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Main audience: USA people (but it matters elsewhere too) Look again at some of the last items in yesterday’s list. What stories sprang up about Ukraine’s strikes on Russian data centers? What is unusual about how the most widely circulating … Continued

Main audience: USA people (but it matters elsewhere too) To make any sense of how USA midterm elections are spilling out into int’l impacts, it helps if we realize Republicans are split between two agendas. They are increasingly at cross … Continued

Main audience: everyone AI has begun biting the hand that feeds it. The result threatens to make it impossible for companies that make software to demand license fees from users for it, which would collapse the software industry. But the … Continued

Main audience: everyone There is an aspect of student protests in France, and perhaps to some extent housing affordability protests in Spain, that should give politicians pause. Assumptions that segments of the population can be treated as silos eventually boomerang. … Continued

Main audience: everyone What’s on my mind is not coalescing in a neat package, so here it is, splats on my personal windshield. Click here to read more.

Main audience: UK people What my wife & I want to install for both cooling & the option of electric heat costs less than replacing our boiler with a heat pump, even after taking into account the UK gov’t subsidy … Continued

Main audience: everyone It is no longer safe to ask people like me at a party, “What do you think of this El Niño?” It is not the boy child we know. This is the devil boy. El Niño Diablo … Continued

Main audience: everyone Everyone needs a break from news once in a while, including me. Today’s break comes courtesy of Dolly Parton Day (9/25) & Fat Bear Week. Take your pick or indulge in both. Click here to read more.

Main audience: USA people When a regime is deeply entrenched, dislodging it can come down to massive protests every day for as long as it takes. The USA is not there yet. People still have other tools (including VOTES) & … Continued

Main audience: everyone If Canada takes up the invitation from European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen to become the first associate member of the European Union, it will blaze a trail. Click here to read more.