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Commissioner Krista Joseph responded to the State Attorney's mention of a grand jury investigation in a statement Monday.

ST. JOHNS COUNTY, Fla. In St. Johns County, a local battle over what is free speech and what is election interference is brewing.

Last fall, St. Johns County commissioner Krista Keating Joseph waved a US flag during a county commission meeting and reminded voters they can vote out incumbents in the upcoming election.

Those words were met with various legal fights and mentions of criminal charges.

The latest chapter in this book involves a grand jury... or the idea of one.

Last November, Joseph held up the elections guide during a November county commission meeting. She told voters if they were not happy with the way the county was going said, "In less than nine months, we have an election."

The other county commissioners objected to her doing that during a meeting.

St. Johns County then hired an outside attorney who said Joseph may have violated election law by speaking about the election as a county commissioner during a county commission meeting.

Joseph is not running for re-election, but is supporting others who are running against incumbents.

In January, she filed a request for a federal judge to make a determination: can she speak about politics in St. Johns County? Joseph believes its her first amendment right. And she has also filed, in the same case, a request for an injunction so she can engage in political speech during the election season.

That case is not resolved yet.

As a response, State Attorney Brian Kramer of the 8th Judicial Circuit, based in Gainesville, who is involved in the federal case, filed a report to the court on July 1. In it, Kramer noted that because Joseph did not agree to stop talking politics, he would have to pursue asking a grand jury to consider if she should be prosecuted criminally.

Here is the question: Is Kramer saying he is taking Josephs case before a grand jury? Or would it be his plan, once the federal case is resolved?

First Coast News reached out to State Attorney Kramers office for clarification. We did not receive a response by the time this story aired.

Josephs attorney sent First Coast News a statement which in part reads: Commissioner Joseph thinks it is extremely unlikely the state attorney would institute criminal charges against her while we are waiting for the federal court to decide the First Amendment issue, especially on the eve of the primary election.

There is high probability that the winners of the county commission seats up for grabs will be decided in the primary election.

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Tennessee Woman Scores A Win In Free Speech Lawsuit Filed Over Her Fuck Em Both 2024 Yard Sign – Techdirt

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from the whole-lot-cheaper-to-just-respect-the-Constitution dept

Daniel Horwitz who has fought plenty of free speech battles for Tennesseans has secured an extremely quick victory for his client, Lakeland resident Julie Pereira.

According to the complaint [PDF], which was filed June 6 of this year, the city of Lakeland took offense to a sign Pereira had placed in her yard. It was bit of political speech that expressed her opinion about Donald Trump and Joe Biden all in one pithy phrase: Fuck Em Both 2024.

Someone in power didnt like the sign. The city decided it would start fining Pereira by leveraging its sign regulations which forbid a long list of things.

In particular, the City of Lakeland and its Code Enforcement Officer, Defendant Katrina Shields, believe that Ms. Pereiras Political Sign violates City of Lakeland sign regulations that prohibit statements of an obscene, indecent, or immoral character which would offend public morals or decency and statements, words or pictures of an obscene nature.

The city believed this sign fell under that laundry list of forbiddables, but it actually doesnt. Making things worse is the shifting set of restrictions the city applies to signs, based on little more than the citys perception of what each sign it seeks to regulate actually is.

[U]nder the City of Lakelands Municipal Code, signs are regulated differently depending on whether they are works of art with no commercial message, special event signs for community events, incidental signs, window signs, building marker signs, changeable copy signs, construction signs, directory signs, identification signs, menu board signs, model home signs, principal ground signs, real estate (but not single-family residential) signs, residential real estate signs, subdivision entry signs, temporary signs, wall signs (depending on whether they are nonresidential or residential), temporary residential yard signs, suspended signs, oras herepolitical signs.

Political signs are subject to the most restrictions, governing everything from how many can be placed in any area to how long they can remain in place. The city decided this was a political sign (rather than a work of art or a temporary residential yard sign) and started fining Pereira.

Pereira under the threat of further enforcement even neutered her sign in an attempt to placate the unconstitutional desires of city regulators.

She shouldnt have had to do this, as Horwitz points out in the lawsuit:

This coerced modification has satisfied the Defendants. It does not satisfy Ms. Pereira, though, any more than a jacket bearing the words F*ck the Draft would have satisfied Paul Cohen. Cf. Cohen v. California, 403 U.S. 15, 26 (1971).

The lawsuit swiftly followed the incursion on Pereiras free speech rights (which included nearly $700 in fines). And now a settlement [PDF] has just as swiftly followed this lawsuit. Apparently, all the city needed was a legitimate challenge of its sign statutes and a few minutes to think about it.

Not only will the city be refunding the fines charged to Pereira and covering her legal fees, it has also agreed the law (as applied to Pereira) is unconstitutional. Yeah, its a bit of a unicorn. A government has agreed to settle without attaching a clause denying any wrongdoing.

Under Cohen v. California, 403 U.S. 15 (1971), the Plaintiffs political sign is not obscene, and the Defendants may not lawfully regulate it based on the viewpoint it expresses.

For these reasons, the Court DECLARES UNCONSTITUTIONAL the Defendants enforcement action against the Plaintiff for displaying her unredacted political yard sign, a copy of which is set forth in the record at Doc. 1-1. The Defendants are thus PERMANENTLY ENJOINED from taking any further enforcement action against the Plaintiff for displaying her unredacted political yard sign.

Thats the language the city has agreed to. All it needs now is a judges signature. And with this win, others in the same city should feel free to let their freak fuck flags fly.

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Building bridges and tearing down silos for precision medicine – Universitetet i Oslo

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The Translational Science and Systems medicine (TranSYS) in Personalized Medicine European Training Network (ETN), an EU-funded project (2019-2024, coordinated by Prof Kristel Van Steen at the Catholic University of Louvain and University of Lige, Belgium) hosted its final conference to share the project outputs, and to explore innovative strategies and collaborative approaches in the translation of precision medicine. The meeting, Bridging Research to Patient Management and Care for a Healthier Tomorrow, gave a platform to early stage researchers (ESRs) from the network to showcase their work, demonstrating the relevance of the ETN work undertaken over the past 5 years1.

NCMMs Marieke Kuijjer was invited to deliver the first keynote talk of the Day 2 session: Building bridges and tearing down silos. In her talk, titled "Unlocking Cellular Complexity: Multiomics Integration for Personalized Regulatory Networks", she gave an introduction to network medicine, highlighting some of her group's recent tools SCORPION2, a single-cell gene regulatory network modelling algorithm, and CAVACHON3, a multi-omic data integration approach based on deep learning. Interestingly, by presenting a case study on glioblastoma (an aggressive form of brain cancer), Marieke triggered discussions from participants who were working on glioblastoma either from a patients perspective, or to design clinical trials. By sharing their insights, the importance of the computational biology research undertaken by the Kuijjer group can have on the disease diagnostic and treatment, was emphasised.

Throughout the meeting, excellent talks by the ESRs from the TranSYS network, covering a wide range of topics in bridging computational approaches with precision medicine, such as by integrating data in head scans with genetic information, with deep learning, to uncover new cancer subtypes and drivers of obesity, were presented. Marieke was able to discuss with the ESRs their pertinent queries regarding their projects, and the use of the tools designed by her group at NCMM. It enabled her to appreciate the reach of her teams work, and how it influences the work of others. She said: "It was my highlight of the conference as it is always so motivating to discuss science with talented and smart ESRs".

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SentinelOne recently launched Singularity Operations Center, the new unified console, to centralize workflows and accelerate detection, triage, and investigation for an efficient and seamless analyst experience. This pivotal update includes integrated navigation to improve workflows and new and enhanced capabilities such as unified alerts management. Providing a deeper look into the Operations Center, this blog post focuses on how unified alert management enables faster and more comprehensive investigations for todays security teams.

Traditionally, security analysts must deploy multiple security tools to protect their organizations. Each individual tool manages alerts differently in addition to disconnected workflows among the tools themselves. With this approach, analysts are unable to correlate alerts across disparate solutions. This fragmented approach complicates the triage process, leading to an increased mean time to respond (MTTR) and potential oversight during an investigation.

To combat these challenges, SentinelOne developed the unified console to provide broader visibility and management across the security ecosystem. The Operations Center empowers teams to consolidate and centralize all security alerts into a single cohesive queue, including those from SentinelOne native solutions and industry-leading partners. This approach eliminates the need to pivot among disconnected consoles and work within disjointed workflows, providing seamless SOC workflows and facilitating rapid response to threats.

Engineered for speed and efficiency, LockBit is an advanced and pervasive ransomware strain. It leverages sophisticated encryption algorithms to rapidly lock down critical data within targeted networks. LockBit employs double extortion techniques, where attackers exfiltrate sensitive data before encryption and threaten to publish it on dedicated leak sites if their demands are unmet. It operates under a Ransomware-as-a-Service (RaaS) model, enabling affiliates to deploy the malware in exchange for a portion of ransom proceeds. Its attack vectors often include exploitation of vulnerabilities, phishing, and lateral movement within compromised networks, making it a versatile and potent threat. Continuous updates and modular capabilities allow LockBit to bypass traditional security measures, emphasizing the need for advanced detection and response strategies in defending against this threat.

