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Woman found trapped under a driverless car. It wasn't the first car to hit her
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A prehistoric cosmic airburst preceded the advent of agriculture in the Levant
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Ex-Goldman analyst, indicted for insider trading, won ethics prize in college
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FEMA and FCC Plan Nationwide Emergency Alert Test for Oct. 4
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Are some personalities just better?
People who are extroverted, agreeable, conscientious, emotionally stable, and open seem to do better at basically everything.
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Starbucks Is Closing Seven Downtown San Francisco Locations on October 22
Horseshit
celebrity gossip
Rank Propaganda / Thought Policing / World Disordering
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Supreme Court will decide if Texas and Florida can protect 'conservative speech'
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Top science journal faced secret attacks from Covid conspiracy theory group
The group attempted to have Nature and its staff put under surveillance and investigated by MI5, MI6, the CIA, Mossad, and Japanese and Australian intelligence agencies. They met Cabinet minister Michael Gove and later asked him to arrange phone taps and electronic surveillance. One member of the group led intrusive investigations into the intimate personal life and background circumstances of senior Nature staff the group suspected of “extreme Sinophile views”.
The campaign was led by former chief of the Secret Intelligence Service (SIS) Sir Richard Dearlove in conjunction with retired history academic Gwythian (Gwyn) Prins, and lobbyist John Constable of the privately funded climate change denial group Global Warming Policy Foundation. The scientific member of the group, oncologist professor Gus Dalgleish, was a prominent member of UKIP who had stood as the party’s parliamentary candidate in a south London constituency then campaigned for “Leave Means Leave”. All were avid supporters of Brexit.
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Escape from the rabbit hole: the conspiracy theorist who abandoned his beliefs
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The disinformation sleuths: a key role for scientists in impending elections
Trump / War against the Right / Jan6
Pestilence / Pox / COVID / VaxCult
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CDC Covered Up COVID Vaccine Myocarditis Risk, Show Emails And Reports
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FDA signs off on updated protein-based Covid-19 vaccine from Novavax
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Moderna combo Covid-19/flu vaccine succeeds in early-stage trial
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Infant immune systems found to have unique and effective responses to SARS-CoV-2.
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entering the final quarter of 2023, and we have the United States government, and many state governments (including New York’s former Governor Andrew Cuomo, current left-wing Governor Kathy Hochul, and the super-majority Dem legislature) proclaiming for all to hear that they did not force anyone to do anything detrimental these past 3.5 years. UNBELIEVABLE! Did you hear this? They are actually saying with straight faces that they didn’t force you to wear a mask, or lockdown and shutter your businesses, or choose between taking an experimental drug or losing your job… Nope! They did none of that. And you - well, you are flat out crazy if you think they did. You are lying. You are exaggerating and totally overreacting.
Religion / Tribal / Culture War and Re-Segregation
Edumacationalizing / Acedemia Nuts
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Biden cancels $9B in student debt for 125,000 borrowers
“Biden has forgiven more student loan debt than any previous president,
- thats easy when you keep announcing it and never following through, because it wasn't a thing you could legally do in the first place.
Entertainment / ShowBiz / Advertising
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Wikimedia Endowment financial statement for 2016–2023 published
This is the time period during which the Endowment was held by the Tides Foundation. The Foundation has thus fulfilled Jimmy Wales' promise to increase the Endowment's transparency. A look at the figures shows that the Endowment suffered significant unrealized losses (almost $22 million) in 2022.
The Wikimedia Foundation's Equity Fund Committee has announced a community call concerning the upcoming third round of grantmaking from the controversial, $4.5 million Knowledge Equity Fund that provides grants to charitable and advocacy organizations. Concerns have focused on the fact that Wikipedia donors may not be aware that the Wikimedia Foundation spends several million dollars funding organizations outside the Wikimedia movement
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Meta admits that it trains its AI on your Instagram and Facebook posts
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Netflix Plans to Raise Subscription Prices After Actors Strike Ends
TechSuck / Geek Bait
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Debunking NIST's calculation of the Kyber-512 security level
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WS FTP: They’ve begun: Attacks exploiting vulnerability with maximum 10 severity rating
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Ben Fry Resigns from the Processing Foundation | Hacker News
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1984 How Jerry Pournelle got kicked off the ARPANET
I don't know whether you guys have read Niven and Pournelle's Oath_of_Fealty, but "Think of it as evolution in action." is their thinly disguised rallying cry for do-it-yourself social Darwinism. It would be so, so sweet to shove it back in his face.
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tl;dr: windows sucks. 32 MiB Working Sets on a 64 GiB machine
Space / UFO / Boomy Zoomers
Crypto con games
Economicon / Business / Finance
Gubmint / Poilitcks / Law Making
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Kevin McCarthy Ousted as Speaker of the House
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Watch Live: House Votes To Proceed With McCarthy Removal Process | ZeroHedge
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House ousts Kevin McCarthy as speaker, a first in U.S. history
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ANALYSIS: Behind the Historic Vote to Oust McCarthy as Speaker | The Epoch Times
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Following McCarthy ouster, House takes next steps to determine successor | Just The News
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McCarthy Won't Seek Speaker Position In Re-Vote; Trump Nominated By Nehls
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Nancy Pelosi Ordered to Vacate Her Office by New Acting Speaker, and the Tears Start Immediately
McHenry is a close ally of McCarthy, and this is almost certainly well-deserved retaliation. According to McCarthy, as part of the passage of the recent 45-day clean continuing resolution, Pelosi had promised to not support Gaetz if a motion to vacate was filed. Instead, the former Democrat Speaker stabbed now former Republican Speaker in the back and actually encouraged her caucus not to save McCarthy. In the end, Democrats joined with a small group of Republicans to end McCarthy's tenure.
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Violent boomerang: Liberals victimized by crime policies they advocated.
- We know how this goes: it couldn't have anything to do with (democrat advocated) public policy, it must be the Evil Republican Nazi White Supremacists targeting innocent Democrat lawmakers.