On this day:
1942
Actress Hedy Lamarr and composer George Antheil receive a patent for a frequency hopping, spread spectrum communication system that later became the basis for modern technologies in wireless telephones and Wi-Fi.
1965
Race riots (the Watts riots) begin in the Watts area of Los Angeles, California.
1972
Vietnam War: the last United States ground combat unit leaves South Vietnam.
2003
NATO takes over command of the peacekeeping force in Afghanistan, marking its first major operation outside Europe in its 54-year history.
Actress Hedy Lamarr and composer George Antheil receive a patent for a frequency hopping, spread spectrum communication system that later became the basis for modern technologies in wireless telephones and Wi-Fi.
1965
Race riots (the Watts riots) begin in the Watts area of Los Angeles, California.
1972
Vietnam War: the last United States ground combat unit leaves South Vietnam.
2003
NATO takes over command of the peacekeeping force in Afghanistan, marking its first major operation outside Europe in its 54-year history.
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Five Al Jazeera journalists were killed in a targeted Israeli airstrike in Gaza on Sunday, the network said, with the Israel Defense Forces claiming one was a Hamas leader posing as a journalist.
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Former Surgeon General Dr. Jerome Adams — who served during the first Trump administration — argued Sunday that "people are going to die" if the U.S. backs away from mRNA vaccine development, after Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. halted around $500 million in research funding.
Admittedly, the Kennedy appointment and confirmation are hard to explain. But didn't the COVID mRNA program work? And why is government support the be-all and end-all of funding?
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Why is gerrymandering, clearly an offensive abuse of small-minded and partisan ambition, suddenly a big, moral problem?
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Partnering with the People
From the Department of More Than Strange:
Nvidia and Advanced Micro Devices have agreed to give the U. S. Government a portion of the sales from their artificial-intelligence chips to China, unusual agreements that deepen the companies' relationships with the state.
The Trump administration will receive 15% of the sales as part of a deal to approve exports of Nvidia’s H20 AI chip to China, according to people familiar with the matter. That could amount to billions of dollars given the demand for the H20 chips, and is the latest example of the White House employing novel tactics to raise revenue.
The administration has reached the same agreement with AMD for its MI308 chip, the people said.
Is this a partnership? A backdoor tax? Extortion? Does this look like state-partnerships with industry made famous by some European nations in the 1930s? Are machinations like this just an effort to avoid the straightforward solution to our problem: spending? Do we all think that Adams and Jefferson would approve?
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