A recent timeline from may 7 to July 4: [ part 1 of ?]
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May 7 – The Boy Scouts of America announces the renaming of the organization to Scouting America, effective on February 8, 2025.[222]
May 8
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Researchers at Google DeepMind announce the development of AlphaFold 3, an AI model that can predict the structures of almost all biological molecules and model the interactions between them.[225]
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Healthcare chain Ascension announces it has been the target of a cyber attack on its computer systems.[226]
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May 10–13 – May 2024 solar storms: Solar cycle 25, a geomagnetic storm, hits Earth, reaching G4intensity and causing widespread aurorae, with NOAA's Space Weather Prediction Center issuing its first G4-level storm watch since 2005.[229]
May 10: ◦ A Pennsylvania jury orders ExxonMobil to pay $725.5 million to a former mechanic who claimed that the company's gasoline and solvents caused him to develop leukemia.[232]
the start? This people are sick.
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May 11 – Minnesota adopts its new state flag to coincide with the 166th anniversary of its date of statehood.[233]
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May 13
* Aftermath of the Francis Scott Key Bridge collapse: Construction crews use explosives to demolish the remaining parts of the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore, Maryland. The next step will be to refloat the MV Dali for removal, which will allow maritime traffic to resume normal operations.[234]
* Three years after the previous GameStopstock squeeze, Redditors return to artificially inflate GameStop's share price by 75%, to an 18-month high.[235]
* The Airlines for America trade association, along with major US airlines American, Delta, United, JetBlue, Hawaiian, and Alaska, files a lawsuit against the United States Department of Transportation over a rule requiring upfront disclosure of airline fees.[236]
* OpenAI announces a new model of their generative pretrained transformer (GPT) named GPT-4o, capable of visual and video speech recognition and translation.[237]
[NCSWIS]
ChatGPT is No Such Agency? Accidentally releases it all ?
May 14
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Biden passes tariff increases on Chinese imports, including electric vehicle batteries, computer chips, and medical products.[240]
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Eight people are killed and 40 others are injured when a bus carrying farmworkers collides with a truck and overturns in Marion County, Florida.[241]
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Tennessee governor Bill Lee signs into law a bill that would see the death penalty for defendants convicted of child rape.[242][243]
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Seafood restaurant chain Red Lobsterannounces it will close 99 locations across the country.[244] The chain filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy the next week.[245]
1-99 ? and mention of batteries. Chapter 11. Red lobster? Sharks? Sea to shining sea?
May 15:
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A barge hits the Pelican Island Causeway in Galveston, Texas, causing damage to the bridge and an oil spill in the Gulf Intracoastal Waterway.[247]
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Federal prosecutors in Manhattan charge two brothers Anton and James Peraire-Bueno, the sons of Jaime Peraire, with conspiracy to commit wire fraud, and conspiracy to commit money laundering, after they were arrested for exploiting the Ethereum blockchain and stealing $25 million worth of cryptocurrency.[248]
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The United States imposes visa restrictions on over 250 members of the Nicaraguangovernment along with sanctions on three entities for "repressive action" and failure to control migrant smuggling through Nicaragua.[249]
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Houston Astros pitcher Ronel Blanco is ejected from the game against the Oakland Athletics and receives a 10-game suspension after foreign substances were found in his glove.[250]
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The Supreme Court lets Louisiana use a new congressional map with two majority-Black congressional districts in the 2024 House of Representatives elections.[251]
bridges, water, drugs, smuggling
the map is not the terrain?
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May 16
* The Dow Jones Industrial Average surpasses 40,000 points for the first time.[252]
* The European Union opens a formal investigation into Meta for potential breaches in online content rules relating to child safety on Facebook and Instagram, violating the Digital Services Act.[253]
* Blinken announces a $2 billion additional military aid package for Ukraine, aimed at investing in Ukraine's industrial base.[254]
40,000 ft, FB/Meta and Ukraine