“If I was Lady McBiden, I’d put on my big girl pants, play the long game and think about my husband’s legacy,” Alexandra Pelosi, the former speaker’s daughter, told me Saturday. “There aren’t that many people left in America who have something nice to say about Joe Biden and Nancy Pelosi is one of them.” The younger Pelosi made clear she was speaking only for herself.

We have a good idea of what happened:  an extreme/unusual Santa Ana event associated with severe downslope winds.   In this blog, I will show you some early simulations and explain why this event occurred.   I will also describe why climate change did not play a significant role.

Some also saw it as a sign of détente sent by Captain Ibrahim Traoré (nicknamed “IB”), at the helm of Burkina Faso since the 2022 coup. Like his Malian counterpart, General Assimi Goïta, the 36-year-old officer who came to power in a putsch severed ties with France after the takeover. Relations between Ouagadougou and Paris then turned sour with the removal of the French ambassador and special forces – based in the country for over a decade – and vitriolic statements against the former colonial power. 

This Unit 8200-to-big-tech pipeline is global, with former spies specialising in AI based in locations around the world, from San Francisco to New York, Spain to Switzerland, London to Jerusalem. Additionally I found that acclaimed leaders in the field of AI – men and women working for AI start-ups or heralded by corporate media as the next generation of AI – are former unit 8200 members.

RDEL #75: How do interruptions impact different software engineering activities? Certain tasks, and their complexity, change how impactful an interruption is. Research also discovers a disconnect between perception and physiological data.

And while I would recommend, in the spirit of owning your data, self-hosting your own reader, FreshRSS has hosted instances you can use if you don’t know how to setup and host your own application.

The Democratic schmoozing of big tech is still going strong today: When Chuck Schumer convened a closed door Senate hearing on AI policy in 2023, he invited Silicon Valley CEOs like Musk and Mark Zuckerberg to take the lead. Biden’s Treasury  bailed out Silicon Valley Bank after it collapsed in the wake of deeply irresponsible risk management practices and VCs demanded cash to save it. Last year, star Democrat Gavin Newsom sided with Google over working journalists and threatened a veto that doomed a bill that would have required tech giants to pay newspapers a small share of the ad revenue for hosting news on their platforms. The Democratic congressman Ro Khanna argued on CNN that Democrats have simply been *too hard* on Elon Musk, not showering him with enough praise and thus driving him into Republicans’ arms. He has also offered to work with Musk’s DOGE to eliminate federal jobs.

Building anything of value around a proprietary platform is very risky. Whether it’s a software application, a brand, or anything that you can categorize as a major revenue source, should be owned and hosted by yourself. Platforms that you have no control over can disappear overnight, or change in ways that would make it impossible to continue using them in ways you’ve anticipated. History shows this happens constantly.

This work is designed as a textbook for a course in software testing or security testing; as supplementary material in a software testing, security testing, or software engineering course; and as a resource for software developers. We cover random fuzzing, mutation-based fuzzing, grammar-based test generation, symbolic testing, and much more, illustrating all techniques with code examples that you can try out yourself.

I think the DC elite is perhaps the only group fully surprised by what happened this election. That it happened with increasing minority support is a big slap in the face that their worldview simply cannot understand.

Perhaps this is why we forget that isolation can be edifying. To that great pioneer of modern solitude, the philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau, time spent alone offered “the pleasure of conversing with my soul”. “It is only in myself”, Rousseau writes in his Reveries of the Solitary Walker, “that I find consolation, hope and peace of mind.” The insight, so compelling to the Romantics, is often lost on us.

Dane Co jail. ICE hold requests. Most weren’t honored

The US tariffs on the EU, including Airbus, and the counter-tariffs on the US, including Boeing, were suspended when Joe Biden became president in 2021. Both the EU and USTR representatives decided (after years of avoiding the issue) that the WTO should examine China’s state subsidies to the state-owned COMAC. COMAC developed the C919, which competes with the A320 and the 737. It’s developing the C929 to compete with the A330neo and the 787. So far, no trade complaint has been filed against China.

