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Evening Shade---Resistance Rising---Sunday, July 27 [1]
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Date: 2025-07-27
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(Or NOT As the CASE MAY BE)
YOU WILL FIND in the DIARIES a LOT of POLITICS
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In the news: all the same stuff that was in the news Friday. My Sunday mood doesn’t include carping on Epstein, ICE, tariffs, and the Big Bill, not that those issues don’t deserve it. Well, maybe on Epstein, but only the Sunday funnies.
The folks in Scotland have better comments than we do anyway. Pro tip: you can hang your protest sign from your bagpipes. Remember that next time you take them to a protest.
Trump spent $10M of taxpayer money to go there and advertise his golf course. Which does he consider his “day job,” real estate or presidency? At any rate, the folks in Scotland (hi Nanny Ogg!) are even more straightforward about their opinions on him than we are.
What is Trump’s response?
Because Scottish windmills haunt his nightmares.
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Speaking of things that haunt Trump, there’s you, radical leftist that you are. Look what you’re doing to this poor man! You’re giving him cankles.
x trump is 79, doesn't eat right or exercise and is obese but according to tuberville, radical leftists are to be blamed for his bad health.
Tuberville blames ‘radical’ leftists for Trump’s health issues.
https://t.co/ybv4wyUaaE — Covie (@covie_93) July 20, 2025
And from Politico:
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Remember Sharpiegate? Although he forgets what he said yesterday, Trump remembers that too. Of all the important issues facing the nation, this one needed immediate action.
x Sources:
- The Guardian - “Two top NOAA officials linked to Trump’s ‘Sharpiegate’ incident put on leave,” July 25, 2025
- Anonymous internal staff source with direct knowledge of internal situation, July 25, 2025 — Alt National Park Service (@altnps.bsky.social) July 27, 2025 at 6:49 AM
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Lauren Boebert is not so great at remembering. Selective memory is a Republican thing.
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Democrats, on the other hand, have not forgotten Elon Musk (whose DOGE kiddies are still doing damage even though Musk isn’t Trump’s bestie anymore). They haven’t forgotten his pet AI, Mecha-Hitler, either.
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Just a reminder.
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Remember, kids, even if God tells you to hawk worthless cryptocurrency, don’t do it.
x A pastor in Denver, Colorado, who said that God told him to sell cryptocurrency to his followers was indicted this week on dozens of theft- and fraud-related charges, along with his wife, for selling a digital coin that prosecutors said had no real value.
[image or embed] — The New York Times (@nytimes.com) July 27, 2025 at 6:45 AM
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Apropos of absolutely nothing but the Sunday funnies, are those tatas real?
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Sunday Science
Not so long ago Reddy Kilowatt told us that “electricity is penny cheap,“ and when something was common, we said it was “cheap as water.” The world has changed. This Propublica article explains what’s going on with water supplies worldwide.
x NEW: “Staggering” Water Loss Driven by Groundwater Mining Poses Global Threat A new study finds that freshwater resources are rapidly disappearing, creating arid “mega” regions and causing sea levels to rise. By @abrahm.bsky.social
[image or embed] — ProPublica (@propublica.org) July 25, 2025 at 12:10 PM
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From the UN, bad climate news and good. The bad: the world can no longer drag its feet on phasing out fossil fuels. The good: Green energy is cheaper.
The world is on the brink of a breakthrough in the climate fight and fossil fuels are running out of road, the UN chief said on Tuesday, as he urged countries to funnel support into low-carbon energy. More than nine in 10 renewable power projects globally are now cheaper than fossil fuel alternatives. Solar power is about 41% cheaper than the lowest-cost fossil fuel alternative, and onshore wind generation is less than half the price of fossil fuels, according to a report from the International Renewable Energy Agency. Costs have been driven down by the increasingly widespread use of the technologies, a huge focus on low-carbon manufacturing in China, and burgeoning investment in the sector, reaching $2tn last year – which was $800bn more than went into fossil fuels, and an increase of 70% in the last decade. (The Guardian)
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Nobody is using jets to spread chemtrails to change the climate. But at the Great Barrier Reef boats are making fog from seawater to cool the ocean and maybe save the coral.