Lets explore how to investigate a LockBit infection in the Singularity Operations Center. After logging into the console, the Overview Dashboard provides a broad view of security alerts and related assets. There are multiple open alerts, ten of which are of high or critical severity. From the numerous open alerts, this example will focus on the critical alerts.

The drill-down creates a filter that allows analysts to quickly view new alerts with critical and high severity. To start the triage, these alerts will be assigned to an analyst. The Alert Status will be updated to In Progress.

Next, the alerts are grouped by File Hash and Asset Name to see the targeted assets and the extent of the infection. This is done by clicking on the + Add Column button at the top of the page, where filters are available. Analysts can group by the available columns on the page to organize the information.

Once the alerts are grouped, it is clear that the critical alerts are related to one hash, and the lower severity alerts are related to svchost.exe. Lets focus on the hash with critical alerts. The hash is detected on four different assets, indicating that the attacker or malware can laterally move through the network. The file name changes on subsequently infected devices.

Lets investigate the first occurrence of that hash on TheBorg machine in the Ransomware artifacts detected alert. The Alerts Details view provides more information about the threat. These details indicate that a Jeanluc user in the STARFLEET domain executed the process, which originated from explorer.exe, indicating that the user opened the file from the file system.

The Indicators tab provides more granular details, such as behavioral indicators. The severity icons specify that the most severe events are related to ransomware behavior, such as shadow copy deletion and file encryption. These behavioral indicators tell us a story of the malwares behavior.

To validate the files maliciousness and gain confidence in mitigating the threat as a true positive, analysts can search for the files hash in the threat intelligence sources such as the Singularity Threat Intelligence solution or VirusTotal integration. In this instance, it is clear that Singularity Threat Intelligence attributes it to LOCKBIT.V2. Clicking through shows more known details about the threat powered by Mandiant. We can see that Mandiant is already tracking it as LockBit Red associated with UNC2758.

Lets explore the Process Graph to visually inspect what happened. Here, the ResistanceIsFutile.exe process is running PowerShell and CMD commands. The PowerShell process in the Command Line attribute looks for all domain computers to prepare for lateral movement, adding a random delay between requests. Clicking through shows many of the actions indicated before as well as all the IP Connect events communicating with other assets.

The new Graph Explorer also illustrates the connections between alerts and assets. Lets filter for all Assets with high or critical severity alerts. In this example, all assets have two critical alerts: Ransomware artifacts and the renamed malware 9672B0.exe. This confirms the correlation between the original alert and other alerts on all the servers and endpoints in the graph.

This information confidently confirms that a ransomware infection is replicating in the network. Analysts can now mitigate all the alerts before proceeding with further investigation. All actions we performed are visible in the History tab of the alert details, lessening the need for extensive notes of the investigation process.

The next step is to hunt for indicators of compromise in Event Search and include them in the incident report. Drill down to Event Search from the Alert Details drawer and see all the events related to the alerts Storyline. View different tabs for more specific event categories, such as DNS, Network Actions, or Scheduled Tasks.

Analysts can also write hunting PowerQueries to get more details and group events together. The following example lists all commands executed by the LockBit processes for each endpoint. This information can be used to write more hunting queries, see if similar behavior has been detected in the past, or write new detections for this behavior.

dataSource.name='SentinelOne' event.type='Process Creation' src.process.parent.name in ('ResistanceIsFutile.exe', '9672B0.exe')| let cmdline = format("%s %s", tgt.process.name, tgt.process.cmdline)| group count(), cmdlines=array_agg_distinct(cmdline) by endpoint.name, src.process.name

The following PowerQuery can be used to see the list of ports on which the initially compromised host communicated.

endpoint.name = 'TheBorg-KY3H' event.type='IP Connect' event.network.direction = 'OUTGOING' | group count=count(), dst.ports=array_agg_distinct(dst.port.number) by dst.ip.address| sort - dst.ports

There are many other queries that can be leveraged to look for anomalies in the data. The most critical part of this process is carefully examining our events and distilling the malwares unique behavior. The Search Library provides hunting queries to help kickstart this process.

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The Singularity Is Nearer: When We Merge with AI – Cool Hunting

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Oyster, a new Norwegian company, set out to improve the performance of coolers and the result is remarkable. They engineered new solutions to improve every aspect of a standard cooler and Tempo, the result, leapfrogs everything else weve seen. Its a game changer, and here are just some of the ways its accomplished it. First, they created a patented vacuum insulation called DTLA that improves the three critical components of maintaining temperatureinsulation, circulation and the thermal bridgethe connection between the top and bottom of the cooler. The results speak for themselvesimproving those by 2x, 380x and 1.4x respectively. The beautifully designed Tempo is made of aluminum, and is 100% recyclable. You do not need to add ice to keep your contents coldwhatever you place in the Tempo stays colder longer than any other cooler, whether its cooled or frozen. You can fit 36 beverage cans inside. Should you need to keep whatevers inside cooler for longer, you can add Oysters thin ice packs (sold separately), either cold or frozen, to both cool and keep things that way because of all of the thermal innovation. A bundle including ice packs and an aluminum handle is also available for $495.

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This Enormous Computer Chip Beat the Worlds Top Supercomputer at Molecular Modeling – Singularity Hub

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Computer chips are a hot commodity. Nvidia is now one of the most valuable companies in the world, and the Taiwanese manufacturer of Nvidias chips, TSMC, has been called a geopolitical force. It should come as no surprise, then, that a growing number of hardware startups and established companies are looking to take a jewel or two from the crown.

Of these, Cerebras is one of the weirdest. The company makes computer chips the size of tortillas bristling with just under a million processors, each linked to its own local memory. The processors are small but lightning quick as they dont shuttle information to and from shared memory located far away. And the connections between processorswhich in most supercomputers require linking separate chips across room-sized machinesare quick too.

This means the chips are stellar for specific tasks. Recent preprint studies in two of theseone simulating molecules and the other training and running large language modelsshow the wafer-scale advantage can be formidable. The chips outperformed Frontier, the worlds top supercomputer, in the former. They also showed a stripped down AI model could use a third of the usual energy without sacrificing performance.

The materials we make things with are crucial drivers of technology. They usher in new possibilities by breaking old limits in strength or heat resistance. Take fusion power. If researchers can make it work, the technology promises to be a new, clean source of energy. But liberating that energy requires materials to withstand extreme conditions.

Scientists use supercomputers to model how the metals lining fusion reactors might deal with the heat. These simulations zoom in on individual atoms and use the laws of physics to guide their motions and interactions at grand scales. Todays supercomputers can model materials containing billions or even trillions of atoms with high precision.

But while the scale and quality of these simulations has progressed a lot over the years, their speed has stalled. Due to the way supercomputers are designed, they can only model so many interactions per second, and making the machines bigger only compounds the problem. This means the total length of molecular simulations has a hard practical limit.

Cerebras partnered with Sandia, Lawrence Livermore, and Los Alamos National Laboratories to see if a wafer-scale chip could speed things up.

The team assigned a single simulated atom to each processor. So they could quickly exchange information about their position, motion, and energy, the processors modeling atoms that would be physically close in the real world were neighbors on the chip too. Depending on their properties at any given time, atoms could hop between processors as they moved about.

The team modeled 800,000 atoms in three materialscopper, tungsten, and tantalumthat might be useful in fusion reactors. The results were pretty stunning, with simulations of tantalum yielding a 179-fold speedup over the Frontier supercomputer. That means the chip could crunch a years worth of work on a supercomputer into a few days and significantly extend the length of simulation from microseconds to milliseconds. It was also vastly more efficient at the task.

I have been working in atomistic simulation of materials for more than 20 years. During that time, I have participated in massive improvements in both the size and accuracy of the simulations. However, despite all this, we have been unable to increase the actual simulation rate. The wall-clock time required to run simulations has barely budged in the last 15 years, Aidan Thompson of Sandia National Laboratories said in a statement. With the Cerebras Wafer-Scale Engine, we can all of a sudden drive at hypersonic speeds.

Although the chip increases modeling speed, it cant compete on scale. The number of simulated atoms is limited to the number of processors on the chip. Next steps include assigning multiple atoms to each processor and using new wafer-scale supercomputers that link 64 Cerebras systems together. The team estimates these machines could model as many as 40 million tantalum atoms at speeds similar to those in the study.

While simulating the physical world could be a core competency for wafer-scale chips, theyve always been focused on artificial intelligence. The latest AI models have grown exponentially, meaning the energy and cost of training and running them has exploded. Wafer-scale chips may be able to make AI more efficient.

In a separate study, researchers from Neural Magic and Cerebras worked to shrink the size of Metas 7-billion-parameter Llama language model. To do this, they made whats called a sparse AI model where many of the algorithms parameters are set to zero. In theory, this means they can be skipped, making the algorithm smaller, faster, and more efficient. But todays leading AI chipscalled graphics processing units (or GPUs)read algorithms in chunks, meaning they cant skip every zeroed out parameter.