Startups often face the challenge of dividing their equity among co-founders and other key shareholders. This comprehensive guide provides a first-of-its-kind data report that offers a detailed approach to solving this problem.

Dysfunctional Delaware: Over the weekend, Vice Chancellor Laster took to LinkedIn to promote an 50-page article critiquing former Chancellor Chandler for his testimony in the DE legislature. After many comments, VC Laster apparently deleted (or limited access to) the post. 1/

The Peppermills of Jens Quistgaard

Farm Equipment editors visited Blue Equipment, Kinze Manufacturing’s new full-service store located on its vast manufacturing campus in Williamsburg, Iowa. Dealership Sales Manager Justin Render provides an overview and tour of the new showroom and modern repair shop for Kinze equipment sold, traded and repaired in Southeast Iowa. The store, which originated after a local dealer’s retirement, also sells Ag Leader, Martin-Till, Lundell Plastics and Yetter.

But despite efforts to help younger scientists, the share of basic NIH funding going to scientists under thirty-five continues to decline. In the 2004 fiscal year, the High-Risk, High-Reward Research program allocated about $200 million to scientists, a moderate decline since 2019. The amount was an almost negligible fraction — less than half of 1 percent — of the NIH’s annual budget for that year.

we now know it’ll be powered by a brand-new turbocharged four-cylinder petrol engine, and could arrive as early as next year.

Trend toward casual office wear nearly claims another Minneapolis business

Last month, I tried a little experiment on X/Twitter: each day, for 28 days, I posted a slide or two about the media business.  Most of these are pulled from long-form posts on The Mediator, but some are new or updated. Some are data-centric, some conceptual; most are proprietary analyses, some aren’t—but collectively they tell a story about the current and evolving state of media, especially the video business. Overall, they show an industry in upheaval, particularly for traditional media:

As 3D-printed architecture continues to mature from niche proposition to disruptive technology, housing developments are beginning to roll out worldwide. Following pioneering projects like Wolf Ranch and the Community First! Village in the US comes another in Ireland, which was printed in impressive time.

The “great man” theory of history lost favor a century ago, and for decades university faculty have found it quaint, vulgar or problematic. Like other ideas that right-thinking people long ago discarded, its disreputable status hasn’t stopped many from believing in it anyway.

Here is one way to measure the Trump administration’s priorities. Rubio’s order of meetings/phone calls
1: India
2: Australia
3: Japan
4: Philippines
5: Israel

What’s notable here is that every type of loss has gotten more expensive, mostly in relatively similar proportions. The average damage cost for wind and hail, water, theft, other property, and bodily injury have all risen by about a factor of 1.5-1.7 since 2005. Fire damage, medical payments and credit card fraud have increased in severity more, with the average payout of the first two increasing by a factor of closer to 3 and credit card fraud seeing a single huge spike.

As we know from the 1990s and early 2000s—under reform mayors like New York’s Rudy Giuliani and Michael Bloomberg, Houston’s Bob Lanier, Indianapolis’s Steve Goldsmith, Philadelphia’s Ed Rendell, and Los Angeles’s Richard Riordan—good governance can restore urban vitality. Some of these mayors were nominal Democrats, others were Republicans, but all were effective in enacting regulatory reform, restraining taxes, and, most importantly, increasing public safety.

Immediately, five more airborne Huey pilots took advantage of the cleared runway to land and disembark their passengers. Assuming he would be court martialed, Chambers ordered those helicopters thrown overboard as well. He later told interviewers that since he expected to be deposed by prosecutors, he turned away from the action to avoid seeing exactly how many were pushed into the sea. In the same interview Jumper also claimed not to know how many helicopters went overboard. 

