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• The West is struggling to forge a new arsenal of democracy [The Economist] #Ukraine

• Decapitated bodies and a slaughtered dog: Ukraine’s year of defying atrocities [1843 magazine]

• Ukraine war: Blinken says China may give weapons to Russia [BBC News]

• Uniqlo’s Quest to Conquer the US, One Cashmere Sweater at a Time [Bloomberg]

• Blinken to Turkey: 'the United States is here' with aid [Reuters]

• I want justice for my brothers who Israel killed [AL-Jazeera News]

• A Year of Putin’s Wartime Lies [The New Yorker] #Ukraine

• Facebook and Instagram are testing selling you blue checks for $12 a month / ‘Meta Verified’ will give you a blue badge along with several other benefits, including increased visibility, protection against impersonation, priority customer support, and more. [The Verge]

• How bad of a norovirus wave is the US in for? [Vox]

• iOS gains new emoji, Showtime joins a pricier Paramount+, and Instagram launches Channels [TechCrunch]

• Welcome to the oldest part of the metaverse [MIT Technology Review] #UltimaOnline

• The rise and fall — and rise again — of Barnes & Noble [Insider]

• Get ready for the National Basketball Association (NBA) All-Star game with high-flying dunks and stats powered by SAP. 🏀🔥https://sap.to/60493YgwS [LinkedIn] #SAP

• ‘He’s an inspiration’: tributes pour in after Jimmy Carter enters hospice care [The Guardian]

• A Doodle Reveals da Vinci’s Early Deconstruction of Gravity — Long before Galileo and Newton used superior mathematics to study a fundamental natural force, Leonardo calculated the gravitational constant with surprising accuracy. [The New York Times]

• The Best And Worst 'Healthy' Drinks At The Grocery Store, Ranked By Nutritionists [Huffington Post]

• Wash Your Hands and Pray You Don’t Get Sick [The Atlantic] #Norovirus

• Our Not-Quite-Midseason NBA Awards [FiveThirtyEight]

• Opinion: Fetterman’s depression disclosure is a paradigm shift for mental health [The Washington Post] #StopTheStigma

• A Los Angeles, la police privée de son drapeau, devenu un symbole d’extrême droite — La décision du chef du LAPD d’interdire l’accrochage du « Thin Blue Line Flag » dans les commissariats de la ville a créé une vive polémique dans le camp conservateur comme dans les rangs progressistes. [Le Monde]

• Radio signals keep coming from deep space. Here's what they really are. [Mashable]

• Saudi Arabia's Latest Sci-Fi Project Is a Cube the Size of 20 Empire State Buildings [VICE News]

• Years Before East Palestine Disaster, Congressional Allies of the Rail Industry Intervened to Block Safety Regulations [The Intercept_]

• What to know about freezing your eggs [National Geographic]

• The EPA steps in to take over the East Palestine train derailment cleanup [NPR]

• Sign up for ReCap and never miss the top stories [CapRadioNews]

• Ukraine, la neutralité intéressée d’Alger et de Rabat [Le Monde diplomatique]

• Putin’s New START Announcement and the Future of Arms Control [Foreign Policy]

• Move Fast and Win Things — What the War in Ukraine Has Revealed About Statecraft [Foreign Affairs]

• China’s Clouded Future in Afghanistan [The Diplomat]

• With Nothing to Eat Except Viruses, Some Microbes Thrive [Quanta Magazine]

• Ici nous voyons un test du système d'extinction d'incendie de @CMSExperiment en 2006. — Douze souffleurs ont projeté un mélange d'eau et de mousse. Le résultat? Ce paysage hivernal mousse duveteuse à 100 mètres sous terre! — Pour en savoir plus: http://hse.cern [CERN_FR]

• NASA, SpaceX Announce Update to Crew-6 Mission [NASA]

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MUFC is 3rd on the EPL Table! Let’s keep this up! We must return to the UCL next year!

It’s NBA All-Star Weekend in Salt Lake City! Let’s enjoy some great basketball!

On a more serious note, please watch “Under the Banner of Heaven” on Hulu. Very important show.

