“Earth orbit hosts about 36,500 pieces of space junk at least 4 inches (10 cm) wide, and a whopping 130 million objects at least 1 millimeter in diameter”

-Writing by hand instead of typing deepens content processing and supports emotional health.
-Regularly practicing handwriting may improve brain structure and function.
-While slower than digital, writing by hand daily may help fight cognitive decline

Analysis: Many legal professionals report using generative AI in their practice despite some red flags. blawgo.com/dNQrzHP

In 1981 Israeli jets flew undetected over Saudi & Iraq to hit a nuclear reactor near Baghdad. Jordan’s King Hussein, on his vacation yacht in Aqaba, noticed the jets fly overhead and their Israeli markings. He called Baghdad but his warning went unheeded. airandspaceforces.com/PDF/MagazineAr…

Iranian notice of attack may have dampened escalation risks reuters.com/world/middle-e…

You are going to hear a lot about Iranian ‘Kamikaze drones’ such as the Shahed in the coming days.

Sanjana and the rest of our team wrote a brilliant visual piece if you want to understand them and the physical and psychological toll they have

airwars.org/investigation/…

A Black job applicant should be permitted to pursue his claims that Workday Inc.'s algorithm-based screening tools discriminated against job seekers, as he feasibly alleged the company acts as an “employment agency,” the EEOC said in a new court filing.
news.bloomberglaw.com/daily-labor-re…

Scoop: Adobe is paying around $3/minute for videos to build a new generative AI model. bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

Musician Anna Vaus and her brother asked a chatbot to write a country tune. The resulting song includes a combination of AI-generated lyrics and human-made music.

Who owns the copyrights? The US Copyright Office is tasked with finding the answer. blawgo.com/ywaK4VM

NEWS: US and allies believe major missile and drone strikes by Iran and its proxies against military and govt targets in Israel are imminent; civilian facilities not expected to be targeted, sources told donato and me. Attack may not necessarily come from Israel’s north.

SCOOP: A group of House Democrats is urging the Biden admin to help secure the release of Elizabeth Tsurkov, a Princeton University researcher believed to have been kidnapped in Iraq by Iranian-backed Kataib Hezbollah.
al-monitor.com/originals/2024…

About 800,000 immigrants at risk of losing employment authorization in the coming months will get relief from a rule announced by the Biden administration Thursday news.bloomberglaw.com/daily-labor-re…

Killings of dissidents abroad - including that of Jamal Khashoggi - are cited by Indian intelligence officials for motivating their own international campaign that has been active in the U.S., Canada, and Pakistan

I downloaded all the data Amazon has on me, and honestly the creepiest thing about it is that they sent me the *actual audio files* of every time I spoke* to Amazon Alexa

*years ago when I was young and foolish about surveillance

Wild read here from Jenna Scatena on the man behind Thodex, a $2 billion Turkish crypto exchange that suddenly disappeared and prompted an international manhunt for the owner.

Israeli airstrike on Gaza kills seven working for food aid NGO reuters.com/world/middle-e…

“Like an AI chatbot, fallen FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried carries a lot of data in his head but understands nothing.” thenation.com/article/econom…

Initial results in Turkey’s local elections show a wave of looming opposition victories in major cities such as Istanbul, Ankara and Izmir. If numbers continue trending this way, they signal a BIG blow to Erdogan’s AKP. (Opposition is red)

‘Perhaps we have to wait another 100 years for today’s immigrants to be recognized as an integral part of our country’s success, but wouldn’t it just be easier to drop this tired dance and do it now?’

Good read from Lorraine Ali Los Angeles Times
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A Black man died after being physically restrained and punched by police in the back of an ambulance.

His story highlights the racial disparity that AP found in its investigation of force tactics that – unlike guns – are not meant to kill. apnews.com/article/police…