By this point, I think it’s clear that HTML elements run the gamut from content to container to logic to edge case. Some elements we can see, others not so much. Some elements are meant to combine with others. Some elements are only meant for your browser to read. Some elements had good intentions but never picked up mainstream use.As an aside, right now, you’re reading an <article></article>.If you’re getting a bit lost, <nav></nav> can help you findthewayOr maybe an <address></address> would be better?

This is the China graph.
It’s nothing, and then it’s everything. https://t.co/Mo3pvcvW8G pic.twitter.com/BrEdjWzjZK

— Balaji (@balajis) January 26, 2025

The Conservative Revolution was not merely a collection of abstract ideas but a comprehensive vision for Germany’s future, shaped by countless influential figures—too many to name here—who sought to fuse the ancestral legacy of culture and spirituality with political renewal. Mohler described the movement as uniquely “German,” rejecting the radical internationalism of the 1789 French Revolution. 

Hadid’s studio, Zaha Hadid Architects, won the international competition to replace the ageing ski jump in Innsbruck in December 1999. It was the latest in a series of high-profile competitions won by the studio.

A brand-new house in Pacific Palisades designed and built by architect Greg Chasen in summer 2024 could have easily been one of them. None of the other homes around it survived, and a car parked out front by a neighbor was the perfect vector to spread the flames.

A cursed fact of the world is that the most important life lessons you learn are the hardest to communicate to others. They always sound like clichés. In any case, these are a few things I’ve learned from experience and that I try and keep in mind.

1. Think about what makes you ‘imbalanced’ as a personality, & do things where this gives you an edge.
2. Once you are ok with people telling you ‘no’, you can ask for whatever you want. (Make reality say no to you.)
3. Fun is underrated. The best and most creative work comes from a root of joy and excitement. You can feel this in your body.

Significant price markups: The Big 3 PBMs imposed markups of hundreds and thousands of percent on numerous specialty generic drugsdispensed at their affiliated pharmacies—including drugs used to treat cancer, HIV, and other serious diseases and conditions. The Big 3 PBMs also reimbursed their affiliated pharmacies at a higher rate than they paid unaffiliated pharmacies on nearly every specialty generic drug examined.

The guiding company will be sending a group to attempt Everest this winter using Xenon gas. Whereas the fastest commercial Everest expeditions are currently around four weeks, using Xenon could speed things up to one week airport to airport. One session of xenon gas costs $5,000 per person for a 30-minute session. The tour operator said they will have four clients inhale a xenon gas blend upon arrival in Kathmandu, then fly to base camp, then climb to the summit within two hours. They would then spend three days climbing and one day descending. The climbers would not need any acclimatization. Along with the xenon gas, climbers need to pre-acclimatize before travelling to Everest in a hypoxic altitude tent and still use bottled oxygen on the climb. These expeditions also have mountain guides and use Sherpa and porter support.

Madison Just, a 32-year-old change manager for a Los Angeles design consulting firm, has both premium American Express cards that offer Delta lounge access. She’ll get 25 Sky Club visits a year. “I am worried that it’s not enough,’’ she says.



Just visits Sky Clubs on every trip. At Los Angeles International Airport on Saturday night, she stopped in for a glass of Cabernet Sauvignon, hummus, veggies and cheese and crackers. The clam chowder at the Sea

Walgreens CEO says anti-shoplifting strategy backfired: ‘When you lock things up…you don’t sell as many of them’

More than 74,000 Canadians have died on health-care wait lists since 2018: report
At least 15,474 Canadians died in 2023-24 alone before receiving various surgeries or diagnostic scans. The true number is likely double

Biden two weeks ago oligarchs.

To understand why it actually makes sense to buy Fartcoin, we turn to the wise words of Caroline Ellison, CEO of Sam Bankman-Fried’s hedge fund Alameda: “Every week or so something weirder than the previous week would happen. . . . I managed to get. away from my initial skepticism and have been embracing the mindset of going out and looking for the weirdest, dumbest thing people are talking about today.”

Of note in the poll, Virginians are unusually pleased under Youngkin. Some 49% said that the commonwealth is headed in the right direction versus 31% who said the wrong direction.