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• Whatever Happened to the Ruby Programming Language? [Slashdot.org]

• Jimmy Carter to begin receiving hospice care [AXIOS]

• A human player beat a top-ranked AI system in 14 out 15 games of Go, using tactics suggested by a computer program that had probed the AI system for weaknesses [TechMeme]

• Poor countries got screwed on covid vaccines. They’re making sure it won’t happen again [Quartz]

• YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki is stepping down [Recode]

• 7 key takeaways about the Dutch tech startup ecosystem you need to know [TheNextWeb]

• Haluski Has Many Forms, All of Them Comforting [Eater]

• Invaded, a Founder and Her Ukrainian Team Found the Power to Push Forward [Inc.] #Ukraine

• Spilled chemicals, black smoke, and contamination: An environmental engineer explains the long-term risks of the Ohio train derailment [Fast Company]

• Become a verified book author [Medium]

• Start Your Own Business [Entrepreneur]

• Yes, Lab-Grown Meat Is Vegan [WIRED]

• This Week in Space 49 [TWIT]

• 12 tips to help you read more books this year [Google Blog]

• FriendlyCore: A novel differentially private aggregation framework [Google Research]

• Submit poetry and letters to the editors of Poetry magazine [Poetry Foundation]

• Capture the sky with the QHY 600 CMOS camera [Astronomy Magazine]

• How DAIMANI Delivers A Seamless Experience That Customers Love [SAP] #SAP

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Along many of you, I am extremely excited about Season 5 of Formula 1: Drive to Survive. It’s going to be amazing! Look for it on Netflix.

A very Happy Valentine’s Day to you all! If you have someone, I hope you had a great time. If not, are you ready to get back out there? Try 5 Dates and 10 Dates (interactive rom-com) from Wales Interactive. It might help you with your confidence.

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• The devastating earthquakes in Turkey and Syria might upend politics, too [The Economist]

• Could avian flu cause the next human pandemic? [The Economist Podcasts]

• Women pulled alive from Turkey quake debris nine days on [BBC News]

• Treat Mexico Like a Partner, Not a Wall [Bloomberg]

• Inside Afghanistan's madrasas as girls' dreams fade: podcast [Reuters]

• US and Iran in indirect talks on prisoner swap deal: Report [AL-Jazeera News]

• Why Everyone Feels Like They’re Faking It — The concept of Impostor Syndrome has become ubiquitous. Critics, and even the idea’s originators, question its value. [The New Yorker]

• Horizon Call of the Mountain is not enough of a good thing [The Verge]

• The East Palestine, Ohio, train wreck didn’t have to be this bad [Vox]

• German startup Kern AI nabs seed funding for modular NLP development platform [TechCrunch]

• The ChatGPT-fueled battle for search is bigger than Microsoft or Google [MIT Technology Review]

• ChatGPT is a robot con artist, and we’re suckers for trusting it [Business Insider] #SamaIsInDeepDooDoo

• Un REVE ecrit avec une date devient un OBJECTIF. Un OBJECTIF decompose en plusieurs etapes devient un PLAN. Un PLAN soutenu par des ACTIONS devient REALITE. [LinkedIn]

• Disinfo black ops - Nigeria ‘Team Jorge’ (Israeli) and Cambridge Analytica meddled in Nigeria election, emails reveal [The Guardian]

• Moscow’s Military Capabilities Are in Question After Failed Battle for Ukrainian City [The New York Times]

• How An Airline Crisis Turned Pete Buttigieg’s DOT Dream Into A Nightmare [Huffington Post]

• Why the Tesla Recall Matters [The Atlantic]

• The 4 Main Factions Of The House Democratic Caucus [FiveThirtyEight]

• 40 years of debt: Student loan borrowers’ struggles expose flaws in system [The Washington Post]

• Le cas israélien divise à nouveau l’Union africaine [Le Monde]

• Russia has two leaky space station ships. One is about to burn up over the ocean [Mashable]

• British Embassy Spy Jailed For 13 Years For Passing Secrets to Russia [VICE News]

• Are U.S. Sanctions Against Syria Stalling Humanitarian Aid After the Earthquake? [The Intercept_]

• Presidents' Day technically only celebrates one president [National Geographic]

• Tributes pour in for former President Jimmy Carter after he enters hospice care [NPR]

