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If you’re in the test, you can sort posts by the highest or lowest number of views, likes, and replies that they received. Plus, you can see a breakdown of views and interactions by followers and non-followers for each post. You will also be able to see how many people followed you from a specific post.
Instagram head Adam Mosseri announced the change on Thursday, noting that it will help users better understand what sorts of posts are resonating with their audiences, especially now that Threads has changed its algorithm to show users more content from accounts they actually follow.
The latest change comes as Meta has been rapidly building out and updating Threads over the past few weeks, likely in response to the increasing popularity of X competitor Bluesky, which recently surpassed 20 million users.
The updates include a deeper integration with the fediverse, advanced search, custom feeds, the option to choose a default feed, AI-powered summaries of trending topics, and more.
Although Threads has a solid user base of more than 275 million monthly active users, Bluesky is catching up with Threads when it comes to daily active users. As a result, the Meta-owned social network has been working to appease users and roll out additional functionality likely in an effort to remain competitive and keep its users from moving to Bluesky.
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Crews recover the body of a woman from a Pennsylvania sinkhole after a 4-day search | The remains of a woman who fell into a sinkhole were recovered Friday, four days after she went missing while searching for her cat, a state police spokesperson said.
Trooper Steve Limani said the body of 64-year-old Elizabeth Pollard was sent to the Westmoreland County Coroner’s Office for an autopsy after rescuers used machinery to bring her to the surface.
Limani told reporters Pollard was found at about 11 a.m. approximately 30 feet (9 meters) underground, some 12 feet (4 meters) from the opening of the sinkhole. Limani said Pollard apparently fell onto a cone-shaped pile of debris created by the crumbling mine, then rolled or otherwise moved toward the southwest to where her body was recovered.
The autopsy may help determine whether Pollard was killed by the fall, Limani said.
The announcement came in the fourth day of the search for Pollard, who had last been seen Monday evening, looking for the cat near a restaurant half a mile (0.8 kilometers) from her home in the village of Marguerite.
Axel Hayes, Pollard’s son, said a state trooper told him and other family members that her body had been found.
“I was hoping for the best, I really was,” Hayes said in a phone interview. “I was hoping she was still alive, maybe in a coma or something. I wasn’t expecting all of this.”
Mike O’Barto, who chairs the Unity Township Board of Supervisors, said the tragedy was deeply felt among his friends and neighbors.
“Unity Township is a tight-knit community. We are made of several coal mining towns. And of course, Marguerite’s one of them,” O’Barto said. “And when people suffer, we all suffer. The people of Unity Township are sad today.”
Pollard’s family reported her missing around 1 a.m. Tuesday as the temperature in the area dropped below freezing.
The search focused on a sinkhole that began as a manhole-sized gap and may have only recently opened above where coal was mined until about 70 years ago. Hunters and restaurant workers who were in the area in the hours before Pollard’s disappearance told police they hadn’t noticed the sinkhole.
Police said they found Pollard’s car parked about 20 feet (6 meters) from the sinkhole with her 5-year-old granddaughter inside. The cat, Pepper, has not reappeared, Hayes said.
The effort to find Pollard — which a fire official said lasted about 80 hours — included lowering a pole camera with a sensitive listening device into the hole, although it detected nothing. Crews removed a massive amount of soil and rock to try to reach the area where they believed she fell into the chasm about 30 feet (9 meters) deep.
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Romania's top court scraps presidential election | Romania's constitutional court on Friday canceled the country's presidential election following allegations of Russian interference in favor of the far-right front-runner, just two days ahead of the run-off.
Romania's pro-EU President Klaus Iohannis said he would stay in his post until a new government that emerges from legislative elections last weekend can be formed to set a new presidential election date.
The country's authorities had objected after far-right outsider Calin Georgescu topped the election's first round on November 24, a shock result in the EU and NATO member bordering Ukraine.
On Wednesday, the presidency declassified documents detailing allegations against Georgescu and Russia, including "massive" social media promotion and cyberattacks.
Based on this, said the court, it had unanimously decided to annul the entire electoral process to ensure its "correctness and legality."
The process "was marred throughout its entire duration and at all stages by multiple irregularities and violations of electoral legislation that distorted the free and correct nature of the vote cast by citizens," it said in its ruling.
"All these aspects had the converging effect of disregarding the essential principles of democratic elections," it added.
'Attack on democracy'
Georgescu, a former senior civil servant, had been due to face centrist mayor Elena Lasconi in Sunday's runoff.
"It is basically a formalized coup d'etat... Our democracy is under attack," Georgescu, 62, said in a video message, calling on Romanians to "remain faithful to our common ideal."
"They will not be able to stop me. And they cannot stop the Romanian people from what they want to change," he told local media.
Lasconi, a 52-year-old former journalist, also called the court's decision "illegal, immoral ... crushing the very essence of democracy."
Fears had been raised that if Georgescu won, the country -- whose strategic importance has increased since Moscow invaded Ukraine -- would join the EU's far-right bloc and undermine European unity against Russia.
While Bucharest streets were largely empty late Friday, without any protests taking place as far as AFP journalists could see, several people condemned the court's decision.
"We are upset because this is a political game" to allow the losers to "get back in the game," said Marius Neagu, a 48-year-old salesman.
Miruna Mihai, 25, said the decision "is a slap in the face of everyone who voted in this election" and risked "radicalizing" Georgescu's supporters.
IT worker Madalina Stroe, 34, welcomed it however, saying she didn't want Romania "to go back in time to Communism in case Georgescu was elected. I don't want us to lose our freedom."
Outgoing Prime Minister Marcel Ciolacu -- who lost in the first round of presidential elections -- hailed the decision as "the only correct solution."
Late on Friday, the United States said it had faith in Romania's institutions and called for a "peaceful democratic process."
"We call on all parties to uphold Romania's constitutional order and engage in a peaceful democratic process free from threats of violence and intimidation," said State Department spokesperson Matthew Miller.
'Deepens polarization'
Anti-corruption prosecutors said Friday they had opened an investigation into "illegal operations with computer devices or software."
Prosecutors are already probing "possible violations of electoral legislation" and "money laundering offenses."
In documents drawn up for a security council meeting and published Wednesday, authorities said data had "revealed an aggressive promotional campaign, in violation of electoral legislation."
Last week, authorities condemned "preferential treatment" of Georgescu by TikTok, something the social media platform has denied.
The European Commission announced Thursday it had stepped up monitoring of TikTok.
A separate intelligence services document stated that Romania was a "target for aggressive Russian hybrid actions," including cyberattacks.
On Monday, before the documents were released, Romania's constitutional court validated the first-round presidential results.
Friday's decision to cancel the elections is "an unprecedented and historic decision," political analyst Costin Ciobanu told AFP.
It "deepens uncertainty and polarization within Romanian society, raising serious concerns about the strength of Romania's institutions and democracy," he added.
Georgescu shot into the limelight with his performance in the first round of voting.
Having praised Russian President Vladimir Putin in the past, he has more recently avoided answering questions about him being pro-Russian.
While the president's post is largely ceremonial, the head-of-state has moral authority and influence on Romania's foreign policy.
The president also designates the prime minister -- a key role especially since legislative elections last weekend returned a fragmented parliament.
The governing pro-European Social Democrats won the vote, but far-right parties made strong gains, together securing a third of the ballots.
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"Fears had been raised that if Georgescu won, the country -- whose strategic importance has increased since Moscow invaded Ukraine -- would join the EU's far-right bloc and undermine European unity against Russia.",
"While Bucharest streets were largely empty late Friday, without any protests taking place as far as AFP journalists could see, several people condemned the court's decision.",
"\"We are upset because this is a political game\" to allow the losers to \"get back in the game,\" said Marius Neagu, a 48-year-old salesman.",
"Miruna Mihai, 25, said the decision \"is a slap in the face of everyone who voted in this election\" and risked \"radicalizing\" Georgescu's supporters.",
"IT worker Madalina Stroe, 34, welcomed it however, saying she didn't want Romania \"to go back in time to Communism in case Georgescu was elected. I don't want us to lose our freedom.\"",
"Outgoing Prime Minister Marcel Ciolacu -- who lost in the first round of presidential elections -- hailed the decision as \"the only correct solution.\"",
"Late on Friday, the United States said it had faith in Romania's institutions and called for a \"peaceful democratic process.\"",
"\"We call on all parties to uphold Romania's constitutional order and engage in a peaceful democratic process free from threats of violence and intimidation,\" said State Department spokesperson Matthew Miller.",
"'Deepens polarization'",
"Anti-corruption prosecutors said Friday they had opened an investigation into \"illegal operations with computer devices or software.\"",
"Prosecutors are already probing \"possible violations of electoral legislation\" and \"money laundering offenses.\"",
"In documents drawn up for a security council meeting and published Wednesday, authorities said data had \"revealed an aggressive promotional campaign, in violation of electoral legislation.\"",
"Last week, authorities condemned \"preferential treatment\" of Georgescu by TikTok, something the social media platform has denied.",
"The European Commission announced Thursday it had stepped up monitoring of TikTok.",
"A separate intelligence services document stated that Romania was a \"target for aggressive Russian hybrid actions,\" including cyberattacks.",
"On Monday, before the documents were released, Romania's constitutional court validated the first-round presidential results.",
"Friday's decision to cancel the elections is \"an unprecedented and historic decision,\" political analyst Costin Ciobanu told AFP.",
"It \"deepens uncertainty and polarization within Romanian society, raising serious concerns about the strength of Romania's institutions and democracy,\" he added.",
"Georgescu shot into the limelight with his performance in the first round of voting.",
"Having praised Russian President Vladimir Putin in the past, he has more recently avoided answering questions about him being pro-Russian.",
"While the president's post is largely ceremonial, the head-of-state has moral authority and influence on Romania's foreign policy.",
"The president also designates the prime minister -- a key role especially since legislative elections last weekend returned a fragmented parliament.",
"The governing pro-European Social Democrats won the vote, but far-right parties made strong gains, together securing a third of the ballots.",
"Since the 1989 fall of Communism, Romania has not seen such a breakthrough by the far right, fueled by mounting anger over soaring inflation and fears over Russia's war in neighboring Ukraine."
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Congo 'on general alert' over flu-like disease that's killed dozens | Some deaths due to lack of blood transfusion, health minister says
Public health officials in Africa urged caution Thursday as Congo's health minister said the government was on alert over a flu-like disease that in recent weeks killed dozens of people.
Jean Kaseya, the head of the Africa Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, told reporters that more details about the disease should be known in the next 48 hours as experts receive results from laboratory samples of infected people.
"First diagnostics are leading us to think it is a respiratory disease," Kaseya said. "But we need to wait for the laboratory results."
"There are so many things we don't know" about the disease — including whether it is infectious and how it is transmitted, Kaseya added.
Authorities in Congo have so far confirmed 71 deaths, including 27 people who died in hospitals and 44 in the community in the southern Kwango province, Health Minister Roger Kamba said.
"The Congolese government is on general alert regarding this disease," Kamba said, without providing more details.
Of the victims at the hospitals, 10 died due to lack of blood transfusion and 17 as a result of respiratory problems, he said.
Epidemiological investigation starts
The deaths were recorded between Nov. 10 and Nov. 25 in the Panzi health zone of Kwango province. There were around 380 cases, almost half of which were children under the age of five, according to the minister.
The Africa CDC recorded slightly different numbers, with 376 cases and 79 deaths. The discrepancy was caused by problems with surveillance and case definition, Kaseya said.
Authorities have said that symptoms include fever, headache, cough and anemia. Epidemiological experts are in the region to take samples and investigate the disease, the minister said.
The Panzi health zone, located around 700 kilometres from the capital Kinshasa, is a remote area of the Kwango province, making it hard to access.
The epidemiological experts took two days to arrive there, the minister said. Because of the lack of testing capacity, samples had to be taken to Kikwit, more than 500 kilometres away, said Dieudonne Mwamba, the head of the National Institute for Public Health.
"The health system is quite weak in our rural areas, but for certain types of care, the ministry has all the provisions, and we are waiting for the first results of the sample analysis to properly calibrate things," Kaseya said.
Mwamba said that Panzi was already a "fragile" zone, with 40 per cent of its residents experiencing malnutrition. It was also hit by an epidemic of typhoid fever two years ago, and there is currently a resurgence of seasonal flu across the country.
"We need to take into account all this as context," Mwamba said.
'A problem of care,' resident says
A Panzi resident, Claude Niongo, said his wife and seven-year-old daughter died from the disease.
"We do not know the cause but I only noticed high fevers, vomiting ... and then death," Niongo told The Associated Press over the phone. "Now, the authorities are talking to us about an epidemic but in the meantime, there is a problem of care [and] people are dying," he added.
Lucien Lufutu, president of the civil society consultation framework of Kwango province, who is in Panzi, said the local hospital where patients are treated is underequipped.
"There is a lack of medicines and medical supplies, since the disease is not yet known, most of the population is treated by traditional practitioners," Lufutu told the AP.
He also said the disease affected Katenda, another nearby health zone.
When asked about a potential outbreak in other health zones, the minister said he could not tell if that was the case but that nothing was reported.
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Android Is Now Using AI to Upgrade Your Phone’s Closed Captions | Google is rolling out new features for Android and Pixel devices, including a new memory capability for Gemini and the ability to generate expressive captions for nonspoken audio elements in videos.
If you've ever watched a movie with closed captioning, you've probably seen [APPLAUSE] or [dramatic music] pop up at the bottom of the screen to help people who are deaf or hard of hearing better understand the non-dialog audio elements that shape what's happening in a scene. Google is bringing a similar capability to the Android mobile operating system, and, naturally, it's powered by artificial intelligence. This is one of many new features coming to Android and Google Pixel devices today.
Expressive Captions is a new tool that's part of Google's existing Live Caption feature, which enables captions on almost any media playing on your phone, no matter what app you're in. (These can even be translated to different languages, though at varying degrees of quality.) The new addition expands the scope by captioning tone and nonspeech elements.
If someone yells in a video, like a sports commentator when someone scores a touchdown, the captions will now display in all-caps to emphasize that excitement. If someone lets out a big sigh or gasps, these will now be captioned as [sighs] or [gasps], respectively. Other ambient sounds will also be included, like applause and cheers.
These captions are generated by AI software running on the phone itself, not in the cloud. Google says because Live Captions is built into Android and runs “on device,” the new Expressive Captions feature will work similarly throughout any app you use, even video calls, once you enable it. They'll occur in real time (though there's often a slight delay) and even when your phone is in Airplane mode. It's rolling out for Android phones with Live Caption functionality running Android 14.
AI-powered transcribing features are quickly becoming commonplace on smartphones—many new devices tap large language models to transcribe voice into text, like Samsung's Galaxy S24 series, which can transcribe phone calls, not to mention Apple Intelligence on the iPhone 16, which can transcribe calls and even recordings in the Voice Memo and Notes apps.
Android Updates
Expressive Captions is one of several new Android features Google just announced. There's another accessibility feature coming to the Lookout app for people who are blind or have low vision. The Image Q&A feature within the app lets users upload or take a picture and get an AI-generated description, but the feature now employs Google's more advanced Gemini 1.5 Pro large language model. Think of it as an upgrade that offers richer descriptions, and you can still ask follow-up questions to learn more about an image.
Google's Gemini chatbot is getting a lift on Android through new integrations with third-party apps. The latest is a Spotify extension, which lets you ask Gemini to play your favorite songs or discover new playlists based on your mood. Google says you can also use Gemini to call and send messages via your phone's default apps and even control the camera to take a selfie. Soon, Gemini will be able to control your smart home devices too. (Right now, it hands off many of the smart home interaction requests to Google Assistant.)
Some of these new features might sound familiar—you've been able to do them before through Google Assistant (RIP?)—but Gemini is better at understanding natural conversation, so you need not be as picky with your words when making requests.
Other Android upgrades include better-looking document scans in Google Drive thanks to improved contrast and white balance in the document processing steps, and easier sharing with Quick Share, which is the Google equivalent of Apple's AirDrop. You can quickly share images and videos with a QR code rather than requiring the person to be a contact or fiddling with your app's sharing settings.
One of the most notable Gemini enhancements is “Saved info with Gemini,” which lets you tell Gemini to remember certain things about yourself so that it can generate better results tailored for you. As an example, if you're vegan and you ask it to find recipes, Gemini can remember that you're vegan and will only provide vegan recipes without you ever having to specify that detail in your query.
“Saved info with Gemini” is rolling out to Gemini on all Android phones and the web.
Pixel Phone Updates
Many other new features being announced today will specifically roll out to Google's Pixel phones, though some of these may make their way to the broader Android ecosystem down the road.
Some core Pixel phone features are getting quality-of-life updates. Call screen, which is Google's system that screens phone calls to obliterate robocalls and telemarketers from your life, now offers suggested replies you can tap through when a call is being screened. So if a delivery driver is calling and you're in a meeting, you can respond through a series of taps on the screen instead of picking up. You can also look at the real-time conversation between Google's screening agent and the caller, and take over at any time. This latter feature is available on Pixel 6 and newer, but the suggested replies are exclusive to the Pixel 9 series.
Google's Recorder app, which transcribes recordings in real time, now has a “Clear Voice” feature you can toggle on to cut out distracting noises from the audio, like the typing of a keyboard or blaring horns on the street if you were in a noisy environment when you recorded the conversation. Cleaning up audio has been a bit of a theme for Google as it uses similar technology called “Clear Calling” in its Pixel Buds Pro 2 wireless earbuds and Pixel phones to reduce background sounds, not to mention the Audio Magic Eraser, which lets you erase unwanted sounds in recorded videos.
Now Playing, one of the original features that debuted on the second Pixel phone, lets you see right on the lock screen what music is playing in your surroundings so you don't have to look anything up. This feature now can recognize even more songs and artists, and when you go to your Now Playing history in the settings menu, it'll show album art.
Finally, if someone steals your phone, a beta feature called Identity Check will recognize when your phone is in a new location. This will require the thief to provide biometric authentication for when they inevitably will try to access sensitive settings (like changing your passcode). Identity Check is one of several new theft protection features Google recently rolled out in Android 15.
There are many more small updates, such as Simple View, a new user interface with larger fonts, bigger touch targets, and increased touchscreen sensitivity. Also, you can use Google's Circle to Search feature to save screenshots, and these screenshots can be saved in your Google Wallet. If you make a sticker of someone's face in Google's Pixel Studio app, these are now accessible in the Gboard keyboard app, and so on. You can read more here.
Other Pixel Updates
Got an older Pixel Watch or Fitbit? You'll be excited to hear that Google's porting back its new Daily Readiness algorithm, along with tools such as Cardio Load and Target Load that debuted on the Pixel Watch 3 to older devices. These include the first two Pixel Watches, along with the Fitbit Sense and Sense 2, Versa 2 through 4, Charge 5 and 6, Inspire 2 and 3, and Luxe.
The Pixel Watch 3 specifically introduced a brand-new Loss of Pulse feature that detects when the wearer's heart stops beating, and while this is still not available in the US, it's expanding to Germany and Portugal, with the full list of countries totaling 14.
As for the Pixel Tablet, which rumors suggest may not see a successor, owners can now take advantage of Google's homebrewed virtual private network (VPN)—the very same baked into its Pixel phones designed to encrypt your internet data over public Wi-Fi networks. | {
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Chertsey: Southall man jailed for five months for theft of cats | A man has been jailed for five months after admitting stealing two pet cats.
Carlos Cyrus, 30 and from Southall in London, admitted taking the animals from different addresses in Chertsey on two separate days in July.
Cyrus pleaded guilty to two charges of theft, and was sentenced to 20 weeks for each offence at Guildford Crown Court on Thursday, with the sentences to run concurrently.
Neither of the stolen cats have been recovered.
Surrey Police said they were called to Abbey Road in Chertsey on 17 July, after a man driving a VW Golf had been seen on a video doorbell taking a cat from the street.
The second incident was reported in Stepgates Close, with neighbours describing the same car being driven erratically after the cat was put inside.
Cyrus was arrested on 30 July after officers reviewed CCTV and doorbell footage.
Detectives said he answered "no comment" during questioning, with the missing cats not found during searches of several addresses.
'Callous theft'
Insp Chris Thoday said: "The two stolen cats, Tilly and Maisie, were much loved members of their families and the callous theft and refusal by Cyrus to tell us where they are, demonstrates his blatant disregard for animals and their owners.
"We know that these incidents had a real impact on the local community, and we hope that our swift action in apprehending Cyrus reassures you that we take the thefts of animals seriously and will do what we can to pursue offenders.
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Winning numbers drawn in Friday’s Pennsylvania Pick 2 Evening | The winning numbers in Friday evening’s drawing of the “Pennsylvania Pick 2 Evening” game were:
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Delaware judge rules against Elon Musk’s $56B pay package again | Welcome back to TechCrunch Mobility — your central hub for news and insights on the future of transportation. Sign up here for free — just click TechCrunch Mobility!
Your usual host Kirsten is out this week, so I’ll be taking you through the last couple weeks’ worth of mobility news.
Top of mind this week is a Delaware judge’s decision to uphold her previous ruling denying the legality of Elon Musk’s exorbitant $56 billion pay package. To refresh your memory, Delaware Chancery court judge Kathaleen McCormick in January ruled that the pay package — the largest compensation deal in corporate history — is unfair given that the CEO spends so much of his time occupied with his many other companies and projects, including X (formerly Twitter). And now he’s in charge of “government efficiency” to boot!
Tesla tried to change McCormick’s mind after shareholders voted to “re-ratify” the deal, but she wasn’t swayed by their arguments. In her decision, she wrote, among other things, that a shareholder vote can’t overturn a court ruling.
The X-verse is up in arms about it, arguing that no, in fact, a judge’s ruling shouldn’t be able to overrule a shareholder vote.
Musk has threatened to pull back from helping Tesla grow if he doesn’t get his money, a prospect that terrifies shareholders. Tesla will appeal the decision again, and with Musk as Trump’s new right-hand man, this will be an interesting one to watch.
— Rebecca Bellan
A little bird
Looks like Henrik Fisker, founder of the now-defunct EV startup Fisker, has his name on something new. It’s called “Glogy Foods LLC” and is described in a filing as having something to do with food and beverage. With a name like that, I’m not sure I want to know.
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Deals!
Chinese autonomous vehicle company Pony AI debuted on the Nasdaq last week as investors showed an interest in backing Chinese tech companies following a de facto ban on foreign IPOs from Beijing. Pony’s debut comes after WeRide and Zeekr became publicly traded companies earlier this year.
Pony opened at $15 per share, pulling in a valuation of $5.25 billion. That opening price was higher than Pony’s offering price of $13 per share, but it quickly dropped down to size and on Wednesday closed just shy of $12. Perhaps that’s because Pony, like most other AV companies, is operating at a heavy loss as it throws money into R&D and attempts to scale a frontier technology.
Ampeco, an EV charging platform, raised a $26 million Series B round led by Revaia. The startup provides OEMs with a charging network to mix and match hardware partners, which has helped it scale with major utilities companies across Europe.
The Biden administration is racing to approve clean energy loans before Trump takes over, and companies are benefiting. Rivian snagged a $6.6 billion conditional federal loan to resume construction of its Georgia EV factory; and Stellantis and Samsung, via their JV StarPlus Energy, secured a conditional loan of up to $7.54 billion to help finance two lithium-ion battery cell and module factories in Indiana.
Speaking of battery factories, General Motors is selling its stake in the nearly completed Ultium battery cell plant in Lansing, Michigan, to its JV partner LG Energy Solution (LGES). We don’t have a deal number, but GM says it expects to recoup its initial investment into the factory. GM and LGES had promised to invest over $2 billion into that site.
Notable reads and other tidbits
Tesla appears to be building a teleoperations team for its robotaxi service. The company posted a job listing for a software engineer that can help develop the system to allow human operators to remotely access and control Tesla’s upcoming robotaxis.
TuSimple co-founder and former CEO Xiaodi Hou is demanding that the board immediately liquidate the company and return all remaining funds to shareholders. Things are getting super spicy over here!
California plans to offer EV rebates if Trump kills the federal tax credits currently offered to Americans via the Inflation Reduction Act.
EVgo and GM have surpassed 2,000 public fast-charging stalls through their ongoing charging collab. That’s double their shared EV charging footprint from a year ago.
General Motors has taken a $5 billion hit due to weakness in its China business. GM, via state-owned SAIC Motor, used to be a dominant player in China but is struggling to compete with the influx of new models over the past couple of years.
Hyundai, Kia, and Genesis are recalling about 208,000 EVs in the U.S. due to an issue that could cause the cars to suddenly lose power.
The pope is getting his first electric popemobile, and, no, it’s not from now-defunct Fisker. His Holiness will cruise around in a Mercedes-Benz G-Class SUV.
Northvolt, a Swedish battery manufacturer and unicorn, has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in the U.S. The company will work to reorganize and ramp up operations in order to better position itself for the long term.
Revel is expanding its EV-charging empire in New York City. The startup is working with Port Authority to install 24 fast chargers at JFK airport.
Tesla came out with a host of new features this week, including a new Tesla app for the Apple Watch and the ability to prank your friends with a fart sound when they sit down in a passenger seat.
Joco, the NYC-based startup offering bright orange e-bikes to delivery workers, offers a slice of hope for founders taking on micromobility. The company almost died several times, including at launch, but has managed to expand mainly on its own cashflow and become a profitable business.
London has had it with all the dockless e-bikes crowding up sidewalks and streets. The city’s transport authority announced a new enforcement policy that will restrict parking for the tens of thousands of e-bikes offered for rent by Lime, Human Forest, and Dott.
Skarper, the U.K. startup that helps convert bicycles to e-bikes, must have done something right because the company has got the backing and endorsement of Sir Chris Hoy, one of the most decorated track cyclists.
Uber is expanding what it means to be a gig worker. The company is hiring contractors for a new AI and data-labeling division called Scaled Solutions that services both Uber and outside customers, like Aurora Innovation and Niantic.
Uber is also under investigation by the Federal Trade Commission over whether the company broke consumer protection laws by allegedly automatically signing people up for its Uber One subscription service and making it hard to cancel.
This week’s wheels
While reporting on Joco, I got to test-drive some of their now-iconic orange e-bikes, which are custom made for the company based on Segway’s A200 platform. And I must say, that’s one hell of a sturdy ride. There wasn’t a pothole or cracked bit of pavement that slowed my roll. The acceleration was smooth, and I felt like I was flying down those NYC bike paths — something I’m sure NYC’s many delivery drivers will also appreciate.
Perhaps my favorite part of the bike, though, was the built-in phone holder that not only secures your phone in place on the handlebars so you can use GPS, but also charges your phone at the same time.
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How a single U.S. Supreme Court case could shape life for transgender Americans | Justices to decide whether Tennessee law banning gender-affirming medical care is unconstitutional
The highest court in the United States is set to decide whether a statewide ban on gender-affirming medical care for minors is unconstitutional. The landmark case could have major consequences for transgender people across the country — and not just when it comes to their health care.
Here's what you need to know.
What is the case about?
The case, United States v. Skrmetti, centres around a law in Tennessee that bans gender-affirming medical care for minors under 18 — treatments like puberty-delaying medication, hormone therapy and surgeries to treat gender dysphoria, which is the distressing feeling people experience when their gender identity isn't the same as the sex they were assigned at birth.
Under the Tennessee law, which passed last year, medical providers who administer those treatments can be sued, fined or otherwise professionally punished.
What is the court deciding?
The justices are being asked to rule on whether the Tennessee law violates the U.S. Constitution — specifically the equal protection clause of the 14th Amendment — by making distinctions based on sex. They are not ruling on the issue of medical treatments for transgender minors itself.
Is Tennessee the only state with that kind of ban?
No. A wave of conservative state lawmakers have approved similar policies across the country in the last few years, but the one from Tennessee is the only one being examined by the U.S. Supreme Court.
Why is this such a major case?
It's the first time the country's highest court will rule on a state ban denying gender-affirming medical care for youth. It's also only the second time in four years that the court has had to decide the extent to which federal law protects transgender people from discrimination.
The Biden administration's top Supreme Court lawyer warned that a decision siding with Tennessee could be used to justify nationwide restrictions on health care for transgender minors. A ruling against Tennessee, on the other hand, could open the door for challenges against similar policies in other states.
It might also go beyond health care. The ruling could impact efforts to regulate other aspects of transgender Americans' lives — like sports competitions they can join and which bathrooms they can use.
What is the makeup of the court?
Six of the nine justices are conservative, with three having been appointed by president-elect Donald Trump when he was in the White House from 2017-21. During the presidential election campaign, Trump and his allies promised to roll back protections for transgender people.
After hearing arguments for two hours on Wednesday, the court seemed likely to uphold Tennessee's ban. The three liberal justices appeared inclined to agree with the challengers, but they do not hold enough seats to sway a decision.
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Dajour Jones: Man found guilty of Jamie Gilbey's murder | A labourer has been found guilty of murdering a 20-year-old man and dismembering his body in a "sustained and brutal" attack.
Dajour Jones, 27, stabbed to death Jamie Gilbey before cutting up the body and distributing the remains in undergrowth at South Norwood Lake and Grounds in south London in January 2022.
Jurors at the Old Bailey had been told it was a "deeply disturbing" case in which the victim was a "defenceless" man.
Jones refused to attend the court hearing by video link from Belmarsh Prison for the verdict.
He had claimed he had hit the victim with a broom in self-defence after Mr Gilbey confronted him with a knife and stole his phone.
Prosecutor Simon Dennison KC said Mr Gilbey was an "innocent victim of a highly dangerous man" and had been "too trusting" and "too eager to please".
He was a "very vulnerable, physically unimposing 20-year-old man who above all wanted to have friends", he said.
Mr Dennison dismissed the defendant's claim of self-defence, saying Mr Gilbey was "incapable of presenting any physical threat to the defendant let alone taking out a knife and threatening to stab him with it".
After deliberating for five hours, jurors convicted Jones of murder following a two-month trial.
'Never seen alive again'
The court heard both men were seen returning to the Fitze Millennium Centre housing and support facility on the evening of 27 January, and CCTV showed them going into the defendant's room.
"Jamie Gilbey was never seen alive again," Mr Dennison said.
"The defendant murdered him there in a brutal, sustained, and particularly disturbing attack in which he inflicted multiple blunt force injuries to Jamie's head, and he stabbed him multiple times with a sharp weapon."
Jurors heard Jones set about removing Mr Gilbey's dismembered body from his room without being seen to do so.
The prosecution said Jones acquired a large suitcase on 28 January that he took back to his room and made three trips with over the next few days.
Jurors were told the trips included two visits to Cantley Gardens, where Jones disposed of Mr Gilbey's body.
A third trip was made to Love Lane Green in South Norwood, where clothing and bedding "heavily stained with blood" were disposed of, the prosecution said.
Having "calmly disposed of the body", Jones also carried out a "remarkably thorough" clean-up operation in his room and seemed "extra ordinarily relaxed and cheerful", the court heard.
Evidence of the clean-up could be seen when chemicals were applied to the floor, the jury heard, but no murder weapon was recovered.
History of violence
Police found the suitcase containing the bloodstained clothing on 27 February 2022.
Jones was arrested on 3 March but when questioned, he declined to answer any police questions or tell them what had happened to the body, the court heard.
Giving evidence at the trial, the defendant said he acted in self-defence.
He also denied dismembering the body, saying he took it away from the hostel in one trip and handed it to others to dispose of, and stabbing the victim's feet after he was already dead.
The trial heard that at the time of the murder, Jones was on licence having been released from prison after attacking a man in a cycle shop in London Bridge.
Police said he had a history of violence.
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Trans Americans Are Turning to TikTok to Crowdfund Their Relocations | With their health care before the Supreme Court and president-elect Donald Trump about to take office, trans Americans are seeking to move to states where they feel safest.
The day after the 2024 US presidential election, Iris, a Black trans woman living in Texas, laid in bed and cried. Not typically one for tears, she’d woken up to a “numbing” realization: “This changes everything. If I stay in the state now that [Donald Trump]’s going to be president, I will die here.”
On November 13, Iris posted a two-minute video to TikTok with a link to a fundraising platform to help her cover moving costs. At age 20, she has not yet gone through the process of finding gender-affirming care, or legally changing her name or gender marker. Already in states like Texas, trans people can no longer correct the gender marker on their birth certificates. With laws in red states poised to become even more restrictive, Iris felt that she had no choice but to leave.
“I can’t live here as long as that’s a danger for me,” she says in the video. “I feel like my life has just started and I can’t let it end before I get to do anything.” She asked for support, whether it was donations to relocate to another state, or something as small as a comment. “I just didn’t know what else to do,” she added.
Iris is one of countless transgender Americans who—already grappling with draconian laws and bills that seek to cut off their access to health care and prevent them from using public bathrooms corresponding to their genders, on top of rising hateful rhetoric in conservative states—are scrambling to move as Trump prepares to take office for a second term. With limited resources and little time, some are seeking relocation help directly through pleas on platforms like TikTok and Instagram. Others are seeking to help through mutual aid fundraisers being organized on social media.
For Iris, that means eyeing a move to a state like California, where LGBTQ+ people have stronger legal protections. “I just want to be allowed to be myself and be seen and just be accepted,” Iris says. (WIRED is withholding Iris’ full name for her safety.) “It sucks every time you're reminded that this country doesn't want that for you.”
Shortly after Iris posted her initial TikTok, she’d raised more than $34,000, overshooting her $10,000 goal by a wide margin. She posted another video to let her viewers know she was ending her crowdfunding efforts and now had the means to start a new life elsewhere.
“Making that TikTok was really hard, because I've never been a person who likes asking for help or needing help, really,” Iris says. ”Especially in a system that values this imaginary idea of pulling yourself up by your bootstraps, doing everything for yourself, and this individualism—it makes it really hard to be vulnerable and ask for help because it feels like a failure.”
Since she posted that first TikTok, Iris’ follower count has jumped from 100 to nearly 19,000. With her new platform, she hopes to create a space where other trans and queer people can connect, perhaps learn from her efforts. “The biggest act of resistance that trans people can do in this country,” Iris says, “is to refuse to die and refuse to let ourselves be pushed into the darkness.”
In the hours following the election, concern from queer Americans surged. On November 6, suicide prevention and crisis prevention organization The Trevor Project reported a 125 percent increase in “outreach from LGBTQ+ young people needing support in direct response to election results,” the organization said in a blog post. “We anticipate this number will be at least maintained, and potentially only increase.” It did; by the end of the following day, the organization reported that the uptick in post-election call volume was 700 percent.
Basic rights for trans Americans, including lifesaving health care and safe access to bathrooms, have increasingly come under attack over the past decade. Twenty-six states, including Texas, have bans or proposed bans on gender-affirming care for minors. States such as Utah, Oklahoma, Florida, Iowa, and Kentucky have laws in place that require people to use public school and government building bathrooms that correspond to the sex they were assigned at birth. Ohio has a similar bathroom law, affecting students from kindergarten through college, slated to go into effect in 2025.
According to a study released by The Trevor Project this fall, “anti-transgender state laws significantly increased incidents of past-year suicide attempts among trans and nonbinary youth by as much as 72 percent.”
In the runup to the 2024 election, trans Americans’ lives and experiences were frequently reduced to political talking points. Trump made dismantling trans rights a prominent part of his campaign, promising to get “transgender insanity the hell out of our schools, and we will keep men out of women’s sports.” According to The Times, Trump has expressed an interest in removing trans military members from service as soon as he takes office. (A Trump spokesperson said the president-elect hasn't settled on any plan).
Trump has vowed to remove federal funding for trans health care; end programs that “promote the concept of sex and gender transition at any age”; allow citizens who’ve previously received gender affirming care to sue doctors who provided it; ask Congress to pass a bill that would only recognize male and female genders, assigned at birth, and more.
After the first openly transgender member of Congress, Representative-elect Sarah McBride of Delaware, won her bid in November, Republican representatives swiftly proposed a new policy to bar trans women from using women’s restrooms in the Capitol, with a push for a broader impact on bathrooms in all government buildings.
On Wednesday, the US Supreme Court began hearing oral arguments in a potentially monumental case challenging a Tennessee law banning gender-affirming care for young people. The court is expected to issue its decision in June.
Iris says that like many other trans people, she’s struggled with gender dysphoria, depression, and suicidal ideation. “What's kept me strong through it all is the belief that I will eventually get to a point of being able to transition,” she says. “Just the idea of that was enough to sustain me mentally. The realization that all of that could be taken away from me, despite how long I've waited and how much I've been trying to prepare for that—I knew that if I had to sit in that feeling for four years, I would not survive.”
Iris, born and raised in Texas, says that while she’s accepted moving, it’s not always the first choice for many people in her communities. “Trans people who are looking to leave their state don't want to leave their state,” she says. “Leaving is not something that we choose lightly. Nobody wants to leave the place that they grew up their entire life, unless they feel like they need to.”
Kaliyah, a 27-year-old trans woman, has lived in Texas for the past five years. She’d intended to stay longer, first to go to school for sonography, with plans to work in Austin after that. But Trump’s election, along with increasingly hostile local legislation, has changed her plans. She’s looking to relocate to Maryland and turned to TikTok to look for help. “I'm not leaving because, oh, I just got tired of Texas,” she says, “I'm leaving because my safety is at risk.”
Kaliyah says that TikTok, aside from a place where she can find recipes or funny content, has been a source of information for her. She credits TikTok for her political cognizance and says it’s given her direction on where to research more thoroughly on her own. After seeing others reach out to their communities for assistance, Kaliyah decided to try it for herself.
She doesn’t consider herself an influencer or a professional at social media, but TikTok presented an opportunity that other platforms can’t match. “The beauty of TikTok is that as long as you can generate content that even in the most basic sense appeals to people, it's so easy for the algorithm to pick up engagement and push that content out in front of people,” Kaliyah says. “You don't have to already have a huge following for something like that to be successful.”
Even for people who decide they want to leave states with anti-transgender laws, packing up and moving is a daunting, if not impossible task, rife with financial burden and the emotional hardship of leaving behind support networks. “I think the problem is that the information that's out there for assisting trans people is so focused on gender-affirming care, which is so important,” Iris says. “But it's also that trans people tend to be in really dangerous situations.” This can mean anything from the legal protections of their state, to abusive situations in their home life.
In states like Colorado, grassroots efforts, mutual aid, and small nonprofits are working to bridge that gap. “Most of the people reaching out [to us] just don't have the ability to move across the country,” says Keira Richards, executive director of Denver-based nonprofit Trans Continental Pipeline. TCP helps people relocate to Colorado, a state with strong LGBTQ+ rights and gender-affirming health care protections, by offering financial assistance, transportation, resources for local housing, and community assistance.
“For people in the service industry, retail, lower-paying jobs, they don't have the ability to save the finances that are required to pack up their whole lives and move a couple thousand miles,” Richards says. “We can get creative, but it's still a very heavy financial rift.”
For some people, moving also means giving up the job they have and seeking out new employment. It’s a cycle, Richards says: “You need somewhere to stay to get the job, but you need to get the job to have somewhere to stay.” TCP is trying to break that cycle with a temporary housing program that gives people at least a month to get on their feet. “Really, it's leaning on your community,” Richards says. “If you can build a strong community, get mutual aid networks going, then you will be in a much better position than anybody isolated in a red state.”
Since the election, Richards says that applications have skyrocketed, with a majority of requests coming from Texas and Florida. In October, TCP had gotten a little more than 20 applications. By mid-November, that number was already over 400. “Everyone is terrified right now,” she says. “Nobody really knows what's going to happen … the rhetoric is already occurring and already being translated to legislation. We have our problems already, even without whatever Trump's going to do.”
On platforms such as Instagram, mutual aid funds have offered a safe way for people to both anonymously seek assistance for, and donate toward, relocation costs, medical costs, therapy, travel expenses, and more. One popular account started in 2020, transanta, posts stories from and letters from trans people in need; users can then anonymously donate directly to whomever they like by visiting that person’s gift registry, which is shared by the Instagram account. Others, like Genderbands, offer yearly grants for a variety of transition care-related costs, including procedures, travel costs, and paperwork.
It can be tricky, however, for people in need to find these networks. Both Iris and Kaliyah were familiar with Rainbow Railroad, a non-profit operating globally that helps LGBTQ+ flee persecution, but less so with smaller, more concentrated efforts. Getting word out to people who need assistance is paramount. Complicating the issue is also the question of safety for organizers themselves. To make themselves known is to also put a target on their backs.
Richards has taken the responsibility of a spotlight to better protect her team, she says. TCP is intent on “ scaling as quickly as possible,” including fundraising, training volunteers, and trying to compile resources outside of Colorado. “We're talking to other groups in Minnesota, New York, Oregon, Washington, the other safe states who are trying to compile similar resource lists like we do,” she says. “We're trying to support other groups trying to do the same so we can meet this demand.”
None of that work can be done blindly and requires careful vetting. “It's definitely tricky,” she says. “It requires a lot of trust on both ends.”
“And even some of those networks are too underground for us to touch. They will not work with a 501(c)(3), which I respect. I understand that because we are more above ground than most of these networks have been, we are inherently at a greater risk.”
With weeks left before Trump takes office in January, the politicization of the trans community shows no signs of slowing down. Kaliyah points to the millions of dollars Republicans spent on anti-trans ads in the most recent election cycle. “For people who refuse to educate themselves—we are also in the age of misinformation where things that are not true get spread,” Kaliyah says. Focusing on trans people, she says, ”was just a way to sway the election for people who were already radically right to further demonize a demographic of people.” | {
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"On November 13, Iris posted a two-minute video to TikTok with a link to a fundraising platform to help her cover moving costs. At age 20, she has not yet gone through the process of finding gender-affirming care, or legally changing her name or gender marker. Already in states like Texas, trans people can no longer correct the gender marker on their birth certificates. With laws in red states poised to become even more restrictive, Iris felt that she had no choice but to leave.",
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"Iris is one of countless transgender Americans who—already grappling with draconian laws and bills that seek to cut off their access to health care and prevent them from using public bathrooms corresponding to their genders, on top of rising hateful rhetoric in conservative states—are scrambling to move as Trump prepares to take office for a second term. With limited resources and little time, some are seeking relocation help directly through pleas on platforms like TikTok and Instagram. Others are seeking to help through mutual aid fundraisers being organized on social media.",
"For Iris, that means eyeing a move to a state like California, where LGBTQ+ people have stronger legal protections. “I just want to be allowed to be myself and be seen and just be accepted,” Iris says. (WIRED is withholding Iris’ full name for her safety.) “It sucks every time you're reminded that this country doesn't want that for you.”",
"Shortly after Iris posted her initial TikTok, she’d raised more than $34,000, overshooting her $10,000 goal by a wide margin. She posted another video to let her viewers know she was ending her crowdfunding efforts and now had the means to start a new life elsewhere.",
"“Making that TikTok was really hard, because I've never been a person who likes asking for help or needing help, really,” Iris says. ”Especially in a system that values this imaginary idea of pulling yourself up by your bootstraps, doing everything for yourself, and this individualism—it makes it really hard to be vulnerable and ask for help because it feels like a failure.”",
"Since she posted that first TikTok, Iris’ follower count has jumped from 100 to nearly 19,000. With her new platform, she hopes to create a space where other trans and queer people can connect, perhaps learn from her efforts. “The biggest act of resistance that trans people can do in this country,” Iris says, “is to refuse to die and refuse to let ourselves be pushed into the darkness.”",
"In the hours following the election, concern from queer Americans surged. On November 6, suicide prevention and crisis prevention organization The Trevor Project reported a 125 percent increase in “outreach from LGBTQ+ young people needing support in direct response to election results,” the organization said in a blog post. “We anticipate this number will be at least maintained, and potentially only increase.” It did; by the end of the following day, the organization reported that the uptick in post-election call volume was 700 percent.",
"Basic rights for trans Americans, including lifesaving health care and safe access to bathrooms, have increasingly come under attack over the past decade. Twenty-six states, including Texas, have bans or proposed bans on gender-affirming care for minors. States such as Utah, Oklahoma, Florida, Iowa, and Kentucky have laws in place that require people to use public school and government building bathrooms that correspond to the sex they were assigned at birth. Ohio has a similar bathroom law, affecting students from kindergarten through college, slated to go into effect in 2025.",
"According to a study released by The Trevor Project this fall, “anti-transgender state laws significantly increased incidents of past-year suicide attempts among trans and nonbinary youth by as much as 72 percent.”",
"In the runup to the 2024 election, trans Americans’ lives and experiences were frequently reduced to political talking points. Trump made dismantling trans rights a prominent part of his campaign, promising to get “transgender insanity the hell out of our schools, and we will keep men out of women’s sports.” According to The Times, Trump has expressed an interest in removing trans military members from service as soon as he takes office. (A Trump spokesperson said the president-elect hasn't settled on any plan).",
"Trump has vowed to remove federal funding for trans health care; end programs that “promote the concept of sex and gender transition at any age”; allow citizens who’ve previously received gender affirming care to sue doctors who provided it; ask Congress to pass a bill that would only recognize male and female genders, assigned at birth, and more.",
"After the first openly transgender member of Congress, Representative-elect Sarah McBride of Delaware, won her bid in November, Republican representatives swiftly proposed a new policy to bar trans women from using women’s restrooms in the Capitol, with a push for a broader impact on bathrooms in all government buildings.",
"On Wednesday, the US Supreme Court began hearing oral arguments in a potentially monumental case challenging a Tennessee law banning gender-affirming care for young people. The court is expected to issue its decision in June.",
"Iris says that like many other trans people, she’s struggled with gender dysphoria, depression, and suicidal ideation. “What's kept me strong through it all is the belief that I will eventually get to a point of being able to transition,” she says. “Just the idea of that was enough to sustain me mentally. The realization that all of that could be taken away from me, despite how long I've waited and how much I've been trying to prepare for that—I knew that if I had to sit in that feeling for four years, I would not survive.”",
"Iris, born and raised in Texas, says that while she’s accepted moving, it’s not always the first choice for many people in her communities. “Trans people who are looking to leave their state don't want to leave their state,” she says. “Leaving is not something that we choose lightly. Nobody wants to leave the place that they grew up their entire life, unless they feel like they need to.”",
"Kaliyah, a 27-year-old trans woman, has lived in Texas for the past five years. She’d intended to stay longer, first to go to school for sonography, with plans to work in Austin after that. But Trump’s election, along with increasingly hostile local legislation, has changed her plans. She’s looking to relocate to Maryland and turned to TikTok to look for help. “I'm not leaving because, oh, I just got tired of Texas,” she says, “I'm leaving because my safety is at risk.”",
"Kaliyah says that TikTok, aside from a place where she can find recipes or funny content, has been a source of information for her. She credits TikTok for her political cognizance and says it’s given her direction on where to research more thoroughly on her own. After seeing others reach out to their communities for assistance, Kaliyah decided to try it for herself.",
"She doesn’t consider herself an influencer or a professional at social media, but TikTok presented an opportunity that other platforms can’t match. “The beauty of TikTok is that as long as you can generate content that even in the most basic sense appeals to people, it's so easy for the algorithm to pick up engagement and push that content out in front of people,” Kaliyah says. “You don't have to already have a huge following for something like that to be successful.”",
"Even for people who decide they want to leave states with anti-transgender laws, packing up and moving is a daunting, if not impossible task, rife with financial burden and the emotional hardship of leaving behind support networks. “I think the problem is that the information that's out there for assisting trans people is so focused on gender-affirming care, which is so important,” Iris says. “But it's also that trans people tend to be in really dangerous situations.” This can mean anything from the legal protections of their state, to abusive situations in their home life.",
"In states like Colorado, grassroots efforts, mutual aid, and small nonprofits are working to bridge that gap. “Most of the people reaching out [to us] just don't have the ability to move across the country,” says Keira Richards, executive director of Denver-based nonprofit Trans Continental Pipeline. TCP helps people relocate to Colorado, a state with strong LGBTQ+ rights and gender-affirming health care protections, by offering financial assistance, transportation, resources for local housing, and community assistance.",
"“For people in the service industry, retail, lower-paying jobs, they don't have the ability to save the finances that are required to pack up their whole lives and move a couple thousand miles,” Richards says. “We can get creative, but it's still a very heavy financial rift.”",
"For some people, moving also means giving up the job they have and seeking out new employment. It’s a cycle, Richards says: “You need somewhere to stay to get the job, but you need to get the job to have somewhere to stay.” TCP is trying to break that cycle with a temporary housing program that gives people at least a month to get on their feet. “Really, it's leaning on your community,” Richards says. “If you can build a strong community, get mutual aid networks going, then you will be in a much better position than anybody isolated in a red state.”",
"Since the election, Richards says that applications have skyrocketed, with a majority of requests coming from Texas and Florida. In October, TCP had gotten a little more than 20 applications. By mid-November, that number was already over 400. “Everyone is terrified right now,” she says. “Nobody really knows what's going to happen … the rhetoric is already occurring and already being translated to legislation. We have our problems already, even without whatever Trump's going to do.”",
"On platforms such as Instagram, mutual aid funds have offered a safe way for people to both anonymously seek assistance for, and donate toward, relocation costs, medical costs, therapy, travel expenses, and more. One popular account started in 2020, transanta, posts stories from and letters from trans people in need; users can then anonymously donate directly to whomever they like by visiting that person’s gift registry, which is shared by the Instagram account. Others, like Genderbands, offer yearly grants for a variety of transition care-related costs, including procedures, travel costs, and paperwork.",
"It can be tricky, however, for people in need to find these networks. Both Iris and Kaliyah were familiar with Rainbow Railroad, a non-profit operating globally that helps LGBTQ+ flee persecution, but less so with smaller, more concentrated efforts. Getting word out to people who need assistance is paramount. Complicating the issue is also the question of safety for organizers themselves. To make themselves known is to also put a target on their backs.",
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"None of that work can be done blindly and requires careful vetting. “It's definitely tricky,” she says. “It requires a lot of trust on both ends.”",
"“And even some of those networks are too underground for us to touch. They will not work with a 501(c)(3), which I respect. I understand that because we are more above ground than most of these networks have been, we are inherently at a greater risk.”",
"With weeks left before Trump takes office in January, the politicization of the trans community shows no signs of slowing down. Kaliyah points to the millions of dollars Republicans spent on anti-trans ads in the most recent election cycle. “For people who refuse to educate themselves—we are also in the age of misinformation where things that are not true get spread,” Kaliyah says. Focusing on trans people, she says, ”was just a way to sway the election for people who were already radically right to further demonize a demographic of people.”"
