50 years ago tonight, the jerry garcia band returns home to keystone #berkeley following their east coast tour. a nice audience tape by castelli & menke. https://archive.org/details/jg75-11-0…
In 1968, following the success of his role in "Mary Poppins" four years earlier, Dick Van Dyke was asked by the producer of the 007 films, Alfred R. Broccoli, to take over the 007 role from Sean Connery.
Incredulous, Van Dyke responded: “Have you heard my British accent?”
US immigration authorities arrested a visiting professor at Harvard law school
after he was charged with discharging a pellet gun outside a Massachusetts synagogue the day before Yom Kippur,
– and he agreed to leave the country.
Carlos Portugal Gouvea, a Brazilian citizen, was arrested on Wednesday by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)
after his temporary nonimmigrant visa was revoked by the state department
following what the Trump administration labe…
Apple settles with Brazil's regulator to allow alternative app stores; report: Apple will charge a 5% fee for alt app stores and 15% on App Store linkouts (Hartley Charlton/MacRumors)
https://www.macrumors.com/2025/12/24/new-app-store-fee-structure-in-brazil/<…
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #ThroughTheNight
August de Boeck, Brussels Philharmonic & Marc Soustrot:
🎵 Fantasy on two Flemish Folk Songs
#AugustdeBoeck #BrusselsPhilharmonic #MarcSoustrot
A joint Databroker Files investigation shows commercially traded mobile phone location data allows the tracking of millions of Europeans, including EU officials (netzpolitik.org)
https://netzpolitik.org/2025/databroker-files-targeting-the-eu/
50 years ago tonight, the jerry garcia band at home in #berkeley, with prelude, a rare non-acoustic opening act. bob menke & louis falanga audience tape: https://archive.org/details/jg7…
🤦♂️ COP30 climate pledges favor unrealistic land-based carbon removal over emission cuts, says report
https://phys.org/news/2025-11-cop30-climate-pledges-favor-unrealistic.html
A propos de Meta et la sécurité des utilisateurs, déclaration de Brian Boland, ancien vice-président des partenariats chez Meta :
« Mon sentiment Š l'époque, et mon sentiment aujourd'hui, c'est qu'ils ne se soucient pas vraiment de la sécurité des utilisateurs. Ce n'est pas quelque chose auquel ils consacrent beaucoup de temps. Ce n'est pas quelque chose auquel ils pensent. Et je pense vraiment qu'ils s'en moquent. »
foreignfundinghighered - exec branch's latest
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