Notices by Anna Anthro (annaanthro@mastodon.social), page 3

Opinion | Six former US surgeons general issue a joint health warning against: a man!

‘RFK Jr. threatens the health of Americans’

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2025/10/07/surgeons-general-rfk-jr-robert-kennedy/

Classified DOJ opinion authorizes strikes on secret list

“The opinion is significant, legal experts said, as it appears to justify an open-ended war against a secret list of cartels.

It gives #Trump power to designate drug traffickers as enemy combatants & have them summarily killed without legal review.

Historically, those involved in drug trafficking were considered criminals with due process rights”

https://www.cnn.com/2025/10/06/politics/classified-justice-department-memo-cartel-strikes

#Tesla Bros Attempt Coast-to-Coast Trip in Self-Driving Mode, Crash Right Away

https://www.vice.com/en/article/tesla-bros-attempt-coast-to-coast-trip-in-self-driving-mode-crash-right-away/

RE: https://mastodon.social/@kimchidiary/115269404937052850

#kdrama #kpop - I wonder if Korean actors and idols will be able to show their tattoos in public now?

Woman Who Accused Joe Biden of Sexual Assault in 2016 Suddenly Defects to Russia, obtains citizenship | The New Republic

https://newrepublic.com/post/200814/joe-biden-accuser-tara-reade-russian-spy-citizenship

Actress Jun Ji-hyun & #kdrama Tempest draws online nationalist ire in #China

‘She spoke Mandarin with an accent, her character said an anti-Chinese sentence, she walked on a red carpet with yellow stars…’

It looks like the 2016 ban on #kpop and #kdrama is not ending any time soon.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c3vznlzwrw3o

Disney losing billions over decision to censor Jimmy Kimmel

“And then there’s how capitulating to a bully only invites more bullying – #FCC’s chair Carr, not satisfied with getting #Kimmel removed from the #ABC lineup, is now threatening to target the morning show “The View,” whose hosts are also critical of the #Trump administration.”

https://augustafreepress.com/news/trump-economy-disney-losing-billions-over-decision-to-censor-jimmy-kimmel/

Censorship Is the Authoritarian’s Dream

“More professors in the US have been fired for controversial views in the past week than any other week in all of American history.

…consider the case of Darren Michael, prof at Austin Peay State Univ, who was fired because he reposted on social media a 2023 Newsweek headline: “Kirk Says Gun Deaths ‘Unfortunately’ Worth It to Keep 2nd Amendment.”

https://www.insidehighered.com/opinion/columns/debatable-ideas/2025/09/19/censorship-authoritarians-dream

South #Korea reopens process of joining the trans-Pacific trade pact

“Korea is reviewing joining the 12-member Comprehensive & Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership but the PM declined to say when Seoul would apply.

The CPTPP is a major trade agreement comprising 12 countries, including Australia, #Canada, #Japan, Mexico and Vietnam but not the USA.”

https://www.koreatimes.co.kr/southkorea/politics/20250910/pm-says-s-korea-positively-considers-joining-trans-pacific-trade-pact

Health #Canada has a group of 8500 volunteers (I am one!) that help track Covid-19.

Every Monday they send me an email question: Did you develop a cough this week? Did you develop a fever? You simply click Yes or No. And hit reply. That’s it!

This citizen-science group info is matched with wastewater & hospital stats to track waves of viruses. Crucial for alerts and pandemic preparedness.

And they just announced they want to expand to 26,000 Canadian participants:

https://public.cnphi-rcrsp.ca/fluWatcher/register

Microsoft Office' free for non-profits offer ends.

https://tuta.com/blog/microsoft-office-free-for-non-profits-ends

A Brown University Scientist’s research team exposed anti-wind-energy groups as being oil-industry funded.

Now they want to silence him.

https://electrek.co/2025/08/25/scientist-exposes-anti-wind-groups-as-oil-funded-now-they-want-to-silence-him/

Episode 9 of #cdrama ‘When Destiny Brings A Demon’ has the FL turned into an otter pup by an Immortal Grandmaster.

A first in cdrama?!

The cgi team seems to have had a field day as the pup gets quite a bit of airtime!

Interac summer spending snapshot

“New survey data from Interac reveals that 78% of Canadians have redirected at least one monthly purchase from a big-box or international retailer to a Canadian business since #Trump #tariffs were first announced.

25% of Canadians shifted 3 to 5 purchases a month, and a fifth of Canadians pivoting 6 or more.”

https://retail-insider.com/retail-insider/2025/08/interac-summer-spending-snapshot-reveals-how-global-pressures-are-reshaping-canadians-purchase-habits/

Thousands of students return to US campuses bruised and changed by #Trump’s assault on their universities

« Todd Wolfson, the president of the American Association of University Professors (AAUP), agrees.

“This is obviously the most intense assault on higher education by the federal government in the history of the United States,” he said. “Everyone is coming into fire.” »

#dei

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/aug/23/us-college-campuses-trump-funding-protests

MIT report: 95% of generative AI pilots at companies are failing

https://fortune.com/2025/08/18/mit-report-95-percent-generative-ai-pilots-at-companies-failing-cfo/

#UK warns Sally Rooney after the novelist pledges to fund Palestine Action, the protest group that was declared a terrorist organization

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/8/18/uk-warns-sally-rooney-after-novelist-pledges-to-fund-palestine-action

Former President Yoon wears handcuffs, ankle monitor during hospital visits #korea

https://www.chosun.com/english/national-en/2025/08/16/WDYQRIIXKFDAJEJVOLJJPEVXJE/

The Korean survivors of the #Hiroshima bomb

#Korea #Japan

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cp8zlwd3e42o

#Trump Promised to ‘Drill, Baby, Drill.’

The New Rigs Are Nowhere to Be Found

“There is one key indicator of drilling levels that the industry has watched closely for more than 80 years: a weekly census of active oil and gas rigs published by Baker Hughes.

When Trump came into office on Jan 20, the US rig count was 580.

Last week, it was down to 542, hovering just above a four-year low.”

https://www.wired.com/story/trump-promised-to-drill-baby-drill-the-new-rigs-are-nowhere-to-be-found/