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Confirming leaks this morning, OpenAI announced ChatGPT Pro, a new $200-per-month subscription tier that provides unlimited access to all of OpenAI’s models, including the full version of its o1 “reasoning” model.
“We think the audience for ChatGPT Pro will be the power users of ChatGPT — those who are already pushing the models to the limits of their capabilities on tasks like math, programming, and writing,” Jason Wei, a member of OpenAI’s technical staff, said during a livestreamed press conference on Thursday.
Unlike most AI, o1 and other reasoning models attempt to check their own work as they do it. This helps them avoid some of the pitfalls that normally trip up models, with the downside being that they often take longer to arrive at solutions. O1 reasons through tasks, planning ahead and performing a series of actions that help the model tease out answers.
OpenAI released a preview of o1 in September, but this new version is, generally speaking, more performant. Compared to the preview, users can expect “a faster, more powerful, and accurate reasoning model that is even better at coding and math,” an OpenAI spokesperson told TechCrunch.
Additionally, o1 can reason about image uploads now (this wasn’t possible during the preview), and has been trained to be “more concise in its thinking” to improve response times. According to OpenAI’s internal testing, o1 reduces “major errors” on “difficult real-world questions” by 34% compared to the preview version.
Oddly enough, though, the full o1 performs worse than the preview version on a number of common benchmarks. One of those benchmarks is MLE-Bench, which measures how well AI “agents” perform at machine learning engineering.
O1 doesn’t require a ChatGPT Pro subscription. As of this afternoon, all paid ChatGPT users can access o1 through the ChatGPT model selector tool.
But ChatGPT Pro subscribers will get an ostensibly better version of o1 than users who don’t shell out as much. Called o1 pro mode, it “uses more compute for the best answers to the hardest questions,” OpenAI says.
ChatGPT Pro users can access the functionality by selecting “o1 pro mode” in the model picker and asking a question directly. Since answers will take longer to generate, ChatGPT will display a progress bar and send an in-app notification if they switch away to another conversation.
O1 pro mode may simply up the “reasoning” time the model takes before it responds with an answer. In its o1 preview announcement, OpenAI said that it aimed to experiment with o1 models that reason for hours, days, or even weeks to further boost their reasoning capabilities, and this could well be a step toward that direction.
“In evaluations from external expert testers, o1 pro mode produces more reliably accurate and comprehensive responses, especially in areas like data science, programming, and case law analysis,” an OpenAI spokesperson told TechCrunch. “Compared to both o1 and o1-preview, o1 pro mode performs better on challenging machine learning benchmarks across math, science, and coding. In particular, we saw a 75% reduction in errors for easier coding competition questions more reflective of everyday programming queries.”
O1 will soon be available in OpenAI’s API, as well, with new capabilities including function calling (i.e. the ability to use outside tools) and image analysis. OpenAI says that it plans to add support for web browsing, file uploads, and more in the months ahead.
ChatGPT Pro is easily OpenAI’s priciest plan yet — and 10x the cost of ChatGPT Plus. It’s likely to be a tough sell to all but the most devoted users, considering many people already think ChatGPT Plus is too expensive.
To sweeten the pot, ChatGPT Pro also includes unlimited access to GPT-4o and Advanced Voice Mode, ChatGPT’s human-like conversational feature.
OpenAI will also give some subscriptions away for free. The company announced a program to award 10 grants of ChatGPT Pro to medical researchers at “leading institutions,” with plans for additional grants across “various disciplines” in the future.
Price hikes for the premium ChatGPT have long been rumored. OpenAI expects to charge $44 per month for ChatGPT Plus by 2029, according to reporting by The New York Times. The company has also toyed with the idea of ultra-costly business subscriptions with additional functionality and access to models under development, per The Information. Today’s news certainly supports those reports.
The aggressive moves reflect pressure on OpenAI from investors to narrow its losses. While the company’s monthly revenue reached $300 million in August, according to The New York Times, OpenAI expects to lose roughly $5 billion this year. Expenditures like staffing, office rent, and AI training infrastructure are to blame. ChatGPT alone was at one point reportedly costing OpenAI $700,000 per day.
ChatGPT remains one of OpenAI’s biggest revenue sources. The platform has over 300 million weekly active users, around 10 million of whom are paying subscribers.
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Millions remain without power in Cuba after latest power grid failure | Island nation generating electricity to cover roughly one-sixth of peak demand as of late Wednesday
Cuba says it was generating only enough electricity to cover about one-sixth of peak demand late on Wednesday, hours after its national grid collapsed leaving millions without power.
The National Electric Union (UNE) said it was producing 533 megawatts of electricity by evening, still just a fraction of typical dinnertime demand of between 3,000 and 3,200 megawatts, leaving most Cubans in the dark as night fell across the Caribbean island.
Earlier, the communist-run government said it would prioritize returning power to hospitals and water pumping facilities. Schools and non-essential government services were closed until further notice.
Lights flickered on across parts of the capital Havana late on Wednesday. The local electric company said more than 260,000 clients had seen power restored.
It was the latest in a string of countrywide blackouts of Cuba's antiquated and increasingly frail power generation system. This year, Cuba's grid fell into near-total disarray, stressed by fuel shortages, natural disaster and economic crisis.
Dwindling oil imports from Venezuela, Russia and Mexico pushed the island's obsolete and struggling oil-fired power plants into full crisis several months ago.
Hours-long rolling blackouts and severe shortages of food, medicine and water have made life increasingly hard for many Cubans, who in recent years have fled the island in record-breaking numbers.
Cuba blames U.S. sanctions, which complicate financial transactions and the purchase of fuel, for the crisis.
Blackout triggered by power plant failure
The Wednesday morning blackout was triggered by a failure at the Antonio Guiteras power plant in Matanzas, which shut down around 2 a.m. local time.
Several other major power plants were undergoing maintenance and were offline when the Matanzas plant failed, starving the grid of electricity and leading to the countrywide collapse, the energy minister said.
Havana hotel worker Danielis Mora woke up frustrated and confused, like many Havana residents who now experience regular blackouts.
"I didn't know it was a total blackout again," Mora said. "Where I am living ... there is no gas either, if there is no electricity there is no way to make food, it has to be with firewood or charcoal."
Scattered protests have erupted over the past two months over the repeated power failures as well as water, gas and food shortages.
Cuba's decrepit and long obsolete grid collapsed multiple times in October as fuel supplies dwindled and Hurricane Oscar struck the far eastern end of the island, then again in November with the passage of Hurricane Rafael.
Cuba's government last week issued a decree ordering state and private businesses to generate more of their own electricity from renewable resources.
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Storm Darragh cancels Melton Mowbray Christmas lights switch-on | A Leicestershire town's Christmas lights switch-on event has been cancelled due to Storm Darragh.
Melton Mowbray's festive displays were due to be formally turned on on Friday.
But with gusts of up to 60mph forecast and a yellow weather warning from the Met Office in place, a decision has been made to cancel parts of the town's Christmas programme.
Melton Borough Council said it would not have been possible to carry out the planned event safely.
Borough councillor Sharon Butcher said: "Although the light switch on event is not taking place, the lights will be turned on for the weekend, ensuring the town looks festive for our residents during the Christmas period."
Melton Business Improvement District's Christmas Market will still be taking place on Friday with reduced opening hours from 10:00 to 14:00 GMT, ending ahead of when the strongest winds are forecast.
The market will then relocate to The Stockyard to take place undercover over the weekend.
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Google says its new AI models can identify emotions — and that has experts worried | Google says its new AI model family has a curious feature: the ability to “identify” emotions.
Announced on Thursday, the PaliGemma 2 family of models can analyze images, enabling the AI to generate captions and answer questions about people it “sees” in photos.
“PaliGemma 2 generates detailed, contextually relevant captions for images,” Google wrote in a blog post shared with TechCrunch, “going beyond simple object identification to describe actions, emotions, and the overall narrative of the scene.”
Emotion recognition doesn’t work out of the box, and PaliGemma 2 has to be fine-tuned for the purpose. Nonetheless, experts TechCrunch spoke with were alarmed at the prospect of an openly available emotion detector.
“This is very troubling to me,” Sandra Wachter, a professor in data ethics and AI at the Oxford Internet Institute, told TechCrunch. “I find it problematic to assume that we can ‘read’ people’s emotions. It’s like asking a Magic 8 Ball for advice.”
For years, startups and tech giants alike have tried to build AI that can detect emotions for everything from sales training to preventing accidents. Some claim to have attained it, but the science stands on shaky empirical ground.
The majority of emotion detectors take cues from the early work of Paul Ekman, a psychologist who theorized that humans share six fundamental emotions in common: anger, surprise, disgust, enjoyment, fear, and sadness. Subsequent studies cast doubt on Ekman’s hypothesis, however, demonstrating there are major differences in the way people from different backgrounds express how they’re feeling.
“Emotion detection isn’t possible in the general case, because people experience emotion in complex ways,” Mike Cook, a research fellow at King’s College London specializing in AI, told TechCrunch. “Of course, we do think we can tell what other people are feeling by looking at them, and lots of people over the years have tried, too, like spy agencies or marketing companies. I’m sure it’s absolutely possible to detect some generic signifiers in some cases, but it’s not something we can ever fully ‘solve.’”
The unsurprising consequence is that emotion-detecting systems tend to be unreliable and biased by the assumptions of their designers. In a 2020 MIT study, researchers showed that face-analyzing models could develop unintended preferences for certain expressions, like smiling. More recent work suggests that emotional analysis models assign more negative emotions to Black people’s faces than white people’s faces.
Google says it conducted “extensive testing” to evaluate demographic biases in PaliGemma 2, and found “low levels of toxicity and profanity” compared to industry benchmarks. But the company didn’t provide the full list of benchmarks it used, nor did it indicate which types of tests were performed.
The only benchmark Google has disclosed is FairFace, a set of tens of thousands of people’s headshots. The company claims that PaliGemma 2 scored well on FairFace. But some researchers have criticized the benchmark as a bias metric, noting that FairFace represents only a handful of race groups.
“Interpreting emotions is quite a subjective matter that extends beyond use of visual aids and is heavily embedded within a personal and cultural context,” said Heidy Khlaaf, chief AI scientist at the AI Now Institute, a nonprofit that studies the societal implications of artificial intelligence. “AI aside, research has shown that we cannot infer emotions from facial features alone.”
Emotion detection systems have raised the ire of regulators overseas, who’ve sought to limit the use of the technology in high-risk contexts. The AI Act, the major piece of AI legislation in the EU, prohibits schools and employers from deploying emotion detectors (but not law enforcement agencies).
The biggest apprehension around open models like PaliGemma 2, which is available from a number of hosts, including AI dev platform Hugging Face, is that they’ll be abused or misused, which could lead to real-world harm.
“If this so-called emotional identification is built on pseudoscientific presumptions, there are significant implications in how this capability may be used to further — and falsely — discriminate against marginalized groups such as in law enforcement, human resourcing, border governance, and so on,” Khlaaf said.
Asked about the dangers of publicly releasing PaliGemma 2, a Google spokesperson said the company stands behind its tests for “representational harms” as they relate to visual question answering and captioning. “We conducted robust evaluations of PaliGemma 2 models concerning ethics and safety, including child safety, content safety,” they added.
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Manhattan visits Saint Peter's following Sydnor's 20-point game | Manhattan Jaspers (3-4) at Saint Peter’s Peacocks (4-3)
Jersey City, New Jersey; Friday, 7 p.m. EST
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BOTTOM LINE: Manhattan plays Saint Peter’s after Will Sydnor scored 20 points in Manhattan’s 81-77 loss to the Le Moyne Dolphins.
The Peacocks have gone 1-0 at home. Saint Peter’s averages 12.7 turnovers per game and is 2-0 when it wins the turnover battle.
The Jaspers have gone 0-3 away from home. Manhattan ranks seventh in the MAAC with 23.0 defensive rebounds per game led by Sydnor averaging 4.6.
Saint Peter’s averages 73.9 points per game, 4.0 fewer points than the 77.9 Manhattan gives up. Manhattan has shot at a 41.8% rate from the field this season, 1.4 percentage points above the 40.4% shooting opponents of Saint Peter’s have averaged.
The matchup Friday is the first meeting this season between the two teams in conference play.
TOP PERFORMERS: Marcus Randolph is shooting 45.7% and averaging 15.1 points for the Peacocks.
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Halifax man jailed for historical child sex offence | A man has been jailed for two years for sexually abusing a girl in West Yorkshire more than a decade ago.
Zaheer Ahmed, 34, from Halifax, was found guilty of sexual activity with a child at Bradford Crown Court, with the offence taking place in 2009 when the victim was 15.
At Bradford Crown Court on Thursday, he was ordered to sign the sex offenders register for 10 years and will be subject to a 10-year restraining order.
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Winning numbers drawn in Friday’s New Jersey Pick 3 Evening | The winning numbers in Friday evening’s drawing of the “New Jersey Pick 3 Evening” game were:
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Syrian opposition says insurgents have reached Damascus suburbs | Syrian insurgents have reached the suburbs of Damascus as part of a rapidly moving offensive that has seen them take over some of Syria’s largest cities, opposition activists and a rebel commander said Saturday.
It was the first time that opposition forces reached the outskirts of the Syrian capital since 2018, when Syrian troops recaptured the region adjacent to the capital following a yearslong siege. It came after the Syrian army withdrew from much of southern Syria on Saturday, leaving more areas of the country, including two provincial capitals, under the control of opposition fighters.
The rapid advance by insurgents is a stunning reversal of fortunes for Syria’s President Bashar Assad, who appears to be largely on his own, with erstwhile allies preoccupied with other conflicts.
His chief international backer, Russia, is busy with its war in Ukraine, and Lebanon’s powerful Hezbollah, which at one point sent thousands of fighters to shore up his forces, has been weakened by a yearlong conflict with Israel. Iran, meanwhile, has seen its proxies across the region degraded by Israeli airstrikes.
Amid the dramatic developments, Syria’s state media denied rumors flooding social media that Assad has left the country, saying he is performing his duties in the capital, Damascus.
Rami Abdurrahman, who heads the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, an opposition war monitor, said insurgents are now active in the Damascus suburbs of Maadamiyah, Jaramana and Daraya. He added that opposition fighters on Saturday were also marching from eastern Syria toward the Damascus suburb of Harasta.
A commander with the insurgents, Hassan Abdul-Ghani, posted on the Telegram messaging app that opposition forces have started carrying out the “final stage” of their offensive by encircling Damascus. He added that insurgents were headed from southern Syria toward Damascus.
Syria’s military, meanwhile, sent large numbers of reinforcements to defend the key central city of Homs, Syria’s third largest, as insurgents approached its outskirts.
Abdurrahman reported Saturday that Iran’s military advisers have started leaving Syria. He added that Iran-backed fighters in eastern Syria, mainly from Afghanistan and Pakistan, have withdrawn into central Syria.
The shock offensive, which began November 27, is led by the jihadi Hayat Tahrir al-Sham group, or HTS. Gunmen captured the northern city of Aleppo, Syria’s largest, and the central city of Hama, the country’s fourth-largest city. The group has its origins in al-Qaida and is considered a terrorist organization by the U.S. and the United Nations.
HTS leader Abu Mohammed al-Golani told CNN on Thursday from Syria that the aim of the offensive is to overthrow Assad’s government.
The Britain-based Observatory said Syrian troops have withdrawn from much of the two southern provinces and are sending reinforcements to Homs, where a battle is looming. If the insurgents capture Homs, they would cut the link between Damascus, Assad’s seat of power, and the coastal region where the president enjoys wide support.
The Syrian army said in a statement Saturday that it has carried out redeployment and repositioning in Sweida and Daraa after its checkpoints came under attack by “terrorists.” The army said it is setting up a “strong and coherent defensive and security belt in the area,” apparently to defend Damascus from the south.
Since Syria’s conflict broke out in March 2011, the Syrian government has been referring to opposition gunmen as terrorists.
In Qatar, the foreign ministers of Iran, Russia and Turkey were scheduled to meet to discuss the situation in Syria. Turkey is a main backer of the rebels seeking to overthrow Assad.
Qatar's top diplomat, Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani, criticized Assad for failing to take advantage of the lull in fighting in recent years to address the country’s underlying problems. “Assad didn’t seize this opportunity to start engaging and restoring his relationship with his people,” he said.
Sheikh Mohammed said he was surprised by how quickly the rebels have advanced and said there is a real threat to Syria’s “territorial integrity.” He said the war could “damage and destroy what is left if there is no sense of urgency” to start a political process.
After the fall of the cities of Daraa and Sweida early Saturday, Syrian government forces remain in control of five provincial capitals — Damascus, Homs and Quneitra, as well as Latakia and Tartus on the Mediterranean cost.
Tartus is home to the only Russian naval base outside the former Soviet Union, while Latakia is home to a major Russian air base.
On Friday, U.S.-backed fighters of the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces, or SDF, captured wide parts of the eastern province of Deir el-Zour that borders Iraq as well as the provincial capital that carries the same name.
The capture of areas in Deir el-Zour is a blow to Iran’s influence in the region as the area is the gateway to the corridor linking the Mediterranean to Iran, a supply line for Iran-backed fighters, including Lebanon’s Hezbollah.
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BBC Essex journalists race by bus to highlight travel times | A team of radio journalists have raced each other by bus to highlight the lengthy commutes their listeners are facing.
It took BBC Essex mid-morning presenter Ben Fryer almost three hours to travel from his home in Great Bentley near Colchester, to the station's base in Chelmsford.
He was competing against his producers Adam Bennett, who lives in Halstead, and Robyn Wallis of Canvey Island.
Essex County Council has said it is hoping to invest £23m to improve bus services in the area.
The race was inspired by callers to the show who believed it took too long to reach Essex's county town by bus.
Fryer boarded the number 77 Hedingham & Chambers bus from Great Bentley to Colchester at 07:29 GMT - his first local service of the day - before boarding another bus to Chelmsford at 08:30.
He arrived in Chelmsford shortly after 10:00 and subsequently walked to the BBC Essex building in New London Road - meaning he was 25 minutes late for his show.
Breakfast presenter Sonia Watson had to hold the fort for an extra half an hour.
"The lowest point for me was when I saw loads of people leaving on the train to Chelmsford at my local railway station," said Fryer.
Wallis boarded a bus from Canvey at 07:12 and arrived about two hours later.
She usually completes the journey by car in under an hour and said: "I'm not sure I'll be doing it again in a hurry."
It was an earlier start for Bennett, who boarded the number 38 bus from Halstead at 06:52 - operated by Stephensons - before jumping on a connecting bus at Braintree.
He won the three-way race, having walked into the office at about 09:00.
Bennett described the journey as "very cost effective" but added: "I don't think I would use the buses during rush hour again."
Single bus fares across England are capped at £2, although the cost is due to rise to £3 from January.
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Enfermedad misteriosa mata a decenas en el Congo; expertos de la ONU investigan | KINSASA, Congo (AP) — La Organización Mundial de la Salud (OMS) anunció el viernes que desplegará expertos para investigar una enfermedad misteriosa similar a la gripe que ha matado a decenas de personas en el suroeste de la República Democrática del Congo en las últimas semanas.
“Se están realizando todos los esfuerzos para identificar la causa de la enfermedad, entender sus modos de transmisión y asegurar una respuesta adecuada lo más rápido posible”, dijo en un comunicado el director regional para África de la OMS, el doctor Matshidiso Moeti.
Los síntomas incluyen fiebre, dolor de cabeza, tos y anemia. Expertos epidemiológicos del Equipo Nacional de Respuesta Rápida están en la región para tomar muestras e investigar la enfermedad.
Las autoridades congoleñas han confirmado hasta ahora 71 muertes, incluyendo 27 personas que fallecieron en hospitales y 44 en comunidades en la provincia sureña de Kwango, dijo el jueves el ministro de Salud, Roger Kamba.
Las muertes se registraron entre el 10 y el 25 de noviembre, en la zona de Panzi, en Kwango. Hubo alrededor de 380 casos, casi la mitad de los cuales eran niños menores de 5 años, según el ministro.
Los Centros para el Control y la Prevención de Enfermedades de África registraron cifras ligeramente diferentes: 376 casos y 79 muertes. La discrepancia fue causada por problemas con la vigilancia y la definición de casos, dijo el jefe de los Centros, Jean Kaseya.
“Los primeros diagnósticos nos llevan a pensar que es una enfermedad respiratoria”, dijo Kaseya. “Pero necesitamos esperar los resultados de laboratorio”.
Panzi, ubicada a unos 700 kilómetros (435 millas) de la capital Kinsasa, está en una parte remota de la provincia de Kwango, lo que dificulta el acceso.
Los expertos epidemiológicos tardaron dos días en llegar allí, dijo el ministro de Salud del Congo. Debido a la falta de capacidad para realizar las pruebas, las muestras tuvieron que ser llevadas a Kikwit, a más de 500 kilómetros (310 millas) de distancia, dijo Dieudonné Mwamba, jefe del Instituto Nacional de Salud Pública.
Mwamba dijo que Panzi ya era una zona “frágil”, con el 40% de sus residentes sufriendo de malnutrición. También fue afectada por una epidemia de fiebre tifoidea hace dos años, y actualmente hay un resurgimiento de la gripe estacional en todo el país.
Oscar Kazwa, un residente de Panzi, dijo que su hija de 28 años murió hace dos semanas a causa de la enfermedad misteriosa.
“Tuvo fiebre alta, tos, vómitos y estaba muy débil”, indicó Kazwa. “Como no había atención adecuada, murió”.
Los expertos de la OMS se están uniendo al Equipo Nacional de Respuesta Rápida en Panzi para apoyar la respuesta al brote. El equipo, que incluye epidemiólogos y clínicos, entregará medicamentos y kits de muestras para ayudar a identificar la causa de la enfermedad. | {
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"Las autoridades congoleñas han confirmado hasta ahora 71 muertes, incluyendo 27 personas que fallecieron en hospitales y 44 en comunidades en la provincia sureña de Kwango, dijo el jueves el ministro de Salud, Roger Kamba.",
"Las muertes se registraron entre el 10 y el 25 de noviembre, en la zona de Panzi, en Kwango. Hubo alrededor de 380 casos, casi la mitad de los cuales eran niños menores de 5 años, según el ministro.",
"Los Centros para el Control y la Prevención de Enfermedades de África registraron cifras ligeramente diferentes: 376 casos y 79 muertes. La discrepancia fue causada por problemas con la vigilancia y la definición de casos, dijo el jefe de los Centros, Jean Kaseya.",
"“Los primeros diagnósticos nos llevan a pensar que es una enfermedad respiratoria”, dijo Kaseya. “Pero necesitamos esperar los resultados de laboratorio”.",
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Should you be a peer? 150 words to explain why | Leaders of political parties must explain why they are nominating someone to the House of Lords, under new rules.
The leaders will have to submit a 150 word summary justifying why they are putting a candidate forwards.
The statement will be published online upon the successful appointment of a nominee.
The change will come into effect immediately and forms part of a wider set of reforms the government is making to the Lords.
Announcing the change, Cabinet Office minister Nick Thomas-Symonds told MPs that it was a "reform that this government are proud to announce as part of our wider agenda".
It follows the introduction of legislation to remove the right of hereditary peers to sit in the Lords, external.
That legislation is already more than halfway through its parliamentary scrutiny, with Thomas-Symonds saying he wanted it to be law as soon as possible.
"It just should not be the case, in a modern legislature, that there are places reserved for people by accident of birth," he said.
Labour pledged in their manifesto to "reform the appointments process to ensure the quality of new appointments" to the House of Lords.
The manifesto also said that because peers are appointed for life, the chamber had become too big.
Party leaders can make appointments to top-up the number of peers they have, and when Parliament is dissolved because of a general election.
Those nominated to become peers in July's dissolution honours included former prime minister Theresa May and former foreign secretary Margaret Beckett.
Prime ministers also often make a set of resignation honours, or appoint people to become ministers.
Sir Keir Starmer appointed a number of peers to become ministers on taking office, such as Attorney General Richard Hermer.
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Fairfield Stags face the Mount St. Mary's Mountaineers, look for 4th straight victory | Fairfield Stags (5-4, 1-0 MAAC) at Mount St. Mary’s Mountaineers (5-3, 0-1 MAAC)
Emmitsburg, Maryland; Sunday, 2 p.m. EST
BOTTOM LINE: Fairfield seeks to keep its three-game win streak alive when the Stags take on Mount St. Mary’s.
The Mountaineers are 3-0 in home games. Mount St. Mary’s is 2-3 against opponents over .500.
The Stags are 1-0 against MAAC opponents. Fairfield has a 2-0 record in one-possession games.
Mount St. Mary’s scores 70.6 points per game, 0.3 fewer points than the 70.9 Fairfield gives up. Fairfield averages 5.9 made 3-pointers per game this season, 0.6 fewer makes per game than Mount St. Mary’s allows.
The Mountaineers and Stags meet Sunday for the first time in conference play this season.
TOP PERFORMERS: Carmelo Pacheco averages 2.3 made 3-pointers per game for the Mountaineers, scoring 7.8 points while shooting 46.2% from beyond the arc.
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Nottingham Forest news: Nuno Espirito Santo on Jota Silva impact | Nottingham Forest boss Nuno Espirito Santo believes Portuguese winger Jota Silva is beginning to show his quality, after taking time to adapt to the Premier League.
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Fiscalía rumana allana domicilios relacionados con promoción ilegal de candidato ultraderechista | BUCAREST, Rumania (AP) — Fiscales rumanos realizaron el sábado allanamientos en domicilios vinculados a un hombre sospechoso de financiar ilegalmente una campaña para promover la candidatura presidencial de Calin Georgescu, un día después de que el máximo tribunal del país anulara las elecciones en las que el candidato de extrema derecha había ganado la primera ronda.
Los allanamientos, efectuados en tres domicilios en la ciudad central de Brasov, fueron motivados por sospechas de corrupción de votantes, lavado de dinero y fraude cibernético, dijeron los fiscales, y se sospecha que los fondos provienen de actividades ilícitas.
Los hechos se producen después de que el Tribunal Constitucional tomara el viernes la decisión sin precedentes de cancelar las elecciones presidenciales cuando, en una importante cantidad de informes de inteligencia desclasificados, se afirmara el miércoles que Rusia organizó una extensa campaña en plataformas como TikTok y Telegram para promover a Calin Georgescu.
Un funcionario de la fiscalía, que habló bajo condición de anonimato porque el caso está en curso, dijo a The Associated Press que los allanamientos del sábado se realizaron en propiedades vinculadas a Bogdan Peschir. En los informes de inteligencia se afirma que Peschir es un elemento clave detrás de una campaña masiva en TikTok que promovió a Georgescu.
Los servicios secretos afirmaron que Peschir pagó 381.000 dólares (361.000 euros) a usuarios de TikTok para promover contenido de Georgescu en la plataforma, de propiedad china. Las autoridades de inteligencia dijeron que la información obtenida “reveló una agresiva campaña de promoción” para aumentar y acelerar la popularidad de Georgescu.
“El cargo es lavado de dinero vinculado con la financiación de Georgescu”, dijo el funcionario. Añadió que Peschir será trasladado a Bucarest, la capital, para ser interrogado.
No hay un vínculo claro entre Peschir y la supuesta interferencia rusa. Rusia niega haber intervenido en Rumania.
En la decisión de anular la elección, publicada por el tribunal, se menciona el uso ilegal de tecnologías digitales, entre ellas, la inteligencia artificial, así como el uso de “fuentes de financiación no declaradas”.
Sin nombrar a Georgescu, el tribunal dijo que uno de los 13 candidatos en la primera ronda del 24 de noviembre había recibido “trato preferencial” en las redes sociales, lo que distorsionó el resultado de la votación.
Georgescu también denunció el veredicto emitido el viernes por el tribunal como un “golpe de Estado oficializado” y un ataque a la democracia.
A pesar de ser un elemento externo que declaró cero gastos de campaña, Georgescu surgió como el favorito el 24 de noviembre. Debía enfrentarse el domingo, en una segunda vuelta, a la reformista Elena Lasconi, del partido Unión Salvar Rumania.
Trece candidatos compitieron en la primera ronda de la elección presidencial en este país, miembro de la Unión Europea y de la OTAN, que ha estado envuelto en numerosas controversias desde la primera vuelta. Se establecerán nuevas fechas para repetir la votación desde cero.
En una declaración televisada el viernes, el presidente Klaus Iohannis dijo que estaba “profundamente preocupado” por el contenido de los informes de inteligencia, según los cuales la campaña de un candidato fue “apoyada ilegalmente desde fuera de Rumania” y era un asunto de seguridad nacional.
“El mismo candidato declaró cero gastos de campaña, a pesar de llevar a cabo una campaña altamente sofisticada”, afirmó. “Los informes de inteligencia revelaron que la campaña de este candidato fue apoyada por un estado extranjero con intereses contrarios a los de Rumania”.
Lasconi condenó enérgicamente la decisión del tribunal, diciendo que era “ilegal, inmoral y aplasta la esencia misma de la democracia” y que la segunda ronda debería haberse llevado a cabo.
Después de que Georgescu encabezara las encuestas en la primera ronda, su éxito hizo que muchos observadores políticos se preguntaran por qué la mayoría de las encuestas locales lo habían colocado detrás de al menos cinco candidatos antes de la votación.
Muchos observadores atribuyeron su éxito a su cuenta de TikTok, que ahora tiene 6 millones de “me gusta” y 541.000 seguidores. Pero algunos expertos sospecharon que el número de simpatizantes en línea de Georgescu había sido inflado artificialmente, mientras que el principal órgano de seguridad de Rumania afirmó que se le dio un trato preferencial en TikTok por encima de otros candidatos.
El sábado, en un caso separado, los fiscales allanaron otras nueve propiedades en seis condados, en una investigación sobre grupos extremistas acusados de “promover la violencia o el odio contra individuos basados en su etnia, orientación sexual u opiniones políticas” en relación con las elecciones.
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In Sam Altman We Trust? | This week on Uncanny Valley, we do a deep dive on Open AI’s Sam Altman.
Sam Altman is the king of generative artificial intelligence. But is he the person we should trust to guide our explorations into AI? This week, we do a deep dive on Sam Altman, from his Midwest roots to his early startup days, his time in venture capital, and his rise and fall and rise again at OpenAI.
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Sam Altman [archival audio]: We have been a misunderstood and badly mocked org for a long time. When we started and said we were going to work on a AGI, people thought we were batshit insane.
Michael Calore: Sam Altman is the CEO and one of the founders of OpenAI, the generative AI company that launched ChatGPT about two years ago, and essentially ushered in a new era of artificial intelligence. This is WIRED's Uncanny Valley, a show about the people, power, and influence of Silicon Valley. Today on the show, we're doing a deep dive on Sam Altman, from his Midwest roots to his early startup days, his time as a venture capitalist, and his rise and fall and rise again at OpenAI. We're going to look at it all while asking, is this the man we should trust to guide our explorations into artificial intelligence, and do we even have a choice? I'm Michael Calore, director of consumer tech and culture here at WIRED.
Lauren Goode: I'm Lauren Goode. I'm a senior writer at WIRED.
Zoë Schiffer: I'm Zoe Schiffer, WIRED's director of business and industry.
Michael Calore: OK. I want to start today by going back one year into the past, November 2023, to an event that we refer to as the blip.
Lauren Goode: The blip. We don't just refer to it as the blip. That is actually the internal phrase that is used at OpenAI to describe some of the most chaotic three to four days in that company's history.
[archival audio]: The company OpenAI, one of the top players in artificial intelligence, thrown into disarray.
[archival audio]: One of the most spectacular corporate fall-outs.
[archival audio]: The news on Wall Street today involves the stunning developments in the world of artificial intelligence.
Zoë Schiffer: It really started on November 17th, this Friday afternoon when Sam Altman, the CEO of the company, gets what he says is the most surprising, shocking, and difficult news of his professional career.
[archival audio]: The shock dismissal of former boss, Sam Altman.
[archival audio]: His firing sent shock waves through Silicon Valley.
Zoë Schiffer: The board at OpenAI, which at the time was a nonprofit, has lost confidence in him, it says. Despite the fact that the company is by all measures doing incredibly well, he's out. He's no longer going to lead the company.
Michael Calore: He's effectively fired from the company that he cofounded.
Zoë Schiffer: Yeah. That immediately sets off a chain reaction of events. His cofounder and president of the company, Greg Brockman, resigns in solidarity. Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella says that Sam Altman is actually going to join Microsoft and lead an advanced AI research team there. Then we see almost the entire employee base at OpenAI sign a letter saying, “Wait, wait, wait. If Sam leaves, we're leaving, too.”
[archival audio]: Some 500 of these 700-odd employees—
[archival audio]: … threatening to quit over the board's abrupt firing of OpenAI's popular CEO, Sam Altman.
Zoë Schiffer: Eventually there's this back and forth tense negotiation between Sam Altman and the board of directors, and eventually the board then installs Mira Murati, the CTO, as the interim CEO. Then shortly after that, Sam is able to reach an agreement with the board and he returns as CEO and the board looks instantly different, with Brett Taylor and Larry Summers joining, Adam D'Angelo staying, and the rest of the board leaving.
Michael Calore: All of this happened over a weekend in the first couple of days of the following week. It ruined a lot of our weekends as technology journalists. I'm sure it ruined a lot of weekends for everybody in the generative AI industry, but for a lot of people who don't follow this stuff, it was the first time that they heard of Sam Altman, first time maybe they heard about OpenAI. Why was this important?
Zoë Schiffer: Yeah. This was such an interesting moment, because it surprised me. Lauren, I'm curious if it surprised you that this story broke through on such a national scale. People went from not really knowing who Sam Altman was to being shocked and disturbed that he was fired from his own company.
Lauren Goode: I think at this moment, everyone was hearing about generative AI and how it was going to change our lives. Sam was now officially the face of this, and it took this chaos, this Silicon Valley drama to bring that to the forefront, because then in trying to understand what was happening with the mutiny, you got a sense of there are these people in these different camps of AI. Some who believe in artificial general intelligence, that eventually it's going to totally take over our lives. Some who fall in the camp of accelerationists who believe that AI should just scale as quickly as possible, unfettered AI. Others who are a little bit more cautious in their approach and believe that there should be safety measures and guardrails put around AI. All of these things came into sharp focus through this one very long, chaotic weekend.
Michael Calore: We're going to talk a lot about Sam on this episode, and I want to make sure that we get a sense of who he is as a person. How do we know him? How do we understand him as a person? What's his vibe?
Zoë Schiffer: Well, I think Lauren might be the only one who's actually met him. Is that right?
Lauren Goode: Yeah. I have met him a few times, and my first interaction with Sam goes back about a decade. He's around 29 years old, and he is the president of Y Combinator, which is this very well-known startup incubator here in Silicon Valley. The idea is that all these startups pitch their ideas and they get a very small amount of seed funding, but they also get a lot of coaching and mentorship. The person who's running YC is really this very glorified camp counselor for Silicon Valley, and that was Sam at the time. I remember talking to him briefly at one of their YC demo days in Mountain View. He exuded a lot of energy. He's clearly a smart guy. He comes across as friendly and open. People who know him really well will say he's really one of the most ambitious people who they know. But at first glance, you wouldn't necessarily think that he's the person, fast-forward 10 years later, meeting with prime ministers and heads of state around the world to talk to them about his grand vision of artificial intelligence, and someone who's really positioning himself to be this power monger in artificial intelligence.
Zoë Schiffer: Yeah. I think one of the interesting things about Sam is just that he seems like such an enigma. People have a really hard time, myself included, putting a finger on what is he all about. Should we trust this guy? I think there are other CEOs and executives in the Valley who have such brash personas, Elon Musk, Marc Andreessen, that you kind of instantly feel one way or another about them. You either really like them or you're really turned off by them, and Sam is somewhere in the middle. He seems a little more quiet, a little more thoughtful, a little more nerdy. But there's this sense of, like Lauren said, an appetite for power that makes you pause and think, "Wait. What is this guy all about? What's in it for him?"
Lauren Goode: Right. He also wears a lot of Henley shirts. Now, I know this is not a fashion show. People who listen to our very first episode—
Zoë Schiffer: But it's not not.
Lauren Goode: ... might be like, “Are they just going to talk about hoodies every episode?” But he wears a lot of Henleys and jeans and nice sneakers, except for when he's meeting with heads of state, where he suits up appropriately.
Zoë Schiffer: Sam, we have notes on the outfits if you want them, so call us.
Michael Calore: Well, Zoe, to your point, Paul Graham, who was at one time the head of Y Combinator, the incubator that Lauren was just talking about, described Sam as extremely good at becoming powerful. It seems like he's somebody who can read the situation and read the room and figure out where to go next before other people can figure it out. A lot of people point to parallels between Sam Altman and Steve Jobs. I feel like Steve Jobs was somebody who had a vision for the future and was able to communicate why it was important, and he had a consumer product that got people very, very excited. Sam Altman is also somebody who has a vision for the future, is able to communicate why it's important to the rest of us, and has a product that everybody is excited about in ChatGPT. I think that's where the parallel ends.
Lauren Goode: I think just the question of is Sam Altman the Steve Jobs of this era a really good one to ask? You're right in that they were both effectively the salespeople for products that other people made. They're in a sense marketers. Jobs marketed the smartphone, which literally changed the world. Sam has helped productize AI, this new form of generative AI through ChatGPT. That's a similarity. They're both or were both extremely ambitious, enigmatic, as Zoe said, reportedly impatient. They have some employees who would follow them to the end of the earth and others who have gone running scared. They've both been ousted from companies they were running and then returned. Although Sam's absence was infinitely shorter than Steve Jobs' return to Apple. I think there are some key differences though. One is that we have the benefit of hindsight with Jobs. We know what he accomplished, and we have yet to see if Altman is really going to be a defining character of AI for the next 10 or 20 or 30 years. The second thing is that while Jobs had some very real personality quirks and complexes by all accounts, I tend to see him as being put into this messianic position by his acolytes. Whereas Sam seems to really, really want to elevate himself to that position, and there are some people who are still really skeptical about that.
Zoë Schiffer: That's really interesting. Just to double-click, as the tech people say, on the salesperson analogy, that can sound a little reductive as well, but I actually think it's a really important point, because large language models have existed. AI has existed to some extent. But if people, regular users don't know how to use those products or interact with them, do they really break out and change the world in the way that people like Sam Wollman think they will? I would say no. His role in launching ChatGPT, which is I think by all accounts not an incredibly useful tool, but points to future uses of AI and what they could be and how it could interact with people's everyday lives. That is a really important change and an important impact that he's had.
Michael Calore: Yeah. Lauren touched on this point, too. We don't know what the impact is going to be. We don't have the benefit of hindsight here, and we don't know whether these promises about how artificial intelligence is going to transform all of our lives, how those are going to play out. There are a lot of people who are very skeptical about AI, particularly artists and creative people, but also people who work in surveillance and security and the military have a fear and a healthy skepticism around AI. We're looking at this figurehead as the person who's going to lead us into the future where this becomes the defining technology of that future, so the question becomes, can we trust this person?
Lauren Goode: I feel like Sam's feedback to that would be, "No. You shouldn't trust me, and you shouldn't have to." He has said in interviews before that he's trying to set up the company where he doesn't have quite as much power. He doesn't have total control in that way. He has definitely hinted that he thinks a lot of the decisions governing AI should be democratic. I think it's just again, this question of do we trust those statements or do we trust more what he's doing, which is consolidating power and leading a for-profit company, what used to be a nonprofit.
Michael Calore: Yeah. We should underscore that, that he's always encouraging healthy debate. He encourages open dialog about what the limits of AI should be, but that still doesn't seem to be satisfying the people who are skeptical of it.
Lauren Goode: Yeah. I think it's also important to make the distinction between people being skeptical of it and people who are fearful of it, too. There are people who are skeptical about the tech itself. There are people who are skeptical that Sam Altman may be the figurehead that we need here. Then there's fear of the tech from some people who actually do believe in its potential to revolutionize the world, and the fear is that that may not happen necessarily in a good way. Maybe someone will use AI for bio-terrorism. Maybe someone uses AI to launch nukes. Maybe the AI itself becomes so all-knowing and powerful that it somehow becomes violent against humans. Those are some real fears that research scientists and policymakers have. The questions about Sam's trustworthiness aren't only from, let's call it a capital perspective. What's going on in terms of is OpenAI a nonprofit or a for-profit, or can we trust this man with billions of dollars in funding? It's literally can we trust him in a sense with our lives?
Zoë Schiffer: Right. It's the degree to which we should be worried about Sam Altman is the degree to which you personally believe that artificial general intelligence is a real concern or that AI could significantly change the world in a way that could be potentially quite catastrophic.
Lauren Goode: Altman was quoted in a New York magazine profile about him as saying AI is not a clean story of only benefits. Stuff is going to be lost here as it develops. It's super relatable and natural for people to have loss aversion. They don't want to hear stories in which they're the casualty.
Michael Calore: We have a self-appointed figurehead whether we like it or not, and we have to make decisions about whether or not this is somebody we can trust. But before we get there, we should talk about how Sam got to where he is today. What do we know about Sam Altman the man, before he was Sam Altman the tech founder?
Lauren Goode: Well, he's the oldest of four children. He comes from this Midwestern Jewish family. He grew up in St. Louis. His family, by all accounts, he had a pretty good childhood, I believe. They hung out together. They played games. I think his brother has said that Sam always needed to win those games. In high school, he comes out as gay, which was pretty unusual at the time. He said that his high school was actually quite intolerant toward gay people. At one point he gets up on stage at his school, according to this New York Magazine profile, and gives a speech about the importance of having an open society. My takeaway from that was that he was willing from an early age to be different from other people and to reject the dominant ideology. There was also this really funny section in the profile where they said that he was a boy genius, and at age 3 was fixing the family's VCR. As the mom of a 3-year-old, I was like, what the fuck?
Michael Calore: I was resetting the clock on the family VCR by 11, and I just want to say that I'm also a boy genius.
Lauren Goode: It's funny with profiles of some of these founders, because I do feel like there's this hagiographic tendency to be like, “Of course, they were a child genius, too.” No one is ever just mid in childhood and then ends up being a billionaire. There's always something special.
Michael Calore: Right. Well, there was something special about Sam, that's for sure.
Lauren Goode: Yeah. He starts at Stanford in 2003. This is the time period when other young, ambitious people are starting companies like Facebook and LinkedIn. I think if you were smart and ambitious like Sam clearly was, you weren't going to go into the traditional law, doctor type fields. You were going to try and start a company, which is what he does.
Zoë Schiffer: Yeah. He starts this company called Looped. He's a sophomore at Stanford. He teams up with his then boyfriend, and they create what's basically like an early Foursquare. This is when Sam gets involved with Y Combinator for the first time. He and his cofounder receive a $6,000 investment. They're accepted into a summer founders program at Y Combinator, and this is where they get to spend a few months incubating their app with mentorship. They're with a bunch of other nerds. There's this great detail about how Sam worked so much during that time period that he got scurvy.
Lauren Goode: Oh, my God. That also feels like mythologizing.
Zoë Schiffer: It really does. Fast-forward a few years, it's 2012. Looped has raised about $30 million in venture capital, and the company announces that it's going to be acquired by another company for around $43 million. This sounds like a lot of money to people who don't start apps and sell their companies, but by Silicon Valley standards, this is not really deemed a success. Sam is comfortable. He's able to travel the world a bit, find himself, think about what he wants to do next, but there's still a lot of ambition there, and we're still yet to see the real Sam Altman.
Lauren Goode: Does money seem like it's a motivating force for him, or what is he after during this time period?
Zoë Schiffer: Yeah. That's a really good question, and this I think is maybe emblematic of his personality, because he doesn't just stop there. He's still ruminating on a lot of things. He's still thinking a lot about technology. Then in 2014, he was tapped by Paul Graham to be president of Y Combinator, so he's immersed himself in a bunch of other technologists with all these new ideas. Around 2015, as he's thinking about all this stuff, that's really when we have the seeds of OpenAI.
Michael Calore: Let's talk about Open AI. Who are the cofounders? What do the early days of the company look like, and what is its mission when it takes off?
Lauren Goode: Originally, open AI is founded as this group of researchers who are coming together to explore artificial general intelligence. A group of cofounders, including Sam and Elon Musk, set up OpenAI as a nonprofit. They don't really have a conception of having a commercial component to it or a consumer-facing app involved. It really does feel like a research org at this point, but Elon Musk in classic Elon Musk form wants to wrest more control away from the other cofounders. He tries to take it over repeatedly and floats the idea that Tesla could acquire OpenAI, and the rest of his founders reject this idea allegedly, and so ultimately Musk walks away and Sam Altman gets control of the company.
Michael Calore: I think it's important to also make the distinction that there were a lot of companies working on artificial intelligence at this time, about eight or nine years ago, and OpenAI saw themselves as the good guys in the group.
Lauren Goode: That's the open.
Michael Calore: Yeah. Basically, if you're building artificial intelligence tools, they may be harnessed by military. They may be harnessed by bad actors. They may get to the point where they become dangerous, like some of the dangers that Lauren was talking about earlier, and they saw themselves as the people who are going to do it the right way. People are going to do it so that AI can benefit society and not harm society. They wanted to make their tools available for free to as many people as possible, and they really wanted to make sure that this wasn't just a closed box that ended up just making a few people a bunch of money while everybody else sat on the outside.
Lauren Goode: That was how they conceived of being good. It was the democratization factor more than the trust and safety factor. Is that fair? Were they sitting around being like, “We're really going to study the harms, all of the potential misuses?” Or was it more like, “We're going to put this in people's hands and see what they do with it?”
Zoë Schiffer: That's a good question. I think they saw themselves as “value aligned.”
Michael Calore: Yes. That's a term that they all use.
Zoë Schiffer: Yeah. In 2012, there was something called AlexNet that was this convolutional neural network. It was able to identify and classify images in a way that hadn't been done before by AI. It blew people's minds. You can hear Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang talk about how that convinced him to change the company's direction towards AI, so a big moment. Then in 2017, there were some Google researchers that worked on this paper. It's known as the attention paper now that basically defined the modern day transformers that make up the T in ChatGPT. You're right, Mike, there were these groups and companies that were hopping on the train, and OpenAI from the beginning was like, “We definitely want to be on that train, but we think that we're more value-aligned than the others.”
Michael Calore: Something that they realized very quickly is that if you're building artificial intelligence models, you need massive amounts of computing power, and they did not have the money to buy that power. That created a shift.
Lauren Goode: They turned to daddy Microsoft.
Zoë Schiffer: Well, they try and raise as a nonprofit, and Sam says it's just not successful, and so they're forced to take on a different model, and the nonprofit starts to morph into this other thing that has a for-profit subsidiary. OpenAI starts to look weird and Frankenstein even in its early years.
Lauren Goode: Yeah. By the early 2020s, Sam had left Y Combinator. OpenAI was his full-time thing. They had created this for-profit arm, and then that enabled them to go to Microsoft, daddy Warbucks, and raise, I think, a billion dollars to start.
Michael Calore: Then what is Sam's own journey during this time? Is he investing? Is he just running this company?
Lauren Goode: He's meditating.
Michael Calore: He's very into meditation.
Lauren Goode: Just meditating.
Zoë Schiffer: In classic founder, venture capitalist kind of fashion, he's investing in a bunch of different companies. He's poured $375 million into Helion Energy, which is a speculative nuclear fusion company. He's put $180 million into Retro Biosciences, which is looking at longevity and how people can live longer. He's raised $115 million for WorldCoin, which Lauren, you went to another events recently, right?
Lauren Goode: Yeah. WorldCoin is a pretty fascinating company, and I think in some ways is also emblematic of Sam's approach, ambition, personality, because what they're creating is, well, there's an app, but there's also an orb. A physical orb like a ball that you're supposed to gaze into, and it captures your irises, and then it transforms that into an identity token that puts it on the blockchain. The idea that Sam has expressed is that, “Look, in the not-so-distant future, there's going to be so much fakeness out there in the world because of AI, and people are going to be really easily able to spoof your identity thanks to the AI I'm building. Therefore, I have a solution for you.” His solution is this WorldCoin, now just called World product. Here's the man who is accelerating the development of AI and saying, “Here are the potential perils, but also I have the solution, folks.”
Zoë Schiffer: I'm pro anything that lets me not remember my many, many passwords, so you can scan my iris, Sam.
Lauren Goode: What else was he investing in?
Zoë Schiffer: During this period, he's also getting rich. He's buying fancy cars. He's racing those fancy cars. He gets married. He says he wants to have kids soon. He purchases a $27 million house in San Francisco, and then he's pouring a ton of energy into OpenAI and specifically launching ChatGPT, which is going to be the commercial face of what was previously a nonprofit.
Lauren Goode: Yeah. That's really a watershed moment. It's the end of 2022, and all of a sudden people have a user interface. It's not just some LLM that people don't fully understand or comprehend that's working behind the scenes. It's something that they can go to on their laptop or on their phone and type in and then have this search experience that feels very conversational and different from the search experience that we've known and understood for the past 20 years. Sam is the face of this. The product events that OpenAI starts hosting intermittently start to feel a little bit like Apple events in the way that people, us, tech journalists are covering it. Then the next year in 2023, before the blip, Sam goes on this world tour. He's meeting with prime ministers and heads of state, and what he's doing is he's calling for a very specific kind of regulatory agency for AI. He has decided that if AI continues to grow in its influence and power, that it's going to be regulated at some point potentially, and that he wants to be a part of that conversation. Not just a part of that conversation. He wants to have control over what that framework looks like.
Zoë Schiffer: Right. You pointed to this earlier, but there is this ongoing debate about artificial general intelligence and the idea that AI will become sentient at some point and maybe even escape the box and turn against us humans. Sam recently said that this isn't actually his top concern, which I think is a little concerning. But he said something smart, I thought, which was that there's a lot of harm that can be done without reaching AGI, like misinformation and political misuses of AI. They don't really need artificial intelligence to be that intelligent in order to be very, very destructive
Michael Calore: Yeah. Job loss. We should also mention AI's impact on labor, because a lot of companies are eager to cut costs and they buy into an AI system that automates some of the work they used to rely on humans to do. Those humans lose their jobs. The company realizes that maybe the AI tool that they're relying on is not as good as the humans. Maybe it actually does the job better.
