by dap | Jun 2, 2023 | The Guardian
Jon Waldman says attacks have weighed on his conscience and that Atlanta shooting earlier this month was ‘final straw’
A Georgia gun shop owner said he is closing his store in the wake of several mass shootings targeting young children, as the country reels from recent attacks and an
of killings.
Jon Waldman, a gun shop owner in Duluth, Georgia, said that he has already closed his store and will have the gun inventory cleared out by 15 June,
.
by dap | Jun 2, 2023 | The Guardian
Objects in mirror are closer than they appear: Trump is leading the other Republican contenders, and Biden is far from safe
The Republican field swells but the 45th president’s commanding lead holds. Like Jeb Bush – another Florida governor and defeated Trump rival – Ron DeSantis has demonstrated himself inadequate to the task. By the numbers, DeSantis trails Trump nationally and in the Sunshine State. DeSantis was born there. Trump only recently moved there. To be the man you gotta beat the man, and right now DeSantis is going nowhere fast.
Ill-at-ease and plagued by a pronounced charisma deficit, DeSantis can’t even
how to pronounce his own surname. He is 44 years old. That’s plenty of time to nail down this personal detail.
by dap | Jun 2, 2023 | The Guardian
Colonel retracted his comments and clarified that the ‘rogue AI drone simulation’ was a hypothetical ‘thought experiment’
A US Air Force colonel “misspoke” when he said at a Royal Aeronautical Society conference last month that a drone killed its operator in a simulated test because the pilot was attempting to override its mission, according to the society.
The confusion had started with the circulation of a
from the society, in which it described a presentation by Col Tucker “Cinco” Hamilton, the chief of AI test and operations with the US Air Force and an experimental fighter test pilot, at the Future Combat Air and Space Capabilities Summit in London in May.
by dap | Jun 2, 2023 | The Guardian
Action set to slow population growth for one of the most rapidly expanding areas of the US amid ‘megadrought’
The state of Arizona has restricted future home-building in the Phoenix area due to a lack of groundwater, based on projections showing that wells will run dry under existing conditions.
The action by the Arizona department of water resources on Thursday is set to slow population growth for the Phoenix region, the state capital, home to 4.6 million people and one of the most
of the United States.
by dap | Jun 2, 2023 | The Guardian
Change is part of broad Department of Defense initiative, which includes renaming numerous installations
Fort Bragg shed its Confederate namesake on Friday to become Fort Liberty, in a ceremony some veterans said was a small but important step in making the US Army more welcoming to current and prospective Black service members.
The change was part of a broad Department of Defense initiative, motivated by the 2020 protests over the murder of
, a Black man, by a white police officer in Minneapolis that sparked a national reckoning on police brutality and enduring systemic racism in American society.
