Notes Today:

• Russia has repeatedly attacked Ukraine from the air. Now that drones have apparently descended on Moscow, the Ministry of Defense speaks of Ukrainian terrorism.

• President  Biden and Kevin McCarthy, the Republican speaker of the House, expressed confidence that their deal to raise America’s debt ceiling would pass Congress. 

• Twitter’s Musk is hit with a bit of bad news as France’s Digital Minister threatens to ban Twitter from the ENTIRE European Union territory if Musk does not get serious about tackling Twitter’s growing wave of “disinformation.”
• He “can run,” but he “can’t hide” from the consequences of allowing Twitter to be overrun by far-right political disinformation.
• Disinformation is one of the gravest threats weighing on our democracies. If Twitter repeatedly doesn’t follow our rules, it will be banned from the European Union.” - Jean-Noël Barrot, France's Digital Minister 

• Tesla has failed to adequately protect data from customers, employees and business partners and has received thousands of customer complaints regarding the carmaker’s driver assistance system, Germany’s Handelsblatt has reported, citing 100 gigabytes of confidential data leaked by a whistleblower. 

• SARS‑CoV‑2 (COVID-19) Positive tests jumped 15% in Victoria, where 10,642 cases and nine deaths were recorded. South Australian cases climbed 28% to 4012 – up 1338 from the week before.

• China’s first domestically produced passenger jet began its maiden commercial flight.  So far, engines are still imported..

 

Problem with these notes: some tend to run up against a deeply rooted feature of human cognition - the desire not to think about anything unpleasant ... Sorry about that.