2023-10-31

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• Mapped: Where Americans Are Moving

Horseshit

• World's most popular painter sent his followers after me because of my review

  • HN comments

• Barbie Halloween costumes bring risk of skating injuries

• Intuit and Others Should Use AI to Complement IRS Direct File

• On "real name" policies

  To embrace the advantages of “real name” policies – establishing provenance, encouraging accountability, fostering a social environment – without causing harm, the approach I have settled on for my projects is to use the DCO to establish provenance and encourage contributors to sign-off and participate under the identity they feel most comfortable with. I encourage people to utilize an identity they use beyond the project’s walls, to foster a social environment and a connection to the broader community, to establish accountability, and to ensure that participants are reachable for further discussion on their work. If a contributor’s identity changes, we make every effort to support this change in contemporary, future, and historical use.

  • using existing social facilities for recognizing people, recording name changes, and so forth would be unthinkable, apparently.

celebrity gossip

• Hockey World Shaken as Calls for Matt Petgrave's Arrest Increase After Death of Adam Johnson – Twitchy

Musk

• X is officially worth less than half of what Elon Musk paid for it

• X says it is worth $19B, down from $44B last year

• Tesla Erases $145B in Valuation on Demand Woes

• Why did Twitter (X)'s valuation tank 56% in one year?

• One year after being bought for $44B, X is worth $19B

Trump / War against the Right / Jan6

• George Conway Has Some Blunt Advice For Donald Trump In Fraud Trial

• Trump Biographer Predicts How Ivanka Trump’s Delayed Testimony May Backfire

• Seth Meyers Knows Why Ivanka Testimony Freaks Out Trump

• Legal expert: Trump kids will turn fraud trial testimony into a "political spectacle"

• Alabama man charged with threatening DA Fani Willis over Trump prosecution

• Alabama man charged with threatening Georgia officials in Trump election case

Pestilence / Pox / COVID / VaxCult

• Covid vaccines and mortality

  Leveraging the staggered rollout of vaccines, we find that the vaccination campaign across 141 countries averted 2.4 million excess deaths, valued at $6.5 trillion. We also find that an equitable counterfactual distribution of vaccines, with vaccination in each country proportional to its population, would have saved roughly 670,000 more lives. However, this distribution approach would have reduced the total value of averted deaths by $1.8 trillion due to redistribution of vaccines from high-income to low-income countries.

• Covid Lockdowns Were a Giant Experiment. It Was a Failure

Religion / Tribal / Culture War and Re-Segregation

• Illinois Man Pleads Not Guilty in Attack on Muslim Mother, Son

Edumacationalizing / Acedemia Nuts

• Scared of Halloween: Ghoulies, ghosties and DEI beasties

• A Florida school district banned cellphones

• Check Your Email: 50k Borrowers Get Student Loan Forgiveness Notice

• White House says it will combat antisemitism on college campuses

• Home schooling's rise from fringe to fastest-growing form of education

Entertainment / ShowBiz / Advertising

• Google CEO testifies at antitrust trial;says it's improved web for all consumers

• Alphabet CEO in Google Search trial: We pay billions to keep Apple at bay

• My time at The Babylon Bee and Not the Bee has come to an end | Not the Bee

• Microsoft issues system-level ban for "unauthorized" Xbox accessories

  • Microsoft decided to throw disabled people under the bus with the controller ban

• YouTube Temporarily Suspends the LAPD

• California Supreme Court ends Disneyland's fight against Anaheim wage law

• News group says AI chatbots heavily rely on news content

TechSuck / Geek Bait

• Gmail, Yahoo announce new 2024 authentication requirements for bulk senders | Hacker News

• Approximate Nearest Neighbor Oh Yeah (Annoy) | Hacker News

• Raspberry Pi 5 has no hardware video encoding and only HEVC decoding | Hacker News

• Reverse-engineering Ethernet backoff on the Intel 82586 network chip's die

Space / UFO / Boomy Zoomers

• Pentagon Prepares to Release More Information on February Shootdowns

Crypto con games

• Bankman-Fried on the Witness Stand

• Sam Bankman-Fried doesn't recall

Economicon / Business / Finance

• Payday lenders aim to evade federal probes as borrowers plead for help

• McDonald’s, Chipotle to raise menu prices in California next year as fast-food wages rise to $20.

  • McDonald’s revenue soars as it hikes menu prices: ‘$18 Big Macs.’

  • McDonald's isn't as cheap as it once was, and it's losing low-income customers

• BP posts surprise fall in third quarter profits to $3.3B

• Treasury to borrow $776 billion in the final three months of the year.

• Toyota Made a Bet on Tech. Things Went Wrong Fast

• Missouri jury finds NAR, brokerages guilty of conspiring to inflate commissions

• What a third world war would mean for investors

Gubmint / Poilitcks / Law Making

• The Biden Administration has issued its executive order governing the development and use of AI systems.

