2023-10-28

Cool

• Images from the 2023 Nikon Small World Photomicrography Competition

etc

• California population drain: State is hemorrhaging residents to other states

• What If Men Could Make Their Own Egg Cells?

• Google Maps Now Uses AI to Find Where People Are Having Fun

• Neanderthals were the first to light fire at will, says study

• Something Mysterious Appears to Be Suppressing the Universe's Growth -Scientists

Horseshit

• Onewheel follows up its recall with a new $3,200 board for 'pros'

• A.I. Muddies Israel-Hamas War in Unexpected Way

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• For the Good of the Country, Older Americans Should Work More and Take Less

celebrity gossip

• Craig Murray seeks UN protection in Switzerland against British persecution

Obit

• Richard Moll, Who Played Bull on ‘Night Court,’ Dead at 80

  • Richard Moll, Night Court Actor, Dies at 80

Rank Propaganda / Thought Policing / World Disordering

• US asks Qatar to 'turn down the volume' of Al Jazeera news coverage

• (Aug 2023) Why millions have entered an alternative political reality

• Government of Canada will support organizations to counter disinformation

Musk

• Elon Musk just lost $28B as Tesla took a beating

• Elon 'Back to the Office' Musk Called in Remotely to First X All-Hands

• One Year After Elon Musk Bought Twitter, His Hilarious Nightmare Continues

• 'Musk destroyed all that': Twitter's business is flailing after a year of Elon

  • Twitter takeover: how a year of Elon Musk rendered the platform useless

• One Year into Musk, X Monthly Users Are Down 15% and Ad Revenue Has Slumped 54%

• Musks Strange Behaviour Related to Ketamine

Trump / War against the Right / Jan6

• ‘Trial within a trial’: Trump’s strategy on verge of imploding

Pestilence / Pox / COVID / VaxCult

• A Genius Award for Airborne Transmission

  It didn’t take a genius to understand airborne transmission but it took courage to put one’s reputation on the line and go against what seemed like the scientific consensus. Marr’s award is thus an award to a scientist for speaking publicly in a time of crisis. I hope it encourages others, both to speak up when necessary but also to listen.

Religion / Tribal / Culture War and Re-Segregation

• Hamas Killed My Wokeness - Tablet Magazine

• Women Abandon Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu Tournament After Being Forced to Fight Males

• The new wave of woman hate

Edumacationalizing / Acedemia Nuts

• Megyn Kelly Argues that Harvard University 'Is Not Salvageable' – Twitchy

• Why teachers in South Korea are scared of their pupils, and their parents

Entertainment / ShowBiz / Advertising

• Android 14's user-profile data bug seems indistinguishable from ransomware

• The Multistate Lawsuit Against Meta Isn't Serious Enough

• The New York Times Help Wanted: Looking for an AI Editor to Start Publishing Stories: Six Figure Salary

• Disney delays woke 'Snow White' reboot for a year following backlash: 'What a disaster'

• Spotify to change royalty model, including minimum stream count for payment

TechSuck / Geek Bait

• NASA Tech Breathes Life Into Potentially Game-Changing Antenna Design - NASA

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• SDRangel – Open-source TX & RX Software Defined Radio

Space / UFO / Boomy Zoomers

• Coronal Hole High Speed Stream Influences Likely on 29-31 October

• Alien language: If we met extraterrestrials, could we talk to them?

• Just in Time for Halloween, NASA's Juno Mission Spots Eerie "Face" on Jupiter

Crypto con games

• SBF testifies he knew 'basically nothing' about crypto before starting company

• FTX’s Bankman-Fried admits ‘mistakes’, denies fraud at trial

Economicon / Business / Finance

• Western Digital and Kioxia call off merger talks, source says

• Walgreens, CVS pharmacy staff at breaking point: here's what their days are like

• (Sep 2023) Americans' opinions about the state of the economy have diverged from reality

• Great news about American wealth - by Noah Smith

  • Americans’ wealth is way up since before the pandemic.
  • The increase is very even across the board, with people at the bottom of the distribution gaining proportionally more than people at the top.
  • Inequality is down, including racial inequality, educational inequality, urban-rural inequality, overall wealth inequality.
  • Debt is much less of a problem.

  In other words, a rising tide is lifting all boats.