Because memory is distributed across a wafer-scale chip, it can read every parameter and skip zeroes wherever they occur. Even so, extremely sparse models dont usually perform as well as dense models. But here, the team found a way to recover lost performance with a little extra training. Their model maintained performanceeven with 70 percent of the parameters zeroed out. Running on a Cerebras chip, it sipped a meager 30 percent of the energy and ran in a third of the time of the full-sized model.

While all this is impressive, Cerebras is still niche. Nvidias more conventional chips remain firmly in control of the market. At least for now, that appears unlikely to change. Companies have invested heavily in expertise and infrastructure built around Nvidia.

But wafer-scale may continue to prove itself in niche, but still crucial, applications in research. And it may be the approach becomes more common overall. The ability to make wafer-scale chips is only now being perfected. In a hint at whats to come for the field as a whole, the biggest chipmaker in the world, TSMC, recently said its building out its wafer-scale capabilities. This could make the chips more common and capable.

For their part, the team behind the molecular modeling work say wafer-scales influence could be more dramatic. Like GPUs before them, adding wafer-scale chips to the supercomputing mix could yield some formidable machines in the future.

Future work will focus on extending the strong-scaling efficiency demonstrated here to facility-level deployments, potentially leading to an even greater paradigm shift in the Top500 supercomputer list than that introduced by the GPU revolution, the team wrote in their paper.

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Transhumanist author predicts artificial super-intelligence, immortality, and the Singularity by 2045 – TechSpot

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Dystopian Kurzweil: As Big Tech continues frantically pushing AI development and funding, many users have become concerned about the outcome and dangers of the latest AI advancements. However, one man is more than sold on AI's ability to bring humanity to its next evolutionary level.

Raymond Kurzweil is a well-known computer scientist, author, and artificial intelligence enthusiast. Over the years, he has promoted radical concepts such as transhumanism and technological singularity, where humanity and advanced technology merge to create an evolved hybrid species. Kurzweil's latest predictions on AI and the future of tech essentially double down on twenty-year-old predictions.

In a recent interview with the Guardian, Kurzweil introduced his latest book, "The Singularity Is Nearer," a sequel to his bestselling 2005 book, "The Singularity Is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology." Kurzweil predicted that AI would reach human-level intelligence by 2029, with the merging between computers and humans (the singularity) happening in 2045. Now that AI has become the most talked-about topic, he believes his predictions still hold.

Kurzweil believes that in five years, machine learning will possess the same abilities as the most skilled humans in almost every field. A few "top humans" capable of writing Oscar-level screenplays or conceptualizing deep new philosophical insights will still be able to beat AI, but everything will change when artificial general intelligence (AGI) finally surpasses humans at everything.

Bringing large language models (LLM) to the next level simply requires more computing power. Kurzweil noted that the computing paradigm we have today is "basically perfect," and it will just get better and better over time. The author doesn't believe that quantum computing will turn the world upside down. He says there are too many ways to continue improving modern chips, such as 3D and vertically stacked designs.

Kurzweil predicts that machine-learning engineers will eventually solve the issues caused by hallucinations, uncanny AI-generated images, and other AI anomalies with more advanced algorithms trained on more data. The singularity is still happening and will arrive once people start merging their brains with the cloud. Advancements in brain-computer interfaces (BCIs) are already occurring. These BCIs, eventually comprised of nanobots "noninvasively" entering the brain through capillaries, will enable humans to possess a combination of natural and cybernetic intelligence.

Kurzweil's imaginative nature as a book author and enthusiastic transhumanist is plain to see. Science still hasn't discovered an effective way to deliver drugs directly into the brain because human physiology doesn't work the way the futurist thinks. However, he remains confident that nanobots will make humans "a millionfold" more intelligent within the next twenty years.

Kurzweil concedes that AI will radically change society and create a global automated economy. People will lose jobs but will also adapt to new employment roles and opportunities advanced tech brings. A universal basic income will also ease the pain. He expects the first tangible transformative plans will emerge in the 2030s. The inevitable Singularity will enable humans to live forever or extend our living prospects indefinitely. Technology could even resurrect the dead through AI avatars and virtual reality.

Kurzweil says people are misdirecting their worries regarding AI.

"It is not going to be us versus AI: AI is going inside ourselves," he said. "It will allow us to create new things that weren't feasible before. It'll be a pretty fantastic future."

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SentinelOne receives top accolades for Singularity Cloud Security – ChannelLife New Zealand

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SentinelOne has announced that its Singularity Cloud Security solution has been recognised as market-leading across CNAPP, CSPM, and CWPP by G2, the world's largest and most trusted software marketplace. The platform garnered over 240 awards in G2s 2024 Summer Grid Reports and is the only CNAPP product that achieved a 4.9 out of 5 rating.

G2 explains the credibility of its Grid, noting, "The Grid represents the democratic voice of real software users, rather than the subjective opinion of one analyst. Our G2 staff does not add any subjective input to the ratings, which are determined algorithmically based on data aggregated from publicly available online sources and social networks. Sellers cannot influence their ratings by spending time or money with us. Only the opinion of real users and data from public sources factor into the ratings."

SentinelOne was recognised as a leader in all three G2 Grids and received accolades for Best ROI, Best Support, Easiest Setup, and Easiest to Use. The comprehensive solution combines an agentless CNAPP for cloud risk prioritisation with agent-based workload protection and malware protection for cloud storage to provide visibility and mitigation capabilities in a single platform. This integration enables security teams to detect and respond to threats with machine-speed intelligence and ensures thorough coverage and deep insight into cloud environments.

Real user reviews substantiate the solution's efficacy. An Engineering Leader at SBI General Insurance shared, "One of the main reasons I use SentinelOne is the ability to provide us with deep visibility into our cloud environment. SentinelOne displays all your cloud environments components in one console and gives details on how they affect cloud security.

Another G2 reviewer, Prahsant Singh, stated, "With SentinelOne, we can feel confident that our entire cloud infrastructure is being scanned around the clock for any potential threats. The all-in-one CNAPP cloud security allows us to identify issues quickly and provide real-time alerts that integrate seamlessly with our existing alerting tools like JIRA, Slack, PagerDuty, and email."

G2 is a software marketplace used by more than 90 million people annually. SentinelOne is an autonomous AI-powered cybersecurity platform. Built on the first unified Data Lake, SentinelOne creates intelligent, data-driven systems that think for themselves, stay ahead of complexity and risk, and evolve on their own.

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Gene Drives Shown to Work in Wild Plants. They Could Wipe Out Weeds. – Singularity Hub

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Henry Grabar has had enough battling knotweed. All he wanted was to build a small garden in Brooklyna bit of peace amid the cacophony of city life. But a plant with beet-red leaves soon took over his nascent garden. The fastest growing plant hed ever seen, it could sprout up to 10 feet high and grow thick as a cornfield. Even with herbicide, it was nearly impossible to kill.

Invasive plant species and weeds dont just ruin backyard gardens. Weeds decrease crop yields at an average annual cost of $33 billion, and control measures can rack up $6 billion more. Herbicides are a defense, but they have their own baggage. Weeds rapidly build resistance against the chemicals, and the resulting produce can be a hard sell for many consumers.

Weeds often seem to have the upper hand. Can we take it away?

Two recent studies say yes. Using a technology called a synthetic gene drive, the teams spliced genetic snippets into a mustard plant popular in lab studies. Previously validated in fruit flies, mosquitoes, and mice, gene drives break the rules of inheritance, allowing selfish genes to rapidly spread across entire species.

But making gene drives work in plants has been a headache, in part due to the way they repair their DNA. The new studies found a clever workaround, leading to roughly 99 percent propagation of a synthetic genetic payload to subsequent generations, in contrast to natures 50 percent. Computer models suggest the gene drives could spread throughout an entire population of the plant in roughly 10 to 30 generations.

Overriding natural evolution, gene drives could add genes that make weeds more vulnerable to herbicides or reduce their pollination and numbers. Beneficial genes can also spread across cropsessentially fast-tracking the practice of cross-breeding for desirable traits.

Imagine a future where yield-robbing agricultural weeds or biodiversity threatening invasive plants could be kept on a genetic leash, wrote Paul Neve at the University of Copenhagen and Luke Barrett at CSIRO Agriculture and Food in Australia, who were not involved in the study.

Inheritance is a coin toss for most species. Half of an offsprings genetic material comes from each parent.

Gene drives torpedo this inheritance rule. Developed roughly a decade ago, the technology relies on CRISPRthe gene editing toolto spread a new gene throughout a population, beating the 50/50 odds. In insects and mammals, a gene can propagate at roughly 80 percent, shuttling an inherited trait down generations and irreversibly changing an entire species.

While this may seem somewhat nefarious, gene drives are designed for good. A main use under investigation is to control disease-carrying mosquitoes by genetically modifying males to be sterile. Upon release, they outcompete their natural counterparts, reducing wild mosquito numbers, and in turn, lowering the risk of multiple diseases. In indoor cages, gene drives have fully suppressed a population of the insects within a year. Small-scale field tests are underway.

