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2026-02-24

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  • 'Near impossible' travel conditions in New York as 32 inches of snow falls

  • How Safe Are Old Airbags, Anyway?

    As far as airbags are concerned, they’ve generally been treated as a component that is expected to last the life of the vehicle. If the engine is running and the doors are still on, the airbags should be fine, goes the thinking. Barring exceptional cases like Takata’s deadly malfunctioning airbags, of course. The problem is that what an automaker considers a vehicle’s useful lifetime is often not the same as the owner’s own opinion. A luxury automaker doesn’t think you’ll still be driving today’s newest model in ten year’s time, while a vintage car enthusiast might still be happily driving a 30-year-old car in 2026. We know, just from observation, that airbags in ten-year-old cars are still perfectly functional in the vast majority of cases. However, we’re now getting to the point where there are cars with airbags that are hitting their 30th and 40th birthdays, and they’re still on the road. Owners of these vehicles are starting to wonder if they can trust the somewhat explosive devices that are, in many cases, aimed directly at the face.

    • Too much rides on "we dont know" for anyone to go find out: Recall how hard it was to get the switch for passenger airbags so they could stop killing kids. No one wants anyone to know how many modern accidents are caused by airbags.

Horseshit

Epstein

  • The Billionaires' Eugenics Project

    Edge - Jeffrey Epstein's favourite intellectual salon - was sold to me as a gathering of the world's finest minds, writes Virginia Heffernan. The files reveal it was something far darker: a decades-long project that cloaked eugenics, race science and sexual misconduct in Ivy League respectability

celebrity gossip

Rank Propaganda / Thought Policing / World Disordering

Musk

Electric / Self Driving cars

Religion / Tribal / Culture War and Re-Segregation

  • Pope tells priests to use their brains, not AI, to write homilies

  • Move over stoics Why we should all embrace nihilism

    there is not much advice you can give to a woman, after all, who is explicitly planning to navigate motherhood like a nuclear fallout. I was suspicious, even cynical, about what the world insisted was vital to the life of my unborn child. I was partly sceptical because so much of the advice I was getting was contradictory. But I was also suspicious because I’d spent most of my 20s reading Nietzsche. Engaging in nihilistic thought experiments doesn’t have to mean mooning around feeling tortured and writing poems about the futility of life. For me, it means making the daily commitment to having the courage to question what is touted as meaningful, trying to face the discomfort of a potentially meaningless existence, and to persist in showing up, and in making things, in spite of discomfort and despair. Nihilism is boring if the thinking stops at the point where we accept that there is no meaning to life. I’m interested in the next point. What we do in the face of despair. What we make, even if nothing we make matters. What we do, even if nothing we do matters.

    • The problem with nihilists is that, despairing of making the world better themselves; they become jealous and resentful of others' efforts, and too often find purpose in spreading negativity. "If we can't have fun, no one else can either!"

  • Teens see social media as the place to learn about race and faith

    • Thus the "ban teens" movements: can't have them seeing alternatives to the official propaganda as they learn how people act.

Edumacationalizing / Acedemia Nuts

  • Elsevier shuts down its finance journal citation cartel

    12 papers retracted, 7 editor positions removed, and the "open secret" of Elsevier’s elite paper mill exposed. Combined, these 12 papers have 5,104 citations. All 12 papers had one thing in common: Brian M Lucey, Professor of International Finance and Commodities, Trinity College Dublin — the #1 ranked economics and business school in Ireland — as a co-author. Lucey published 56 papers in 2025, one paper every 6.5 days.

  • The GRE is Dystopian

    In the United States, the SAT measures apparent ability for American undergraduate prospects, and the GRE is its graduate school counterpart. Also like the SAT, the GRE has a written essay section, a grammar section, a reading comprehension section, and two quantitative sections. The GRE exists to be a single yardstick schools can measure applicants against. GPA is insufficient because it varies so much from college to college. On the one hand, the Ivy Leagues inflate their grades so much that an A has little meaning. On the other, schools like MIT and the University of Michigan are as cold as the states that host them, and in many of their classes, a C is an impressive grade. I completely support the idea behind the GRE. I just wish the implementation wasn’t so easy. Seriously, despite what you might have heard, the GRE is trivial. It’s no more difficult than the SAT, despite being meant for students who are four years older and on the other side of an entire undergraduate education!

Info Rental / ShowBiz / Advertising

TechSuck / Geek Bait

  • Log into 28 vintage computer systems in the browser / Interim Computer Museum

    • The Solaris system was just a bare OS without any GNU tools. Not something that would have been considered a full functional system in the day.

  • Is NIST's Cryptography Backdoored?

    other than Dual_EC_DRBG, NIST's cryptography may not be backdoored, but maybe backdoors aren't needed when the standardized cryptography is far from the state of the art and full of holes that weaken too many projects. Maybe the lack of secure-by-design cryptography is a feature for some, not a bug. Or maybe there are legitimate reasons for promoting legacy algorithms, who knows.

  • ESR posits that the C-era is reaching its natural conclusion

    The portents are clear. The old order passeth. C being replaced by languages with stronger memory safety guarantees. But in a twist nobody anticipated, this won't happen because developers are changing their manual coding habits. It will change because increasingly, automatically moving code between languages is nearly trivial.

    I was there at the beginning of the long era of C. I believe now that I will live to see its end, and the large language models will be the instruments of its demise.

AI Will (Save | Destroy) The World

Neo Gambling / Crypto con games

Economicon / Business / Finance

Gubmint / Poilitcks / Law Making

Trump

Democrats

  • Fun fact!