On a hot February morning, that ship and two smaller companion barges — nicknamed Big Daddy and the Twins — roamed a bay within the Palm Islands cluster, off the northeastern coast of Australia. Each pumped seawater aboard, pressurized it and sprayed it into the air through hundreds of tiny nozzles arrayed on metal frames. Dense plumes of fog billowed from all three vessels, forming long white strands that eventually converged into a seamless cloak. Daniel Harrison — an engineer, pilot and oceanographer based at Southern Cross University’s National Marine Science Center — surveyed the scene from the large ship’s observation deck, one hand on his wide-brimmed brown felt hat to keep it from flying away. It was the most successful test of the technology to date, he said. Since 2016, Harrison and his colleagues have been investigating whether it is possible to reduce coral bleaching in the Great Barrier Reef by altering the weather above it. As the planet heats up, unusually high ocean temperatures are stressing corals around the world, forcing them to eject their symbiotic partners: the photosynthetic single-celled algae that live in their tissues and provide them with much of their sustenance. Theoretically, machine-generated fog and artificially brightened clouds can shade and cool the water in which corals live, sparing them much of that stress. (New York Times — shared article)
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Mosquitos released in Brazil carry a bacteria that fights dengue.
In Brazil, dengue has wrought havoc on millions of people. Severe forms of the disease, if not treated, damage the blood vessels and make them leak like sieves, which can lead to high fever, shock, internal bleeding, organ failure and even death. "It's terrible," he says. "It hurts like our bones are being broken. I worked in an endemic zone and it was very bad. And yes, I had people who died of dengue..." The [engineered] insects that hatch inside the bug factory in Rio have been engineered to contain a set of microbial stowaways — a kind of bacteria called Wolbachia. Remarkably, this bacteria and the virus that causes dengue are unable to coexist inside the mosquito that transmits this disease. "It's like there is a competition between Wolbachia and the virus," says Chalegre. "So once Wolbachia is inside these mosquitoes, the virus cannot replicate..." "We're Buddhist in our approach, letting [the mosquitoes] stay alive," says Scott O'Neill , the scientist who founded the World Mosquito Program and dreamed up this idea years ago . "We're just making them harmless to people." (NPR)
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AI may cause trouble when installed haphazardly into government services, but properly used in medicine, it shines. AI points the way to new cancer therapies.
The team was looking for ways to rev up the cancer-seeking potential of immune cells called T cells. T cells can fight cancer on their own but sometimes have trouble recognizing the enemy. Jenkins’ team genetically engineered T cells to carry tiny custom proteins on their surface. Those proteins act as the GPS, guiding T cells to their cancer target. The work riffs off other immunotherapy techniques, like CAR T-cell therapy and TCR therapy, which also try to boost immune cells’ anti-cancer prowess. To design the custom proteins, the researchers relied on a trio of AI tools. First, the team inputted the structure of the cancer target into a generative AI model called RFdiffusion. That model had been trained on known protein structures and their amino acid sequences, the strings of building blocks that fold up into individual proteins. RFdiffusion proposed protein shapes that fit the target like a key fits a lock. A second AI model suggested strings of amino acids that, when folded into 3-D structures, would likely form the proposed shapes. (Science News)
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On a more sober note, I’m saddened by the passing of one of the greats in Dr. Demento’s play list. Tom Lehrer died yesterday at age 97. He was a math prof at UC Santa Cruz and invented songs to aid his teaching. Many of his songs are wry and witty political commentary on current topics dating back to the 1950s. This performance is ageless.
x YouTube Video
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It’s National Korean War Veterans’ Armistice Day.
x YouTube Video
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It’s National Scotch Day!
x YouTube Video
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It’s National Parents’ Day!
x YouTube Video
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It’s National Creme Brulee Day! Egg custard with a sugar crust torched on top.
x YouTube Video
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It’s National New Jersey Day!
x YouTube Video
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And National Love is Kind Day.
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