• Billions are needed to repair, renovate and maintain Cal State’s buildings [CapRadioNews]

• Avec la Turquie, une relation turbulente [Le Monde diplomatique]

• What the Marvel Cinematic Universe Can Teach Us About Geopolitics — One is a fantasy with roots in World War II. The other boasts Spider-Man. [Foreign Policy]

• The Persistence of Great-Power Politics [Foreign Affairs]

• Japan Suspects Chinese Spy Balloons Violated Its Airspace [The Diplomat]

• Quantum Field Theory Pries Open Mathematical Puzzle [Quanta Magazine]

• Ici nous voyons un test du système d'extinction d'incendie de @CMSExperiment en 2006. Douze souffleurs ont projeté un mélange d'eau et de mousse. Le résultat? Ce paysage hivernal mousse duveteuse à 100 mètres sous terre! Pour en savoir plus: http://hse.cern [CERN_FR]

• NASA’s Planetary Radar Captures Detailed View of Oblong Asteroid [NASA]

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• Google Fiber Launches 5Gbps Service [Slashdot.org]

• Tesla will open charging network to other EVs [AXIOS]

• Speaking at a conference, Elon Musk says he is “guessing toward the end” of 2023 will be time for a new Twitter CEO as the company will be in “stable condition” [TechMeme]

• A tech founder who didn’t pay employees for months but bought a $16 million private jet has been arrested [Quartz]

• Listen to our new podcast with never-before-told stories about Amazon’s ascent [Recode]

• Can ChatGPT write you the ultimate cover letter? [TheNextWeb]

• The 35 Essential São Paulo Restaurants [Eater]

• A Year After Russia Invaded, a Founder and Her Ukrainian Team Found the Power to Push Forward [Inc.]

• How Ikea is helping this nonprofit transport 5,000 emergency shelters to Turkey [Fast Company]

• Scientists Warn of A “Friendship Recession” — I’m Part of It [Medium]

• 6 Common Reasons You Can't Get Anything Done at Work — And How to Change That [Entrepreneur]

• The Scramble to Save Twitter’s Research from Elon Musk [WIRED]

• Club TWIT [TWIT]

• The most popular date night searches in every state [Google Blog]

• Open Source Vizier: Towards reliable and flexible hyperparameter and blackbox optimization [Google Research]

• Ask Astro: Why are small black holes more dangerous than big ones? [Astronomy Magazine]

• Getting Started with ESG Steering and Reporting – Free openSAP Course (Teaser) [SAP] #SAP

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• What European business makes of the green-subsidy race [The Economist]

• “She can’t really appeal to the MAGA base”—Nikki Haley’s long-shot White House bid [The Economist Podcasts]

• Turkey earthquake: Young girl rescued after 178 hours under rubble [BBC News]

• Worker Burnout Is Even Worse Than at the Peak of the Pandemic [Bloomberg]

• Al Qaeda's new leader Adel has $10 million bounty on his head [Reuters]

• Buried Alive in Turkey’s Earthquake | Close Up [AL-Jazeera News]

• Bernie Sanders’s New Campaign: Taking on Big Pharma and Starbucks [The New Yorker]

• Microsoft’s Bing is an emotionally manipulative liar, and people love it / Users have been reporting all sorts of ‘unhinged’ behavior from Microsoft’s AI chatbot. In one conversation with The Verge, Bing even claimed it spied on Microsoft’s employees through webcams on their laptops and manipulated them. [The Verge] This is why I said ChatGPT was dangerous, and why Alphabet/Google needs to immediately release an updated version of LaMBDA as soon as possible, get whatever funding necessary, this is literally a National Security hazard.