    California taxpayers invested heavily in developing Squaw Valley as the host site for the 1960 Winter Olympics. After the Games ended, Governor Pat Brown (Governor Jerry Brown’s father) awarded operating rights on the resort facilities to William Newsom Sr. (Gavin Newsom’s grandfather) and his business partner, John Pelosi (Nancy Pelosi’s father-in-law). The business was very profitable for the Newsom family over the years, and Gavin Newsom himself operated a business at the former Olympic facility.

  • Newsom Tells Black Audience ‘I’m Like You…960 SAT…I Cannot Read a Speech.’

  • Governor bans Kid Rock from his state: ‘Not what you want around our children!’

    Kid Rock is not welcome in California. In fact, according to Governor Gavin Newsom, he is banned from going there again. “I HAVE SEEN ENOUGH,” the Governor Newsom Press Office account shared on X Saturday. “I, GAVIN C. NEWSOM, AM OFFICIALLY BANNING ‘KID ROCK’ FROM CALIFORNIA. HIS SHIRTLESS VIDEO WITH ‘SECRETARY BRAINWORM’ WAS INAPPROPRIATE, CREEPY, AND VERY LOW ENERGY. NOT WHAT YOU WANT AROUND OUR CHILDREN!”

    Of course, the post was just trolling — Newsom has consistently poked at Donald Trump by fashioning posts to resemble his Truth Social offerings — the singer and the President. His post came after Kid Rock and Secretary of Health Robert Kennedy shared a video of themselves working out shirtless in jeans to encourage people to get active and eat real food.

    • "Just trolling"? What, no impeachment? No 3 day news cycle about the Constitutional right to travel within the United states?

Left Angst

  • What Are Free Speech Warriors Doing About Trump's Censorship-Industrial Complex?

  • Pentagon Pete Hegseth Hits Up Old Platoon With U.S. on Brink of War With Iran

    Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is making a show of his workout routine once again. As the U.S. teeters on the edge of a full-out war with Iran, the defense secretary is working with 20-year-olds in his old platoon, the 3rd Brigade Combat Team of the 101st Airborne Division known as the Rakkasans.

  • Major US Government research lab appears to be squeezing out foreign scientists

  • Nicki Minaj's social media propped up by bots, analysis finds

    An analysis shared with POLITICO reveals the rap sensation’s advocacy for conservative causes has been amplified by an army of bots and coordinated activity.

  • Inside the real jobs crisis

    This trend can probably explain the growing liberal vs conservative political divide between men and women. The Democrats have become the party of well-educated women and the Republicans that of high school-educated men. There is now a massive gender gap in political identification among Gen Z, with women at +19 percent Democrat and men at +18 percent Republican. Facile analyses blame broadcasters and manosphere influencers, but this ignores the basic realities of the economy. Hillary vs Trump was an almost archetypal battle on this terrain – the extremely well-credentialed professional woman against the vulgar, domineering new-money man. This dynamic, where professional women identify with the Democrats and working-class men identify with right-wing populism, is a structural effect of these gaps in achievement, not any kind of ideological failing on the part of either gender.

  • Trump demands Netflix remove former Obama official from board

  • Federal Gov Trafficking Pregnant Children to Texas So They Can't Get Abortions

  • RFK Jr.’s billionaire running mate is making a comedy about the pandemic

    Nicole Shanahan, Kennedy’s running mate in the 2024 presidential campaign, is searching for investors to fund a movie that pokes fun at the pandemic response with a star based on Bhattacharya, who rose to prominence with his anti-lockdown manifesto and relentless tweets opposing social distancing. The script for the satirical comedy, “The Rash,” is by renowned author Walter Kirn, who wrote the novel “Up in the Air” that became an Oscar-nominated movie starring George Clooney. The new Kirn screenplay stars a “no-nonsense” public health professor at a Stanford-like California university — mirroring Bhattacharya — who speaks out against mass hysteria amid a mysterious outbreak of a contagious skin condition.

  • The GOP’s Nazi Problem

    some Republicans are deploying Nazi imagery and rhetoric, and espouse ideas associated with the Nazi Party during its rise to power in the early 1930s. A few recent examples: An ICE lawyer linked to a white-supremacist social-media account that praised Hitler was apparently allowed to return to federal court. Members of the national Young Republicans organization were caught in a group chat laughing about their love for Hitler. Vice President J. D. Vance shrugged off that controversy, instead of condemning the growing influence of anti-Semites in his party. (In December, at Turning Point USA’s conference, Vance said, “I didn’t bring a list of conservatives to denounce or to deplatform.”)

  • Nearly half of 50-cal ammo seized by Mexico came from US Army plant

    A United States Army ammunition plant was the source of almost half of all the .50-caliber rifle rounds seized by Mexican authorities over more than a decade, the country’s defense minister told reporters Tuesday, after an investigation by the ICIJ and media partners revealed how the powerful ammunition has been used by Mexican drug cartels in attacks on the government and civilians. “According to the records we have,” Defense Minister Gen. Ricardo Trevilla Trejo said during a presidential news conference, “137,000 cartridges have been seized since 2012. Of those, 47% come from that company and have been sold in gun shops in the southern United States,” referring to the Lake City plant. The sprawling, government-owned facility, which is located outside of Kansas City, Missouri, is the largest manufacturer of rifle rounds for the U.S. military and has been a major supplier of ammunition to American consumers for over two decades.

    Fast and Furious was a reiteration of these earlier schemes, and a repetition of their failures. Over a year and a half, between September 2009 and December 2010, a joint task force comprised of federal officials from ATF, FBI, DEA, and ICE, working under the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Arizona, let over two thousand guns “walk” to Mexico. Instead of arresting suspects as soon as they identified them, agents waited.

  • Less than 14% of those arrested by ICE had violent criminal records

  • Baltimore police credit partnerships, hiring increases for historic crime drop

  • Poor judgment or a principled stand? Susan Rice's spat with Trump dissected

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