Gene drives have caught the eyes of plant scientists too, but initial efforts in plants failed.

The technology relies on CRISPR, which cuts DNA to insert, delete, or swap out genetic letters. Sensing damage to their DNA, cells activate internal molecular repairmen to stitch genes back together and adopt gene drives and their genetic cargo.

Plants are different. Their cells also have a DNA repair mechanism, but its only partially similar to that of insects or mice. Sticking a classic gene drive into plants can cause genetic mutations at the target site and even trigger resistance against the gene drive in a kind of a cellular civil war.

As a workaround, both new studies used a system dubbed toxin-antidote. Compared to previous gene drives, it doesnt rely on canonical DNA repair.

The teams used a self-pollinating mustard plant for their studies. A darling in plant science research, its genome is well-known, and because the plant self-pollinates, its easier to contain the experiment. To build the gene drive, they developed a CRISPR-based method to destroy a gene thats critical for survival called the torpedo. Any pollen without the gene cant live on. A second construct, the antidote, carried a mimic of the same gene, but with modifications so that its resistant to destruction by CRISPR.

They examined two different genetic payloads. One study tinkered with a gene thats essential to both male and female reproductive cells in plants. The other targeted a gene that disrupts pollen production.

Heres the clever part: As the plant pollinates, offspring can inherit either the toxin, the antidote, or both. Only those with the antidote surviveplants that inherit the toxin rapidly die out. As a result, the system worked as a gene drive, with plants carrying the CRISPR-resistant gene taking over the population. The gene drives were highly efficient, passing down through generations roughly 99 percent of the time. And scientists didnt see any signs of evolutionary adaptationknown as resistanceagainst the new genetic makeup.

Computer modeling showed the gene drive could overtake a single plant species in 10 to 30 generations. Thats impressive, according Neve and Barrett. Artificial genetic changes dont often stick in wild plantsthe plants tend to die off. The new gene drives suggest they could potentially last longer in the field, battling invasive species or cultivating hardier and pest-resistant crops that pass down beneficial traits over generations.

Despite their promise, gene drives remain controversial because of their potential to alter entire species. Scientists are still debating the ecological impacts. Theres also the concern that gene drives may hop over to unintended targets. For now, studies have designed genetic brakes to keep gene drives in check. Most studies are done in carefully controlled lab settings, and for malaria, potential unexpected consequences are being rigorously discussed before releasing gene drive-carrying mosquitos into the wild.

Even if the science works, the road to regulatory and societal approval may face roadblocks. Selling farmers on the technology may be difficult. And CRISPRed plants as a food source could also be tainted by the negative perception of genetically modified organisms (GMOs).

For now, the teams are looking towards a more acceptable everyday usekilling weeds. There are still a few kinks to work out. Gene drives only work when they can spread, so an ideal use is in plants that pollinate others, rather than those that self-pollinate, such as those in the studies. Still, the results are a proof of concept that the powerful technology can work in plantsthough it may be awhile yet before it helps Henry with his knotweed problem.

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Full disclosure right from the start. I used to be one of you. For many years, in fact. An evangelical, that is.

People who know me now find that difficult to believe, but it is accurate. So, for the rest of you, this is my moment of truth, my acknowledgment that I cannot accept any longer that what used to be religious viewpoints shared in a Sunday morning church context now have morphed into the Christian nationalist point of view that decries all beliefs except its own as heretical whether religious, political or philosophical.

But I am getting ahead of myself.

My personal belief structure does not bother me nearly as much as the troubling beliefs held by Christian nationalists, a term nearly synonymous with evangelicalism since Christianity Today states that 45% of Christian nationalists claim to be white, male and evangelical.

One of the biggest areas of consternation to me is why evangelicals as a group have endorsed and supported Donald Trump not only as president but have continued to support him twice more as a presidential candidate. He appears to stand contrary to every single thing they claim to believe except on a cursory level.

According to the Washington Post, more than 80% of evangelicals voted for Trump in 2020. I know. I have heard the argument, I dont want him to be my pastor; I want him to be my president!

In terms evangelicals used to use, this would elevate their following of Trump to cult status, a term that had been reserved for people such as Jim Jones, Charles Manson and David Koresh.

So, I am going to go out on one big, awkward limb here and state an area of confusion to me as an exvangelical (a term coined by podcaster Blake Chastain).

The same group that went ballistic over President Bill Clinton and Monica Lewinskys blue dress doesnt seem to mind that neither Stormy Daniels nor the Man Who Would Be President were wearing any clothes.

Despite a conviction in a New York federal courtroom, Trump continues to assert, I did not have sex with a porn star!

In the but wait, theres more category, perhaps we should consider a few more foibles of the evangelical exception to the rule politicking that continues to be granted to Trump without so much as a sideways glance.

Moral character. If the evangelical dependence on Scripture is accurate, it is safe to assume they believe that as a man thinks in his heart, so is he (Proverbs 23:7). Assuming that is the case, how is it he continually gets a pass on crude comments about women?

The documented list is a long one, from those aimed at former first lady Hillary Clintons inability to satisfy her husband and therefore the country, to talking about Kim Kardashians fat ass or the now-infamous line to Billy Bush about where to grab women.

Poking fun at those with disabilities. If anyone has ever been recognized as kind and tenderhearted to such people, one would guess it to be the Christian of whatever variety. Not so with Trump, who regularly at his campaign rallies performs his bad verbal imitation of a person with mental challenges.

Trump the Bible salesman. Soon after being hit with a multi-million-dollar verdict in one of his trials, Trump started selling Bibles, saying, All Americans need a Bible in their home, and I have many. Its my favorite book.

Of course, the ones he is hawking are printed in a publishing operation he owns, but who is following that money?

Many evangelicals have acknowledged that Trump does not hold to their belief system, but that is easily excused because he is seen to be a person who fights for the things they believe in or against the things to which they are opposed.

These famously have included his despising of immigrants, whom he promises to mass deport immediately upon taking office (failing to recognize that Christ himself was an immigrant as his family fled to Egypt to escape a hateful tyrant) or his lack of support for Christs teaching to love your neighbor as yourself as seen in his frequent rants against the LGBTQ+ community.

Evangelicals have long been known for their tendency to believe that only their particular religious flavor is sufficient to gain entrance to their preferred afterlife. That has now morphed into the political viewpoint that only those who accept Trump as their president and savior can enjoy the good life here and hereafter.

That seems a little contrary to that pesky little First Commandment (its one of the top 10) that says, Thou shalt have no other Gods before me to which they have added except Donald Trump. Donald Trump is OK.

I still dont get it. Perhaps it is really just about the power after all.

Michael Shaffer of Fort Wayne is director of Ball State Universitys Masters in Educational Leadership Program and an associate clinical professor.

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My Point of View by Jennifer Vogt-Erickson

How do we expand representation in rural Minnesota?

Jennifer Vogt-Erickson

Brad Kramer referred to a World War II veteran in his last column to counter my criticism of Congressman Brad Finstad recognizing a huge, vertically integrated hog producer at the U.S. Capitol. It was a strange leap to suggest I am against everything Finstad does, including recognizing veterans.

By the same token, Kramer also insinuated that Im anti-veteran, which is disgusting. My dad is a Vietnam veteran and my nephew is an active duty Marine.

Furthermore, Kramer scolded me for criticizing one of the largest hog producers in the U.S. because its woman-owned. (Christensen Farms is owned by the widow of its founder.) He also implied that I support foreign-owned conglomerates instead, as if thats the only possible alternative to domestic concentration. Again, he was trying to divert attention from my point, which is that Rep. Finstad is in the pocket of huge farmers to the detriment of smaller producers.

Women are overrepresented among smaller producers. A politician who wants to help women operators should focus more on helping small farmers, not larding up the biggest farmers with the vast majority of government assistance and giving them more leverage to buy up the best land.

One of my relatives took over his dads farm and expanded it. In the last 12 years, he and his spouse have collected over $1 million in agricultural subsidies from the federal government. Earlier this year he and his family rented a yacht in the Caribbean along with another family. The weeklong package included a captain and an on-board chef. Nice, huh?

I support subsidies, I just think they should be targeted at smaller and medium-sized producers, and they should prioritize crops that arrive on our plates in recognizable form rather than ultra-processed machine-formed shapes. But not Finstad. He doesnt want to tell any farmer theyre too big to qualify for additional government assistance. The USDA aid he does want to restrict, though, is food aid for people in or near poverty.

We heavily subsidize inedible field corn compared to most other crops, creating an oversupply, and Finstad thinks our government should find more foreign markets to dump it in so farmers like him can grow more government-subsidized acres of it.

Government subsidies for commodities also inflate land values. Thus, subsidies enrich landowners, whether they are farming or renting it out. Even worse, Finstad favors repealing the federal estate tax (despite the exemption already being $27 million for couples) so that the tippy top of wealthy landowners can pass their estates to heirs tax-free.

Finstads favored policies lead to further concentration of land ownership. A fiefdom in every township is a far cry from a chicken in every pot.

Brad Kramer seems unaware that Ive repeatedly railed against unlimited campaign spending that has distorted our elections ever since the Supreme Courts Citizens United decision in 2010.

