#Cuba

"Cuba's national electrical grid shut down on Friday after one of the island's major power plants failed, Cuba's energy ministry said, plunging the entire country into a blackout."

https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/cuba-implements-emergency-measures-millions-go-without-electricity-2024-10-18/

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In the US, we have a long history of ideological difference. What has emerged in recent years is the intensification of emotion around difference.

The effects of affective polarization:

“One reason affective polarisation has attracted so much attention is that hating the other side purportedly destabilises democracy as it reduces electoral accountability, leads to blind conformity, and a deterioration of democratic norms, including support for violence (Iyengar et al., 2019)”

#politics

“Baseball” was one of the early episodes of Bob Dylan’s Theme Time Radio Hour.
https://podbay.fm/p/theme-time-radio-hour-archive-theme-time-radio-hour/e/1397234407

Europe has been breeding tauros cattle which are as genetically similar to extinct aurochs as they can get.

Taurus cattle have been introduced to various European countries to graze and return soil to their natural conditions. Now they are going to the highlands of Scotland:

https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/herd-of-bulls-headed-to-the-highlands-to-recreate-effect-of-ancient-oxen-on-scottish-soil/

Machine learning AI helped the US Treasury Department to sift through massive amounts of data and recover $1 billion worth of check fraud in fiscal 2024 alone, according to new estimates shared first with CNN. https://abc7news.com/post/ai-helped-feds-catch-1-billion-fraud-year/15441021/

Jonathan Chait offers a kind of phrasebook for interpreting “law and order” as Donald Trump understands it:

"If you try to ask questions like “Investigated for what?” and “Which law does he believe was violated?,” you’re missing the essence of Trumpism. And if you’re willing to support the election of a president who cannot conceive of any distinction between what he wants and what the law permits, you are placing the survival of the Republic at risk."

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/trump-says-harris-running-against-him-is-a-criminal-act.html

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Musk pushes debunked Dominion voting conspiracy theory at first Pennsylvania appearance

https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/musk-pushes-debunked-dominion-voting-conspiracy-theory-campaign-appear-rcna175985

I smell a libel lawsuit.

Judge orders DeSantis administration to stop threats over abortion ads https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2024/10/17/desantis-abortion-tv-ads-lawsuit/

Judge in Trump 2020 election interference case rules records, evidence to be unsealed Friday https://www.cbsnews.com/news/judge-trump-2020-election-case-evidence-to-be-unsealed/ via @CBSPolitics