#admit : to grant entrance, whether into a place, or into the mind, or consideration
- French: admettre
- German: zugeben
- Italian: ammettere
- Portuguese: admitir
- Spanish: admitir
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Australia announced gun buyback scheme in wake of Bondi attack
It is the largest scheme since the Port Arthur massacre in 1996, which prompted massive gun law reform.Tiffanie Turnbull (BBC News)
Drones detect deadly virus in Arctic whales' breath
Whale breath collected by drones is giving clues to the health of wild humpbacks and other whales.Helen Briggs (BBC News)
Newspaper headlines: 'Mortgage price war in spring' and 'Fresh heir'
Labour's violence against women strategy and a royal Christmas family portrait dominate Friday's papers.BBC News
Republicans say Trump's 'abysmal' speech didn't make them 'feel better'
Politico reports Republicans are privately fuming that President Donald Trump’s Wednesday speech didn’t provide them with much comfort about the GOP's prospects in next year's elections.
Trump's DOJ has a 'truly stunning' rate of failure in prosecuting cases: analysis
In a recent analysis, Mediaite contributing eitor Sarah Rumpf observed that while there's a common axiom that a prosecutor can indict a ham sandwich, prosecutors at President Donald Trump’s Department...
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Trump's DOJ has a 'truly stunning' rate of failure in prosecuting cases: analysis
In a recent analysis, Mediaite contributing eitor Sarah Rumpf observed that while there's a common axiom that a prosecutor can indict a ham sandwich, prosecutors at President Donald Trump’s Department of Justice are failing to even meet that standard…Adam Lynch (Alternet.org)
Coast Guard does abruptly reverses course on hate symbols after widespread backlash
The U.S. Coast Guard has — for a second time — done an about-face on a policy about the display of hate symbols in response to public outrage.
LOAF. To be in bad loaf, to be in a disagreeable situation, or in trouble.
A selection from Francis Grose’s “Dictionary Of The Vulgar Tongue” (1785)
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Trump's Attacks on Rob Reiner and Others Characterize an Uninhibited 2nd Term (Peter Baker/New York Times)
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Trump's Attacks on Rob Reiner and Others Characterize an Uninhibited 2nd Term
By Peter Baker / New York Times. View the full context on memeorandum.memeorandum
Astounding vol. 35, no. 4 (June 1945)
Nicely suggestive, if a little oblique. What's going on with those three figures? What's held in that middle one's hands? For some reason, I feel like this is taking place in some kind of space gas station or delivery depot.
Original magazine: archive.org/details/Astounding…
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Astounding v35n04 (1945 06) (AK) : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
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Ranking Member Robert Garcia Statement After Oversight Democrats Release Additional New Photos Received from Epstein Estate (The Committee on Oversight ...)
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Ranking Member Robert Garcia Statement After Oversight Democrats Release Additional New Photos Received from Epstein Estate
Washington, D.C. — Today, Rep. Robert Garcia, Ranking Member of the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, released the following statement after the Oversight Committee released additional photos that were from the latest production from the …The Committee on Oversight and Accountability Democrats
Mango.
That’s the code-name of Meta’s new “new image and video-focused AI model,” The Wall Street Journal reports. The company is also developing an LLM code-named Avocado.
Meta Is Developing a New AI Image and Video Model Code-Named ‘Mango’
Meta might charge for a future AI model
Meta is working on a new AI model, code-named Avocado, that it might charge for access to instead of following an open source model of previous Llama AI releases.Jay Peters (The Verge)
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Todays 100+ #billionaires according to #Bloomberg:
#1: Elon Musk - $644B - USA/Tech
#2: Larry Page - $260B - USA/Tech
#3: Jeff Bezos - $249B - USA/Tech
#4: Sergey Brin - $242B - USA/Tech
#5: Mark Zuckerberg - $234B - USA/Tech
#6: Larry Ellison - $233B - USA/Tech
#7: Bernard Arnault - $205B - France/Consumer
#8: Steve Ballmer - $168B - USA/Tech
#9: Warren Buffett - $152B - USA/Diversified
#10: Jensen Huang - $151B - USA/Tech
#11: Jim Walton - $139B - USA/Retail
#12: Rob Walton - $136B - USA/Retail
#13: Michael Dell - $135B - USA/Tech
#14: Alice Walton - $135B - USA/Retail
#15: Amancio Ortega - $135B - Spain/Retail
#16: Bill Gates - $118B - USA/Tech
#17: Carlos Slim - $110B - Mexico/Diversified
#18: Mukesh Ambani - $106B - India/Energy
Top 10: $2.54 Trillion
Total: $3.55 Trillion
Full Top 500: bloomberg.com/billionaires