• The rise of the Trump-Russia revisionists [Vox]

• Tesla agrees to double supercharger network, open to all EVs under Biden’s $7.5B charging plan [TechCrunch]

• These startups hope to spray iron particles above the ocean to fight climate change — The intervention may break down methane, mimicking a phenomenon that could have amplified ice ages. But scientists say far more basic research still needs to be done. [MIT Technology Review]

• Elon Musk's mood and intensity at Twitter are 'worse' than during Tesla's existential crisis 5 years ago, staff says [Insider]

• More integrations with core applications. Better experience for developers. Get the details on #SAPBuild in 2023 from Sebastian Schrötel. https://sap.to/60413l337 [LinkedIn] #SAP

• Revealed: the hacking and disinformation team meddling in elections [The Guardian] Mastermind Tal Hanan (Israeli) claims covert involvement in 33 presidential elections

• How a Fog of Questions Over a Spy Balloon and U.F.O.s Fed a Diplomatic Crisis [New York Times]

• How To Turn Online Friends Into Real-Life Friends [Huffington Post]

• Trump’s Last-Ditch Gamble to Avoid Indictment [The Atlantic]

• Just How Far Apart Are The Two Parties On Gun Control? [FiveThirtyEight]

• Election deniers face a nationwide wave of pushback [The Washington Post]

• L’Allemagne va envoyer « un demi-bataillon » de chars Leopard à l’Ukraine et critique le refus de la Suisse de livrer des munitions [Le Monde]

• TikTok removes viral video ad of suspected Joe Rogan AI deepfake [Mashable]

• One of Anom's Top Alleged Sellers Flown to U.S. to Face Charges [VICE News]

• DeSantis-Stacked Medical Boards Ramp Up Bans on Care for Trans Youth [The Intercept_]

• Discover the history of Tennessee’s forgotten music empire [National Geographic]

• Istanbul's mayor warns 90,000 buildings are at risk if a major earthquake strikes [NPR]

• Frequent wildfires more likely to hit low-income communities, new report finds [CapRadioNews]

• « Le plus grand marché de skieurs débutants » [Le Monde diplomatique]

• Washington’s China Hawks Take Flight [Foreign Policy]

• The Kremlin’s Grand Delusions — What the War in Ukraine Has Revealed About Putin’s Regime [Foreign Affairs] #Ukraine

• The Ebb and Flow of Protest in Thailand [The Diplomat]

• Gene Expression in Neurons Solves a Brain Evolution Puzzle [Quanta Magazine]

• Voici le tonneau interne du plus grand détecteur à pixel jamais construit : le trajectographe interne de @ALICEexperiment. Son installation a été essentielle dans la préparation du #LHCRun3. #PhotoDeLaSemaine [CERN_FR]

• NASA’s Perseverance Rover Shows Off Collection of Mars Samples [NASA]

• Abu Dhabi Police College joins INTERPOL Global Academy network [INTERPOL]

• Air Force Launches First ICBM Test of 2023 [Air & Space Forces Magazine]

• Tuner Evo SoCal Sets the Tone for 2023 [SUPER STREET on MOTORTREND]

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• Steep Declines In Data Science Skills Among Fourth- and Eighth-Graders Across America, Study Finds [Slashdot.org]

• Drastic emissions cuts needed to avert multi-century sea level rise, study finds [AXIOS]

• Andy Jassy says Amazon plans to “go big” on physical retail stores in 2023, blaming a lack of “normalcy” during the pandemic for the company's stumbles [TechMeme]

• The cholera vaccine shortage could increase the toll of the earthquake in Syria and Turkey [Quartz]

• Google is scrambling to catch up to Bing, of all things [Recode]

• Why Groningen is the coolest tech city you’ve never heard of [TheNextWeb]

• ‘Table for Two’ Embraces the Romance of Everyday Cooking [Eater]

• Will Washington Really Get Tougher on Airlines? [Inc.]

• This is how managers can create high-performing teams [Fast Company]

• Make the FBI happy: install an ad blocker [Medium]

• Meteorologist Goes Viral After Sneaking Rap Lyrics Into Weather Forecast [Entrepreneur]

• The 19 Best Wireless Headphones for Everyone [WIRED]

• This Week in Enterprise Tech [TWIT]

• From images to videos, how AI is helping you search visually [Google Blog]

• Google Research, 2022 & beyond: Robotics [Google Research]

• Mia S. Willis vs. The Black Proverb [Poetry Foundation]

• The biggest space missions to look out for in 2023 [Astronomy Magazine]

• Intelligent Sustainable Enterprise | Episode 2 | The Unlocking Value Show [SAP] #SAP

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As we await the 1.7 patch for CYBERPUNK 2077 and the DLC, here are 14+ Awesome Games To Play in the meantime. This article comes from Kotaku.