Zoë Schiffer: We're already seeing somewhat. I feel like Duolingo laid off a bunch of their translators and is investing a lot of money in AI right now.
Lauren Goode: That's a real bummer, because I thought my next career would be a Duolingo translator.
Zoë Schiffer: It's a bummer, because I'm looking at the Duolingo owl right behind your head, so we know you're in bed with Duolingo.
Lauren Goode: There really is one in the studio here. Duolingo sent me some owl heads. I just love Duolingo.
Michael Calore: You know who loves Duolingo?
Lauren Goode: Who? Who? That was an owl joke, folks. This podcast is over. Oh, I love it so much. Back to Sam Altman. You're correct, Zoe. One of the most interesting parts about Sam going around the world talking to politicians and heads of state about how to regulate AI is that there's this assumption that it is just one overarching solution for how to regulate it as opposed to seeing what comes up and the different needs we have in different spaces for how the technology is actually going to work.
Zoë Schiffer: That's one criticism he's gotten from people like Mark Andreessen who say he's going for regulatory capture. They're very suspect of his efforts to be part of the regulatory push of AI, because obviously he's invested in seeing that regulation look a certain way. One other thing that he says, which I think is quite interesting and a bit self-serving, is that some of the things that look like they're separate, or as tech people like to say, orthogonal to AI safety are actually really closely related to AI safety. When we look at human reinforcement of models, so the idea that you get two different responses to your prompt and you as a human vote on which one was more helpful. That can make the model a lot smarter, a lot faster, but it also can make the model more aligned to our societal values in theory.
Michael Calore: That pretty much brings us back to the scene that we outlined at the beginning, the blip when Sam was fired, and then four or five days later got his job back. Well, now that Sam Altman has been back at the helm of OpenAI for about a year, it has been an eventful year, and part of that is because all eyes are on the company. We're paying extra close attention to everything that we're doing, but it's also due to the fact that this company is making a massively impactful piece of technology that touches so many different things in our world. Let's very quickly go through what the last year has been like with Sam back at the driver's seat.
Zoë Schiffer: Yeah. It's not even, I would say just that all eyes are on the company and that they're building these massively impactful products. It's also that OpenAI is a messy company. Its executives are constantly leaving. They're constantly starting other companies that are even more overtly safety conscious supposedly than OpenAI.
Lauren Goode: They have these really funny names, the people who leave. They're like, "I'm starting a new startup. It's brand new. It's called the anti-OpenAI safety alignment measures OpenAI never took company."
Zoë Schiffer: The super, super, super, super safe non-OpenAI safety company. Just to start with some of the copyright claims, one of the major points of contention with what Sam is building and what AI companies are building is that in order to train a large language model, you need a shit ton of data. A lot of these companies are allegedly scraping that data from the open web. They're taking artists' work without their permission. They're scraping YouTube in what might be an illegal fashion. They're using all of that to train their models, and they're often not crediting the sources. When ChatGPT 4.0 comes out, it has a voice that sounds remarkably like Scarlett Johansson's voice in the movie Heart. Scarlett Johansson gets really upset about this, and she almost sues the company. She says that Sam Altman came to her directly and asked her to participate in this project to record her voice and be the voice of Sky, which is the voice of ChatGPT 4.0, and she said no. She thought about it and then she didn't feel comfortable doing it. She felt like the company had gone ahead and used her voice without permission. It comes out that that wasn't actually the case. It seems like they just hired an actor that sounded remarkably like her, but again, messy. Messy, messy, messy.
Michael Calore: All right. Let's take another break and we'll come right back. Welcome back. On one side, we have all the mess. We have the FTC looking into violations of consumer protection laws. We have lawsuits and deals being signed between media companies and other people who publish copyrighted work.
Lauren Goode: Is this where we do the disclaimer?
Michael Calore: Oh, yes. Including Conde Nast.
Lauren Goode: Including Conde Nast, our parent company.
Michael Calore: Our parent company has signed a deal with OpenAI, a licensing deal so that our published work can be used to train its models. There are safety and culture concerns. There's the fact that they're being fast and loose with celebrity impressions. Then on the other side, we have a company that is making a big important technology that many in the industry are throwing tons of money and tons of deals behind in order to prop it up and make sure that it accelerates as quickly as possible. We're in this position as users where we have to ask ourselves, do we trust this company? Do we trust Sam Altman to have our best future in mind when they're rolling this stuff out into the world?
Lauren Goode: Knowing fair well that this very podcast is going to be used to train some future voice bot in OpenAI.
Michael Calore: It'll sound like all three of us mixed together.
Lauren Goode: Sorry about the vocal fry.
Zoë Schiffer: I would listen to that.
Lauren Goode: Right now, there's this equation that is being made as we use not just ChatGPT, not just going to ChatGPT and typing in a query and training the model that way. Just our data being on the internet is being used to train these models in many instances without anyone's consent, and it just feels like this moment. It requires so much intellectual or existential gymnastics of living a life online right now to think about whether what you're getting from this tech is actually as great as what you have to put into it, what you are putting into it. I personally have not gotten a lot of benefit from using apps like ChatGPT or Gemini or others. That could change. It could absolutely change. There are a lot of instances of AI that I use in my day-to-day life right now, embedded in my email application and my phone and all this stuff that actually are really great, have absolutely benefited me. These new models of generative AI tools, it's still a giant TBD, and yet I know that I've already given more to these machines. Is Sam Altman the singular person who I look to and I'm like, "I trust this guy with that, with figuring out that equation for me?" No.
Michael Calore: No. What about you, Zoe?
Zoë Schiffer: I would say no, I don't think he's proven himself to be particularly trustworthy. If the people who work closely with him are leaving and starting their own things that they say will be more trustworthy, then I think that speaks to something we should be somewhat concerned about. At the same time, I don't know if there's any single person that I would trust with this. It's a lot of power and a lot of responsibility to have in one fallible human being.
Lauren Goode: Yet I definitely have met and reported on tech entrepreneurs who I think have a pretty straight moral compass, who are being very thoughtful about what they build, who have been thoughtful about what they build. I'm not saying that it's like, "Oh, tech bro bad." He's definitely not the guy. He may emerge as that person, but at this moment right now, no.
Zoë Schiffer: Yeah. I will say that he does seem very thoughtful. He doesn't seem like an Elon Musk in the way that he's just making impulsive decisions. He seems to really think through things and take the power and responsibility that he has pretty seriously.
Lauren Goode: He did manage to raise $6.6 billion from investors just a month or so ago, so there are clearly a lot of people in the industry who do have a certain level of faith in him. It doesn't mean they have faith that he's going to handle all this data in the best way possible, but it certainly means they have faith that he's going to make a lot of money through ChatGPT.
Zoë Schiffer: Or they're just really concerned about missing out.
Lauren Goode: They have a lot of FOMO. They're looking at the subscription numbers for ChatGPT, but they're also seeing a lot of potential for growth in the enterprise business, the way that ChatGPT will license its API or work with other businesses so that those businesses can create all these different plugins in their day-to-day applications and make their workers more productive and stuff. There's a lot of potential there, and I think that's what investors are looking at right now.
Michael Calore: This is normally the point in the podcast where, as the third person in the room, I provide a balanced perspective by taking a different tack than the two of you. But I'm going to throw that out the window because I also do not think that we should be trusting Sam Altman or OpenAI with open arms. Now, there are things that the company is doing that I think are very good, like the idea of a productivity tool or a suite of productivity tools that can help people do their jobs better. It can help you study. It can help you understand complex concepts. It can help you shop for things online. Those are all interesting. I'm particularly very curious to see what they do with search when their search tool becomes more mature, and we can really see whether or not it's a challenge to this paradigm for search that has existed for almost 20 years at this point. Capital G. Google. Beyond that, I don't think that their tools are going to have an impact on society that is going to be a net positive. I think there is going to be enough strife in the job loss and in the theft of copyrighted work and in energy use and water use that are required to run all these complex models on the cloud computing data centers. Then of course, misinformation and deep fakes, which now are pretty easy to spot and are getting harder to spot, and within a couple of years will become indistinguishable from actual footage and actual news. I feel like as human beings on the internet, we are going to bear the brunt of these bad things that are coming. To your point, Lauren, as journalists, we are going to be collateral damage in this race to see who can create the model that does our jobs for us the best, and OpenAI is the leader there. This pursuit of profit without really looking at those problems head on sounds dangerous to me. We talked about earlier in the episode, Sam Altman has said that he encourages open debate and he encourages us as a society to decide what the boundaries of this technology should be. But I think that we're moving way too quickly and the debate is happening way too slowly. That feels like an avoidant stance to say, "Oh, don't worry. We're going to figure it out as a collective." While at the same time you're pressing on the accelerator pedal as hard as you can to go as fast as possible and spend as much money as possible. Those things feel out of sync.
Zoë Schiffer: Yeah. He speaks very generally when he talks about how everyone should have a voice in these decisions regarding how AI is built and how it's governed. One thing when you mentioned job loss that it made me think of, and we've mentioned this on a previous podcast episode, is that Sam Altman is involved in universal basic income experiments. The idea that you give people a fixed amount of money every month, and hopefully that mitigates any job loss that's involved in your other projects.
Lauren Goode: I think that we're in this moment generally, technology and society, where we may be forced to let go of some of the institutions that we've relied on for the past few decades. Technologists are often the first people to jump on that and say, "We have a better idea. We have a better solution. We have a better idea for government. We have a better idea for how people should get paid and make money. We have a better idea for how you should be doing your work and what can make you more productive. We have all these ideas." They're not always bad ideas, and at some point we do have to let go. Change happens. It's inevitable. What is it? It's not death and taxes. It's change and taxes. That's the inevitable. Also, death.
Zoë Schiffer: Lauren is part of the DOGE commission and she's coming for your institution.
Lauren Goode: Yes. But then you have to also identify the right people to affect that change. That is, I think, the question that we're asking. We're not asking are these bad ideas? We're asking who is Sam Altman? Is this the person who should be steering this change, and if not him, then who?
Zoë Schiffer: But Lauren, just to push back on that, he is the person. At a certain point, we're living in a fantasy if we three tech journalists are just sitting here talking about, should it be Sam? Should it not be? Well, he's doing it and it doesn't look like he's going away anytime soon, because the board was not in a real sense able to push him out despite the fact that it legally had that right. He's still CEO.
Lauren Goode: Yeah. He's entrenched at this point, and the company is entrenched simply just based on how much money is invested in them. There are a lot of stakeholders who absolutely are going to make sure that this company succeeds, no doubt. But also, if we're at the early-ish phase of generative AI in the way that other transformative technologies have had their early-ish stages, and then sometimes there are other people in companies that emerge that actually end up doing more.
Michael Calore: What we're hoping for is corrective forces.
Lauren Goode: Maybe. We'll see.
Zoë Schiffer: Okay. I stand corrected then. I feel like maybe it is worth having this discussion on who should lead it. We're early days still, I feel like. I lose sight of that sometimes.
Lauren Goode: That's okay. You may be right.
Zoë Schiffer: Because it feels like he's the dominant player.
Michael Calore: That's the best part about reporting on technology is that we're always in the early days of something,
Lauren Goode: I suppose so.
Michael Calore: All right. Well, that feels like as good of a place as any to end it. We've solved it. We should not trust Sam Altman, but we should trust the AI industry to self-correct.
Zoë Schiffer: Yeah. I think of this quote that Sam wrote on his blog many, many years ago, and he said, "A big secret is that you can bend the world to your will a surprising percentage of the time, and most people don't even try. They just accept the way things as they are." I feel like that says a lot about him. It also makes me think, Lauren, to your point, that I've accepted, well, Sam Altman is just in charge, and that's just the reality. Well, maybe the world needs to bend things a little to our will in a democratic fashion, not let him just lead the new future.
Lauren Goode: Never succumb to inevitability.
Michael Calore: Now, that really is a good place to end it. That's our show for today. We'll be back next week with an episode about whether or not it's time to get off social media. Thanks for listening to Uncanny Valley. If you like what you heard today, make sure to follow our show and rate it on your podcast app of choice. If you'd like to get in touch with any of us to ask questions, leave comments, give us some show suggestions, you can write to us at [email protected]. Today's show is produced by Kyana Moghadam. Amar Lal at Macro Sound mixed this episode. Jordan Bell is our executive producer. Conde Nast's head of global audio is Chris Bannon. | {
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"Sam Altman [archival audio]: We have been a misunderstood and badly mocked org for a long time. When we started and said we were going to work on a AGI, people thought we were batshit insane.",
"Michael Calore: Sam Altman is the CEO and one of the founders of OpenAI, the generative AI company that launched ChatGPT about two years ago, and essentially ushered in a new era of artificial intelligence. This is WIRED's Uncanny Valley, a show about the people, power, and influence of Silicon Valley. Today on the show, we're doing a deep dive on Sam Altman, from his Midwest roots to his early startup days, his time as a venture capitalist, and his rise and fall and rise again at OpenAI. We're going to look at it all while asking, is this the man we should trust to guide our explorations into artificial intelligence, and do we even have a choice? I'm Michael Calore, director of consumer tech and culture here at WIRED.",
"Lauren Goode: I'm Lauren Goode. I'm a senior writer at WIRED.",
"Zoë Schiffer: I'm Zoe Schiffer, WIRED's director of business and industry.",
"Michael Calore: OK. I want to start today by going back one year into the past, November 2023, to an event that we refer to as the blip.",
"Lauren Goode: The blip. We don't just refer to it as the blip. That is actually the internal phrase that is used at OpenAI to describe some of the most chaotic three to four days in that company's history.",
"[archival audio]: The company OpenAI, one of the top players in artificial intelligence, thrown into disarray.",
"[archival audio]: One of the most spectacular corporate fall-outs.",
"[archival audio]: The news on Wall Street today involves the stunning developments in the world of artificial intelligence.",
"Zoë Schiffer: It really started on November 17th, this Friday afternoon when Sam Altman, the CEO of the company, gets what he says is the most surprising, shocking, and difficult news of his professional career.",
"[archival audio]: The shock dismissal of former boss, Sam Altman.",
"[archival audio]: His firing sent shock waves through Silicon Valley.",
"Zoë Schiffer: The board at OpenAI, which at the time was a nonprofit, has lost confidence in him, it says. Despite the fact that the company is by all measures doing incredibly well, he's out. He's no longer going to lead the company.",
"Michael Calore: He's effectively fired from the company that he cofounded.",
"Zoë Schiffer: Yeah. That immediately sets off a chain reaction of events. His cofounder and president of the company, Greg Brockman, resigns in solidarity. Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella says that Sam Altman is actually going to join Microsoft and lead an advanced AI research team there. Then we see almost the entire employee base at OpenAI sign a letter saying, “Wait, wait, wait. If Sam leaves, we're leaving, too.”",
"[archival audio]: Some 500 of these 700-odd employees—",
"[archival audio]: … threatening to quit over the board's abrupt firing of OpenAI's popular CEO, Sam Altman.",
"Zoë Schiffer: Eventually there's this back and forth tense negotiation between Sam Altman and the board of directors, and eventually the board then installs Mira Murati, the CTO, as the interim CEO. Then shortly after that, Sam is able to reach an agreement with the board and he returns as CEO and the board looks instantly different, with Brett Taylor and Larry Summers joining, Adam D'Angelo staying, and the rest of the board leaving.",
"Michael Calore: All of this happened over a weekend in the first couple of days of the following week. It ruined a lot of our weekends as technology journalists. I'm sure it ruined a lot of weekends for everybody in the generative AI industry, but for a lot of people who don't follow this stuff, it was the first time that they heard of Sam Altman, first time maybe they heard about OpenAI. Why was this important?",
"Zoë Schiffer: Yeah. This was such an interesting moment, because it surprised me. Lauren, I'm curious if it surprised you that this story broke through on such a national scale. People went from not really knowing who Sam Altman was to being shocked and disturbed that he was fired from his own company.",
"Lauren Goode: I think at this moment, everyone was hearing about generative AI and how it was going to change our lives. Sam was now officially the face of this, and it took this chaos, this Silicon Valley drama to bring that to the forefront, because then in trying to understand what was happening with the mutiny, you got a sense of there are these people in these different camps of AI. Some who believe in artificial general intelligence, that eventually it's going to totally take over our lives. Some who fall in the camp of accelerationists who believe that AI should just scale as quickly as possible, unfettered AI. Others who are a little bit more cautious in their approach and believe that there should be safety measures and guardrails put around AI. All of these things came into sharp focus through this one very long, chaotic weekend.",
"Michael Calore: We're going to talk a lot about Sam on this episode, and I want to make sure that we get a sense of who he is as a person. How do we know him? How do we understand him as a person? What's his vibe?",
"Zoë Schiffer: Well, I think Lauren might be the only one who's actually met him. Is that right?",
"Lauren Goode: Yeah. I have met him a few times, and my first interaction with Sam goes back about a decade. He's around 29 years old, and he is the president of Y Combinator, which is this very well-known startup incubator here in Silicon Valley. The idea is that all these startups pitch their ideas and they get a very small amount of seed funding, but they also get a lot of coaching and mentorship. The person who's running YC is really this very glorified camp counselor for Silicon Valley, and that was Sam at the time. I remember talking to him briefly at one of their YC demo days in Mountain View. He exuded a lot of energy. He's clearly a smart guy. He comes across as friendly and open. People who know him really well will say he's really one of the most ambitious people who they know. But at first glance, you wouldn't necessarily think that he's the person, fast-forward 10 years later, meeting with prime ministers and heads of state around the world to talk to them about his grand vision of artificial intelligence, and someone who's really positioning himself to be this power monger in artificial intelligence.",
"Zoë Schiffer: Yeah. I think one of the interesting things about Sam is just that he seems like such an enigma. People have a really hard time, myself included, putting a finger on what is he all about. Should we trust this guy? I think there are other CEOs and executives in the Valley who have such brash personas, Elon Musk, Marc Andreessen, that you kind of instantly feel one way or another about them. You either really like them or you're really turned off by them, and Sam is somewhere in the middle. He seems a little more quiet, a little more thoughtful, a little more nerdy. But there's this sense of, like Lauren said, an appetite for power that makes you pause and think, \"Wait. What is this guy all about? What's in it for him?\"",
"Lauren Goode: Right. He also wears a lot of Henley shirts. Now, I know this is not a fashion show. People who listen to our very first episode—",
"Zoë Schiffer: But it's not not.",
"Lauren Goode: ... might be like, “Are they just going to talk about hoodies every episode?” But he wears a lot of Henleys and jeans and nice sneakers, except for when he's meeting with heads of state, where he suits up appropriately.",
"Zoë Schiffer: Sam, we have notes on the outfits if you want them, so call us.",
"Michael Calore: Well, Zoe, to your point, Paul Graham, who was at one time the head of Y Combinator, the incubator that Lauren was just talking about, described Sam as extremely good at becoming powerful. It seems like he's somebody who can read the situation and read the room and figure out where to go next before other people can figure it out. A lot of people point to parallels between Sam Altman and Steve Jobs. I feel like Steve Jobs was somebody who had a vision for the future and was able to communicate why it was important, and he had a consumer product that got people very, very excited. Sam Altman is also somebody who has a vision for the future, is able to communicate why it's important to the rest of us, and has a product that everybody is excited about in ChatGPT. I think that's where the parallel ends.",
"Lauren Goode: I think just the question of is Sam Altman the Steve Jobs of this era a really good one to ask? You're right in that they were both effectively the salespeople for products that other people made. They're in a sense marketers. Jobs marketed the smartphone, which literally changed the world. Sam has helped productize AI, this new form of generative AI through ChatGPT. That's a similarity. They're both or were both extremely ambitious, enigmatic, as Zoe said, reportedly impatient. They have some employees who would follow them to the end of the earth and others who have gone running scared. They've both been ousted from companies they were running and then returned. Although Sam's absence was infinitely shorter than Steve Jobs' return to Apple. I think there are some key differences though. One is that we have the benefit of hindsight with Jobs. We know what he accomplished, and we have yet to see if Altman is really going to be a defining character of AI for the next 10 or 20 or 30 years. The second thing is that while Jobs had some very real personality quirks and complexes by all accounts, I tend to see him as being put into this messianic position by his acolytes. Whereas Sam seems to really, really want to elevate himself to that position, and there are some people who are still really skeptical about that.",
"Zoë Schiffer: That's really interesting. Just to double-click, as the tech people say, on the salesperson analogy, that can sound a little reductive as well, but I actually think it's a really important point, because large language models have existed. AI has existed to some extent. But if people, regular users don't know how to use those products or interact with them, do they really break out and change the world in the way that people like Sam Wollman think they will? I would say no. His role in launching ChatGPT, which is I think by all accounts not an incredibly useful tool, but points to future uses of AI and what they could be and how it could interact with people's everyday lives. That is a really important change and an important impact that he's had.",
"Michael Calore: Yeah. Lauren touched on this point, too. We don't know what the impact is going to be. We don't have the benefit of hindsight here, and we don't know whether these promises about how artificial intelligence is going to transform all of our lives, how those are going to play out. There are a lot of people who are very skeptical about AI, particularly artists and creative people, but also people who work in surveillance and security and the military have a fear and a healthy skepticism around AI. We're looking at this figurehead as the person who's going to lead us into the future where this becomes the defining technology of that future, so the question becomes, can we trust this person?",
"Lauren Goode: I feel like Sam's feedback to that would be, \"No. You shouldn't trust me, and you shouldn't have to.\" He has said in interviews before that he's trying to set up the company where he doesn't have quite as much power. He doesn't have total control in that way. He has definitely hinted that he thinks a lot of the decisions governing AI should be democratic. I think it's just again, this question of do we trust those statements or do we trust more what he's doing, which is consolidating power and leading a for-profit company, what used to be a nonprofit.",
"Michael Calore: Yeah. We should underscore that, that he's always encouraging healthy debate. He encourages open dialog about what the limits of AI should be, but that still doesn't seem to be satisfying the people who are skeptical of it.",
"Lauren Goode: Yeah. I think it's also important to make the distinction between people being skeptical of it and people who are fearful of it, too. There are people who are skeptical about the tech itself. There are people who are skeptical that Sam Altman may be the figurehead that we need here. Then there's fear of the tech from some people who actually do believe in its potential to revolutionize the world, and the fear is that that may not happen necessarily in a good way. Maybe someone will use AI for bio-terrorism. Maybe someone uses AI to launch nukes. Maybe the AI itself becomes so all-knowing and powerful that it somehow becomes violent against humans. Those are some real fears that research scientists and policymakers have. The questions about Sam's trustworthiness aren't only from, let's call it a capital perspective. What's going on in terms of is OpenAI a nonprofit or a for-profit, or can we trust this man with billions of dollars in funding? It's literally can we trust him in a sense with our lives?",
"Zoë Schiffer: Right. It's the degree to which we should be worried about Sam Altman is the degree to which you personally believe that artificial general intelligence is a real concern or that AI could significantly change the world in a way that could be potentially quite catastrophic.",
"Lauren Goode: Altman was quoted in a New York magazine profile about him as saying AI is not a clean story of only benefits. Stuff is going to be lost here as it develops. It's super relatable and natural for people to have loss aversion. They don't want to hear stories in which they're the casualty.",
"Michael Calore: We have a self-appointed figurehead whether we like it or not, and we have to make decisions about whether or not this is somebody we can trust. But before we get there, we should talk about how Sam got to where he is today. What do we know about Sam Altman the man, before he was Sam Altman the tech founder?",
"Lauren Goode: Well, he's the oldest of four children. He comes from this Midwestern Jewish family. He grew up in St. Louis. His family, by all accounts, he had a pretty good childhood, I believe. They hung out together. They played games. I think his brother has said that Sam always needed to win those games. In high school, he comes out as gay, which was pretty unusual at the time. He said that his high school was actually quite intolerant toward gay people. At one point he gets up on stage at his school, according to this New York Magazine profile, and gives a speech about the importance of having an open society. My takeaway from that was that he was willing from an early age to be different from other people and to reject the dominant ideology. There was also this really funny section in the profile where they said that he was a boy genius, and at age 3 was fixing the family's VCR. As the mom of a 3-year-old, I was like, what the fuck?",
"Michael Calore: I was resetting the clock on the family VCR by 11, and I just want to say that I'm also a boy genius.",
"Lauren Goode: It's funny with profiles of some of these founders, because I do feel like there's this hagiographic tendency to be like, “Of course, they were a child genius, too.” No one is ever just mid in childhood and then ends up being a billionaire. There's always something special.",
"Michael Calore: Right. Well, there was something special about Sam, that's for sure.",
"Lauren Goode: Yeah. He starts at Stanford in 2003. This is the time period when other young, ambitious people are starting companies like Facebook and LinkedIn. I think if you were smart and ambitious like Sam clearly was, you weren't going to go into the traditional law, doctor type fields. You were going to try and start a company, which is what he does.",
"Zoë Schiffer: Yeah. He starts this company called Looped. He's a sophomore at Stanford. He teams up with his then boyfriend, and they create what's basically like an early Foursquare. This is when Sam gets involved with Y Combinator for the first time. He and his cofounder receive a $6,000 investment. They're accepted into a summer founders program at Y Combinator, and this is where they get to spend a few months incubating their app with mentorship. They're with a bunch of other nerds. There's this great detail about how Sam worked so much during that time period that he got scurvy.",
"Lauren Goode: Oh, my God. That also feels like mythologizing.",
"Zoë Schiffer: It really does. Fast-forward a few years, it's 2012. Looped has raised about $30 million in venture capital, and the company announces that it's going to be acquired by another company for around $43 million. This sounds like a lot of money to people who don't start apps and sell their companies, but by Silicon Valley standards, this is not really deemed a success. Sam is comfortable. He's able to travel the world a bit, find himself, think about what he wants to do next, but there's still a lot of ambition there, and we're still yet to see the real Sam Altman.",
"Lauren Goode: Does money seem like it's a motivating force for him, or what is he after during this time period?",
"Zoë Schiffer: Yeah. That's a really good question, and this I think is maybe emblematic of his personality, because he doesn't just stop there. He's still ruminating on a lot of things. He's still thinking a lot about technology. Then in 2014, he was tapped by Paul Graham to be president of Y Combinator, so he's immersed himself in a bunch of other technologists with all these new ideas. Around 2015, as he's thinking about all this stuff, that's really when we have the seeds of OpenAI.",
"Michael Calore: Let's talk about Open AI. Who are the cofounders? What do the early days of the company look like, and what is its mission when it takes off?",
"Lauren Goode: Originally, open AI is founded as this group of researchers who are coming together to explore artificial general intelligence. A group of cofounders, including Sam and Elon Musk, set up OpenAI as a nonprofit. They don't really have a conception of having a commercial component to it or a consumer-facing app involved. It really does feel like a research org at this point, but Elon Musk in classic Elon Musk form wants to wrest more control away from the other cofounders. He tries to take it over repeatedly and floats the idea that Tesla could acquire OpenAI, and the rest of his founders reject this idea allegedly, and so ultimately Musk walks away and Sam Altman gets control of the company.",
"Michael Calore: I think it's important to also make the distinction that there were a lot of companies working on artificial intelligence at this time, about eight or nine years ago, and OpenAI saw themselves as the good guys in the group.",
"Lauren Goode: That's the open.",
"Michael Calore: Yeah. Basically, if you're building artificial intelligence tools, they may be harnessed by military. They may be harnessed by bad actors. They may get to the point where they become dangerous, like some of the dangers that Lauren was talking about earlier, and they saw themselves as the people who are going to do it the right way. People are going to do it so that AI can benefit society and not harm society. They wanted to make their tools available for free to as many people as possible, and they really wanted to make sure that this wasn't just a closed box that ended up just making a few people a bunch of money while everybody else sat on the outside.",
"Lauren Goode: That was how they conceived of being good. It was the democratization factor more than the trust and safety factor. Is that fair? Were they sitting around being like, “We're really going to study the harms, all of the potential misuses?” Or was it more like, “We're going to put this in people's hands and see what they do with it?”",
"Zoë Schiffer: That's a good question. I think they saw themselves as “value aligned.”",
"Michael Calore: Yes. That's a term that they all use.",
"Zoë Schiffer: Yeah. In 2012, there was something called AlexNet that was this convolutional neural network. It was able to identify and classify images in a way that hadn't been done before by AI. It blew people's minds. You can hear Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang talk about how that convinced him to change the company's direction towards AI, so a big moment. Then in 2017, there were some Google researchers that worked on this paper. It's known as the attention paper now that basically defined the modern day transformers that make up the T in ChatGPT. You're right, Mike, there were these groups and companies that were hopping on the train, and OpenAI from the beginning was like, “We definitely want to be on that train, but we think that we're more value-aligned than the others.”",
"Michael Calore: Something that they realized very quickly is that if you're building artificial intelligence models, you need massive amounts of computing power, and they did not have the money to buy that power. That created a shift.",
"Lauren Goode: They turned to daddy Microsoft.",
"Zoë Schiffer: Well, they try and raise as a nonprofit, and Sam says it's just not successful, and so they're forced to take on a different model, and the nonprofit starts to morph into this other thing that has a for-profit subsidiary. OpenAI starts to look weird and Frankenstein even in its early years.",
"Lauren Goode: Yeah. By the early 2020s, Sam had left Y Combinator. OpenAI was his full-time thing. They had created this for-profit arm, and then that enabled them to go to Microsoft, daddy Warbucks, and raise, I think, a billion dollars to start.",
"Michael Calore: Then what is Sam's own journey during this time? Is he investing? Is he just running this company?",
"Lauren Goode: He's meditating.",
"Michael Calore: He's very into meditation.",
"Lauren Goode: Just meditating.",
"Zoë Schiffer: In classic founder, venture capitalist kind of fashion, he's investing in a bunch of different companies. He's poured $375 million into Helion Energy, which is a speculative nuclear fusion company. He's put $180 million into Retro Biosciences, which is looking at longevity and how people can live longer. He's raised $115 million for WorldCoin, which Lauren, you went to another events recently, right?",
"Lauren Goode: Yeah. WorldCoin is a pretty fascinating company, and I think in some ways is also emblematic of Sam's approach, ambition, personality, because what they're creating is, well, there's an app, but there's also an orb. A physical orb like a ball that you're supposed to gaze into, and it captures your irises, and then it transforms that into an identity token that puts it on the blockchain. The idea that Sam has expressed is that, “Look, in the not-so-distant future, there's going to be so much fakeness out there in the world because of AI, and people are going to be really easily able to spoof your identity thanks to the AI I'm building. Therefore, I have a solution for you.” His solution is this WorldCoin, now just called World product. Here's the man who is accelerating the development of AI and saying, “Here are the potential perils, but also I have the solution, folks.”",
"Zoë Schiffer: I'm pro anything that lets me not remember my many, many passwords, so you can scan my iris, Sam.",
"Lauren Goode: What else was he investing in?",
"Zoë Schiffer: During this period, he's also getting rich. He's buying fancy cars. He's racing those fancy cars. He gets married. He says he wants to have kids soon. He purchases a $27 million house in San Francisco, and then he's pouring a ton of energy into OpenAI and specifically launching ChatGPT, which is going to be the commercial face of what was previously a nonprofit.",
"Lauren Goode: Yeah. That's really a watershed moment. It's the end of 2022, and all of a sudden people have a user interface. It's not just some LLM that people don't fully understand or comprehend that's working behind the scenes. It's something that they can go to on their laptop or on their phone and type in and then have this search experience that feels very conversational and different from the search experience that we've known and understood for the past 20 years. Sam is the face of this. The product events that OpenAI starts hosting intermittently start to feel a little bit like Apple events in the way that people, us, tech journalists are covering it. Then the next year in 2023, before the blip, Sam goes on this world tour. He's meeting with prime ministers and heads of state, and what he's doing is he's calling for a very specific kind of regulatory agency for AI. He has decided that if AI continues to grow in its influence and power, that it's going to be regulated at some point potentially, and that he wants to be a part of that conversation. Not just a part of that conversation. He wants to have control over what that framework looks like.",
"Zoë Schiffer: Right. You pointed to this earlier, but there is this ongoing debate about artificial general intelligence and the idea that AI will become sentient at some point and maybe even escape the box and turn against us humans. Sam recently said that this isn't actually his top concern, which I think is a little concerning. But he said something smart, I thought, which was that there's a lot of harm that can be done without reaching AGI, like misinformation and political misuses of AI. They don't really need artificial intelligence to be that intelligent in order to be very, very destructive",
"Michael Calore: Yeah. Job loss. We should also mention AI's impact on labor, because a lot of companies are eager to cut costs and they buy into an AI system that automates some of the work they used to rely on humans to do. Those humans lose their jobs. The company realizes that maybe the AI tool that they're relying on is not as good as the humans. Maybe it actually does the job better.",
"Zoë Schiffer: We're already seeing somewhat. I feel like Duolingo laid off a bunch of their translators and is investing a lot of money in AI right now.",
"Lauren Goode: That's a real bummer, because I thought my next career would be a Duolingo translator.",
"Zoë Schiffer: It's a bummer, because I'm looking at the Duolingo owl right behind your head, so we know you're in bed with Duolingo.",
"Lauren Goode: There really is one in the studio here. Duolingo sent me some owl heads. I just love Duolingo.",
"Michael Calore: You know who loves Duolingo?",
"Lauren Goode: Who? Who? That was an owl joke, folks. This podcast is over. Oh, I love it so much. Back to Sam Altman. You're correct, Zoe. One of the most interesting parts about Sam going around the world talking to politicians and heads of state about how to regulate AI is that there's this assumption that it is just one overarching solution for how to regulate it as opposed to seeing what comes up and the different needs we have in different spaces for how the technology is actually going to work.",
"Zoë Schiffer: That's one criticism he's gotten from people like Mark Andreessen who say he's going for regulatory capture. They're very suspect of his efforts to be part of the regulatory push of AI, because obviously he's invested in seeing that regulation look a certain way. One other thing that he says, which I think is quite interesting and a bit self-serving, is that some of the things that look like they're separate, or as tech people like to say, orthogonal to AI safety are actually really closely related to AI safety. When we look at human reinforcement of models, so the idea that you get two different responses to your prompt and you as a human vote on which one was more helpful. That can make the model a lot smarter, a lot faster, but it also can make the model more aligned to our societal values in theory.",
"Michael Calore: That pretty much brings us back to the scene that we outlined at the beginning, the blip when Sam was fired, and then four or five days later got his job back. Well, now that Sam Altman has been back at the helm of OpenAI for about a year, it has been an eventful year, and part of that is because all eyes are on the company. We're paying extra close attention to everything that we're doing, but it's also due to the fact that this company is making a massively impactful piece of technology that touches so many different things in our world. Let's very quickly go through what the last year has been like with Sam back at the driver's seat.",
"Zoë Schiffer: Yeah. It's not even, I would say just that all eyes are on the company and that they're building these massively impactful products. It's also that OpenAI is a messy company. Its executives are constantly leaving. They're constantly starting other companies that are even more overtly safety conscious supposedly than OpenAI.",
"Lauren Goode: They have these really funny names, the people who leave. They're like, \"I'm starting a new startup. It's brand new. It's called the anti-OpenAI safety alignment measures OpenAI never took company.\"",
"Zoë Schiffer: The super, super, super, super safe non-OpenAI safety company. Just to start with some of the copyright claims, one of the major points of contention with what Sam is building and what AI companies are building is that in order to train a large language model, you need a shit ton of data. A lot of these companies are allegedly scraping that data from the open web. They're taking artists' work without their permission. They're scraping YouTube in what might be an illegal fashion. They're using all of that to train their models, and they're often not crediting the sources. When ChatGPT 4.0 comes out, it has a voice that sounds remarkably like Scarlett Johansson's voice in the movie Heart. Scarlett Johansson gets really upset about this, and she almost sues the company. She says that Sam Altman came to her directly and asked her to participate in this project to record her voice and be the voice of Sky, which is the voice of ChatGPT 4.0, and she said no. She thought about it and then she didn't feel comfortable doing it. She felt like the company had gone ahead and used her voice without permission. It comes out that that wasn't actually the case. It seems like they just hired an actor that sounded remarkably like her, but again, messy. Messy, messy, messy.",
"Michael Calore: All right. Let's take another break and we'll come right back. Welcome back. On one side, we have all the mess. We have the FTC looking into violations of consumer protection laws. We have lawsuits and deals being signed between media companies and other people who publish copyrighted work.",
"Lauren Goode: Is this where we do the disclaimer?",
"Michael Calore: Oh, yes. Including Conde Nast.",
"Lauren Goode: Including Conde Nast, our parent company.",
"Michael Calore: Our parent company has signed a deal with OpenAI, a licensing deal so that our published work can be used to train its models. There are safety and culture concerns. There's the fact that they're being fast and loose with celebrity impressions. Then on the other side, we have a company that is making a big important technology that many in the industry are throwing tons of money and tons of deals behind in order to prop it up and make sure that it accelerates as quickly as possible. We're in this position as users where we have to ask ourselves, do we trust this company? Do we trust Sam Altman to have our best future in mind when they're rolling this stuff out into the world?",
"Lauren Goode: Knowing fair well that this very podcast is going to be used to train some future voice bot in OpenAI.",
"Michael Calore: It'll sound like all three of us mixed together.",
"Lauren Goode: Sorry about the vocal fry.",
"Zoë Schiffer: I would listen to that.",
"Lauren Goode: Right now, there's this equation that is being made as we use not just ChatGPT, not just going to ChatGPT and typing in a query and training the model that way. Just our data being on the internet is being used to train these models in many instances without anyone's consent, and it just feels like this moment. It requires so much intellectual or existential gymnastics of living a life online right now to think about whether what you're getting from this tech is actually as great as what you have to put into it, what you are putting into it. I personally have not gotten a lot of benefit from using apps like ChatGPT or Gemini or others. That could change. It could absolutely change. There are a lot of instances of AI that I use in my day-to-day life right now, embedded in my email application and my phone and all this stuff that actually are really great, have absolutely benefited me. These new models of generative AI tools, it's still a giant TBD, and yet I know that I've already given more to these machines. Is Sam Altman the singular person who I look to and I'm like, \"I trust this guy with that, with figuring out that equation for me?\" No.",
"Michael Calore: No. What about you, Zoe?",
"Zoë Schiffer: I would say no, I don't think he's proven himself to be particularly trustworthy. If the people who work closely with him are leaving and starting their own things that they say will be more trustworthy, then I think that speaks to something we should be somewhat concerned about. At the same time, I don't know if there's any single person that I would trust with this. It's a lot of power and a lot of responsibility to have in one fallible human being.",
"Lauren Goode: Yet I definitely have met and reported on tech entrepreneurs who I think have a pretty straight moral compass, who are being very thoughtful about what they build, who have been thoughtful about what they build. I'm not saying that it's like, \"Oh, tech bro bad.\" He's definitely not the guy. He may emerge as that person, but at this moment right now, no.",
"Zoë Schiffer: Yeah. I will say that he does seem very thoughtful. He doesn't seem like an Elon Musk in the way that he's just making impulsive decisions. He seems to really think through things and take the power and responsibility that he has pretty seriously.",
"Lauren Goode: He did manage to raise $6.6 billion from investors just a month or so ago, so there are clearly a lot of people in the industry who do have a certain level of faith in him. It doesn't mean they have faith that he's going to handle all this data in the best way possible, but it certainly means they have faith that he's going to make a lot of money through ChatGPT.",
"Zoë Schiffer: Or they're just really concerned about missing out.",
"Lauren Goode: They have a lot of FOMO. They're looking at the subscription numbers for ChatGPT, but they're also seeing a lot of potential for growth in the enterprise business, the way that ChatGPT will license its API or work with other businesses so that those businesses can create all these different plugins in their day-to-day applications and make their workers more productive and stuff. There's a lot of potential there, and I think that's what investors are looking at right now.",
"Michael Calore: This is normally the point in the podcast where, as the third person in the room, I provide a balanced perspective by taking a different tack than the two of you. But I'm going to throw that out the window because I also do not think that we should be trusting Sam Altman or OpenAI with open arms. Now, there are things that the company is doing that I think are very good, like the idea of a productivity tool or a suite of productivity tools that can help people do their jobs better. It can help you study. It can help you understand complex concepts. It can help you shop for things online. Those are all interesting. I'm particularly very curious to see what they do with search when their search tool becomes more mature, and we can really see whether or not it's a challenge to this paradigm for search that has existed for almost 20 years at this point. Capital G. Google. Beyond that, I don't think that their tools are going to have an impact on society that is going to be a net positive. I think there is going to be enough strife in the job loss and in the theft of copyrighted work and in energy use and water use that are required to run all these complex models on the cloud computing data centers. Then of course, misinformation and deep fakes, which now are pretty easy to spot and are getting harder to spot, and within a couple of years will become indistinguishable from actual footage and actual news. I feel like as human beings on the internet, we are going to bear the brunt of these bad things that are coming. To your point, Lauren, as journalists, we are going to be collateral damage in this race to see who can create the model that does our jobs for us the best, and OpenAI is the leader there. This pursuit of profit without really looking at those problems head on sounds dangerous to me. We talked about earlier in the episode, Sam Altman has said that he encourages open debate and he encourages us as a society to decide what the boundaries of this technology should be. But I think that we're moving way too quickly and the debate is happening way too slowly. That feels like an avoidant stance to say, \"Oh, don't worry. We're going to figure it out as a collective.\" While at the same time you're pressing on the accelerator pedal as hard as you can to go as fast as possible and spend as much money as possible. Those things feel out of sync.",
"Zoë Schiffer: Yeah. He speaks very generally when he talks about how everyone should have a voice in these decisions regarding how AI is built and how it's governed. One thing when you mentioned job loss that it made me think of, and we've mentioned this on a previous podcast episode, is that Sam Altman is involved in universal basic income experiments. The idea that you give people a fixed amount of money every month, and hopefully that mitigates any job loss that's involved in your other projects.",
"Lauren Goode: I think that we're in this moment generally, technology and society, where we may be forced to let go of some of the institutions that we've relied on for the past few decades. Technologists are often the first people to jump on that and say, \"We have a better idea. We have a better solution. We have a better idea for government. We have a better idea for how people should get paid and make money. We have a better idea for how you should be doing your work and what can make you more productive. We have all these ideas.\" They're not always bad ideas, and at some point we do have to let go. Change happens. It's inevitable. What is it? It's not death and taxes. It's change and taxes. That's the inevitable. Also, death.",
"Zoë Schiffer: Lauren is part of the DOGE commission and she's coming for your institution.",
"Lauren Goode: Yes. But then you have to also identify the right people to affect that change. That is, I think, the question that we're asking. We're not asking are these bad ideas? We're asking who is Sam Altman? Is this the person who should be steering this change, and if not him, then who?",
"Zoë Schiffer: But Lauren, just to push back on that, he is the person. At a certain point, we're living in a fantasy if we three tech journalists are just sitting here talking about, should it be Sam? Should it not be? Well, he's doing it and it doesn't look like he's going away anytime soon, because the board was not in a real sense able to push him out despite the fact that it legally had that right. He's still CEO.",
"Lauren Goode: Yeah. He's entrenched at this point, and the company is entrenched simply just based on how much money is invested in them. There are a lot of stakeholders who absolutely are going to make sure that this company succeeds, no doubt. But also, if we're at the early-ish phase of generative AI in the way that other transformative technologies have had their early-ish stages, and then sometimes there are other people in companies that emerge that actually end up doing more.",
"Michael Calore: What we're hoping for is corrective forces.",
"Lauren Goode: Maybe. We'll see.",
"Zoë Schiffer: Okay. I stand corrected then. I feel like maybe it is worth having this discussion on who should lead it. We're early days still, I feel like. I lose sight of that sometimes.",
"Lauren Goode: That's okay. You may be right.",
"Zoë Schiffer: Because it feels like he's the dominant player.",
"Michael Calore: That's the best part about reporting on technology is that we're always in the early days of something,",
"Lauren Goode: I suppose so.",
"Michael Calore: All right. Well, that feels like as good of a place as any to end it. We've solved it. We should not trust Sam Altman, but we should trust the AI industry to self-correct.",
"Zoë Schiffer: Yeah. I think of this quote that Sam wrote on his blog many, many years ago, and he said, \"A big secret is that you can bend the world to your will a surprising percentage of the time, and most people don't even try. They just accept the way things as they are.\" I feel like that says a lot about him. It also makes me think, Lauren, to your point, that I've accepted, well, Sam Altman is just in charge, and that's just the reality. Well, maybe the world needs to bend things a little to our will in a democratic fashion, not let him just lead the new future.",
"Lauren Goode: Never succumb to inevitability.",
"Michael Calore: Now, that really is a good place to end it. That's our show for today. We'll be back next week with an episode about whether or not it's time to get off social media. Thanks for listening to Uncanny Valley. If you like what you heard today, make sure to follow our show and rate it on your podcast app of choice. If you'd like to get in touch with any of us to ask questions, leave comments, give us some show suggestions, you can write to us at [email protected]. Today's show is produced by Kyana Moghadam. Amar Lal at Macro Sound mixed this episode. Jordan Bell is our executive producer. Conde Nast's head of global audio is Chris Bannon."
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Johnnie Jackson: AFC Wimbledon boss charged with miscoduct by FA | AFC Wimbledon manager Johnnie Jackson has been charged with misconduct by the Football Association following his side's controversial 2-2 draw at home to Newport County.
Jackson was shown a red card by referee Lee Swabey for his protests after Newport were awarded a stoppage-time penalty for a foul by Huseyin Biler on Kyle Jameson.
Shane McLoughlin scored from the spot to earn a point for the visitors. The result meant the Dons, who had led 2-0, dropped out of the League Two play-off places.
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Colorado man gets 22 years in prison for kidnapping a woman from Michael Bloomberg's ranch | CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — A judge sentenced a man to 22 years in federal prison for kidnapping a woman from Michael Bloomberg’s Colorado ranch during what prosecutors said was a failed attempt to kill the media mogul.
Joseph Lee Beecher, 51, had faced up to life in prison after his August conviction by a jury on kidnapping, carjacking and firearm charges. He was sentenced on Thursday by U.S. District Judge Alan Johnson in Cheyenne and ordered to pay $5,306 restitution, according to court records.
The kidnapped woman, a housekeeper at Bloomberg’s western Colorado ranch, was rescued unharmed on the morning after the kidnapping. Authorities found her and Beecher in a motel room in Cheyenne, about 200 miles (320 kilometers) northeast of the Bloomberg property.
Beecher represented himself during his three day trial. He was returned to custody following the sentencing hearing and could not be reached immediately for comment. He was being held Friday at the Scotts Bluff County jail in Gering, Nebraska.
The kidnapping happened in February 2022, after Beecher was dismissed from his job as a hotel handyman in Craig, Colorado. Beecher broke into his employer’s home, stole two rifles including an AR-15 and went looking for Bloomberg, according to officials.
Beecher’s motivation for seeking Bloomberg was unclear but prosecutors said he was “intent” on killing the billionaire.
Later that day the defendant rammed his pickup truck through the gate of the former New York City mayor’s ranch about 70 miles (113 kilometers) from Craig, according to court documents.
But Bloomberg, who bought the ranch in 2020 for $44.8 million, was not there. The housekeeper, who didn’t know Beecher, was abducted at gunpoint and they drove in her husband’s truck first to the Denver area and then to Cheyenne.
Investigators traced the woman’s iPad to a motel where they saw the pickup truck. A SWAT team raided it, freeing the woman and arresting Beecher.
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I Flew Over an Erupting Icelandic Volcano in a Helicopter. Maybe You Can, Too | Volcanic eruptions are common in Iceland. Some helicopter tours allow visitors a close-up glimpse at the oozing magma.
My first day in Iceland this past August was clear and sunny, a vacationer’s dream. And it turned out to be a great day to squeeze in a sightseeing activity I hadn’t initially signed up to do: fly over the Reykjanes peninsula in a helicopter to get a top-down view of an active volcanic eruption, specifically Sundhnúksgígar.
Ryan Connolly from Hidden Iceland, a tour company who helped me organize my trip, suggested the last-minute helicopter ride because a volcano on the southwestern edge of the island had recently become active. Not wanting to miss the opportunity, I paid for the helicopter tour from my phone at 1 pm after having arrived in Iceland that morning at 6:15. After a brief nap at the hotel, I drove two hours to the meeting point, which is located 10 minutes from the city of Reykjavík, for a 7 pm flight that evening.
The helicopter seated six people total, including the pilot, with little wiggle room. Based on the heights and weights of me and my fellow passengers, I was strategically placed in the back-right of the helicopter. The cabin had glass windows from the roof to the floor so we could take in the full view of the landscape. We all put on headsets fitted with microphones, the only way we could communicate with one another over the noise of the helicopter’s thudding blades.
Within minutes of take-off, the pilot described the sights below, which at first included the city but soon became a vast, vacant, black land. As the helicopter dipped to the right, the erupting volcano came into full view with magma rising and sparking red and orange, a stark contrast to the black earth. We could see the magma ooze down the side, becoming thinner and more subdued as it moved farther down from the slope. The pilot circled the volcano a few times so passengers on the left and right each got a good look before flying to a nearby dormant volcano and explaining its history.
Safety Regulations
Jón Grétar Sigurðsson, owner of Atlantsflug, the helicopter touring company I used, explains that planning for these flights has become standard since the eruptions have become more common. “We fly in accordance with aviation regulations. Usually when an eruption starts, the area is closed for everybody. But now the Icelandic government has set up certain flight routes we follow and certain procedures, [including] distances of how close we can come and what altitude we have to stay at.”
When I arrived that evening, the flight before me had been delayed. So, I waited in the office with the other guests where we chatted, had coffee, and watched a live feed of the volcano.
Overall, there are two main reasons why a flight may be delayed or canceled. “Sometimes the area is closed to all operations because the government is doing some measurements,” says Sigurðsson. “Something that can happen without much notice. The weather can also be a factor, especially in the wintertime. If there is a delay on the first one or two flights, we have usually picked it up on the third flight to get on contract again.”
How They Monitor Volcanic Activity
According to Sigurðsson, the government in Iceland is tuned into the volcanic activity and is monitoring it constantly. “It's like a patient in constant care at the hospital,” he says. “I would say they're measuring very extensively and watch the lifting of the ground in millimeters. On the graph, we see when the eruption started and then the ground sinks down again. While the eruption is ongoing, and starts to climb up again, we know magma is collecting in the same chamber. I was showing the pilot this morning that there's a definite increase in the uplifting of the area, and it's a duplicate of what happened last time.”
