2023-02-08

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• Intelligence is everywhere: From AI to cephalopods

• ‘As bad as it gets without body bags.’ - by James Fallows

  • HN comments

• U.S. National Inventory of Dams

Horseshit

• CBS Deletes ‘Ready to Worship’ Tweet After Blowback

• The Teen Mental Illness Epidemic Began Around 2012

• Couple banned from Airbnb for being parents of political author | Hacker News

• Walmart wins lawsuit claiming its Fudge Mint cookies lack fudge and mint

celebrity gossip

• Pink Floyd and the Gilmour-Waters spat: even crazier than I thought | Spin, strangeness, and charm

Rank Propaganda / Thought Policing / World Disordering

• Denialism: A Way to Stifle Dissent

• How to Maintain Mental Hygiene as an Open Source Researcher

Musk

• Turns Out, Not Many People Want to Pay for Twitter

• Twitter Starts Testing Out 4k Character Tweets

• Some Experts Agree That Elon Has Made Twitter’s Child Sexual Abuse Problem Worse

Trump / War against the Right / Jan6

• The FBI's McGonigal Labyrinth

Pestilence / Pox / COVID / VaxCult

• 1.5 Years after the west dropped the AstraZeneca vaccine WHO still recommends it

Media / ShowBiz / Advertising

• I Tried Microsoft’s New AI-Powered Bing. Search Will Never Be the Same

• Microsoft will make ChatGPT tech available for other companies to customize

TechSuck

• Regular Expression Matching with a Trigram Index

• Scaled Numbers

Crypto con games

• Reddit User Discovers 7zip File Possibly Linked to Julian Assange Hidden in Bitcoin Blockchain – Bitcoin News

• Bankrupt FTX exchange asks for its political donations to be returned

Economicon / Business / Finance

• Bed Bath and Beyond Sold Some Stock

• eBay to lay off 500 employees, 4% of workforce

• Zoom lays of 15% of employees

• BP posts record profit and boosts investment in oil and gas

• Amazon’s retreat on physical stores shows that disruption is harder than it look

• Why eggs are cheaper than you think

• Etsy is awash with illicit products and mass produced goods

• Fall in petrol use in gas-guzzling US heralds shift for global markets

• Alphabet shares fall 8% following Bard AI event

  • Google Stock Tumbles 8% After Its Bard AI Ad Shows Inaccurate Answer

• Study: Commuting has an upside and remote workers may be missing out

• Home-Buying Companies Stuck with Hundreds of Houses as Demand Slows

Gubmint / Poilitcks / Law Making

• State of the Union 2023: Who is the designated survivor?

• Trump Urges "End To The Destruction Of Our Country" After Biden Heckled, Booed By Republicans During SOTU | ZeroHedge

  “Some of my Republican friends want to take the economy hostage, I get it, unless I agree to their economic plans,” Biden said. “All of you at home should know what their plans are. Instead of making the wealthy pay their fair share, some Republicans want Medicare and Social Security to sunset."

• Huckabee Sanders Summed Up The Real SOTU In Just One Line

  While you reap the consequences of their failures, the Biden administration seems more interested in woke fantasies than the hard reality Americans face every day.

• The real state of the union - Your Daily Don Surber

• Data Privacy Is Now a Must-Hit US State of the Union Topic

Law Breaking / Police / Internal Security

• NYC Buses Migrants to Canada

• Family of Murdered New Jersey GOP Councilwoman ‘Haven’t Heard Anything’ From the Police

External Security / Militaria / Diplomania

• Seymour Hersh: How America Took Out The Nord Stream Pipeline

  Adrienne Watson, a White House spokesperson, said in an email, “This is false and complete fiction.” Tammy Thorp, a spokesperson for the Central Intelligence Agency, similarly wrote: “This claim is completely and utterly false.”

  Biden’s decision to sabotage the pipelines came after more than nine months of highly secret back and forth debate inside Washington’s national security community about how to best achieve that goal. For much of that time, the issue was not whether to do the mission, but how to get it done with no overt clue as to who was responsible.

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  • IP thread

  • Nord Stream Sabotage Was CIA, US Navy Covert Op: Seymour Hersh Bombshell Prompts White House Response | ZeroHedge

    The White House said on Wednesday that a blog post by a U.S. investigative journalist alleging the United States was behind explosions of the Nord Stream pipelines "is utterly false and complete fiction."

  • White House says blog post on Nord Stream explosion 'utterly false'

  • US bombed Nord Stream gas pipelines, claims investigative journalist Hersh

• Navy Releases First Images Of Chinese Surveillance Balloon Debris | ZeroHedge

• U.S. briefed 40 nations on China spy balloon incident

• Senior Defense Official and Senior Military Official Hold an Off-Camera, On-Background Press Briefing Update on the High-Altitude Surveillance Balloon > U.S. Department of Defense > Transcript

• China Has More ICBM Launchers Than U.S., American Military Reports.

• China Sends Spy Balloons over Military Sites Worldwide, U.S. Officials Say

World

• The UK will treat images of immigrants crossing the Channel as criminal offence

• Turkey blocks Twitter after the earthquake | Hacker News

• New French law will blanket parking lots with solar panels

Russia Bad / Ukraine War

• Mysterious Russian satellites are now breaking apart in low-Earth orbit

• MH17: Putin likely to have supplied missile that downed plane – investigators

• Russia's budget deficit explodes as latest sanctions bite

Health / Medicine

• Nestlé’s $6k Peanut Allergy Pill Has Been a Dud

Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda

• An unusually high number of whales are washing up on U.S. beaches

• Bankrupt FTX exchange asks for its political donations to be returned

• A rapidly growing rocket industry could undo decades of work to save ozone layer