2023-06-13
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Horseshit
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What is Social Status? | Hacker News
a major issue that recurs is that they use the same definition of aggression and violence for both men and women,
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Researchers warn of ‘model collapse’ as AI trains on AI-generated content.
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Toyota EV mimics manual transmission with feel of gear sticks, roaring engine
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Researchers discover Strava heatmaps can reveal your home address
celebrity gossip
Rank Propaganda / Thought Policing / World Disordering
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What happened to Lara Logan, from respected reporter to conspiracy theories
“If you want to know why it’s called social media,” Logan says, “I’ll tell you why: Because Karl Marx was hired by Henry Rothschild, by the Rothschild family, to develop a system of social control. So when you see social, it is a form of control—that’s all it is. Social media is a form of controlling us all.” She goes on, picking up on the title of a recent book by a friend of hers, retired General Michael Flynn, the former national security adviser and a far-right conspiracy theorist: “So what does fifth-generation warfare really mean?” It means that “you’re meant to believe the narrative, regardless of the truth.”
Musk
Media / ShowBiz / Advertising
TechSuck
Crypto con games
Economicon / Business / Finance
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Instant Pot and Pyrex Maker Instant Brands Files for Bankruptcy
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Panama Canal Imposes Shipping Restrictions to Cope with Worsening Drought
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Sources Tell me some Messed Up Stuff is Happening in Commercial Real Estate
What they are planning…is to walk away from any buildings where the loans are worth more than it makes sense to pay or to refinance. En masse. Banks will take hundreds of billions to trillions of dollars in losses. And literally everyone knows the US government will have no choice but to bail them out, as usual.
Then, when the banks turn around and sell these properties for pennies on the dollar, these same property companies that caused the problem in the first place are going to buy better properties for cheaper and end up better off than they were before.
Gubmint / Poilitcks / Law Making
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Grassley added Monday that, according to the FD-1023, “the foreign national possesses 15 audio recordings of phone calls between him and Hunter Biden” and “two audio recordings of phone calls between him and the-Vice President Joe Biden.” The senator also said the FBI record “also indicates that then-Vice President Joe Biden may have been involved in Burisma employing Hunter Biden.”