It is, however, fitting that Kramer would single out Alida Rockefeller Messinger, who donates generously to Democratic candidates rather than giving to Republican candidates who would help her reduce her tax liability on the fortune she accrued through the hard work of being born.

The Republican agenda is pro-greed, pro-exploitation, pro-patriarchy and pro-extraction. This doesnt sound appealing to a lot of voters, so Republicans call themselves pro-life which, like the Citizens United organization name, is a cover for something much different.

A great-granddaughter of Standard Oils founder donating large sums to systematically improve the lives of people who emerged silver spoonless from their mothers wombs is helpful to Democrats pro-social goals, but our laws should not allow people to give that much money to campaigns.

What is the Golden Rule to you? Is it, Do unto others as you would have them do unto you?

Or is it, Those who have the gold make the rules?

The first one is the operating philosophy of the Democratic Party. (Its also a teaching of Jesus.) The second one is the operating philosophy of Trumpism/MAGA.

Vote for the one that reflects the shape of the world you want to live in.

Absurdly, Kramer insinuated that Rachel Bohman is writing my columns about Finstad. I take that as a compliment, because shes a brilliant lawyer who cares about people in rural

Minnesota like I do, but I always write my own columns. I grew up on a farm, Ive followed farm politics since the Farm Crisis, and I earned a masters degree in rural sociology. Kramer also once called me an overeducated idiot on Facebook. Theres no such thing as too much education. Education is power.

We need representation for everyone in rural southern Minnesota, and thats why we would be wise to choose Rachel Bohman to represent us in Washington.

Jennifer Vogt-Erickson is a member of the Freeborn County DFL Party.

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I Came Up with a Golden Rule of Three for Apartment Balcony Decorating, and It Transformed My Space for the Summer – Better Homes & Gardens

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Decorating a balcony has the potential to be one of the greatest joysor hardshipsthat come with apartment living. If sizable, youre naturally in store for a cozy outdoor space that gets you a view and lots of natural light. But if youre not so lucky, you could be forced to swallow the sight of bricks and the shadow of your neighbor's bedroom until your lease ends.

Dont fret though: No matter the size or shape of your balcony, my golden rule of three will transform it into the alfresco space of your dreams. Get ready for a summer of curling up with a good book while getting some sun and at-home coffee dates.

Choose your apartment balcony design based on your lifestyle. Do you live alone? Get comfortable with an armchair that turns reading the morning paper into the highlight of your day. Fill it with cushions and blankets, and make it inviting for yourself.

Do you live with a partner or a roommate? Opt instead for a sofa, two chairs paired with a coffee table or a sectional to make use of those awkward corners. Get a patio set if you want that chic, European cafe lookperfect for an early dinner with your best friend or teatime with your neighbor.

If lack of space is a concern on your balcony, try nesting furniture. These pieces are built to fit together in a way that optimizes the layout. They can also be stacked and stored away and are often lightweight and mobile.

As hybrid jobs become more popular, working from home can feel like a major (and sometimes suffocating) adjustment. Install a hanging table off your railings, and relocate your work area to your balcony for a temporary change of scenery.

A larger patio can typically accommodate a hammock, but if youre looking for a smaller alternative for your apartment balcony, get a swing for your little one or a stylish egg chair for yourself. Either can be safely hung onto sturdy hooks off of the ceiling; just make sure you have enough space to go back and forth a few feet.

Does the sun come in too powerfully to lounge on your balcony comfortably? An umbrella can shield you from those blinding rays. Just find a corner and place it over your seating.

If youre a little tight on floorspace, balcony curtains or awnings serve the same purpose without the bulkiness. You can also find waterproof balcony curtains, so you wont have to worry about them getting ruined by a sudden summer storm.

Alternatively, if youre looking forward to getting some sun, invest in a lounge chair with good padding for cozy sunbathing. Lather on some sunscreen and kick back on a trusty Chaise lounge chair.

Keep in mind what the weather is like throughout the seasons. You may want to invest in element-resistant furniture, such as a reliable resin-wicker chair or a hardwood base sofa for long-lasting and wear-proof options. If you prefer fuss-free items, modern plastic furniture serves as a low-maintenance alternative. Furniture covers also go a long way if you like to keep plenty of blankets and pillows on your balcony or your location gets a lot of extreme weather.

A balcony is usually the only place in an apartment where you can grow a substantial number of plants. Make use of that outdoor space and fill it up with a small vegetable gardenanything from a tomato plant to a small lemon tree can be your centerpiece. Plus, you get fresh produce to use in your garden-to-table dishes.

To be economical space-wise, consider keeping your floors clear for furniture by growing climber plants in lantern pots, peppering the walls with them, or snaking them around your railings.

Climber plants have a unique feature called aerial roots. These roots cling onto objects and wrap themselves around them by secreting a sticky substance, growing toward the direction of the light. Because these plants reach for the sun by themselves, theyre relatively self sufficient.

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Hanging potted plants can also make a standout addition to any balcony, especially with some gorgeous trailing plants in hanging containers. Just place them at a height you can reach so you can water them effectively.

You can also hang balcony planter boxes over your railings to give the effect of an overflowing garden. Compared to wall planters, these boxes can carry a heavier load and feature deep containers for a larger variety of plants.

I covered my balcony railing with planter boxes, pairing my red brick exterior with cream-colored furniture and terracotta pots, and I gush at them every time I pass my apartment building from the outside. Just be awaresome buildings dont allow these boxes because they could fall and injure someone. Check with your building super or HOA before buying them.

If maintaining a garden doesnt sound like your thing or your balcony just doesnt get enough sun, dont worry: Faux plants exist. The options are now hyper-realistic and hassle-free.

Just as important as your furniture sets, dont forget to add little touches to your balcony. Just like the inside of your home, small objects, little knick knacks, and other decorative items give your space personality. I have a kingfisher blue-engraved ashtray on my balcony coffee table (I dont smoke) and a framed photograph of a dandelion field (Im allergic), but indulging in making it a place of beautynot just comfortmake it feel elevated and like my own.

Unlike the inside of your home, theres no need for any overhead lighting (phew!). Use lamps and lanterns to fill your balcony with a warm glow so you can enjoy the space even after the sun sets.

Consider where the electric sockets are located in your balcony. Some balconies might not have any, and then youll have to consider getting battery powered lighting. Also, if your area is prone to a lot of rain, think about whether lights in the balcony can be a safety hazard.

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Giving your balcony walls a fresh coat of paint could be the very change that it was begging for. Consider the color of your building, furniture, and tiling while deciding on the shade.

Adding a rug is one of the easiest ways to elevate a space, but be sure to determine the square footage of your balcony before purchasing. Because of outdoor conditions, it may serve you to not keep the rug under any furniture so you can easily remove it to be cleaned.

You can also place candle holders on your coffee or bistro table to create a more romantic ambiance. As a plus, you can use them for lavender or peppermint oil candles to keep those pesky mosquitoes from getting into your apartment.

If the tiles that came with your apartment balcony arent to your liking, its worth changing it up. Find affordable options like wood interlocking tiles from IKEA or peel and stick tiles if you dont get a lot of rain.

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Letter | Replace Ten Commandments with Golden Rule – The Capital Times

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Dear Editor: With Louisiana now mandating the Ten Commandments be on display in public schools and Oklahoma taking that a step further by adding the Bible to its public school American history curriculum, we as a nation are on a new slippery slope. One, where our constitutional right as Americans to a separation of church and state is one step closer to disappearing, and one where our nation is a step closer to becoming a Christian nationalist theocracy.

The state legislators who passed those mandates do not care about other American religions, where the Bible and Ten Commandments are not cornerstones of the faith, nor do they care about all the people who would choose not to be party to forced religion.

But I do think we all know what those legislators' true reactions would be if the shoe was on the other foot and they were subjugated by a non-Christian religion.

So perhaps what we really should have as required teaching and on any public display is the Golden Rule. You know, "Do unto others as you would have them do unto you." And those very state legislative houses would be the perfect place to start.

Bill Walters

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His supporters were out in force (literally) appearing around the (nonpolitical) FIBArk events, waving petitions, and talking up his candidacy and now it is official. The Robert F. Kennedy Jr. -Shanahan campaign has petitioned its way onto the Libertarian ballot slot in Colorado for president and vice president.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Courtesy of NBC News

In an announcement on July 3, the Kennedy campaign said it looks forward to joining forces with the Libertarian Party of Colorado to canvass, phone bank, and turn out the vote for Kennedy and the American freedoms that we will together restore.

It points out that the partnership with the Libertarian Party of Colorado is intended to disrupt the entrenched two-party system and provide Colorado voters with a viable alternative to our last two presidents disastrous status quo in the upcoming 2024 presidential election.

Kennedy, whose own, rich, famous family has disavowed his politics, and his stance on issues, is running as an anti-vaccination, anti-government, free-market, less regulation candidate. He often touts conspiracy theories and has been accused of everything from sexual assault to bar-b-qing a dog. He recently sat for an interview in which he reported that he had a flesh-eating worm (pork tapeworm) in his brain and added that it didnt impact his reasoning.

