2023-11-07

etc

• DAK and the Golden Age of Gadget Catalogs – cabel.com

• Watch: Isolated sheep rescued from foot of cliff after at least two years

• (1996) Why Three Prongs?

Horseshit

• How to manage teams in a world designed for individuals

• Human Skull, On Sale for $4,000, Draws Attention to Florida Store

• Space Billionaires Should Spend More Time Thinking About Sex

• Biden's Elusive AI Whisperer Finally Goes on the Record

• Cruise confirms robotaxis rely on human assistance every 4 to 5 miles

celebrity gossip

• Ray Dalio and the manipulative professional hellscape over which he presided

  • 'Ray, This Is a Religion' How the largest hedge fund lost two top hires

Rank Propaganda / Thought Policing / World Disordering

• Report: The story about the Nashville shooter’s manifesto is being censored on Facebook and Google. Details here

  • Nashville Mayor's Office, MSM Flips Out After Trans Shooter Manifesto Leaks; Facebook Censors | ZeroHedge

  • Nashville authorities 'aware' of purported leak of Christian school shooter's manifesto

  • Trans-Identifying Nashville Shooter Allegedly Targeted School Children For Their ‘White Privilege'

  • Nashville Police Department Releases Statement Addressing Alleged School Shooter Manifesto | The Daily Caller

  • Nashville Mayor Furious Over Leak of Transgender Shooter’s Manifesto, Demands Investigation

  • Authorities are investigating online posts allegedly showing Nashville school shooter’s writings

  • Nashville Transgender Shooter’s Manifesto Leaked, Huge Revelations on Motive (Updated).

  • Nashville investigating after possible leak of Covenant shooting images

• 85% of people worry about online disinformation, global survey finds

• RealClearInvestigations: Documents Shed New Light on Feds’ Collusion with Private Actors to Police Speech on Social Media.

• New emails show DHS created Stanford ‘disinfo’ group that censored speech before 2020 election.

• Evaluating qualitative systemic bias in large article sets on Wikipedia

  For this exercise, I examined articles related to environmental conflicts and environmental justice. Wikipedia is overwhelmingly created by white males in Europe and North America – a demographic that generally benefits from environmental injustice.

  I used these matches to generate a partial ontology for 250 conflicts consisting of 481 relationships, including 250 general statements establishing the conflicts themselves. Very few of these statements are presently included on Wikidata, although a few were added during the activity. Many of the conflicts remain undefined, and some properties that seem integral to environmental conflict ontologies do not exist.

  The low matching rate found in this activity limits possible statements, and is at least partially due to poor coverage of environmental conflicts on Wikimedia platforms.

  This examination suggests that Wikipedia's coverage of environmental conflict is poor. This work could set a foundation for correction of bias in coverage of environmental conflicts in Wikipedia by identifying entities that are missing entirely, or articles that may lack information about environmental conflict. The structured relationships also provide a framework that should facilitate script-aided editing to establish the missing information (in combination with further development to identify supporting sources).

  • "We found that Wikipedia does not contain enough known propaganda, and contains too much that is not propaganda, on the subject of 'environmental justice'" Which subject is, itself, a specific propaganda campaign of the Tides Foundation, so they got good records of what they emitted on the subject.

Musk

• Researchers say they stopped studying X, fearing Elon Musk might sue them

• Elon Musk's free speech stance is 'dangerous,' Columbia journalism fellow says

• Sony to Remove Playstation's Twitter (X) Integration on PS4, PS5

• The new Twitter is becoming a cesspit of disinformation – study it now

Trump / War against the Right / Jan6

• Trump demands jury, says New York AG has 'no case' in heated testimony

• Eric Trump Rages About Dad’s New York Fraud Trial on Fox News

• Judge Engoron Made the Right Call: Let Trump Rant and Rave

• Donald Trump clashes repeatedly with judge in heated New York testimony

• Tantrums, spectacle, but legal peril, too – How Trump's testimony hurts him

• Trump Explodes at Judge in New York Fraud Trial

• A Closer Look at a Courtroom Photo of Trump’s Fraud Trial

• What Trump has testified on the stand so far in his New York civil fraud trial

• "Doesn't know how to act in front of a judge": Legal experts school Trump lawyer over meltdown

• "Verging on a confession": Legal experts say Trump "admitting to more fraud" in word-salad testimony

• Trump fraud trial testimony: what we learned so far

• Marjorie Taylor Greene Makes Startlingly Accurate Confession About Her Own Party

Pox / COVID / BioTerror AgitProp

• Second Infection Hikes Long Covid Risk: Expert Q&A

Religion / Tribal / Culture War and Re-Segregation

• Drew DeVault bullies creator of Hyprland, publishes private chat logs | Hacker News

• Asian-Americans’ Right-Wing Revolt.

