{"id":11692,"date":"2023-04-23T01:05:00","date_gmt":"2023-04-23T07:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=11692"},"modified":"2023-04-23T02:33:18","modified_gmt":"2023-04-23T08:33:18","slug":"4-23","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=11692","title":{"rendered":"4.23"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>On a crowded speedboat making a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/determined-to-flee-china-thousands-take-a-long-dangerous-route-to-the-southern-u-s-border-73acfbe9\">night crossing in rough waters off Colombia<\/a> in January, Daniel Huang, a former Shanghai fitness trainer, began to regret his decision to try to enter the U.S. via Latin America.<\/p>\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Years ago, I was listening to NPR while driving through LA. The subject was a new Super Wal-Mart planned for Inglewood, the guests were two WeHo liberals w\/lispy uptalk telling why it should be blocked because Wal-Mart bad. Finally they took calls, and black residents of\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/vjAffZyG0E\">https:\/\/t.co\/vjAffZyG0E<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Martyr Made ?? (@martyrmade) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/martyrmade\/status\/1647692615956193280?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 16, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n\n\n<p>\u201cI knew more about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.historynet.com\/mark-twains-two-week-stint-as-a-confederate-soldier\/\">retreating<\/a> than the man that invented retreating,\u201d Twain quipped of his experience.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Granted that this technology remains the <a href=\"https:\/\/spectrum.ieee.org\/lithium-ion-battery-disruption-ready\">incumbent<\/a> for some time to come, Whittingham has concerns\u2014big concerns\u2014about how the world makes and uses these energy storage devices. Here are the big issues he worries about:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This ended with the <a href=\"https:\/\/adriano.fyi\/post\/2023\/2023-04-16-att-traffic-shaping-makes-websites-unusable\/\">least satisfying<\/a> end one could expect. Over on Hacker News <code>kevin_nisbet<\/code> <a href=\"https:\/\/news.ycombinator.com\/item?id=35595891\">recommended changing the APN<\/a> on the device to see if there were any routing differences. I changed the APN to <code>NXTGENPHONE<\/code>, which I figured would work as a \u201cgeneric LTE device\u201d, per <a href=\"https:\/\/www.att.com\/support\/article\/wireless\/KM1062162\/\">https:\/\/www.att.com\/support\/article\/wireless\/KM1062162\/<\/a>. However, the router was not able to authenticate with the <code>NXTGENPHONE<\/code> APN, so I switched back to <code>broadband<\/code>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The court found that he and other drivers <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2023\/apr\/16\/stop-or-ill-fire-you-the-driver-who-defied-ubers-automated-hr\">involved<\/a> in the case, based in the UK and Portugal, had the right to more information about the way automated decisions were made about them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Crow is <a href=\"https:\/\/althouse.blogspot.com\/2023\/04\/i-think-its-political-hit-job-this.html?m=1\">asked why he bought Thomas\u2019 mother\u2019s house<\/a>:  ProPublica reported that Crow bought a single-story home and two vacant lots down the road for $133,363 from three co-owners \u2014 Thomas, his mother and the family of Thomas\u2019 late brother.   \u201cI assumed his mother owned the home,\u201d Crow said. \u201cHis life story is an amazing American life story: born into deep poverty. Father gone. Mother \u2014 the lady whom we\u2019re talking about \u2014 really not able to do a lot to help raise her two sons. Ultimately raised by his grandparents, who were illiterate. Growing up in Jim Crow Georgia. So I approached him with the idea that I might purchase that home for the purpose that in due course it could be the boyhood home of a great American.\u201d  The thought that it was more than that \u201ckind of drives me crazy.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The European Commission <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/eu-elon-musk-replace-stalled-france-rocket-galileo-satellite\/\">wants to cut deals with private American space companies<\/a> like Elon Musk&#8217;s SpaceX to launch cutting-edge European navigation satellites due to continued delays to Europe&#8217;s next generation Ariane rocket system.<\/p>\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Washington Post reporter <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/joshrogin?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@JoshRogin<\/a> tells <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/glennbeck?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@GlennBeck<\/a> that the Pentagon&#8217;s leaked documents reveal China&#8217;s hypersonic glide missiles defeat our aircraft carriers and missile defense systems:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We spent thirty years building aircraft carriers and missile defense, and the Chinese\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/qtHxpmN4qn\">pic.twitter.com\/qtHxpmN4qn<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 KanekoaTheGreat (@KanekoaTheGreat) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/KanekoaTheGreat\/status\/1648105279480016899?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 17, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n\n\n<p>13. JERSEY\/B JETS. Mark Sanchez, Richard Todd, Chad Pennington, Kellen Clemens, Ryan Fitzpatrick, Joe Flacco, Jay Fielder, Mike Taliaferro and Babe Parelli. The <a href=\"https:\/\/greggeasterbrook.substack.com\/p\/tmq-returns-mocking-the-mock-drafts\">Jets certainly wouldn\u2019t want<\/a> Aaron Rodgers under center. After all, they are the Jets.<\/p>\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Apple announced a savings account paying 4.15% per year.