Thank you, Libertarian Party of Colorado and Chair Hannah Goodman for your visionary leadership in defense of freedom, said Kennedy. Together, we will win the White House and steadfastly protect the Bill of Rights, the First and Second Amendments, and all the foundational liberties they secure. Our administration will restore free markets, end corporate welfare, stop the money-printing and unwind the war machine it fuels. On day one, I will pardon Edward Snowden, Ross Ulbricht, and all political and corporate whistleblowers who protect our democracy.

It remains to be seen what such a high-profile third-party candidate might do to the presidential race; but many political observers say that his appeal leans toward the right, and could take votes away from GOP presumptive nominee Donald Trump.

The Libertarian Party of Colorado partnership is a testament to Kennedys unifying independent run and how the campaign is bringing this country together, said Libertarian Colorado State Director Isaac James. Our movement has universal appeal because of its common sense values, rooted in the founding principles of our country, and its rejection of the divisive fear narratives used by the establishment parties to steal the wealth of our children and keep their corrupt hold on power.

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7-9-24 *INTERVIEW* Libertarian Party Candidate for President Chase Oliver – The Ross Kaminsky Show – iHeartRadio

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(00:00): I think many of my listeners knowthat more often than not I vote libertarian for president. I don't always,but yeah, most presidential races in my lifetime I have voted libertarian. Leadingthat way this year but undecided, and part of what's going to help medecide is the conversation we're going to have

(00:20): now. Joining me is Chase Oliver. He is the Libertarian Parties candidate for president of the United States. Hejoins us from Atlanta, Georgia today. Chase is good to talk to youfor the first time. Thanks for doing this, Hey, thanks for havingme. I look forward to speaking to your listeners and hopefully spreading the messageof liberty all across the state. Yeah.

(00:40): I hope so as well. I'mvery liberty oriented guy. You may appreciate more than the average person doesthat. My son's middle name is rand, so that's kind of where I amwhere I am coming from. Before we get into the nuts and boltsof this year and your campaign, just for folks who aren't as versed inthis as you or I might be,

(01:03): can you please explain what it meansto be a libertarian and why you are one. Yeah, so, broadlyspeaking, the libertarian philosophy and the libertarian principles are and limiting the government,you know, as much as possible. So when we say nonaggression, wemean that if you're not harming anybody, that if you're living your life inpeace. The most local governance is your

(01:23): own self governance, and as longas you're governing yourself in a way that's peaceful and peacefully interacting with other people, there should be no need for any other government to impede upon your life, your body, your property, your business possible, you know, inevery aspect. You know, if you're not harming anybody, it shouldn't matterto you. Yeah. Actually, that

(01:45): non aggression principle, again for folkswho don't read this stuff as much as I have, or Chase has,a non aggression principle is a key part of libertarianism. Basically, you don'thave a right to hurt anybody if they haven't hurt you from essentially, so, I'd like to ask you just to elaborate a little bit more. Then, So what does what does the Libertarian

(02:07): Party stand for? And we mayget into some of the nuts and bolts here, because the Libertarian Party hasits own many controversies going on right now. But big picture, what does theparty stand for? Yeah, so we stand for limited government, individualrights, the maximum amount of freedom possible, and really at least the bare minimums, sticking to the constitutional level overnents,

(02:30): if not limiting that even further soon everything from gun rights to gay rights, to drug wars, toimmigration to your business to entrepreneurship. We really believe in keeping the government handsoff as much as possible and allowing for the free market of ideas and thefree market of commerce to flow. Speaking, we are not seeking to empower government, but we want to empower each

(02:51): and every individual to make the bestof what they can in their lives and their communities. So I think thatin some of these policy areas, listeners will find that there's significant overlap betweensay Republicans and libertarians, and other policy areas there will be overlap between Democratsand libertarians, And then in other policy areas there won't be any overlap atall, Which is why it's very,

(03:14): very difficult to put libertarians on thiskind of left right spectrum. You know, in my mind, if you drawa line from left to right, you know, Bernie Sanders on oneside, and I don't know some maga guy on the other side. Libertariansaren't on the line, they're like above the line somewhere. Do you seeit that way? By axis, there's also the X axis. You know, it's not just about left versus right.

(03:35): It's also about who's applying government authorityversus who's trusting the individual liberty of each and every person. So,you know, you can be on the left or on the right. Youcan be a conservative or a you know, progressively minded person. But so longas you're not seeking to use the power and force of government of governmenton other people to impose your way of life, you're a libertarian. Youknow. I've met many libertarians who are

(03:57): more conservative than me, and certainlymany more libertarians who are more outside of the box or outside of the normsthan I am. And I think that's you use the power of government toforce our way of life and trusting that hey, if the way I liveor my values are the best values, they'll just they will spread themselves organically. They don't need the government to be doing that for them. We don'tneed a nanny state to impose our way of life on other people. We'retalking with Chase Oliver he's the Libertarian Parties

(04:20): candidate for president. His website isvote Chaseoliver dot com. I want you a lightning round with me here realquick. I'm going to name some policy areas, and I want you togive me a super quick summary of the most distilled possible version of your policyposition. Okay, A drug legalization,

(04:45): decriminalize all drugs. Abortion. Iam pro choice and think we should defend that choice for individuals. Do youthink there's a federal role there or not? I do. I believe that bodyautonomy is a federally protected right and should be and should be protected federally. Immigration. I believe in the twenty

(05:08): first century, Ellis Island, letpeaceful people come here and work. That's a good one. Taxation, it'stheft. That's my favorite one so far. Taxation. Would it be okay?Would it be going too far? Because okay, I'll tell you whatI normally say, and then I want you to tell me if you thinkI'm being too squishy. What I normally

(05:31): say is taxation, and excess ofwhat's required to fund the constitutionally authorized functions of government is theft. Do youthink that's too squishy or just do you basically agree with that, but we'regiving a shorter answer. Well, I think that, honestly, we couldfund our government if it was small enough

(05:53): without the use of force taxation,we could do. But that's not the world we live in right now.So what we can and do a seek to at least get to the levelyou're talking about, right, Okay, all right, that's good stuff,So so many other things I want to jump into. Let's let's do avery practical thing. For some reason that I don't entirely understand, the LibertarianParty of Colorado has decided that they want

(06:20): Robert F. Kennedy Junior to beon the ballot here representing the Libertarian Party for a president. And for therecord, pre COVID I always thought of RFK Junior as a grifter trying toget fifteen minutes of fame and make money

(06:43): by essentially committing mass child abuse bytelling parents not to vaccinate their children. Now I'm not saying government should mandatevaccines, that's not my point, but I really despise RFK what he didthere on pre COVID vaccinations for kids, and it sickens me to think thathe would be the Libertarian party candidate for president. He's not libertarian. Sofirst I wonder if you have any thoughts

(07:08): about RFK. But second, moreimportantly, is am I going to be able to vote for you? Well, we'll get We'll go from that last question then move our way backwards.So I can't speak to motivations of you know what LP Colorado is doing.But what I do know is that the National Libertarian Party we met at ournational convention. I won the nomination there

(07:28): and so do nating paperwork has beensubmitted to the Secretary of State, which is signed and sealed, as wellas my declaration of an intent to run. So, by all intents and purposesto of this November, you'll be able to vote for me. Speakingto RFK, I believe you're correct he's not a libertarian. There's many positionshe has that are not libertarian at all. In fact, if you look ata lot of his website, you

(07:50): know, you could close your eyesand you say this is probably a Democrat. I'll seize many of them, andso I'm happy to be repers libertarians and giving libertarians someone to vote forthis November in Colorado and all across the country. And yeah, That's justthe process that we have and I'm going to keep sticking to it. Isyour expectation then that my ballot in November

(08:13): will have his name and your nameor just your name on the for a libertarian. I will be a libertariancandidate on your ballot. Robert Kennedy might be on your ballot in Colorado asan independent, but I will burn in choice on your ballot. Okay,So somehow the national Party has the authority to override what the wacky people inthe local state party want to do.

(08:37): Well, I don't know. I'mnot into the minu shift process. I just do know that the way theway we your state is that the National Party submits the paperwork and I submitmy intempt to run. Both of those things have occurred. We've declared thatand confirm that with the Secretary of State. So we should be good to go. Okay. You know, at some point soon I will check withthe Secretary of State's office and ask them,

(08:58): am I going to see your nameon the ballot? And if somehow they say no, I'll let yourteam know. I imagine they'll say yes, because I'm sure you know better thanI do. I want to talk about the Libertarian Party for a minute. So the Republican Party has had this pretty significant division that a lot ofpeople call maga, a sort of very populous thing that is quite different fromtraditional conservatism, Reagan conservatism and all that.