• ‘War Criminals Work Here’: Pro-Palestinian Activists Vandalize Israeli Company’s Virginia Office.

• Women have gained ground in the highest-paying occupations

Edumacationalizing / Acedemia Nuts

• Stop lying about the benefits of public education.

Entertainment / ShowBiz / Advertising

• 'armless archer' Matt Stutzman transformed a paralympic sport

• Turns out you can speedrun Duolingo, someone did an entire course in 24 hours

• SAG-AFTRA says studios’ latest offer falls short of union’s AI demands

  • Sag-AFTRA won't budge as studios push to own actors' likenesses in perpetuity

• Have you noticed the frequency of ads increasing on free services?

• Marissa Mayer admits Yahoo should have bought Netflix instead of Tumblr

• Verizon, AT&T Customers Sue to Undo T-Mobile Merger, Saying It Raised All Prices

• Angry Call of Duty Fans Are Review-Bombing the Wrong Modern Warfare 3

  it’s worth pointing out it’s not yet possible to leave a user review for Modern Warfare 3 (2023) on either Metacritic or Steam, since the game has yet to launch fully.

  It appears to be the opposite situation over on Steam, where users are leaving new and positive reviews for Modern Warfare 3 (2011) to make a point that it’s better than 2023’s effort. Modern Warfare 3 (2011)’s most-helpful review posted in the last 30 days, according to Steam, simply reads: “Realized this isn't MW3 2023. Wasn't disappointed at all.”

• Millennials: It's ok to mourn the death of social media

TechSuck / Geek Bait

• Mozilla will move Firefox development from Mercurial to Microsoft's GitHub

• Bluesky migrates to single-tenant SQLite | Hacker News

• Anchor Tags @ marginalia.nu

• Intel Kills Off Its Chip-Freezing Cryo Cooling Technology

Space / Boomy Zoomers / UFO

• Are we really where we think we are? Network Earth Rotation Service

• ESA - Euclid's first images: the dazzling edge of darkness

Crypto con games

• Bitcoin Is Up 70% a Year After FTX Crash, but Alameda Gap in Liquidity Persists

• 'Couldn't See Anymore:' Bored Ape Conference Attendees Wake Up With Searing Eye Pain, Vision Loss

  • HN comments

Economicon / Business / Finance

• Rising pay transparency causing an employer compensation information 'arms race'

• WeWork shares suspended as investors brace for bankruptcy filing

  • WeWork, once valued at $47 billion, files for bankruptcy

  • WeWork has gone bankrupt.

  • WeWork Files For Bankruptcy, Roiling Already-Stressed Office CRE Market | ZeroHedge

  • WeWork Files for Bankruptcy

• Retired Americans Aren't Coming Back to Work as Predicted

• Intel in Lead to Get Billions for Secure Defense-Chip Facilities

• Amazon will drag out Black Friday and Cyber Monday into 11 days of deals beginning Nov. 17.

• Ask HN: How do you stop overemployment at your company? | Hacker News

  We're on to at least our 3rd investigation into someone blatantly working multiple jobs and falsifying their timekeeping records.

• Ask HN: What are you doing to make ends meet?

• Credit card balances spiked in the third quarter to a $1.08T record

Gubmint / Poilitcks / Law Making

• Newsom mandates $25 min wage, CA budget shortfall up 29%

• Congressman Adam Schiff claims primary residence in Maryland, sources say he is ‘rarely’ in California.

• 5 candidates to participate in third Republican primary debate

  • Republican Presidential Hopefuls Gather for Third Debate

• Up for Reelection, Kentucky’s Democratic Governor Avoids Climate Change Talk

• Andrew McCarthy: It Turns Out Joe Biden Was the Clandestine Agent of a Hostile Foreign Power.