  As you would expect, it's a mix of useless bullshit, impractical bullshit, unconstitutional bullshit, and just, well, bullshit.

  • What You Need to Know About Biden's Sweeping AI Order

• FBI And Its Foreign Influence Task Force Purged Sources Who Were Onto Biden Corruption.

• Archives locates 82,000 pages of Joe Biden pseudonym emails, possibly dwarfing Clinton scandal: Disclosure made in little-notice status briefing as FOIA litigation advances.

• Mike Johnson Has a Dangerous Victim Complex

• Do Democratic voters want more options for 2024 race?

• SCOTUS to Decide If Public Officials Can Block Critics Online

  • HN comments

  • Can public officials block you on social media? It's up to the Supreme Court

  • Supreme Court weighs whether public officials can block critics on social media

• New Biden target in junk fee crackdown: retirement advisers

• Democrats Risk Long-Lasting Rift Over Israel-Hamas War

• FCC Authorizes over $18B to Expand Rural Broadband

• Protesters calling Antony Blinken a ‘murderer’ and demanding a ceasefire in Gaza derail hearing: Demonstrators are hauled out and put up hands covered in ‘blood’ in chaos in Congress.

Law Breaking / Police / Internal Security

• SEC Charges SolarWinds and CISO with Fraud, Internal Control Failures

• As economy falters, more Chinese migrants take a perilous journey to the US

• Texas Granted Temp Restraining Order Against Biden Admin Preventing Removal Of Razor Wire At Border.

• Nevada man charged with threatening U.S. senator in antisemitic messages

• Man with weapons, wearing tactical gear dies at Glenwood Caverns Adventure Park

• THC gummies found in candy stash at California elementary school event

External Security / Militaria / Diplomania

• U.S. and China Are Smoothing Ties---but Military Frictions Still Chafe

• China and Russia take aim at U.S. at Beijing defense forum

World

• I am sorry to be the one to tell you this, but this is historic Vienna's new water fountain

• Apple sent 'State-sponsored' attack notification to Indian Opposition Leaders

• NGOs urge EU Commission to include porn websites in the 'systemic risk' club

• Chinese Yuan Edges Out Euro as Second-Most Used Currency in Global Trade

• Bologna seals off 'leaning tower' over fears it is tilting too far

Israel

• Internet Access in Gaza Partially Restored After Blackout

• Israeli Ground Troops Rescue Hostage, After Mossad Chief's Secretive Trip To Qatar | ZeroHedge

• Remains of young woman kidnapped at Gaza music festival, paraded through streets reported found | Just The News

• Israeli Proposal to force all of Gaza's 2.3M people into Egypt revealed

  • Everyone else's plan to force all Israel's people into the ground is already well known.

  • Israeli ministry 'concept paper' proposes transferring Gaza civilians to Sinai

• Israeli ground forces battle Hamas in northern Gaza as Netanyahu rules out ceasefire

• Settler Violence Rising Against Palestinians in the West Bank

• Israel goes unnamed as state from online maps in China

  • Israel Goes Unnamed on China Online Maps

• On TikTok, views of pro-Palestine posts far surpass views of pro-Israel posts

• Independent Journalism from Israel-Palestine

• Generative AI Is Playing a Surprising Role in Israel-Hamas Disinformation

• Pro-Hamas sentiment shocks European Jews, rekindling fears about their future

• The Problem with Starlink in Gaza

  It’s unlikely the Gaza Strip will achieve full connectivity any time soon, and it’s more and more likely that the network will again face total shutdown at some point. An anonymous senior U.S. official told the Washington Post on Sunday that Israel had intentionally shut off communications in Gaza and turned it back on after U.S. pressure.

• Hamas blocks foreign nationals from leaving Gaza.

• Wikipedia Is Covering the War in Israel and Gaza Better Than X

Russia Bad / Ukraine War

• Russia renamed its ambitious satellite program after Putin misspoke its name

• Reports of Putin's death might not be greatly exaggerated

  the Russian president supposedly breathed his last on Thursday, Oct. 26. The Putin we see now is thus actually his double, who, Solovey claims, has been filling in for the sickly real Putin for several months.

• Russia Finally ‘Ready’ for Ukraine Peace Talks.

Health / Medicine

• Indoor air systems crucial to curbing spread of viruses, aerosol researchers say

• Antibiotics for common childhood infections no longer effective, finds study

Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda

• Asteroid that doomed the dinosaurs halted photosynthesis for 2 years

• Humans are disrupting natural 'salt cycle' on a global scale, new study shows

• Catching climate maladaptation before it happens

• Wind-whipped Highland fire swells to 2,200 acres in Riverside County

• Billion dollar plan to save salmon depends on giant fish vacuum