2023-08-02
Horseshit
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Microsoft Teams adds spatial audio for more immersive conference calls
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I Keep Writing the Same Poptimism Piece Because Nothing Ever Changes
The assumed ideology in 21st-century American life is that your personal and political virtue is expressed in your consumer choices, that you reveal your innermost ethical self not through your actions or even your utterances but with the consumerist cultures you labor to broadly associate yourself with.
this ultimately is what poptimism really is, not the intellectualized poptimist ideal but poptimism as a social practice: a theocracy of taste. As much as they squawk about just wanting equal respect or being taken seriously by critics or whatever, lurking behind every poptimist take is resentment that other people like music they don’t. Scratch a poptimist and beneath the thin veneer of critical equality and artistic populism you’ll find someone who resents the possibility that there are other aesthetic values than their own. This resentment is driven by what I’ve been writing about for years - people who lack a sense of self and have mistaken their pop culture consumption for their personalities, and who thus cannot coexist comfortably with the notion that other tastes are equally valid. If you are what you like, other people’s tastes are terrifying.
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Judge Throws Out Lawsuit over Kraft Mac and Cheese Prep Time
Ramirez objected to packaging that said her macaroni and cheese would be “ready in 3-1/2 minutes” because it did not include time to remove the lid, add water and stir in a cheese sauce pouch.
Musk
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Elon Musk’s X Sues Nonprofit That Researched Hate Speech on Platform
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‘Free Speech Absolutist’ Musk Files Obvious Slapp Suit Against Non-Profit Critic
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Why Elon Killed the Bird: 3 theories about Twitter’s nonsensical rebrand to X
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Elon Musk took over Tesla with money, strongarm tactics, and his popularity
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Global Militaries Worry Elon Musk Is Too Erratic to Manage Starlink Competently
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Elon Musk’s extravagant ‘X’ sign atop the former Twitter HQ has been dismantled
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The Boring Company will dig a 68-mile tunnel network under Las Vegas
Trump / War against the Right / Jan6
Pestilence / Pox / COVID / VaxCult
Edumacationalizing / Acedemia Nuts
Media / ShowBiz / Advertising
TechSuck
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3d data format: Pixar, Adobe, Apple, Autodesk, and Nvidia form alliance for OpenUSD | Hacker News
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Shamir Secret Sharing - too long to tweet
back then, if you wanted to collect some information from the keyboard without printing what is being typed in onto the screen and remain POSIX-compliant, getpass did the trick. Other than a few standard file manipulation system calls, getpass was the only operating system service call I used, to ensure clean portability between Linux and Solaris.
Except it wasn’t completely clean.
Plain as day, there it was: the manual pages were identical, except Solaris had a “special feature”: any passphrase entered that was longer than 8 characters long was automatically reduced to that length anyway. (Who needs long passwords, amiright?!)
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Why Edge Detection Doesn’t Explain Line Drawing | Aaron Hertzmann’s blog
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Canon’s New Camera Enables Long-Range Night Vision Capabilities
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How I discovered the underground world of credit card network exploitation | Hacker News
Crypto con games
Economicon / Business / Finance
Gubmint / Poilitcks / Law Making
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The Media Throw Hunter Biden Under the Bus To Save the ‘Big Guy.’
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Joe Biden Wasn’t Involved In Hunter’s Business And It’s Normal That He Was.
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Biden Blames USA Downgrade On Trump | ZeroHedge
"This Trump downgrade is a direct result of an extreme MAGA Republican agenda defined by chaos, callousness, and recklessness that Americans continue to reject," said Biden re-election campaign spokesman Kevin Munoz. "Donald Trump oversaw the loss of millions of American jobs, and ballooned the deficit with the disastrous tax cuts for the wealthy and big corporations."