Donald Trump is ordered to pay for his bullying [The Economist]

The slavery heirs who went on an apology tour [1843 magazine]

Moti Mahal: India curry houses battle over butter chicken [BBC] can you please teach us how to make this fucking dish with lactose-free milk #foodist

Gaza starves under Israeli bombs and blockade [Reuters]

‘Like a mafia’: Israeli settlers, forces squeeze Palestinian shepherds out [AL-Jazeera News]

The Best Books We’ve Read in 2024 So Far [The New Yorker]

President Biden is preparing to announce chipmaker subsidies. So says WSJ in a report this morning that his administration will give “billions of dollars” to the likes of Intel and Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC), both of which have started US manufacturing projects, although TSMC, at least, is behind schedule. It’s been well over a year since Biden signed the $280 billion CHIPS and Science Act, which set aside $52 billion to bring more chipmaking jobs stateside. [The Verge] note: zero paycheck received since June 1st, 2018. Extremely upset. Ghost job, illegal practice.

How to be alone with your thoughts [Vox]

Spotify calls Apple’s DMA compliance plan ‘extortion’ and a ‘complete and total farce’ [TechCrunch]

The Innovation issue [MIT Technology Review]

A former US Air Force officer spent $11 million searching for Amelia Earhart's long-lost plane — and may have found it [Business Insider]

Concours de Poésie 2024 [LinkedIn]

Russia-Ukraine war at a glance: what we know on day 704 [The Guardian]

Negotiators Close In on Hostage Deal That Would Halt Fighting in Gaza for Weeks. A written draft agreement calls for the phased release of captives held by Hamas in exchange for a cessation in Israel’s military offensive for about two months. [The New York Times]

Embattled UN Agency Warns Its Aid Operation In Gaza Is 'Collapsing' Over Wave Of Funding Cuts [Huffington Post]

Is Congress Really Going to Abandon Ukraine Now? [The Atlantic]

The GOP primary is basically over | 538 Politics Podcast [FiveThirtyEight]

How to cope with financial stress affecting your mental health [The Washington Post]

French farmer unions vow to put Paris under 'indefinite siege' in income, tax and regulation protests [Le Monde] j’en ai marre de ces conneries. Si ces agriculteurs étaient “maghrébin”, ils seraient tous foutuent en Fichier S! Vous voyez le délire sur la A4!?! Double standards! (Maghrébins: oh putain ca va chier...)

X makes Taylor Swift's name unsearchable amid viral deep fakes [Mashable]

NVIDIA Reverses Course on Donation Matching for Gaza Charities, Causing Internal Rift [VICE News]

Pro-Israel Illinois Democrat Cancels Two Debates Against Challenger Who Backs Gaza CeaseFire [The Intercept_]

Does trusting your doctor’s gut feeling lead to better care? [National Geographic]

Nearly 25,000 tech workers were laid off in the first weeks of 2024. Why is that? [NPR] well, I have previously mentioned this during the 200,000 people exodus from Big Tech a few years ago. As you may know, in I.T., there are a lot of people who know what they are doing. There are also a lot of very beautiful women who do not know what the fuck they are doing, and are on payroll, basically to suck the dick of the executives. When Work From Home (WFH) was implemented due to the pandemic, a lot of those bimbo blondes (and brunettes) were basically removed from companies such as Intel Corporation, Microsoft, Facebook, Apple, so on and so forth. As you know, you cannot get paid for fellatio in a corporate environment, it is against the law.

After a sunny weekend, another atmospheric river is expected for Sacramento next week [CapRadioNews]

La jeune génération prend les armes [Le Monde diplomatique]

A Middle East Paradox [Foreign Policy]

The ICJ Ruling’s Hidden Diplomacy [Foreign Affairs]

The France-India Dalliance: Operationalizing Strategic Autonomy in the Indian Ocean [The Diplomat]

The Quest to Decode the Mandelbrot Set, Math’s Famed Fractal [Quanta Magazine]

NASA’s LRO Spots Japan’s Moon Lander [NASA]

BLOGPOST UPDATE IN PROGRESS

What’s up, everybody! Here are JETLAG RADIO 1088 & BENKYO RADIO 1088. I love the HEDKANDI music compilation series, which you could buy in record shops such as Virgin Records stores before they went out of business. Let’s hope Ministry of Sound buys them out, and release their compilations on CDs all over again, such like back in the days. If CD isn’t a good outlet, please let us have a MP3 copy to add to a Sony Walkman. In Japan (Nippon), everybody has one on the subway, and I’d love to own one. Do you know how teenage girls are addicted to 8sec TikTok videos (a diabolical plan by China to render every American kid into a worst case of ADHD possible)? I have that same kind of relationship with another social media platform. Therefore, I’d like a Sony Walkman to strictly stick to music and less screen time.

Until Next Time!