From Silicon Valley to Hawaii. Perspectives on startups; the convergence of communication, power, and money; with some Neurodevelopment and education thrown in. Outrigger paddling pictures.
Disturbingly, some national security & intelligence officials in the Trump admin said they were pressured into reporting false numbers and exaggerated threat profiles in order to falsely inflate the threat of violence posed by “far-left groups” and overplay their role in violence during protests. In other words, the Trump admin was trying to manufacture a threat of violence while simultaneously failing to adequately address the growing threat of far-right extremist violence. Really, really bad.
Russian strikes leave 10 million Ukrainians without power as temperatures plummet — CNN
More than 10 million Ukrainians were without power after another wave of Russian strikes on critical infrastructure, as concerns over Ukraine's power supply grew as winter began to set in across the country.