(09:22): And I'm not expert, but itfeels to me like the Libertarian Party has had a similar kind of divide, with this group called the Mesas Caucus kind of infiltrating the Libertarian Party andtaking positions that I personally don't see as libertarian views. And I can't eventell you what they are because it's been

(09:43): a while since I look at thisstuff. But whenever I see this Mesus causes people speaking up, I'm like, Okay, if that's the Libertarian Party, I don't want. I don't wantany of that. And I think that you're not the Mesa's caucus guywho came out of the process. Is that right? And can you tellus any else about this division within the party? Well, of course,like most political parties, there's internal party

(10:05): divisions along caucuses. I'm someone who'sbeen trying to be a conciliator, somebody who tries to bring the common idealsand the common principles to the tea and you know with that, I havea a you know, members of the Mesas Caucus on my staff. ButI am certainly was not there endorsed candidate going into the convention. But Ido hope to represent the party as a whole with a positive aspirational message,one that does turn voters on, one

(10:28): that brings them say, I wantto vote for this, because I don't think it's good enough for us toimmediately be a protest vote. If that's the case, we're going to loseground because we have to inspire voters to vote for something, and you dothat with positive and powerful that I think my campaign has really demonstrated as we'vetraveled across the country. Were the first libertarian campaign to ever travel to allfifty states and speak to voters all across

(10:52): the country, hearing their stories andrepresenting them back to them with a message of liberty. So yes, there'si internal party division, and I would say I disagree with some of themessaging that comes out of some wings of the party obviously, but on thebig issues, on the big principles, there's broad agreement on the ideas ofnon aggression in government. I think it's a way of how we represent thosevalues best. And I do believe that

(11:15): the delegates picked me for that veryreason. They think I'm the best communicator of those values. We're talking withChase Oliver. He is the Libertarian Parties candidate for president. Vote Chaseoliver dotcom is the website. So one of the other things that must frustrate you, no, and when you hear it, but I'm going to ask you again, because it's always comes up,

(11:39): is the Libertarian Party candidate is notlikely to win the presidency of the United States. I'm not saying it's impossible, but it's not very likely. And the question then always comes up,this whole spoiler question, right, who does Chase Oliver take more votes from? And I'm actually looking at a news

(12:01): story from another radio outlet where theytalk about the party chair, Libertarian Party chair Angela mccardal, talking about havingyou there with the specific effort to try to help Donald Trump, like theythink you're going to take more votes from Democrats, even though historically you'd thinkLibertarians take more votes from Republicans. Again,

(12:22): I'm sure you don't dig this conversation, but everyone's having it, and I want to know your take.Yeah, so I always start the premise with you can't spoil something that's completelyrotten, which is the two party system as it currently exists. But youknow, for me, it's about saying we're not here to spoil anything.We're actually here to build the Libertarian Party up. We're here to build somethingup beyond today, and your vote helps

(12:45): to do that. You know,you're right, it's difficult for any third party or independent to breakthrough, andwhen the election, it's not impossible. That's something we're going to be workingfor every single But barring us winning that outright victory, there's a lot ofother victories you can win by investing in voting libertarian this November. You canwin ballid access in your state, so it's easier to get Libertarians on theballot in your state, so you can

(13:05): have more choices in your ballot.You can help us win major party status in states all over the country thatallows us to have increased participation in the primary ballot or increase media access whenour candidates do run. You can help us by electing local libertarians across thecountry and local races, you know, help push them across the finish line, they're in your communities and your neighborhoods and your cities and towns right nowrunning. We want to make sure we're

(13:26): shining the attention on them. Andof course, when you vote for us, you're building up a party foundation thatgrows beyond just me. So let's say you do vote. You knowthat there's myself, the Democrat, the Republican, and Rfken your ballot pratsof the Republicans are broken parties that are broken, and we all know it. RFK is a one and done candidate. You vote for him and poof,he's gone. You vote for the Libertarian candidate. You're building the Libertarianparty up, not just in the country,

(13:50): to be a true challenger in thenext generation, the welcoming temp and that next generation of Gen Z voters. I think there's great potential for real victory, even if it's not theoutright victory November. So again I ask you these questions with the full understandingthat you know libertarian candidates always hate these spoiler questions. But if are you, are you ambivalent between whether Joe Biden

(14:18): wins or whether Donald Trump wins,assuming that one of those two guys is going to win. Do you carewho it is? Do you see any important difference between them? Yeah?Well, and as you mentioned before, our largest pool of voters, bythe way libertarians, is actually independent voters. So but when it comes to youknow, well, you pull from one or the other. Who doI care about? When I always asked this at the convention if a Trumpor Joe Biden, what would I do?

(14:41): I said, the gun would gooff. And I mean that with all sincerity. No matter which ofthese men gets elected, we're going to have further division, further polarization,less things getting done for the American people. The debts and deficits will continue togrow, will continue to see the United States war machine operating around theworld, and we're not going to see any change for the major status quoof economic protectionism, immigration protectionism, and a lot of the things that JoeBiden has continued along right past Donald Trump's.

(15:07): You know, it's it's two birds, it's two wings of the same bird. And I am ambivalent.I think either way we're in. We're in for bad times over the nextfour years, no matter who wins. Between those two men. When youwere younger, I mean, you're young now, But when you were youngerand just kind of thinking about politics, did you ever vote for a Democrator a Republican for president? And if

(15:30): so, which were both? Yeah? Yeah, So I got into politics as an anti war activist during theBush years, and because George Bush was prosecuting those wars, I kind offell in line with the Democrats, even though I was very pro gun andsome other things. But uh, you know, nominated Barack Obama, expectinghim to be the peace candidate, the guy who's going to end these warsoverseas, and he did none of that

(15:54): and ended up winning a Nobel Priestprize anyways for some reason, and that really pushed me out of Democratic partindependent, and it was finding the Libertarian Party that truly changed me and broughtabout my political awakening from the years of twenty ten to twenty fourteen, whileit became a hardcore libertarian. Yeah, indeed, Jr. And I appreciateanybody who stands up for that level of

(16:17): principle. And I think it maybe difficult for many listeners to my show, more difficult probably for my listeners thanfor me to hear somebody say they're ambivalent about whether Trump or Biden winsbecause I think most people think that one of those guys is, you know, much worse than the other and different.

(16:37): You know, one group will thinkone of those guys is much worse. The other group will think the otherone of those guys is much worse. And I'm I'm probably not exactly whereyou are, Like, I probably think one is a little bit worsethan the other. I'm not completely ambivalent, but I'm pretty close. And Iguess my frustration is I don't think either one of them gives a rat'sass about individual liberty, which is what

(16:59): I care about. I'll give youthe last seventeen seconds. Yeah, my job is to wake up those apatheticvoter. There's those voters who feelly don't have a choice. Give them achoice. Then help build opposition to these two failed parties. And that's whatwe'll be doing through November. And if you feel it, give out what'sgoing on with Trump versus Biden, and I encourage you to check out theLibertarian Party. Uh. Chase Oliver's website is vote Chaseoliver dot com. Howabout your Twitter handle Chase so people can

(17:23): follow you there at Chase for Libertyon All the major platforms at Chase for Liberty, Chase for Liberty at excellentand excellent, Twitter, and other social media handle as well. Thanks somuch for your time. I appreciate it. If you're coming to Colorado at anypoint, let us know and hopefully we get you in studio and sayhi in person. Yeah, thank you so much, God blessed. Okay, you too,

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What’s the Best Argument for Libertarianism? – Reason

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Free State Project activist Dennis Pratt and Soho Forum Director Gene Epstein debate the resolution, "A better way to persuade more people of libertarianism is to convince them of the ethics stemming from self-ownership and the non-aggression principle, without relying primarily on consequentialist/utilitarian arguments."

Dennis Pratt, a libertarian writer and activist in New Hampshire, took the affirmative, arguing that the consequentialist arguments typical of libertarian economists are only narrowly effective, don't represent the core of libertarianism, and are too difficult for most people to quickly grasp. The philosophy of self-ownership, he said, has far more force in its ability to persuade the most people.

Soho Forum Director Gene Epstein disagreed. While he espouses the same philosophy as his opponent, he made the argument that the empirical facts related to the poor results of government interventions can get many people to rethink their anti-libertarian assumptions.

The debate occurred on June 20, 2024, at the Porcupine Freedom Festival in Lancaster, New Hampshire, and was moderated by Free State Project founder Jason Sorens.

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Why Young Voters Are Backing Populist Parties – TheTyee.ca

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Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and his federal Liberals are largely regarded to be running on fumes, particularly in the aftermath of the stunning Liberal byelection loss in Toronto-St. Pauls. The upset is a vivid signal that Canadians are ready for change.

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At first blush, this may seem just part of the cyclical nature of politics. Every incumbent collects baggage, and this Liberal government and its leader have acquired more than their fair share. Sooner or later every government wears out its welcome and voters give another party the chance to do better.

But that doesnt entirely explain the moment. Polls and elections around the world in several jurisdictions suggest voters are turning against incumbents in general, and looking to more radical and populist alternatives. Even more notable, young voters are leaving the centre.

In democracies around the world, voters aged 18 to 34 are abandoning the incumbent in favour of opposition parties, often choosing populist-style politicians who offer clear and simple answers to complex problems.

Whether its left- or right-of-centre incumbents falling out of favour, youth and marginalized people are leading the charge for the exits and kicking the tires on an alternative party.

Why?