Volcanic eruptions are a regular occurrence in Iceland and something Sigurðsson says they can expect for the next 30 to 100 years.
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Main road closed after three-car crash | One of Guernsey’s main roads was partially closed on Thursday after a crash involving three cars, police said.
Guernsey Police said officers and fire crews were called to the incident on Les Banques, near to the Halfway, shortly after 16:00 BST.
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The Future of TikTok Is Being Decided This Week | Depending on what a federal appeals court decides, TikTok’s fate might be left in the hands of president-elect Donald Trump.
Republicans and Democrats sank ungodly amounts of money into creating content for TikTok this election year, but there’s a chance the app might not be around in the US come next cycle. Or even president-elect Donald Trump’s inauguration in January.
Quickly, a refresher: President Joe Biden signed the Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act in April, creating the state of affairs we find ourselves in today. The law put in place a system that would ban TikTok if the app’s parent company, Bytedance, didn’t sell to a US-based owner by January 19, 2025. Once that deadline rolls around, the president can decide to extend it an additional 90 days. We’re supposed to find out by tomorrow if a federal appeals court will uphold the law requiring Bytedance to sell off its stake.
Soon, we’ll know whether the court will strike down the ban bill or if TikTok’s fate is left in the Trump administration’s hands.
Right now, two things stand in the way of this ban going into effect. First, the deadline. And second, a lawsuit. Shortly after the bill became law, TikTok sued the US government for violating the free speech protections of the company and its users by, effectively, banning the app. That’s the decision we’re waiting on this week.
It's not your average politics newsletter. Makena Kelly and the WIRED Politics team help you make sense of how the internet is shaping our political reality.
There are a few different outcomes that could play out. The court could agree with TikTok’s arguments and strike down the law on First Amendment grounds. If that were to happen, TikTok would be safe unless the Justice Department decides to appeal the decision to the Supreme Court or the full DC circuit. Even if the feds appealed, it could take months or years before the justices take up the case, leaving us in an even lengthier limbo.
The court could also uphold the law, setting TikTok up for an outright ban. But if the court sides with the Justice Department, the incoming Trump administration may still find a way to keep the app around.
In September, Trump posted to Truth Social, saying “FOR ALL OF THOSE THAT WANT TO SAVE TIK TOK IN AMERICA, VOTE TRUMP!” (caps his, not mine). “I’m a big star on TikTok,” he said in the attached video. It was an odd statement coming from the man who was the first president who tried to ban the app. But according to The Washington Post, the Trump administration now plans to find a way to halt any ban of TikTok once the president-elect takes office, though it hasn’t announced any official plans.
Trump warmed up to TikTok over the course of the election year, promising to protect the beloved app. One of the TikTok’s biggest investors, billionaire Jeff Yass, was also one of Trump’s biggest donors. He also used it to his advantage: Over the summer, Trump joined TikTok and racked up millions of followers and collabs with popular streamers that played a huge role in his campaign’s appeal to young voters. His many podcast appearances with people like Joe Rogan, the Nelk Boys, and Andrew Schultz were also clipped and shared in bite-size pieces throughout the app.
More than 170 million Americans use TikTok, according to the most recent numbers shared by the company. Only 32 percent of Americans support a TikTok ban, according to a recent Pew survey. When a similar study was conducted in May 2023, 50 percent of Americans supported it.
Trump’s inauguration is scheduled for January 20, the day after the deadline to give TikTok more time to find a buyer. I’d bet that Biden would decide to extend it, making TikTok’s future Trump’s problem, but the current president hasn’t given any signals on what he could do. The White House did not respond to a request for comment from WIRED.
While Trump may have won TikTok this cycle, Democrats don’t see the app as a lost cause. In fact, the Democratic strategists I’ve spoken to have argued that a presence on the app is more necessary than ever.
“I’m against the ban. Not only will it hurt us with younger voters, it will eliminate a channel where Democrats can compete to get their message out,” says Ryan Davis, cofounder and chief operating officer at People First, a political influencer and relational marketing firm that partnered with the Biden and Harris campaigns. “Trump may have won TikTok in 2024, but it’s a channel Democrats demographically should be highly competitive on.”
I genuinely have no idea whether TikTok will come out on top this week. When oral arguments were presented in September, the judges didn’t sound too sold on the idea that the law was, well, unlawful. More likely than not, we’ll still be stuck in this limbo of not knowing whether we’ll be able to scroll and watch important and groundbreaking content like this.
The Chatroom
What do you think? Is there still reason to believe TikTok poses a threat to US national security? Even if that’s true, is this bill the best way to protect the app’s US users from foreign surveillance? Personally, I’ve always thought the law was a dud. If the Chinese government really wanted my data, they could easily buy it off some shady broker online.
Send your thoughts to [email protected].
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What Else We’re Reading
🔗 Six Hours Under Martial Law in Seoul: Verge editor Sarah Jeong found herself in the middle of history this week when visiting Seoul. In the early hours of Tuesday morning, she witnessed protests against martial law … incredibly blitzed. (The Verge)
🔗 How the Supreme Court’s Transgender Care Case Could Reverberate Across Health Care: The Supreme Court heard arguments in United States v. Skrmetti on Wednesday that could determine the future of trans health care in America. It could also have trickle down effects on other health care issues like abortion rights. (Stat)
🔗 Professor Apologizes for Using Fake AI-Generated Citations in Defense of Minnesota’s Unconstitutional Deepfake Law: Minnesota is on the verge of adopting a new law outlawing deepfakes, and one of the state’s main witnesses was caught using the same tools to offer a defense of the rules. The hypocrisy is hilarious enough, but the chatbot completely made up some of the cited research as well. (Techdirt)
The Download
On this week's WIRED Politics Lab podcast, Leah spoke with WIRED security and investigations editor Andrew Couts and business editor Louise Matsakis about protecting yourself from government surveillance. There’s a lot of helpful tips in there, go listen.
It was a big week for big interviews at WIRED! Check out coverage from our event in San Francisco this week. And don’t miss Steven Levy’s killer interview with Apple CEO Tim Cook on our YouTube channel here.
Plus, one thing our polarized nation can agree on.
That’s it for today—thanks again for subscribing. You can get in touch with me via email, Instagram, X, and Signal at makenakelly.32. | {
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"Trump’s inauguration is scheduled for January 20, the day after the deadline to give TikTok more time to find a buyer. I’d bet that Biden would decide to extend it, making TikTok’s future Trump’s problem, but the current president hasn’t given any signals on what he could do. The White House did not respond to a request for comment from WIRED.",
"While Trump may have won TikTok this cycle, Democrats don’t see the app as a lost cause. In fact, the Democratic strategists I’ve spoken to have argued that a presence on the app is more necessary than ever.",
"“I’m against the ban. Not only will it hurt us with younger voters, it will eliminate a channel where Democrats can compete to get their message out,” says Ryan Davis, cofounder and chief operating officer at People First, a political influencer and relational marketing firm that partnered with the Biden and Harris campaigns. “Trump may have won TikTok in 2024, but it’s a channel Democrats demographically should be highly competitive on.”",
"I genuinely have no idea whether TikTok will come out on top this week. When oral arguments were presented in September, the judges didn’t sound too sold on the idea that the law was, well, unlawful. More likely than not, we’ll still be stuck in this limbo of not knowing whether we’ll be able to scroll and watch important and groundbreaking content like this."
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"🔗 How the Supreme Court’s Transgender Care Case Could Reverberate Across Health Care: The Supreme Court heard arguments in United States v. Skrmetti on Wednesday that could determine the future of trans health care in America. It could also have trickle down effects on other health care issues like abortion rights. (Stat)",
"🔗 Professor Apologizes for Using Fake AI-Generated Citations in Defense of Minnesota’s Unconstitutional Deepfake Law: Minnesota is on the verge of adopting a new law outlawing deepfakes, and one of the state’s main witnesses was caught using the same tools to offer a defense of the rules. The hypocrisy is hilarious enough, but the chatbot completely made up some of the cited research as well. (Techdirt)"
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"It was a big week for big interviews at WIRED! Check out coverage from our event in San Francisco this week. And don’t miss Steven Levy’s killer interview with Apple CEO Tim Cook on our YouTube channel here.",
"Plus, one thing our polarized nation can agree on.",
"That’s it for today—thanks again for subscribing. You can get in touch with me via email, Instagram, X, and Signal at makenakelly.32."
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Coastal Carolina takes on Jacksonville State following Brooks' 20-point performance | Jacksonville State Gamecocks (4-2) at Coastal Carolina Chanticleers (5-1)
Conway, South Carolina; Saturday, 1 p.m. EST
BOTTOM LINE: Coastal Carolina faces Jacksonville State after Savannah Brooks scored 20 points in Coastal Carolina’s 82-63 victory over the Coker Cobras.
The Chanticleers have gone 3-0 at home. Coastal Carolina ranks fifth in the Sun Belt at limiting opponent scoring, allowing 62.0 points while holding opponents to 40.6% shooting.
The Gamecocks are 1-2 in road games.
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Thirlwall Inquiry: NHS whistleblowers say concerns get ignored | Nearly a third of NHS employees who called a whistleblowing charity said concerns they raised were ignored, the public inquiry into the crimes of Lucy Letby has heard.
Consultant paediatricians had voiced fears that the nurse was deliberately harming babies on the neonatal unit at the Countess of Chester Hospital.
Letby was redeployed to a non-clinical role in July 2016 but the medics continued to speak out as hospital executives later planned to return Letby to the unit.
Sybille Raphael, legal director of Protect, said NHS staff felt raising concerns was "like throwing a pebble in a dark hole", adding: "It's completely pointless."
The Thirlwall Inquiry, which is examining Letby's crimes, has previously heard Letby had launched a grievance against her transfer, and that it was upheld later that year.
But the serial killer, originally from Hereford, never went back as Cheshire Constabulary was asked in May 2017 to investigate the increased number of infant deaths on the unit.
Former chief executive Tony Chambers previously denied to the Thirlwall Inquiry that he had sought to "ruin the careers" of consultants Dr Ravi Jayaram and Dr Stephen Brearey after they brought the concerns to his attention.
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Giving evidence to the inquiry, Ms Raphael said 31% of healthcare workers from the NHS who rang the campaign group had said their concerns had been ignored.
She said: "Ignored means not even investigated, ignored means no-one has done anything about it.
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She added that 62% of NHS callers to Protect said they were punished for speaking out.
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Letby, 34, is serving 15 whole-life orders after being convicted of murdering seven babies and attempting to murder seven others between June 2015 and June 2016, with two attempts on one baby's life.
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The Best Gifts for the Beverage Enthusiast in Your Life (2024) | Our favorite WIRED-tested giftable gadgets for everything from water and coffee to wine and cocktails.
Cocktails, coffee, and cola—the beverage trifecta. Your loved one who’s always talking about the latest in one or all three of these lovely liquids may just be the easiest person to buy a gift for this holiday season. You’re just searching for some inspiration. They’re that person who prides themselves on being the go-to bartender for every party you throw. Maybe they’re practicing the art of pulling the perfect espresso shot, or perhaps they’re obsessed with staying hydrated at all hours of the day.
From drinkware that makes your drinks more aesthetically appealing to high-tech gadgets that boost the efficiency of your kitchen routines, there’s a panoply of gifts you can get for the beverage enthusiast in your life. I gathered some of my favorites from the past year, some of which are tried-and-true essentials and others which are more experimental.
For more inspiration, check out some of our other kitchen-related gift guides, including barbecue and hot sauce subscriptions and options for coffee lovers and home chefs.
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Barware
When I smoke a cocktail, my priority is to make sure I’m not adding anything toxic to my drink (many cocktail smokers are coated in polyurethane). Smokeshow makes a great smoker, first because it's made of walnut wood and coated in a natural beeswax. The holes in the side help fill your glass with smoke quicker than others do and help the wood chips last longer. The starter set comes with a walnut spoon to scoop your wood chips and a stainless steel wire brush to clean the mesh basket. If you buy from Smokeshow's website you can also get a torch with a can of butane that lasts for hundreds of cocktails. This torch is strong, which helps push the smoke down. Smokeshow also sells a wide range of wood chips, including savory blends like rosemary or sweet aromas like grapefruit peel and maple—all sourced in America. You receive four tins in this set, but you can purchase many more individually if you know the person you’re gifting enjoys particular smoky scents.
This is the perfect gift for the beginner bartender who needs to stock up on the essentials to get started. (If you're looking for more, check out our guide to the Best Cocktail Gear.) This set includes good-quality tools your giftee will be excited to start using. That includes the most basic of basics, like a shaker. I like using a Boston shaker, which consists of a large and small tin to shake your cocktails. These ones have a proper shape around the edges that gives them a solid seal while also making them easier to crack open once they’re cold and ready to pour. The set also includes essential tools like a muddler, Hawthorne strainer, mixing spoon, and jigger. Where this set goes the extra mile is by including a set of rocks glasses and a crystal mixing glass. Flair is an important aspect of bartending, and these allow you to really show off your presentation. For the cherry on top (literally), six garnish picks are included in this set, which many professional bartenders don’t even use. Everything is packaged in a sturdy, padded box, which makes the whole set wonderfully giftable.
The Rocco Super Smart Fridge (7/10, WIRED Recommends) has taken the internet by storm this year. I’ve loved being able to include a huge variety of drinks in my living space in a way that’s fashionable and practical. The mini-fridge is pristinely engineered, and I love the fluted-glass door. There are six pull-out racks that allow you to fit dozens of cans and bottles like a puzzle. It also connects to your phone with a corresponding app that shows you everything you’re storing inside so that you can see what you’re running low on when you’re at the grocery store. There are also a few energy-saving modes, in addition to changing the temperature and lights, all of which you can control from the app. The company just released a green color and a limited-edition cream color with gold hardware.
Drinkware
Any coffee lover will squeal when opening a box of Flur glassware. Designed by coffee influencer Ethan Rode, Flur’s primary feature is that the glasses are double-walled and transparent, which allows you to hold the cup without burning your hand or changing the temperature of the coffee while still seeing exactly what you’re sipping. The bulb at the bottom of the glasses makes drinking coffee out of these a vivid experience to match the caffeine inside. They come in four sizes: the smallest for espresso and the tallest glass for iced coffee. The colors are also a way you can personalize the gift further, with options like teal, amber, purple, smoke, and clear.
Viski makes inspired glassware at a price that says you’re purchasing a quality product but is still affordable. One of my favorite glassware sets is the Bodega six-piece stackable glasses. They’re just so charming and minimalist. I like to drink wine out of these. It’s an interesting way to switch up the standard routine of a standard bulbed wine glass. I’ve also been using these angled rocks glasses. I don’t typically like rocks glasses that have so many patterns and carvings on them, and these give some extra personality while remaining smooth and classy.
The smooth, slightly matte finish on Myrth’s porcelain drinkware makes it feel cozy in your hands. The drinkware and all of its kitchen products come in a variety of subdued colors and earth tones. I love the “swig” cups. They fit 8 ounces of liquid—enough for a small cup of coffee, an espresso, or anything else that you just want a quick sip from. Myrth also carries more standard-sized mugs with handles and adorable sake cups. There’s a warmth exuded in Myrth’s ceramic products that makes them feel so appropriate for the fall and winter.
Coffee and Tea
This professional home espresso machine will make anyone’s jaw drop when unboxing it. The design is both classic yet innovative. To start, this is a semiautomatic machine for the espresso enthusiast who already knows how to use an espresso machine. If you’re looking for an espresso machine for someone who’s less experienced, you can browse WIRED’s guide to the Best Espresso Machines for suggestions. Ascaso, a Spanish company, designed this machine’s counter appeal magnificently, with carbon and stainless steel along with a wooden portafilter handle and steam knob. It’s engineered with two thermacoils that allow you to steam your milk and pull a shot simultaneously. There’s also a spout for hot water which you can use by itself for tea or the like. The machine also includes a shot timer and heats up much faster than many others. It comes in black, white, and “inox” (looks like stainless steel) and includes a stainless steel tamper and a converter for American outlets.
Swedish kitchen tech company Aarke is introducing itself into the coffee business this holiday season with a countertop showstopper. The Aarke Coffee System includes a grinder and a drip coffee maker, although you also have the option to buy each individually if you don’t need both. While the futuristic design makes it look like a science experiment (it’s a major conversation starter), it's very straightforward to use. The grinder has modes for a manual or automatic grind. When it comes to the drip coffee maker, you’re brewing a lovely pot of coffee that makes up to 10 cups. One downside is that it doesn’t come with a filter, so you need to either use paper coffee filters or purchase a reusable one separately. I ordered this one from Amazon, which fits well, works perfectly, and matches the stainless steel aesthetic.
Verve is an increasingly popular craft coffee brand, so it’s no surprise that it’s launching its first branded gadget this holiday season, the Dwell Dripper pour-over system. It’s made of a soft, BPA-free silicone that makes it easy to travel with and rids you of any worry that you may break it. Most of all, it helps you brew a perky cup of coffee. It’s designed really well in a way that lifts the coffee filter, giving some breathing room between the device and the filter. It comes with a scoop for your beans and you can also purchase the corresponding small coffee filters directly on Verve’s website. While you can use the pour-over dripper directly on top of your mug, you can also use it on top of a carafe to brew multiple servings. I’ve been using this one, which sits perfectly flush under the Dwell Dripper.
Gifting someone a handheld milk frother will completely change their morning coffee routine. Wired milk frothers are more common to come across—for more options check out our guide to the Best Milk Frothers—but I like Subminimal’s frother because it uses a screen instead, which feels sturdier, so it should last much longer. I have found this one adds more texture to the milk. This frother has two speed settings. Whether you’re using it to make latte art, or just want some thick, bubbly foam on top of your iced or hot coffee, it’s one of the easiest ways to elevate your home coffee game. This version is lithium, so you charge it by plugging it into the wall, but there’s also a cheaper version that takes batteries.
When it comes to brewing fresh matcha, Jugetsudo’s starter set is a great for someone interested in deepening their relationship with the traditional Japanese tea. The packaging here will wow anyone who receives this. The authentic woven bamboo whets your appetite for what’s inside. I wouldn’t even wrap it in wrapping paper. The set comes with all the essential matcha classics: a bamboo whisk, tea scoop, handmade whisking bowl, and a tin of ceremonial-grade organic matcha. Jugetsudo has been around since the mid-1800s and has tea houses in the Tsukiji and Ginza districts of Tokyo as well as Paris. You can always elevate the gift a bit more by adding some a la carte matcha from Jugetsudo’s illustrious line of teas here.
For a classy coffee concentrate experience that gives the appeal of wine tasting, Kloo is really the best option out there. The tasting sets are probably your best bet for gifting. Kloo is different from other cold coffee concentrates because each roast is specialty-grade and selected by a Q-grader, which is the coffee equivalent of a sommelier. These aren’t exactly like the cold brew concentrates that are increasingly popular in grocery stores. On each bottle, you’ll see a stamp noting when each batch was brewed. This set also comes with a variety of coffee bean origins like Kenya and Guatemala. The packaging is the most upscale I’ve ever come across in this category. The mint green boxes, in addition to the rounded square glass bottles with a weighted metal cap, heighten the gifting appeal. The set even comes with a jigger to mimic a bartending experience. Kloo works for hot or iced coffee. You can purchase the tasting set in mini 100-milliliter bottles or standard 8-ounce bottles, or you can get a subscription plan.
At last, an instant coffee that’s more than just OK and instead truly tastes like the real thing. Diamond Brew has a proprietary freeze-dry process that locks in the coffee flavor better than pretty much any other instant coffee. What makes Diamond Brew different too is its recyclable pods. You just tear it open, pour the shards in a glass, and add hot or cold water. Within just a few seconds, you have a really bold coffee with 160 milligrams of caffeine—more than a double shot of espresso. You’ll feel it. This is great for travel but also for when you’re at home and not in the mood to brew a fresh pot but need caffeine right away. Plus, it comes in a sleek box that makes it a gifting gem.
Wine
Vinalia is a great gift because it’s not your typical wine brand. Vinalia works with winemakers and vineyards from all over the world to produce rare wines from grapes that you don’t always see on store shelves. Instead, you’ll receive wines like a Macedonian Vranec, a Greek Moschofilero, and an Italian Rosso Piceno. Yep, those are real types of wines. Vinalia makes the selection process easy, because it can be tricky to navigate these unfamiliar wine varieties. You can choose packs of curated collections or packs for certain holidays or occasions, or purchase a bimonthly subscription. Of course if you know what you’re looking for, you can also purchase individual bottles from a vast amount of interesting regions around the world. Any true wine lover would get excited opening a box of these small-batch wines from underutilized terrains.
This one’s a fun stocking stuffer. I personally prefer wine keys to uncork bottles of wine (for more options, check out our complete guide to the Best Corkscrews), but this is a perfect corkscrew for someone who doesn’t like putting in all the manpower and just wants to get to the wine as fast as possible. This corkscrew from Viski is very sturdy and has a substantial weight to it. The gunmetal metallic exterior gives it great gifting appeal. Opening a bottle of wine with this corkscrew is smooth as can be. From inserting the screw into the cork and pulling it back up, it’s almost as if it’s lubricated. It’s butter.
Water and Ice
Lots of establishments that rely on water as a primary ingredient, like pizza shops or cafés, install reverse osmosis systems to obtain the most purified water possible for the best-quality outcome possible. But it’s not exclusive to commercial use. If the person you're gifting is handy and wouldn’t mind some plumbing, Waterdrop has some options to install a reverse osmosis water system directly into your kitchen sink. If not, you can also get one of its countertop reverse osmosis water purifiers like the A1 model. There are several models, but this one allows you to dispense both hot and cold water. It doesn’t connect to a water source; you fill the back tank up with tap water. Lots of water filters really don’t do a great job at filtering. Some people also find drinking tap water questionable, so this is a clean and techy way to hydrate.
This one’s our pick for Best Overall Soda Maker. Sodastream’s highest-quality soda maker, Enso, is extremely streamlined. It comes with a hard plastic bottle, which you just input into the wand once you fill it with water and push to lock it in place. You can do it with one hand. Then you just push lightly on the top of the stainless steel gadget and carbonate it to your preferential bubbling. It could not be easier. I don’t even buy seltzer anymore—I just use this. The starter pack comes with one CO2 canister. For gifting, it could be thoughtful to include an extra canister or two, as it can run out of gas pretty quickly if it’s used a lot. You can also purchase individual beverage mixers to add to your newly carbonated water, like Pepsi and Mountain Dew, and Sodastream’s own brand of cherry cola, ginger ale, root beer, lemonade, and lots of other flavors.
The obsession with chewable nugget ice is real. Charming, convenient, and practical. I love it for my lattes, soda, and certain cocktails. The person in your life who also claims the obsession will love you forever if you gift them this. It’s the most robust one on the market. It creates a whole bucket's worth of that perfect pebble ice in minutes. The only thing I don’t like about this is that you need to flip the side tank upside down to fill water into it, which can get a little wet when flipping it back upright. The Opal can also connect to your phone through Wi-Fi, which allows you to schedule your ice-making and use voice control through Alexa and Google. There are three models: one with a 1-gallon side tank, one with a .75-gallon side tank, and one with no tank at all. That one uses water from the built-in reservoir only, which may be a good choice if you’re concerned about counter space. The product comes with an ice scoop that slaps onto the side of the machine through a strong magnet.
The Klaris Clear Ice Maker (8/10, WIRED Recommends) is an incredibly thoughtful gift for someone looking to take their home bartending game to the next level. Rather than cloudy rocks of ice for a drink like an old-fashioned, the Klaris allows you to elevate the cocktail with a crystal-clear cube. You won’t even be able to see the ice once you pour your liquid in the glass. It's like magic. The Klaris could not be much simpler to use. You just pour tap water into the silicone mold provided, place it in the machine, and press start. In eight to 12 hours, you can harvest your clear ice. It’s a niche product, but bartenders know how important clear ice is to achieving a stellar cocktail. It provides a classy aesthetic in addition to practical purposes like not adding any impurities from cloudy ice and slower melting. You can’t achieve clear ice with a standard silicone ice mold in your freezer because that doesn’t allow for directional freezing and agitation, both of which the Klaris provide. You can also purchase additional storage containers to store extra ice in the freezer. You’re also supporting small businesses by buying a Klaris—it’s made by an engineer in Minnesota.
On the Go
Who doesn’t want a Yeti cooler? The cream of the crop when it comes to coolers, Yeti has pristinely engineered every nook and cranny to simplify and facilitate your outdoor adventures, from a beach day, a weekend camping trip, or just your kid’s Little League game. I like Yeti's rover model because the adjustable handle makes it so insanely easy to roll around what’s otherwise pretty heavy when it’s full of ice (the 60 holds 68 pounds of ice alone). The wheels on this thing are incredible. When you’re rolling the cooler around, you barely feel any bumps on the ground. Such a smooth experience. You can also buy the smaller wheeled models, the 32—as seen in our guide to the Best Coolers—and the 40. All of them come with a basket to store dry goods in the cooler that you don’t want to get in contact with the ice. Have fun with all the colors, too!
Packing food and beverages for a camping trip can often be the trickiest part of the planning process. VSSL’s portable pour-over set is an ergonomic solution to brew fresh coffee at your campsite or during a road trip. You’ll still have to plan a way to heat up your water, but this set includes two mugs, a pour-over vessel, and a mesh filter that all screw on top of each other for easy traveling. You could even pack this if you’re not camping but staying at a hotel somewhere and don’t want to rely on potentially questionable hotel coffee. VSSL also carries a nifty handheld coffee bean grinder if you want to really bring the portable coffee adventure to the next level and round out the gift. For more ideas, check out our guide to the Best Gifts for Coffee Lovers.
Deemed Best for Traveling in our guide to the Best Soda Makers, this one’s for the person who always chooses sparkling water over still. The Aerflo Aer1 is a sturdy water bottle that allows you to carbonate your H2O all by yourself on the go. It comes with a pack of small carbonation capsules that you place inside the tube attached to the cap of the bottle. Then you just push the top of it and the bubbles start flowing. The bottom half of the bottle has a stainless steel casing which helps keep your liquid chilled for longer. The kit comes with 15 of the small capsules along with a silicone case to carry a few of them plus a mailing label to send them back for recycling once they’re out of gas. If you buy from Aerflo's website you can personalize the bottle by getting someone’s initials engraved onto it, which would be such a thoughtful gesture for a gift. | {
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"The Rocco Super Smart Fridge (7/10, WIRED Recommends) has taken the internet by storm this year. I’ve loved being able to include a huge variety of drinks in my living space in a way that’s fashionable and practical. The mini-fridge is pristinely engineered, and I love the fluted-glass door. There are six pull-out racks that allow you to fit dozens of cans and bottles like a puzzle. It also connects to your phone with a corresponding app that shows you everything you’re storing inside so that you can see what you’re running low on when you’re at the grocery store. There are also a few energy-saving modes, in addition to changing the temperature and lights, all of which you can control from the app. The company just released a green color and a limited-edition cream color with gold hardware."
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"Viski makes inspired glassware at a price that says you’re purchasing a quality product but is still affordable. One of my favorite glassware sets is the Bodega six-piece stackable glasses. They’re just so charming and minimalist. I like to drink wine out of these. It’s an interesting way to switch up the standard routine of a standard bulbed wine glass. I’ve also been using these angled rocks glasses. I don’t typically like rocks glasses that have so many patterns and carvings on them, and these give some extra personality while remaining smooth and classy.",
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"This professional home espresso machine will make anyone’s jaw drop when unboxing it. The design is both classic yet innovative. To start, this is a semiautomatic machine for the espresso enthusiast who already knows how to use an espresso machine. If you’re looking for an espresso machine for someone who’s less experienced, you can browse WIRED’s guide to the Best Espresso Machines for suggestions. Ascaso, a Spanish company, designed this machine’s counter appeal magnificently, with carbon and stainless steel along with a wooden portafilter handle and steam knob. It’s engineered with two thermacoils that allow you to steam your milk and pull a shot simultaneously. There’s also a spout for hot water which you can use by itself for tea or the like. The machine also includes a shot timer and heats up much faster than many others. It comes in black, white, and “inox” (looks like stainless steel) and includes a stainless steel tamper and a converter for American outlets.",
"Swedish kitchen tech company Aarke is introducing itself into the coffee business this holiday season with a countertop showstopper. The Aarke Coffee System includes a grinder and a drip coffee maker, although you also have the option to buy each individually if you don’t need both. While the futuristic design makes it look like a science experiment (it’s a major conversation starter), it's very straightforward to use. The grinder has modes for a manual or automatic grind. When it comes to the drip coffee maker, you’re brewing a lovely pot of coffee that makes up to 10 cups. One downside is that it doesn’t come with a filter, so you need to either use paper coffee filters or purchase a reusable one separately. I ordered this one from Amazon, which fits well, works perfectly, and matches the stainless steel aesthetic.",
"Verve is an increasingly popular craft coffee brand, so it’s no surprise that it’s launching its first branded gadget this holiday season, the Dwell Dripper pour-over system. It’s made of a soft, BPA-free silicone that makes it easy to travel with and rids you of any worry that you may break it. Most of all, it helps you brew a perky cup of coffee. It’s designed really well in a way that lifts the coffee filter, giving some breathing room between the device and the filter. It comes with a scoop for your beans and you can also purchase the corresponding small coffee filters directly on Verve’s website. While you can use the pour-over dripper directly on top of your mug, you can also use it on top of a carafe to brew multiple servings. I’ve been using this one, which sits perfectly flush under the Dwell Dripper.",
"Gifting someone a handheld milk frother will completely change their morning coffee routine. Wired milk frothers are more common to come across—for more options check out our guide to the Best Milk Frothers—but I like Subminimal’s frother because it uses a screen instead, which feels sturdier, so it should last much longer. I have found this one adds more texture to the milk. This frother has two speed settings. Whether you’re using it to make latte art, or just want some thick, bubbly foam on top of your iced or hot coffee, it’s one of the easiest ways to elevate your home coffee game. This version is lithium, so you charge it by plugging it into the wall, but there’s also a cheaper version that takes batteries.",
"When it comes to brewing fresh matcha, Jugetsudo’s starter set is a great for someone interested in deepening their relationship with the traditional Japanese tea. The packaging here will wow anyone who receives this. The authentic woven bamboo whets your appetite for what’s inside. I wouldn’t even wrap it in wrapping paper. The set comes with all the essential matcha classics: a bamboo whisk, tea scoop, handmade whisking bowl, and a tin of ceremonial-grade organic matcha. Jugetsudo has been around since the mid-1800s and has tea houses in the Tsukiji and Ginza districts of Tokyo as well as Paris. You can always elevate the gift a bit more by adding some a la carte matcha from Jugetsudo’s illustrious line of teas here.",
"For a classy coffee concentrate experience that gives the appeal of wine tasting, Kloo is really the best option out there. The tasting sets are probably your best bet for gifting. Kloo is different from other cold coffee concentrates because each roast is specialty-grade and selected by a Q-grader, which is the coffee equivalent of a sommelier. These aren’t exactly like the cold brew concentrates that are increasingly popular in grocery stores. On each bottle, you’ll see a stamp noting when each batch was brewed. This set also comes with a variety of coffee bean origins like Kenya and Guatemala. The packaging is the most upscale I’ve ever come across in this category. The mint green boxes, in addition to the rounded square glass bottles with a weighted metal cap, heighten the gifting appeal. The set even comes with a jigger to mimic a bartending experience. Kloo works for hot or iced coffee. You can purchase the tasting set in mini 100-milliliter bottles or standard 8-ounce bottles, or you can get a subscription plan.",
"At last, an instant coffee that’s more than just OK and instead truly tastes like the real thing. Diamond Brew has a proprietary freeze-dry process that locks in the coffee flavor better than pretty much any other instant coffee. What makes Diamond Brew different too is its recyclable pods. You just tear it open, pour the shards in a glass, and add hot or cold water. Within just a few seconds, you have a really bold coffee with 160 milligrams of caffeine—more than a double shot of espresso. You’ll feel it. This is great for travel but also for when you’re at home and not in the mood to brew a fresh pot but need caffeine right away. Plus, it comes in a sleek box that makes it a gifting gem."
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"This one’s a fun stocking stuffer. I personally prefer wine keys to uncork bottles of wine (for more options, check out our complete guide to the Best Corkscrews), but this is a perfect corkscrew for someone who doesn’t like putting in all the manpower and just wants to get to the wine as fast as possible. This corkscrew from Viski is very sturdy and has a substantial weight to it. The gunmetal metallic exterior gives it great gifting appeal. Opening a bottle of wine with this corkscrew is smooth as can be. From inserting the screw into the cork and pulling it back up, it’s almost as if it’s lubricated. It’s butter."
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"This one’s our pick for Best Overall Soda Maker. Sodastream’s highest-quality soda maker, Enso, is extremely streamlined. It comes with a hard plastic bottle, which you just input into the wand once you fill it with water and push to lock it in place. You can do it with one hand. Then you just push lightly on the top of the stainless steel gadget and carbonate it to your preferential bubbling. It could not be easier. I don’t even buy seltzer anymore—I just use this. The starter pack comes with one CO2 canister. For gifting, it could be thoughtful to include an extra canister or two, as it can run out of gas pretty quickly if it’s used a lot. You can also purchase individual beverage mixers to add to your newly carbonated water, like Pepsi and Mountain Dew, and Sodastream’s own brand of cherry cola, ginger ale, root beer, lemonade, and lots of other flavors.",
"The obsession with chewable nugget ice is real. Charming, convenient, and practical. I love it for my lattes, soda, and certain cocktails. The person in your life who also claims the obsession will love you forever if you gift them this. It’s the most robust one on the market. It creates a whole bucket's worth of that perfect pebble ice in minutes. The only thing I don’t like about this is that you need to flip the side tank upside down to fill water into it, which can get a little wet when flipping it back upright. The Opal can also connect to your phone through Wi-Fi, which allows you to schedule your ice-making and use voice control through Alexa and Google. There are three models: one with a 1-gallon side tank, one with a .75-gallon side tank, and one with no tank at all. That one uses water from the built-in reservoir only, which may be a good choice if you’re concerned about counter space. The product comes with an ice scoop that slaps onto the side of the machine through a strong magnet.",
"The Klaris Clear Ice Maker (8/10, WIRED Recommends) is an incredibly thoughtful gift for someone looking to take their home bartending game to the next level. Rather than cloudy rocks of ice for a drink like an old-fashioned, the Klaris allows you to elevate the cocktail with a crystal-clear cube. You won’t even be able to see the ice once you pour your liquid in the glass. It's like magic. The Klaris could not be much simpler to use. You just pour tap water into the silicone mold provided, place it in the machine, and press start. In eight to 12 hours, you can harvest your clear ice. It’s a niche product, but bartenders know how important clear ice is to achieving a stellar cocktail. It provides a classy aesthetic in addition to practical purposes like not adding any impurities from cloudy ice and slower melting. You can’t achieve clear ice with a standard silicone ice mold in your freezer because that doesn’t allow for directional freezing and agitation, both of which the Klaris provide. You can also purchase additional storage containers to store extra ice in the freezer. You’re also supporting small businesses by buying a Klaris—it’s made by an engineer in Minnesota."
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"Packing food and beverages for a camping trip can often be the trickiest part of the planning process. VSSL’s portable pour-over set is an ergonomic solution to brew fresh coffee at your campsite or during a road trip. You’ll still have to plan a way to heat up your water, but this set includes two mugs, a pour-over vessel, and a mesh filter that all screw on top of each other for easy traveling. You could even pack this if you’re not camping but staying at a hotel somewhere and don’t want to rely on potentially questionable hotel coffee. VSSL also carries a nifty handheld coffee bean grinder if you want to really bring the portable coffee adventure to the next level and round out the gift. For more ideas, check out our guide to the Best Gifts for Coffee Lovers.",
"Deemed Best for Traveling in our guide to the Best Soda Makers, this one’s for the person who always chooses sparkling water over still. The Aerflo Aer1 is a sturdy water bottle that allows you to carbonate your H2O all by yourself on the go. It comes with a pack of small carbonation capsules that you place inside the tube attached to the cap of the bottle. Then you just push the top of it and the bubbles start flowing. The bottom half of the bottle has a stainless steel casing which helps keep your liquid chilled for longer. The kit comes with 15 of the small capsules along with a silicone case to carry a few of them plus a mailing label to send them back for recycling once they’re out of gas. If you buy from Aerflo's website you can personalize the bottle by getting someone’s initials engraved onto it, which would be such a thoughtful gesture for a gift."
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Winning numbers drawn in Friday’s Pennsylvania Pick 4 Evening | The winning numbers in Friday evening’s drawing of the “Pennsylvania Pick 4 Evening” game were:
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£300,000 i ymgyrch gymunedol adfywio Ysgol Abersoch | Mae ymgyrch i droi hen ysgol bentref yng Ngwynedd a gaeodd ei drysau dair blynedd yn ôl yn ganolfan gymunedol wedi derbyn arian er mwyn gallu parhau â'r nod.
Yn dilyn misoedd o ymgyrchu, mae Menter Rabar wedi derbyn £298,340 gan Raglen Cyfleusterau Cymunedol, Llywodraeth Cymru er mwyn adfywio hen ysgol fabanod Abersoch at ddiben y pentref a'r cymunedau cyfagos.
Dywedodd y grŵp bod y swm yn golygu bod modd dechrau ar y gwaith, ond eu bod yn gobeithio denu mwy o gyllid i wireddu'r cynllun yn llwyr.
Wrth siarad â Cymru Fyw, dywedodd Einir Wyn, ysgrifennydd y fenter ei bod yn "hynod o falch" fod y fenter wedi derbyn yr arian ac yn "edrych ymlaen" at weld yr adeilad yn cael ei ddefnyddio gan y gymuned leol.
Wrth edrych ymlaen at y camau nesaf, dywedodd eu bod "mewn proses o drosglwyddo'r les gyda'r cyngor, 'da ni'n gobeithio bydd hynny wedi cwblhau tua Chwefror fel y medrwn ni ddechrau adnewyddu'r ysgol".
Wrth sôn am y broses o ymgyrchu, dywedodd fod y criw wedi cael gwybod eleni fod Cyngor Gwynedd yn "cytuno mewn egwyddor i drosglwyddo'r safle ar les o 99 mlynedd ar yr amod bod ni'n gallu sicrhau caniatâd cynllunio a'r cyllid".
"Da ni wedi gweithio'n galed fel criw bach," meddai, gan ychwanegu eu bod wedi parhau i gynnal digwyddiadau yn y misoedd diwethaf er mwyn "codi ymwybyddiaeth pawb ac i gael cyfraniadau".
Gydag Abersoch yn adnabyddus fel cyrchfan i dwristiaid ond hefyd â chyfran uchel o ail gartrefi, roedd pryder byddai cau'r ysgol yn cael effaith negyddol ar yr iaith Gymraeg.
Cafodd y criw wybod eu bod wedi derbyn yr arian ddydd Mawrth diwethaf.
Mae'r criw hefyd yn gobeithio gwneud dau gais arall am gyllid pellach er mwyn gallu gwireddu'r cynllun yn ei gyfanrwydd.
Gyda'r arian yn eu pocedi, y bwriad yw datblygu'r ganolfan newydd i gynnwys caffi a theras, gardd, arddangosfa ar dreftadaeth Abersoch ac unedau busnes i'w rhentu.
Yn gynharach eleni, dywedodd llefarydd ar ran Cyngor Gwynedd eu bod yn cefnogi'r cais gan y fenter.
"Yn dilyn derbyn cynllun busnes gan Menter Rabar i gefnogi eu cais am drosglwyddiad cymunedol o safle Ysgol Abersoch, mae Cyngor Gwynedd wedi darparu ymrwymiad i gefnogi'r cais," meddai.
"Mae'r ymrwymiad hwn yn amodol ar allu'r fenter i sicrhau ymrwymiad o ffynonellau ariannu ar gyfer gwireddu'r cynllun, ac ar dderbyn sêl bendith Cabinet y Cyngor i'r trosglwyddiad." | {
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"\"Da ni wedi gweithio'n galed fel criw bach,\" meddai, gan ychwanegu eu bod wedi parhau i gynnal digwyddiadau yn y misoedd diwethaf er mwyn \"codi ymwybyddiaeth pawb ac i gael cyfraniadau\".",
"Gydag Abersoch yn adnabyddus fel cyrchfan i dwristiaid ond hefyd â chyfran uchel o ail gartrefi, roedd pryder byddai cau'r ysgol yn cael effaith negyddol ar yr iaith Gymraeg.",
"Cafodd y criw wybod eu bod wedi derbyn yr arian ddydd Mawrth diwethaf.",
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"Gyda'r arian yn eu pocedi, y bwriad yw datblygu'r ganolfan newydd i gynnwys caffi a theras, gardd, arddangosfa ar dreftadaeth Abersoch ac unedau busnes i'w rhentu.",
"Yn gynharach eleni, dywedodd llefarydd ar ran Cyngor Gwynedd eu bod yn cefnogi'r cais gan y fenter.",
"\"Yn dilyn derbyn cynllun busnes gan Menter Rabar i gefnogi eu cais am drosglwyddiad cymunedol o safle Ysgol Abersoch, mae Cyngor Gwynedd wedi darparu ymrwymiad i gefnogi'r cais,\" meddai.",
"\"Mae'r ymrwymiad hwn yn amodol ar allu'r fenter i sicrhau ymrwymiad o ffynonellau ariannu ar gyfer gwireddu'r cynllun, ac ar dderbyn sêl bendith Cabinet y Cyngor i'r trosglwyddiad.\""
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She Escaped an Abusive Marriage—Now She Helps Women Battle Cyber Harassment | Inspired by her own experience of abuse, Nighat Dad fights for women’s social and digital rights in Pakistan and beyond.
Nighat Dad grew up in a conservative family in Jhang, in Pakistan’s Punjab province. The threat of early marriage hung over her childhood like a cloud. But despite their traditional values, Dad’s parents were determined that all their children get an education, and they moved the family to Karachi so she could complete her bachelor’s degree. “I never really thought I would work, because I was never taught that we could work and be independent,” she says. “We always needed permission to do anything.”
Dad thought a master’s in law might delay the inevitable betrothal, but soon after she completed the course, she found out her parents had arranged a marriage for her. She didn’t mind her new life of domestic chores in a household she describes as “lower-middle class”—that is, until the abuse started. “That’s when my legal education reminded me that this was wrong,” she says. “Our laws, our constitution, everything protects me, so why was I facing this? Why was I tolerating it?”
With her family’s backing, Dad left her husband and filed for divorce. But after years of domestic violence and abuse and with no experience of working, she struggled with a lack of confidence. “I had no idea that women who are divorced and have a child face such difficulties in a society like ours,” she says. When her ex-husband filed a custody case for their 2-month-old baby, Dad wasn’t sure how she would pay for a lawyer. That’s when her father reminded her that she was a lawyer too.
Dad used her degree to win custody of her only child. In the process, she realized how many women in Pakistan were facing years of violence and systemic injustice. But the thing that bothered her most was the digital divide.
Before her marriage, Dad’s family never allowed her access to her own cell phone, and when she finally did get one, her husband would use it as a surveillance tool—keeping track of who she called and who was texting her. She had an escape tool in her hand, but she couldn’t use it. “Going through that by myself made me realize how quickly technology is evolving, and how it’s creating virtual spaces for marginalized communities that might not have access to physical ones,” she says. “Facing those restrictions made me understand just how crucial it is to challenge societal norms and structures around women's access to technology and the internet, so they can use it as freely as men.”
In 2012, Dad established the Digital Rights Foundation, an NGO that aims to address the digital divide and fight online abuse of women and other gender minorities in Pakistan. She began by helping women who reached out to the organization, providing advice on digital safety and emotional and mental support. In 2016—the same year Pakistan finally passed legislation against online crimes—Dad and her team launched a cyber-harassment helpline. Since 2016, it has addressed more than 16,000 complaints from across the country. “Sometimes, the police would give our phone numbers to victims seeking reliable help,” she says.
The DRF’s in-house legal team offers pro bono advice and helps women file and follow-up complaints against their abusers. “In many cases, we were successful in actually getting the perpetrator arrested and taken to trial,” Dad says. In October 2021, the DRF’s legal team helped journalist Asma Shirazi win a landmark case in the Islamabad High Court against broadcaster ARY News, after she became the target of a coordinated troll campaign which was exacerbated by a false story aired on the channel.
“If an organization like the DRF had existed when I was facing my own issues, I would have felt so much more supported—knowing there was someone to guide me legally and help me navigate the complexities,” she says. “My abuse started with surveillance, and if I had someone to talk to back then, I might have avoided the deep depression that followed. I might not have ended up in such a miserable situation.”
Today, Dad and the DRF are helping to steer global conversations about tech policy reform. She recently joined the United Nations’ AI Advisory Board, and was a founder member of Meta’s Oversight Board, which acts as an independent platform for people to appeal decisions made by the social media giant. “The emerging tech space is mostly driven by big Western companies and governments, leaving out civil society NGOs from the Global South,” she says. “This puts us far behind in global AI governance, always playing catch-up in a fast-moving world. If we’re not part of the conversation, the gap just keeps widening. It’s about reminding the powerful that they can’t win this race alone—they have a responsibility to include the rest of the world, especially those without the same resources.”
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Tricked by a Fake Viral Food Product? You’ve Just Been Snackfished | They’ve racked up millions of views on Instagram, but these products aren’t coming to a store near you.
In November 2023, a new product set the internet alight. “You won’t believe what I found in the shops today,” an Australian man told the world over a nine-second video of him pulling a bottle from a supermarket shelf. Tomato Ketchup Clear was exactly what it sounded like: a totally transparent bottle of Heinz. “Brits Left Horrified After Heinz Tease Introduction of Clear Ketchup,” ran one headline. “How? and more importantly … WHY!?” pleaded a user on X. More than 113 million people watched the video on Instagram. But the product disappeared from shelves almost instantly—up and down the country, no one could find any in the shops.
That, of course, is because clear tomato ketchup doesn’t actually exist. The video was in fact the work of Benji—a 28-year-old armed with an empty bottle, a styling product, and a printer. “It was just hair gel,” the London-based data analyst confesses. (He isn’t actually Australian; that was a voice filter.) “I still feel bad for the people working at Heinz, constantly being asked if clear ketchup is real!”
You’ve heard of a “catfish”—a fake online identity adopted by someone who wants to trick or scam other people. Transparent ketchup was a “snackfish,” and Benji is the UK’s number one snackfisher. Benji’s Instagram account—UK Snack Attack—is home to pistachio-flavored Coco Pops, pickle-shaped Haribo, mint Coca-Cola, ice-cream Pringles, and butter Oreos.
It all started with rare Fantas. In 2019, Benji and his university housemates enjoyed hunting around for imported Fanta flavors and “making a little ceremony” out of tasting them. From there, the computing student became obsessed with seeking out “weird” snacks, which he posted on his personal Instagram page. “I realized I should probably stop harassing my friends by posting snacks, so I shifted it to its own account,” says Benji, who asked WIRED not to disclose his surname for privacy reasons.
Benji’s account was aggressively straightforward—he’d go to the shops and take photos of new foods. “But then lockdown happened, and going to the supermarket and handling food was not a great look,” he says. So instead of fondling food, he started making it. After following an online recipe for white chocolate Nutella, Benji started concocting different chocolate spreads every weekend—online, he called it Spread Saturday. A self-taught photoshopper, Benji also made fake labels for his creations. But then one day a company he was imitating sent him a message essentially saying: “Hey, can you say it’s not real please? We’re getting a lot of messages asking to buy this!”
And so snackfishing was born. “In some ways, I wanted to trick people online,” Benji admits. “I’m not going to pretend it wasn’t that.” But over Zoom, Benji isn’t remotely trollish; he has a gentle-speaking manner, wire-framed glasses, and what looks like a cozy fleece. When the world emerged from lockdown, Benji started staging his snackfishes in shops, filming himself pulling them off the shelves. At first, Benji’s friends and family were perplexed. “Are you OK? Is this a normal thing to do?” But they were soon onboard, and his mum and grandma took him out for afternoon tea when he hit 200,000 followers.
Today, Benji adds disclosures to every post (“THESE DO NOT EXIST!”) to avoid frustrating people and to stay on the right side of multinational conglomerates. He also posts “snacksclusive” news about real upcoming snacks that have been leaked elsewhere online, which brands are less happy about—some have sent him cease-and-desist notices.
When Benji comes up with an idea for a new snack, sometimes he’ll photoshop it entirely, but if he thinks it’s possible he’ll sit down and make it for real. He has munched on Milkybar-dipped Pringles (“what shop r they in” demanded one commenter) and chomped a Werther’s Original chocolate bar. He dreams of one day making his own snackfish recipe book, but the “real dream” would be to have a snackfish brought to life by a company. “That would be so cool—some dumb flavor that I’ve thought of, and then suddenly everyone gets to try it.”
Ultimately, clear ketchup and lemon Nutella might never exist, and snackfishing probably won’t make Benji rich or famous—he hasn’t really made any money from his account. Still, he doesn’t really mind. “I don’t want it to feel like a job; I love doing it,” he says, noting that his “day is numbers,” so creating fake foods offers a creative outlet. “For me it’s just a little hobby. As long as I have fun making it, I’m happy.”
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Surrey: Man charged following stabbing outside Whyteleafe pub | A man has been charged with three offences after a person was stabbed outside a pub in Surrey.
Police said they were called to the Whyteleafe Tavern, in Whyteleafe, at 17:30 GMT on 30 October and a man in his 30s was taken to hospital, but later released.
A 52-year-old from Warlingham has now been charged with causing grievous bodily harm with intent, possession of an offensive weapon in a public place and possession of a knife blade/pointed item in a public place, Surrey Police said.
He is due to appear at Guildford Crown Court in January.
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Todd's 15 lead Arkansas State past Jackson State 66-64 | JONESBORO, Ark. (AP) — Taryn Todd’s 15 points helped Arkansas State defeat Jackson State 66-64 on Thursday night.
Todd shot 5 for 18 (1 for 5 from 3-point range) and 4 of 6 from the free-throw line for the Red Wolves (6-3). Izaiyah Nelson added 14 points while shooting 4 of 6 from the field and 6 for 7 from the line while he also had nine rebounds and three steals. Avery Felts shot 3 for 9 from beyond the arc and 2 of 3 from the free-throw line to finish with 11 points, while adding five rebounds and five steals.
