2023-05-06

Horseshit

• Girl settles case against equestrian centre over fall from pony for €145,000

• Wikipedia users edits over 90k uses of “comprised of” | Hacker News

• America Forgot About IBM Watson. Is ChatGPT Next?

Rank Propaganda / Thought Policing / World Disordering

• A Good Catch by a Reader, Regarding the Break from the "Pentagon Papers Principle"

• The reason for the Supreme Court’s corruption crisis

• Mainstream Media Doesn’t Care That the CIA May Have Helped Cause 9/11

Musk

• More than half of Twitter Blue's earliest subscribers are no longer subscribed

Culture War / Tribal / Re segregation

• It'll take 300 years to wipe out child marriage at the current pace of progress

Media / ShowBiz / Advertising

• It looks like GPT-4-32k is rolling out | Hacker News

TechSuck

• Releasing 3B and 7B RedPajama-INCITE family of models including base, instruction-tuned & chat models — TOGETHER

Economicon / Business / Finance

• Dow jumps 500 points, breaks 4-day losing streak. Regional banks and Apple surge

• JPMorgan: The bank that never lets a crisis go to waste

• Bank Turmoil Is Paving the Way for Even Bigger ‘Shadow Banks’

• Buffett's Berkshire posts $35.5B profit

Gubmint / Poilitcks / Law Making

• Autonomous Vehicles: ‘The federal government is not doing their job,’ NTSB chair says

• Bruce Schneier’s Plan to Reinvent Democracy

Law Breaking / Police / Internal Security

• FBI Agents Seemingly Surveilled Traditional Catholic Church, Sources Say

World

• A more democratic Turkey is within grasp

• King Charles III Is Crowned at Westminster Abbey

Russia Bad / Ukraine War

• Russia Bizarrely Includes Sims 3 Among Evidence of 'Staged' Assassination Plot

• The Nord Stream Explosions: New Revelations About Motive, Means, and Opportunity

• FBI Pressures on Social Media

• Ukraine downs Russian hypersonic missile with US Patriot

• Car bomb in Russia wounds pro-war writer, kills driver

Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda

• Experience how contrails impact the climate

• $50 Trillion For What? Kennedy Dumbfounds Biden Climate Peddler In Fiery Exchange Over 'Carbon Neutrality' | ZeroHedge

• Ocean-surface temperatures are breaking records

• The grid isn’t ready for 300M EVs by 2030