@Bernard What a cool project. Mr wtg and I watch The Repair Shop and love it when they take apart musical instruments, music boxes, and clocks, fix/clean them, and get them up and running again!
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Mass resignations in US Attorney's office in MinnesotaA majority of the leadership team at the Minnesota U.S. Attorney’s Office resigned on Jan. 13 over the direction of the Justice Department under the Trump administration.
The departures of several prosecutors stemmed from directives from top federal officials to staff members after the killing of Renee Good by ICE agent Jonathan Ross, according to sources familiar with the decision. That included blocking the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension (BCA) from the investigation into the shooting and a request from the Justice Department to investigate Good’s widow for possible federal charges. A source also said the resignations resulted from a general frustration that a surge of immigration enforcement in Minnesota ordered by the Trump administration has “eclipsed” fraud investigations by the office.
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What could possibly go wrong?Hegseth said Grok will go live inside the Defense Department later this month and announced that he would "make all appropriate data" from the military's IT systems available for "AI exploitation." He also said data from intelligence databases would be fed into AI systems.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/elon-musk-grok-ai-pentagon-growing-backlash/
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Fed Chair Powell’s statement@Mik said in Fed Chair Powell’s statement:
That makes no sense whatsoever. It absolutely had to come from the oval office.
Apparently my joke missed the mark. I was just using the Sgt Schulz gif for the Trump "denials". Comedy has never been my strong suit.
Unless you weren't referring to Stg Schulz (which I assumed you were because it was included in the quoted post), but rather only to Trump's denial.
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Fed Chair Powell’s statementA perturbed Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent told President Trump late Sunday that the federal investigation into the Federal Reserve chair "made a mess" and could be bad for financial markets, two sources familiar with the call told Axios.
Why it matters: Bessent's worries about the financial fallout were somewhat realized Monday, when the dollar dropped as bond yields and the price of gold rose amid worries about political interference in the Fed.
"The secretary isn't happy, and he let the president know," one source familiar with Bessent's call to Trump told Axios.
Sunday night, Trump appeared to distance himself from the investigation of Fed chair Jerome Powell for allegedly misrepresenting the costs of renovations to the Federal Reserve's headquarters in D.C.
U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro's office in D.C. launched the probe without giving a heads-up to Treasury, top White House officials or the main Justice Department, sources told Axios.https://www.axios.com/2026/01/12/bessent-trump-investigation-powell-federal-reserve
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Trying something newMy Ukrainian student's situation continues to be uncertain. She and her family are worried that their temporary protection status could disappear at any time. I asked her if Canada was an option and she said it wasn't because they had closed the program that was accepting Ukrainian refugees.
Saw this article today. I can see why Canada isn't an option:
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Recipes 2026I bought a bag of King Arthur Measure-for-Measure flour at Costco a while back. It's been languishing on our basement pantry shelf and I decided I needed to try it out. I had some ripe bananas, so I went for this recipe for gluten free whole grain banana muffins.
https://www.kingarthurbaking.com/recipes/gluten-free-whole-grain-banana-muffins-recipe
They are delicious! Can't tell them apart from their wheat flour cousins.
Just ignore the xantham and cellulose gum....
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IgniteTech CEO on AII didn't take it as a criticism.
I agree the headline is click bait-ish, but for me that's pretty much a given these days and I just plow through and read the article to get the real meaning and to see if there is anything of (factual) value.
I've given up the fight for well-written journalism.
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IgniteTech CEO on AII didn't find it misleading. He did fire 80 percent of his staff - that's the headline. In the body of the article they say that he replaced those folks, and then added some.
I could see if you thought the article was about one of those companies who fired people and replaced them with AI, that it could be confusing.
