This a damn good deal.
4GB ram.
Throw a good Linux distro on this.
And you are good to go.

https://datasheets.raspberrypi.org/pi400/pi400-product-brief.pdf

#CoSoTech

The new Raspberry Pi 400: the $70 desktop PC

Everything is inside the keyboard.

https://www.raspberrypi.org/blog/raspberry-pi-400-the-70-desktop-pc/

To Read:

Atmospheric Disturbances.

Attempts to predict human behavior like the weather have missed the storms of the century.

By Alicia Puglionesi

"Treating human sentiments like the weather, a natural phenomenon to be studied and exploited, means not engaging with social needs and political demands."

https://reallifemag.com/atmospheric-disturbances/

#CoSoScience
#CoSoHealth

New way of cooking rice removes arsenic and retains mineral nutrients, study shows.

Cooking rice in a certain way removes over 50 percent of the naturally occurring arsenic in brown rice, and 74 percent in white rice,

https://phys.org/news/2020-11-cooking-rice-arsenic-retains-mineral.html

Paper:

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.143341

#CoSoAirPower

A Foreign Company Will Help Mitsubishi Build Japan’s Next Fighter.

The Japanese Ministry of Defense has formally laid out the path it will take in its effort to create an advanced manned fighter, awarding the main development contract to Mitsubishi Heavy Industries. At the same time, Japanese authorities confirmed that a yet to be announced overseas partner will also be involved in the program.
By Thomas Newdick

https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/37369/its-official-a-foreign-company-will-help-mitsubishi-build-japans-next-fighter

#CoSoNationalSecurty

The PLA’s New Push for Military Technology Innovation.

As the U.S.-China technological competition intensifies, the Chinese military has created new mechanisms to accelerate military innovation. Will they succeed?
By Marcus Clay

https://thediplomat.com/2020/10/the-plas-new-push-for-military-technology-innovation/

#CoSoLaw

Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg And The U.S. Military.
By Emma Moore And Robert Levinson

Three cases profiled here exemplify Ginsburg’s work in support of equal protection: Struck v. Secretary of Defense, Frontiero v. Richardson, and United States v. Virginia. Each addresses fundamental disparities based on sex previously expressed in military policy.

https://warontherocks.com/2020/11/justice-ruth-bader-ginsburg-and-the-u-s-military/

Breaking News:

Vladimir Marugov murder:
Russian 'Sausage King' killed in sauna with a crossbow.

(I guess they could not find any windows for him to fall out of.)

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-54782634

#CoSoTech

The Justice Department Finally—Finally!—Takes on Google and the Danger of Monopolies.

By Cory Doctorow

"Bork's fundamental belief was that if you stared really hard at anti-monopoly laws like the Sherman Act and the Clayton Act, you'd find that their drafters never really worried about monopolies. Rather, they only worried about harmful monopolies."

https://www.thedailybeast.com/the-justice-department-finally-takes-on-google-and-the-danger-of-monopolies

#CoSoAgriculture

(I know someone here is working on saving an old apple orchard, just can't remember who?)

Silk Road contains genomic resources for improving apples.

The researchers discovered that the apple's unique domestication history has led to untapped sources of genes that could be used for crop improvement, such as improving size, flavor, sweetness and texture.

https://phys.org/news/2020-11-silk-road-genomic-resources-apples.html

Paper:

https://sci-hub.se/10.1038/s41588-020-00723-9

#CoSoSpeculative Fiction

(this is a great list.)

Must-Read Speculative Short Fiction: October 2020

By Alex Brown

https://www.tor.com/2020/11/02/must-read-speculative-short-fiction-october-2020/

#CoSoMathematics

AI has cracked a key mathematical puzzle for understanding our world.

Partial differential equations can describe everything from planetary motion to plate tectonics, but they’re notoriously hard to solve.

"These calculations are highly complex and computationally intensive, which is why disciplines that use a lot of PDEs often rely on supercomputers to do the math."
By Karen Hao

https://www.technologyreview.com/2020/10/30/1011435/ai-fourier-neural-network-cracks-navier-stokes-and-partial-differential-equations/

Paper:

https://arxiv.org/pdf/2010.08895.pdf

@ucantstop_me

One of the reasons I had to work an extra shift this week, is that my supervisor expects violence on the night of the 3rd. Several big stores have already boarded up their windows. He will be working that night along with an extra security crew.

I also spoke to a local LE officer about 3 hours ago. He said over time has been approved, for any officer that want it.

I chose not to work that night.

#CoSoBadScience

Again !

How claims of voter fraud were supercharged by bad science.

Messy data and misrepresentations are rife in voting studies. Here’s how those mistakes have helped drive one of the most damaging conspiracy theories in politics.
By Spenser Mestel

https://www.technologyreview.com/2020/11/01/1011519/election-voter-fraud-claims-bad-science-polling/

#CoSoPoetry

R.I.P. Diane di Prima

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S3mI197fm3g

And

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diane_di_Prima

#CoSoNationalSecurity

( I have been pointing this out for years. The grid is broken. Not only is it NOT secure, it is horribly out dated.)

Total Power and the need to secure America's electrical grid.

In Total Power, Mills shows how vulnerable the U.S. electrical grid is to attack.
By Justen Charters

https://strikesource.com/2020/11/01/total-power-and-the-need-to-secure-americas-electrical-grid/

Book

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/49864047-total-power

Hey does anyone here follow bitcoin. I really don't care about it. To me it is a solution to a problem we don't have.
But what is going on?
It is over $1,300.00, seams kind of high. Are people speculating in because they think they need a hedge against the dollar?
Or is just greed.