Japan's 1st Bird Flu Case This Season Confirmed in Hokkaido #birdflu #avianflu #Japan https://www.nippon.com/en/news/yjj2024101700278/japan's-1st-bird-flu-case-this-season-confirmed-in-hokkaido.html

Fascinating story: Francis Williams forecasted trajectory of Halley’s comet over Jamaica in 1759. He was not taken seriously because he was of African descent. His portrait revealed clues that he did indeed managed to compute and witness trajectory of Halley’s comet #history #Space #comet https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2024/oct/16/x-ray-evidence-black-maths-scholar-portrait-francis-williams-uncovers-genius

The FTC is finally making it easier to cancel your gym membership: ‘click-to-cancel’ rule will stop companies from making you take unnecessary steps to cancel a subscription. #subscription #cancellation #FTC https://www.theverge.com/2024/10/16/24271649/ftc-click-to-cancel-subscriptions-final-rule

Hacker Charged With Seeking to Kill Using Cyberattacks on Hospitals. The US has accused two brothers of being part of the hacker group Anonymous Sudan, which allegedly went on a wild cyberattack spree that hit hundreds of targets—and, for one of the two men, even put lives at risk. #hack #cyberattack https://www.wired.com/story/anonymous-sudan-ddos-indictment-takedown/

Major Latin American piracy site Cuevana.biz announced the voluntary shutdown after being named in the United States Trade Representative's list of notorious piracy markets. #piracy #MPA #movies #CoSoMovies https://www.cbr.com/cuevana-netflix-piracy-site-animeflv-shutdown/

First-of-its-Kind Gasification Technology Converts Biosolid Waste to Energy, Making Communities in the New Jersey/New York Area Cleaner and Healthier. #biosolids #wastewater #energy #gasification https://www.cnhinews.com/news/article_510b131e-1761-5bd0-99ec-58f1532cf96c.html

Major League Baseball aka MLB is praying and hoping that the World Series is between Dodgers and NY Yankees as it will be a major TV audience. Any other team combination will be a bust... #baseball #Sports

#Innewsoftheabsurd Man arrested with weapons outside Trump’s Riverside County rally sues sheriff over ‘assassination attempt’ comments. #TFG #assasination #politics #LEO #Copaganda https://www.dailybulletin.com/2024/10/16/man-arrested-with-weapons-outside-trumps-riverside-county-rally-sues-sheriff-over-assassination-attempt-comments/

Photos: dakouniverse C/2023 A3 (Tsuchinshan-ATLAS) #comet https://www.instagram.com/dakouniverse/

Only one-third of Europe's surface water is in good health, report warns. #water #pollution #climatechange #Europe https://www.france24.com/en/europe/20241014-europe-water

Interesting: A historic ski area on Lake Tahoe’s west shore will not open or operate this coming ski season. Sales of lift tickets and season passes have plummeted significantly in recent years, prompting the owners to rethink the business. #Climatechange #business #California #snow https://www.sfchronicle.com/outdoors/article/tahoe-homewood-ski-resort-closed-19832411.php and https://archive.ph/l2L3P

Salmon swim freely in the Klamath River for 1st time in a century after dams removed. #water #salmon #dam #recovery #Naure https://apnews.com/article/klamath-dam-removal-california-oregon-salmon-river-f3c44eaa8caebfd79fed54e68da862f4

Google Chrome has begun to phase out uBlock Origin. The change comes as Google Chrome migrates to Manifest V3, a new extension specification that could impact the effectiveness of some ad blockers. uBlock Origin has launched uBlock Origin Lite, which uses Manifest V3, in response to the transition. #adblock #security #ads #google https://www.theverge.com/2024/10/15/24270981/google-chrome-ublock-origin-phaseout-manifest-v3-ad-blocker

Historian Joanne Freeman and CNN Senior Producer will be having a live stream Wednesday Oct 16th at 1900 https://www.eventbrite.com/e/historian-joanne-freeman-with-cnn-senior-producer-ryan-struyk-tickets-1039942595297 hrs. #history #poitics

Interesting report on WeChat privacy ecosystem: This work performs the first analysis of WeChat’s tracking ecosystem. Using reverse engineering methods to intercept WeChat’s network requests, we identified exactly what types of data the WeChat app is sending to its servers, and when. #WeChat #security #privacy https://citizenlab.ca/2023/06/privacy-in-the-wechat-ecosystem-full-report/

The Oatmeal is at it again. This time it is The Horrible Therapist card game and with it the Horrible Therapist-Random NSFW Comic Generator at https://theoatmeal.com/pages/horrible_therapist

#Texas politicians are at the forefront to boisterously demand expulsion of illegal immigrants yet adore to have a supply of them for Texas home building boom. Cheap labor, no benefits, and love the taxes they pay. #labor #illegals #immigration https://www.texasmonthly.com/news-politics/border-crisis-texas-solutions/

A 44-year-old man has been arrested and accused of threatening FEMA workers with an assault rifle in North Carolina. #FEMA #Hurricane https://myfox8.com/weather/hurricane-helene/man-accused-of-threatening-fema-workers-with-assault-rifle-in-western-north-carolina/

If you are keeping up with #Climatechange information and want to know which cities not to move to and keep away from temperature extremes...keep Phoenix, AZ as one city to keep away from. If you are already having high temperatures now just wait for next decade. #Arizona

#Innewsoftheabsurd Forbes names Texas one of worst states for accessible health care. In other news... #Texas #health #healthcare https://www.star-telegram.com/news/state/texas/article293664579.html