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The engraving depicts the waveforms of the spoken word "water" in 103 different languages
https://science.nasa.gov/mission/europa-clipper/europa-clipper-vault-plate/

Europa Clipper Vault Plate
There's a legacy of NASA spacecraft carrying inspirational messages. Europa Clipper continues that tradition with special messages on its vault plate.

"""Kein Einstein", aber nicht dumm: Clevere Kuh greift sich Werkzeuge, um sich zu kratzen"
faszinierend
https://www.n-tv.de/wissen/Clevere-Kuh-greift-sich-Werkzeuge-um-sich-zu-kratzen-id30260095.html

Gov. Newsom's 2026 budget proposal contains no funding for the California Civic Media Fund, despite a 2024 deal to provide $175M to newsrooms over five years (Yue Stella Yu/Los Angeles Times)
https://www.latimes.com/california/stor…

Newsom plans no new journalism funding despite $175-million funding deal with Google
It’s a significant walkback from an August 2024 deal between California leaders and Google to jointly spend $175 million over five years to fund local journalism.

Collabora Online
<https://www.collaboraonline.com/>
The Collabora name is instantly recognisable but somehow, I had forgotten the open source aspect: <

Citizen sues ICE over arrest during California cannabis farm raid | Courthouse News Service
https://www.courthousenews.com/citizen-sues-ice-over-arrest-during-california-cannabis-farm-raid/

DOJ lawsuit seeking records of
23 million California voters
is dismissed by judge
https://www.ocregister.com/2026/01/16/judge-dismisses-trump-administration-lawsuit-seeking-detailed-voter-informa…

DOJ lawsuit seeking records of 23 million California voters is dismissed by judge
The Trump administration contended that California and other states were illegally blocking the federal government’s wide-ranging effort to scrutinize detailed voter data.

The most prominent American voice at the COP Climate Summit in Belém was that of the California governor, Gavin Newsom.
During the five days he spent in Brazil, Newsom described Donald Trump as an “invasive species”
and condemned his rollback of policies aimed at reducing emissions and expanding renewable energy.
Newsom, long considered a presidential hopeful, argued that,
as the US retreated, California would step up in its place as a
“stable, reliable” climat…

FCC commissioner criticizes Paramount's decision to block Stephen Colbert-James Talarico interview
https://thehill.com/homenews/media/5741862-brendan-carr-fcc-censorship-colbert-talarico-interview/

While announcing new data showing that violent crime continues to fall across California’s major cities,
Governor Gavin Newsom today also launched a new website
detailing the criminal records, corruption cases, and extremist ties
of the people Donald Trump elevates, protects, pardons, and surrounds himself with.
The website highlights a simple contrast:
Governor Newsom is driving crime down
— and Donald Trump is pardoning drug lords and driving criminals …

Newsom launches website tracking Trump’s top 10 criminal cronies as new data shows California crime continues to drop | Governor of California
State of California

A federal judge Wednesday heard arguments in the Trump administration’s lawsuit
challenging California’s new law prohibiting ICE agents and other police officers from wearing masks on duty.
The judge asked how ICE agents operated without masks in years past,
and questioned why California peace officers were exempted from the law.
A ruling in closely-watched case could come as soon as this week.

DOJ asks LA judge to pause new law banning masks on federal officers
California was the first state in the nation to prohibit federal law enforcement from hiding their identities.