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An internal Google email said it received many complaints over Israeli government YouTube ads about food access in Gaza, but ruled the ads could remain online (Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2025/10/15/israel-ads-youtube-famine…

As famine struck Gaza, Google let Israel run YouTube ads claiming, ‘There is food’
An internal Google email said it received many complaints about Israeli government YouTube ads about food access in Gaza, but ruled they could remain online.

Nobel-Gedenkpreis Wirtschaft für Forschung zu anhaltendem Wachstum
Die schwedische Akademie der Wissenschaften zeichnet drei Ökonomen aus, die erklären, wie anhaltendes Wirtschaftswachstum möglich ist.
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An internal Google email said it received many complaints over Israeli government YouTube ads about food access in Gaza, but ruled the ads could remain online (Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2025/10/15/israel-ads-youtube-famine…

As famine struck Gaza, Google let Israel run YouTube ads claiming, ‘There is food’
An internal Google email said it received many complaints about Israeli government YouTube ads about food access in Gaza, but ruled they could remain online.

Just two guys from the middle of the Pacific: Tua, Mariota renew friendship in Madrid https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/46957761/washington-commanders-miami-dolphins-tua-mariota-friendship

DOJ seeks to join lawsuit against Loudoun County [VA] over trans student in locker room
https://www.washingtonblade.com/2025/12/12/doj-seeks-to-join-lawsuit-against-loudoun-county-over-trans-student-in-locker-room/

https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2025/11/12/cryptocurrency-task-force-dc-pirro/
Pirro targets cryptocurrency scams with new federal task force

Pirro targets cryptocurrency scams with new federal task force
The scams are intricate, with fake websites and smartphone apps made to look like real investment platforms, and they often run for weeks or months.

For years, Sen. Ron Johnson has been spreading conspiracy theories and misinformation about COVID-19 and the safety of vaccines.
He’s promoted disproven treatments for COVID-19
and claimed, without evidence, that athletes are “dropping dead on the field” after getting the COVID-19 vaccination.
Now the Wisconsin politician is endorsing a book by a discredited doctor promoting an unproven and dangerous treatment for autism and a host of ailments:
chlorine dioxide, a chem…

Senator Endorses Discredited Doctor’s Book on a Chemical He Claims Treats Everything From Autism to Cancer
Wisconsin's Ron Johnson has a history of spreading vaccine misinformation. Now he's giving credence to assertions about the therapeutic powers of chlorine dioxide, a disinfectant and deodorizer. “It is all lunacy," one expert said.

Merging Bodies, Dividing Conflict: Body-Swapping in Mixed Reality Increases Closeness Yet Weakens the Joint Simon Effect
Yuan He, Brendan Rooney, Rachel McDonnell
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.09815

Merging Bodies, Dividing Conflict: Body-Swapping in Mixed Reality Increases Closeness Yet Weakens the Joint Simon Effect
Mixed Reality (MR) presents novel opportunities to investigate how individuals perceive themselves and others during shared, augmented experiences within a common physical environment. Previous research has demonstrated that users can embody avatars in MR, temporarily extending their sense of self. However, there has been limited exploration of body-swapping, a condition in which two individuals simultaneously inhabit each other's avatars, and its potential effects on social interaction in imme…

Ran the Gandy Dancer (gravel bike trail) Half Marathon on Saturday in Luck, Wisconsin. First-ever half marathon for me. A loose goal was under 2 hours and a 9-minute mile average for me (no idea what I was doing). I did it! I don't think I'll do a full, but maybe a half again someday. The scenery was gorgeous, and the weather was perfect 🔥
I seem fairly stable on medications for #LongCovid

"Round- tripping" money has become the coin of the realm in the AI boom.
In September, AI chip king Nvidia announced it would invest
$100 billion in OpenAI, the start-up behind the wildly popular ChatGPT.
OpenAI promptly unveiled massive investments in SoftBank and Oracle, which are building gargantuan data centers that run on, you guessed it, Nvidia chips.
In other words, Nvidia helped to finance the purchase of its own products by investing, directly an…

‘Circularity’ is a flashing warning for the AI boom
Wall Street’s buzzword for investors was known as “round-tripping” during the dot-com years.