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According to Mitsubishi Electric, it shipped 8,363 transformers from the factory between 1982 and March 2022. About 40 percent of those, or 3,384, were fraudulently tested or improperly designed. Of those 3,384 problem transformers, 1,589 were shipped within Japan, while 1,795 were sent overseas.
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Largest Native American cave art revealed by 3D scans | Science | AAAS
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The impotence of the long-distance trillionaire - Charlie's Diary
Granting individuals enormous leverage can sometimes be socially useful. But before you point at Musk and Tesla or SpaceX, I need to remind you that he didn't found Tesla, he merely bought into it then took over: SpaceX's focus on reusability is good, but we had reusable space launchers before—the only really new angle is that it's a cost-reduction measure. Starlink isn't an original, it's merely a modern, bigger, faster version of 1990's Teledesic (which fell victim to over-ambitious technology goals and the dot-com bust). Meanwhile, billionaires can do immense damage: the Koch network has largely bankrolled climate change denial, Musk's Mars colony plan is fatally flawed, and so on. We inevitably run into the question of accountability. And when one person holds the purse-strings, we lose that.
Rank Propaganda / Thought Policing / World Disordering
Supreme Abortion
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CNN warns of 'far right' violence after Roe v. Wade leak - TheBlaze
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"'fetus' is a word dangerous enough that it requires a 350 word explainer article" Note About Today’s Wordle Game | Hacker News
Musk / Twitter
COVID / VaxCult
Culture War / Tribal / Re segregation
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The Hate Store: Amazon’s Self-Publishing Arm Is a Haven for White Supremacists
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Knitters got knotted in a purity spiral (2020) | Hacker News
What I/many can articulate more simply now that we didn't have the words for then is that this is a very old redemption hustle, and they're offering a kind of redemption I don't need. Just because someone is uncharitable doesn't mean I have to mollify them, and demanding a denial or denunciation from me is just their way of making a conversation about themselves. It's a disease of politeness, and the reason we got here is because we forgot sometimes in this world it is appropriate and necessary to say, please, fuck off, because we are being taken advantage of by people betting very heavily that we won't.
Edumacationalizing / Acedemia Nuts
TechSuck
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Nvidia LHR Lock Officially Cracked Bringing Full Crypto Mining Speeds | Hacker News
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Columbia University Awarded $185M for Patent Infringement by NortonLifeLock Inc
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Apple keeps it's tap-to-pay feature to itself to protect revenue
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Ask HN: APC adding monthly fees / remotely defeaturing existing UPS's? | Hacker News
Crypto con games
Economicon / Business / Finance
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Elon Musk and Cathie Wood knock passive index investing: say it’s gone too far
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Boeing is losing the plane race. So it packed up and left for Washington
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'Buy now, pay later' is sending the TikTok generation spiraling into debt | Hacker News
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Day Trader Army Loses All the Money It Made in Meme-Stock Era
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Uber CEO: company will cut down on costs, treat hiring as a ‘privilege’
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the Trains are Too Damn Long: “It Is Getting Worse. People Are Leaving”
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Everything That Could Go Wrong in Markets as Free-Money Era Ends
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Ask HN: Heavily exposed tech stock holders, how are you coping with the crash? | Hacker News