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Politicians mark 35th anniversary of Polytechnique shooting at Montreal ceremony | Montreal shines with 15th beam in tribute to all murdered women to commemorate anniversary
Braving a biting winter wind, dignitaries gathered in front of Polytechnique Montréal's main campus on Friday to pay tribute to the 14 women killed at the engineering school in an anti-feminist attack 35 years ago.
Among those silently laying white flowers at the foot of a commemorative plaque in Montreal's Côte-des-Neiges neighbourhood was Louis Courville, who was the interim director of the school in 1989.
"I am glad that there are many people who did not forget what has happened," Courville, 90, said afterwards. "At the same time, it's the memory of a very sad, horrible thing."
The women murdered in 1989 were Geneviève Bergeron, Hélène Colgan, Nathalie Croteau, Barbara Daigneault, Anne-Marie Edward, Maud Haviernick, Maryse Laganière, Maryse Leclair, Anne-Marie Lemay, Sonia Pelletier, Michèle Richard, Annie St-Arneault, Annie Turcotte, and Barbara Klucznik-Widajewicz.
Thirteen others were injured in the attack perpetrated by Marc Lépine, who took his own life. He had ranted about feminists ruining his life.
Courville was in his office when the shooting began and all he could hear was a rain of bullets. He assumed an armed group had besieged the school.
"I couldn't think that it was only one person. I tried to figure out, what are they going to ask of me? Am I going to have to negotiate something?" he recalled.
"But Marc Lépine wasn't coming to negotiate," Courville added.
In the days and weeks that followed, he and his wife Jeanne Dauphinais would travel across the province to meet with families of the victims.
Polytechnique Montréal president Maud Cohen said Friday there's a duty to learn from what happened.
"We need to remember these young ladies that lost their lives: there were 13 students, one employee," Cohen said. "It's about making sure that everyone, women specifically on Dec. 6, can feel welcome, they can feel like they can blossom and they can really enjoy a place where they can fulfil their dreams."
Cohen said she is worried that incursions on women's rights in the United States could seep into Canada.
"When I see what's happening with the laws that are being changed in the United States regarding rights of women, I'm wondering if the rights that I have right now are going to be the same that the next generation of women are going to have," Cohen said.
"I think we all have a responsibility, not just us women, but also the men around us to make sure this doesn't happen to any groups, specifically women."
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau issued a statement Friday describing the 14 women killed as "talented students, beloved daughters and sisters and Canada's future. Their lives were tragically cut short simply because they were women."
"As we remember the victims of this hateful, cowardly act, we are also reminded that, for many women, girls and gender-diverse people, the violent misogyny that led to this tragedy still exists," Trudeau added.
Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre recalled on the anniversary that "this brutality is remembered as one of the worst attacks on women and on the values that unite us."
"Canada's promise is one of guaranteed freedom, safety and opportunity for all, regardless of gender or origin," Poilievre said in a statement. "Any form of violence against women is totally unacceptable."
At 5:10 p.m. on Friday, at the exact time the first shots were fired, 14 beams of light will illuminate the sky above Mount Royal, lit one at a time as the names of the 14 victims are read out. For the first time this year, a 15th beam will be added in memory of all murdered women.
Families will be present for the ceremony along with Trudeau, Premier François Legault and Montreal Mayor Valérie Plante.
Vigils and other events are scheduled in Montreal and across the country to mark the anniversary.
"Thirty-five years later, we still have to reiterate that women have the right to live without fear, to follow their aspirations and to achieve their dreams," Plante said in a statement Friday. "Every step toward equality benefits society as a whole." | {
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Ahead of impeachment vote, Yoon apologizes for anxiety over martial law decree | South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol on Saturday apologized for causing public anxiety and vowed he would not attempt a second martial law decree, in an apparent last-minute bid to save his presidency ahead of an impeachment vote.
In a televised address, Yoon said his decision to impose martial law late Tuesday was a "desperate decision made by me, the president, as the final authority responsible for state affairs."
"I deeply regret the anxiety and inconvenience this has caused to people. I sincerely apologize to the citizens who were greatly appalled by this," Yoon added in the two-minute speech, before bowing in front of the camera.
Yoon also said he will take "full legal and political responsibility" and will "leave the responsibility of stabilizing the political situation, as well as my term, to our party."
"The future governance will be jointly handled by our party and the government," he added.
It is not clear how Yoon would yield any presidential authority to his ruling People Power Party, the PPP, analysts said, since there does not appear to be an established political process for doing so.
"The only way I know of that he can be relieved from duty is impeachment or resignation," said Ben Engel, who teaches political science and international relations at Dankook University outside Seoul.
Yoon, frustrated for months by what he saw as opposition attempts to obstruct his governance, declared martial law late Tuesday, claiming it was necessary to "crush anti-state forces" and "protect constitutional order."
Within hours, South Korean lawmakers overturned the decree, after fighting their way through police and military personnel who had been sent to the National Assembly Building.
The opposition, which holds a majority in the National Assembly, plans to vote on Yoon's impeachment late Saturday. For the measure to pass, eight members of the PPP must support it.
If Yoon is impeached, he would be immediately suspended while the Constitutional Court deliberates on whether to remove him from office, a process that could take weeks or months.
So far, only two PPP lawmakers have publicly said they will support impeachment. However, one of those lawmakers, Rep. Cho Kyung-tae, changed his mind and will no longer support the impeachment motion on Saturday, according to a South Korean media report.
Following Yoon’s speech, ruling party chief Han Dong-hoon called it impossible for the president to perform his duties as normal, noting that Yoon’s early resignation remains "inevitable," according to the Yonhap news agency.
In a surprise announcement on Friday, Han signaled he personally supports Yoon's impeachment, but later made clear this is not the official position of the party. Rep. Shin Ji-ho, a key member of Han’s party faction, later said he does not support impeachment.
As both sides held intense, closed-door discussions ahead of the impeachment vote, some PPP lawmakers have begun pushing for a compromise proposal, whereby South Korea’s constitution would be amended to shorten presidential terms to four years, rather than the current five.
Under such a rumored proposal, Yoon would apparently step down early and the powers of the presidency could be reduced in some manner.
However, opposition party lawmakers have given no indication that they would support such a deal.
"This is a cunning tactic only in order to buy time," Kim Joon-hyung, a lawmaker with the opposition Rebuilding Korea Party told VOA. "This regime, and the ruling party is dead and dysfunctional, even if the impeachment vote fails."
South Korea’s presidential office has not clarified Yoon’s remarks or whether he would support such an arrangement.
A Seoul-based law professor, who preferred not to be identified because of the sensitivity of the ongoing discussions, said there is no process by which the president can transfer the powers of the presidency to the party.
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Swansea City: Will Liam Walsh be fit for reunion at Luton Town? | Liam Walsh impressed when his opportunity came only to see his ability to contribute hampered by injury.
It is a line which might be used to describe much of Walsh's three-year stint as a Swansea City player.
It also stands right now, after the midfielder came off the bench - and shone - in Luton Town's win over Hull City on 23 November.
But any chance of Walsh forcing his way into the Hatters' starting side for their next game, at Leeds United four days later, was scuppered by a pain he felt in his hamstring.
After Walsh also missed Luton's 4-2 defeat at Norwich City last weekend, Swansea must wait and see whether they will be reunited with their former player at Kenilworth Road this Saturday.
Walsh was released by Swansea over the summer, three years after he had signed on a free transfer from Bristol City.
Walsh was a popular figure at Swansea's Fairwood training base and gave fans glimpses of his obvious talent during his time in Wales.
But every time the former Everton youngster threatened to find some momentum at Swansea, it seemed, he was let down by fitness issues.
In all, he managed just 10 league starts among 34 appearances in a Swans shirt.
He scored two goals for the club, the last of which was a belter at Huddersfield Town in April.
But ultimately, and with some regret, Swansea decided that they could not justify a new contract for Walsh, who signed a deal at Luton in August after a spell training with the club.
He has featured 10 times this season – including three starts – though that tally may have been higher but for a red card against Oxford United in October, when Walsh was dismissed for a rash tackle just 36 seconds after coming on as a substitute.
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Winning numbers drawn in Friday’s Pennsylvania Cash 5 | The winning numbers in Friday’s drawing of the “Pennsylvania Cash 5" game were:
9, 22, 25, 29, 42
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We’ve Never Been Closer to Finding Life Outside Our Solar System | Thanks to the James Webb Space Telescope, we may have spotted a galactic neighbor with all the right molecular ingredients a mere 40 light-years away.
In 2025, we might detect the first signs of life outside our solar system.
Crucial to this potential breakthrough is the 6.5-meter-diameter James Webb Space Telescope (JWST). Launched aboard an Ariane-5 rocket from Kourou, a coastal town in French Guiana, in 2021, the JWST is our biggest space telescope to date. Since it began collecting data, this telescope has allowed astronomers to observe some of the dimmest objects in the cosmos, like ancient galaxies and black holes.
Perhaps more importantly, in 2022, the telescope has also provided us with the first glimpses of rocky exoplanets inside what astronomers call the habitable zone. This is the area around a star where temperatures are just right for the existence of liquid water—one of the key ingredients of life as we know it—in the planet’s rocky surface. These Earth-sized planets were found orbiting a small red star called TRAPPIST-1, a star 40 light-years away with one-tenth of the mass of the sun. Red stars are cooler and smaller than our yellow sun, making it easier to detect Earth-sized planets orbiting around them. Nevertheless, the signal detected from exoplanets is typically weaker than the one emitted by the much brighter host star. Discovering these planets was an extremely difficult technical achievement.
The next stage—detecting molecules in the planets’ atmosphere—will be an even more challenging astronomical feat. Every time a planet passes between us and its star—when it transits—the starlight gets filtered by the planet’s atmosphere and hits the molecules in its path, creating spectral absorption features we can search for. These features are very difficult to identify. To accomplish that, the JWST will need to collect enough data from several planetary transits to suppress the signal from the host star and amplify the molecular features in the incredibly thin atmosphere of the rocky exoplanets (if you’d shrink these planets to the size of an apple, for instance, at that scale their atmosphere would be thinner than the fruit’s peel). However, with a space telescope as powerful as the JWST, 2025 might just be the year when we can finally detect these molecular signatures.
Detecting water in TRAPPIST-1’s exoplanets, however, is not our only chance to find life in faraway exoplanets. In 2024, for instance, the JWST also revealed potential signs of carbon dioxide and methane in the atmosphere of K2-18b, a planet located 124 light-years from Earth. K2-18b, however, is not a rocky, Earth-like planet orbiting its star in the Habitable zone. Instead, it’s more likely to be a giant gas ball with a water ocean similar to Neptune (albeit smaller in size). This means that if there’s life on K2-18b, it might be in a form completely different from life as we know it on Earth.
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Thousands of social assistance cheques haven't been given out during Canada Post strike: B.C. ombudsperson | Provincial watchdog says up to 40 per cent of payments haven't been sent, launches investigation
Thousands of social assistance cheques have not been distributed in British Columbia because of the Canada Post strike, prompting an investigation by provincial Ombudsperson Jay Chalke.
Chalke's office began investigating when he was told by the Ministry of Social Development and Poverty Reduction that many income and disability assistance cheques weren't delivered.
Chalke says in a statement that he's concerned that many of B.C.'s most vulnerable people will be left without funds for food and shelter, especially during the upcoming holiday season.
He says that despite the ministry's efforts to encourage direct deposit, thousands of hard-copy cheques are mailed every month, and the ministry says 40 per cent of those payments weren't sent last month.
The potential for a Canada Post strike was widely reported before it happened, and Chalke says the ministry needed to have a plan for distributing the cheques without mail service.
Chalke says his investigation will assess the adequacy of that plan.
The statement says the investigation will also look into the ministry's contingency planning before the strike was announced, as well as steps taken during the strike to distribute hard copy cheques to the 15 per cent of income and disability assistance recipients who don't get direct deposit.
"The next social assistance payment date is Dec. 18. The end of December is when many ministry employees intend to be on vacation, which could present operational challenges," Chalke says.
"I am calling on the government to demonstrate it has a plan in place to achieve better and faster results for December's cheques in the event the strike continues."
Talks between union, employer stalled
There are currently no new developments in the impasse between Canada Post employees and its workers, who began talks toward a new contract on Nov. 15, 2023.
The Canadian Union of Postal Workers (CUPW) says it is seeking fair wages as the cost of living has gone up, with high rent and inflation leaving employees "unable to survive."
Before and during the strike, Canada Post workers have been struggling with the cost of living, the union says.
Among its key demands are wage increases, a guaranteed pension and safer working conditions, with the union citing the "second highest rate of disability injury among workers under federal jurisdiction."
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Union threatens turkey shortage this Christmas | The Unite union has threatened to cut the supply of turkeys to supermarkets this Christmas.
It said it was taking the action in protest against the Shropshire-based logistics company Culina, which it said had not offered its delivery drivers a pay increase.
About 40 of its members were preparing to go on strike on 19 and 20 December.
Culina's contract is with Avara Foods in Hereford, which delivers poultry from abattoirs to warehouses belonging to Tesco and Marks and Spencer and which said it hoped ongoing discussions would reach an "agreeable solution".
The Unite union has warned there could be a "shortage of Christmas turkeys" as a result of its planned industrial action and that families "could see empty tables this Christmas".
It accused Culina of playing the role of Scrooge and said: "Despite being in pay negotiations since April, no offer has been made to drivers who have been left with little choice but to take industrial action."
The union also warned more strike dates could be announced if the company did not come back to the negotiating table with an improved offer.
A spokesperson for Avara said: "We understand that discussions between Culina and Unite are ongoing and we hope they will reach a mutually agreeable solution.
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Grambling faces Pepperdine on 5-game road slide | Grambling Tigers (2-5) at Pepperdine Waves (3-6)
Malibu, California; Saturday, 5 p.m. EST
BOTTOM LINE: Grambling visits Pepperdine looking to stop its five-game road skid.
The Waves are 2-1 on their home court. Pepperdine ranks ninth in the WCC with 31.6 points per game in the paint led by Boubacar Coulibaly averaging 6.7.
The Tigers are 0-5 on the road. Grambling is 2-3 in games decided by 10 or more points.
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Manitoba to send conservation officers to U.S. border to boost security, placate Trump: Kinew | Opposition, union, wildlife federation all raise concerns service will be spread too thin
Manitoba plans to send conservation officers to the international border in an attempt to defuse U.S. president-elect Donald Trump's trade tariff threats, Premier Wab Kinew announced Friday.
"Eyes on the border. Everyone has said we need a strong approach to border security here," Kinew said.
"The federal government has announced potentially new resources coming with the RCMP. We're saying, at the provincial level, we're standing up a plan as well.
"This is a new direction we're going in."
Kinew made the surprise announcement during an event for the Christmas Cheer Board. He was asked about border security while answering reporters' questions after the event.
Kinew couldn't say how many officers will be part of the new plan, but said the government will roll out more details soon.
The usual job of conservation officers is to patrol and enforce the Wildlife Act in the province.
Kinew insisted the redeployment wouldn't shortchange the Natural Resources and Indigenous Futures department — the umbrella under which conservation falls — of the officers.
"[We'll be] making sure we have the COs in place to do the important work that they do during hunting season and the other jobs that would typically occupy their time," he said.
Kinew's announcement comes just over a week after Trump threatened to impose a 25 per cent tariff on all products entering the U.S. from Canada and Mexico after he takes office in January, unless those countries stem the flow of drugs and migrants across their borders.
"We want to ensure that some of our law enforcement resources here in the province are supporting the broader border security effort," Kinew said, adding that in addition to deterring crime, "there's a strong humanitarian argument to be made" for the change.
He cited the deaths in January 2022 of a family from India. The Patel family — Jagdish, 39, Vaishaliben, 37, and their children, Dharmik, 3, and Vihangi, 11 — froze to death in Manitoba while trying to walk through a field into the U.S.
Kinew also said if further steps are needed to ensure that jobs reliant on U.S. trade and the province's economy are protected, "we're moving in that direction."
Concerns over staffing shortage
Greg Nesbitt, the Progressive Conservative critic for environment and climate change, said the party is in support of bolstering security at the border.
But he said conservation officers are already working understaffed, and relocating some of them to patrol the border will stretch the department's resources "really thin."
"We're 30 per cent less than our 130 field officers that we should have. We have just around 90," Nesbitt said. "I'm just not sure this has been very well thought out."
Nesbitt is concerned Kinew's plan will create a strain on the enforcement of rules around wildlife resources in Manitoba, which could ripple into an increase in illegal hunting.
The Opposition is also worried for the safety of conservation officers, who could be redeployed in a role they are not prepared for.
"Conservation officers are perhaps trained to use firearms but it's not an everyday occurrence they're dealing with drug smuggling and illegal immigration," Nesbitt said.
Kinew said conservation officers would get involved in humanitarian situations and "more likely just be that additional eyes and ears to report things to the RCMP or to the Canadian Border Services Agency."
"The idea is just to have more presence in the region, given the fact that our economic relationship with the U.S., which is so important, is going to rely on us saying, you know what, we are a trusted partner."
Relocating officers 'a workload issue': union
The Manitoba Government and General Employees' Union, said the province hasn't communicated to them on how the rollout of conservation officers at the border will be carried out or specifics on what's expected from them.
Kyle Ross, the union's president, said recruitment efforts to onboard more conservation officers will be needed regardless if the government wants to implement its plan.
He said the department has been working short-staffed and with the hunting and fishing season approaching, along with the increased use of snowmobiles during the winter, resources for monitoring are already scarce.
"It's a workload issue," Ross said. "They have vast land to cover, so it's as it is, it's a taxing role for them and without hiring more and pulling some away potentially to do other duties, it's going to be challenging."
Carly Deacon with the Manitoba Wildlife Federation said assigning conservation officers to cover areas around the border is going to have a "detrimental effect" on enforcing wildlife regulations, and losing officers on the ground would ultimately take a toll on protecting the sustainability of resources.
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York Gillygate traffic lights plan to tackle air pollution | A trial scheme to reduce the amount of standing traffic in York's most polluted street has been approved, despite fears it could mean a rise in congestion in nearby roads.
Changes to traffic light sequencing in Gillygate were approved by councillors on Thursday, with the experiment expected to last for a year.
York Council transport spokesperson Kate Ravilious said action was needed for the sake of people's health, but she added that teething problems were expected as drivers adjusted to the changes.
Ravilious said: "Small changes to traffic signals is one thing we can do to address poor air quality. It should reduce the amount of standing traffic."
Pollution in Gillygate has remained above legal limits despite the latest council air quality data showing it had fallen between 2022 and 2023, according to the Local Democracy Reporting Service (LDRS).
Ravilious told the council's Transport Decision Session that "although we can see air quality has improved, it's not enough to give us confidence this is a consistent trend".
The narrowness of Gillygate, combined with tall buildings either side of it, was believed to create a "canyon effect" where emissions from traffic gathered rather than scattered, councillors heard.
Findings from the trial would be used to help make changes to traffic management in other parts of the city prone to congestion or poor air quality, they were told.
But members also heard there was a risk that issues such as traffic moving to other roads such as Lord Mayor's Walk and Clarence Street could offset the benefits to Gillygate.
Jordan Thomson, owner of the Love Cheese shop on Gillygate, said air pollution on the street was definitely an issue.
He said there was a layer of dust from the cars which he had to clean every morning, adding: "It gets into all the gaps."
Meanwhile, Liam Sherwood, from Sore Thumb Retro Games, said: "You can see straight away that it gets black really quickly and you can see dust and stuff."
Mr Sherwood said he had to clean the premises more often, and the "black sooty dirt" was "not very nice".
Brendan Hopkins, from the Gillygate Air Quality Action Group, whose members monitor traffic in the area, explained: "The canyonesque quality of the street basically traps the air."
The council had been very supportive of change to tackle the issue, Mr Hopkins added.
Gillygate resident John Gannon and York Civic Trust transport lead Tony May told Thursday's meeting that while the trial was welcome, a city-wide reduction in traffic was needed to tackle pollution long-term.
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Man on trial in the killing of an Ole Miss student gave conflicting information, police say | The man on trial in the killing of University of Mississippi student Jimmie “Jay” Lee gave conflicting information to police about how well he and Lee knew each other, according to testimony Friday by an officer who helped lead the investigation.
Lee disappeared July 8, 2022, in Oxford, Mississippi, and police interviewed Sheldon “Timothy” Herrington Jr. two weeks later. Two officers talked to Herrington at his Oxford apartment and then took him to a police building and did another interview after advising him of his rights, said Shane Fortner, one of the officers involved.
In the first interview, Herrington said he knew Lee but “did not have any kind of sexual relationship with him,” said Fortner, who was the Oxford Police Department’s lieutenant in charge of criminal investigations in July 2022 and is now the city’s emergency management director.
During the second interview, Herrington said he and Lee had a “deeper relationship” and that they had a sexual encounter just hours before Lee disappeared, Fortner said. Fortner said that statement made him think Herrington had lied during the first interview.
Lee, 20, of Jackson, Mississippi, was a gay man well known in the LGBTQ+ community at Ole Miss and in Oxford, where the university is located and Herrington’s trial is being held. Herrington, now 24, of Grenada, Mississippi, is charged with capital murder.
Lee’s body has never been found, but a judge has declared him dead. Herrington maintains his own innocence.
Before police interviewed Herrington, investigators had already found security camera video footage showing a man they believe was him jogging out of the parking lot where Lee’s car was found, Fortner said. Police also had read sexually explicit Snapchat messages exchanged between accounts belonging to Lee and Herrington.
According to police body camera footage shown in court Friday in Oxford, Herrington talked to two officers without having an attorney present.
Fortner said the officers asked Herrington what he thought had happened to Lee, and Herrington said Lee could have gone to have casual sex with somebody and then been kidnapped.
“I think what happened is, Tim described what he did to Jay Lee,” Fortner said.
Herrington “was not openly in the LGBTQ community,” but evidence will show he had a relationship with Lee and is responsible for the death, assistant district attorney Gwen Agho said during opening arguments Tuesday.
Herrington’s attorney, Kevin Horan, told jurors that prosecutors have “zero” proof Lee was killed.
The same day Lee disappeared, his car was towed from the Molly Barr Trails apartment complex in Oxford, where neither he nor Herrington lived.
Herrington said in his first police interview that he had not been to that complex for months because it was common for vehicles there to be towed away, Fortner said. Investigators had already seen security camera footage that showed a man they believe was Herrington jogging out of the Molly Barr Trails parking lot a few minutes after Lee’s car arrived.
Both Herrington and Lee had graduated from the University of Mississippi. Lee was pursuing a master’s degree. He was known for his creative expression through fashion and makeup and often performed in drag shows in Oxford, according to a support group called Justice for Jay Lee.
Prosecutors have announced they do not intend to pursue the death penalty, meaning Herrington could get a life sentence if convicted. Mississippi law defines capital murder as a killing committed along with another felony — in this case, kidnapping. | {
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How to Break Up Better | In today’s newsletter, we choose the twenty-four best books of the year. But, first, a report on the new business of breakups. Plus:
Jennifer WilsonStaff writer
Earlier this summer, I had to report to my friends that the new guy I’d just been telling them about over dinner, so starry-eyed I barely touched my food, had texted me to say he just wanted to be friends. I had anticipated that the usual platitudes would roll in: “you’re too good for him,” “his loss,” “does he have a car we can key?” But one friend surprised me by asking whether I had a “breakup plan.” You mean, other than to wallow and eat carbs? No, I did not. I searched the phrase online, and found something on Etsy that looked like it was modelled on a birthing plan—except, instead of “I may want a walking epidural,” among the options to numb the pain was “start a side hustle.”
The breakup plan also advised against “stalking” your ex’s “socials,” so I stopped doing that, and I started to look deeper into this new-to-me world of breaking up better. It was populated by coaches and doulas for the recently dumped, and its landscape was dotted with heartbreak-themed spa vacations (one offered an exfoliating treatment meant to symbolize the “scrubbing away of the past”). I had fallen down a rabbit hole, or should I say a k-hole: I discovered a clinic with locations in the Midwest advertising ketamine-assisted breakup therapy and some other unnerving—literally—interventions to curtail the hurt. I was a bit freaked out. When you’re heartbroken, it feels like you’ll do anything, pay anything, to make it go away or, however improbably, to bring the person back. And now here was this burgeoning industry of pricey get-over-him getaways and move-on medicines. I wanted to find out whether there were any actual remedies in this heartbreak boomtown or if it was all just fool’s gold.
For a piece in this week’s issue, I attended a three-day “Healing from Heartbreak” workshop at Kripalu, in the Berkshires. I spent time in London with a psychologist who runs retreats at a “Heartbreak Hotel,” staffed by experts in treating P.T.S.D. I even flew to Berlin for a one-on-one session with the owner of Die Liebeskümmerer, the Heartbreak Agency, an institution that inspired a recent film of the same name featuring a freshly dumped journalist who skeptically attends a heartbreak retreat and comes out a romantic. Would life imitate art? Read or listen to the story »
The Supreme Court is hearing arguments today in a trans-rights case challenging a Tennessee law that bans gender-affirming care for minors. Chase Strangio, an attorney at the A.C.L.U., is the case’s lead lawyer and will be the first openly trans person to argue in front of the Supreme Court. “As a trans lawyer, Strangio works as a representative in every sense of the word,” M. Gessen wrote in a 2020 piece about the attorney, “in court, in the media, and sometimes in state legislatures, for his clients, for the trans community, and for himself.”
P.S. The Forbes 30 Under 30 lists came out yesterday, filled with accomplished young people. But what about those less aspirational among us? Bess Kalb offers a humorous list of the 30 Most Disappointing Under 30—including Joanna Feldman, twenty-two, who “misquoted E. E. Cummings in her rib-cage tattoo,” and Victor Chen, twenty-eight, who “used an app to hire a person to pick up and deliver a Chipotle burrito to him every night for twenty-two consecutive nights.” 🌯
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Appeals court upholds law that could ban TikTok in US | A federal appeals court in Washington on Friday upheld a law requiring the wildly popular social media app TikTok to be sold to a non-Chinese owner or face closure in the United States by next month. The court cited "persuasive" and "compelling" arguments presented by the federal government that TikTok poses a risk to national security.
The ruling could leave the 170 million Americans who regularly use TikTok without access to a social media platform that has enjoyed explosive global growth in recent years. It could also mean that the millions of Americans who create content for TikTok — some of whom rely on monetizing that content for their livelihood — could be cut off from their audiences.
The government has argued that TikTok presents a unique danger to national security because it collects vast amounts of information about its users, and because the Chinese government ultimately exercises control over its parent company, ByteDance, and over the algorithm that determines what content TikTok users see.
Because ByteDance is in the People's Republic of China (PRC) it is subject to that country's laws, including measures requiring private companies to cooperate with government intelligence agencies.
The three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit found that the government has a compelling interest in taking steps "to counter the PRC's efforts to collect great quantities of data about tens of millions of Americans" and "to limit the PRC's ability to manipulate content covertly on the TikTok platform."
TikTok signals an appeal
TikTok immediately signaled that it would appeal the circuit court's ruling to the Supreme Court.
In a statement posted to its website, the company said, "The Supreme Court has an established historical record of protecting Americans' right to free speech, and we expect they will do just that on this important constitutional issue."
The company said that the law underlying the case "was conceived and pushed through based on inaccurate, flawed and hypothetical information, resulting in outright censorship of the American people," and warned that it "will silence the voices of over 170 million Americans here in the U.S. and around the world."
The Supreme Court is not obligated to hear the company's appeal, and it was not immediately clear that it would do so. If the high court accepts the case, it is possible that it would block the government from enforcing the law until the case is decided.
President-elect Donald Trump, who once supported a TikTok ban before changing his mind during the recent presidential election, has suggested that he will act to save the app when he takes office. However, it is unclear what options he might have for doing that.
Lack of trust
In April, President Joe Biden signed the Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act into law. The measure gave TikTok 270 days to find a way to separate itself from ByteDance before a ban on the application would kick in on January 19, 2025.
The federal government made it clear that the only kind of divestiture that it would accept was a complete separation of TikTok from its Chinese parent. The company offered alternatives, and established TikTok U.S. Data Security Inc. (TTUSDS) as a subsidiary in Delaware, to wall off U.S. user data from ByteDance.
However, the government cited instances in which U.S. user data that the company claimed to have shielded from the PRC was, in fact, accessible to ByteDance employees in mainland China. It told the court that it lacked "the requisite trust" that "ByteDance and TTUSDS would comply in good faith" with any arrangement other than complete separation of TikTok and ByteDance.
In Friday's ruling, the judges wrote, "The court can neither fault nor second-guess the government on these crucial points."
First Amendment concerns
TikTok and its supporters have claimed that severing TikTok from ByteDance is both practically impossible for technological reasons and legally impossible because the Chinese government will block the sale of the company. Therefore, they claim, the law constitutes a de facto ban and a violation of the guarantee of free speech enshrined in the First Amendment to the Constitution.
In a sign of how seriously the court took the First Amendment arguments, the panel of judges agreed that the law should be subject to "heightened scrutiny," which the Supreme Court has applied to measures restricting fundamental rights.
In the end, the panel determined that the law satisfies even the most stringent form of "strict scrutiny," which requires that the government "prove that the restriction furthers a compelling interest and is narrowly tailored to achieve that interest."
Free speech advocates respond
The decision came under immediate criticism from free speech advocates.
"Although we're still analyzing the decision, we find it deeply disappointing," David Greene, civil liberties director at the Electronic Frontier Foundation, said in a statement emailed to VOA. "The court appropriately applied strict scrutiny as we have urged it to. But the strict-scrutiny analysis is lacking, relying heavily on speculation about possible future harms.
"Restricting the free flow of information, even from foreign adversaries, is fundamentally undemocratic," Greene said. "Until now, the U.S. has championed the free flow of information and called out other nations when they have shut down internet access or banned online communications tools like social media apps."
George Wang, a staff attorney at the Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University, told VOA that the court accorded "a shocking amount of deference" to the government's claims about the danger TikTok poses to national security.
"We should be really wary whenever we allow the government to use vague national security arguments as a justification to shut down speech," Wang said. "That's a tactic of authoritarian regimes, not democracies. It's usually the job of courts to stand up to the government when it infringes on the constitutional rights of millions of Americans, and I think the D.C. Circuit really didn't do that today."
'A victory for the American people'
Representative Raja Krishnamoorthi, the senior Democrat on the House Select Committee on the Strategic Competition Between the United States and the Chinese Communist Party, and one of the original sponsors of the law requiring TikTok's divestiture or ban, released a statement Friday praising the court's decision.
"With today's opinion, all three branches of government have reached the same conclusion: ByteDance is controlled by the Chinese Communist Party, and TikTok's ownership by ByteDance is a national security threat that cannot be mitigated through any other means than divestiture," Krishnamoorthi said.
"Every day that TikTok remains under the Chinese Communist Party's control is a day that our security is at risk," Krishnamoorthi added.
Representative John Moolenaar, the committee's Republican chairman, said in a statement that the ruling was "a victory for the American people and TikTok users, and a loss for the Chinese Communist Party, which will no longer be able to exploit ByteDance's control over TikTok to undermine our sovereignty, surveil our citizens and threaten our national security."
Moolenaar also held out hope to the app's users that access to it may, in the end, be preserved under a Trump presidency.
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"The ruling could leave the 170 million Americans who regularly use TikTok without access to a social media platform that has enjoyed explosive global growth in recent years. It could also mean that the millions of Americans who create content for TikTok — some of whom rely on monetizing that content for their livelihood — could be cut off from their audiences.",
"The government has argued that TikTok presents a unique danger to national security because it collects vast amounts of information about its users, and because the Chinese government ultimately exercises control over its parent company, ByteDance, and over the algorithm that determines what content TikTok users see.",
"Because ByteDance is in the People's Republic of China (PRC) it is subject to that country's laws, including measures requiring private companies to cooperate with government intelligence agencies.",
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"In a statement posted to its website, the company said, \"The Supreme Court has an established historical record of protecting Americans' right to free speech, and we expect they will do just that on this important constitutional issue.\"",
"The company said that the law underlying the case \"was conceived and pushed through based on inaccurate, flawed and hypothetical information, resulting in outright censorship of the American people,\" and warned that it \"will silence the voices of over 170 million Americans here in the U.S. and around the world.\"",
"The Supreme Court is not obligated to hear the company's appeal, and it was not immediately clear that it would do so. If the high court accepts the case, it is possible that it would block the government from enforcing the law until the case is decided.",
"President-elect Donald Trump, who once supported a TikTok ban before changing his mind during the recent presidential election, has suggested that he will act to save the app when he takes office. However, it is unclear what options he might have for doing that.",
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"In April, President Joe Biden signed the Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act into law. The measure gave TikTok 270 days to find a way to separate itself from ByteDance before a ban on the application would kick in on January 19, 2025.",
"The federal government made it clear that the only kind of divestiture that it would accept was a complete separation of TikTok from its Chinese parent. The company offered alternatives, and established TikTok U.S. Data Security Inc. (TTUSDS) as a subsidiary in Delaware, to wall off U.S. user data from ByteDance.",
"However, the government cited instances in which U.S. user data that the company claimed to have shielded from the PRC was, in fact, accessible to ByteDance employees in mainland China. It told the court that it lacked \"the requisite trust\" that \"ByteDance and TTUSDS would comply in good faith\" with any arrangement other than complete separation of TikTok and ByteDance.",
"In Friday's ruling, the judges wrote, \"The court can neither fault nor second-guess the government on these crucial points.\"",
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"TikTok and its supporters have claimed that severing TikTok from ByteDance is both practically impossible for technological reasons and legally impossible because the Chinese government will block the sale of the company. Therefore, they claim, the law constitutes a de facto ban and a violation of the guarantee of free speech enshrined in the First Amendment to the Constitution.",
"In a sign of how seriously the court took the First Amendment arguments, the panel of judges agreed that the law should be subject to \"heightened scrutiny,\" which the Supreme Court has applied to measures restricting fundamental rights.",
"In the end, the panel determined that the law satisfies even the most stringent form of \"strict scrutiny,\" which requires that the government \"prove that the restriction furthers a compelling interest and is narrowly tailored to achieve that interest.\"",
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"The decision came under immediate criticism from free speech advocates.",
"\"Although we're still analyzing the decision, we find it deeply disappointing,\" David Greene, civil liberties director at the Electronic Frontier Foundation, said in a statement emailed to VOA. \"The court appropriately applied strict scrutiny as we have urged it to. But the strict-scrutiny analysis is lacking, relying heavily on speculation about possible future harms.",
"\"Restricting the free flow of information, even from foreign adversaries, is fundamentally undemocratic,\" Greene said. \"Until now, the U.S. has championed the free flow of information and called out other nations when they have shut down internet access or banned online communications tools like social media apps.\"",
"George Wang, a staff attorney at the Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University, told VOA that the court accorded \"a shocking amount of deference\" to the government's claims about the danger TikTok poses to national security.",
"\"We should be really wary whenever we allow the government to use vague national security arguments as a justification to shut down speech,\" Wang said. \"That's a tactic of authoritarian regimes, not democracies. It's usually the job of courts to stand up to the government when it infringes on the constitutional rights of millions of Americans, and I think the D.C. Circuit really didn't do that today.\"",
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"Representative Raja Krishnamoorthi, the senior Democrat on the House Select Committee on the Strategic Competition Between the United States and the Chinese Communist Party, and one of the original sponsors of the law requiring TikTok's divestiture or ban, released a statement Friday praising the court's decision.",
"\"With today's opinion, all three branches of government have reached the same conclusion: ByteDance is controlled by the Chinese Communist Party, and TikTok's ownership by ByteDance is a national security threat that cannot be mitigated through any other means than divestiture,\" Krishnamoorthi said.",
"\"Every day that TikTok remains under the Chinese Communist Party's control is a day that our security is at risk,\" Krishnamoorthi added.",
"Representative John Moolenaar, the committee's Republican chairman, said in a statement that the ruling was \"a victory for the American people and TikTok users, and a loss for the Chinese Communist Party, which will no longer be able to exploit ByteDance's control over TikTok to undermine our sovereignty, surveil our citizens and threaten our national security.\"",
"Moolenaar also held out hope to the app's users that access to it may, in the end, be preserved under a Trump presidency.",
"\"I am optimistic that President Trump will facilitate an American takeover of TikTok to allow its continued use in the United States and I look forward to welcoming the app in America under new ownership,\" Moolenaar said."
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Sask. man who abducted daughter to prevent her from getting COVID vaccine gets 1-year sentence, already served | Michael Jackson, 55, still faces 2 years of probation and 100 hours of community service
A Saskatchewan man who abducted his daughter to prevent her from getting the COVID-19 vaccine was sentenced Friday morning at Court of King's Bench in Regina.
Justice MacMillan-Brown gave Michael Jackson, 55, a one-year jail sentence, which he has already more than served while his case was before the courts, two years of probation and 100 hours of community service.
Jackson spent 541 days in remand, meaning he doesn't need to serve any more jail time.
"He will be free to go today subject to the terms of the probation order," MacMillan-Brown said.
Jackson's conditions include no contact with his daughter and her mother, who is also his ex-wife.
The Crown was seeking a two-year prison sentence with credit for time served on remand, plus three years of probation and 200 hours of community service.
Crown prosecutor Zoey Kim-Zeggelaar said she was appreciative of MacMillan-Brown's breakdown of her decision.
"The judge obviously took the law and all the facts under very careful consideration and she laid out a very well-written and well-reasoned decision which really spoke to all of the factors that played in this particular case," Kim-Zeggelaar said.
A jury found Jackson guilty in April of abducting his daughter in November 2021.
Jackson did not return the then-seven-year-old girl to her mother and disappeared with the child for more than 100 days.
Police found them in Vernon, B.C., in February 2022 after tracking Jackson's phone.
Jackson was granted bail in February 2023.
In April 2024, Jackson was found guilty of contravention of a custody order after two weeks of court proceedings.
During sentencing submissions, Jackson said not being able to see his daughter since his arrest was punishment enough.
MacMillan-Brown showed no sympathy for Jackson as she read out her decision on Friday.
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John Carver will get 'earliest flight' back to Poland after Scotland play-off | John Carver says his primary focus is on Lechia Gdansk after Steve Clarke's Scotland assistant was appointed head coach of the Polish club.
The 59-year-old will remain part of Clarke's coaching staff for Scotland's Nations League play-off against Greece in March, but says his plan is to rush back to his club side after that international camp.
When asked about how he will balance the two roles, Carver praised the "cooperation" between the SFA and Lechia since he took the role in Poland's top flight.
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"When I do go to Scotland for those 10 days, I know I'm in good hands with the guys who are left behind. I've just met the staff and they've been really impressive. I can trust them, and I have to trust them to make sure the ship is running properly when I'm not here.
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Español García es presentado como nuevo entrenador de Chivas para el torneo Clausura 2025 | CIUDAD DE MÉXICO (AP) — El entrenador español Óscar García fue presentado el viernes como nuevo director técnico de Chivas para el torneo Clausura 2025.
García, de 51 años, reemplaza al argentino Fernando Gago, quien dejó al equipo cuando restaban seis fechas en el Apertura. El interino Arturo Ortega dirigió al equipo los últimos encuentros.
“Es una responsabilidad, pero si no hubiera responsabilidad, si no hubiera exigencia, si no hubiera ambición, no estaría aquí, por muy grande que sea el club”, dijo García en su presentación. “Me convencieron muy rápido, la verdad que desde el primer día tuve claro que quería venir”.
Chivas, uno de los dos equipos más populares en México, pero no se clasificó a la liguilla al quedar fuera en la reclasificación.
El equipo no ha podido ser campeón desde el torneo Clausura 2017, cuando conquistó el 12do título en su historia.
“Desde el primer día me siento en deuda con el club y con los 40 millones de aficionados, ya quiero empezar a trabajar y a poner al equipo a la altura de sus exigencias”, aseguró. “Vengo a un equipo grande, me imagino un equipo valiente, intenso, exigente y apasionado, quiero un equipo que sea un reflejo de lo que es su gente”.
García será el décimo entrenador, sin contar interinos, en sentarse en el banquillo del Guadalajara desde que el argentino Matías Almeyda ganó el último campeonato de liga.
“No sé si son conscientes de lo que es Chivas en el mundo, en Europa es conocido como Real Madrid o Barcelona”, dijo el entrenador. “Para mí es como entrenar al Barcelona o al Real Madrid, con eso lo resumo todo”.
Como jugador, García se formó y debutó con el Barcelona de su país. Como entrenador ha dirigido a una decena de equipos europeos, el último el OH Leuven, de Bélgica, donde tuvo una efectividad del 39.26 por ciento.
Sus máximos logros como estratega los consiguió con el Maccabi Tel Aviv donde fue campeón de liga con el RB Salzburgo, donde logró dos títulos de la Bundesliga.
“Estar en muchos países me ha hecho mejor entrenador”, dijo el entrenador. “Si Chivas me hubiera ofrecido venir hace 10 años, igual los hubiera aceptado”. | {
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"“Es una responsabilidad, pero si no hubiera responsabilidad, si no hubiera exigencia, si no hubiera ambición, no estaría aquí, por muy grande que sea el club”, dijo García en su presentación. “Me convencieron muy rápido, la verdad que desde el primer día tuve claro que quería venir”.",
"Chivas, uno de los dos equipos más populares en México, pero no se clasificó a la liguilla al quedar fuera en la reclasificación.",
"El equipo no ha podido ser campeón desde el torneo Clausura 2017, cuando conquistó el 12do título en su historia.",
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"García será el décimo entrenador, sin contar interinos, en sentarse en el banquillo del Guadalajara desde que el argentino Matías Almeyda ganó el último campeonato de liga.",
"“No sé si son conscientes de lo que es Chivas en el mundo, en Europa es conocido como Real Madrid o Barcelona”, dijo el entrenador. “Para mí es como entrenar al Barcelona o al Real Madrid, con eso lo resumo todo”.",
"Como jugador, García se formó y debutó con el Barcelona de su país. Como entrenador ha dirigido a una decena de equipos europeos, el último el OH Leuven, de Bélgica, donde tuvo una efectividad del 39.26 por ciento.",
"Sus máximos logros como estratega los consiguió con el Maccabi Tel Aviv donde fue campeón de liga con el RB Salzburgo, donde logró dos títulos de la Bundesliga.",
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Mexico study finds that heat kills young people more than elderly | A surprising study of temperature-related deaths in Mexico upends conventional thinking about what age group is hit hardest by heat. Researchers found at higher temperatures and humidity, the heat kills far more young people under 35 than those older than 50.
For decades, health and weather experts have warned that the elderly and the youngest children were most vulnerable in heat waves. But this study looking at all deaths in Mexico from 1998 to 2019 shows that when the combination of humidity and temperature reach uncomfortable levels, around 30 degrees Celsius and 50% relative humidity, there were nearly 32 temperature-related deaths of people 35 years old for every temperature-related death of someone 50 and older.
The study in Friday's journal Science Advances shows an especially surprising spike of heat-related deaths in an age group thought to be young and robust: people between 18 and 35. That age group alone had nine times as many temperature-related deaths as those older than 50.
Study authors and outside experts are scrambling to figure out why. Demographics alone don't explain why more young adult Mexicans are dying in high heat than their elders. Two theories: Outdoor workers who can't escape the heat, and young people who don't know their limits.
The trend is likely to widen as the world warms from human-caused climate change, according to computer simulations run by the study team.
"We found that younger people are especially vulnerable to humid heat," study co-author Jeffrey Shrader, a climate economist at Columbia University, said. "As the climate warms, we're really going to be shifting the burden of temperature-related mortality towards younger individuals and away from older individuals who tend to be more vulnerable to cold temperatures."
Data from cold weather shows more than 300 deaths of Mexican residents 50 and older for every young person dying from cold temperatures, according to the study.
"People of all ages are increasingly at risk from the rising temperatures, and this study shows that those that we might have considered relatively safe from heat-related adverse health outcomes might not be so much so," said Marina Romanello, executive director of the Lancet Countdown that monitors health effects of climate change. She was not part of the study team.
"Heat is a much more dangerous silent killer than most people acknowledge it to be, and that heat is increasingly putting our health and survival at risk," Romanello said in an email.
Study authors decided to examine weather-related deaths in Mexico because that country not only has detailed mortality data, but it has a variety of different climates making it an ideal place to study in depth, Shrader said.
Researchers also want to figure out whether this is just a situation in Mexico or other warmer sections of the globe have similar spikes in young adult deaths in high heat and humidity.
Initially the team just wanted to look at deaths and what scientists call wet-bulb globe temperatures, but when they looked at age differences, they were surprised and looked in more detail, Shrader said. Wet-bulb temperature, which is intended to mirror how the body cools itself, is derived using a complicated measurement system that factors in humidity and solar radiation. A wet-bulb globe temperature of 35 degrees Celsius is thought to be the limit for human survivability. Most places don’t reach that level.
Researchers determined temperature-related mortality by complex statistical analysis that compares numerous factors in the number of deaths and removes everything they can except temperature fluctuations, said study co-author Andrew Wilson, a Columbia climate economics researcher.
Researchers also calculated the ideal temperature for when there are the fewest excess deaths at each age group. Younger adults' sweet temperature spot is about 5 degrees Celsius cooler than it is for older people, Shrader and Wilson said.
Some outside health and climate experts were initially puzzled at the higher youth mortality seen in the study. Co-author Patrick Kinney, a professor of urban health and sustainability at Boston University, said it was likely the study included a higher proportion of outdoor workers exposed to heat than prior studies did.
Study co-author Tereza Cavazos, a climate scientist at the Ensenada Center for Scientific Research and Higher Education in Mexico, said she remembers her father's generations taking siestas in the high heat of the day and that was healthy. That doesn't happen so much now, she said.
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"Researchers also calculated the ideal temperature for when there are the fewest excess deaths at each age group. Younger adults' sweet temperature spot is about 5 degrees Celsius cooler than it is for older people, Shrader and Wilson said.",
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Alberta seeking to recruit foreign workers from United Arab Emirates, emails say | Electrician and contractors union concerned with plan
Alberta is looking to lure workers from the United Arab Emirates (U.A.E.) as part of a 2025 international recruitment mission, according to documents and emails shared with CBC News. It's a move that's raising concerns among labour leaders in the province.
In a Nov. 5 email, obtained by the federal NDP and shared with CBC News, an immigration partnerships advisor with Alberta Immigration and Multiculturalism outlined steps for participating employers interested in joining the mission, advising of two employer information sessions scheduled for later in the month.
A separate one-page document was shared with CBC News by Local 424 of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, which represents more than 4,000 electricians in Alberta and the Northwest Territories.
It outlined the international talent mission, tentatively scheduled for the end of February or for early March 2025.
The document outlines the rationale of the mission:
The Alberta government said it would support venue arrangements, promotion of job opportunities, interview logistics, informational workshops and travel recommendations for employers.
Local 424, which was organized 96 years ago, includes electricians who do construction maintenance. When it learned of the Alberta government's plans to attract skilled workers, the union sought to learn more.
"We were a little bit confused why the government would be doing such a trip," Scott Crichton, a spokesperson with the group, told CBC News.
"If there are issues related to meeting skilled labour demands, we want to be part of that conversation. We want to be involved with any consultation the government does … we have a lot of electricians ready to go to work."
In late November, they reached out to Prairies Economic Development Canada, the federal department that promotes economic growth in Alberta, Manitoba and Saskatchewan, sharing concerns about the mission.
A spokesperson with Prairies Economic Development Canada forwarded the concerns to the assistant deputy minister of the immigration division of Alberta Immigration and Multiculturalism.
"Scott, we would be pleased to discuss province's plans and priorities. My office will reach out to you to find a mutually convenient time," the assistant deputy minister wrote in a followup email to Crichton.
Crichton said the government told him it would meet with him to discuss on Dec. 5. However, he said the meeting was cancelled on Dec. 5 and rescheduled for Dec. 11.
Crichton added his concern was that the government would utilize the temporary foreign worker program, which could limit wage growth in these positions.
Premier's office says it is unaware of plan
CBC News emailed the office of Premier Smith, as well as the Immigration and Multiculturalism ministry, requesting information on the mission.
They did not answer specific questions about what qualifications the government was looking for or whether the trip is part of a broader effort to attract workers from other parts of the world.
"The premier is not aware of any upcoming recruitment missions, however, we'll look into the concerns," wrote spokesperson Savannah Johannsen in a statement.
"Alberta has experienced unsustainable levels of immigration due to the federal government's policies and we are advocating for more sustainable immigration policies.
"It is our belief that Ottawa's priority should be on reducing the number of temporary foreign workers, international students and asylum seekers — not on reducing provincially selected economic migrants."
LISTEN | Criticism of the temporary foreign worker program:
The news drew fire from two federal New Democrats — Timmins James Bay MP Charlie Angus and Edmonton Strathcona MP Heather McPherson.
"Bringing foreign workers to an economy suffering elevated levels of unemployment poses a serious threat of driving down wages," the two wrote in a letter sent Dec. 2 to federal Minister of Employment Ginette Petitpas Taylor.
"Alberta is already suffering from the lowest minimum wage in the country. This would leave Alberta workers in an even more precarious situation."
Statistics Canada's October 2024 Labour Force Survey suggested that as of October, Alberta had the third highest unemployment of all Canadian provinces, behind Prince Edward Island and Newfoundland and Labrador. The Alberta minimum wage is $15 an hour, tied with Saskatchewan for the lowest in the country.
In November, Smith travelled to the U.A.E. and attended the Abu Dhabi International Petroleum Exhibition and Conference.
"Deepening our relationship with the U.A.E. is critical to the long-term economic prosperity of Alberta," reads a statement attributed to Smith from November, prior to her trip.
Alberta exported nearly $243 million in products to the U.A.E. in 2023, according to the province, mostly consisting of canola seeds, wheat, lentils, machinery and electronics. Alberta's imports from the U.A.E. were $67.8 million in 2023.
In recent years, Alberta has promoted its relationship with the U.A.E., suggesting that opportunities are emerging for Alberta in onshore gas development and manufacturing.
WATCH | Drillers see growth but fears linger over an emissions cap and U.S. tariffs:
Incentivizing hiring locals
In their letter, Angus and McPherson drew focus to September 2024 comments from Alberta's Minister of Energy and Minerals Brian Jean.
"We are making it an advantage for people to fly from other provinces and other countries to come here and take our resources, to take our jobs, and actually take that money back to their hometown," Jean said.