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the average savings account pays just 0.35% per year.<\/p>\n<p>Apple entering banking is just the next part of the banking crisis.<\/p>\n<p>Technology and the banking crisis have people questioning the system.<\/p>\n<p>(a thread)<\/p>\n<p>1\/8<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 The Kobeissi Letter (@KobeissiLetter) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/KobeissiLetter\/status\/1648306068215193600?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 18, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n\n\n<p>On Monday, Microsoft and Epic Systems <a href=\"https:\/\/news.microsoft.com\/2023\/04\/17\/microsoft-and-epic-expand-strategic-collaboration-with-integration-of-azure-openai-service\/\">announced<\/a> that they are bringing OpenAI&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/information-technology\/2023\/03\/openai-announces-gpt-4-its-next-generation-ai-language-model\/\">GPT-4<\/a> AI language model into health care for use in drafting <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/information-technology\/2023\/04\/gpt-4-will-hunt-for-trends-in-medical-records-thanks-to-microsoft-and-epic\/\">message responses<\/a> from health care workers to patients and for use in analyzing medical records while looking for trends.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A French publisher has been <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/uk-news\/2023\/apr\/18\/french-publisher-arrested-london-counter-terrorism-police-ernest-moret\">arrested<\/a> on terror charges in London after being questioned by UK police about participating in anti-government protests in France.  Ernest Moret, 28, a foreign rights manager for \u00c9ditions la Fabrique, was approached by two plainclothes officers at St Pancras station on Monday evening after arriving by train from Paris to attend the London book fair.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ve met with them <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2023\/04\/18\/coinbase-ceo-says-it-is-preparing-to-go-to-court-with-the-us-sec-.html\">over 30 times in the last year<\/a> \u2026 never got a single piece of feedback from them about what we can be doing better or differently, and then this Wells Notice arrived,\u201d Armstrong told CNBC in an interview.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>SpaceX rockets are designed to land back on Earth but the second stage of the Falcon 9 does not parachute down to the ground. Instead, it burns up in the atmosphere but before doing so it <a href=\"https:\/\/petapixel.com\/2023\/04\/17\/giant-spiral-appears-amid-the-aurora-lights-in-alaskas-night-sky\/\">vents its unused fuel<\/a> which will often take the form of a stunning spiral. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As an agent for the British Special Operations Executive (SOE), Doyle \u2013 who celebrates her 102nd birthday today \u2013 secretly <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amightygirl.com\/blog\/?p=25020\">relayed<\/a> 135 coded messages to the British military before France&#8217;s liberation in August. She took advantage of the fact that the Nazi occupiers and their French collaborators were generally less suspicious of women, using the knitting she carried as a way to hide her codes. For seventy years, Doyle&#8217;s contributions to the war effort were largely unheralded, but she was finally given her due in 2014 when she was awarded France&#8217;s highest honor, the Chevalier of the Legion of Honour.<\/p>\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">I like to tweet this every six months or so. Just to creep people out. And so younger people can learn a little history. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/GXDFn4ltlE\">https:\/\/t.co\/GXDFn4ltlE<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/1AHuASdVnP\">pic.twitter.com\/1AHuASdVnP<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 FoiaFan (@15poundstogo) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/15poundstogo\/status\/1470085516041375753?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 12, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n\n\n<p>They are enabled with GPS tracking and can be guided to an accuracy within two centimetres, enabling <a href=\"https:\/\/www.smh.com.au\/national\/farmers-crippled-by-satellite-failure-as-gps-guided-tractors-grind-to-a-halt-20230418-p5d1de.html\">seed-planting equipment to sow crops with precision to drive up efficiency<\/a>, prevent wastage and boost environmental sustainability.<\/p>\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The Michael Morrell scandal that broke this week is worse than it looks (and it already looks bad).<\/p>\n<p>Morrell was one of the 7 CIA directors on the board of the Atlantic Council, who DHS deputized to censor the 2020 election, &amp; who was partnered with Burisma. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ecLDQQWwAI\">https:\/\/t.co\/ecLDQQWwAI<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Mike Benz (@MikeBenzCyber) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MikeBenzCyber\/status\/1649902154335789058?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 22, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Li Yunhe ???, later known as Madame Mao, in 1931, as a student in Tsingtao University, Shandong Province. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/3GLo7lK07Q\">pic.twitter.com\/3GLo7lK07Q<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 China in Pictures (@tongbingxue) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/tongbingxue\/status\/1650054578493333510?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 23, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On a crowded speedboat making a night crossing in rough waters off Colombia in January, Daniel Huang, a former Shanghai fitness trainer, began to regret his decision to try to enter the U.S. via Latin America. 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