2023-04-05

Cool

• Cheetah Walks Over to Photographer for a Head Rub During Photo Shoot | PetaPixel

Horseshit

• The case for banning children from social media | Hacker News

• 200-foot “railway” demolished after court closes shipping loophole

• Big Dairy Is Trying to Get Gen-Z to Drink More Milk

celebrity gossip

• Jon Stewart Returned to ‘The Daily Show’

Obit

• Bob Lee, former CTO of Square, has died after being stabbed in San Francisco

  • HN comments

  • Bob Lee, Former Square CTO and Cash App Founder, Has Died

  • Cash App Founder Bob Lee Killed in San Francisco – NBC Bay Area

  • Well-Known Crypto Tech Exec Murdered In San Francisco Stabbing

• Bing Newcomb, Whose E*Trade Transformed Stock Trading, Dies at 79

Rank Propaganda / Thought Policing / World Disordering

• Google’s Bard Writes Convincingly About Known Conspiracy Theories

• NPR now labeled “state-affiliated media” on Twitter | Hacker News

  • NPR CEO Slams Twitter for Labeling Its Account as ‘State-Affiliated Media’

  • Twitter labels NPR's account as 'state-affiliated media', which is untrue

Musk

• Germany accuses Twitter of failing to remove illegal hate speech

• Elon Musk’s obsession with blue checks is a verified problem

• On Doge Twitter, Everything Is Meaningless

• Why journalists can’t quit Twitter

Trump / War against the Right / Jan6

• Trump Pleads Not Guilty To 34 Felony Counts | ZeroHedge

  • Trump Formally Arraigned on 34 Felony Violations

• The Trump Campaign Is Already Selling ‘Mugshot’ Merch.

Edumacationalizing / Acedemia Nuts

• A Student Is Taking on ‘Biased’ Exam Software

TechSuck

• New buckling spring keyboards re-create IBM’s iconic Model F

• Another major LLM, OPT-175B model, leaked on 4Chan via torrent

• OpenAI Tokenizer | Hacker News

• Edge AI Just Got Faster

  • HN comments

Economicon / Business / Finance

• Exxon Quits Drilling in Brazil After Failing to Find Oil

Gubmint / Poilitcks / Law Making

• As Veterans Learned the DCCC Had Leaked Their Data, the VA’s Tech Chief Was Meeting With His Wife. She Runs the DCCC.

• Florida Democratic Chair Nikki Fried, Sen. Lauren Book arrested during abortion bill protest - CBS Miami

Law Breaking / Police / Internal Security

• Johnson and Johnson Reaches Deal for $8.9B Talc Settlement

World

• Sweden has expelled 1.1k UK nationals since Brexit

• Poland’s War on Two Fronts

Russia Bad / Ukraine War

• Prominent Russian blogger assassinated in St. Petersburg bombing

• Russia is persecuting dissenters by taking away their children

Health / Medicine

• Ancient Mummies from Mexico Might Be Infecting Humans

• The ‘King Kong’ of Weight-Loss Drugs Is Coming

Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda

• I'm being terrorised by the squirrels in my kitchen