2023-05-03
Horseshit
celebrity gossip
Rank Propaganda / Thought Policing / World Disordering
Musk
Trump / War against the Right / Jan6
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Deconstructing Tucker - by John C Dvorak - The Oasis
while there is some tolerance for end-times prophecies and complaining about vaccine mandates, the United States has never tolerated anti-war sentiments on any scale. A few tolerated brand-name peaceniks will write an op-ed once in a while. That's it.
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The Tucker Text That Panicked Fox's Top Brass: "It's Not How White Men Fight" | ZeroHedge
The content of Carlson's text, which was first reported and published by the Times on Tuesday night, was given to the paper by "several people close to the defamation suit." They did so in violation of a court order protecting various communications that surfaced in discovery.
The text in question was sent by Carlson to one of his producers on the afternoon of Jan. 7, 2021 -- the day after the January 6 riots on Capitol Hill. In the lengthy message, a candid Carlson introspectively shares the feelings he had when, a few weeks earlier, he'd seen video of "at least three" Trump supporters surrounding a single Antifa "kid" and severely beating him. Referring to the ratio of attackers to victim, Carlson said: "Jumping a guy like that is dishonorable obviously. It’s not how white men fight."
Pestilence / Pox / COVID / VaxCult
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CDC opens probe after 35 test positive for Covid following CDC conference
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Comment on Human Challenge Trials
consider even the better defined but wildly more mundane issue: proof of vaccination. For decades health ethicists told us that merely revealing a patient’s name, let alone which medications they have taken, was an unconscionable ethical violation. One which we instituted balkanized medical systems to manage and where the cost has been literal lives lost as we have had untold numbers of patients fall through the cracks thanks to duplicate profiles, failure of providers to communicate, and of course scads and scads of useful data locked away from effective statistical analysis that could spot patterns of medical error.
Yet when the powers that be decided that we needed vaccine passports so we could enjoy dining again? Well, every waiter in the country becomes a safe repository of PHI. No formal study. No deliberations. Precious little if any publications.
Edumacationalizing / Acedemia Nuts
Media / ShowBiz / Advertising
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Some personal news - by Nate Silver - Silver Bulletin
Much of FiveThirtyEight’s vital intellectual property — such as the election forecast models — is merely licensed to Disney. The license term for these models expires with my contract this summer. I still own these models, and can license or sell them elsewhere. To be clear, Disney does own some stuff. They own the trade name “FiveThirtyEight”, for instance. There are also some complicated cases — for example, for some of the sports models, I own them, but Disney gets to keep a copy when I leave. But I own the core election forecasts and Disney doesn’t have any ongoing rights. The contract I signed with Disney/ESPN in 2013 and the renewal with Disney/ABC in 2018 were always designed to keep my options open if something like what happened last week came to pass.
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Meta proudly supports the people and economy of the United States
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For Bluesky to thrive, it needs sex workers and Black Twitter
TechSuck
> This is as simple as making the madvise system call with the
> MADV_RANDOM flag. This hint tells the kernel that the application
> is going to access the mmapped file randomly, so it should disable
> readahead for the mmapped file. That was it! No more "phantom
> reads":
+ [HN comments](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35793660)
Crypto con games
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Web3's fake version of Web history - by Dave Karpf
the problem with Dixon’s model is that it extremely, ceaselessly, aggressively wrong. It’s the type of wrong that might be useful for hawking unregistered Web3 security products (err, sorry, I mean, play-to-earn games), but is not at all useful for actually understanding the development of the internet.
When the historical narrative seems off, distrust the person who is delivering it. It’s a good sign that their real goal is to avoid the lessons of history.
Economicon / Business / Finance
Gubmint / Poilitcks / Law Making
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CNN Frets Republicans Are ‘Seizing,’ ‘Up in Arms’ Over Biden ‘Cheat Sheet.’
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Another Judicial Ethics Story About Justice Thomas Falls Apart.
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Judges Rule America: snapshot of an anti-trust trial
While I can’t say this for certain, I imagine that this kind of ruthless hierarchy is bad for both the lawyers and the judge. Lawyers learn an extreme form of deference to power, and judges come to think lightly of making policy masquerading as legal interpretation. Judges in a bench trial involving billions are in total control of everyone around them. And that kind of power will go to their heads. They don’t know if someone is telling the truth, or just kissing their ass, unless it’s a fellow judge.