2021-08-12
Cool
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The Man in the Arena: Theodore Roosevelt’s Citizenship In A Republic | But What For?
In April 1910, as he was spending his first year after leaving office on a trip across Africa and Europe, former President Theodore Roosevelt stopped in Paris at the Sorbonne and, unbeknownst to him, was to give what would become quite possibly his most famous speech: The Man in the Area: Citizenship in a Republic.
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Forgotten Italian CPU – The Genesys B52 MMX | The CPU Shack Museum
Worthy
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Contra Hanania On Partisanship - by Scott Alexander - Astral Codex Ten
But it still sucks. If one ethnic group is Democrat and another is Republican, this is only bad in the usual ways. But if one education level / professional group is Democrat and another is Republican, you get different ones capturing different institutions and then all the institutions are fighting against each other. Also, institutions lose viewpoint diversity and become monocultures. Also, people become suspicious of institutions that have been captured by people of the other political party and stop trusting them, and then society can’t reach a normal epistemic consensus.
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Republicans, Democrats United in Concern over Big Tech – Survey
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Ship sailing under Panama flag runs aground in northern Japan, splits in two
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NASA Says an Asteroid Will Have a Close Brush with Earth but Not Until the 2100s
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Spacesuits and Lawsuits Put 2024 Moon Landing in Jeopardy - Defense One
The next-generation spacesuits, known as Exploration Extravehicular Mobility Units, have been years in the making, and “by the time two flight-ready xEMUs are available, NASA will have spent over a billion dollars on the development and assembly,” the IG wrote. “Given these anticipated delays in spacesuit development, a lunar landing in late 2024 as NASA currently plans is not feasible,” the inspector general wrote. “The suits would not be ready for flight until April 2025 at the earliest.”
Horseshit
celebrity gossip
Culture War / Re segregation / Identdoctrination
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When They Fantasize About Killing You, Believe Them
The hyperbolic posturing of Trumpist extremists, repeated often enough, will have deadly consequences.
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Lie of Credit – American Express Tells Its Workers Capitalism Is Racist
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Abortion clinic protests banned in WA as safe access zones bill approved
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OpenVAERS has become one of the most powerful tools in the anti-vaxxer community
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Are Some People Born Lucky? A UT Psychologist Argues Inequality’s Genetic Roots – Texas Monthly
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SF first major U.S. city to mandate full vaccination for many indoor activities
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America’s White Population Shrank for First Time in U.S. History
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The Arc of History Bends Toward Emotional Support Peacocks - by Wesley Yang - Year Zero
A poll of students taken at Pomona College in 2014 found that 5 percent of them identified as "disabled". That same poll administered in 2019 found that the figure had grown to 22 percent. A nearly fourfold increase in so brief a surely tracks the explosive growth of a culture of systemic advantage seeking; but it likely also indicates a changing perception of the self, a higher threshold of sensitivity to the vicissitudes of everyday life, and an overall normalization and valorization of the condition of disability. The children of Lake Woebegon were once all above average; they now all require their own IEP.
Media / Many Ministries of Truths / Censorship
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Twitter locks account of India’s largest opposition party
The locking of the Indian National Congress’ account has prompted some new criticism for the American firm. “We strongly condemn the blocking of the accounts of the Indian National Congress and senior leaders of the Congress party,” tweeted Derek O’ Brien, from the All India Trinamool Congress party.
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YouTube deletes “lawsuit against vaccine passport” press conference video
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How a Star New York Times Reporter Got Paid by Government Agencies He Covered
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Three Australian publishers accuse Facebook of unfairly taking their content
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NY Times Lawyers Accidentally Send Private Strategy Memo to Staff Union
TechSuck
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Nvidia Reveals Its CEO Was Computer Generated in Keynote Speech
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Intel C/C++ compilers complete adoption of LLVM | Hacker News
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The bug which lost more than $600m in various crypto currencies a few hours ago | Hacker News
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Google Bans Location Data Firm Funded by Former Saudi Intelligence Head
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Microsoft protests Amazon’s $10bn NSA cloud computing contract
Economicon
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The big drop in American poverty during the pandemic, explained
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As retail investors, we have access to the What, the When, the Where and the How of the scenario. The only aspect we cannot account for, and cannot prove with the resources we have available to us, is the Who. Put simply, we can identify a malicious algorithm, but we can't tell who created/owns it, but we can say, it's not retail. Whether or not you agree that this is actual abuse of the stock market— like we do— or misuse of Short Exempt filing— like we do— there is absolutely no argument that can be made against the fact that, as retail investors we simply do not have the ability, broker functionality, or market accessibility to execute any comparable algorithmic mechanism.