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• Britain could soon give up its last African colony — The Chagos Islands and Diego Garcia may be back in Mauritian hands again before long [The Economist]

• Mouaz survived Syria’s brutal civil war. Then he spent 63 hours trapped under rubble [1843 magazine]

• Donald Trump loses $110k contempt of court appeal [BBC News] #TrumpIsGoingToJail

• With Feinstein Set to Retire, These Are the Oldest Lawmakers in Congress [Bloomberg]

• U.S.-backed report says Russia held at least 6,000 Ukrainian children for 're-education' [Reuters] #Ukraine

• Earthquake aid reaches NW Syria via newly opened crossing [AL-Jazeera News] #EarthquakeInTurkey #EarthquakeInSyria

• The Mexican Firefighting Crew that Saves Lives Across the Border [The New Yorker]

• Yes, Elon Musk created a special system for showing you all his tweets first [The Verge]

• Why friendship is different than any other relationship we have [Vox]

• Daily Crunch: Microsoft dumps Yammer and makes Viva Engage its preferred enterprise social platform [TechCrunch]

• How Rust went from a side project to the world's most-loved programming language [MIT Technology Review]

• My family owned a Chinese takeout restaurant. Here are 9 things we wished customers knew to avoid being offensive or inconsiderate. [Insider]

• Learn how to maximize the full potential of your data by simplifying your data landscape. Hear from Juergen Mueller and Julia White. https://sap.to/60453Y2Av #SAPUnleash SAP Business Technology Platform [LinkedIn] #SAP

• West Papuan separatists release video of New Zealand pilot they took hostage [The Guardian]

• Flying Objects Could Turn Out to Be Harmless, U.S. Says [The New York Times]

• Under Shadow of MSU And Parkland, Biden Calls For Gun Control To End The Bloodshed [Huffington Post]

• The Inconvenient Truth About Electric Vehicles [The Atlantic]

• Who Is Nikki Haley, Trump’s First Major Challenger? [FiveThirtyEight]

• Lifelong couples told me their secrets. This is what they said. [The Washington Post]

• Réforme des retraites : l’Assemblée nationale rejette l’article créant un « index seniors » dans les entreprises [Le Monde]

• 'Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania' review: Marvel demands too much from us [Mashable]

• Uber and Lyft Fares Skyrocketed But Drivers Didn't See all the Benefits, Study Says [VICE News]

• Marines Charged in Capitol Riot Got Highly Sensitive Spy Jobs After Jan. 6 [The Intercept_]

• The legend of Area 51—and why it still fascinates us [National Geographic]

• One of the deadliest federal prison units is closing [NPR]

• Sacramento Public Library system opens community sessions, survey for feedback on facilities [CapRadioNews]

• Imaginaires de l’avenir [Le Monde diplomatique]

• The Race Is on to Be NATO’S Next Chief [Foreign Policy]

• What China Has Learned From the Ukraine War [Foreign Affairs]

• In Bolivia, China Signs Deal For World’s Largest Lithium Reserves [The Diplomat]

• Mathematicians Complete Quest to Build ‘Spherical Cubes’ [Quanta Magazine]

• Qu’est-il arrivé à l’antimatière dans l’univers? [CERN_FR]

• NASA’s Curious Universe Podcast Returns for Season Five [NASA]

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• Viral TikTok Challenge Forces Hyundai and Kia To Update Software On Millions of Vehicles [Slashdot]

• Mass shootings leave Americans feeling helpless [AXIOS]

• Sources: Apple Pay Later will evaluate borrowers based on their spending history, which Apple devices they own, whether they applied for an Apple Card, and more [TechMeme]

• Workers at Tesla’s Buffalo factory are trying to unionize [Quartz]

• Silicon Valley’s vibe shift [Recode]

• Scientific breakthrough could take us closer to impactful quantum computers [TheNextWeb]

• The Any Occasion Add to Cart Gift Guide: Winter Edition [Eater]

• Want to Be More Environmentally Friendly? Here Are 3 Sustainability Tips for Every Company in 2023 [Inc.]

