2023-09-26

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• DJI Mini 4 Pro | Hacker News

• Why don’t Americans eat mutton?

  • HN comments

Horseshit

• Study links blue light from smartphones or tablets to early puberty

• Who Lusts for Certainty Lusts for Lies

  • Google "data" found to be flawed.

  • HN comments

• Erudit raises $10M to monitor workplaces for ‘misalignment’

• Do you hate astrology or are you just sexist

  There is a clear dissonance between the expectations of toxic masculinity and the zodiac. It could certainly be difficult to identify with something that so directly opposes the traditional standard of masculinity. The hatred toward astrology is not simply a demonstration of society’s hatred toward women, but also a reflection of society’s narrow perception of what it means to be a man. I know, this sounds crazy, especially coming from a woman, but I think we can use astrology to help eliminate sexism from our dating pools.

• What the Luddites Can Teach Us About Artificial Intelligence

• very heavy push on this one: Apple designer Ive, OpenAI's Altman discuss AI hardware

  • Designer Jony Ive and OpenAI’s Sam Altman Discuss AI Hardware Project

celebrity gossip

• Why Rupert Murdoch Fired Tucker Carlson from Fox News

• Chess grandmaster Hans Niemann denies using vibrating sex toy to cheat

• Bloomberg Outlines Succession Plan for Bloomberg L.P

Obit

• Burkey Belser, designer of the nutrition facts label, has died

• RIP "Ducky": David McCallum, Star of ‘NCIS,’ ‘The Man From U.N.C.L.E.,’ Dies at 90

Rank Propaganda / Thought Policing / World Disordering

• A Tricky New Way to Sneak Past Repressive Internet Censorship

• Misinformation research is buckling under GOP legal attacks

• Tech firms roll back misinformation curbs ahead of 2024 polls

Musk

• EU warns Elon Musk after Twitter found to have highest rate of disinformation

• Engagement with Foreign Propaganda Is Soaring on Elon Musk's X

  • so... like worse than 2016, when all the russian bots stole Hillary's election? Worse than 2019, when all the russian bots were telling everyone COVID wouldn't have a fatality rate higher than 1%? Is the excitement and distress perhaps caused more by "disengagement with domestic propaganda?"Our advertising industry / governing elites are a jealous God, indeed.

• Musk’s X Is Biggest Outlet of Russia Disinformation, EU Says

Trump / War against the Right / Jan6

• Trump and GOP Rep. Gosar Suggest Joint Chiefs Boss Mark Milley Deserves Death

• FBI Predicted Those Jan 6 Riots They Instigated.

• Prosecutors aim to ‘silence’ Trump with proposed gag order in 2020 election case, his lawyers say.

• FBI refuses to release documents in probe into possible nationwide voter registration fraud | Just The News

Pestilence / Pox / COVID / VaxCult

• Merck Covid drug linked to virus mutations that can spread between people

• New Allegations That Dr. Fauci Influenced CIA Covid-19 Origins Investigation

Religion / Tribal / Culture War and Re-Segregation

• L.A. Times: As Muslims’ status as political punching bag fades, some are fighting against LGBTQ+ acceptance.

• From my email (on single-parent families)

  We don’t know what would work. But it can’t hurt to have the intelligentsia unified and vocal in a belief that a) this problem really matters, and b) like most problems it is not a hopeless one and improvement is possible.

Edumacationalizing / Acedemia Nuts

• Two Thirds of American Kids Can’t Read Fluently

Entertainment / ShowBiz / Advertising

• We are beginning to roll out new voice and image capabilities in ChatGPT | Hacker News

• Searchable database of 183k books used to train models by Meta, others

• Idris Elba: Actors in video games like Phantom Liberty is 'sign of the times'

• Netflix’s first order was Casino DVD in 1998

• Streaming will transform video games just like Netflix changed TV, says Ubisoft

• How Mick Jagger Has Kept the Rolling Stones in Business for Six Decades

• Unity U-turns on controversial runtime fee and begs forgiveness

• Writers will return to work after union leadership votes to end strike

  • The new WGA contract will change how Hollywood works

• I asked Meta's A.I. chatbot what it thought of my books

TechSuck / Geek Bait

• PostScript’s sudden death in Sonoma – The Eclectic Light Company

  • HN comments

• The Reverse Oscilloscope

• (May, 2019) Does Cloudflare's 1.1.1.1 DNS Block Archive.is? – Jake Jarvis

• ROCm Is AMD's #1 Priority, Executive Says

• GPU.zip: side channel attack that exposes visual data processed on the GPU | Hacker News

Space / UFO / Boomy Zoomers

• FAA proposes rule to reduce space debris as SpaceX launches 22 satellites into orbit.

  • (PDF) FAA Proposal

• Dozens of Government UFO Whistleblowers Have Given Testimony to Congress

Crypto con games

• Mixin suspends deposits and withdrawals after $200M cryptocurrency heist

• Hong Kong crypto exchange JPEX collapsed yesterday and the senior management are on the run.

• SBF prosecutors permitted to show jury evidence of political donations.

Economicon / Business / Finance

• Pandemic Savings Have Run Out for 80% of Americans, Fed Study Shows

• Kids’ Competitive Activities Lead to Debt for 79% of Parents

• Why many business owners would love it if you stopped using your credit card

• SEC obtains Wall Street firms’ private chats in probe of WhatsApp, Signal use

• Global trade nosedives: Fastest fall since COVID.