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Carson Block explains what he got wrong about Elon Musk and Tesla
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IEA, OPEC Slash Oil Demand Outlook Amid "Headwinds" From Spreading Delta Variant
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With No Hope of Real Profits, Uber and Lyft Double Down on Fake Profit Metrics
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Millennials’ High-Earning Years Are Here, but It Doesn’t Feel That Way
Poilitcks
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Mathematicians are deploying algorithms to stop gerrymandering
mathematicians have been busy in anticipation of a data release expected today, August 12, from the US Census Bureau. Every decade, new census data launches the decennial redistricting cycle—state legislators (or sometimes appointed commissions) draw new maps, moving district lines to account for demographic shifts.
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Mike Lindell's “packet captures” are garbage data provided by serial con-man
Crime / Police
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Man Sentenced To Nearly 9 Years In Prison For Torching Store During 2020 BLM Riots
According to court documents, Rupert posted a video on his Facebook page showing him passing out explosives to others while encouraging people to hurl them at law enforcement officers during a riot in Minneapolis, Minnesota in late May 2020. The footage also showed Rupert actively damaging property, lighting a building on fire, and looting businesses, authorities said.
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California Man Allegedly Shot Fishing Spear Into His 10-Month-Old and 2-Year-Old Children
A San Diego, California surfing teacher and self-proclaimed QAnon theorist, has confessed to driving his two toddler children across the Mexican border in a sprinter van and killing them with a spear fishing gun.
When Coleman tried to re-enter the U.S. without his children on Monday, he was apprehended by U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents, who were warned to be on the lookout for him. Coleman confessed to the murders during an interview at the border.
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Police Misuse of Facial Recognition – Three Wrongful Arrests and Counting
Security / Militaria
World
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China releases a five-year regulation blueprint for broader crackdown
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Google search led to arrest of cleared campaigner - BBC News
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Russia detains head of hypersonic research facility in treason case
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Mandatory speed limiters on UK cars from 2022
The European Commission has reached a provisional agreement that all new vehicles sold in Europe will be fitted with a speed limiter as a legal requirement from 6 July 2022. The 2019/2044 regulation also mandates all new cars that have already launched be fitted with an Intelligent Speed Assist (ISA) by 7 July 2024.
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Germany arrests British diplomat suspected of spying for Russia
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Macron Says Showing Police Your Papers To Visit A Cafe Is About "Freedom" | ZeroHedge
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(June 2021) Who is being monitored?
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Canada PM Trudeau planning snap election, seeks approval for Covid response
Health / Medicine / COVID
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Red Cross Nurse Injects 8,600 with Saline Instead of Covid Vaccine
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Danish WHO Chief Says COVID "Patient Zero" Was Likely Wuhan Lab Worker | ZeroHedge
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Stanford requiring weekly Covid-19 testing regardless of vaccination status
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New data on coronavirus vaccine effectiveness against Delta raises concerns
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Breakthrough Cases May Be a Bigger Problem Than You’ve Been Told
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AstraZeneca vaccine: rare blood clot syndrome has high mortality rate
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Millions of excess vaccines around the globe are about to expire
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Pentagon unveils subdermal implant that detects Covid in the body
Pentagon scientists claim to have invented a sensor that once inserted under the skin will detect if the patient develops Covid-19. And they have also developed a revolutionary filter that can remove the virus from the patient’s blood through a dialysis machine.
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If You Think Your Kids Are Eating Mostly Junk Food, Study Finds You're Right