• 3 résumé mistakes that can sabotage your job application [Fast Company]

• Video games are not an inferior art form [Medium]

• Achieve the Elusive Goal of Work-Life Balance With These 5 Steps and Become a Better Leader [Entrepreneur]

• Keanu will never surrender to the Machines [WIRED]

• iOS Today 641 [TWIT]

• A Very Valentine [Poetry Foundation]

• Last Mile Education Fund grants help students overcome obstacles to graduation [Google Blog]

• Unsupervised and semi-supervised anomaly detection with data-centric ML [Google AI Blog]

• Comet C/2022 E3 (ZTF): This Week in Astronomy with Dave Eicher [Astronomy Magazine]

• What is Human Capital Management (HCM)? [SAP] #SAP

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• Turkey’s earthquakes show the deadly extent of construction scams — The death toll has now reached 30,000, making the quakes the most lethal in the country’s modern history [The Economist]

• On the trail with the surprise front-runner in Nigeria’s presidential race [1843 magazine]

• “It’s hard to communicate the scale of the destruction”—earthquakes in Turkey and Syria [The Economist Podcasts]

• Three countries moved from “flawed democracies” to “full democracies” in 2022. Find which countries moved up the rankings here: [TheEIU]

• What we know about the flying objects over North America [BBC World]

• China Says US Balloons Trespassed Over 10 Times Since Early 2022 [Bloomberg]

• Exclusive: South Korea aims to join AI race as startup Rebellions launches new chip [Reuters]

• Freezing and starving — Turkey-Syria earthquake victims struggle to survive as poor weather conditions hinder rescue and relief efforts. [AL-Jazeera News]

• Hayley Williams, Without a Guidebook [The New Yorker]

• Some Googlers reportedly aren’t happy about Bard’s ‘rushed’ announcement / Google employees criticized the company and CEO Sundar Pichai over the ‘botched’ launch of its ChatGPT competitor. [The Verge] I prefered the name LaMBDA

• Earthquake aid crisis in Syria a “perfect storm” [Vox]

• Tesla’s biggest hater airs Super Bowl ad against FSD [TechCrunch]

• Design thinking was supposed to fix the world. Where did it go wrong? [MIT Technology Review]

• An anonymous donor reportedly walked into the Turkish Embassy in the US and gave $30 million to aid victims of the devastating earthquake [Insider]

• First lesson—you don’t need a Ph.D. to "do" data science. 👩‍🎓[LinkedIn] #DataCamp

• Biden promise to crack down on fentanyl trafficking divides experts [The Guardian]

• Jack Smith, Special Counsel for Trump Inquiries, Steps Up the Pace [The New York Times]

• Dianne Feinstein Announces She’s Not Running For Reelection In 2024 [Huffington Post]

• The Book That Exposed Anti-Black Racism in the Classroom [The Atlantic]

• Will UFOs Push U.S. China Relations To The Brink? [FiveThirtyEight] no, it’s just a few weather balloons

• Drink bottled water, officials tell Ohio town hit by toxic train crash [The Washington Post]

• L’armée française veut muscler les capacités de résilience de la société [Le Monde]

• Hubble catches rare crash of three brilliant galaxies [Mashable]

• AI Has Successfully Piloted a U.S. F-16 Fighter Jet, DARPA Says [VICE News]

• Momentum Grows on Special Tribunal to Prosecute Putin’s Aggression in Ukraine [The Intercept_]

• Valentine's Day wasn't always about love [National Geographic]

• Blinken has a lot on his plate including tensions with China and the war in Ukraine [Bloomberg]

• 80-million-year-old fossil ancestor of coffee and potatoes found near Sacramento [NPR]

• With a guaranteed income, you can buy precious time with your family, say California parents [CapRadioNews]

• Malgré le Brexit, introuvable souveraineté britannique [Le Monde diplomatique]

• Russia Has Already Lost in the Long Run [Foreign Policy] #Ukraine

• Ukraine and the Contingency of Global Order [Foreign Affairs]

• What Happened to the Chinese Balloon Over Latin America? [The Diplomat]

• What Lights the Universe’s Standard Candles? [Quanta Magazine]