What changed between 1989, when the US was the most technologically advanced nation on earth and built roadmaps for becoming a space faring civilization and today, when people claim that the US must import its technological talent and builds roadmaps for networked panopticons?

Ecclesiastes tells us: “The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be; and that which is done is that which shall be done: and there is no new thing under the sun.” Myrmikan Research applies this principle to the subject of credit bubbles.  The ancient Greeks discovered that debt could magnify wealth. The debtor feels richer from the use of the borrowed property, while the lender feels richer from the compounding interest yielded by his claim. Both indulge in consumption more freely. As long as the accumulating claims remain contingent, the bubble grows. But, eventually, someone asks to be paid, and the expanding claims on wealth must be reconciled to tangible wealth, much of which has been consumed.

SpaceX Earth to Earth Transport will enable: LOS ANGELES TO NEW YORK: 5 hours, 25 min —> 25 min

But PHEV systems have a unit-cost problem, in that they require not one but two complex power systems with a lot of code between them. One component, the battery, is particularly pricey. Legacy carmakers can be counted on to pass those costs on to consumers, who may not have any tax credits to soften the blow.

This is not well thought out. They have 2.2 billion users worldwide. Whatever they would get from the sale of US operations wouldn’t be worth disclosing their algorithm.

In 2016, I covered his campaign stops in Pennsylvania, and I noticed that Trump was visiting parts of the state that nobody else goes to. Forgotten towns like Ambridge and Wilkes-Barre and Johnstown and Butler. Nobody goes to Butler!

The development of the Prius began in 1993 with the G21 project, which focused on fuel efficiency, low emissions, and affordability. According to a Toyota article detailing the project’s history, by 1997, Toyota engineers—including Takeshi Uchiyamada, who has since become known as the “father of the Prius”—were satisfied they had met the challenge of achieving all three goals.

Ten Must-See Museums Opening Around the World in 2025: New institutions dedicated to artificial intelligence, West African art, barbeque and more are expected to welcome visitors this year

The programming language C is 75.88 times more energy efficient than Python and 71.9 times faster

Once I found my sweet spot, though, I started racking up sales. (To this day I can’t talk on the phone without lapsing into my “telemarketer voice,” which sounds like Phil Hartman on ecstasy.) I wasn’t a coaxer, a hand-holder, a persuader; I hit people with my spiel, and if they hesitated or said no, I hung up on them midsentence. On to the next one. Unlike many of my less successful colleagues, I quickly learned to take yes for an answer; though we were legally required to read a long list of mandatory disclosures to all our sales, I noticed that this often broke the spell and gave people an opening to back out or “wait and ask the wife about it.” As soon as I heard a yes, I said, “Great choice!” and transferred them to confirmation. My manager occasionally came by and reminded me that it was technically illegal to skip my disclosures, but he made commission off my commission, and his tone made it clear that I could do as I pleased as long as I kept putting up numbers. Which I did, to an almost ludicrous degree. I hit every kicker, every bonus. I won scented candles, gift cards, and countertop appliances in daily sales contests. I earned the executive parking space in the very front of the lot, even though I took the bus to work. I was pretty pleased with myself. Making $800 in 15 to 20 hours a week when your monthly rent is $300 and beers are a dollar is real wealth.

I haven’t seen Landman yet but this is an all-time speech by Jerry Jones. Probably because he’s not acting. That’s his real life.

“It’s amazing to me how much waste is consuming our daily work. It seems like 30% of everybody’s job is fixing something—either the bad quality or late product or something that shouldn’t have happened,” said Ortberg.

The 2024 “winners” of the annual Shkreli awards, given each year to perpetrators of the most egregious examples of profiteering and dysfunction within the healthcare industry, have been released from the Lown Institute, an independent healthcare thinktank. The recipients are chosen by a panel made up of health policy experts, clinicians, journalists and advocates. The awards are named after Martin Shkreli, the infamous “pharma bro” who rose to international notoriety after increasing the price of lifesaving anti-parasitic drug Daraprim 50-fold.

