2024-04-27
Horseshit
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Construction begins on high-speed rail between Vegas and California
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Lifestyle choice or indictment of UK housing crisis? Boom in self-storage
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The Tech Baron Seeking to “Ethnically Cleanse” San Francisco | The New Republic
To fully grasp the current situation in San Francisco, where venture capitalists are trying to take control of City Hall, you must listen to Balaji Srinivasan. Before you do, steel yourself for what’s to come: A normal person could easily mistake his rambling train wrecks of thought for a crackpot’s ravings, but influential Silicon Valley billionaires regard him as a genius.
What’s stunning, however, is the degree to which coverage of Tan has been quite evenhanded and fair, if not positive. The press has unquestioningly accepted the framing that he represents moderate or “common sense” politics. Not one local story has mentioned his long affiliation with Balaji or the Network State cult that is currently trying to create tech-controlled cities around the globe, and which maintains a fascination with an alt-right, neo-fascist movement known as the “Dark Enlightenment.” (In 2021, Cade Metz of the Times wrote that Balaji had suggested targeting journalists who mention these connections. “If things get hot, it may be interesting to sic the Dark Enlightenment audience on a single vulnerable hostile reporter to dox them and turn them inside out with hostile reporting sent to their advertisers/friends/contacts,” wrote Balaji in an email viewed by the Times.) In a twisted way, these omissions almost lend credence to claims that mainstream press outlets don’t tell us what’s really going on.
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Auto Insurance Rates Are Skyrocketing Because Cars Are Covertly Spying on People
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World's biggest 3D printer whirs into action
The university says it has beaten its own record for the world's largest polymer 3D printer - with the new printer four times bigger than the previous machine. The Factory of the Future 1.0 (FoF 1.0) can print objects 96ft (29m) long - approximately the length of a blue whale.
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Automakers Keep Killing Off Small Cars Despite Eventually Regretting It
Electric / Self Driving cars
celebrity gossip
Rank Propaganda / Thought Policing / World Disordering
Pox / COVID / BioTerror AgitProp
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H5N1 prevalence in milk suggest US bird flu outbreak in cows is widespread
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Bird flu could jump to humans any day. A former surgeon general says it feels like 2020 again
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20% Of Retail Milk Samples Positive For Bird Flu: FDA | ZeroHedge
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Updates on Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza (HPAI) | FDA
The agency continues to analyze this information; however, the initial results show about 1 in 5 of the retail samples tested are quantitative polymerase chain reaction (qPCR)-positive for HPAI viral fragments, with a greater proportion of positive results coming from milk in areas with infected herds. As previously noted and outlined in our summary below, qPCR-positive results do not necessarily represent actual virus that may be a risk to consumers. Additional testing is required to determine whether intact pathogen is still present and if it remains infectious, which would help inform a determination of whether there is any risk of illness associated with consuming the product. The FDA is further assessing any positive findings through egg inoculation tests, a gold-standard for determining if infectious virus is present. Early work by NIH-funded investigators indicates an absence of infectious virus in their studies of retail milk. To date, the retail milk studies have shown no results that would change our assessment that the commercial milk supply is safe. Epidemiological signals from our CDC partners continue to show no uptick of human cases of flu and no cases of H5N1, specifically, beyond the one known case related to direct contact with infected cattle.
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FDA says 1 in 5 samples of pasteurized milk had bird flu virus fragments
Religion / Tribal / Culture War and Re-Segregation
Edumacationalizing / Acedemia Nuts
Info Rental / ShowBiz / Advertising
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Dutch mass claim launched against Apple for deliberately slowing its iPhones
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Microsoft CEO says it is "putting security above all else" in major refocus
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The follow lie, and why it’s worse than ever
You join a social media platform and find some people who interest you. You tap follow (or ‘Add friend’, ‘Like page’, ‘Subscribe’), because you want to see their content. For a while, everything works just fine. You see your best friend’s wedding photos, your favourite blogger’s posts. Soon though, the follow lie kicks in. Something happens. You start seeing a lot less of people you follow, and a lot more of people you don’t follow. But you’re still stuck on the platform, because of all that time you’ve invested in following people there (after all, you still see some of their content) — and a lot of the new stuff you get shown, from people you don’t follow, is addictive. It keeps you scrolling to see what’s up next. The platform benefits by slipping in more and more ads around the content.
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Court upholds New York law that says ISPs must offer $15 broadband
TechSuck / Geek Bait
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IPs remain infected by USB worm years after its creators left it
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How Not To Release Historic Source Code | OS/2 Museum
But please please don’t mutilate historic source code by shoving it into (stupid) git. First of all, git does not preserve timestamps, which causes irreversible damage. Knowing when a source file was last modified is valuable information.
For practical purposes, old source files are not text files. They are binary files, and must be preserved without modification. It is not OK to take an old source file and convert it to UTF-8. For one thing, UTF-8 didn’t even exist in the times of MASM 5.10 and Microsoft C 5.1, of course old tools can’t deal with it!
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Scala personality dramas: Jon Pretty wins in court against sexual harassment claims by Scala community | Hacker News
AI Will (Save | Destroy) The World
Space / Boomy Zoomers / UFO
Crypto con games
Economicon / Business / Finance
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(Dec 2023) The U.S. economy's big problem? People forgot what 'normal' looks like (Archive)
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Nearly 1,300 stores are closing across the US in 2024. Here's the list
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US regulators seize troubled lender Republic First Bancorp
U.S. regulators have seized Republic First Bancorp and agreed to sell it to Fulton Bank, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp said on Friday, underscoring the challenges facing regional banks a year after the collapse of three peers. The Philadelphia-based bank, which had abandoned funding talks with a group of investors, was seized by the Pennsylvania Department of Banking and Securities. The FDIC, appointed as a receiver, said Fulton Bank, a unit of Fulton Financial Corp, will assume substantially all deposits and purchase all the assets of Republic Bank to "protect depositors".
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Europe is beating inflation. Why can't America declare victory?