"That's not reasonable. That's not right. And, quite frankly, I find it disgusting."
Jean was referring to the fly-in-fly-out model of work camps, which the minister said was hollowing out resource towns. It would be preferable, Jean said at the time, to incentivize oilsands companies to hire more locals.
"We are concerned that the UCP government finds it 'disgusting' that thousands of people from across Canada work in the oilpatch, while they are actively recruiting workers from a country with the abysmal human rights record of the U.A.E.," the MPs wrote in their letter. "Such an effort is not in the national interest."
The initiative also drew criticism from the Alberta Federation of Labour (AFL). Its president, Gil McGowan, said the AFL has long-standing concerns tied to the temporary foreign worker program specifically.
"I think the record shows that too many employers view the program as a first choice for recruitment, rather than a last resort," McGowan said.
"To see the Alberta government facilitating employers going overseas to find workers when there's plenty of people who could fill these positions, it's not just galling, it's completely unacceptable."
A spokesperson in Jean's office said his comments were taken out of context.
"Minister Jean was talking about disincentivizing work camps, for many reasons, but to also ensure economic impacts of major oilsands projects remain in the community and the province. Our goal is to have people who work in Alberta energy, living and paying taxes in Alberta," wrote Josh Aldrich in an email.
Changing sector
Heather Exner-Pirot, a senior fellow and director of natural resources, energy and environment at the Macdonald-Laurier Institute, said what Jean was trying to emphasize was the importance of building up a Fort McMurray workforce.
"A Fort McMurray workforce, that helps rent houses, buys houses, builds up that regional economy … the oilsands are driving the Canadian economy, have contributed more than $100 billion in royalties and taxes to Canadians, and that community is suffering," she said.
Given high unemployment and a low minimum wage in the province, Exner-Pirot said there's a balance to consider when it comes to the jobs being discussed.
"It's been showing in the data for years of young Canadians, people in colleges and universities interested in the oil and gas sector, and they've been told it's a dying sector. They've been told to go into coding instead," she said.
"The financial incentive is there. I guess it's the status, it's the working conditions … in that case, there is a skilled immigrant balance to be found to kind of curb that gap."
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Angela Rayner: Deputy PM will 'unblock' south east housing sites | The deputy prime minister has pledged to "unblock" sites not being developed for housing in the South East.
In an interview with BBC South East, Angela Rayner said there were lots of areas in Kent, Surrey and Sussex that needed to be "unlocked" for development, because developers are "frustrated that they are constantly in this process of being blocked".
It comes after she approved a housing development previously refused by Conservative councillors in an area of outstanding natural beauty in Cranbrook, Kent.
In a major speech on Thursday Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer reiterated the government's pledge to build 1.5m homes in England over the next Parliament, saying there would be "no solution to the housing crisis without approving controversial development".
The Kent Campaign to Protect Rural England (CPRE) described the 165-home development at Cranbrook as "a political signal that the countryside is fair game for developers".
Ms Rayner, who is also the Secretary of State for Housing, would not talk about individual planning scenarios but said the government had pledged to "build on brownfield sites first".
Councils in Sussex have said they have major concerns about reaching the government's new housebuilding targets because they are restricted by the sea to the south, as well as the South Downs National Park and High Weald National Landscape.
"I don't believe for one minute across the whole of the South East - which I know very well - that there is only the rolling hills of Sussex," Ms Rayner said.
"There is lots of brownfield, lots of areas that need to be unlocked for development.
"And developers who have got land there are frustrated that they are constantly in this process of being blocked so what we want to do is unlock those sites and get those houses built."
Under new proposed house-building targets, authorities in Kent, Sussex and Surrey will have to build an additional 7,116 homes a year on top of existing targets.
The Surrey CPRE says it will mean a "tsunami" of development on the county's green belt.
Ms Rayner said the environment and nature would be taken into account.
She said: "National parks and heritage sites, they're all excluded and within the National Planning Policy Framework it clearly sets out what our rules are and it also talks about brownfield first.
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Gardner-Webb visits Western Carolina on 6-game road skid | Gardner-Webb Runnin’ Bulldogs (2-7) at Western Carolina Catamounts (5-3)
Cullowhee, North Carolina; Friday, 11 a.m. EST
BOTTOM LINE: Gardner-Webb hits the road against Western Carolina looking to break its six-game road losing streak.
The Catamounts have gone 2-0 at home. Western Carolina ranks fourth in the SoCon with 10.1 offensive rebounds per game led by Tyja Beans averaging 4.0.
The Runnin’ Bulldogs are 0-6 on the road. Gardner-Webb is fourth in the Big South with 10.8 offensive rebounds per game led by Maja Rohkohl averaging 2.1.
Western Carolina is shooting 43.5% from the field this season, 0.7 percentage points lower than the 44.2% Gardner-Webb allows to opponents. Gardner-Webb averages 7.2 made 3-pointers per game this season, 1.8 more made shots on average than the 5.4 per game Western Carolina allows.
TOP PERFORMERS: Chelsea Wooten is shooting 31.8% from beyond the arc with 1.8 made 3-pointers per game for the Catamounts, while averaging 6.9 points.
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Gilles, Poirier struggle at Grand Prix final after fall in rhythm dance | Canadian teammates Lajoie, Lagha 4th; Malinin of U.S. builds big lead in men's event
Canadian ice dancers Piper Gilles and Paul Poirier have an uphill climb at the ISU Grand Prix Final in Grenoble, France.
Toronto's Gilles and Poirier, from Unionville, Ont., finished last out of six teams in Friday's rhythm dance after an uncharacteristic fall when Poirier caught his foot on the boards.
"You never want to come out and make large errors so that's disappointing for us, but we have to focus on the job for tomorrow and I think when we get home, focus on the positives of this event — there were some improvements that were made in the program," Poirier said.
"When we get home, we'll look at how we're training and making sure that we're prepared to not make mistakes in competition when we go into the second half of the season."
Gilles and Poirier, Grand Prix Final champions in 2022 and bronze medallists in 2023, settled for a score of 72.15 points.
The duo came into the competition ranked third in the Grand Prix standings after capturing their fifth-straight Skate Canada International title and a silver medal at the Finlandia Trophy.
WATCH | Ice dancers Gilles, Poirier 6th after latter falls:
Marjorie Lajoie of Boucherville, Que., and Zachary Lagha of Saint-Hubert, Que., were the top Canadian team heading into Saturday's free dance after finishing fourth in the rhythm dance with 77.73 points.
"We're very happy, it was really good," Lagha said. "We just had fun. We would much rather do our best performance and then score whatever, than feel like we didn't do our best and get an amazing score."
Reigning world champions Madison Chock and Evan Bates of the United States were first, followed by Charlene Guignard and Marco Fabbri of Italy and Lilah Fear and Lewis Gibson of Britain.
WATCH | Lajoie and Lagha 4th entering free dance Saturday:
World champion Ilia Malinin took a big stride toward retaining his figure skating Grand Prix Final title after building an imposing 12-point lead in the short program on Friday.
The 20-year-old American skater landed a quadruple flip, triple axel and quad lutz-triple toeloop combination in a near-flawless program to score 105.43 points for the lead, narrowly missing his personal best.
Olympic silver medalist Yuma Kagiyama of Japan was a distant second on 93.49 ahead of Saturday's free skate after falling on his opening quad lutz, skating to "The Sound of Silence."
Kazakhstan's Mikhail Shaidorov was in the competition only because France's Adam Siao Him Fa withdrew with an ankle injury. He made the most of it, landing two quads on his way to 91.26 for third to the "Dune" soundtrack.
Skating in his hometown, France's Kevin Aymoz had a nightmarish start with falls on his first two jumps and placed last at 68.82.
WATCH | Malinin builds 12-point lead with near-flawles short program:
Also, Minerva Fabienne Hase and Nikita Volodin retained their Grand Prix Final title in the pairs event. The Germans had an early setback when Hase put her hand down on landing a jump combination but recovered to finish clear of the field on a 218.10 total.
Japan's Riku Miura and Ryuichi Kihara held on for second on 206.71 against a strong challenge from Georgia's Anastasiia Metelkina and Luka Berulava, who were third with 205.78.
"This time was for sure much harder than last year," Hase said. "Last year we didn't come with any expectation, and this year as defending champion it's for sure more pressure, so we just are so happy that we made it."
They're the first pair to repeat as Grand Prix Final champion since 2012 by fellow Germans Aliona Savchenko and Robin Szolkowy.
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Budget woes worsen as Barnsley Council has to find extra £6m | Barnsley Council's financial position is worse than initially thought and the authority has to find an extra £6m to fund services next year, it has been revealed.
A new report to go before the authority's cabinet next week said it expected to exceed its budget for 2024/25 due to unexpected costs in several departments.
This could lead to a larger budget funding gap than anticipated by the council, which has previously been estimated at £19m.
To address the shortfall, the cabinet is being asked to approve taking £636,000 from its savings.
Departments are also being tasked with reviewing their services to find more savings given government funding for the next financial year is still unknown.
The report said children's services was one of the departments facing spiralling costs despite a decrease in the number of children in care across the borough.
Increased waste costs
The service has been particularly hard-hit because of the rising costs of residential placements and fostering services, according to the Local Democracy Reporting Service.
The report highlighted the cost of placing children in external residential care had increased due to a shortage of available placements, with some costing more than £8,000 per week.
In addition, the council was spending more on supporting young people leaving care, due to a lack of affordable housing and delays in processing asylum claims.
A £1.8m shortfall has been identified in the authority's environment and highways department due to rising waste collection costs and higher operational costs.
The report added that the council holds £30.5m in unapproved funding, mostly from developers and school grants, which will be allocated to specific projects once the necessary approvals are made.
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Hill's 18 lead Sacred Heart over Iona 83-59 | FAIRFIELD, Conn. (AP) — Anquan Hill’s 18 points helped Sacred Heart defeat Iona 83-59 on Friday night.
Hill added seven rebounds for the Pioneers (4-5, 1-0 Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference). Bryce Johnson scored 14 points while going 5 of 8 and 3 of 5 from the free-throw line and added six rebounds. Amiri Stewart shot 3 for 8 (1 for 3 from 3-point range) and 6 of 8 from the free-throw line to finish with 13 points, while adding seven rebounds, seven assists, and four steals.
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Russia, Iran, Turkey schedule weekend talks on Syrian war | Turkey, Russia and Iran are expected to meet this weekend in Qatar to discuss their response to a shock rebel advance that has dramatically altered the front lines in Syria's 13-year civil conflict.
The meeting will take place on the sidelines of the Doha Forum, an annual event that attracts senior officials, academics and business leaders from more than 150 countries to discuss common concerns.
Turkey's Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan "will meet with the Russian and Iranian ministers ... for a meeting under the Astana process" on the sidelines of the forum, a foreign ministry source told Agence France-Presse.
Russia and Iran, which support Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, launched the Astana process along with Turkey — which supports some of the rebel factions — in the Kazakh capital, Astana, in 2017. Their goal was to find a political solution to the civil war.
Russia and Turkey succeeded in brokering a ceasefire in 2020 that largely quelled the fighting, leaving Assad in control of all major cities and an estimated 70% of Syrian territory.
But in a stunning offensive over the past week, Islamist rebels Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) seized Syria's second-largest city, Aleppo, and moved on to capture Hama, inching closer to Syria’s third-largest city, Homs.
Hama had remained in government hands since civil war erupted in 2011.
According to Kremlin statements reported by Reuters, Russian President Vladimir Putin spoke this week with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, insisting on “the need to end aggression against the Syrian state.”
Erdogan, according to reports, expressed Turkish support for Syria’s territorial integrity but underscored the Assad government's obligation to "engage in the political solutions” to the crisis.
Turkey, which does not want an independent Kurdish entity in northeastern Syria, has long supported the Syrian National Army, a coalition of armed opposition groups that is at odds with the U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) — a Kurdish-led military alliance that has been a major U.S. partner in the fight against the Islamic State terror group, also known as ISIS.
Days after the start of the HTS offensive, clashes broke out between the rival militias.
Russia, which changed the course of the war in favor of Assad years ago by providing air power, is now distracted by its assault on Ukraine, while Iran, another key backer of Assad, is weakened by Israel’s war against its proxies in Lebanon and Gaza.
While some former U.S. officials with experience in the region say advances by HTS rebels could force Assad and his backers to compromise, others aren't so sure.
“I don’t think Moscow is ready to accept the end of the Bashar al-Assad government," said former U.S. Ambassador to Syria Robert Ford. "I think Iran, too, wants to see Assad survive, although Iran's position is particularly difficult.”
James Jeffrey, former U.S. ambassador to Turkey and former special representative for Syria engagement, said the fall of Aleppo was major blow to Assad, and that Iranian and Russian support might no longer be sufficient to retake it.
Retired General Joseph Votel, chief of U.S. Central Command from 2016 to 2019, pointed out that neither Russia nor Iran wants to risk compromising strategic positions in the region.
“Syria provides Russia with a foothold in the Middle East and access to warm-water ports," Votel told VOA, referring to Russia's Tartus naval port on the Mediterranean coast of Syria, along with the Hmeimim airbase near Latakia.
"For Iran, it is crucial to maintain the so-called Shiite Crescent," he added, describing a predominantly Shiite Muslim area stretching from Tehran through Iraq and Syria to Beirut. "Losing this access and control would be highly significant for them.”
Turkey, for its part, is concerned about any development that would strengthen Kurdish forces in Syria whom it considers to be associated with the PKK — a U.S.-designated terrorist organization that has staged attacks in Turkey in support of that country’s Kurdish population.
Within days after the start of the HTS offensive, clashes broke out between the Turkey-backed Syrian National Army and the U.S.-backed SDF.
“When it comes to the Kurds, [Turkey] has some concerns about their own security, which we certainly have acknowledged and have tried to work with them to mitigate any of the risks that they believe they're being posed against them,” said Votel.
Ankara, which is hosting 3 million Syrian war refugees, is also seeking conditions that would facilitate the return of some of those people to Syria.
“If there is a ceasefire quickly and we do not have big Russian bombing raids, the liberation of Aleppo is an opportunity for hundreds of thousands of Syrian refugees to leave Turkey and return to their homes,” said Ford.
US position
U.S.-backed SDF fighters on Tuesday began a round of renewed fighting against Syrian government forces in the northeast, opening another front in the battle against Assad's military.
Pentagon officials on Tuesday said the U.S. military carried out a strike in self-defense against weapons systems in eastern Syria, calling it unrelated to rebel advances in the country.
There are nearly 900 U.S. troops in Syria supporting the SDF in its fight against ISIS militants.
White House national security spokesperson Sean Savett said last weekend that the latest turmoil in Syria arose from Assad’s refusal to engage in a political process and his reliance on Russia and Iran.
According to Ford, control of Aleppo is not particularly important to American interests so long as it does not trigger a new surge of refugees.
“The Turks, of course, don't want that," he said. "And it could even lead to a refugee flow back into Lebanon, especially if the ceasefire holds. So, it seems like the sooner there is a ceasefire, the better.”
Another key concern for Washington is a resurgent ISIS that might exploit the chaos.
During a NATO meeting Wednesday, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said it remained vital that the “jihadist caliphate by ISIS is not resurrected.”
Votel also expressed concern about this possibility.
“One of the things that we see is that ISIS has retreated into the central part of Syria," he told VOA. "This is an area under the control of the Syrian government. Many of the forces that he had originally assigned to this area have now been withdrawn. This is allowing ISIS to regroup, to get reorganized and be prepared to rise again.”
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Charges dropped against four of five who protested the 2023 Giller Prize ceremony | Protesters interrupted the literary award carrying signs that read 'Scotiabank Funds Genocide'
Pro-Palestinian organizers say charges against four of the five activists arrested for protesting last year's Giller Prize have been withdrawn.
The group CanLit Responds announced the move at a press conference across the street from a Scotiabank branch on Friday morning.
The protesters interrupted the literary award ceremony in November 2023 carrying signs that read "Scotiabank Funds Genocide," referring to the then-title sponsor's investment in the Israeli arms manufacturer Elbit Systems.
Three people were arrested the night of the ceremony and charged with criminal mischief and using a forged document to gain entry to the ceremony, while CanLit Responds says two others were arrested later.
Maysam Abu Khreibeh, 26, who was arrested that night, says the move to withdraw the charges was delayed for months.
"I do feel relieved to hear that the courts finally recognize that what we did is not something that should be criminalized, that the charges were withdrawn," she said after the press conference.
Her lawyer, Riaz Sayani, says in a statement that the protesters never should have been charged.
Toronto Police did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
CanLit Responds says charges against the fifth protester are still pending and that they were arrested in September 2024, nearly a year after the ceremony.
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"Three people were arrested the night of the ceremony and charged with criminal mischief and using a forged document to gain entry to the ceremony, while CanLit Responds says two others were arrested later.",
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"\"I do feel relieved to hear that the courts finally recognize that what we did is not something that should be criminalized, that the charges were withdrawn,\" she said after the press conference.",
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"Toronto Police did not immediately respond to a request for comment.",
"CanLit Responds says charges against the fifth protester are still pending and that they were arrested in September 2024, nearly a year after the ceremony.",
"Asked to comment on the charges being dropped, Giller Foundation executive director Elana Rabinovitch said the literary non-profit \"fully and unequivocally supports freedom of speech, expression, dissent and the right to protest.\""
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Wrexham: Defensive record down to team ethos - Eoghan O'Connell | Eoghan O'Connell says Wrexham's supreme defensive record is a result of the "ethos" within Phil Parkinson's squad.
Wrexham head to Burton Albion on Saturday having kept four clean sheets in their last five League One outings.
Parkinson's men have conceded only 11 goals in 18 league games this season, meaning they have meanest defence on the third tier.
"That gives the team a good base to build from," said centre-back O'Connell.
"We work really well together. We have had some changes at the back and in goal, but it just shows the ethos of the team - we want to do it for each other, we want to defend, we want to run.
"I think the clean sheets are a mark of that for everyone."
Second-placed Wrexham are just a point clear of Birmingham City, who have two games in hand in third, meaning the pressure is on to maintain their good form against struggling Burton.
The Dragons' latest triumph came against Barnsley on Tuesday, when Ollie Rathbone struck the only goal in stoppage time to secure a third successive win.
"Against a team like Barnsley, a big club who have been in the Championship and have very high-level players at this level, to perform like we did and find a way to win is massive," added former Charlton Athletic player O'Connell.
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Jets are sticking with Aaron Rodgers at QB, and Dolphins can't wait to finally face him | MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. (AP) — Aaron Rodgers was traded to the New York Jets more than a year ago.
But after missing all but four snaps last season because of a torn left Achilles tendon, Rodgers has yet to face the Miami Dolphins with his current team.
That’ll change Sunday when the Jets and Dolphins meet for the first time this season, and quarterback Tua Tagovailoa said this game feels like a long time coming.
“I’m excited to see him go out there and have fun with his guys and play,” Tagovailoa said. “Hopefully they don’t do too good against our guys, but we’re going to come out there and we’re going to compete as well and just admire good football if he goes out there and does his thing.”
Jets interim coach Jeff Ulbrich said earlier this week the team is sticking with Rodgers as the starter despite the 41-year-old’s struggles. And Rodgers called notions that he’d need to use the final five games of the season to prove his value to the team “ridiculous.”
“I love football,” Rodgers said. “I don’t need a lot of motivation from the outside world or inspiration. I wake up, I love what I’m doing, I’m grateful to still be playing and I want to go out and compete and light up the defense every day.”
But the Dolphins (5-7) are preparing to see the absolute best of the four-time NFL MVP, whose recent struggles have no bearing on his legacy, Tagovailoa said.
“Whether he looks like the same way he did in years past or not, you’re just going up against greatness regardless,” Tagovailoa said.
Dolphins rookie linebacker Chop Robinson estimated that he was a year old during Rodgers’ first NFL season.
“To me, he still looks like Aaron Rodgers out there,” Robinson said, adding that he’s excited to face the player he grew up watching.
Rodgers has thrown for 2,627 yards and 19 touchdowns with eight interceptions, but his 6.3 yards-per-pass attempt is the lowest of his career as a starter.
He was 21 of 39 for 185 yards with two touchdowns against Seattle last week, but also had an interception returned 92 yards for a touchdown and could not lead the Jets (3-9) on a late comeback — something he has done many times in his career.
“We have tremendous faith in Aaron, we really do,” Ulbrich said. “His struggles partly have been from an injury standpoint, not being fully healthy. But beyond that, I know he hasn’t played to the standard he’d like to play to. But we all know what he’s capable of. We all have great belief in him. I really believe we’re going to get the best version of him this Sunday, I do.”
Search for 300
Rodgers has passed for 300 or more yards 77 times in his 20-year NFL career, including 69 in the regular season.
But it has been four years since the most recent time.
Rodgers threw for 341 yards against Chicago on Dec. 12, 2021 while with Green Bay, making his 300-yard drought 34 regular-season games and 35 overall, including one playoff game.
“Stats can be skewed both positively and negatively, and it’s a weird one, for sure,” said Rodgers, whose season high is 294 yards against Buffalo in Week 6. “Would love to get rid of that one, but there’s a lot of stats that I’ve been on the right side of. That one is not one of my favorites, for sure.”
Special special teams
The Jets’ special teams unit was dominant in the first half last week against Seattle — and made some NFL history in the process.
The were the first team to have a kickoff returned for a TD, recover two fumbles on kickoffs and block an extra point in the same game. And New York did that all in the first half against Seattle.
The big star was Kene Nwangwu, who was promoted from the practice squad before the game and returned a kickoff 99 yards for a score and also forced a fumble on a kickoff. The performance earned him AFC special teams player of the week honors.
Olu steps in
Rookie Olu Fashanu has been one of the bright spots of the Jets’ season – and is showing he’s a building block for the future.
In his second start at left tackle in place of the injured Tyron Smith, the No. 11 overall pick in April allowed no pressures on 42 pass blocking snaps, according to Next Gen Stats. He joined Tampa Bay’s Tristan Wirfs as the only players this season with no pressures allowed in at least 40 pass blocking snaps.
“He’s a baller,” left guard John Simpson said. “That’s my dog. He’s a good dude, he learns real quick. … He’s coming along very well and he’s going to be a great player in this league.”
Chubb getting close
Dolphins pass rusher Bradley Chubb practiced this week for the first time since tearing the anterior cruciate ligament in his right knee in Week 17 last season.
Defensive coordinator Anthony Weaver said Thursday it’s hard to determine how close Chubb is to being game ready because he had only about seven full-speed reps.
“I know the work he’s put forth just to get to this point,” Weaver said. “I’m sure it’s going to be some time just to gain confidence and get back to where he feels comfortable going out there and playing in an NFL game.”
Chubb was listed as questionable on Friday after limited participation in practice all week.
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Cardiff City: Omer Riza 'sure' of January transfer window backing | Cardiff City manager Omer Riza says he will get the backing he needs to make signings in January.
Riza had been the Bluebirds' interim manager before it was announced on Thursday he had been given the job on a contract until the end of the season.
Now the uncertainty surrounding his own future has been resolved, Riza is thinking about transfer plans before the window opens next month.
"Conversations are ongoing in respect of a longlist and a shortlist of players and recognising where the weaknesses are we have in the squad, and how we need to replenish or replace players to make sure that, come January, we are taking the team to another level," Riza said.
"The conversations have been good. We're talking all the time. If we need to strengthen I'm sure we will be given the opportunity to do so."
Riza has overseen a marked improvement during his 12 games at the helm, picking up 16 points and implementing a more attacking style of play.
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Burgin leads Idaho State against Oral Roberts after 25-point showing | Oral Roberts Golden Eagles (3-6) at Idaho State Bengals (3-5)
Pocatello, Idaho; Saturday, 8 p.m. EST
BETMGM SPORTSBOOK LINE: Bengals -4.5; over/under is 145
BOTTOM LINE: Idaho State plays Oral Roberts after AJ Burgin scored 25 points in Idaho State’s 94-80 loss to the South Dakota Coyotes.
The Bengals are 2-0 in home games. Idaho State is fifth in the Big Sky at limiting opponent scoring, giving up 68.1 points while holding opponents to 42.6% shooting.
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Idaho State’s average of 8.4 made 3-pointers per game this season is the same per game average that Oral Roberts allows. Oral Roberts scores 8.7 more points per game (76.8) than Idaho State gives up to opponents (68.1).
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A Coup, Almost, in South Korea | President Yoon Suk-yeol declared martial law, then backed off, in a matter of hours. He now faces impeachment and mass protests.
Late on Tuesday night in Seoul, Yoon Suk-yeol, the unpopular South Korean President facing growing calls for impeachment and resignation, appeared on television to issue an emergency declaration of martial law. All political meetings and strikes were banned; all media would be subject to government approval. The action was necessary, Yoon insisted, because of legislators’ recent attempts to impeach various members of his administration and obstruct his budget—not to mention the ever-present threat of Communist North Korea that had infiltrated the primary opposition party and was “plundering the freedom and happiness of our people.” He used the word “paralysis” again and again to describe the state of his government, which, he said, was “on the verge of collapse,” as grave a situation as actual war. Thousands of citizens and journalists crowded outside the gates of the National Assembly, while a phalanx of military special-forces officers, toting rifles, broke through windows to get inside. Helicopters flew overhead. The images recalled footage from May, 1980, in Gwangju, after the previous time a South Korean leader had instituted martial law—resulting in a government massacre of pro-democracy protesters. Around 1 a.m. on Wednesday, nearly two-thirds of the members of the National Assembly convened to vote to overturn Yoon’s declaration, under a provision of the 1987 constitution that had seemed like a relic, until now: when a majority of the legislature “requests the lifting of martial law . . . the President shall comply.”
While waiting on news of the President’s compliance, leaders of all the major parties, including Yoon’s own People Power Party, held pressers outside the National Assembly to condemn the martial-law decree and pledge “unity with the people.” Everyone looked to be in shock. The defense ministry stated that it would enforce martial law so long as it was in effect, but reportedly backed off arresting the liberal opposition leader Lee Jae-myung, of the Democratic Party, who had lost to Yoon in 2022 and has since been a target of his vengeance. President Joe Biden, who was charmed last year by Yoon’s rendition of “American Pie” at a White House dinner, signalled that the U.S. would not support him in this particular effort, as it had previous Korean authoritarians. The sleepless people of Korea (and jittery stock markets) held on for word from Presidential headquarters—which Yoon had moved to the compound of the defense ministry, next to the U.S. military base in Seoul, after his election in 2022. Around 4:20 A.M., Yoon showed up via video feed. “Based on the National Assembly’s vote, I have called back the military,” he said. He promised to withdraw the martial-law order, but warned his opponents to scrap their assault on his administration.
What to make of these six hours of overnight chaos? Was it a “drunken episode,” as one of my relatives quipped from Seoul? Or was it a performative “happening” or a “rehearsal” for a much more violent coup d’état, as an activist in Chungnam province wondered to me, over text message? It’s a marvel that no one was seriously injured or killed in the confrontation at the National Assembly. If Yoon had hoped that his party and the rest of the Korean government (and maybe America, too) would play along—and that he might thereby ward off removal from office—he badly miscalculated. Cho Kuk, an opposition-party leader and a former justice minister, told the press that legislators were preparing the paperwork to impeach him. Lee’s Democratic Party announced that it would also pursue impeachment if Yoon “does not immediately resign.”
Yoon, who’d made his name in the powerful central prosecutor’s office of the liberal former President Moon Jae-in, had never held elected office before fashioning himself as an extreme conservative and winning the Presidency in 2022, by a margin of less than one per cent. Inside and outside the country, Yoon has often been compared to Donald Trump and others of the global MAGA strain, but his tenure has always had more frightening local resonances. His narrow victory over Lee was bewildering: in the recent history of South Korea, prosecutors were, like the military and the police, tools of dictatorship. Yet Lee was an uninspired candidate, and Koreans were frustrated by rising housing costs and general economic malaise under Moon; Yoon also took advantage of a male backlash to #MeToo feminism. There were many reasons for worry during Yoon’s campaign and in the early months of his Presidency. He called for a preëmptive strike against North Korea; he used the police and prosecutors to attack political opponents, journalists, and unions. His wife, Kim Keon-hee, appeared to exercise undue control over the executive office, and was credibly accused of graft, bribery, and election interference. (They have denied wrongdoing.) In September, Yoon reshuffled his cabinet, appointing a new defense minister, which now seems to have been a way of preparing for whatever Tuesday night was. Might his intended coup—and the social and political response that stopped it—also be a preview, or portent, of a second Trump Administration?
I spent most of November in South Korea and happened to fly back on Monday night. (Bad journalistic timing.) The country I saw was decidedly not on the precipice, as Yoon said in his martial-law declaration—but he and his wife were. In Seoul, Gwangju, and Cheonan, there were banners everywhere demanding “Yoon Suk-yeol OUT!” Rallies against him were held frequently. His approval rate was around twenty-five per cent. There was a sense of pessimism and strain beneath the smooth layers of daily life. A journalist friend described feeling constant anxiety as he went out to report. I met with a lawyer involved in opposition politics who cited Yoon and Trump’s reëlection and the wars in Ukraine and Palestine as proof of a morbid historical moment. Yet he believed Yoon’s impeachment and removal from office to be imminent, given just how much misconduct was coming to light.
We will know, very soon, whether his prediction was correct. On Wednesday, lawmakers in a number of parties brought a motion to impeach, which Yoon’s party later said it would oppose. Several Presidential aides resigned, and international summits were postponed. Large crowds began gathering to demand that Yoon step down. The Korean Confederation of Trade Unions, the successor to the industrial-labor activists who helped power the democracy movement of the nineteen-eighties, called for a general strike until Yoon is gone, potentially disrupting public transit. (Rail and subway workers were already planning to strike later this week.) It feels a bit like 2016 and 2017, when the mounting scandals around then-President Park Geun-hye, the daughter of the military dictator Park Chung-hee, were enough to draw tens of millions to peaceful candlelight protests. In a sad irony, Yoon himself was one of the lead prosecutors in her eventual impeachment and imprisonment. Many of those demonstrators have since hung back, owing to political exhaustion. But Tuesday night was a mass infusion of adrenaline, if nothing else. ♦ | {
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"Yoon, who’d made his name in the powerful central prosecutor’s office of the liberal former President Moon Jae-in, had never held elected office before fashioning himself as an extreme conservative and winning the Presidency in 2022, by a margin of less than one per cent. Inside and outside the country, Yoon has often been compared to Donald Trump and others of the global MAGA strain, but his tenure has always had more frightening local resonances. His narrow victory over Lee was bewildering: in the recent history of South Korea, prosecutors were, like the military and the police, tools of dictatorship. Yet Lee was an uninspired candidate, and Koreans were frustrated by rising housing costs and general economic malaise under Moon; Yoon also took advantage of a male backlash to #MeToo feminism. There were many reasons for worry during Yoon’s campaign and in the early months of his Presidency. He called for a preëmptive strike against North Korea; he used the police and prosecutors to attack political opponents, journalists, and unions. His wife, Kim Keon-hee, appeared to exercise undue control over the executive office, and was credibly accused of graft, bribery, and election interference. (They have denied wrongdoing.) In September, Yoon reshuffled his cabinet, appointing a new defense minister, which now seems to have been a way of preparing for whatever Tuesday night was. Might his intended coup—and the social and political response that stopped it—also be a preview, or portent, of a second Trump Administration?",
"I spent most of November in South Korea and happened to fly back on Monday night. (Bad journalistic timing.) The country I saw was decidedly not on the precipice, as Yoon said in his martial-law declaration—but he and his wife were. In Seoul, Gwangju, and Cheonan, there were banners everywhere demanding “Yoon Suk-yeol OUT!” Rallies against him were held frequently. His approval rate was around twenty-five per cent. There was a sense of pessimism and strain beneath the smooth layers of daily life. A journalist friend described feeling constant anxiety as he went out to report. I met with a lawyer involved in opposition politics who cited Yoon and Trump’s reëlection and the wars in Ukraine and Palestine as proof of a morbid historical moment. Yet he believed Yoon’s impeachment and removal from office to be imminent, given just how much misconduct was coming to light.",
"We will know, very soon, whether his prediction was correct. On Wednesday, lawmakers in a number of parties brought a motion to impeach, which Yoon’s party later said it would oppose. Several Presidential aides resigned, and international summits were postponed. Large crowds began gathering to demand that Yoon step down. The Korean Confederation of Trade Unions, the successor to the industrial-labor activists who helped power the democracy movement of the nineteen-eighties, called for a general strike until Yoon is gone, potentially disrupting public transit. (Rail and subway workers were already planning to strike later this week.) It feels a bit like 2016 and 2017, when the mounting scandals around then-President Park Geun-hye, the daughter of the military dictator Park Chung-hee, were enough to draw tens of millions to peaceful candlelight protests. In a sad irony, Yoon himself was one of the lead prosecutors in her eventual impeachment and imprisonment. Many of those demonstrators have since hung back, owing to political exhaustion. But Tuesday night was a mass infusion of adrenaline, if nothing else. ♦"
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Drivers stranded on 401 as blizzard pounds parts of southwestern Ontario | Motorists were getting out of their vehicles in the storm, some running low on fuel
Drivers travelling on Highway 401 in southwestern Ontario found themselves stranded for hours as a major snowstorm hit the region Thursday, causing collisions and closures.
Motorists who spoke to CBC News from their vehicles said they called local and provincial police many times but received no answers, adding they weren't prepared to be stuck for such a long time.
"We are now many hours deep into this, sitting still on the road, and nobody has come to check on us," said Craig Sears in an interview from the 401, where he sat with his wife and son en route to Sarnia.
"I'm a diabetic and we have our son with us who has Aspergers, so he's feeling uncomfortable. It's super anxious for him because we've literally been sitting here for five hours, not getting any responses from police," Sears said.
London and the surrounding area faced multiple road closures, crashes and difficult driving conditions throughout the afternoon and night as heavy snowfall blanketed the region. Environment Canada expected an additional 30 cm to fall by morning, with the squalls continuing.
A multi-vehicle crash closed the westbound lanes of Highway 401 near Ingersoll in the afternoon, with police keeping them closed until almost 6 p.m. The Ontario Provincial Police said one person was taken to hospital in critical condition.
"I can tell everybody who's stranded right now, their patience is running thin, I totally understand that," OPP Sgt. Ed Sanchuk said, urging drivers to stay in their vehicles and be patient.
"We have officers turning traffic around on our highway right now, and we have officers strategically placed to get people off the highway in a safe manner. But please bear with us, we're working as diligently as possible to get the highway cleared."
Traffic 'at a standstill,' drivers say
Jackie Lemmink was stuck on the 401, east of London, for more than six hours while officers dealt with the crash. She witnessed multiple additional collisions in front of her before traffic came to a stop.
"It doesn't look like anything's moving," she told CBC London's Afternoon Drive from her vehicle. "There are trucks upon trucks, and there's so much traffic that's at a standstill. People are starting to come out of their cars to find out what's going on because we don't have any idea."
Lemmink, who was on her way to Michigan, said she opted not to take county roads because she assumed the 401 would be safer due to constantly moving traffic.
"I always thought the 401 is safer because they'll put down salt and they've prepared for this. The snow is quite high and it's quite icy everywhere. I'm not prepared to be stuck here."
Sears said he was forced to turn off his car to save fuel at the five-hour mark of waiting. He said traffic had begun to crawl slowly around 8 p.m. but that the conditions were still poor.
"It's insane because I've called [police] multiple times. Shouldn't they check on people? Nobody should ever be trapped in their vehicle on a highway for this long, there's no excuse for it," he said.
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Stormont extends welfare mitigation payments | The Stormont executive has agreed to extend welfare mitigation payments for another three years.
They were brought in to soften the impact of welfare reforms on people who would have been affected by the so-called bedroom tax and the benefit cap.
The payments were due to end in March, but Communities Minister Gordon Lyons announced on Thursday they will now run until 31 March 2028.
People supported by the mitigation receive it in the form of a top-up to their benefits.
'We need to see more mitigations'
More than 38,000 people received the payments in the 2023/24 financial year.
A total of £23m was paid to mitigate social sector size criteria deductions (bedroom tax) and over £1.7m was paid to mitigate the benefit cap.
The projected funding requirement for the mitigations package for 2025/26 is £47.3m.
Lyons said the extension of the mitigation payments will reassure people who get them who may have been concerned about their future financial stability.
"I recognise the importance of tackling poverty through the social security system and was determined to secure this extension to remove any 'cliff edge' resulting from the schemes' closure," he said.
"Extending these mitigation schemes will have a positive impact for people across Northern Ireland and will help to protect the most vulnerable in our society."
'New challenges'
Dr Ciara Fitzpatrick, a lecturer at Ulster University, told BBC Radio Ulster's Good Morning Ulster programme that while it was positive news that the mitigations had been extended there have been "greatly different challenges" since they were introduced in 2016.
"We have had a Covid-19 pandemic, a cost-of-living crisis that we're still living through and child poverty has increased from 19% to 24% so we need to take stock of that and we need to see more mitigations introduced," she added.
The Department is required to produce a report by 31 March 2025 assessing the existing mitigation schemes in place but Lyons said he intended to have a report by 31 December 2024.
Dr Fitzpatrick said that the Department for Communities' report should be broadened out to reflect new challenges and to provide "strengthen mitigations that meet those challenges".
The legislation for the extension of the welfare mitigation schemes will be brought forward by the minister in January 2025.
Loopholes
Lyons also said that "loopholes" in the payments criteria which previously existed would not be reintroduced in the updated legislation.
"I have ensured that the removal of the loopholes in the updated legislation will mean that those who are most in need of this support will receive it," he said.
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How major US stock indexes fared Thursday, 12/5/2024 | U.S. stocks slipped below their records in the runup to a big jobs report due on Friday.
The S&P 500 edged down 0.2% Thursday after setting an all-time high for the 56th time this year the day before. The Dow Jones Industrial Average lost 0.6%, while the Nasdaq composite fell 0.2%.
The crypto market had much more action, and bitcoin briefly burst to a record above $103,000 before falling back toward $99,000. It’s climbed dramatically since Election Day on hopes President-elect Donald Trump will be more friendly to crypto. Airline stocks were strong, while Treasury yields held relatively steady in the bond market.
On Thursday:
The S&P 500 fell 11.38 points, or 0.2%, to 6,075.11.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 248.33 points, or 0.6%, to 44,765.71.
The Nasdaq composite fell 34.86 points, or 0.2%, to 19,700.26.
The Russell 2000 index of smaller companies fell 30.39 points, or 1.3%, to 2,396.17.
For the week:
The S&P 500 is up 42.73 points, or 0.7%.
The Dow is down 144.94 points, or 0.3%.
The Nasdaq is up 482.09 points, or 2.5%.
The Russell 2000 is down 38.56 points, or 1.6%.
For the year:
The S&P 500 is up 1,305.28 points, or 27.4%.
The Dow is up 7,076.17 points, or 18.8%.
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Satellite images of alleged Iranian nuclear site hit by Israel indicate Tehran tried to hide sensitive debris | New satellite imagery of an Iranian military site that Israel apparently destroyed in October and that some Western analysts said was a nuclear facility shows that Iran made efforts to conceal the debris. Those efforts indicate the site contained something of value, the analysts told VOA.
The commercial satellite images from Maxar Technologies published Monday on the X platform by the Washington-based Institute for Science and International Security show the destroyed building known as Taleghan 2 at Iran's Parchin military base on November 6 and November 24.
An archive of Iranian nuclear documents seized by Israel from Tehran in 2018 and later shared by Israel with the institute included what the group has said were pre-2004 images of Taleghan 2, showing the building housing equipment used in nuclear weapons research.
The International Atomic Energy Agency has said Iran suspended an active nuclear weapons program in 2003. Iran has denied Israel's allegation that it has covertly continued that program.
Israel apparently struck Taleghan 2 in its October 26 aerial assault on Iran, according to Western media citing researchers who examined before-and-after commercial satellite images of the rectangular building, which had been built in a carved-out section of hillside.
The new images published by the institute show that by November 6, Iran had covered the demolished building with a makeshift horizontal structure and erected vertical security screens next to debris piles, shielding the site from being viewed from above and on the ground.
The images also show that by November 26, the vertical security screens had been removed, while the horizontal structure remained over the building and the debris piles remained visible around the site. The institute identified one pile as probably containing destroyed equipment.
In an interview with VOA, the institute's president, American physicist David Albright, said the resolution of the commercial satellite imagery was not high enough to identify what kind of equipment likely had been destroyed inside Taleghan 2. But he said the erecting of two vertical screens at the site for several weeks indicates that some of the debris was of a sensitive nature.
"I think Iran put up the screens because it was nervous that foreign intelligence agents could use a telescope from down the road to figure out what was in the debris," Albright said. "They later took down the screens probably because they had hauled away the sensitive stuff and wanted to make it easier to continue the cleanup process at the site."
Olli Heinonen, a researcher at the Washington-based Stimson Center and a former IAEA official who inspected Iran's Parchin base twice in the early 2000s, shared his observations of the latest satellite imagery with VOA in a separate interview.
"Even if the Iranians removed the most valuable equipment from Taleghan 2 for some reason before the October 26 strike, the building still would have equipment left, considering its purpose," Heinonen said. "Any valuable material in the rubble certainly could have been taken away."
Heinonen said the temporary vertical screens at the site may have been intended to conceal the debris not only from prying foreign eyes but also from Iranian dissidents and curiosity-seekers.
"It also is logical for authorities to clean up the site, so that the morale of Parchin's thousands of workers is not harmed by them seeing destruction caused by a foreign power," he said.
Israel initially said its October assault on Iran targeted aerial defense and missile production sites. It was the first major Israeli attack on Iran after more than a year of fighting that began with an attack by Iranian proxy group Hamas on the Jewish state and grew into a multifront conflict directly involving Tehran and its other regional proxies.
Netanyahu revelation
Speaking to Israel's parliament on November 18, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu revealed that the October offensive also "harmed" what he called a "certain component" of the Iranian nuclear program, without elaborating. Taleghan 2 was the only site with an alleged link to that program identified by Western media as one of the targets of the Israeli operation.
Iran's U.N. mission in New York did not immediately respond to a VOA email, sent on Friday, asking whether the Taleghan 2 building was an undeclared part of the Iranian nuclear program.
IAEA Director General Rafael Mariano Grossi told a news conference on November 20 that the U.N. nuclear agency does not see Taleghan 2 as a nuclear site.
A November 15 report by U.S. news site Axios cited unnamed U.S. officials and unnamed current and former Israeli officials as saying it was an "active top-secret nuclear weapons research facility."
Grossi said the site "could have been involved in the past in some activities" of concern, but he added: "We don't have any information that would confirm the presence of nuclear material there ... [or] that would substantiate this idea that recently some activities [there] ... could be of relevance for us."
The lack of clarity on the equipment in the rubble of Taleghan 2 makes it difficult to assess the significance of the building's destruction to Iran, researchers told VOA.
Albright noted that Netanyahu described Israel as having "harmed" a component of Iran's nuclear program, rather than saying Israel severely damaged Tehran's bomb-making ability.
"Sometimes in a strike like this, the bomb doesn't damage every important piece of equipment. One piece is in a corner, survives and can be fixed later, or the Iranians have a replacement at some university or other military production site," Albright said.
Andrea Stricker, a nonproliferation researcher at the Washington-based Foundation for Defense of Democracies, said regardless of whether serious harm was done to nuclear weapons research at Taleghan 2, the significance of the strike is in the message that Israel apparently was sending.
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"Olli Heinonen, a researcher at the Washington-based Stimson Center and a former IAEA official who inspected Iran's Parchin base twice in the early 2000s, shared his observations of the latest satellite imagery with VOA in a separate interview.",
"\"Even if the Iranians removed the most valuable equipment from Taleghan 2 for some reason before the October 26 strike, the building still would have equipment left, considering its purpose,\" Heinonen said. \"Any valuable material in the rubble certainly could have been taken away.\"",
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"Iran's U.N. mission in New York did not immediately respond to a VOA email, sent on Friday, asking whether the Taleghan 2 building was an undeclared part of the Iranian nuclear program.",
"IAEA Director General Rafael Mariano Grossi told a news conference on November 20 that the U.N. nuclear agency does not see Taleghan 2 as a nuclear site.",
"A November 15 report by U.S. news site Axios cited unnamed U.S. officials and unnamed current and former Israeli officials as saying it was an \"active top-secret nuclear weapons research facility.\"",
"Grossi said the site \"could have been involved in the past in some activities\" of concern, but he added: \"We don't have any information that would confirm the presence of nuclear material there ... [or] that would substantiate this idea that recently some activities [there] ... could be of relevance for us.\"",
"The lack of clarity on the equipment in the rubble of Taleghan 2 makes it difficult to assess the significance of the building's destruction to Iran, researchers told VOA.",
"Albright noted that Netanyahu described Israel as having \"harmed\" a component of Iran's nuclear program, rather than saying Israel severely damaged Tehran's bomb-making ability.",
"\"Sometimes in a strike like this, the bomb doesn't damage every important piece of equipment. One piece is in a corner, survives and can be fixed later, or the Iranians have a replacement at some university or other military production site,\" Albright said.",
"Andrea Stricker, a nonproliferation researcher at the Washington-based Foundation for Defense of Democracies, said regardless of whether serious harm was done to nuclear weapons research at Taleghan 2, the significance of the strike is in the message that Israel apparently was sending.",
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Montreal fire department cuts back on gear containing 'forever chemicals' | Move comes after Radio-Canada's Enquête finds high levels of PFAS
The Montreal fire department is taking steps to replace pieces of protective clothing shown to have high levels of potentially hazardous "forever chemicals."
An analysis carried out for Radio-Canada's investigative program Enquête by a team at Université de Montréal revealed that some of the equipment worn by firefighters contain high levels of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS).
Certain pants were found to contain up to 560 parts per billion of PFAS, more than 20 times the standard proposed by the European Union for textile products. Canada has not yet adopted an equivalent set of standards.
The fire department is immediately suspending the purchase of the pants while it conducts its own analysis, said a spokesperson for the fire department, Guy Lapointe.
The fire department is also moving to quickly replace other personal protective equipment.
The Enquête report, broadcast in mid-November, uncovered extremely high levels of PFAS in two pairs of pants and a coat worn by firefighters, with some samples reaching several thousand, and sometimes tens of thousands, of parts per billion of PFAS.
According to Lapointe, the fire department has set aside money for 477 protective suits, known as bunker gear. Two hundred are on order and will be delivered in 2024, and a further 277 will be delivered in early 2025, depending on supplier capacity, he said.
This means that almost 20 per cent of Montreal's 2,400 firefighters will soon have access to a new set of protective equipment in which only one of the three protective layers contains PFAS.
Union president Chris Ross welcomed the move but said it represented "no more than a Band-Aid on a gaping wound."
The problem is exacerbated by the fact that the department has trouble providing enough backup gear, when firefighters go out on successive calls.
The union says that, as a result, teams are sometimes understaffed. The Montreal fire department, for its part, insists the situation has had no major impact on services.
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The fire department recently sent out instructions to all its firefighters asking them to record the identification number or date of manufacture of their helmets, gloves and boots, in order to keep an up-to-date inventory, with a view to proactively planning their replacement.
According to information gathered by Enquête, a few hundred items no longer met standards.
More needs to be done, union says
Ross said more remains to be done to "ensure that firefighters have the right equipment to do their job safely."
PFAS are a group of manufactured chemicals used in everything from fire department uniforms to firefighting foams, as well as some non-stick cookware and even cosmetics.
Health Canada says it monitors the chemicals closely as new variants are "continually being developed," the agency's website states. Health Canada adds that "cumulative exposure could increase the potential for adverse effects."
Studies have shown that firefighter gear tends to release more PFAS when they are subject to "wear and tear," according to the U.S. government's National Institute for Standards and Technology.
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Congresbury: Man jailed for 'terrifying' post office robbery | A 40-year old man has been jailed for more than six years for the robbery of a Bristol post office, which police said was a "terrifying ordeal" for the sub postmaster.
Josh Watkins, of no fixed address, along with another man who police are still trying to identify, used a large knife to attempt to steal crash from the post office in Congresbury on 25 January.
Watkins pleaded guilty to robbery at Bristol Crown Court last month and was sentenced on Wednesday to six years and four months in prison.
He had initially pleaded not guilty to robbery but changed his plea when he appeared in court in November, police said.
Watkins and the other man entered the post office and demanded staff hand over cash while holding a large kitchen knife.
However, they were disturbed by members of the public who forced the pair to run off with no money having been stolen.
Avon and Somerset Police said an employee suffered minor injuries in the incident and that the robbery had had a significant impact on their mental health.
The employee spoke about the emotional impact in a victim personal statement read out in court.
'Community support'
Watkins was identified in August, following detailed forensic, CCTV and witness inquiries and then arrested and charged.
Det Con Shifa Scott, the investigating officer from Avon and Somerset Police, said: "The two men used a large kitchen knife to intimidate the sub postmaster in what must have been a terrifying ordeal.
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Dartmouth heads to UIC for non-conference showdown | Dartmouth Big Green (4-3) at UIC Flames (5-4, 0-1 MVC)
Chicago; Sunday, 5 p.m. EST
BOTTOM LINE: Ryan Cornish and Dartmouth visit Sasa Ciani and UIC in cross-conference play.
The Flames are 4-1 on their home court. UIC leads the MVC averaging 83.6 points and is shooting 48.8%.
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The Other MAGA President | In today’s newsletter, Jon Lee Anderson reports on the slash-and-burn austerity measures in Argentina that have earned admiration from Trump acolytes. Plus:
The President, a libertarian economist given to outrageous provocations, wants to remake the nation. Can it survive his shock-therapy approach?