There’s one mistake I see more often than anything else, and it’s absolutely deadly: ignoring the rest of the codebase and just implementing your feature in the most sensible way. In other words, limiting your touch points with the existing codebase in order to keep your nice clean code uncontaminated by legacy junk. For engineers that have mainly worked on small codebases, this is very hard to resist. But you must resist it! In fact, you must sink as deeply into the legacy codebase as possible, in order to maintain consistency.

I agree that foreign billionaires should not meddle in British politics, but I strongly believe in their right to free transparent speech & that they can say whatever they want to their audience on X. Those two are separate issues. When Bill Gates has direct access to Keir Starmer & we are not allowed to know what they discussed it is much worse than open public posting on X. At least there is transparency on X.

In this century’s first decade, investors had the opportunity to participate in – and lose money due to – two spectacular bubbles. The first was the tech-media-telecom (“TMT”) bubble of the late ’90s, which began to burst in mid-2000, and the second was the housing bubble of the mid-aughts, which gave rise to (a) extending mortgages to sub-prime borrowers who couldn’t or wouldn’t document income or assets, (b) the structuring of those loans into levered, tranched mortgage-backed securities, and consequently (c) massive losses for investors in those securities, especially the financial institutions that had created them and retained some. As a result of those experiences, many people these days are on heightened alert for bubbles, and I’m often asked whether there’s a bubble surrounding the Standard & Poor’s 500 and the handful of stocks that have been leading it.

Starmer’s denunciation of Musk for ‘spreading lies and misinformation’ about Muslim child-rape gangs is an orchestra of discordant duplicity

In contrast, GPU cores are like a hundred line cooks who excel at repetitive tasks – they can chop an onion in two seconds, but they can’t effectively run the whole kitchen. If you asked a GPU to handle the constantly changing demands of a dinner service, it would struggle.

The proposed conversion to a PBC would also mean the non-profit entity will relinquish governance over OpenAI’s business and operations. One person familiar with the situation said those powers could themselves be worth billions of dollars. 

So we talk about a market of 0.0001% of the car industry, with cells with a different build-up and, therefore, with a different production. There is no way these cells’ prices can be compared with the car industry’s prices.

Despite losing hundreds of millions of dollars and control of her own company, Martha doesn’t give up and in 2015, now in her mid 70s, she creates a new image and a new career starting with, of all things, a shockingly hard-assed roast of Justin Bieber. The Bieber roast leads to a succesful colloboration with Snoop Dogg. Legendary.

Trump is now at the zenith of his power. The moment he’s sworn in on January 20, he’s just the plain, old president of the United States.

There is something uneasy in the Los Angeles air this afternoon, some unnatural stillness, some tension. What it means is that tonight a Santa Ana will begin to blow, a hot wind from the northeast whining down through the Cajon and San Gorgonio Passes, blowing up sand storms out along Route 66, drying the hills and the nerves to flash point. For a few days now we will see smoke back in the canyons, and hear sirens in the night.

Just a reminder that Juan Merchan’s daughter, Loren, is the co-owner of a very lucrative Democratic consulting firm. Here is a list of her clients. Receipts coming:

FEC reports show Loren Merchan’s Democratic consulting firm raked in at least $7.3 million between the end of May 2024 (after Pres Trump was convicted) and Election Day. Top clients during that time include Tammy Baldwin, Gretchen Whitmer, John Tester, Cory Booker.

Still, the Apps strategy was confused between DOS, Windows, OS/2, and Macintosh. The team was not particularly organized for success as a combination of product units and job functions.

