2023-08-26

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Jordan Peterson Goes to ‘War’
Following Elon Musk’s lead, Big Tech is surrendering to disinformation
- HN comments
Newly declassified US Intel: Russia is laundering propaganda through Westerners

The official declined to offer specifics to back up the intelligence community’s assertions that the FSB is funding this kind of operation but noted that once officials were able establish FSB backing, it is easy to trace the narratives they are pushing in open-source materials. “Once you’re aware of who these people are and their association with the FSB, by nature of what they’re doing, they have very, very public personas,” the official said. “And so I would just say it’s not really difficult to kind of follow the strings.”

SpaceX Versus the Department of Justice

it seems that SpaceX is being singled out for punishment for a practice that is widespread in the industry and often encouraged by, sometimes required by, and usually practiced by the Federal government.

Oliver Anthony slams use of song at debate: I wrote that song about those people
Roblox facilitates “illegal gambling” for minors, according to new lawsuit
Web Scraping for Me, But Not for Thee

the most aggressive companies in pursuing web-scraping litigation are the social media companies. LinkedIn and Facebook, most notably, have done as much as anyone to shape the law of web scraping. But the content that they’re trying to protect isn’t theirs—it belongs to their users. It’s user-generated content. And while their terms of use provide the social media companies a license to use that user-generated content, it is their users who typically have a copyright interest in their content. The social media companies have no cognizable property right to assert in this content/data.
- HN comments
Uncle Sam accuses SpaceX of not considering asylees and refugees for employment
- HN comments

Norad scrambles F-16s to intercept civilian aircraft near Biden vacation spot

The crews of two F-16s fired flares to catch the attention of the pilot of the civilian craft and escorted it out of the restricted airspace without further incident,
Fifth Circuit: Law Enforcement Doesn’t Need Warrants to Search Phones at Border

UK police say 88 people who bought sodium nitrite from Canadian websites died

The agency said it was investigating whether any crimes had been committed in the U.K., but that "at this early stage there are no confirmed links between the items purchased from the websites and cause of death in any of these cases."
Wealthy People Are Getting Full-Body Scans. Early Detection or Unnecessary?
Training immune cells to remove ‘trash’ helps resolve lung inflammation
- smokers know how to cough