Notices by AnnaAnthro (annaanthro@mastodon.social)

Marco Rubio argues to a Senate Committee that no judge has power over him

#Trump

https://newrepublic.com/post/195519/marco-rubio-judge-authority-testimony-senate

Republican back a law that will be prohibiting US states from regulating #AI for 10 years.

Slipped into #Trump’s ‘Big Beautiful Bill’ to cut taxes for billionaires is an unprecedented federal law to protect AI tech companies from regulation.

If your state is worried about privacy rights, energy drains, environmental costs of AI, they will not be able to do a thing.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/may/14/republican-budget-bill-ai-laws

Several academic conferences relocate north of the border as Canadians refuse to travel to the U.S.

#montreal #canada #cdnpoli

https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/conference-us-travel-1.7531255

West Virginia coal miners lose black lung screenings after #Trump admin slashes worker safety agency NIOSH

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/west-virginia-coal-miners-lose-black-lung-screenings-trump-slashes-worker-safety-agency-niosh/

How South #Korea’s legendary Haenyeo free divers evolved for life underwater

« A genetic analysis revealed that gene variants associated with reduced blood pressure, cold water tolerance and red blood cell count — which is related to oxygen-carrying capacity — are more common in people from #Jeju, regardless of whether they dive themselves, than in other South Koreans. »

https://www.cnn.com/2025/05/07/science/haenyeo-south-korea-divers-evolution

Private Japanese lunar lander enters orbit around moon ahead of a June touchdown

« Tokyo-based ispace said its Resilience lander entered lunar orbit. »

#moon #lunar #space #japan

https://www.thecanadianpressnews.ca/science/private-japanese-lunar-lander-enters-orbit-around-moon-ahead-of-a-june-touchdown/article_77d49483-a6b4-52f7-9082-a96d9a9dd659.html

´Culinary Class Wars’ & war film ‘Harbin’ win grand prizes at #Korea’s #Baeksang Awards

“When Life Gives You Tangerines,” a Netflix #kdrama, took best series award.

Ju Juhon won best actor. Kim Tae Ri won best actress. Thriller “Revolver” won for both its director & lead actress. A best actor award went to Cho Jung-seok in comedy “Pilot.”

Park Chan-wook won best screenplay for Uprising, w Shin Cheol.
“Lovely Runner” stars Byeon and Kim won most popular artist awards.
http://www.koreatimesus.com/netflix-show-culinary-class-wars-historical-film-harbin-win-grand-prizes-at-baeksang-awards/

#Trump Just Did the Most Corrupt Thing Any President Has Ever Done | Meme Coin Dinners

https://newrepublic.com/post/194420/trump-memecoin-dinner-corrupt-president

US professor and #gaming script consultant teaches Assassin’s Creed trolls a lesson by killing with kindness

« Set in 16th century #Japan, the game features Naoe, a Japanese female assassin, and Yasuke, a black African #samurai.

Furore erupted over the latter, with gamers criticising his inclusion as “wokeness” »

https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3308947/us-professor-teaches-assassins-creed-trolls-lesson-killing-kindness?utm_source=rss_feed

Climate change will make #rice toxic, say researchers - Ars Technica

https://insideclimatenews.org/news/16042025/half-the-worlds-people-depend-on-rice-new-research-says-climate-change-will-make-it-toxic/

#cdnpoli

#Alberta MP steps aside to give up seat for defeated Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre https://www.nationalobserver.com/2025/05/02/news/alberta-mp-seat-poilievre

North #Korea: First road bridge to #Russia 'significant' development https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cy8qeel6959o

Columbia univ student Mohsen Mahdawi released in Vermont https://www.bbc.com/news/videos/cvgnwk39pwno

@hellomiakoda I hope it never happens.

U.S. #autism data project to register all autistic Americans sparks uproar over ethics, privacy and intent - #Trump admun #RFKjr walk it back.

For now.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/04/25/autism-registry-privacy-rfk-research/

#Trump Aides Solicit Ideas to Raise Birthrate, From Baby Bonuses to Fertility Planning -

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/21/us/politics/trump-birthrate-proposals.html

Maine has two - TWO - teen trans athletes…

DOJ sues #Maine over their refusing to comply with #Trump transgender athlete ban

“On Friday the Dept of Education said it would pull all federal funding for education in Maine unless the state agreed to ban the state’s two transgender girls from playing on girls sports teams.

Today AG Pam Bondi threatened to pull past funding retroactively.”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2025/04/16/justice-department-maine-transgender-athletes/

Head of New #RFK Jr. Vaccine Study Practiced Unlicensed Medicine on Autistic Kids

https://www.yahoo.com/news/head-rfk-jr-vaccine-study-201913530.html

Tax cut for #Musk, #Bezos, #Zuckerberg and other US tech billionaires on the table, #UK PM Starmer confirms

« PM says digital services tax and Online Safety Act formed part of talks with #Trump White House over deal to avert tariffs. »

« US VP JD Vance, has accused Britain of stifling free speech with the Online Safety Act which creates a legal duty for social media firms to enforce their terms of service. »

https://inews.co.uk/news/politics/tax-cut-billionaires-starmer-musk-bezos-trade-3630807

US air force reverses its recent Trump admin ban on use of notes about pronouns in email signatures and websites after realizing it contradicted an older Biden ban on pronoun banning https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/09/air-force-pronouns-ban-reversed