2023-05-16
Horseshit
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Airbag Company Opts Not to Recall 67M Inflators That Could Spew Shrapnel
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Galton, Ehrlich, Buck - by Scott Alexander
Which brings me back to my objection to your seemingly-compassionate-and-sensible eugenics proposal. Francis Galton said we should do eugenics in a voluntary and scientifically reasonable way. People listened to him, nodded along, and then went and did eugenics in a coercive and horrifying way. Now here you are, saying we should do eugenics in a voluntary and scientifically reasonable way. You can see why I might be concerned. People roll their eyes at slippery slopes, but some slopes are genuinely slippery, and the slope from “thinks about eugenics at all” to “involuntary sterilization campaign” seems steep enough that I would just rather people not think about eugenics at all.
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iPhones will be able to speak in your voice with 15 minutes of training
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The apocalypse isn’t coming. We must resist cynicism and fear about AI
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Large language models' surprise emergent behavior written off as 'a mirage'
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OpenAI boss Sam Altman tells Congress he fears AI is ‘harm’ to the world
celebrity gossip
Rank Propaganda / Thought Policing / World Disordering
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Jonathan Turley on the MSM, American's state media - The New Neo
I have one disagreement with Turley, which is that the MSM is not a state media, it’s a party media. When a Democrat is in office, the MSM blocks anything bad about that person and the Democratic Party, and tries to turn it around to make Republicans look bad. But when a Republican is in office, it is the opposite. So the MSM swings back and forth between supporting the administration and working to undermine it, depending on which party is in power.
In the USSR, the newspapers were state media because only one party, the Communist Party, was allowed to be in power. In the US, there is still ostensibly the possibility of the right gaining power, so we have this back-and-forth by the media depending on who is in power. Make no mistake about it, though; the goal is to cement the power of the left so that the right can never win again. At that point, the MSM will become the voluntary state media.
Musk
Trump / War against the Right / Jan6
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Durham Releases Final Report, Concludes FBI Opened Trump Probe Despite No Verified Intel
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Durham report finds FBI probe into Trump-Russia ties was flawed
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Jonathan Turley Demands Answers After Durham Report Exposes Schiff Lie.
Given Durham's findings that there was no basis for the actions taken by the FBI in launching this investigation, this would be a good time for former House Intelligence Chair Adam Schiff to reveal that evidence he said showed the Russian collusion…
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Durham proves that Hillary and the FBI tried to rig the 2016 election.
Pestilence / Pox / COVID / VaxCult
Edumacationalizing / Acedemia Nuts
Media / ShowBiz / Advertising
TechSuck
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CLIC EPFL | Annulation de la conférence avec Richard Stallman
CLIC does not wish to participate in any way in the organization of an event that has a scope other than informing about free software. We do not want the image of CLIC and the students to be associated with statements that do not correspond to any of our values, quite the contrary. This is why we have taken steps to cancel the conference. There will be other opportunities in a better setting to talk about GNU/Linux, LibreOffice, Wikipedia and Mozilla Firefox in a more peaceful context.
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Ask HN: Retired engineers, are you being asked to return to work? | Hacker News
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Ask HN: Have you ever heard of a CA revoking a certificate? | Hacker News
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Microsoft is scanning the inside of password-protected zip files for malware
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I get the feeling this is just a glimpse into how fucked up everything to do with the legacy telephone network actually is now. The worst message in telecom (you won't believe) | Working Group Two
Crypto con games
Economicon / Business / Finance
Gubmint / Poilitcks / Law Making
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Berenson v. Biden: The Potential and Significance ⋆ Brownstone Institute
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Billionaires allegedly committing felony voter fraud in Aspen local election
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Seattle-area official defends nomination sex offender to committee
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OpenAI chief goes before US Congress to propose licenses for building AI
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Did the FDA break its own rules in approving the antibiotic Recarbrio?
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Biden Has An Ominous Reason to Talk About 'White Supremacy' – PJ Media
ever so conveniently for Old Joe, no sooner had he uttered this false claim again at Howard on Saturday than a couple of hundred actual white supremacist terrorists miraculously materialized in Washington. All were young, physically fit men; not a single fat Nazi in the bunch. All wore the same blue shirt and khaki pants uniform, all with their faces covered, and once again, the feds showed no curiosity about who they are and made no attempt to determine where they came from or where they went.
This clumsy false-flag operation was widely exposed and ridiculed on Twitter, but conservative writer Chris Brunet pointed out: “What’s sad about this clip is that everyone here on my side of Twitter instantly knows this is a glowie/fed operation… pure theatre. But it is actually a really effective psyop, they keep doing it, because it works. Ask any normal person on the street, ask your mom, ask your sister, and they will be terrified of this clip and fall for it hook-line-and-sinker.”
Law Breaking / Police / Internal Security
External Security / Militaria / Diplomania
World
Russia Bad / Ukraine War
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Major blow for Putin as Moldova withdraws from Russia-led alliance after 30 years.
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Kyiv says it shoots down volley of Russian hypersonic missiles
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State Dept holds news briefing after Russia launches exceptional attack on Kyiv
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Russia Says It Took Out US-Supplied Patriot Missile In Hypersonic Strike On Kiev | ZeroHedge