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  This is an interesting story regarding a proposal to raise radiation exposure limits in particular, for the general public in the United States, https://thebulletin.org/2025/11/trumps-new-radiation-exposure-limits-could-be-catastrophic-for-women-and-girls/

It is like a child playing with an unfamiliar toy. Now, does he understand he has a responsiblity to future generations to stick with renewables? Trump Energy department drops renewables, promotes fusion in office reshuffle   https://techcrunch.com/2025/11/21/trump-energy-department-drops-renewables-promotes-fusion-in-office-reshuffle/

Are Livermore Lab employee raises and retiree colas, keeping up with the CA cost of living? If not, is this impacting recruitment and retention? https://cdn.prod.website-files.com/639ba3621a72923685807b82/6914c26e40d0c8ed334f2bb5_TF_Report_CostOfLiving2025.pdf

 According to CNN, top energy and nuclear officials in the trump administration are planning to meet with the White House and National Security Council in the coming days to dissuade President Donald Trump from resuming testing of the nation’s nuclear weapons https://www.cnn.com/2025/11/14/politics/nnsa-nuclear-testing-white-house-meeting-exclusive

  This critique of NASA's moon program was posted recently, presenting evidence that the program is in some ways, an expensive failure. https://caseyhandmer.wordpress.com/2025/10/31/nasas-orion-space-capsule-is-flaming-garbage/

  https://www.mediaite.com/media/tv/what-the-fck-is-this-trump-supporters-rip-president-for-saying-there-arent-enough-talented-people-in-america/ Trump is now in some in some other hot water bout bringing foreign talent. President Donald Trump received backlash from his own supporters on Tuesday after he suggested in a disastrous Fox News interview that there were not enough talented Americans. "After Fox News host Laura Ingraham criticized H-1B visas during an Ingraham Angle interview with Trump, the president replied, “Well, I agree, but you also do have to bring in talent.”“We have plenty of talented people here,” shot back Ingraham, to which Trump insisted, “No, you don’t.” Trump of course want to kick out migrants claiming they take American jobs, which is base loves but now he is saying we need to bring in foreign talent since we do no have enough talented people in the US. I get that there is a difference but it is hard to get around some of the contradictions. That being s...

Chris Wright, DOE secretary,  claims to have the evidence to prove that climate change isn’t dangerous.   https://www.politico.com/interactives/2025/chris-wright-doe-climate-change-report/

  This is more information on the latest Chinese AI breakthroughs: https://siliconangle.com/2025/11/07/moonshot-launches-open-source-kimi-k2-thinking-ai-trillion-parameters-reasoning-capabilities/ https://youtu.be/s_YfqQ_KHYA?si=Q4uqGKeK25GvQW1y https://youtube.com/shorts/hYuATUunpIU?si=a7R8V0427mnAVVmg

  Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang says Washington has lost its edge in artificial intelligence and warns that China will win the AI race.   https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/china-is-going-to-win-the-ai-race-nvidia-ceo-jensen-huang-decries-the-price-of-electricity-in-the-us-contrasts-it-with-chinas-subsidized-pricing

  https://bbc.com/news/articles/cpd26yxxx3lo?mc_cid=0aa7388267&mc_eid=7fcce66b91 trump's planned tests are 'not nuclear explosions', US energy secretary says

  Are material HR layoffs, HR Voluntary Separation Programs (VSP), or HR hiring freezes, expected at LLNL as a result of AI expansion? Amazon layoffs loom: 15% of HR team expected to be cut as AI push accelerates https://mynorthwest.com/local/amazon-layoffs-hr-ai/4143613

  This is an interesting video, a lecture on the ills of bureaucracy. Evidently there is a valid critique that too much bureaucracy is problematic, and an associated viewpoint that many organizations have too much of it. https://youtu.be/hk_yhi3-prw?si=cWDuQNkrF3lDCw3F