  • (PDF) Federal Reserve- Survey of Consumer Finances

• Ford, GM, Mercedes come clean on EV demand weakness

• As baby boomers retire, German businesses turn to robots

Gubmint / Poilitcks / Law Making

• Prosecutor says Biden bribery claim was credible enough for further investigation, but FBI resisted | Just The News

• IRS agents use fake names to 'harass and intimidate' taxpayers, report reveals

• the Commission made no such “key recommendations.”

• Net Neutrality Round 2: A Win for Internet Freedom

• Boeing's now lost more than $2B on the new Air Force One planes

• The White House is losing the messaging war on Ukraine. Now it's changing the message. - POLITICO

  Aides have been distributing talking points to Democrats and Republicans who have been supportive of continued efforts to fund Ukraine’s resistance to make the case that doing so is good for American jobs, according to five White House aides and lawmakers familiar with the effort and granted anonymity to speak freely.

• People experiencing news fatigue are less likely to be voters, finds survey

• EPA to strengthen lead protections in drinking water after multiple crises

• Sweeping new Biden order aims to alter the AI landscape

Law Breaking / Police / Internal Security

• Canadian border on alert for suspected gunman Robert Card

  • Law enforcement official tells Associated Press that Maine mass killing suspect has been found dead

• Man behind Harvard 'doxxing trucks' has home searched by SWAT team

• AI and ICE: U.S. Immigration Scans Social Media Before Approving Visas

• 'Balloon Boy' Parents Pardoned by Colorado Governor for 2009 Hoax

• Chains are using theft to mask other issues, report says

• Poison expert allegedly poisoned wife–with a shockingly toxic gout drug

External Security / Militaria / Diplomania

• US looks isolated after opposing UN resolution on Gaza truce

• US halts exports of most civilian firearms for 90 days | Reuters

  The U.S. has stopped issuing export licenses for most civilian firearms and ammunition for 90 days for all non-governmental users, the Commerce Department said on Friday, citing national security and foreign policy interests. The Commerce Department did not provide further details for the pause, which also includes shotguns and optical sights, but said an urgent review will assess the "risk of firearms being diverted to entities or activities that promote regional instability, violate human rights, or fuel criminal activities."

  The pause does not affect previously issued export licenses, Commerce said.

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Israel

• Gaza Strip internet cut off following Israeli airstrikes

  • The Destruction of Gaza's Internet Is Complete

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  • Neo Nazi Settlers Cut Internet to Occupied Palestine

• Israel to test Iron Beam laser system on Hamas missiles

• NewsGuard Runs Cover For Terrorists In ‘Fact-Check’ Of Ben Shapiro | The Daily Wire

• The Media Know Hamas Is Lying. But They Report the Lies Anyway.

• Israeli troops remain in Gaza, marking a significant escalation of the conflict

• Musk says Starlink to provide connectivity in Gaza through aid organizations

• Did the Entire Media Industry Misquote a Hamas Spokesperson?

  On October 17, shortly after an explosion at a hospital in Gaza, headlines around the world declared that the Gaza Health Ministry said the blast had killed at least 500 people. This was reported by the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Wall Street Journal, the New York Post, ABC, NBC, CBS, FOX, CNN, NPR, PBS, the Associated Press, the Guardian, and Al Jazeera.

  after an extensive investigation, and a total lack of transparency by many of our most prestigious media outlets—I have found zero evidence that the Health Ministry spokesperson ever said that more than 500 people had died.

  The Times, after I had escalated my queries to a standards editor there, was the only outlet to reply to me. The response came in the form of a brief note from a communications staffer that linked to the paper’s mea culpa over its reporting on the blast, and said no additional information would be provided.

  It seems most likely that some of the American journalists had been tracking the Al Jazeera English Twitter account—not the Arabic one I had seen and translated—and immediately copied its erroneous reporting. And the rest of them began copying each other from there.

Russia Bad / Ukraine War

• Surging falsehoods seek to dent Western aid to Ukraine

Health / Medicine

• "ANC = Active Noise Cancelling" Google can turn ANC earbuds into a heart rate monitor with no extra hardware

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Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda

• Microsoft disrupts email communication across climate change community

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• The industry figures behind 'declaration of scientists' backing meat eating

• Sheep graze on Texas solar farms as renewable energy companies embrace ag