Before we talk about SpaceX, let’s talk about every single other private rocketry company ever. It’s easy to do, because they all failed (or are in the process of failing, or are likely to fail in the future). There’s an old joke in the rockets business: “How do you become a billionaire in the space industry?” “Easy, you start with two billion dollars…” Okay, I’m not actually going to talk about all of them, but here are some of my favorites. When I was young I was really into Masten Space Systems which pioneered vertical takeoff/vertical landing rockets, and won the NASA/Northrop Grumman lunar lander challenge. Now bankrupt. And then there was Armadillo Aerospace, founded by none other than John Carmack, a man who built a career in pushing hardware to its absolute limits. Seriously, read that link about the fast inverse square root algorithm (or watch a video explainer here).2 Carmack is built different. Didn’t matter. Bankrupt.

“It’s unclear when the reservoir first went offline”

Prior to that ruling, nominees typically would step down at the end of their term, the governor would nominate a replacement, that person would start serving and the Senate would vote to confirm or reject the nomination.

“I had lived through the destruction of Douglas Aircraft and I saw the same thing about to happen at Boeing,” Hart-Smith explained in a 2019 interview.

This advance is the culmination of two decades of work that has gone largely unnoticed to the outside world, according to researchers involved in the project. The electronic warfare equipment used by the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) is evolving rapidly. For example, the multi-band antenna used in the new phased array radar has “complex structures such as curved surfaces, multilayer dielectrics, metal conductors and thin dielectric layers”, wrote the project team led by Professor Li Bin from the University of Electronic Science and Technology of China in a paper published in November.

Alternatively, if you assume the $600 billion will be borne by just the world’s 100 million wealthiest and most intensive users of digital services, they or their employers would need to come up with a much larger $6,000 per year. Again, it’s not an impossible figure, but not one that can be found in next year’s budget. Meanwhile, planned capital expenditures by tech titans has continued to increase, so the required annual revenue per user keeps increasing. So, while it’s clear that AI is set to be truly transformative, it could still take a decade to justify current levels of investment. What that means is that there are two possible futures: One in which capital markets are happy to allow the hyperscalers to keep throwing money at AI in the expectation of future market leadership (and blowing out their balance sheets in the process), and one in which they are not.

• Elon’s 100,000-GPU data center in Memphis currently runs on gas:When Elon Musk rushed to get x.AI’s Memphis Supercluster up and running in record time, he brought in 14 mobile natural gas-powered generators, each of them generating 2.5MW. It seems they do not require an air quality permit, as long as they do not remain in the same location for more than 364 days.

The ONLY question in healthcare should be “How should care for people who can’t afford to pay for their care be paid?”

As one watches the videos of contractor owned and operated aircraft please realize the stark contrast in competence between teams that modify and maintain aircraft up to 60 years old flying in combat like conditions verses government bureaucrats that fail to maintain the basics of full reservoirs and fire hydrant maintenance.

Taxing these flows judiciously could raise revenue and improve the tax system, but transfer taxes have been eviscerated in recent years.

Now, I’ll finally get around to reading the NYT article. Before, I simply made assumptions based on the headline, and enlisted 2 different robots to read it for me and fill in what I thought was probably lacking, Elon Musk’s longstanding avoidance of owning a house in the normal sense of a personal domicile — what the humans call “a home.” Then I was set free to envision a movie — and brought down to earth by the utterly dull plot summaries written by robots.

we finally get Google-Facebook contract (aka Jedi Blue) alleged as bid rigging (yes, press was misled, it’s still part of the claims). /1

What a stupendous, momentous, foundational, and unpardonable con

“CBS Sunday Morning” segment from 1986 featuring #Packers PFHOF guard Jerry Kramer. Includes interviews and several rare CBS broadcast clips from “The Ice Bowl” 1967 NFL Championship — played December 31, 1967.

Tyler Send them to read the Henriad before they get started. The complicated nature of power: that the king never has the power that he needs to claim he does is quite significant. The ways in which power cannot be delegated, Shakespeare is extremely wise on. And yes, the DOGE people absolutely need to learn those lessons.

