Another AI slop on YouTube.....

What is the deal these YouTube accounts full of fake A.I. of Rachel Maddow’s voice talking about Russia and Ukraine (mostly)? We have no idea, but they spring up like mushrooms as quickly as YouTube takes them down

Rachel Maddow takes a look at the sudden flood of artificial intelligence-generated fake stories on social media.....The lesson is that now, more than ever, it is important to check the source of anything you see or read.

Then, unexpectedly, Orozco — who lives in Sacramento — received a text from a microchip company. Choco had been found — 2, 300 miles away in Lincoln, Michigan.

If it had not been detected, “it very likely would have progressed, and she could have lost the entire kidney,” said David Battinelli, dean of the Donald and Barbara Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell on Long Island, where Moreno is enrolled.

Scanlon was right, Lake didn’t have copies. In fact, Lake thought all of her old family photos and mementos had been lost when her house burned down nearly a year ago in the Palisades Fire in Los Angeles.

A year later, however, the Ohio State Highway Patrol trooper who arrested Slavens received a thank-you card. It was from Slavens, who wrote that her gratitude for the trooper was “unmeasurable.”

For months, Israel stitched together a sordid alliance of convicted felons, former ISIS affiliates, and opportunistic collaborators, presenting them as the embryo of a local governance alternative to Hamas in Gaza, while using them to orchestrate starvation and carry out attacks on Israel’s behalf.

This initiative, blessed by the late Pope Francis prior to his passing, is spearheaded by the Catholic organization Caritas, longing to bring much-needed medical attention to an area still recovering from conflict.

Scientists have made a discovery that could change both woolly mammoth biology and our understanding of how RNA evolved in the first place. They have found mostly intact RNA from a Siberian mammoth they've named Yuka that can be dated to around 40,000 years old.

Today, in a special bonus episode, we bring you a panel Francis Dearnley recently moderated at the Frontline Club in London – a renowned meeting place for anyone passionate about foreign affairs, hosting regular events with guests from think tanks, journalism, the humanitarian sector, and many more.

Since 2018, there’s been a sustained effort to redefine anything that moderately inconveniences a right-wing populist as “censorship”. ... The term has proven to be a very effective thought-terminating cliché, so the ref-workers keep applying it ever more expansively.

Will it be a winter of standing up to Trump, the bully?

Much of Ukraine’s largest Black Sea port was without power, heat and water on Saturday after strikes from Russia, which has shown little appetite for a deal to end the war.

Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. "Ivan Urgant was an unstoppable Russian megastar. Then he expressed opposition to President Vladimir V. Putin’s invasion of Ukraine."

“There are many people living with schizophrenia, but, because of the stigma around it, they don’t want to talk about it, and then as a society we don’t get to see the success stories and then we don’t have a chance to diminish the stigma around it,” Brandigampola says.

The government has now invoked the Disaster Management Act to classify gender-based violence and femicide a national disaster. Previously, the country has used this legislation to respond to natural and public health emergencies like droughts, floods and the COVID-19 pandemic.

Putin’s true motivation is not difficult to discern. The unoccupied portion of the Donbas that he now so openly covets may seem relatively inconspicuous on the map, but... this fortress belt represents a formidable obstacle to Moscow’s invasion.

First lady Melania Trump and Ukraine's Olena Zelenska have joined a campaign exposing Russia’s billion-dollar operation to abduct and indoctrinate Ukrainian children, its spokesperson said.

"This is one of the largest refineries of the occupiers, which is capable of processing from 15 million tons of oil and oil condensate per year. It is involved in providing the armed forces of the Russian invaders," it added.

Long-range drones operated by the SBU's Alpha special operations unit hit the Filanovsky platform and nearby Korchagin platform, the source told the Kyiv Independent on condition of anonymity. Both of the impacted facilities are operated by oil giant Lukoil in Russia's sector of the Caspian Sea.

The Saratov refinery is located in southwestern Russia, about 150 kilometers from the border with Kazakhstan and nearly 600 kilometers east of the front line in Ukraine. The facility is owned by Russian state oil giant Rosneft and has a processing capacity of about 140,000 barrels of crude per day..

The Confederacy of Treaty 6 First Nations is lauding a Court of King’s Bench ruling in a court case which has struck a blow to Alberta separatists referendum efforts.

Strains on the Veterans Affairs system could grow with the elimination of as many as 35,000 mostly unfilled health care positions, including doctors and nurses.

Indeed, peering into a large index fund is like taking a tour of a hot-dog factory. Once you see everything that goes into the product — the good, the bad, the bizarre — it’s hard to unsee.

