2023-06-15

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• Its a good thing i don't have $4.7million or i might've ordered a satellite: We are Putting our Prices Online

Horseshit

• Harvard morgue manager charged with selling body parts

• The Instant Pot Failed Because It Was a Good Product\

• AI Poses Threat To Democratic Order: President Of Germany

• As Ties to China Turn Toxic, Even Chinese Companies Are Breaking Them

• 32-year-old spent $2k setting up an Airbnb in her neighbor’s barn

• Gen Xers just want to go back in time to before the internet existed

celebrity gossip

• Twitch Streamer’s Car Gets Torched by Obsessed Viewer Who Drove 1,100 Km

Rank Propaganda / Thought Policing / World Disordering

• The British baroness writing Californian online safety laws

Musk

• Twitter stiffed Boulder office cleaners out of $94K, firm says

Culture War / Tribal / Re segregation

• Bud Light Loses Title as Top-Selling U.S. Beer - WSJ

• India’s $210B Wedding Industry Warms to LGBTQ Ceremonies

• Marlboro Adds Puberty Blockers To Cigarettes To Make Them Legal For Kids

Edumacationalizing / Acedemia Nuts

• Always the same warning signs | Hacker News

• Penn State professor Themis Matsoukas accused of performing sexual acts with his dog: ‘I do it to blow off steam.’

Media / ShowBiz / Advertising

• Reddit admins - that is, Reddit's own employees rather than the volunteers who keep the communities alive - have taken over two major subreddits, r/AdviceAnimals and r/Tumblr, and brought them back out of the Shadow Realm.

  The total disregard Reddit has shown for its users matches so exactly Digg's own self-immolation back in 2010 - the event that pushed the much smaller Reddit into the spotlight - that Digg should be able to sue for trademark infringement.

• The Guardian bans all gambling advertising

TechSuck

• Men who helped run Megaupload sentenced to prison in New Zealand

  • Megaupload coders get light sentences, will testify against Kim Dotcom

• Windows XP's adventures in the afterlife shows copyright's copywrongs

  Software copyright should officially expire after 20 years, clarifying the status of obsolete works and letting the support systems grow as they see fit – possibly even into commercial models. Why not? Whether this newly freed software makes it into full open sourcehood would be for us all to decide, yet it would remove that barrier to freedom that "we want to make this FOSS, but there are licensed components we can't give away." If your software has reached the age of liberation, its licensed components must be older.

Gubmint / Poilitcks / Law Making

• Karine Jean-Pierre Violated Hatch Act When She Repeatedly Referred to GOP Candidates as ‘Mega-MAGA Republicans,’ OSC Says › American Greatness

• Bongino | White House Brags About Chart Showing Inflation Skyrocketing on Their Watch

• GOP Squish Caucus Saves Evil Adam Schiff From Being Censured.

• Allstate Is No Longer Offering New Policies in California

• Biden Wants to Build an 8,000-Mile Ocean Train, and I Say Let's Do This! – PJ Media

Law Breaking / Police / Internal Security

• China likely sending military personnel into US, Homeland chair says.

External Security / Militaria / Diplomania

• NATO: Air Defender 23 is its biggest exercise ever

World

• Johnson faced 90-day suspension for deliberately misleading MPs over Partygate

• China cuts rates again as youth unemployment hits new record high

Russia Bad / Ukraine War

• We should monitor all Russians living in the West, Czech leader says

• Russia’s Big Economic Problem: Not Enough Workers

Health / Medicine

• New study suggest smart drugs like Ritalin can lead to less productivity

• People Are Boozing Like It’s 1860 As Americans Have Reached Civil War Levels Of Alcohol Consumption

• Cancer rates are climbing among young people. It’s not clear why

Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda

• Fears of hottest year on record as global temperatures spike

• We’ve pumped so much groundwater that we’ve nudged the Earth’s spin