I want to also give special props to Andres Freund for discovering the xz backdoor in 2024 while working on Postgres at Microsoft. This attack was a two-year campaign to inject malicious code into an important compression library widely used in computing. Although the backdoor targeted SSH and not Postgres directly, it is another example of why database engineers are some of the best programmers in the world.

Chang throws himself into learning more about transistors and semiconductors. He begins studying William Shockley’s textbook about them, working through it one painstaking page at a time. He has a colleague who’s an expert on semiconductors, who spends every night drinking at a bar; Chang sits at the bar with him asking him questions about semiconductors, going home to study more, then going back to the bar if he has more questions.

If you were making a list of the most important companies in the world, you’d find Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, or TSMC, somewhere very close to the top. It’s one of a tiny handful of companies, along with Intel and Samsung, that can make the most advanced microchips, and it has a commanding lead in that market. TSMC makes the microprocessors and 5G chips for Apple’s iPhones and Macbooks. It makes chips for both Intel and AMD. And it makes the chips for Nvidia, Meta, and Amazonthat are powering the AI boom. TSMC is so important that it’s sometimes called Taiwan’s “silicon shield”, the idea being that fear of damaging TSMC might dissuade China from trying to invade Taiwan.

“With every generation in France we see the change. If the grandfather drank 300 litres of red wine per year, the father drinks 180 litres and the son, 30 litres,” said CIVB board member Jean-Pierre Durand. French red wine in sharp decline as tastes change among young drinkers

The Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington metropolitan area, better known as the DFW Metroplex, is the leading U-Haul Growth Metro of 2024. Charlotte, Phoenix, Lakeland and Austin complete the top five U.S. growth metros, meaning they saw the largest net gains of U-Haul^® customers taking one-way equipment into and out of metro areas last year.

Here are the 158 Democrats who opposed the deportation of illegal immigrants for sex offenses:

There is an element of clubbiness about the T, insofar as owners must be proficient with a stick shift. It’s a vanishing skill set; only about one in five U.S. drivers know how. “sports-car autotune”

Bugsy Sailor has spent six years photographing daily sunrises over Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, capturing its beauty and building an online following.

Acceptability Threshold. The latest effort by the regulators to prevent new entrants in the industry is the ICAO emission standard that will enter into force in 2028. Think of this as the equivalent of ending ICE and imposing EV in 2040

In Britain today, first screenings of Christmas adverts are treated like film premieres. One-third of us are more excited by that year’s Christmas ads than whatever’s arriving at the movie theatre. Newspapers review and rank them. Topics trend on social media because of them. Links are forwarded, sides taken. When a dog from a John Lewis ad died, it made the news. In an age where Britons feel more divided than ever, arguing about Christmas advertising brings the nation together.

The Trieste model has fascinated the mental health care community for close to five decades. It contrasts starkly with many other parts of the world that make much greater use of psychiatric institutionalisation, even though such confinement is discouraged by the World Health Organization.

What should you read to get to grips with a new job? Employee manuals or classic management titles can be an obvious starting point. But for many professions, a more informal reading list can offer greater insight than official resources. These offbeat classics, picked by people working in key sectors, can act as spiritual guidebooks, revealing the subtler nuances in corporate culture or the artistry of the day-to-day. Crucially, they are often a joy to read, whether you are employed in the field or not.

Sheridan is fond of recalling the visceral distaste shown towards Yellowstone and its likely audience by an unnamed HBO executive who passed on the show. “[He] goes: ‘Look, it just feels so Middle America,’” Sheridan told The Hollywood Reporter in 2023. “We’re HBO, we’re avant-garde, we’re trendsetters. This feels like a step backwards. And frankly?.?.?.?I don’t think anyone should be living out there [in rural Montana]. It should be a park or something.”

Exploring Naples: it would be criminal to miss it!

The China Shock Behind the Honda-Nissan Merger Talks. Potential combination of Japanese carmakers and a $5 billion GM charge show companies dealing with fallout from new rivals

The Unlikely Ingredient That Could End U.S. Dependence on Chinese Batteries