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yaesu's JournalTrump's attacks on DEI may hurt men in college admission
Brown University, one of the most selective institutions in America, attracted nearly 50,000 applicants who vied for just 1,700 freshman seats last year.
The university accepted nearly equal numbers of male and female prospects, even though, like some other schools, it got nearly twice as many female applicants. That math meant it was easier for male students to get in — 7 percent of male applicants were admitted, compared to 4.4 percent of female applicants, university data show.
While much of the president’s recent scrutiny of college admissions practices has focused on race, these experts say his ban on diversity, equity and inclusion is likely to hit another underrepresented group of applicants: men, and particularly white men — the largest subset of male college applicants.
“This drips with irony,” said Ted Mitchell, president of the American Council on Education, or ACE, the nation’s largest association of universities and colleges, who said he expects that colleges and universities are ending consideration of gender in admission. “The idea of males, including white males, being at the short end of the stick all of a sudden would be a truly ironic outcome.”
https://hechingerreport.org/an-unexpected-target-of-federal-college-admissions-scrutiny-men/
Dear Senate Democrats, please do not give in to any fascist shutdown BS, voters have spoken,
they have your back, do not let US down, keep fighting for our Healthcare and against fascism.
Rise of the 'porno-trolls': how one porn platform made millions suing its viewers & now going after META for AI training
When 73-year-old Tom Brown*, a retired police officer from Seattle, received a letter from Comcast, he might have mistaken it for a broadband bill. Instead, it was a subpoena. He had been sued in federal court for illegally downloading 80 movies. Some of the titles sounded cryptic – Do Not Worry, We Are Only Friends – or banal, like International Relations Part 2. Others were less subtle: He Loved My Big Ass, He Loved My Big Butt, and My Big Booty Loves Anal.
Brown, who had spent decades investigating sex crimes, claimed he had never watched any of them. His years “dealing with pimping”, he wrote in a court filing, left him “with no interest in pornography”. He had been married for 40 years, he did not need to download Hot Wife, another title in the list. But the subpoena did not seem like something he could laugh off. It said he could face damages of up to $150,000 per movie – as much as $12m for all 80 films. If he did not respond promptly, the letter said, Comcast would identify him to the plaintiff in the case: a company called Strike 3 Holdings.
Strike 3 is not a name that Brown, or most people outside the world of copyright law, would recognize. The Delaware-based corporation, formed in 2015, owns the intellectual property rights to a catalog of about 2,000 adult films, mostly made by Vixen Media Group, its porn production subsidiary. It had very little online footprint; no social presence to speak of. But its associates were better known. The company was co-founded by Greg Lansky, the French porn director whose recent pivot to the art world has yielded works such as Algorithmic Beauty, a marble reproduction of the Venus de Milo with breast implants taking a selfie.
Lansky, a 42-year-old Parisian, was something of a celebrity in the adult industry, having formed Vixen, the production company behind some of the porn world’s most popular brands: Vixen, Slayed, Wifey, Milf-y, Tushy, Tushy Raw, Blacked, Blacked Raw. The studio’s commitment to high-production value had attracted dozens of awards in adult media and write-ups from outlets outside it. How One Pornographer Is Trying to Elevate Porn to Art,
https://www.theguardian.com/society/ng-interactive/2025/nov/04/strike-3-porn-copyright-lawsuits
Trump Jr.'s Expanding Business: After Joining 2nd New Board, U.S. Contracts Followed
Unusual Machines is at least the second company that appears to have activated an advisory board specifically to give a Trump a role, placing Donald Trump Jr. on the board in November 2024—and granting him shares worth millions—then announcing at least $15.2 million in military-linked orders, including a direct U.S. Army buy.
Donald Trump Jr. joined Unusual Machines’ advisory board in November 2024, echoing his father’s political position on trade in the announcement by praising the company for “bring[ing] drone manufacturing jobs back to the USA.”
CEO Allan Evans told Forbes the advisory board was created when Donald Trump Jr. was named to it, and that he believes it has four other members, but he declined to name them or share if they are associated with the Trump Organization.