• US Orange Juice Prices Hit Record Highs As Supplies Tumble To 1968 Lows

• Evergrande Sends Chilling Warning to China Real Estate Investors

• FTC Sues Amazon for Illegally Maintaining Monopoly Power

  • HN comments

  • Amazon.com faces an array of US consumer, state antitrust lawsuits

  • FTC Sues Amazon, Alleging Illegal Online-Marketplace Monopoly

  • FTC Sues Amazon

  • U.S., 17 states sue Amazon alleging monopolistic practices led to higher prices

  • Amazon is being sued by the Biden administration’s FTC over antitrust violations

  • Amazon used market power to warp prices of goods across the internet FTC alleges

  • U.S. sues Amazon in monopoly case that could be existential for the retail giant

Gubmint / Poilitcks / Law Making

• "He'll Do It Again": Hillary Clinton Claims Putin Will Interfere In 2024 Election

• 'Just Allegations': Menendez Refuses To Resign Amid Bribery Scandal, Claims Seized $480K Was For 'Emergencies' | ZeroHedge

  he claimed that the $480,000 in cash seized at his home, found stuffed in envelopes and hidden in clothing and closets, was for 'emergencies.'

  "For 30 years, I have withdrawn thousands of dollars in cash from my personal savings account, which I have kept for emergencies and because of the history of my family facing confiscation in Cuba," he claimed, adding "Now this may seem old-fashioned, but these were monies drawn from my personal savings account based on the income that I have lawfully derived over those 30 years."

• Supreme Court considers limits on White House contacts with social media

• Conservative, Inc. has decided Haley is their bitch:

  • Questionable Stock Trade Patterns in Ramaswamy's Wall Street Past

  • Nikki Haley: My plan to unleash America’s secret weapon — economic freedom.

• Moody’s warns federal shutdown would be ‘negative’ for US debt rating

• FCC Aims to Reinstate Net Neutrality After US Democrats Gain Control of Panel

  • FCC to reintroduce rules protecting net neutrality

• President Biden refers to rapper LL Cool J as ‘boy’ while speaking to Congressional Black Caucus.

• Bidens used an FBI mole to share sealed SDNY indictments with CEFC China Energy

• US To Keep Paying Salaries For Tens Of Thousands Of Ukrainians During Government Shutdown | ZeroHedge

• Romeike family faces deportation after 15 years in the U.S. after losing their asylum claim based on religious persecution in Germany. If only they had illegally entered through the southern border and disregarded the asylum system completely, they would have fared better.

• Hunter Biden Sues Giuliani For 'Hacking' His Abandoned Laptop

  • Hunter Biden claims in lawsuit that Rudy Giuliani hacked his data - POLITICO

• Has the Biden Admin Been Infiltrated by Iranian Sleeper Agents?

Law Breaking / Police / Internal Security

• or, most likely, not: US Government IT contractor could face death penalty over espionage charges | Hacker News

• Oakland businesses will go on strike tomorrow to protest rising crime.

• NSA, FBI, and CISA Release Cybersecurity Information Sheet on Deepfake Threats

• SF to Clear Homeless Camps After Court Clarifies ‘Involuntarily Homeless’

• Shocking moment brazen masked kids loot Footlocker, Lululemon and Apple stores as Philadelphia descends into anarchy — with footage showing cops brawling with thieves and punching one in the face

External Security / Militaria / Diplomania

• Taxpayers Stuck Paying the Bills for Oligarchs’ Seized Yachts and Mansions: Assets taken from sanctioned Russian billionaires are costly to maintain as legal hurdles hold up sales; $28,000 a week to keep mold out of the Alfa Nero.

• Space Force chief says commercial satellites may need defending

• A Royal Navy Nuclear Sub Just Spent 6 Months Underwater. That's Irresponsible

World

• Europe’s rightward drift not set in stone: our research gives hope to the left

• Justin Trudeau’s Nazi Hot Take Flexibility

  • Poland may seek extradition of Ukrainian Nazi WW2 veteran Hunka from Canada

  • Canada's Speaker Resigns After Honoring Nazi Now-Wanted For Extradition By Polish Minister

• How many Saudis are only working one hour a day?

Russia Bad / Ukraine War

• From playgrounds to parade grounds: Russian schools are becoming militarized

• Russia Hanging Nets Between Lamp Posts to Counter FPV Drones

• A year of lying about Nord Stream

  The Biden administration blew up the pipelines but the action had little to do with winning or stopping the war in Ukraine. It resulted from fears in the White House that Germany would waver and turn on the flow of Russia gas—and that Germany and then NATO, for economic reasons, would fall under the sway of Russia and its extensive and inexpensive natural resources. And thus followed the ultimate fear: that America would lose its long-standing primacy in Western Europe.

  • Who Blew Up Nord Stream?

• Claims Swirl Around ‘Sabotage Raid’ on Airbase Near Moscow

Health / Medicine

• Norovirus in the wilderness? How an outbreak spread on the Pacific Crest Trail

• Vaccines are still tested with horseshoe crab blood. This is finally changing

• A journey into the shaken baby syndrome/abusive head trauma controversy

• Use of psychedelic mushrooms tied to working fewer overtime hours

• US surgeons are killing themselves at an alarming rate

Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda

• Leaks Can Make Natural Gas as Bad for the Climate as Coal, a Study Says

• I’m a climate scientist and I think society will collapse by 2050. I’m preparing

• Even Bill Gates is backtracking — the air’s gone out of the climate-crisis balloon.

• Earth's Hidden Eighth Continent Is No Longer Lost

• ‘Project 2025’-plan to dismantle US climate policy for next Republican president

• New ‘supercontinent’ could wipe out humans and make Earth uninhabitable, study

• Why Rain Is Getting Fiercer on a Warming Planet

• Top European Court to hear landmark youth-led climate case

  • I cannot help but think of this: Children's Crusade - Wikipedia

• Carbon Capture Is Deep Fake

  • Carbon Capture Scam