2021-03-11

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'They become dangerous tools': the dark side of personality tests
One employee's exit shook Google and the AI industry
380,000 Kia Owners Told To "Park Outside" Due To Spontaneous Engine Fire Risk | ZeroHedge
U.S. had its coldest February in more than 30 years | National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

Meteorological winter (December through February) was quite mild and dry across the contiguous U.S. The average temperature was 33.6 degrees F, 1.4 degrees above average, placing Winter 2021 in the warmest third of the winter record. Maine had its third-warmest winter; California had its 12th warmest.
Comets Are More Dangerous Than We Thought - Issue 98: Mind - Nautilus

Finding out what killed the dinosaurs, of course. There’s now no question that the scene of the “crime” was the Yucatan Peninsula, in Mexico, where researchers found a massive crater. But what was the murder weapon—an asteroid, or a comet?

What’s evident, even if one didn’t “off” the dinosaurs, is that it’s safe to assume that comets, shattered into shards by the sun’s gravity, pose what was an underappreciated threat.

"no question" this killed the dinosaurs... spit

Absolutely no need for such propaganda techniques, but here we are anyway, "the science is settled" and the dinosaurs were rendered extinct by this simple cause that oo! booga! booga! we're threatened by now!
Transgender surgery is now free for military, thanks to Biden executive order

Media / Ministry of Truthy

Fox News host Sean Hannity falsely claims that Joe Biden only recently developed a stutter | Salon.com
The Problem with Linking Censorship to Incitement
How Facebook got addicted to spreading misinformation
Journalists Start Demanding Substack Censor its Writers: to Bar Critiques of Journalists - Glenn Greenwald

That same motive of self-preservation is driving them to equate any criticisms of their work with “harassment,” “abuse” and “violence” — so that it is not just culturally stigmatized but a banning offense, perhaps even literally criminal, to critique their journalism on the ground that any criticism of them places them “in danger.” Under this rubric they want to construct, they can malign anyone they want, ruin people’s reputations, and unite to generate hatred against their chosen targets, but nobody can even criticize them.

This use of “right v. left” here is also quite important. In the war of information they have launched — to ensure that control over discourse rests solely in their hands and that everyone who dissents from their pieties be silenced or “moderated” — those traditional left/right labels have no real currency or cogency. That is why this Serial Plagiarist can refer to me as a “right-wing culture warrior” despite everything I have done and believe and have it not be regarded as bizarre by his media comrades. That is the stunted, blinkered prism on which they rely to make sense of the world.

But it has no applicability to the world they are creating, the information battle they are waging. The real division here is between those who believe in a free internet, free discourse, free thought, and those who do not — between those who want corporate journalistic elites to control what people can say and think and those who do not. Some of those who support that authoritarian vision of centralized information control are on what used to be called the left and some are found on the establishment right. But that is not the relevant breakdown. It is really a war between liberty and authoritarianism, and amazingly, it is journalists who have become the leading proponents of repression.