Shared waterways like the Rio Grande have been sites of cooperation between the two countries, but also points of contention. Nuevo Laredo’s wastewater overhaul is the latest bet that the U.S. and Mexico can work together to improve water quality and the environment.

But in Nairobi, a group of young designers wants to change this by showing that one person’s trash can be another person’s treasure. Led by Luca Wakarindi, who has a stall at the market, they are putting on a fashion show that uses discarded secondhand clothes.

Imagine a cozy New York dining spot where prices vanish and community thrives-welcome to Community Kitchen, the game-changer in food justice founded by Mark Bittman. Inspired by Brazil's public restaurants, this Lower East Side eatery lets you choose your meal price ....

The team found that, when patients relapse within 12 months of initial therapy, their chances of survival decline dramatically. For these patients, targeted therapies might improve their chances for survival, compared to traditional chemotherapy, the researchers say.

Therapeutic antibodies packaged into microparticles could be injected with a standard syringe, avoiding the need for lengthy and often uncomfortable infusions.

These ham-fisted attacks, both official and through a massive online trolling operation, target in reality the overwhelming majority of European citizens who support the EU. I suspect this will only foster greater public support for the EU, a natural reaction to insults and vilification

The United States has reportedly pressed Israel to assume responsibility for clearing the vast rubble left behind by more than two years of war in the Gaza Strip, a demand that could burden Jerusalem with a massive, multi-year engineering project costing upward of $1 billion.

The data shows that Americans overwhelmingly reject Trump’s mass deportation policies. Instead, Americans continue to favor a humane, pragmatic approach to dealing with the approximately 12 million undocumented immigrants in the country:

In an audacious move, the EU has decided to indefinitely immobilise the Russian sovereign assets, pushing back against external pressure to release the funds before Moscow agrees to pay war reparations to Ukraine.

Volodymyr Zelenskyy blasted Russia after it launched a barrage of hundreds of drones and missiles targeting Ukraine overnight, stating that their expressed desire to end the war is insincere, as he called on allies to ramp up pressure on the Kremlin.

Lovely.....

“We know our Indian reservations were the government’s first attempts at detention centers,” Rupnick said... “We were placed here because we were prisoners of war. So we must ask ourselves why we would ever participate in something that mirrors the harm and the trauma once done to our people.”

Belarus freed Nobel Peace Prize laureate Ales Bialiatski, key opposition figure Maria Kolesnikova and dozens of other prisoners on Saturday, capping two days of talks with Washington aimed at improving ties and getting crippling U.S. sanctions lifted on a key Belarusian agricultural export.

The Iberian nation has taken in millions of people from Latin America and Africa in recent years, and the leftist Sánchez regularly extols the financial and social benefits that immigrants who legally come to Spain bring to the eurozone’s fourth-largest economy.

An eight-decade partnership between universities and the federal government made U.S. science preeminent. It took Trump less than a year to shred that crucial alliance.

"We don’t believe the pursuit of “dominance” is in our interest, because we have learned that partnership and respectful engagement are ultimately more productive. We shall join other countries on this path, and resist attempts to allow coercion to prevail." Bob Rae

The story for this piece was the Trump oil sanctions bluff, that is unravelling before our eyes—while all the media and commentators that praised it as a sign of Trump being willing to hammer Russia now stay silent and refuse to admit that they were accomplices in the con.

Just weeks after a revolutionary eye implant enabled blind people to see again, scientists have revealed that a pioneering gene editing treatment has reversed previously untreatable blood cancers.

RSF fighters in El Fashir have rounded up civilians en masse, survivors told The Post, subjecting them to torture and extorting their families for cash.

President Donald Trump’s U.S. attorney in Delaware abruptly resigned Friday amid a growing standoff over the administration’s authority to install loyalists in powerful prosecutorial roles while bypassing Senate confirmation and the courts.

"In other words, when protecting “Western civilization” — with a focus on race and faith — becomes the centerpiece of U.S. national security, the biggest threat becomes uncontrolled immigration into America and Western Europe — not Russia or China." Thomas Friedman

Under the previously undisclosed program, the Transportation Security Administration provides a list multiple times a week to Immigration and Customs Enforcement of travelers who will be coming through airports.

Utah has repealed a collective bargaining ban passed earlier this year that prevented labor unions serving teachers, firefighters, police and other public employees from negotiating on behalf of their workers.

Now, Tal Chhapar, a seven-square kilometre wildlife sanctuary, has become a model of grassland restoration, paving the way for similar work in another degraded grassland, as well as development of grasslands in three other areas in Rajasthan.

Insightful conversation....