Supporters of Javier Milei, the self-described “anarcho-capitalist” President of Argentina, call him the Madman or the Wig—a reference to his hairdo, an unkempt shag with disco sideburns. Detractors liken him to the pilot of an aircraft plunging toward the ground. Milei—who came to power, amid an anti-incumbent wave, in part by blaming economic trouble on corruption among politicians, journalists, trade unionists, and academics—believes in a drastic reduction in the scope of government. He once declared that “the state is the pedophile in the kindergarten, with the children chained up and slathered in Vaseline.” Jon Lee Anderson met with Milei, and, in this week’s issue, he details the striking parallels he found between the Argentinean President and America’s President-elect. Read the story »
The birth-control pill can now be bought over the counter in America, for the first time in the medication’s roughly sixty-year history. The safe, inexpensive contraceptive, which has been available without a prescription in more than a hundred other countries for many years, “is arriving at a fraught time for reproductive freedom in the U.S.,” Margaret Talbot writes. Anti-abortion groups, conservative politicians, and influencers on TikTok touting “natural family planning” have mounted an assault on what is among the best-studied preventative-health measures available. Read the story »
P.S. The first, fleeting flakes of the season swirled briefly in New York City this morning, bringing with them a wintery mood befitting of Margaret Atwood’s story “Stone Mattress,” from 2011, in which a woman named Verna embarks on an Arctic cruise, “a vacation, pure and simple,” among “the vast cool sweeps of ice and rock and sea and sky.” Verna intends to “take a breather, do some inner accounting, shed worn skin”—certainly not to kill someone. And yet . . . ❄️ | {
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Nigerians turn to community savings amid financial struggles | As Nigeria grapples with economic challenges, many are turning to Ajo — a community savings system rooted in trust and tradition.
For traders and low-income earners, it’s a lifeline, providing lump sums of cash for projects and urgent needs. But without regulation, Ajo users risk losing their savings to fraud.
Trader Tessy Ajakaye, 50, is one of the millions of Nigerians relying on Ajo. For her, it’s more than just a savings tool — it’s the backbone of her business. Ajakaye contributes daily, knowing her payout later will help expand her inventory.
In the Ajo system, participants make cash contributions daily or weekly to a money holder as part of a savings program. Each participant gets a periodic lump sum that can be used for business needs.
"Ajo means small, small savings that you don't take to the bank," she said. At year's end, she collects those amounts from Ajo, and "I use it for next year to boost my business. When you take a loan, you pay back with interest. But Ajo, this is your money. What you save is what they give to you."
Ajo isn’t without its risks. Rose Ojoma, another trader, lost her savings to a fraudulent collector during a festive period — a common problem with unregulated schemes.
Ojoma said unscrupulous collectors have taken her money during the Christmas season. Some, she said, will take a month's worth of contributions "as an opportunity to run away, and you cannot find them." She said that as a result, she contributes less to reduce her risk.
Ajo, a Yoruba term for thrift or microsavings, has existed for generations in Nigeria and across Africa under names like Esusu and Adashe. It thrives in low-income communities, offering a simple way to save and access funds without banks.
Economist Jide Ojo said Ajo fills the gap for Nigerians excluded from formal banking systems. He said Ajo is simple and helpful because it lets contributors do projects or access services much easier with their savings. He said it also helps them to be prudent in their spending, because it's a way of putting something aside, rather than using all your income.
But the lack of regulation leaves participants vulnerable.
Development economist Hauwa Mustapha acknowledges the system's benefits, but he is calling for reforms to improve security.
"The government does not have any role directly to protect informal savings schemes," Mustapha said. "The informal savings scheme, as it is, is informal, it's personal, it's about your choice, it's voluntary. I think it will be important, if they can be very well educated and enlightened, to understand how to put some legal form into the concept of Ajo, so that can help to secure the funds more. And I also think that the banks can become more flexible and adopt that principle of Ajo into the bank."
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Senators amend error in cybersecurity bill that could have cancelled half of it | Bill C-26 is meant to protect vital infrastructure from cyberattacks, ban telecoms from partnering with Huawei
It could take a while yet for the federal government's cybersecurity bill to become law after the Senate caught an error that essentially would have nullified half of what the legislation sets out to do.
The Senate voted Thursday to amend the bill to fix what's been described as a human error.
While in the grand scheme of things the amendment is a technical fix, the legislation will have to be sent back to a gridlocked House of Commons for another vote — prolonging a process that has taken more than two years already.
"Which is unfortunate, because of how important this legislation is," said non-affiliated Sen. Patti LaBoucane-Benson while introducing the amendment earlier this week.
She urged both houses to pass the bill before the end of this parliamentary session.
"Canada's telecommunications systems and critical infrastructure face unprecedented and growing cyber threats from state and non-state actors around the world," she said.
"Canadians rely on these systems for our well-being."
Bill C-26, first introduced in 2022, would introduce new cybersecurity requirements for federally regulated industries and codify national security requirements for the telecommunications sector.
It's broken into two parts. The first section amends the Telecommunications Act to give the federal government "clear and explicit legal authority" to prohibit Canadian telecoms from using products and services from "high-risk suppliers."
The government — citing national security concerns — said at the time it would use those powers to bar Canada's next-generation mobile networks from using products and services from Huawei and ZTE, two Chinese state-backed telecommunications firms.
The second portion of Bill C-26 introduces the Critical Cyber Systems Protection Act. It would compel companies in vital, federally regulated sectors such as finance, telecommunications, energy and transportation to either shore up their cyber systems against attacks or face expensive penalties.
It's not clear how quickly House can tackle amended bill
As CBC reported last week, that whole second section would — without a change to the text — be annulled the minute it passed royal assent and became law. That's because the government's foreign interference law Bill C-70 was meant to repeal and supersede a small section of Bill C-26.
Due to an amendment a House of Commons committee made, Bill C-26's clauses were renumbered without much notice.
So instead of repealing one small section of the cybersecurity bill, the foreign interference law — which was fast-tracked through Parliament this spring — actually repeals the entire second half of Bill C-26, the cybersecurity portion.
If the error had gone unnoticed, it would have repealed the "vast majority, the most operative provisions" of Bill C-26, said Conservative Sen. Denise Batters.
She said she wants to know how to prevent things like this from happening in the future to government bills.
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RAF Fairford welcomes US Air Force personnel to Cotswolds | A Gloucestershire airbase is currently hosting more than double the usual number of crew from the United States Air Force.
More than 200 American aircrew have flown in to RAF Fairford to carry out a bomber task force, working with other NATO countries to practice how to coordinate bomb drops.
The US Air Force personnel at RAF Fairford in the Cotswolds are normally based at Barksdale Air Force Base in Louisiana.
Lt Col Jared Patterson said crew had been "honing our skills so we're ready for any future fight".
The US is the only NATO country with large bombers, with four B-52 bombers currently at RAF Fairford.
Lt Col Patterson said the deployment was about "increasing trust-building capacity" with partners and allies and that they had carried out training missions in Lithuania and Morocco.
"Throughout this deployment we've had out here in England, we've worked with a variety of partner nations," he said.
Capt Christina Herman, who is part of the bomber task force, is a radar navigator.
"During training, everything's simulated and it's okay if you mess up because nobody's going to get hurt," she said.
"But in real life, when you feel your bomb leaving your jet, [you think] 'Oh snap, I just did that'.
"To be able to come out here and do the job, it gives me that satisfaction that the last two to three years of training, it's not just going away.
"I get to put into motion what people before me have taught me."
Lt Col Michael Devita said flying and integrating with allies is "one of the biggest parts of the bomber task force".
"We love being out here, we love flying," he said.
"It's definitely a unique experience flying in the UK airspace specifically, but every single one of the allied countries we fly through have different ways they control the airspace, especially for military airplanes."
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Doncic's triple-double helps Mavericks send Wizards to 16th straight loss in 137-101 rout | WASHINGTON (AP) — Luka Doncic had 21 points, 10 assists and 10 rebounds and Kyrie Irving added 25 points to lead the Dallas Mavericks to a 137-101 victory over Washington on Thursday night, the Wizards’ 16th straight loss.
Washington tied a franchise record for consecutive defeats and fell to 2-18. It’s the second straight season the Wizards have had a 16-game skid.
Dallas made 11 of its first 16 shots from 3-point range and finished 20 of 38 from beyond the arc for its sixth win in a row.
Malcolm Brogdon scored 16 for the Wizards, who were without Kyle Kuzma (left rib sprain) and Corey Kispert (left ankle sprain).
It was the 78th triple-double for Doncic, moving him into a tie for seventh on the career list with Wilt Chamberlain and James Harden. Next on the list is Dallas coach Jason Kidd at 107.
Takeaways
Mavericks: This wasn’t much of a test, but the Mavericks put plenty of distance between themselves and the Wizards before halftime and had little to worry about against an overmatched opponent.
Wizards: Washington hasn’t won since the night before Halloween, and this streak could go on a while. The Wizards’ next four opponents — Denver, Memphis, Cleveland and Boston — are all above .500.
Key moment
It was only a six-point game near the end of the first quarter, but the Mavericks went on an 11-2 run that included a 3-pointer by Spencer Dinwiddie and two by Klay Thompson.
Key stat
The Wizards become the sixth team to have a 16-game losing streak in back-to-back seasons, according to Sportradar. The others were the Mavericks (1992-93 and 1993-94), Los Angeles Clippers (1998-99 and 1999-2000), Charlotte Bobcats (2011-12 and 2012-13), Philadelphia 76ers (2013-14, 2014-15 and 2015-16) and San Antonio Spurs (2022-23 and 2023-24).
Up next
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How the Syrian Opposition Shocked the Assad Regime | A historian explains why U.S. sanctions and Iran and Russia’s entanglements in other wars helped create an opening for rebel groups to overrun the Syrian Army.
In a stunning offensive that appeared to catch the regime of Bashar al-Assad off guard, opposition forces took over much of the Syrian city of Aleppo last week, and began moving on the city of Hama, another major urban center. Despite pledges on Monday from the governments of Russia and Iran that they would increase their support for the Syrian regime, rebel advances continued throughout the day. What was recently a largely dormant uprising may have entered an entirely new phase.
Last week’s attacks are the latest wave of resistance to Assad’s despotic rule, a civil war that began in 2011 and quickly descended into a proxy war, eventually leading to hundreds of thousands of deaths and millions of refugees. Russia and Iran helped stabilize the regime even as it used chemical weapons against its people. The region’s Sunni autocracies, meanwhile, supported various rebel groups. Some of these were secular nationalists who wanted an end to Assad’s dictatorship; others were Islamist Sunnis who wanted an Islamic state. ISIS, the most infamous and violent of the rebel groups, was among the latter, and claimed significant territory in Iraq and Syria. Then, in 2019, a United States-led coalition attacked and largely eliminated ISIS in Syria, and it appeared that Assad had decisively won the war. But now, with Assad’s allies engaged in Ukraine and in Lebanon, the rebel groups have been able to make their boldest and most successful military moves in years, surprising both the Syrian leadership and the rest of the world.
To understand more about the situation in Syria, I spoke by phone with Fawaz A. Gerges, a professor of international relations at the London School of Economics, and the author of “ISIS: A History.” His most recent book is called “What Really Went Wrong: The West and the Failure of Democracy in the Middle East.” During our conversation, which has been edited for length and clarity, we discussed why the Assad regime has been diminished in the last decade, why the Islamist opposition to Assad remains more powerful than the secular resistance, and where ultimate responsibility for one of the worst calamities of the twenty-first century lies.
What’s happened in Syria over the past week has been shocking for almost everyone. But was it shocking for people like yourself who follow this region extremely closely?
I was shocked because of the speed with which the Islamist and nationalist opposition was able to recapture large parts of northwest Syria, including Aleppo. Aleppo is the second-largest city in Syria—the cultural capital. It used to be an economic powerhouse for Syria. And of equal importance, the Syrian government’s recapture of Aleppo, in 2016, marked a turning point in the civil war.
This was and is a military earthquake. First, because of the ability of the opposition to really carry out a preëmptive attack, which meant that the opposition, mainly Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham (H.T.S.) and various groups, had been planning for this attack for a long time. This is not a byproduct of a month or two but probably a couple of years. And second, the reason I was surprised was the swiftness with which many Syrian Army units folded. For Aleppo to fall so quickly, and for the Army and the security forces to be crushed so quickly, tells me that the Syrian Army and the Syrian government suffer from major vulnerabilities. We knew about them, but we did not really appreciate their gravity and depth.
Can you explain what you mean by both the Islamist and nationalist opposition?
The opposition includes more than a dozen factions, including both Islamist and nationalist factions. You have a combined Sunni Islamist opposition, and then nationalist and somewhat secular opposition. But I think this kind of division overlooks an overarching point. The key driver behind the rebels and the opposition is H.T.S. H.T.S. is the vanguard of the opposition. H.T.S. was originally called Al Nusra Front and, historically, it was an affiliate of Al Qaeda, of Osama bin Laden and Ayman al-Zawahiri, the two late leaders of Al Qaeda. And H.T.S. tried to distance itself from Al Qaeda in the past few years. Al Nusra Front changed its name to H.T.S. because it wanted to send a clear message to its regional supporters, particularly Turkey and Qatar, and also to the international community, that it no longer really belonged to Al Qaeda. Even though H.T.S. says that it’s no longer really an integral part of Al Qaeda, it’s a Salafi jihadi organization. So it subscribes to a kind of Sunni revolutionary doctrine. It’s still a declared foreign terrorist group by both the United States and the United Kingdom.
As for the more nationalist groups, less Islamist groups, they have been the mainstream opposition, and they have as many as ten thousand fighters. They are more pluralistic and believe in a more open society that includes all ethnic and religious elements. They are less dogmatic and religiously driven. But sadly, they didn’t gain momentum, largely because they were reliant on outside powers, including the United States.
But I think the opposition could not have done what they have done in the past few days without the fighting capabilities of H.T.S., without the willpower of H.T.S., without the organizational capacity of H.T.S., without the organizational and the decision-making process of H.T.S. At the end of the day, H.T.S. will take ownership of whatever advance, whatever gains, military gains, that the opposition achieves in Syria.
To what degree has this group and others like it used the destruction of ISIS to their advantage?
I think you really cannot understand the map of the Syrian opposition, both Islamist and nationalist, without understanding the internal civil war that devastated the oppositional groups in Syria from 2013 up to 2019. This particular civil war was between ISIS and the Al Nusra Front. It was a fight about power.
At first, during the civil war, ISIS gained the upper hand, the U.S.-led coalition changed the balance of power by destroying most of the capabilities of ISIS. The United States unwittingly allowed H.T.S. to become the dominant opposition group in Syria. With very minor exceptions, the U.S.-led coalition has not systematically targeted H.T.S., and has avoided killing its top leaders, particularly Abu Mohammad al-Julani. And Abu Mohammad al-Julani has proved to be a very clever and a very calculated operational leader—not only by changing the name of Al Nusra Front to H.T.S. but also by sending direct and indirect messages to both regional actors and the United States that he was no longer really part of an Al Qaeda alliance. And more importantly, we have many reports that H.T.S. did provide some intelligence to the U.S.-led coalition about top leaders of ISIS.
Is the reason the United States has not tried to go after this group because the U.S. is not currently focussed on Syria? Or is it because they think this group, in addition to changing its name, has also reformed so that it is no longer a threat to American interests?
What’s fascinating is that throughout, really, the U.S. has consciously avoided targeting H.T.S. and consciously avoided attacking Abu Mohammad al-Julani and his top leaders. Not because the United States could not do it—because they did decimate the ISIS leadership—but I think it is because the United States wanted to drive a wedge between Al Nusra Front and ISIS, and focussed mainly on ISIS because it represented a greater threat to American interests and to its allies in the region, and also because of the relationship between Turkey and Al Nusra Front and then H.T.S.
Turkey and Qatar helped and provided financial support, and probably military arms, to H.T.S. [Qatar denied funding the group in 2017.] My sense is that the intelligence coördination between the United States and the Turkish and the Qatari governments probably mattered as well. This was not the lack of resources on the part of the United States, or the lack of will. The U.S. knows their addresses. They’re all in Idlib, in the northwest of the country, close to the Turkish border, and Turkey works very closely with them. This was a strategic decision on the part of the United States.
The story you read the most about the Assad regime is that its military weakness lies mostly in the fact that its allies—the Iranians, Hezbollah, and Russia—are tied down in other areas. Do you think that that is what is going on?
I think it’s a partial explanation. I have a different explanation, too. I think most observers of Syria don’t really recognize the effects of the American sanctions on Syria. The American-imposed sanctions on Syria have decimated the Syrian economy. Between eighty and ninety per cent of the Syrian people, according to humanitarian agencies, need humanitarian aid. We have reports that the Syrian Army is not getting the nutrition that it needs for its soldiers and units.
The second aspect that is overlooked is that Israeli systematic attacks against the Syrian Army in the past two or three years have exacted a heavy toll on the decision-making, on the infrastructure, on the morale, on the units, on the leadership. And you have to take into account that Syria has been at war since 2011. The Syrian Army has lost about a hundred thousand soldiers since 2011.
So in this sense, H.T.S. and the opposition and the rebels know very well the vulnerabilities of the Assad regime. Not only do you have a broken economy, not only do you have abject poverty, not only do you have an army that is starved, but Israeli attacks have turned the same army into a shadow of its former self.
And then there’s the fact that the Assad government’s major regional and global backers are preoccupied somewhere else. Russia has withdrawn most of its forces from Syria in the past three years. Israel has systematically targeted Iranian assets in Syria, literally on a daily basis, in particular in the past year, and also targeted Hezbollah units, which played a pivotal role in allowing Bashar al-Assad not only to survive but to basically defeat most of the opposition. In the past year, Iran has begun to pull out most of its leadership assets from Syria because they were targeted and killed, and Hezbollah has been deeply engaged first in supporting Hamas in Gaza and then in Israel.
So all these drivers really have brought about this particular moment. And H.T.S. and its allies recognized that there was a window of opportunity, and they struck very hard. Their shock attack came on the same day that Israel and Hezbollah signed the ceasefire agreement. So it was quite a decisive moment, which H.T.S. and the rebels exploited.
But we’re talking about a moving target. The Syrian Army now, along with Russia, is likely preparing for a counterattack, in particular in Hama and other places. My take on it is that you’re going to see a great mobilization on the part of the Syrian Army and its allies, including the Russians and the Iranians and other militia forces. Even though what has happened is a military earthquake, this is still the beginning.
Syria has a relatively large Kurdish population, and in Syria’s post-ISIS era, when the civil war was considered over, there were still areas under Kurdish control that were being protected by the United States. And there was a sense that Assad had handed over control to Iran and Russia, who were making battlefield decisions. Can you describe what the Syrian state is right now?
First and foremost, the Syrian war that ignited in 2011 has never ended. What we have seen since 2020 is a lull in the war. Syria is an explosive cocktail of non-state actors, of regional powers, great powers. You have more than ten thousand Islamist Sunni Salaf fighters, and they are directly and indirectly supported by Turkey. You have the Syrian national secular opposition, again, fully supported by Turkey in Idlib. In the Idlib area, you’re talking about five million people under the control of H.T.S. You also have the Kurds who are probably as powerful as H.T.S., and they are currently supported by the United States, and the United States has around a thousand soldiers. You have Turkish forces in Idlib. You have Iranian as well as Hezbollah’s assets. You have a Russian base in Syria. So even though the Syrian government, the Assad government, controls about sixty per cent of Syrian territory, the reality is Syria is no longer a sovereign state. You can argue that the Assad government is the biggest state militia in Syria. But in a way, President Assad has forfeited Syrian sovereignty in order to survive. Because without the support of the Russians and the Iranians and Hezbollah and other non-state actors, including the militias, Assad probably could not have initially regained or recaptured some of the towns and cities, including Aleppo in 2016.
The Iranian foreign minister was just in Syria, and he promised full support for the Syrian government. The Russian government also promised to send reinforcements to Syria. Turkey obviously supports its proxies in Syria, and the Kurds are moving in. So you’re not going to have just a war between Assad and H.T.S. You’re going to have a war between the Kurds in Syria, who are supported by the United States, and Turkey and their proxies. And the Kurds are also now moving into some of the areas which the Syrian government has withdrawn from.
What we’re seeing at this particular point is the reigniting of the Syrian war. But my fear is that we are also seeing the reigniting of the proxy war in Syria that almost destroyed the country between 2011 and 2020.
Would it be equally fair to say that the Assad regime destroyed Syria in that time? It still seems to me that in some fundamental sense this is morally Assad’s doing.
Well, there’s no denying that Assad, as the autocratic President of Syria, is first and foremost responsible for the catastrophe that has befallen Syria since 2011—legally, morally, politically, and militarily. He caused any peaceful opposition to him, which began in 2011 as part of the Arab Spring, to become militarized. Without Assad using overwhelming force against his opposition, I don’t think Syria would have descended into all-out war. And since 2020, the Assad government has systematically and consciously avoided any kind of genuine resolution of the conflict because the approach of the Syrian government is that the opposition has failed to win on the battlefield, and thus they will not be allowed to win at the negotiating table.
The Syrian government literally undermined and sabotaged every single initiative that was put forth, whether by the international community, or by the U.N. envoy, or by other regional powers. Assad believed that he won the war, and refused to compromise with the opposition. So Assad owns the catastrophe in Syria, and not only the war itself. You’re talking about almost five hundred thousand victims. You’re talking about the million injured, six million refugees, six or eight million displaced people. Between eighty and ninety per cent of the Syrian people are on the verge of starvation. So Assad’s culpability and responsibility are really not even questioned. He’s the head of the state. It’s a fundamental point, a foundational point.
If I’m reading your voice correctly, despite what you have been saying about Assad, you don’t welcome what’s happened in the last week because you’re concerned that this latest advance could just mean more war and death for the people of Syria.
Absolutely. The Middle East does not really need another war zone. The tragedy of the Middle East is that you have a ceasefire in one place and another war zone in another place. And what we’re going to see in Syria now, and the reason I say “proxy war,” is that all these actors—the opposition and Assad and even Iran—may still view the conflict as existential. Syria is now going, again, back to square one. ♦ | {
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"Last week’s attacks are the latest wave of resistance to Assad’s despotic rule, a civil war that began in 2011 and quickly descended into a proxy war, eventually leading to hundreds of thousands of deaths and millions of refugees. Russia and Iran helped stabilize the regime even as it used chemical weapons against its people. The region’s Sunni autocracies, meanwhile, supported various rebel groups. Some of these were secular nationalists who wanted an end to Assad’s dictatorship; others were Islamist Sunnis who wanted an Islamic state. ISIS, the most infamous and violent of the rebel groups, was among the latter, and claimed significant territory in Iraq and Syria. Then, in 2019, a United States-led coalition attacked and largely eliminated ISIS in Syria, and it appeared that Assad had decisively won the war. But now, with Assad’s allies engaged in Ukraine and in Lebanon, the rebel groups have been able to make their boldest and most successful military moves in years, surprising both the Syrian leadership and the rest of the world.",
"To understand more about the situation in Syria, I spoke by phone with Fawaz A. Gerges, a professor of international relations at the London School of Economics, and the author of “ISIS: A History.” His most recent book is called “What Really Went Wrong: The West and the Failure of Democracy in the Middle East.” During our conversation, which has been edited for length and clarity, we discussed why the Assad regime has been diminished in the last decade, why the Islamist opposition to Assad remains more powerful than the secular resistance, and where ultimate responsibility for one of the worst calamities of the twenty-first century lies.",
"What’s happened in Syria over the past week has been shocking for almost everyone. But was it shocking for people like yourself who follow this region extremely closely?",
"I was shocked because of the speed with which the Islamist and nationalist opposition was able to recapture large parts of northwest Syria, including Aleppo. Aleppo is the second-largest city in Syria—the cultural capital. It used to be an economic powerhouse for Syria. And of equal importance, the Syrian government’s recapture of Aleppo, in 2016, marked a turning point in the civil war.",
"This was and is a military earthquake. First, because of the ability of the opposition to really carry out a preëmptive attack, which meant that the opposition, mainly Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham (H.T.S.) and various groups, had been planning for this attack for a long time. This is not a byproduct of a month or two but probably a couple of years. And second, the reason I was surprised was the swiftness with which many Syrian Army units folded. For Aleppo to fall so quickly, and for the Army and the security forces to be crushed so quickly, tells me that the Syrian Army and the Syrian government suffer from major vulnerabilities. We knew about them, but we did not really appreciate their gravity and depth.",
"Can you explain what you mean by both the Islamist and nationalist opposition?",
"The opposition includes more than a dozen factions, including both Islamist and nationalist factions. You have a combined Sunni Islamist opposition, and then nationalist and somewhat secular opposition. But I think this kind of division overlooks an overarching point. The key driver behind the rebels and the opposition is H.T.S. H.T.S. is the vanguard of the opposition. H.T.S. was originally called Al Nusra Front and, historically, it was an affiliate of Al Qaeda, of Osama bin Laden and Ayman al-Zawahiri, the two late leaders of Al Qaeda. And H.T.S. tried to distance itself from Al Qaeda in the past few years. Al Nusra Front changed its name to H.T.S. because it wanted to send a clear message to its regional supporters, particularly Turkey and Qatar, and also to the international community, that it no longer really belonged to Al Qaeda. Even though H.T.S. says that it’s no longer really an integral part of Al Qaeda, it’s a Salafi jihadi organization. So it subscribes to a kind of Sunni revolutionary doctrine. It’s still a declared foreign terrorist group by both the United States and the United Kingdom.",
"As for the more nationalist groups, less Islamist groups, they have been the mainstream opposition, and they have as many as ten thousand fighters. They are more pluralistic and believe in a more open society that includes all ethnic and religious elements. They are less dogmatic and religiously driven. But sadly, they didn’t gain momentum, largely because they were reliant on outside powers, including the United States.",
"But I think the opposition could not have done what they have done in the past few days without the fighting capabilities of H.T.S., without the willpower of H.T.S., without the organizational capacity of H.T.S., without the organizational and the decision-making process of H.T.S. At the end of the day, H.T.S. will take ownership of whatever advance, whatever gains, military gains, that the opposition achieves in Syria.",
"To what degree has this group and others like it used the destruction of ISIS to their advantage?",
"I think you really cannot understand the map of the Syrian opposition, both Islamist and nationalist, without understanding the internal civil war that devastated the oppositional groups in Syria from 2013 up to 2019. This particular civil war was between ISIS and the Al Nusra Front. It was a fight about power.",
"At first, during the civil war, ISIS gained the upper hand, the U.S.-led coalition changed the balance of power by destroying most of the capabilities of ISIS. The United States unwittingly allowed H.T.S. to become the dominant opposition group in Syria. With very minor exceptions, the U.S.-led coalition has not systematically targeted H.T.S., and has avoided killing its top leaders, particularly Abu Mohammad al-Julani. And Abu Mohammad al-Julani has proved to be a very clever and a very calculated operational leader—not only by changing the name of Al Nusra Front to H.T.S. but also by sending direct and indirect messages to both regional actors and the United States that he was no longer really part of an Al Qaeda alliance. And more importantly, we have many reports that H.T.S. did provide some intelligence to the U.S.-led coalition about top leaders of ISIS.",
"Is the reason the United States has not tried to go after this group because the U.S. is not currently focussed on Syria? Or is it because they think this group, in addition to changing its name, has also reformed so that it is no longer a threat to American interests?",
"What’s fascinating is that throughout, really, the U.S. has consciously avoided targeting H.T.S. and consciously avoided attacking Abu Mohammad al-Julani and his top leaders. Not because the United States could not do it—because they did decimate the ISIS leadership—but I think it is because the United States wanted to drive a wedge between Al Nusra Front and ISIS, and focussed mainly on ISIS because it represented a greater threat to American interests and to its allies in the region, and also because of the relationship between Turkey and Al Nusra Front and then H.T.S.",
"Turkey and Qatar helped and provided financial support, and probably military arms, to H.T.S. [Qatar denied funding the group in 2017.] My sense is that the intelligence coördination between the United States and the Turkish and the Qatari governments probably mattered as well. This was not the lack of resources on the part of the United States, or the lack of will. The U.S. knows their addresses. They’re all in Idlib, in the northwest of the country, close to the Turkish border, and Turkey works very closely with them. This was a strategic decision on the part of the United States.",
"The story you read the most about the Assad regime is that its military weakness lies mostly in the fact that its allies—the Iranians, Hezbollah, and Russia—are tied down in other areas. Do you think that that is what is going on?",
"I think it’s a partial explanation. I have a different explanation, too. I think most observers of Syria don’t really recognize the effects of the American sanctions on Syria. The American-imposed sanctions on Syria have decimated the Syrian economy. Between eighty and ninety per cent of the Syrian people, according to humanitarian agencies, need humanitarian aid. We have reports that the Syrian Army is not getting the nutrition that it needs for its soldiers and units.",
"The second aspect that is overlooked is that Israeli systematic attacks against the Syrian Army in the past two or three years have exacted a heavy toll on the decision-making, on the infrastructure, on the morale, on the units, on the leadership. And you have to take into account that Syria has been at war since 2011. The Syrian Army has lost about a hundred thousand soldiers since 2011.",
"So in this sense, H.T.S. and the opposition and the rebels know very well the vulnerabilities of the Assad regime. Not only do you have a broken economy, not only do you have abject poverty, not only do you have an army that is starved, but Israeli attacks have turned the same army into a shadow of its former self.",
"And then there’s the fact that the Assad government’s major regional and global backers are preoccupied somewhere else. Russia has withdrawn most of its forces from Syria in the past three years. Israel has systematically targeted Iranian assets in Syria, literally on a daily basis, in particular in the past year, and also targeted Hezbollah units, which played a pivotal role in allowing Bashar al-Assad not only to survive but to basically defeat most of the opposition. In the past year, Iran has begun to pull out most of its leadership assets from Syria because they were targeted and killed, and Hezbollah has been deeply engaged first in supporting Hamas in Gaza and then in Israel.",
"So all these drivers really have brought about this particular moment. And H.T.S. and its allies recognized that there was a window of opportunity, and they struck very hard. Their shock attack came on the same day that Israel and Hezbollah signed the ceasefire agreement. So it was quite a decisive moment, which H.T.S. and the rebels exploited.",
"But we’re talking about a moving target. The Syrian Army now, along with Russia, is likely preparing for a counterattack, in particular in Hama and other places. My take on it is that you’re going to see a great mobilization on the part of the Syrian Army and its allies, including the Russians and the Iranians and other militia forces. Even though what has happened is a military earthquake, this is still the beginning.",
"Syria has a relatively large Kurdish population, and in Syria’s post-ISIS era, when the civil war was considered over, there were still areas under Kurdish control that were being protected by the United States. And there was a sense that Assad had handed over control to Iran and Russia, who were making battlefield decisions. Can you describe what the Syrian state is right now?",
"First and foremost, the Syrian war that ignited in 2011 has never ended. What we have seen since 2020 is a lull in the war. Syria is an explosive cocktail of non-state actors, of regional powers, great powers. You have more than ten thousand Islamist Sunni Salaf fighters, and they are directly and indirectly supported by Turkey. You have the Syrian national secular opposition, again, fully supported by Turkey in Idlib. In the Idlib area, you’re talking about five million people under the control of H.T.S. You also have the Kurds who are probably as powerful as H.T.S., and they are currently supported by the United States, and the United States has around a thousand soldiers. You have Turkish forces in Idlib. You have Iranian as well as Hezbollah’s assets. You have a Russian base in Syria. So even though the Syrian government, the Assad government, controls about sixty per cent of Syrian territory, the reality is Syria is no longer a sovereign state. You can argue that the Assad government is the biggest state militia in Syria. But in a way, President Assad has forfeited Syrian sovereignty in order to survive. Because without the support of the Russians and the Iranians and Hezbollah and other non-state actors, including the militias, Assad probably could not have initially regained or recaptured some of the towns and cities, including Aleppo in 2016.",
"The Iranian foreign minister was just in Syria, and he promised full support for the Syrian government. The Russian government also promised to send reinforcements to Syria. Turkey obviously supports its proxies in Syria, and the Kurds are moving in. So you’re not going to have just a war between Assad and H.T.S. You’re going to have a war between the Kurds in Syria, who are supported by the United States, and Turkey and their proxies. And the Kurds are also now moving into some of the areas which the Syrian government has withdrawn from.",
"What we’re seeing at this particular point is the reigniting of the Syrian war. But my fear is that we are also seeing the reigniting of the proxy war in Syria that almost destroyed the country between 2011 and 2020.",
"Would it be equally fair to say that the Assad regime destroyed Syria in that time? It still seems to me that in some fundamental sense this is morally Assad’s doing.",
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"The Syrian government literally undermined and sabotaged every single initiative that was put forth, whether by the international community, or by the U.N. envoy, or by other regional powers. Assad believed that he won the war, and refused to compromise with the opposition. So Assad owns the catastrophe in Syria, and not only the war itself. You’re talking about almost five hundred thousand victims. You’re talking about the million injured, six million refugees, six or eight million displaced people. Between eighty and ninety per cent of the Syrian people are on the verge of starvation. So Assad’s culpability and responsibility are really not even questioned. He’s the head of the state. It’s a fundamental point, a foundational point.",
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"Absolutely. The Middle East does not really need another war zone. The tragedy of the Middle East is that you have a ceasefire in one place and another war zone in another place. And what we’re going to see in Syria now, and the reason I say “proxy war,” is that all these actors—the opposition and Assad and even Iran—may still view the conflict as existential. Syria is now going, again, back to square one. ♦"
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Church abuse victims 'disgusted' by Justin Welby's speech | The Archbishop of Canterbury has been condemned by victims of the Church of England abuse scandal for a speech they say made light of serious safeguarding failures.
In his first public speech since announcing his resignation last month, Justin Welby told the House of Lords a head had had to roll after a review criticised failings in the handling of the scandal.
Abuse victims say they were "dismayed" and "disgusted" by the speech, saying it made no mention of remorse for survivors and struck too "frivolous" a tone with jokes.
The Makin review found Mr Welby "could and should" have reported prolific child abuser John Smyth to the police in 2013 and criticised the Church for not doing enough to prevent further abuse until he died.
Speaking in the Lords on Thursday, the archbishop said: "The reality is that there comes a time if you are technically leading a particular institution or area of responsibility where the shame of what has gone wrong – whether one is personally responsible or not – must require a head to roll.
"And there is only, in this case, one head that rolls well enough."
He also referred to a 14th century predecessor who had been beheaded, adding: "I hope not literally."
Mark Stibbe, who has previously told the BBC he was groomed and beaten by Smyth in the 1970s, said: "I object to the use of such a frivolous tone in such a serious matter - a matter that has been, and continues to be, a matter of life and death to some."
He added that talk of only one head rolling over the scandal was "disturbing".
"Smyth survivors want all those responsible to stand down," he said. "If Justin Welby is as serious about safeguarding as he claims, then this must happen."
Another of Smyth's victims, given the pseudonym Graham Jones in the Makin report, said the tone of Mr Welby's speech was "entirely wrong".
"It did not appear to be one of sorrow which is what was required," he told the BBC.
"This would have been an opportunity to look into the camera and say sorry but instead he talked frivolously about a matter that has led to suicide attempts by victims," he added.
"I was disgusted by the speech."
Smyth, a barrister and lay preacher, is believed to have abused more than 100 boys and young men at Christian summer camps in England in the 1970s and 1980s, and later in South Africa and Zimbabwe.
He is thought to have continued his abuse until 2018 when he died in Cape Town, aged 75.
The independent Makin review said Church officials, including Mr Welby, "could and should" have reported Smyth to the police and authorities in South Africa in 2013.
It also said Mr Welby had had a "personal and moral responsibility" to do more to ensure there was no further abuse by Smyth in South Africa.
The review also said more should have been done to contact victims of Smyth.
The archbishop said in his resignation statement a month ago he "must take personal and institutional responsibility" for how he responded when first told about the abuse.
He said he was "told that police had been notified" in 2013 and that he "believed wrongly that an appropriate resolution would follow".
And he said he resigned "in sorrow with all victims and survivors of abuse."
On Thursday in the Lords during a debate on homelessness, Mr Welby began on a light-hearted note by saying he pitied his diary secretary who had worked hard on arranging his diary for the year ahead, before the announcement of his resignation.
He continued that safeguarding in the Church of England was "a completely different picture to the past".
"However, when I look back at the last 50 or 60 years, not only through the eyes of the Makin report – however one takes one's view of personal responsibility – it is clear that I had to stand down," he said.
Reacting to his speech, Mr Stibbe said the archbishop appeared to be backing away from what Mr Welby had previously said in his resignation speech about being personally responsible for his handling of the Smyth case.
"Yes, he says he is technically and institutionally culpable. But is he now questioning his personal responsibility?" asked Mr Stibbe.
Meanwhile, Mr Jones took issue with the archbishop's references to his diary secretary's workload.
"He said he pitied his diary secretary without a word of pity for the victims of abuse," said Mr Jones.
The Bishop of Newcastle, Helen-Ann Hartley, added her voice of condemnation.
She said she was "deeply disturbed" by some of the archbishop's language.
"To make light of serious matters of safeguarding failures in this way yet again treats victims and survivors of church abuse without proper respect or regard," she said.
She added that she was "disappointed" to see other bishops in the House of Lords laughing at some of the jokes.
Bishop Hartley was the most senior member of the clergy to call for Mr Welby's resignation after the Makin report was published. She has since told the BBC she has been "frozen out" by her Church of England colleagues.
The archbishop is due to step down on 6 January, with the Archbishop of York, Stephen Cottrell, taking charge until a permanent replacement is found.
The search for a successor is expected to take around six months.
An announcement earlier this week confirmed the bishop Jo Bailey Wells, the archbishop's former personal chaplain, had "stepped back from her ministry" following the Makin report.
A Diocese of London spokesperson said a safeguarding risk assessment would take place.
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"Meanwhile, Mr Jones took issue with the archbishop's references to his diary secretary's workload.",
"\"He said he pitied his diary secretary without a word of pity for the victims of abuse,\" said Mr Jones.",
"The Bishop of Newcastle, Helen-Ann Hartley, added her voice of condemnation.",
"She said she was \"deeply disturbed\" by some of the archbishop's language.",
"\"To make light of serious matters of safeguarding failures in this way yet again treats victims and survivors of church abuse without proper respect or regard,\" she said.",
"She added that she was \"disappointed\" to see other bishops in the House of Lords laughing at some of the jokes.",
"Bishop Hartley was the most senior member of the clergy to call for Mr Welby's resignation after the Makin report was published. She has since told the BBC she has been \"frozen out\" by her Church of England colleagues.",
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"An announcement earlier this week confirmed the bishop Jo Bailey Wells, the archbishop's former personal chaplain, had \"stepped back from her ministry\" following the Makin report.",
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AFC North-leading Steelers eye revenge against the Browns after upset loss in snow last month | Cleveland (3-9) at Pittsburgh (9-3)
Sunday, 1 p.m. EST, CBS
BetMGM NFL Odds: Steelers by 6 1/2.
Against the spread: Browns 4-8; Steelers 9-3.
Series record: Steelers lead 81-64-1.
Last meeting: Browns beat Steelers 24-19 on Nov. 21, 2024, in Cleveland.
Last week: Browns lost to Broncos 41-32; Steelers beat Bengals 44-38.
Browns offense: overall (22), rush (30), pass (13), scoring (29).
Browns defense: overall (24), rush (23), pass (20), scoring (26).
Steelers offense: overall (14), rush (9), pass (20), scoring (10).
Steelers defense: overall (6), rush (4), pass (19), scoring (6).
Turnover differential: Browns minus-8; Steelers: plus-15.
Browns player to watch
QB Jameis Winston. He’s coming off a career-game (497 yards, 4 TDs) on Monday that he spoiled by throwing a pair of pick-6s at Denver. Winston has revived Cleveland’s offense and perhaps become a legitimate option for the team to consider as its starter in 2025. Another solid performance or win against a division rival could make it harder for the Browns to move on without him.
Steelers player to watch
LB Nick Herbig. The 2023 fourth-round pick is coming into his own in his second season. Herbig’s strip-sack of Joe Burrow last week was scooped up by teammate Pauton Wilson, who raced in for a clinching touchdown. Herbig has had at least a half-sack in three of his past four games and with starting OLB Alex Highsmith’s expected return, Herbig should be even fresher when he comes on the field in passing situations.
Key matchup
Browns CB Greg Newsome II vs. Steelers WR George Pickens. Grab your popcorn anytime these two face off or are in each other’s vicinity. They fought on the final play when the Browns upset the Steelers two weeks ago with their tussle spilling off the field after a Hail Mary pass got batted down in the end zone. Afterward, Newsome called the fiery Pickens “a fake tough guy.”
Key injuries
Browns: WR Cedric Tillman (concussion) has been out since being hurt on a hard hit in the third quarter against the Steelers last month. He missed practice time this week along with LT Jedrick Wills Jr. (knee), S Juan Thornhill (calf) and rookie WR Jamari Thrash (shoulder).
Steelers: LB Alex Highsmith (ankle) should return after missing each of Pittsburgh’s past four games. DT Montravius Adams (knee) could also be available for the first time since getting hurt in a win over the New York Jets on Oct. 20.
Series notes
Cleveland has lost 20 straight regular-season games in Pittsburgh. Tim Couch was the Browns’ starting QB when they beat the Steelers 33-13 on Oct. 5, 2003. ... The Browns haven’t swept the season series since 1988. Pittsburgh has taken the two-game set from the Browns 16 times over that span. The Browns are 1-22 in the regular season at Acrisure Stadium, though they did beat the Steelers in the first round of the 2020 playoffs.
Stats and stuff
Their playoff hopes long over, the Browns find themselves in a spoiler role over the final five games. ... Cleveland is guaranteed to finish with a losing record for the 22nd time since 1999. ... Winston is averaging a league-leading 336 yards passing per game since becoming the full-time starter in Week 8. ... While going 2-3 in five starts, Winston has had two of the top eight passing performances in Browns history. ... Cleveland rolled up 552 yards on Monday, its most since 2007 and just 10 short of the club record. ... Browns WR Jerry Jeudy got the revenge he was looking for against the Broncos, setting career highs with nine catches for 235 yards. Jeudy spent four seasons in Denver before being traded. He had six catches for 85 yards in the first matchup against the Steelers. ... DE Myles Garrett needs 1 1/2 sacks to reach 100 in his career. He had three, including a strip-sack of QB Russell Wilson, in Cleveland’s win last month. He has 12 in 13 games against the Steelers. ... Garrett said the previous matchup was personal after Steelers star OLB T.J. Watt had indicated he felt he should have been the AP Defensive Player of the Year in 2023 over the Browns edge rusher. Browns RB Nick Chubb will play in Pittsburgh for the first time since suffering a season-ending knee injury there in Week 2 last year. Chubb had a pair of 2-yard TD runs in the team’s first matchup. ... Cleveland’s defense has been susceptible to big plays. The Browns gave up a 93-yard TD pass to the Broncos. Overall, they’ve allowed 48 plays of at least 20 yards and 12 of 40 or better. ... The Steelers have won 5 of 6 since Wilson took over as quarterback in Week 7, the lone loss the Thursday night upset in the snow to Cleveland last month. Pittsburgh has a 1 1/2-game lead over Baltimore in the race for the AFC North title. The Steelers have already won nine division crowns since the division was introduced in 2002. Cleveland, Baltimore and Cincinnati have combined for the 12 other titles. ... Wilson’s 414 yards passing last week against Cincinnati marked the second-highest total in his 13-year career. ... Pittsburgh has already clinched its 21st straight season of .500 or better, tied with Dallas (1965-85) for the longest such streak in the league since the 1970 AFL/NFL merger. ... Watt was held in check two weeks ago, failing to get a sack or a quarterback hit while finishing with just four tackles. It’s been a feast-or-famine season for the perennial All-Pro. Watt has not had a sack in five games this season, the most games without one since 2018 (eight). ... Pittsburgh DT Cam Heyward is turning back the clock at 35. Heyward is tied for fifth in the league in tackles for loss among defensive tackles (eight) and his eight passes defended are the most in the league by a defensive lineman. ... Steelers RB Najee Harris topped 4,000 yards rushing last week against Cincinnati. Harris is one of three players to have 4,000 yards rushing and 1,100 yards receiving since 2021, joining Saquon Barkley and Josh Jacobs. Harris needs 176 yards to reach 1,000 yards rushing for the fourth straight season, which would move him into third place in franchise history for most 1,000-yard seasons. ... Steelers K Chris Boswell is putting together one of the best seasons by a kicker in NFL history. Boswell leads the league in scoring (128 points) and is 34 of 37 on field-goal attempts. One of his three misses came in blustery Cleveland in the first meeting.
Fantasy tip
A shootout could be in order considering the direction both teams are heading. In that case, might be a good idea to give Winston a chance (assuming you don’t get penalized for interceptions that turn into pick-6s). Pittsburgh’s secondary has been gettable in recent weeks and if the Steelers find their way to the lead, expect Winston to let it fly regularly. | {
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How to Make the World a Better Place in Ten Easy Steps | Fast fashion, fast food, “Fast & Furious 94”—how is anyone supposed to slow down in this capitalist hellscape that insists we be productive every second of every day? How are we supposed to effect positive change when the only release from this high-fructose, high-consumption hysteria is to use our minimal wages to buy a better vacuum cleaner, then a better filter for that vacuum cleaner, and then a Taskrabbit to install that filter?
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Caerlee Mill demolition proposed for Innerleithen bike centre bid | A historic mill in the Borders is set to be demolished to make way for a new £19m mountain bike innovation centre.
It had been hoped the Caerlee Mill in Innerleithen could be converted but structural issues which were uncovered in the building saw the projected cost rise significantly.
Now South of Scotland Enterprise (SOSE) has developed plans to take down the property instead and replace it with the new facility.
If demolition is approved it is hoped the project - which promises to create hundreds of jobs - could be completed by 2027.
The mountain bike centre - being delivered by SOSE with support from Scottish Borders Council and Napier University - is a flagship Borderlands Growth Deal project.
It has been predicted to generate more than £100m for the local economy and create over 400 jobs in the next 10 years.
It was earmarked for the mill site after it was purchased by SOSE and planning permission secured to redevelop the building.
However, the prohibitive cost of that project has seen it dropped and - after a series of consultation meetings - new proposals emerge for demolition and replacement of the building.
If approval is given to take down the main building then a new application would be submitted next year for the innovation centre.
Prof Russel Griggs, who chairs SOSE, said the community had made it clear they wanted the project to stay in Innerleithen and a "positive solution" to be found for the mill site.
He said the revised proposals could "tick both of these requests".
Euan Jardine, leader of Scottish Borders Council and Borderlands Partnership Board member, admitted it was "undoubtedly disappointing" the original plans could not proceed.
However, he said they could still deliver an "internationally significant facility" within budget.
A history of Caerlee Mill
Caerlee Mill was built by Alexander Brodie in 1788 and added to over the years.
It was the first water-powered textile mill in the Borders and is considered "highly significant" by Historic Environment Scotland, as signalling the start of the industrialisation of the area.
Its success led to a great increase in the local population from 463 in 1841 to 2,313 by 1881 and at its peak it employed about 400 workers.
However, it suffered like many other textile firms in more recent times and more than 100 staff lost their jobs in 2010 when JJ & HB, formerly Ballantyne Cashmere, went into administration.
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Suter scores 2 as Canucks rally to beat Blue Jackets 5-2 | VANCOUVER, British Columbia (AP) — Pius Suter scored twice and the Vancouver Canucks rallied from two goals down to beat the Columbus Blue Jackets 5-2 on Friday night.
Brock Boeser, Kiefer Sherwood and Jake DeBrusk also scored for the Cancuks, and Quinn Hughes had two assists. Kevin Lankinen had 30 saves as Vancouver improved to 3-0-1 in its last four games.
Mathieu Olivier and Damon Severson scored in the first period for Columbus, which has lost three straight. Elvis Merzilikins finished with 12 saves.
Olivier and Severson scored 5:08 apart to give the Blue Jackets a 2-0 lead with 7:42 left in the opening period.
Boeser and Sherwood scored in the second period to tie it for the Canucks. Suter gave Vancouver the lead early in the third and DeBrusk made it 4-2 with a power-play goal midway through the period. Suter added an empty-netter with 65 seconds left to seal the win.
Takeaways
Canucks: DeBrusk scored at home for the first time with the Canucks. He has goals in four straight games and leads the team with 12. Boeser registered an assist on DeBrusk’s goal for his 400th NHL point.
Blue Jackets: Columbus was 0 for 5 on the power play after coming in 29th in the league at 17.2%.
Key moment
An ill-timed play by Merzlikins allowed the Canucks to tie the game at 2-2 with a minute left in the second period. The goalie came out to the top of the left circle to chase down a loose puck but sent it to Vancouver center Teddy Blueger along the boards. Blueger quickly passed it to Sherwood, who fired a shot in past Zach Werenski as he attempted to protect the open net.
Key stat
Vancouver improved to 9-5-1 when giving up the first goal of the game.
Up Next
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The Best Podcasts of 2024 | Despite industry turmoil, old and new shows continue to innovate, whether investigating Elon Musk, high-school mysteries, or our relationship to death itself.
What a year, eh? In podcasts, as everywhere else lately, volatility abounds—yet beauty and wonder abound, too. Ongoing budget cuts (and debatable decision-making) meant that we lost more terrific shows in the past year—how I’ve missed you, “Heavyweight”!—but some have been given new life elsewhere, including “Death, Sex & Money,” now at Slate, and “In the Dark,” one of my all-time favorites, now here at The New Yorker. Venerable print publications, in fact, produced some of the year’s best limited-series podcasts, as did independent creators, some supported by collectives and networks like the invaluable Radiotopia. Meanwhile, the show that arguably started it all—“This American Life,” still hosted by the indefatigable Ira Glass, remains as great as ever. Listen, if you dare, to the June episode “Come Retribution,” about you know who and you know what, coming soon to a democracy near you.
Speaking of retribution, “Elon’s Spies,” from the British company Tortoise Media, delivers in a mere three episodes a wealth of detailed investigation about our proposed co-czar of government efficiency, all of it involving Elon Musk’s use of private investigators to help him harass his perceived enemies. The host, Alexi Mostrous, illuminates the “pedo guy” saga, in which Musk publicly insulted a diver who rescued a youth soccer team from an underwater cave, and who’d scoffed at Musk’s rescue plan, involving a tiny submarine; an apparent public-humiliation gambit targeting Musk’s former girlfriend Amber Heard; and even more stalkerish intimidation of a Tesla-plant whistle-blower. The sound design indulges in some corniness—the powerful man-child’s spiteful machinations don’t need underscoring with agitated piano—but mostly avoids it. A bonus episode, released after the election, contemplates the future.
