to 65 years from 139 countries, also notable differences between ethnicities were found
85 footprints between 11,700 and 129,000 years old are found on the coast of Larache in Morocco and analysis indicates that they originate from children, adolescents and adults, a mixture of different geographical and meteorological factors ensured that the footprints were preserved
Intelligence negatively correlated with survival of specie, according to study of more than 100 primate genera where cognitive capacity of extinct types is estimated through cranial volume, higher intelligence evolved in punctuated pattern during last 10 million years after split between Hominini and Gorillini
John Tooby passes away at age 71, founded evolutionary psychology as scientific field in collaboration with his wife Leda Cosmides, celebrated by friend Steven Pinker as exceptionally good person and intellectual giant who brought to fruition Darwin's prediction that psychology will be placed on a new foundation