Leslie Stepp

UAE announces Dubai Loop project in collaboration with Elon Musk at World Governments Summit DUBAI: The UAE has announced a collaboration with Elon Musk on the new underground Dubai Loop project at the World Governments Summit on Thursday. The Dubai Loop is set to cover the city’s most popula...

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Google Calendar Removes a Number of Cultural Events The Silicon Valley giant said it made the change last year because it was difficult to keep up with every occasion, but some users questioned the decision.

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Consumer prices rise 0.5% in January, higher than expected as annual rate rises to 3%

Fact-checking Elon Musk's claims in the Oval Office The billionaire has made a number of exaggerated or unevidenced claims during a White House event.

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Muskrat

This morning's moon set

Source NY Times

How many more of these brilliant ideas will it take for not just Americans, but also the world to see that the President of the United States is seriously demented and a risk to humanity?

South Africa might bypass Black ownership rules for Musk Government officials have discussed enabling Elon Musk’s companies to sidestep a policy aimed at redressing apartheid-era inequalities.

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"Vincent Magwenya, a spokesman for Mr. Ramaphosa, said, “we have never witnessed such an escalation of diplomatic tensions,” and added that the issues Mr. Trump raised had “been laced with complete lies and distortions about our country.”
NY Times 09 Feb 2025

Did you know that Sharks kill about 12 people a year? People kill about 11,417 sharks—an hour.

AI reproduces & amplifies ethnic & gender stereotypes. While awareness of the abuses is now established, few improvements have been noted. With Donald Trump as US President, this nipsin the bud any hope that algorithm designers will tackle the problem more seriously.

Unlike most political systems, plutocracy is not rooted in any established political philosophy.

Musk-rat

Elon Musk's top DOGE staffer quits over racist social media posts Marko Elez was one of two employees at the Department of Government Efficiency granted access to $5trillion in the Treasury payment systems following an 11th hour court hearing.

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Trump Administration May Start Deporting Americans Too Marco Rubio visited El Salvador to push for tougher immigration enforcement, while Elon Musk praised the idea of housing U.S. prisoners in Salvadoran facilities for a fee. However, a U.S. official sta...

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“The constitution is not something with which the government may play policy games,” Judge Coughenour said on Thursday. “If the government wants to change the exceptional American grant of birthright citizenship, it needs to amend the Constitution itself.”

Jan. 23, Judge Coughenour

one needed tio be invited, remember?

Susie Wiles Shoots Daggers at Trump During Unhinged Gaza Press Conference President Donald Trump’s “ice maiden” lived up to her name on Tuesday as she stared down her boss during a bizarre press conference in the Oval Office with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. A...

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Rain's a-comin'
that's what they say
Make like a monkey
and have a great day.

The late Pauline Oliveros is having her moment. How Long Beach Opera is making it even bigger Long Beach Opera embarks on a risky, unprecedented season centered on pioneering composer Pauline Oliveros. "We’re just going for it."

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President Donald Trump received the first real threat of impeachment on Wed.

Rep. Al Green (D-Texas) said:
'The movement to impeach the president has begun.'

'I rise to announce that I will bring Articles of Impeachment against the president for dastardly deeds proposed and dastardly deeds done'

Peeling off of social medias. Friends know where they can find me.

incredulous

A.I. Art Generated With Text Prompts Cannot Be Copyrighted, U.S. Rules Art generated by A.I. from a text prompt cannot be copyrighted, according to new guidance from the U.S. Copyright Office.

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I think the smartest thing we can do is find a candidate who can beat Vance in 4 years. And set up a quality slate of younger, talented senators and statesmen/women. We need a plan.

“When you are ‘taking democracy into your own hands,’ what you have in your hands is not democracy, because democracy begins with the recognition that other people have hands, too.”