2023-05-30
Worthy
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Long: A Guide to Understanding the Hoax of the Century - Tablet Magazine
The message from the U.S. defense establishment was clear: To win the information war—an existential conflict taking place in the borderless dimensions of cyberspace—the government needed to dispense with outdated legal distinctions between foreign terrorists and American citizens.
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Horseshit
celebrity gossip
Rank Propaganda / Thought Policing / World Disordering
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The speech police are coming for social media
Policing the online public square is a daunting task. Though things have calmed down a little since Mr Trump left office and covid-19 died down (along with its associated wave of misinformation), last year the world’s three largest social media platforms—Facebook and Instagram, owned by Meta, and YouTube, owned by Google—removed or blocked 11.4bn posts, videos and user comments. Automated filters zap the bulk of it, but Meta and Google also employ more than 40,000 content reviewers between them.
Musk
Trump / War against the Right / Jan6
Pestilence / Pox / COVID / VaxCult
Culture War / Tribal / Re segregation
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Furries are banning children from their pervert conventions. That's the story. That's what this is all about.
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At one local show: A-B InBev distributor abandoning Bud Light brand in TN
The rebranding of the “Bud Light Stage” to the “Ultra Stage” reflects more than just how toxic the Bud Light brand is. AB distributors need to sell beer, and any money spent promoting Bud Light is going to be wasted. While AB as a whole is being hit hard, its other brands are not as radioactive as Bud Light.
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Google Photos AI still can't label gorillas after racist errors
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The Entire Transgender Craze Leads Back To One Group, And They’re Playing Hardball.
Edumacationalizing / Acedemia Nuts
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High school debate's decline: No arguing allowed
Lila Lavender, the 2019 national debate champion, is now a judge whose paradigm reads: “Before anything else, including being a debate judge, I am a Marxist-Leninist-Maoist. . . . I cannot check the revolutionary proletarian science at the door when I’m judging. . . . I will no longer evaluate and thus never vote for rightest capitalist-imperialist positions/arguments. . . . Examples of arguments of this nature are as follows: fascism good, capitalism good, imperialist war good, neoliberalism good, defenses of US or otherwise bourgeois nationalism, Zionism or normalizing Israel, colonialism good, US white fascist policing good, etc.”
Two judges warn students using the phrase "illegal immigrant" will result in a loss -- and public humiliation.
TechSuck
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(2019) Best discussion of "VR display" technology and constraints I have ever seen: VR optics and why IPD means too many things
What people in VR mostly mean when they talk about "IPD" is in fact inter-ocular-distance (IOD) which doesn't change over time or according to vergence. However it's hard to measure directly - how do you find the middle of an eyeball? So usually what we measure is IPD with zero vergence, i.e. looking at an object at infinity. Note that when optometrists measure IPD, they always do at a stated distance (sometimes given in meters, sometimes in diopters), and if you have a piece of paper from your optometrist with your IPD on it, somewhere on there it will also say at what distance it was measured. This is important for example if getting glasses specifically for reading - they will measure your IPD with the vergence you use for reading
One thing that is fascinating about humans is all their eyeballs are almost exactly the same size. They all have a radius of 12mm to an astonishing degree of accuracy for nature (less than 5% variance). Think about the huge variation in the sizes of humans and their body parts - but they all have eyeballs that are almost exactly the same size. And what small variance there is has no correlation to age, height, gender, ethnicity, or anything else anybody can find. The reason is that that's how optical physics works - if your eyeball isn't the exact correct size, you can't see properly. And we have very precise feedback mechanisms to make sure our eyeballs grow to the exact correct size. It is also why children have such big eyes - they quickly grow them up to the right size - before any other part of their body - so that they can see. By age 3, the eyeball is 11mm radius, and full-grown by age 12.
Crypto con games
Economicon / Business / Finance
Gubmint / Poilitcks / Law Making
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while receiving full-time protection from the State Department's Diplomatic Security Service in regard to threats from Iran, a former Trump administration official had two personal vehicles stolen from the driveway of his northern Virginia home.
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California overtime law threatens use of grazing goats to prevent wildfires
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New messages show Bidens offering 'safe harbor' to Hunter as he flails over scandalous reports
Law Breaking / Police / Internal Security
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A tech mogul's murder exposed Silicon Valley's underbelly of sex and drugs
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A professor who was stitched up by the FBI has won the right to sue the government.
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The answer to the FBI's advanced persistent threat • The Register
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eBay founder gives $2M to defund police – while funding private security startup