Likewise, the company’s website does not appear to mention any members other than Donald Trump Jr.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/zacheverson/2025/10/29/donald-trump-jr-ultimate-machines-defense-contracts-drones/
The Central Intelligence Asswipes is providing the bulk of the intelligence used to murder boaters
The Central Intelligence Agency is providing the bulk of the intelligence used to carry out the controversial lethal airstrikes by the Trump administration against small, fast-going boats in the Caribbean Sea suspected of carrying drugs from Venezuela, according to three sources familiar with the operations. Experts say the agency’s central role means much of the evidence used to select which alleged smugglers to kill on the open sea will almost certainly remain secret.
The agency’s central role in the boat strikes has not previously been disclosed. Donald Trump confirmed last Wednesday that he had authorized covert CIA action in Venezuela, but not what the agency would be doing.
The sources say the CIA is providing real-time intelligence collected by satellites and signal intercepts to detect which boats it believes are loaded with drugs, tracking their routes and making the recommendations about which vessels should be hit by missiles.
“They are the most important part of it,” said one of the sources. Two sources said that the drones or other aircraft actually launching the missiles used to sink the boats belonged to the US military, not the CIA.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/oct/21/us-strikes-caribbean-cia-role
Fears over higher rates as Georgia moves to provide more electricity for AI datacenters
Source: The Guardian
Georgia is facing the largest demand for electricity in its history, driven by nation-leading datacenter construction.
The Georgia Power company has made an unprecedented bid to the agency that oversees the utility for about 10 additional gigawatts of energy in the coming years – enough to power 8.3m homes, at an estimated cost of nearly $16bn, according to the Southern Environmental Law Center.
But those huge numbers are not primarily for homes or local businesses in Georgia. Instead about 80% of the company’s ask is driven by datacenters, primarily for artificial intelligence, according to Tom Krause, spokesperson for the state’s public service commission, or PSC.
It is the largest increase ever considered by the commission in a multiyear plan and comes as the Atlanta metro area led the nation in datacenter construction last year – a phenomenon playing out across the US and increasingly sparking protests and pushback. The PSC’s five members will be charged with deciding how much energy the state needs, when it’s needed and the best way to meet that need, Krause said.
Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/oct/19/georgia-electricity-datacenters
You sow what you reap
Anyone notice that Newsweek has gone over to the dark side lately just posting RW propaganda?
This week especially, not sure if they have gone through new management or what.
Another example of your walmart money at work ( 2019 news I found while researching WWII Guadalcanal)
(Reuters) - The battlefields of Guadalcanal, in the Solomon Islands, draw visitors from the United States and its war allies, as well as those from Japan, decades after the bloody campaign in the South Pacific ended. But in recent weeks, some visitors say they have been prevented from accessing one of Guadalcanal's most significant World War II sites, which includes a Japanese war monument, after a deal handed control of the land to a company controlled by a Chinese businessman.
Tour operators and the Japanese ambassador to the Solomons say it appears to be a case of a lack of understanding of the significance of the Alligator Creek site by the new owner.
The issue has stirred up debate in the Solomons concerning its new relationship with China, which was formalized in September following the Pacific island nation's decision to sever its diplomatic ties with Taiwan in favor of Beijing.
That decision has frustrated the now aligned United States and Japan, with US officials expressing concern about China's "use of economic and military levers" to increase its influence in the South Pacific.
https://www.businessinsider.com/chinese-land-deal-in-solomons-guadalcanal-disrupts-access-to-wwii-site-2019-11
I do know from recent reports that a major Marine Corps battle site of Alligator Creek was turned into a massive concrete factory.
Let's hope that these business ventures are actually improving the lives of the locals, maybe, crossing my fingers.
Just a reminder that the space nazi didn't mind government spending when it saved his fascist ass.
Feds Lend Tesla $465 Million to Build Model S
The Obama Administration will lend Tesla Motors $465 million to build an electric sedan and the battery packs needed to propel it. It’s one of three loans totaling almost $8 billion that the Department of Energy awarded today to spur the development of fuel-efficient vehicles. Energy Secretary Steven Chu announced that the Department of Energy […]
https://www.wired.com/2009/06/tesla-loan/
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