• Maine's constitution has unprintable sections

  • HN comments

  • Constitution of Maine - Wikipedia

• Top 50 Disasters Gov. Gavin Newsom Has Ushered into California

• Hunter Biden Wants To Sic Daddy's DOJ On Whisteblower Biz Partner | ZeroHedge

  "Specifically, we recently received information demonstrating that numerous statements made by Mr. Bobulinski in Washington, D.C. during an interview with the FBI on October 23, 2020, concerning our client, Hunter Biden, are false," writes Hunter's defense attorney, Abbe D. Lowell.

Law Breaking / Police / Internal Security

• Washington D.C. Gives Residents Free AirTags to Help Track Stolen Cars

• Police chief's son in Nashville who was wanted in shooting of 2 officers is found dead, authorities say - CBS News

• Cat-ching criminals with DNA from pet hairs

• Man Whose Son Is Accused of Parade Shooting Pleads Guilty to Misdemeanors

• Woman jailed after Rentahitman.com assassin turned out to be – surprise – FBI

External Security / Militaria / Diplomania

• U.S., NATO to Suspend Participation in Landmark Cold War Arms Treaty

• Air Force Asks Congress to Protect Its Nuclear Launch Sites from Wind Turbines

• At least 45 U.S. service members may have been injured in Iran-linked attacks

  At least 45 Americans are reporting minor injuries or potential traumatic brain injuries. The military is monitoring approximately two dozen service members who may have suffered traumatic brain injuries (TBI) during the attacks, which are believed to have been carried out by groups with links to Iran, according to U.S. defense officials.

  One of the attacks, on al-Tanf in southern Syria, included two drones. One of them was shot down, but the other struck the base, injuring U.S. troops. The other attack, on al-Asad air base in Iraq, also involved two drones. Both were shot down, but one broke apart over the base, with the debris destroying a hangar and injuring the troops inside.

  A U.S. contractor died that day when he suffered a heart attack sheltering in place at al-Asad, the Pentagon said. The injuries so far include at least 32 people at al-Tanf, 13 at al-Asad and one in Erbil in northern Iraq, according to Pentagon press secretary Brig. Gen. Patrick Ryder.

  • "TBI" == "blast concussion" ?

World

• China suffers its first foreign investment deficit

• After big drop in ISP competition, Canada mandates fiber-network sharing

Israel

• Yemen's Iran-Backed Houthis Launch New Wave Of Drones Against Israel | ZeroHedge

• Jordanian Air Force Conducts Unprecedented Medical Supply Airdrop Over Gaza  | ZeroHedge

• They are doing surgery by cellphone flashlight in Gaza

• Israel’s 15 ceasefires: Palestinians broke each one. Former AP reporter says the media enables them.

• Watch: U.N. Chief Says Gaza 'Becoming a Graveyard for Children'

• Scoop: Biden Demands Gun Control for Israelis 

  The Biden administration refused to sell American weapons to Israel unless it provided guarantees the guns would not be given to civilians living in the West Bank, the Washington Free Beacon is exclusively reporting.

• Man dies after hitting head during Israel and Palestinian rallies in California, officials say

  • Man dies after being hit in the head at Israel-Hamas war protest in Westlake Village

  • Pro-Palestinian protester suspected of killing Jewish man in LA

• How eSIM Cards Are Connecting Palestinian Families

• Israel To Control Gaza 'Indefinitely' After War: Netanyahu Contradicts Blinken  | ZeroHedge

Health / Medicine

• Why the rules on embryo experiments should be loosened

• FDA expands investigation of potentially lead-tainted pureed fruit pouches

  • Toxic toddler fruit pouches: "high" lead levels sicken 7 in 5 states

  • HN comments

    In a knowledge economy, lead poisoning is basically a death sentence. Those IQ points are lost permanently.

• Biden Administration proposal would make changes to Medicare Advantage plans

• Contraceptive pills might impair fear-regulating regions in women's brains

• Herbs and Spices Might Contain Arsenic, Cadmium, and Lead

• UK NHS to offer 150k people with type 1 diabetes an artificial pancreas

• Now that the barn's been burned we're putting up new doors! Enhanced Customer Security at 23andMe with 2-Step Verification

Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda

• Cities face a climate dilemma: to build or not to build homes in risky places

• Orcas sink another boat in Europe after a nearly hour-long attack

• Bhutan declares its entire street dog population fully sterilized and vaccinated

  • HN comments

• Bubble curtains protect porpoises from wind farm noise

• Coca-Cola and Nestle accused of misleading eco claims