2023-03-25

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Cyberpunk Is Alive, Evolving, and More Relevant Than Ever
There's a 'Subterranean Galapagos' Deep Inside the Earth

“A decade ago, we had no idea that the rocks beneath our feet could be so vastly inhabited,” Isabelle Daniel, a mineralogist at Claude Bernard University Lyon 1 in France, said in a statement.
- Because it was unthnkable to support "abiotic oil" more than that there was no evidence.
- HN comments
(2017) Silicon Valley Is Turning into Its Own Worst Fear
Less affluent youth were less likely to participate in sports

Biden White House Pressured Meta to Moderate Texts on WhatsApp

The exchanges about WhatsApp are arresting not because of what Meta ultimately did or did not do on the platform—since the company’s options for intervention appear to be limited—but because efforts to moderate content on a private messaging service was a continued interest for a White House official at all.

James Bamford: The Trump Campaign’s Collusion with Israel
Zero Dark Trump…

The people who have taken upon themselves the great burden of spying on and censoring their fellow citizens for wrongthink — the hall monitors within the Censorship Industrial Complex — have been warning for years that deep fakes like the Trump images above would result in “disinformation” campaigns and “influence operations” by “malign actors.” Funny, then, that it was one of the leading members of the Censorship Industrial Complex, Eliot Higgins of the creepy Bellingcat, who was the first to create and tweet out the Trump deep fakes.
Julie Kelly: Informants Everywhere | ZeroHedge
Proud Boys attorneys: Informant had contact with defense team, defendants - POLITICO

Attorneys for five Proud Boys on trial on charges of seditious conspiracy said on Wednesday that the Justice Department had informed them that a witness one of them had been prepared to call as part of the defense this week has been a government informant since 2021.
Here's Why Ray Epps Is Now Targeting Tucker Carlson