Ken Burns Tells CNN DeSantis Creating 'Soviet'-Like System
https://www.mediaite.com/tv/ken-burns-compares-desantis-bills-to-soviet-system-on-cnn-the-way-the-nazis-would-build-a-potemkin-village/
Evelyn Berezin designed the first computer-driven word processor. An expert in logic design & data transmission, she'd earlier designed a computer system for the American stock exchange, the first computerized banking system, and the first airline reservation system.
Frustrated by the sexism blocking her advancement, she founded her own tech startup, Redactron, in 1969, and brought her word processor to market in 1971.
https://www.honoraryunsubscribe.com/evelyn-berezin/
photo: National Inventors Hall of Fame
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The Postal Board of Governors, which still refuses to fire Postmaster General Louis DeJoy, meets today for its first session of 2023.
Two board seats previously held by Trump nominees opened up in December.
Biden must fill them without further delay.
https://prospect.org/politics/continued-survival-of-louis-dejoy/
Putain needs a solid smackdown!
Russian threat to Baltic security rising - Estonian intelligence report
By Andrius Sytas VILNIUS (Reuters) - Estonia's Foreign Intelligence Service said it believed Russia still had the strength to exert "credible military pressure" on the Baltic region, where the security risk has risen for the medium and long-term. NATO and the European Union members Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania - the so-called Baltic states - have sharply boosted defence spending in response to
There are 193 member nations in the United Nations.
All but 11 guarantee some form of paid sick leave.
Guess what? The U.S. is one of those 11.
As a result, 33 million American workers have no paid sick leave from their employer.
This is deeply inhumane. Paid leave. Now.
As a geneticist, I was having a conversation with a friend in the supermarket yesterday. How they only buy natural foods. I laughed because they had 3 pink grapefruits in their basket. I told them that the only reason that grapefruit is pink is because of mutagenesis. As a child most grapefruit were almost clear. However exposing the seed to high levels of nuclear radiation scrambled its DNA. At some point one of those seeds produced a sweet pink grapefruit.
They were horrified 😆😁😄😃😀
These are the 1870 pins you see some House members wearing tonight. Here is the summary story behind them.
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