2023-09-21

Horseshit

• DIY Chatbots Unleash Large Language Models’ Repressed Sexuality

• Google sued for negligence after man died following map directions

• What a utopian experiment in government by computer can teach us

• The Grown-Ups Who Can’t Quit Uncrustables

• What can we do about ultraprocessed foods?

celebrity gossip

• Eugene Volokh, Who Graduated From UCLA At Age 15, Is Retiring From UCLA At Age 56 To Join The Hoover Institution.

• Rupert Murdoch steps down as chair of Fox and News Corp

  • Rupert Murdoch to Step Down as Chair of Fox and News Corp After 7-Decade Career

  • Rupert Murdoch: Why I’m stepping down

Rank Propaganda / Thought Policing / World Disordering

• The rise of the new tech right

• Gates Foundation and the New Colonialist Food Economy

• Rumble rejects MP's 'disturbing' letter over income

  • Rumble defends allowing Russell Brand to continue to make money on platform

  • Don’t Bother Me About Russell Brand Until You Start Believing Tara Reade.

• Twitter Ranked Dead Last on Climate Misinformation Scorecard

Musk

• The Gruesome Story of How Neuralink’s Monkeys Actually Died

Trump / War against the Right / Jan6

• FBI lost count of number of informants at Capitol on Jan. 6: ex-official

• We Are Not Just Polarized. We Are Traumatized

Pestilence / Pox / COVID / VaxCult

• Does the risk of getting long Covid increase each time you get reinfected?

• Researchers Alarmed to Find DNA Contamination in Pfizer Vaccine ⋆ Brownstone Institute

• HHS bars Wuhan Institute of Virology from receiving US funds for next 10 years

Edumacationalizing / Acedemia Nuts

• Texas teacher fired for reading graphic adaptation of Diary of Anne Frank — headlines are deceiving

Entertainment / ShowBiz / Advertising

• The deadline to migrate your Mojang account to a Microsoft account has passed

TechSuck / Geek Bait

• GNU 40th Anniversary

• Apple modem chip project failed because it’s harder than CPU, engineers tell WSJ

• Cisco Acquires Splunk | Hacker News

• Article reply “Godot is not the new Unity” from Juan Linietsky (BDFL of Godot)

• A (more) Modern CSS Reset - Andy Bell

Space / UFO / Boomy Zoomers

• Solar storm slams into Earth, sparks northern lights display

• Space-Based Solar Power Is a Possible Alternative Energy Source

Crypto con games

• Shows the depth of the BTC "market": Alameda lost tens of millions because of a fat fingering mistake

  Well, on October 21 2021, an Alameda trader's finger slipped. Rather than selling BTC at the current market price, they sold it for pennies on the dollar. The result was immediate. The price of BTC shot from a high of $65k to as low as $8k on some venues, only to be quickly restored by arbitrageurs.

  Alameda's losses on the fat-finger trade were staggering - on the order of tens of millions. But because it had been an honest mistake, there wasn't much to do except to implement additional sanity checks for manual trades. And that's what we did.

• The NSA Invented Bitcoin? | Hacker News

• 95% of NFTs now worthless, say researchers

Economicon / Business / Finance

• Median Household Income After Taxes Fell 8.8% in 2022

• Toshiba to delist after takeover by Japanese consortium succeeds

Gubmint / Poilitcks / Law Making

• Orwell would loathe today's left - spiked

• Biden appears to wander off UN stage without shaking President Lula’s hand at end of joint speech — leaving Brazilian leader visibly irritated — minutes after president walked through a flag to take the podium

• USPS In-Person Identity Proofing

  • HN comments

Law Breaking / Police / Internal Security

• Watch Live: Garland Grilled Over Ray Epps, Hunter Biden Influence Peddling | ZeroHedge

• Judge Pauline Newman, 96, barred from hearing cases in bitter fight over mental fitness - Washington Times

• FCC plays whack-a-mole with telcos accused of profiting from robocalls

• It’s No Accident The Southern Border Is Collapsing, It’s Intentional.

External Security / Militaria / Diplomania

• A-10 Pilot’s Compelling Case for Replacing Warthogs with Super Hornets

• Former official had warned about F-35 safety and security problems

• U.S. revives Cold War submarine spy program to counter China

World

• Rishi Sunak delays petrol car ban in major shift on green policies

• UK's Online Safety Bill finally passed by parliament

• Germany went from envy of the world to worst-performing major developed economy

Russia Bad / Ukraine War

• Inside the West’s Mammoth Effort to Turn Ordinary Ukrainians into Soldiers

Health / Medicine

• Training the gut’s immune system to combat detrimental effects of emulsifiers in processed food.

• So do a disturbing number of peer reviewed scientific studies: A disturbing number of TikTok videos about autism include claims that are false

• Lead poisoning causes far more death, IQ loss than thought: study

• FDA rejects first nasal spray alternative to epinephrine autoinjectors

Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda

• Controversial deep-sea mining could help solve global critical minerals shortage

• What Ancient Goat Teeth Reveal About Animal Care

• Biden Launches the American Climate Corps and AmeriCorps NCCC Forest Corps

• California orders bottled water firm to stop drawing from natural springs

• Almost everyone in Europe is breathing toxic air

• The SEC cracks down on greenwashing