Notices by Steve Herman (w7voa@journa.host)

(Reuters) - The death toll from exploding pagers in Lebanon rose to 12 including two children, according to the Lebanese health minister.
https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/death-toll-rises-12-lebanon-pager-blasts-2024-09-18/

NASA announces Perseverance rover on Mars “has found a fascinating rock that has some indications it may have hosted microbial life billions of years ago…”
https://www.nasa.gov/missions/mars-2020-perseverance/perseverance-rover/nasas-perseverance-rover-scientists-find-intriguing-mars-rock/

Immigrants’ rights groups today sued the Biden administration over the president’s proclamation and a new rule that severely restricts asylum and that they contend puts thousands of lives at risk. https://www.aclu.org/cases/las-americas-immigrant-advocacy-center-v-u-s-department-of-homeland-security

Trump guilty on all 34 counts.

"I support peaceful non-violent protest," says President Biden at the Morehouse College commencement ceremony. "What's happening in Gaza and Israel is heartbreaking."

As President Biden speaks to the Morehouse College commencement ceremony in Atlanta someone is holding aloft behind him a flag of the DRCongo while one graduating student has turned his back and draped himself in the Palestinian flag.

NOTUS - Dairy farmers are hiding likely bird flu cases from US government officials, coping with the virus’s symptoms in their herds while avoiding testing. https://www.notus.org/healthcare/farmer-bird-flu-cases-hide-cows-federal-government

The FCC announces it has fined wireless carriers for illegally sharing access to customers’ location information without consent and failing to protect that information against unauthorized disclosure. Sprint and T-Mobile – which have merged since the investigation began – face fines of $12+ million and $91 million, respectively. AT&T being fined $57+ million and Verizon told to pay nearly $47 million.

Mastodon forms new US non-profit, announces CEO / Founder @Gargron. https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2024/04/mastodon-forms-new-u.s.-non-profit/

IDF acknowledges the killing of aid workers in Gaza was a tragic result of an Israeli airstrike.

IDF says its spokesperson, Rear Adm. Daniel Hagari, has spoken with World Central Kitchen’s founder, chef Jose Andres, to express “the IDF's deepest condolences to the entire World Central Kitchen family” after seven members of the food aid group were killed in an airstrike in Gaza. https://wck.org/news/gaza-team-update

Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu says the killing of aid workers in Gaza was an unintentional killing of innocents in an IDF airstrike and will be investigated.

Humanitarian workers have to be protected, says US Secretary of State Antony Blinken, adding that the US has urged Israel to carry out a swift, thorough and impartial investigation into the bombing of an aid caravan in Gaza.

Haaretz - IDF bombed the aid convoy in Gaza three time, targeting an armed Hamas member who never left the warehouse with the vehicles. https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2024-04-02/ty-article/.premium/idf-bombed-wck-aid-convoy-3-times-targeting-armed-hamas-member-who-wasnt-there/0000018e-9e75-d764-adff-9eff29360000

I saw Donald Trump in person, on average, several times a week for four years during his presidency. I never once thought he looked like Elvis Presley. I never heard anyone else remark that he bore a resemblance to the late singer.

One of the most prominent examples on Twitter/X of sexually explicit Taylor Swift AI fake images “attracted more than 45 million views, 24,000 reposts, and hundreds of thousands of likes and bookmarks before the verified user who shared the images had their account suspended for violating platform policy. The post was live on the platform for around 17 hours prior to its removal.” https://www.theverge.com/2024/1/25/24050334/x-twitter-taylor-swift-ai-fake-images-trending

FCC to use mobile direct finding to hunt radio pirates.
https://www.radioworld.com/news-and-business/headlines/fcc-will-add-vehicles-for-pirate-radio-enforcement

Business Post: Twitter/X has instructed staff not to suspend users that post explicitly racist, sexist and homophobic content, or who send sexual material to another person, as part of a new policy that has radically stripped back the company’s moderation of abusive material. https://www.businesspost.ie/news/exclusive-the-x-files-how-elon-musks-new-rules-allow-hate-to-flourish/

A next-generation geothermal plant backed by Google has started sending carbon-free electricity to the grid in Nevada, where the tech company operates some of its massive data centers. https://www.canarymedia.com/articles/geothermal/americas-first-enhanced-geothermal-plant-just-got-up-and-running

“Our staff are witnessing people being shot at as they attempt to flee the Al-Shifa hospital” in Gaza. - Doctors Without Borders / Médecins Sans Frontières