The kids are not all right

Its clear voters in general, particularly those at the margins whether social, political or economic believe the social contract has failed them. Issues that include the cost-of-living crisis, housing affordability, education costs, upward mobility, stalled climate action, the effects of globalization, immigration rates, the opioid crisis, access to health care and the power of multinational corporations, among many others, have created a sense that incumbents lack the ability or the will to govern in their interests.

Recent polling results from Canada and beyond illustrate the trend. A new poll from Research Co. shows that the NDPs lead in British Columbia is narrowing, with David Ebys party just six points ahead of John Rustads socially conservative, climate-skeptical Conservatives.

Among decided 18-to-34-year-old voters, the two parties are in a statistical tie a dramatic change from the start of the year, when the NDP held a double-digit lead with the same voters.

Its similar at the federal level. If a vote were held today, 36 per cent of voters aged 18 to 34 would vote Conservative, more than any other party, according to one recent poll from Leger. This is a stunning reversal from previous elections won by the Liberals, in part due to strong youth support.

Examples of the pattern exist beyond Canada. In the United States, young voters from marginalized communities in particular are less likely to support President Joe Biden than previously. Given the alternative, the decline is a remarkable indictment.

The scene in Europe

The phenomenon isnt limited to the English-speaking world.

Young German voters have turned away from progressive politicians in favour of right-wing parties like the Christian Democratic Union and even far-right parties such as Alternative for Germany, or AfD.

In France, Emmanuel Macrons centrist alliance has been overtaken by Marine Le Pens radical right National Rally, which could control a majority in co-operation with other right-of-centre parties.

A recent Ipsos poll suggests younger French voters are leading the charge away from the centre, with more than four in 10 voters aged 18 to 34 indicating their support for Le Pen.

In short, mainstream and incumbent parties are in trouble around the world among younger voters increasingly attracted to more radical and populist alternatives.

The broken social contract

Many voters seemingly have a deep sense of grievance about the world they live in. Those from marginalized backgrounds no longer trust incumbent and mainstream parties to do whats needed to keep them safe, secure and optimistic about the future. This trust deficit leads people to become more receptive to politicians with clear and simple messages about whats wrong and what theyll do about it.

Theres a broad sense of powerlessness pervading much of the world. Global surveys suggest voters believe success is a function of forces outside their own control.

For those who cant afford to buy homes or even secure stable housing, the gap between promise and fulfilment is vast and growing. Adding to the frustrations is the fact that the most dynamic regional economies and communities are often unaffordable, as Vancouver continues to demonstrate.

For those worried about how to secure a lucrative and rewarding career while paying for their education, the numbers are worrisome debt loads are steadily increasing for graduates at all levels.

The social contract isnt just about financial security.

The excesses of state security forces have led to the emergence of Black Lives Matter movements around the world, and yet incumbent governments continue to move slowly on police reform and armed forces are resistant to change.

For those worried about climate change, the contrast between present realities and government action is stark. Why vote for a party that claims to take climate change seriously if it doesnt act?

The COVID-19 pandemic had a big impact on the youngest in society.

They missed out on life-defining moments, as well as social, educational and economic opportunities, and have been trying to catch up. Those who were already financially comfortable, meanwhile, got ahead, working from home and tending their own gardens, literally and figuratively.

Again and again, its evident the social contract works relatively well for those who are already comfortable, but the future seems bleak for anyone outside that charmed group including a disproportionate number of young people.

Fears that the game is rigged

A feature of democracy is its promise to the losers: youll have a chance to compete again next time around, and maybe youll do better. But what if, win or lose, you feel you never come out ahead? If the game seems rigged, why play?

Why not roll the dice on an alternative, and listen to someone who claims to know whos to blame for the problems in your life and how to fix them?

If mainstream parties want to win back young people whether Canadas federal Liberals or politicians anywhere else in the world they must admit past mistakes and give those who need help a reason to believe better times are ahead. Failing to do so means they risk being pulled in more radical directions like the Republican party in the U.S., or disappearing from relevance entirely.

New leaders wont change anything unless they bring a radically new kind of leadership that truly repairs the woefully broken social contract to benefit young and marginalized voters.

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The Irish Times view on Fine Gael and the Dublin Transport Plan: populist posturing The Irish Times – The Irish Times

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Anyone forced to commute across Dublin on a regular basis will be all too aware of the appalling congestion which bedevils the city. Data from in-car navigation systems and smartphones in 387 cities across the world ranks Dublin as the worst for time lost in traffic jams. That is a shameful failure of good government, with drastic consequences for the environment, climate, productivity and public health.

The crisis and it is a crisis demands urgent remedies. Chief among these is accelerating the switch from private motoring to public transport and active travel (walking and cycling). That will of course inconvenience some, while others will argue that the alternatives are too slow and unreliable. But increased investment in buses, trams and trains will be wasted if the streets remain clogged with private cars.

These simple realities have been accepted by Dublin City Council, as well as by the current Government, which has embedded them in policies at national level. It is regrettable, therefore, to see senior members of one Government party indulging in populist posturing that directly contradicts them. First it was Fine Gael candidate (and now MEP) Regina Dohertys absurd comparison of new cycle lanes with the Berlin Wall. Now it is newly elevated Minister of State Emer Higgins calling on the council to pause its planned introduction of new busgates along the Liffey quays to discourage private cars from traversing the city centre.

Simon Harris and his colleagues would do well to reflect on whether it is wise to indulge in shallow signalling of this sort. If Fine Gael actually favours slowing down investment in cycling infrastructure or stymieing better public transport, the partys candidates for Dublin City Council should have made that clear to voters before they went to the polls last month. It is a measure of the weakness of local democracy that the ultimate decision on the matter lies with neither councillors nor ministers, but with the unelected city manager, who has already made significant amendments to the plan in response to business concerns. Those should be quite sufficient.

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Sealand CP School ‘lockdown’ as man arrested by police – The Leader

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North Wales Police's North Flintshire team have issued an update to the incident which took place at Sealand CP Schoolon Wednesday (June 26).

They say the man had threatened to 'cause damage' to the Garden Cityschool.

The school had been put into lockdown by administrators before the man was arrested, police confirmed.

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The NWP North Flintshire team said: "Sealand CP School yesterday went into lockdown, for any parents and staff I'm sure hearing this news would have been extremely distressing.

"This was because a male had made threats to cause damage to the school and was seen nearby. He was promptly arrested and lockdown lifted. The school administrators make the decision on when to lockdown."

Robin Davies, Acting Headteacher at Sealand CP, said: "I want to reassure parents and the community that all pupils, staff and visitors are safe and well following an incident on Wednesday afternoon, and that the situation was resolved swiftly.

"As per the lockdown procedures, the building was made secure by designated members of staff to ensure no one unauthorised could enter the building. The police were contacted immediately, and the lockdown was lifted once we were satisfied that the school was safe."

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Collins Aerospace said it had agreed with NASA to

Spacesuit Setback

Earlier this week, NASA astronaut Tracy Dyson discovered to her horror that water was squirting from her spacesuit 31 minutes into her and fellow astronaut Mike Barratt's spacewalk outside of the International Space Station.

Unsurprisingly, the space agency was forced to cut their journey short, with crews on board the orbital outpost investigating the leak ever since.

It's the latest in a long list of signs that NASA is sorely in need of a spacesuit refresh — the current design dates back to the agency's Space Shuttle Program in the 1980s.

But the agency's efforts to develop a new one with the help of the commercial space industry are also on thin ice.

As SpaceNews reports, contractor Collins Aerospace said it had agreed with NASA to essentially abandon its work on an ISS spacesuit replacement — which doesn't bode well, given the agency's ongoing problems with its existing equipment.

Intriguingly, NASA didn't give a reason as to why exactly Collins chose to abandon its NASA contract, suggesting there may be more to the story.

Crossover Event

Collins and Axiom Space were selected by NASA in June 2022 for its xEVAS commercially developed spacesuits program to cook up a pair of suits for the ISS and one for NASA's Artemis missions to the Moon, respectively.

While Collins announced in February that it had successfully tested a prototype suit, the company is officially pulling out.

"No further work will be performed on the task orders," NASA said in a statement to SpaceNews. "This action was agreed upon after Collins recognized its development timeline would not support the space station’s schedule and NASA’s mission objectives."

We can only guess as to why Collins decided to pull out. According to the report, industry insiders believe the development of the suit had already suffered delays and budget overruns, with Collins no longer being able to cover the costs for the fixed-price contract.

Fortunately, Axiom could soon come to the rescue, having signed a "crossover" task order last summer permitting it to figure out how to adapt its Moon suit for use on the ISS. SpaceX is also working on its own EVA suit, which will be tested for the first time during an upcoming mission.

Nonetheless, the news doesn't inspire confidence. This month alone, NASA had to scrub two spacewalks, including Dyson's harrowing experience this week.

The agency also implemented a seven-month hiatus on spacewalks in 2022 after an astronaut noticed excess water accumulating inside his helmet — a "close call" that could've led to him drowning while floating through the emptiness of space.

More on spacesuits: NASA Investigating Why Water Spewed From Spacesuit During Spacealk

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