• Pour fêter #IDWGIS de @UN, près de 100 femmes de science du #CERN, Sciencescope (@UNIGEnews), @EPFL & @LAPPCNRS ont visité 200+ écoles locales afin de promouvoir les sciences à plus de 5000 élèves. #WomenInScience

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• NASA’s Satellites Help with Turkey, Syria Earthquake Response [NASA]

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• US Military Shoots Down Fourth Flying Object Near Michigan [Slashdot.org]

• Inside Apple's push to build new financial services, which have suffered from engineering and technical setbacks, leading to slow progress and missed deadlines [TechMeme]

• Turkey investigates building contractors as earthquake deaths top 33,000 [AXIOS]

• Ending the Yeezy deal created a billion-dollar problem for Adidas [Quartz]

• Layoffs are making LinkedIn the new hot social network [Recode]

• Danish wind turbine maker discovers way to make blades recyclable [TheNextWeb]

• You Should Be Saving Your Rice Water [Eater]

• 5 Emerging Social Media Platforms to Watch in 2023 [Inc.]

• The history of the USPS Love stamp [Fast Company]

• How to Think About Your Career [Medium]

• Do You Have These 6 Personality Traits? You're More Likely to Score Investors [Entrepreneur]

• The 10 Best Games on PlayStation Plus [WIRED]

• Ask The Tech Guys 1961 [TWIT]

• New features make Translate more accessible for its 1 billion users [Google Blog]

• Amplification at the Quantum limit [Google AI Blog]

• Building a Sustainable Writing Practice with Stefania Gomez, Maggie Queeney, and Holly Amos, Plus More Writing Prompts [The Poetry Magazine Podcast]

• A wide view of Orion [Astronomy Magazine]

• Les régulations - Back to Basics [S3 - Ep.8] (French) [SAP] #SAP

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People vs. Donald Trump is a fascinating inside account of the attempt to prosecute former president Donald Trump, written by one of the lawyers who worked on the case and resigned in protest when Manhattan’s district attorney refused to act.

Mark Pomerantz was a retired lawyer living a calm suburban life when he accepted an unexpected offer to join the staff of the district attorney of New York County in February 2021 to work on the investigation of former president Donald Trump. The Manhattan DA was interested in Pomerantz because he brought vast experience in litigating white collar and organized crime cases, having worked as a federal prosecutor and a criminal defense attorney for decades. Pomerantz had prosecuted and defended cases involving murder, drug trafficking, political corruption, tax evasion, and financial fraud. His clients had included governors and senators, business leaders, financial institutions, and also gangsters and murderers.

Over the next year, Pomerantz investigated the world of Donald Trump and the Trump Organization. He interviewed potential witnesses, scrutinized financial records, and learned everything he could about Trump’s business practices. The investigation led him to believe that the former president’s approach to business had much in common with the business practices of another well-known public figure—former mob boss John J. Gotti. Ultimately, Pomerantz gathered enough evidence to support the view—held by many of his colleagues on the case, including former Manhattan district attorney Cyrus Vance Jr.—that former president Donald Trump should be indicted for a number of financial crimes. But that indictment never happened. This book explains why.

Pomerantz’s work ultimately led to the indictment of the Trump Organization and Allen Weisselberg, the chief financial officer of the Trump Organization, who pleaded guilty to tax fraud. But that indictment was merely the prelude to a larger criminal case that Pomerantz urged the Manhattan DA, Alvin Bragg, to bring against Donald Trump. When the DA refused to authorize that prosecution, Pomerantz and his colleague Carey Dunne resigned. Aspects of the case Pomerantz wanted to bring are currently being pursued against Trump by the attorney general of New York State in a civil fraud case that does not involve criminal penalties.

In People vs. Donald Trump, Pomerantz tells the story of his unprecedented investigation, why he believes Donald Trump should be prosecuted, and what we can learn about the nature of justice in America from this extraordinary case. Pomerantz draws from a lifetime of legal experience to tell a devastating and frequently entertaining story of how prosecutors think, how criminals act, and how our justice system works—and sometimes doesn’t work. Pomerantz has written a cautionary tale that illuminates the challenges of prosecuting Donald Trump, why Trump manages to dance between the raindrops of accountability, and how others might bring him to justice.

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