In his Peabody Award-winning “Uncivil” podcast, from 2017, Chenjerai Kumanyika, a journalism professor now at N.Y.U., brought to life, with his co-creator Jack Hitt, extraordinary lesser-known stories from the Civil War and before, such as Ona Judge’s escape from enslavement at George Washington’s house and Harriet Tubman’s Combahee River raid. “Empire City,” about the origins of the New York City Police Department, takes a similarly eye-opening historical tack and adds some of Kumanyika’s own story. The first episode begins with his young daughter saying that the police “keep us safe”; proceeds to Kumanyika watching 1964 N.Y.P.D. surveillance video of his father, the late civil-rights organizer Makaza Kumanyika, who led a peaceful protest against police brutality; and then backs up to tell the story of the Kidnapping Club, a group of antebellum New York police constables who pursued and abducted Black locals and sold them into slavery in the South. The time jumps can lead us to expect a more comprehensive history than the series aims to provide, but Kumanyika, a consummate researcher and warmly personable host, nimbly brings it all together.
The Economist continued its streak of impressive limited-series podcasts with this year’s “The Modi Raj,” about Narendra Modi, which, like its 2022 series “The Prince,” about Xi Jinping, paints a vivid portrait of a world power through a meticulously reported biography of its strongman leader. The Economist business writer Avantika Chilkoti, a savvy and amiable host, starts by travelling to Vadnagar, Gujarat, where Modi famously began life as a chai wallah’s son. As a boy, we learn, Modi wasn’t a listener, enjoyed giving out orders, did some acting (“If you did not give him the lead role, he would not be part of it”), and, at age eight, became involved with the Hindu-nationalist group the R.S.S. Tracing Modi’s rise, via the R.S.S., to prominence in the right-wing B.J.P. Party and ultimately the Prime Ministership, Chilkoti talks to everyone from Modi’s longtime tailor (“He notices if buttonholes are hand-sewn”) to survivors of the deadly 2002 Gujarat riots (in which Modi and the R.S.S. may have been complicit) to a political consultant who recalls beaming Modi’s hologram to rural campaign rallies in 2014. “The chatter in the village is that there is a leader who is going to appear in thin air,” the consultant tells Chilkoti—and the hologram made Modi seem “omnipresent and capable of doing the unthinkable.” The story’s details are edifyingly specific, its themes grimly universal.
The Nashville-based journalist Meribah Knight, maker of the excellent series “The Promise” and “The Kids of Rutherford County,” this year brought us inside the volatile Tennessee state house of 2023, which made headlines for all the wrong reasons. Knight embedded herself with three Covenant Moms—conservative Christian mothers of students at the Covenant School, where a mass shooting had recently killed six people—as they attempted to influence their own party to pass gun-control measures and then experienced one rude awakening after another. Deep-red Tennessee has a Republican supermajority in the legislature, and we listen as legislators expel their Democratic peers for protesting; invent and enforce new rules against free expression for people in the gallery, including the moms; and welcome a visitor from a right-wing Hungarian think tank that often supports Viktor Orbán. Throughout, the sounds of everyone’s voices, constituents and politicians alike, convey as much as their words do, and the intimacy enhances the maddening implications.
Dan Taberski (“Running from Cops,” “Surviving Y2K,” “9/12”) returned this year with “Hysterical,” about a sudden and mysterious outbreak of a Tourette’s-like condition in upstate New York, mostly among high-school girls, in 2011. The premise might make us wary—notes of the Salem Witch Trials, talk of hysteria—but, as ever, Taberski and his team know what they’re doing. “Hysterical” relates its strange story with sensitivity, humor, and fascinating characters, and its essential questions—What is this? Why is it happening? How can we stop it?—broaden and deepen as the series proceeds. Each new theory that Taberski investigates, from the personal to the environmental, seems to nearly crack the case, but surprises create cliffhangers throughout. We learn about similarly mysterious mind-body afflictions, from Havana Syndrome to fentanyl-contact paranoia, and by the end we’ve been unnerved, enlightened, and reassured. Taberski is a sharp and friendly narrator, unafraid to joke with us, skilled at drawing out interviewees and putting them at ease, and adept at zooming in and out as the story requires. Like all of his work, it connects the personal and the philosophical and makes it look easy.
This year, the reliably topnotch podcaster Leon Neyfakh (“Slow Burn,” “Fiasco”) collaborated on the new show “Backfired” with an equally strong co-host, Arielle Pardes, releasing two first-rate series—both, essentially, about drugs. Neyfakh, whose previous work has contextualized political and cultural phenomena (Iran-Contra, Watergate, Michael Jackson), applies that approach to the history of American attention spans and the uppers that deal with them. Here and in “Backfired: The Vaping Wars,” we learn about the makers of the drugs as well as their users, and the complex interplay—of mental health, anxiety, calm, focus, and, essentially, the human condition—that can make understanding and treating our problems so difficult. Neyfakh delves into more personal territory than he has in the past—turns out he’s a big vaper, and a longtime dabbler in the stimulant arts—which enhances the series’ perspective and power.
Benjamen Walker, whose venerable podcast “The Theory of Everything” embodies the spirit of its fiercely independent, creator-driven network, Radiotopia, released a magnum opus this year—a group biography, as he calls it, of the great mid-century writers Richard Wright, Kenneth Tynan, and Dwight Macdonald, with a generous dose of James Baldwin for good measure. All of them were supported at times by the Congress for Cultural Freedom, a transatlantic postwar organization secretly funded by the C.I.A., dedicated to promoting democracy and disparaging Communism—in short, spreading propaganda—through its support of highbrow art and intellectual journals. That, in itself, is amazing. But so is getting to know these writers and their work, seeming at once lifetimes away from our world and shockingly prescient, as we contemplate big questions about art, money, racism, the postwar cultural landscape, Orwell, communism, McCarthyism, and much more, with a frisson of conspiracy theory shivering beneath it all. What did the writers know, and when did they know it? And what does it all mean? Walker delves into this whirl of ideas and intrigue with zeal; he spent four years researching, and tracking down wonderfully obscure archival audio and writing, and it sounds at every moment like he’s thrilled to blow your mind. He just might if you can keep up with his. A companion series, “Propaganda Notes & Sources,” feverishly details his research.
Drawing on hundreds of hours of secretly recorded F.B.I. audio, “Chameleon: The Michigan Plot,” hosted by the investigative reporters Ken Bensinger and Jessica Garrison, delves into the world of right-wing anti-government anxiety, paranoia, and misinformation; it also delivers a novel’s worth of vivid characters, so tragicomic they feel like satire. It centers on the right-wing Michigan militia accused of planning to kidnap Governor Gretchen Whitmer in 2020, a ragtag collective of true believers unwittingly plotting alongside government informants who helped train and organize them. Bensinger and Garrison tell the story with patience and care, blending narration, interviews, and absolutely bonkers F.B.I. audio, which is scary and funny, with the quality of high-grade eavesdropping. The results poignantly reveal the intersection of the personal (loneliness, isolation, male bonding), the political, and the hyped-up misinformation landscape (TikTok news, Facebook militias) that we might now call the manosphere. From the opening scene, when we hear audio of an informant driving his giddy supposed friends to meet their sting-operation doom, “The Michigan Plot,” by bringing us into the group, captures the strange bittersweet irony of how the desire for community, and even for connection, can sometimes lead to the destruction of both.
“The Belgrano Diary,” a London Review of Books series hosted by the appealingly Scottish-accented writer Andrew O’Hagan, sustains an irresistible mood as it relays a horrific story—that of Britain’s 1982 sinking of the General Belgrano, the second-largest ship in Argentina’s Navy, in the early days of the Falklands War, and the political opportunism that surrounded the attack. (Borges described the war, O’Hagan says, as “two bald men fighting over a comb.”) The operation, which killed three hundred and twenty-three men, sparked patriotic fervor (“GOTCHA,” Rupert Murdoch’s tabloid The Sun declared) and made Margaret Thatcher a hero overnight. But the diary of Narendra Sethia, a British supply officer on the attacking submarine, sharply contradicted the government’s account and justifications; when its contents were made public, Parliament rang with war-crimes accusations. O’Hagan reinvestigates the story, tracking down seemingly every important surviving character in it, including Sethia, now living with rescue dogs on a secluded hilltop in the Caribbean. The series is full of riveting audio: O’Hagan’s thoughtful and intrepid interviews, maddening archival clips (“Rejoice!” Thatcher says), diary excerpts, and tasteful, evocative sound design (waves lapping, pen scratching across paper, hypnotic original music by Joel Cox). A masterly sequence of the attack, in which a traumatized Sethia compares the sound of the ship breaking up to the shattering of an eighteenth-century ballroom chandelier (“tinkling, tinkling, tinkling, tinkling”), is emblematic of the series’ unforgettable blend of elegance and savagery.
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"What a year, eh? In podcasts, as everywhere else lately, volatility abounds—yet beauty and wonder abound, too. Ongoing budget cuts (and debatable decision-making) meant that we lost more terrific shows in the past year—how I’ve missed you, “Heavyweight”!—but some have been given new life elsewhere, including “Death, Sex & Money,” now at Slate, and “In the Dark,” one of my all-time favorites, now here at The New Yorker. Venerable print publications, in fact, produced some of the year’s best limited-series podcasts, as did independent creators, some supported by collectives and networks like the invaluable Radiotopia. Meanwhile, the show that arguably started it all—“This American Life,” still hosted by the indefatigable Ira Glass, remains as great as ever. Listen, if you dare, to the June episode “Come Retribution,” about you know who and you know what, coming soon to a democracy near you.",
"Speaking of retribution, “Elon’s Spies,” from the British company Tortoise Media, delivers in a mere three episodes a wealth of detailed investigation about our proposed co-czar of government efficiency, all of it involving Elon Musk’s use of private investigators to help him harass his perceived enemies. The host, Alexi Mostrous, illuminates the “pedo guy” saga, in which Musk publicly insulted a diver who rescued a youth soccer team from an underwater cave, and who’d scoffed at Musk’s rescue plan, involving a tiny submarine; an apparent public-humiliation gambit targeting Musk’s former girlfriend Amber Heard; and even more stalkerish intimidation of a Tesla-plant whistle-blower. The sound design indulges in some corniness—the powerful man-child’s spiteful machinations don’t need underscoring with agitated piano—but mostly avoids it. A bonus episode, released after the election, contemplates the future.",
"In his Peabody Award-winning “Uncivil” podcast, from 2017, Chenjerai Kumanyika, a journalism professor now at N.Y.U., brought to life, with his co-creator Jack Hitt, extraordinary lesser-known stories from the Civil War and before, such as Ona Judge’s escape from enslavement at George Washington’s house and Harriet Tubman’s Combahee River raid. “Empire City,” about the origins of the New York City Police Department, takes a similarly eye-opening historical tack and adds some of Kumanyika’s own story. The first episode begins with his young daughter saying that the police “keep us safe”; proceeds to Kumanyika watching 1964 N.Y.P.D. surveillance video of his father, the late civil-rights organizer Makaza Kumanyika, who led a peaceful protest against police brutality; and then backs up to tell the story of the Kidnapping Club, a group of antebellum New York police constables who pursued and abducted Black locals and sold them into slavery in the South. The time jumps can lead us to expect a more comprehensive history than the series aims to provide, but Kumanyika, a consummate researcher and warmly personable host, nimbly brings it all together.",
"The Economist continued its streak of impressive limited-series podcasts with this year’s “The Modi Raj,” about Narendra Modi, which, like its 2022 series “The Prince,” about Xi Jinping, paints a vivid portrait of a world power through a meticulously reported biography of its strongman leader. The Economist business writer Avantika Chilkoti, a savvy and amiable host, starts by travelling to Vadnagar, Gujarat, where Modi famously began life as a chai wallah’s son. As a boy, we learn, Modi wasn’t a listener, enjoyed giving out orders, did some acting (“If you did not give him the lead role, he would not be part of it”), and, at age eight, became involved with the Hindu-nationalist group the R.S.S. Tracing Modi’s rise, via the R.S.S., to prominence in the right-wing B.J.P. Party and ultimately the Prime Ministership, Chilkoti talks to everyone from Modi’s longtime tailor (“He notices if buttonholes are hand-sewn”) to survivors of the deadly 2002 Gujarat riots (in which Modi and the R.S.S. may have been complicit) to a political consultant who recalls beaming Modi’s hologram to rural campaign rallies in 2014. “The chatter in the village is that there is a leader who is going to appear in thin air,” the consultant tells Chilkoti—and the hologram made Modi seem “omnipresent and capable of doing the unthinkable.” The story’s details are edifyingly specific, its themes grimly universal.",
"The Nashville-based journalist Meribah Knight, maker of the excellent series “The Promise” and “The Kids of Rutherford County,” this year brought us inside the volatile Tennessee state house of 2023, which made headlines for all the wrong reasons. Knight embedded herself with three Covenant Moms—conservative Christian mothers of students at the Covenant School, where a mass shooting had recently killed six people—as they attempted to influence their own party to pass gun-control measures and then experienced one rude awakening after another. Deep-red Tennessee has a Republican supermajority in the legislature, and we listen as legislators expel their Democratic peers for protesting; invent and enforce new rules against free expression for people in the gallery, including the moms; and welcome a visitor from a right-wing Hungarian think tank that often supports Viktor Orbán. Throughout, the sounds of everyone’s voices, constituents and politicians alike, convey as much as their words do, and the intimacy enhances the maddening implications.",
"Dan Taberski (“Running from Cops,” “Surviving Y2K,” “9/12”) returned this year with “Hysterical,” about a sudden and mysterious outbreak of a Tourette’s-like condition in upstate New York, mostly among high-school girls, in 2011. The premise might make us wary—notes of the Salem Witch Trials, talk of hysteria—but, as ever, Taberski and his team know what they’re doing. “Hysterical” relates its strange story with sensitivity, humor, and fascinating characters, and its essential questions—What is this? Why is it happening? How can we stop it?—broaden and deepen as the series proceeds. Each new theory that Taberski investigates, from the personal to the environmental, seems to nearly crack the case, but surprises create cliffhangers throughout. We learn about similarly mysterious mind-body afflictions, from Havana Syndrome to fentanyl-contact paranoia, and by the end we’ve been unnerved, enlightened, and reassured. Taberski is a sharp and friendly narrator, unafraid to joke with us, skilled at drawing out interviewees and putting them at ease, and adept at zooming in and out as the story requires. Like all of his work, it connects the personal and the philosophical and makes it look easy.",
"This year, the reliably topnotch podcaster Leon Neyfakh (“Slow Burn,” “Fiasco”) collaborated on the new show “Backfired” with an equally strong co-host, Arielle Pardes, releasing two first-rate series—both, essentially, about drugs. Neyfakh, whose previous work has contextualized political and cultural phenomena (Iran-Contra, Watergate, Michael Jackson), applies that approach to the history of American attention spans and the uppers that deal with them. Here and in “Backfired: The Vaping Wars,” we learn about the makers of the drugs as well as their users, and the complex interplay—of mental health, anxiety, calm, focus, and, essentially, the human condition—that can make understanding and treating our problems so difficult. Neyfakh delves into more personal territory than he has in the past—turns out he’s a big vaper, and a longtime dabbler in the stimulant arts—which enhances the series’ perspective and power.",
"Benjamen Walker, whose venerable podcast “The Theory of Everything” embodies the spirit of its fiercely independent, creator-driven network, Radiotopia, released a magnum opus this year—a group biography, as he calls it, of the great mid-century writers Richard Wright, Kenneth Tynan, and Dwight Macdonald, with a generous dose of James Baldwin for good measure. All of them were supported at times by the Congress for Cultural Freedom, a transatlantic postwar organization secretly funded by the C.I.A., dedicated to promoting democracy and disparaging Communism—in short, spreading propaganda—through its support of highbrow art and intellectual journals. That, in itself, is amazing. But so is getting to know these writers and their work, seeming at once lifetimes away from our world and shockingly prescient, as we contemplate big questions about art, money, racism, the postwar cultural landscape, Orwell, communism, McCarthyism, and much more, with a frisson of conspiracy theory shivering beneath it all. What did the writers know, and when did they know it? And what does it all mean? Walker delves into this whirl of ideas and intrigue with zeal; he spent four years researching, and tracking down wonderfully obscure archival audio and writing, and it sounds at every moment like he’s thrilled to blow your mind. He just might if you can keep up with his. A companion series, “Propaganda Notes & Sources,” feverishly details his research.",
"Drawing on hundreds of hours of secretly recorded F.B.I. audio, “Chameleon: The Michigan Plot,” hosted by the investigative reporters Ken Bensinger and Jessica Garrison, delves into the world of right-wing anti-government anxiety, paranoia, and misinformation; it also delivers a novel’s worth of vivid characters, so tragicomic they feel like satire. It centers on the right-wing Michigan militia accused of planning to kidnap Governor Gretchen Whitmer in 2020, a ragtag collective of true believers unwittingly plotting alongside government informants who helped train and organize them. Bensinger and Garrison tell the story with patience and care, blending narration, interviews, and absolutely bonkers F.B.I. audio, which is scary and funny, with the quality of high-grade eavesdropping. The results poignantly reveal the intersection of the personal (loneliness, isolation, male bonding), the political, and the hyped-up misinformation landscape (TikTok news, Facebook militias) that we might now call the manosphere. From the opening scene, when we hear audio of an informant driving his giddy supposed friends to meet their sting-operation doom, “The Michigan Plot,” by bringing us into the group, captures the strange bittersweet irony of how the desire for community, and even for connection, can sometimes lead to the destruction of both.",
"“The Belgrano Diary,” a London Review of Books series hosted by the appealingly Scottish-accented writer Andrew O’Hagan, sustains an irresistible mood as it relays a horrific story—that of Britain’s 1982 sinking of the General Belgrano, the second-largest ship in Argentina’s Navy, in the early days of the Falklands War, and the political opportunism that surrounded the attack. (Borges described the war, O’Hagan says, as “two bald men fighting over a comb.”) The operation, which killed three hundred and twenty-three men, sparked patriotic fervor (“GOTCHA,” Rupert Murdoch’s tabloid The Sun declared) and made Margaret Thatcher a hero overnight. But the diary of Narendra Sethia, a British supply officer on the attacking submarine, sharply contradicted the government’s account and justifications; when its contents were made public, Parliament rang with war-crimes accusations. O’Hagan reinvestigates the story, tracking down seemingly every important surviving character in it, including Sethia, now living with rescue dogs on a secluded hilltop in the Caribbean. The series is full of riveting audio: O’Hagan’s thoughtful and intrepid interviews, maddening archival clips (“Rejoice!” Thatcher says), diary excerpts, and tasteful, evocative sound design (waves lapping, pen scratching across paper, hypnotic original music by Joel Cox). A masterly sequence of the attack, in which a traumatized Sethia compares the sound of the ship breaking up to the shattering of an eighteenth-century ballroom chandelier (“tinkling, tinkling, tinkling, tinkling”), is emblematic of the series’ unforgettable blend of elegance and savagery.",
"I don’t know what it says about me, or about this year, that my favorite podcast was about hundreds of dead bodies found in the woods, but “Noble,” unlike its subject matter, was a wonderful surprise. Hosted and reported by the Atlanta-based journalist Shaun Raviv, it’s a gripping, thoughtful, perfectly balanced meditation on death and our relationship to its practicalities, via the stunning story of the 2002 discovery of three hundred and thirty-nine bodies scattered across the grounds of a rural Georgia crematorium. The series begins with a description of the cremation process (“It takes twenty-eight gallons of fuel, and a spark, to burn a human body”), continues to a former gas man recalling an unsettling sight on a delivery (“Just the foot?” “Just the foot”), and proceeds to a well-written and thoroughly reported saga about a community trying to make sense of the incomprehensible. Campside Media, founded in 2019, has made some of the most sophisticated podcasts to come out in recent years, and like those—“Suspect” and “The Michigan Plot”—“Noble” tells a riveting, troubling story ethically and with respect for the people at its heart. As it contemplates the side of death we really don’t want to know about (“We treat dead bodies like they’re precious, sacred even, but we’re also revolted by them—the way they smell, the way they look,” Raviv says), “Noble” illuminates much about the essence of human connection. ♦"
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Tim Westwood: BBC pauses report publication after Met request | The BBC has paused the publication of its report into what the corporation knew about the alleged behaviour of former BBC Radio 1 DJ Tim Westwood following a request from the Metropolitan Police.
In 2022, BBC News broadcast accusations by 18 women of predatory and unwanted sexual behaviour and touching by Tim Westwood, in alleged incidents from 1992 to 2017.
Mr Westwood has denied claims of misconduct.
A Met police spokesperson said: "While consultation with the CPS is ongoing, we have asked the BBC to pause the publication of their report to allow for further time to consider any potential impact on the investigation."
The BBC's report, led by Gemma White KC, was commissioned by the BBC to examine Mr Westwood's employment with the broadcaster.
The BBC confirmed police had requested it pause publishing this report, adding it would continue to correspond with authorities.
In a statement it said it would provide a further update when there was clarity to do so.
"The police have requested that the BBC pause its intended publication of the report. This is to allow the investigating authorities further time to consider the impact of the publication of the report on the ongoing investigation.
"We have discussed the police's request with Gemma White KC and she has agreed that it is appropriate to pause publication in these circumstances.
"The BBC has always been clear that it intends to publish Gemma White KC's report. We recognise that this pause to publication will be disappointing – particularly to those who came forward to participate in the review and to whom we are very grateful.
"However, we must continuefro to ensure that any steps we take, including in relation to publication of the report, do not negatively impact any criminal process."
It is believed Mr Westwood has been interviewed under caution by the Metropolitan Police four times since the broadcast of the joint BBC News and the Guardian investigation.
In a statement, police said the offences are alleged to have happened between 1982 and 2016.
Detectives said they interviewed a man in his 60s man under caution last year. There has been no arrest.
The BBC's review into Westwood's employment with the BBC was initially expected to take around six months.
A freedom of information request by BBC News earlier this year revealed the BBC had spent more than £3 million on the review so far.
Last month, the Met police confirmed it had made recommendations to the BBC that parts of the report "may interfere with justice if published."
The force had also confirmed it had submitted a file of evidence to the Crown Prosecution Service but is continuing to make enquiries.
It called the investigation "a complex and sensitive matter" and their "absolute priority is to maintain the integrity of our investigation and support and retain the confidence of potential victims".
Tim Westwood stood down from his Capital Xtra show in 2022.
The 67-year-old has continued to play in gigs up and down the country, despite some campaigners calling for nightclubs not to host him since the allegations emerged.
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Is Contraception Under Attack? | You can now buy a pill over the counter, but a conservative backlash is promoting anti-contraceptive disinformation.
This year, for the first time in the roughly sixty-year history of the birth-control pill in the United States, it can be bought over the counter. You might not know about this development—many people I’ve mentioned it to don’t—but you can now find an F.D.A.-approved version of the pill at your drugstore or online, without a prescription, at a cost of about twenty dollars for a one-month supply, or less than fifty dollars for a three-month one. At the CVS in my neighborhood in Washington, D.C., it’s near the condoms, on an open shelf (unlike, for example, the locked-up laundry detergents and air fresheners). The effort to bring the product, sold under the brand name Opill, to the market was more than two decades in the making. It involved numerous studies of safety and effectiveness, investigating everything from the pill’s optimal formulation to how well people could understand the package insert, including the warnings about a few conditions, such as a history of breast cancer, that would preclude taking it. (They could understand them quite well, the studies showed.)
For much of that time, the campaign for over-the-counter access was led by Free the Pill—a coalition of reproductive-justice activists, nurses’ and other medical professionals’ associations, and ob-gyn professors—under the aegis of Ibis Reproductive Health, a nonprofit headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts. What the group lacked, at first, was a pharmaceutical company willing to manufacture a pill under the conditions it stipulated and to pursue F.D.A approval for its over-the-counter use. Most birth-control pills prescribed in the U.S. are a combination of two hormones, estrogen and progestin. The hormones suppress ovulation and thicken the mucus lining of the cervix, impeding sperm from reaching any egg that is released. Free the Pill wanted the first over-the-counter oral contraceptive to be progestin only, a formulation sometimes called the mini pill. A progestin-only version would not carry the same risk of a rare but serious complication, deep-vein thrombosis, associated with the combination pills, and unlike the combination version, was recommended for use immediately postpartum. (Progestin-only pills have the slight disadvantage of needing to be taken within the same three-hour window each day to be maximally effective, and, until recently, many doctors were under the misapprehension that they were less effective in general than the combination pills.)
Free the Pill also wanted the pill to be affordable, Victoria Nichols, the group’s current director, told me, and available to adolescents. In 2016, Ibis partnered with the pharmaceutical company HRA Pharma; in 2022, HRA was acquired by Perrigo, a company headquartered in Dublin that makes a number of over-the-counter medications, including an oral contraceptive sold in Europe. The following year, the F.D.A. approved Opill for over-the-counter sale, and this past March stores across the U.S. began stocking it. The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists issued a statement applauding the move and affirming the progestin-only pill’s safety and effectiveness. So did a number of other leading medical organizations, including the American Medical Association.
Cynthia Harper, a professor of obstetrics and gynecology at the U.C. San Francisco School of Medicine and a researcher on contraceptive access and equity, told me that the over-the-counter pill is “wonderful” news, especially for “people who can’t make regular doctor’s hours, because of work or school schedules, and for people living in rural areas” that might lack a health-care center that they can easily get to. She added, “A lot of young people don’t even have a regular medical provider, but pharmacies are everywhere.” More routinely, Opill could help people who might, for instance, be travelling and have left their birth-control pills at home. Raegan McDonald-Mosley, an ob-gyn who heads the reproductive-health advocacy organization Power to Decide, told me, “Gaps in contraception definitely exist. You know, your prescription runs out, you need a new one, but your doctor says they have to see you first and they don’t have an appointment available for two months.”
Among reversible birth-control methods (as opposed to permanent ones, such as sterilizations or vasectomies), the pill—along with IUDs, hormonal injection, and implants—is one of the most effective, with a failure rate that ranges from one per cent (when people adhere perfectly to the regimen) to nine per cent (when people act more typically and, say, forget an occasional dose). People choose their contraceptive method for many reasons: vibes, cost, convenience, how well they tolerate any side effects, and so on. But a method’s effectiveness is all the more salient in the post-Dobbs era, when the stakes of an unintended pregnancy are especially high. For these reasons, the advent of a safe, inexpensive, over-the-counter version of a pill that has been available in more than a hundred other countries for many years might seem to be an unmitigated boon. At another moment—or maybe just in another country—it might have been.
But Opill is arriving at a fraught time for reproductive freedom in the U.S. Anti-abortion groups and conservative politicians have been at pains to say that they don’t have birth control in their sights, dismissing any suggestion that they do as Democratic “scare tactics.” But many have sought to confuse people about the safety of common birth-control methods, while muddling the distinction between contraceptives, morning-after pills, and abortifacients; making it harder for low-income women to afford reproductive care; mounting Orwellian arguments about how birth control disempowers women; and calling into question the legal cases that established a right to it. Justice Clarence Thomas, in his concurrence in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, mused that the logic of the majority opinion ought to extend to Griswold v. Connecticut, the 1965 case that overturned a state ban on birth control for married couples and helped to establish a constitutional right to privacy. Thomas isn’t likely to find many takers for that argument, even on the current Supreme Court. Still, the idea is on the table in a way that it wasn’t before.
In June, Senate Republicans blocked a bill that would have shored up access to contraception. Republicans have blocked similar legislation in more than a dozen state legislatures. In Missouri, a G.O.P. state legislator, Tara Peters, co-sponsored a bill that would have allowed women to get a year’s supply of birth-control pills at a time, but saw it defeated by her fellow-Republicans who regarded it, she told the Washington Post, as a “Trojan horse” that would expand access to abortion drugs. This makes no sense, except that people commonly conflate the abortion pills mifepristone and misoprostol with Plan B emergency contraception and even with birth-control pills, and some on the anti-abortion side actively promote that conflation. Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene once said that the Plan B pill, which is not an abortifacient and works by blocking or delaying ovulation, “kills a baby in the womb once a woman is already pregnant.”
Intentionally or not, the Dobbs decision and the state-level bans that are its progeny have exerted a chilling effect on birth control. A study published in JAMA Network Open in June showed that prescriptions filled for oral contraceptives, and especially emergency ones, had fallen in the states that put in place the most restrictive abortion policies in the past two years, probably because so many family-planning clinics have closed since the Dobbs decision. Katie Watson, a law and bioethics professor at Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine who studies reproductive-health policy, told me, “I hate Chicken Little politics. I don’t go around saying they’re coming for contraception all the time. But they’re coming for contraception.”
Students for Life of America, an anti-abortion youth organization, argues that birth control in general “disrespects women” and that Opill in particular will make it “easier for predators to hide their sexual abuse of minors.” In a 2023 op-ed for the National Review, an associate scholar at the Charlotte Lozier Institute, an anti-abortion think tank, called for conservatives to “ask future Republican presidential administrations to revoke the FDA approval for Opill and other over-the-counter contraceptives.” In late October, the Biden Administration promulgated a rule that would require insurance companies to pay for over-the-counter contraception. (Even twenty dollars a month might be a stretch if you’re struggling.) It’s still in the public-comment period, and may never go into effect under Donald Trump.
In the end, though, what might make it hardest to maintain the full range of birth-control options available is the torrent of online content disparaging hormonal contraception. On TikTok, chatty influencers tout the benefits of getting off the pill and switching, if they mention any alternative method at all, to natural family planning, such as tracking your menstrual cycle and refraining from sex at more fertile times of the month. (“Natural” carries a talismanic authority in these videos. What you don’t often hear from the new enthusiasts of what used to be called the rhythm method is that, with imperfect use, such techniques fail up to twenty-five per cent of the time.) A “holistic-wellness coach” named Evelyn rejects hormonal birth control, while upholding the theory that “your hyper-independence is blocking your fertility.” Alex Clark, a pro-Trump media personality, blames “so-called medical professionals” for “gaslighting” women about the risks of hormonal birth control. She also promotes a product—conveniently, there’s often a product—called Toxic Breakup, “a supplement formulated to aid in detoxifying, replenishing, and restoring hormonal balance after discontinuing the use of birth control.”
Birth-control pills are among the best-studied medications available, and both their risks and their benefits have been known, discussed, and included on package inserts for years. Since influencers cite all kinds of resultant health risks, from weight gain to cancer, it’s worth pointing out that there is abundant medical literature on all of these. The combined pill can cause blood clots, though that is a rare complication, and can slightly raise the risk of stroke and heart attack; people who are over thirty-five and smoke or have a history of high blood pressure are not supposed to take it. The National Cancer Institute, summing up the cumulative studies, concludes that oral contraceptives are associated with a higher risk of breast and cervical cancer, and lower risks of endometrial, ovarian, and colorectal cancer. The pill does not cause infertility, nor does it cause weight gain, as many influencers claim. (The only birth-control method that has consistently been shown to cause weight gain is the Depo-Provera injection.) The evidence for the pill’s association with depression is somewhat more equivocal. Two large studies, in Sweden and in Denmark, showed that women taking oral contraceptives were more likely to be diagnosed with depression, particularly if they were adolescents. A different Swedish study of women aged fifteen to twenty-five found no increased likelihood of depression. And a more recent study conducted in the U.S. showed that both younger and older women on the pill were less likely to report depression. Since all these studies were observational—not randomized with control groups—it’s impossible to say whether there might be reasons other than the pill itself that young women taking it (the relationships they might be in, for example) are more likely to be depressed. “It’s important not to undermine or denigrate people’s individual experiences,” McDonald-Mosley, of Power to Decide, told me. “But what is challenging is differentiating between individual experience and over-all data.”
Emily Pfender, a postdoctoral research fellow at the University of Pennsylvania’s medical school, has studied social-media messaging about contraceptive use in recent years, and found, as she and her co-author Leah Fowler, wrote recently in the Journal of Women’s Health, that “content creators tend to underscore the risks of hormonal options while minimizing the risks and overstating the benefits of nonhormonal options.” And much of the birth-control skepticism on social media is ideological, the culture-warification of medical side effects. It’s easy to see an overlap with the trad-wife movement and its valorization of the “natural” and the labor-intensive (cycle tracking is not that easy), not to mention large families. Alex Clark is not the only Trumpian conservative—part of the “Make America Healthy Again” cohort—to take up cudgels against the pill. Elon Musk tweeted earlier this year that “Hormonal birth control makes you fat, doubles risk of depression & triples risk of suicide.” The right-wing pundit Ben Shapiro has said that “it’s almost a political third rail if you mention there are side effects to taking the birth control pill.” That was in his intro to an admiring 2023 interview with Rikki Schlott, a New York Post columnist who spoke forebodingly about oral contraception’s effects on “the way that you see the world around you, the way that your brain works.”
The online (and print) magazine Evie, which Rolling Stone describes as a “Gen Z ‘Cosmo’ for the Far Right,” is full of women’s-mag staples (“7 Ways to Tell If a New Hair Color Will Look Good on You”) and photos of pretty, young, white women with long hair in beachy waves, outfitted in pristine, Coachella-ready garb. It also features pieces such as “Was Feminism a Psyop to Get Women to Pay More Taxes to the Government?” and “Does Social Justice Satisfy the Mothering Instinct of Childless Women?” (Apparently, in some twisted way, it does. “Biology can’t be canceled,” the writer explains, “so women have begun to turn to social justice to fill the void of children.”) Skeptical articles about hormonal contraception are Evie staples, too. (“5 Common Fears When Breaking Up with Birth Control, Debunked and Remedied.”) The magazine’s publisher, a model and entrepreneur named Brittany Hugoboom, is, as it happens, also the co-founder of a company that makes a menstrual-cycle tracking app, 28. A significant investor in the company is Peter Thiel, the tech entrepreneur who helped bankroll the rise of J. D. Vance.
In the MAHA era, it will be even more algorithmically seductive and politically convenient for many people, both Trump supporters and those who might be influenced by them, to place faith in the purity of wellness coaches and supplements over the expertise of doctors and F.D.A.-approved medications. It seems likely that attacks on the pill have gained a certain amount of their appeal in conservative circles, and will continue to, from the association of hormones with gender-affirming care—a kind of ick factor wrapped up in moral panic. In some ways, contraception is like vaccination, another preventive-health measure that is under assault. It’s something people voluntarily take, generally when they are well, to forestall an outcome that they may not be able to fully envision. That makes it vulnerable to anxiety-inducing half-truths, often spread by those with political agendas of their own. “Very rarely do people weigh the risk of hormonal contraception versus the risk of pregnancy,” Harper, the U.C.S.F. ob-gyn, told me. And yet pregnancy and childbirth can pose health hazards that virtually no method of birth control does. Harper went on, “That’s not the calculation in people’s minds. A healthy, young person may be more likely to worry about what this will do to me than what this can do for me.”
One thing reliable birth control can do is prevent unwanted pregnancies. At a time when abortion bans can mean being sent on a nerve-testing journey to find care in another state, being turned away from an emergency room when you are miscarrying, or being compelled to give birth, that reassurance is more critical than ever. ♦ | {
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"For much of that time, the campaign for over-the-counter access was led by Free the Pill—a coalition of reproductive-justice activists, nurses’ and other medical professionals’ associations, and ob-gyn professors—under the aegis of Ibis Reproductive Health, a nonprofit headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts. What the group lacked, at first, was a pharmaceutical company willing to manufacture a pill under the conditions it stipulated and to pursue F.D.A approval for its over-the-counter use. Most birth-control pills prescribed in the U.S. are a combination of two hormones, estrogen and progestin. The hormones suppress ovulation and thicken the mucus lining of the cervix, impeding sperm from reaching any egg that is released. Free the Pill wanted the first over-the-counter oral contraceptive to be progestin only, a formulation sometimes called the mini pill. A progestin-only version would not carry the same risk of a rare but serious complication, deep-vein thrombosis, associated with the combination pills, and unlike the combination version, was recommended for use immediately postpartum. (Progestin-only pills have the slight disadvantage of needing to be taken within the same three-hour window each day to be maximally effective, and, until recently, many doctors were under the misapprehension that they were less effective in general than the combination pills.)",
"Free the Pill also wanted the pill to be affordable, Victoria Nichols, the group’s current director, told me, and available to adolescents. In 2016, Ibis partnered with the pharmaceutical company HRA Pharma; in 2022, HRA was acquired by Perrigo, a company headquartered in Dublin that makes a number of over-the-counter medications, including an oral contraceptive sold in Europe. The following year, the F.D.A. approved Opill for over-the-counter sale, and this past March stores across the U.S. began stocking it. The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists issued a statement applauding the move and affirming the progestin-only pill’s safety and effectiveness. So did a number of other leading medical organizations, including the American Medical Association.",
"Cynthia Harper, a professor of obstetrics and gynecology at the U.C. San Francisco School of Medicine and a researcher on contraceptive access and equity, told me that the over-the-counter pill is “wonderful” news, especially for “people who can’t make regular doctor’s hours, because of work or school schedules, and for people living in rural areas” that might lack a health-care center that they can easily get to. She added, “A lot of young people don’t even have a regular medical provider, but pharmacies are everywhere.” More routinely, Opill could help people who might, for instance, be travelling and have left their birth-control pills at home. Raegan McDonald-Mosley, an ob-gyn who heads the reproductive-health advocacy organization Power to Decide, told me, “Gaps in contraception definitely exist. You know, your prescription runs out, you need a new one, but your doctor says they have to see you first and they don’t have an appointment available for two months.”",
"Among reversible birth-control methods (as opposed to permanent ones, such as sterilizations or vasectomies), the pill—along with IUDs, hormonal injection, and implants—is one of the most effective, with a failure rate that ranges from one per cent (when people adhere perfectly to the regimen) to nine per cent (when people act more typically and, say, forget an occasional dose). People choose their contraceptive method for many reasons: vibes, cost, convenience, how well they tolerate any side effects, and so on. But a method’s effectiveness is all the more salient in the post-Dobbs era, when the stakes of an unintended pregnancy are especially high. For these reasons, the advent of a safe, inexpensive, over-the-counter version of a pill that has been available in more than a hundred other countries for many years might seem to be an unmitigated boon. At another moment—or maybe just in another country—it might have been.",
"But Opill is arriving at a fraught time for reproductive freedom in the U.S. Anti-abortion groups and conservative politicians have been at pains to say that they don’t have birth control in their sights, dismissing any suggestion that they do as Democratic “scare tactics.” But many have sought to confuse people about the safety of common birth-control methods, while muddling the distinction between contraceptives, morning-after pills, and abortifacients; making it harder for low-income women to afford reproductive care; mounting Orwellian arguments about how birth control disempowers women; and calling into question the legal cases that established a right to it. Justice Clarence Thomas, in his concurrence in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, mused that the logic of the majority opinion ought to extend to Griswold v. Connecticut, the 1965 case that overturned a state ban on birth control for married couples and helped to establish a constitutional right to privacy. Thomas isn’t likely to find many takers for that argument, even on the current Supreme Court. Still, the idea is on the table in a way that it wasn’t before.",
"In June, Senate Republicans blocked a bill that would have shored up access to contraception. Republicans have blocked similar legislation in more than a dozen state legislatures. In Missouri, a G.O.P. state legislator, Tara Peters, co-sponsored a bill that would have allowed women to get a year’s supply of birth-control pills at a time, but saw it defeated by her fellow-Republicans who regarded it, she told the Washington Post, as a “Trojan horse” that would expand access to abortion drugs. This makes no sense, except that people commonly conflate the abortion pills mifepristone and misoprostol with Plan B emergency contraception and even with birth-control pills, and some on the anti-abortion side actively promote that conflation. Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene once said that the Plan B pill, which is not an abortifacient and works by blocking or delaying ovulation, “kills a baby in the womb once a woman is already pregnant.”",
"Intentionally or not, the Dobbs decision and the state-level bans that are its progeny have exerted a chilling effect on birth control. A study published in JAMA Network Open in June showed that prescriptions filled for oral contraceptives, and especially emergency ones, had fallen in the states that put in place the most restrictive abortion policies in the past two years, probably because so many family-planning clinics have closed since the Dobbs decision. Katie Watson, a law and bioethics professor at Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine who studies reproductive-health policy, told me, “I hate Chicken Little politics. I don’t go around saying they’re coming for contraception all the time. But they’re coming for contraception.”",
"Students for Life of America, an anti-abortion youth organization, argues that birth control in general “disrespects women” and that Opill in particular will make it “easier for predators to hide their sexual abuse of minors.” In a 2023 op-ed for the National Review, an associate scholar at the Charlotte Lozier Institute, an anti-abortion think tank, called for conservatives to “ask future Republican presidential administrations to revoke the FDA approval for Opill and other over-the-counter contraceptives.” In late October, the Biden Administration promulgated a rule that would require insurance companies to pay for over-the-counter contraception. (Even twenty dollars a month might be a stretch if you’re struggling.) It’s still in the public-comment period, and may never go into effect under Donald Trump.",
"In the end, though, what might make it hardest to maintain the full range of birth-control options available is the torrent of online content disparaging hormonal contraception. On TikTok, chatty influencers tout the benefits of getting off the pill and switching, if they mention any alternative method at all, to natural family planning, such as tracking your menstrual cycle and refraining from sex at more fertile times of the month. (“Natural” carries a talismanic authority in these videos. What you don’t often hear from the new enthusiasts of what used to be called the rhythm method is that, with imperfect use, such techniques fail up to twenty-five per cent of the time.) A “holistic-wellness coach” named Evelyn rejects hormonal birth control, while upholding the theory that “your hyper-independence is blocking your fertility.” Alex Clark, a pro-Trump media personality, blames “so-called medical professionals” for “gaslighting” women about the risks of hormonal birth control. She also promotes a product—conveniently, there’s often a product—called Toxic Breakup, “a supplement formulated to aid in detoxifying, replenishing, and restoring hormonal balance after discontinuing the use of birth control.”",
"Birth-control pills are among the best-studied medications available, and both their risks and their benefits have been known, discussed, and included on package inserts for years. Since influencers cite all kinds of resultant health risks, from weight gain to cancer, it’s worth pointing out that there is abundant medical literature on all of these. The combined pill can cause blood clots, though that is a rare complication, and can slightly raise the risk of stroke and heart attack; people who are over thirty-five and smoke or have a history of high blood pressure are not supposed to take it. The National Cancer Institute, summing up the cumulative studies, concludes that oral contraceptives are associated with a higher risk of breast and cervical cancer, and lower risks of endometrial, ovarian, and colorectal cancer. The pill does not cause infertility, nor does it cause weight gain, as many influencers claim. (The only birth-control method that has consistently been shown to cause weight gain is the Depo-Provera injection.) The evidence for the pill’s association with depression is somewhat more equivocal. Two large studies, in Sweden and in Denmark, showed that women taking oral contraceptives were more likely to be diagnosed with depression, particularly if they were adolescents. A different Swedish study of women aged fifteen to twenty-five found no increased likelihood of depression. And a more recent study conducted in the U.S. showed that both younger and older women on the pill were less likely to report depression. Since all these studies were observational—not randomized with control groups—it’s impossible to say whether there might be reasons other than the pill itself that young women taking it (the relationships they might be in, for example) are more likely to be depressed. “It’s important not to undermine or denigrate people’s individual experiences,” McDonald-Mosley, of Power to Decide, told me. “But what is challenging is differentiating between individual experience and over-all data.”",
"Emily Pfender, a postdoctoral research fellow at the University of Pennsylvania’s medical school, has studied social-media messaging about contraceptive use in recent years, and found, as she and her co-author Leah Fowler, wrote recently in the Journal of Women’s Health, that “content creators tend to underscore the risks of hormonal options while minimizing the risks and overstating the benefits of nonhormonal options.” And much of the birth-control skepticism on social media is ideological, the culture-warification of medical side effects. It’s easy to see an overlap with the trad-wife movement and its valorization of the “natural” and the labor-intensive (cycle tracking is not that easy), not to mention large families. Alex Clark is not the only Trumpian conservative—part of the “Make America Healthy Again” cohort—to take up cudgels against the pill. Elon Musk tweeted earlier this year that “Hormonal birth control makes you fat, doubles risk of depression & triples risk of suicide.” The right-wing pundit Ben Shapiro has said that “it’s almost a political third rail if you mention there are side effects to taking the birth control pill.” That was in his intro to an admiring 2023 interview with Rikki Schlott, a New York Post columnist who spoke forebodingly about oral contraception’s effects on “the way that you see the world around you, the way that your brain works.”",
"The online (and print) magazine Evie, which Rolling Stone describes as a “Gen Z ‘Cosmo’ for the Far Right,” is full of women’s-mag staples (“7 Ways to Tell If a New Hair Color Will Look Good on You”) and photos of pretty, young, white women with long hair in beachy waves, outfitted in pristine, Coachella-ready garb. It also features pieces such as “Was Feminism a Psyop to Get Women to Pay More Taxes to the Government?” and “Does Social Justice Satisfy the Mothering Instinct of Childless Women?” (Apparently, in some twisted way, it does. “Biology can’t be canceled,” the writer explains, “so women have begun to turn to social justice to fill the void of children.”) Skeptical articles about hormonal contraception are Evie staples, too. (“5 Common Fears When Breaking Up with Birth Control, Debunked and Remedied.”) The magazine’s publisher, a model and entrepreneur named Brittany Hugoboom, is, as it happens, also the co-founder of a company that makes a menstrual-cycle tracking app, 28. A significant investor in the company is Peter Thiel, the tech entrepreneur who helped bankroll the rise of J. D. Vance.",
"In the MAHA era, it will be even more algorithmically seductive and politically convenient for many people, both Trump supporters and those who might be influenced by them, to place faith in the purity of wellness coaches and supplements over the expertise of doctors and F.D.A.-approved medications. It seems likely that attacks on the pill have gained a certain amount of their appeal in conservative circles, and will continue to, from the association of hormones with gender-affirming care—a kind of ick factor wrapped up in moral panic. In some ways, contraception is like vaccination, another preventive-health measure that is under assault. It’s something people voluntarily take, generally when they are well, to forestall an outcome that they may not be able to fully envision. That makes it vulnerable to anxiety-inducing half-truths, often spread by those with political agendas of their own. “Very rarely do people weigh the risk of hormonal contraception versus the risk of pregnancy,” Harper, the U.C.S.F. ob-gyn, told me. And yet pregnancy and childbirth can pose health hazards that virtually no method of birth control does. Harper went on, “That’s not the calculation in people’s minds. A healthy, young person may be more likely to worry about what this will do to me than what this can do for me.”",
"One thing reliable birth control can do is prevent unwanted pregnancies. At a time when abortion bans can mean being sent on a nerve-testing journey to find care in another state, being turned away from an emergency room when you are miscarrying, or being compelled to give birth, that reassurance is more critical than ever. ♦"
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Former police officer denies leaking information to Proud Boys leader | A retired Washington, D.C., police officer charged with lying about his private communications with former Proud Boys national leader Enrique Tarrio testified Friday that he never leaked sensitive police information to the far-right extremist group leader.
Taking the witness stand at his federal trial, former Metropolitan Police Department Lieutenant Shane Lamond said he was upset that a prosecutor labeled him as a Proud Boys "sympathizer" who acted as a "double agent" for the group after Tarrio burned a stolen Black Lives Matter banner in December 2020.
"I don't support the Proud Boys, and I'm not a Proud Boys sympathizer," said Lamond, whose bench trial started Monday and continues next week.
Tarrio, who testified Thursday as a witness for Lamond's defense, is serving a 22-year prison sentence for his role in a plot to use force to keep Donald Trump in the White House after the 2020 election. Tarrio previously was sentenced to more than five months in jail for burning the banner stolen from a historic Black church in downtown Washington and for bringing two high-capacity firearm magazines into the district.
Lamond said Tarrio never confessed to him that he burned the banner. He also denies tipping off Tarrio that a warrant for his arrest had been signed before he arrived in Washington on January 4, 2021 — two days before other Proud Boys joined a mob's attack on the U.S. Capitol.
Lamond's indictment says he and Tarrio exchanged messages about the January 6 riot and discussed whether Proud Boys members were in danger of being charged in the attack.
"Of course I can't say it officially, but personally I support you all and don't want to see your group's name and reputation dragged through the mud," Lamond wrote.
Lamond said he considered Tarrio to be a source, not a friend. But he said he tried to build a friendly rapport with the group leader to gain his trust.
Justice Department prosecutor Joshua Rothstein pointed to other messages that suggest Lamond provided Tarrio with "real-time updates" on the police investigation of the December 12, 2020, banner burning.
Lamond is charged with one count of obstruction of justice and three counts of making false statements. U.S. District Judge Amy Berman Jackson will decide the case after hearing testimony without a jury.
Lamond, who met Tarrio in 2019, had supervised the intelligence branch of the police department's Homeland Security Bureau. He was responsible for monitoring groups like the Proud Boys when they came to Washington.
The men exchanged hundreds of messages across several platforms, with Lamond frequently greeting Tarrio as "brother." However, Lamond acknowledged that he only sent encrypted messages to Tarrio or met him in person after the banner burning.
On the day of his arrest, Tarrio posted a message to other Proud Boys leaders that said, "The warrant was just signed." Tarrio testified Thursday that he didn't confess to Lamond or receive any confidential information from him.
After the banner burning but before Tarrio's arrest, Lamond told him that the FBI and U.S. Secret Service was "all spun up" by chatter that Proud Boys planned to dress up as supporters of President Joe Biden for the Democrat's inauguration in January 2021.
"I'm just going to let them get all freaked out. They're idiots," Lamond wrote of his federal colleagues.
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Irish Premiership: Rooney hails 'lift' provided by Millar return | Larne manager Nathan Rooney has hailed the "lift" that the return of midfielder Leroy Millar after a lengthy period out through injury has provided for his squad.
The former Ballymena player came off the bench to scored his side's fourth goal in a 5-0 BetMcLean Cup quarter-final win over Annagh United on Wednesday night.
Millar was a pivotal figure as Larne secured the first league titles in their history and was named Irish Premiership Player of the Year for the 2022-23 season.
He has been out of action since April with a groin injury however.
"Everything that he gives you, even before he steps on the pitch - you get the lift, you get the presence," said Rooney of his influential returning player.
"It's now getting some more work into Leroy and making sure he's up to speed over the coming weeks and hopefully we can get him to peak over the busy Christmas period."
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The recently appointed Larne boss began his tenure with a 1-1 Premiership draw with Cliftonville and faces a continuation of the club's busy schedule of fixtures across several fronts in the coming weeks - playing catch-up in terms of league matches, two more Conference League games, a League Cup semi-final and a County Antrim Shield final.
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