2023-11-08

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• Waze gets a new safety feature that warns you if a road has a history of crashes

• Best Way to Extinguish a Flaming Electric Vehicle? Let It Burn

• You needed to be taught how to use a can opener

• How Farmers Are Teaching Old Tractors to Think for Themselves

Horseshit

• Sam Altman Says What OpenAI's Working on Will Make Today's AI Seem "Quaint"

• GM's Cruise recalling 950 driverless cars after crash involving pedestrian

• Rand: Machine Learning and gene editing at the helm of a societal evolution

• Amazon dedicates team to train ambitious AI model codenamed 'Olympus'

Rank Propaganda / Thought Policing / World Disordering

• Gov't Censors Targeted The Federalist During 2020 Election

• New Documents Reveal US Department Of Homeland Security Conspiracy To Violate First Amendment And Interfere In Elections

  The documents are revelatory in showing that CISA officials, Stanford officials, and social media executives worked together in secret in ways that not only violated the First Amendment but also interfered in the 2020 elections by attempting to censor protected political speech, particularly that of conservatives and Republicans. Although we do not know the effects of EIP’s activities on the 2020 election results, and although some of these activities occurred after election day, it’s clear that SIO, EIP, and CISA engaged in viewpoint-based censorship that amounts to attempted interference leading up to the election.

  • HN comment

• Six books you didn't know were propaganda

Trump / War against the Right / Jan6

• Trump and allies plot revenge, Justice Department control in a second term

Pox / COVID / BioTerror AgitProp

• Killer Jab? 24% Say Someone They Know Died From COVID-19 Vaccine - Rasmussen Reports®

• Senators probe lab in Montana where scientists infecting bats with Covid in 2018

• Now we know how Covid attacks your heart

Religion / Tribal / Culture War and Re-Segregation

• Mom of Cornell Student Accused of Antisemitic Threats Says He Has ‘No Future’

  Patrick Dai, 21, was arrested last Tuesday after allegedly posting a series of menacing messages online including threats to “shoot up” a university dining hall that largely caters for Jewish students.

  Dai’s mother, Bing Liu, did not deny the seriousness of her son’s alleged actions, but said media reports hadn’t given a full picture of him. She pointed to an apology post her son purportedly wrote before his arrest which said there is “no room for divisive statements in person or online,” adding there’s “no excuse for the targeting of innocent civilians, much less my classmates.”

• Anti-Israel protests fueled by terror-tied dark money groups

Edumacationalizing / Acedemia Nuts

• Is Campus Rage Fueled by Middle Eastern Money?

• Not LK-99. Not his first fraud rodeo. Room-Temperature Superconductor Discovery Is Retracted

  • HN comments

• Campus Reform went to the DC pro-Palestine rally. Activists tried to get us arrested.

• Majoring in computer science doesn't guarantee job security at all

Entertainment / ShowBiz / Advertising

• I blew the whistle on Meta, now I won't work again

• Introducing Lantern: Protecting Children Online

• Meta to Require Political Advertisers to Disclose Use of A.I

• Wikipedia Became the Last Good Place on the Internet

  • HN comments

• US Smartphone Shipments Decline 19% in Q3 2023 as More Americans Delay Upgrade

  • HN comments

• The South Park Rules: How to do Taboo Comedy Without Getting Cancelled

TechSuck / Geek Bait

• Star Wars Scene Transition Effects in CSS / Coder's Block

• Asahi Linux folks are doing us a solid with WPA3 fixes

• When Linux Spooked Microsoft: Remembering 1998's Leaked 'Halloween Documents' | Hacker News

• Banning E2EE is stupid

  • HN comments

• Home Assistant blocked from integrating with Garage Door opener API | Hacker News

• Apple insists 8GB unified memory equals 16GB regular RAM

• Building My Own Firewall/Router, Part 1

• Bilibili is forcing big VTubers to reveal their identities to stay monetized

• Highly invasive backdoor snuck into open source packages targets developers | Ars Technica

Space / Boomy Zoomers / UFO

• NASA's Curiosity Rover Clocks 4k Days on Mars

• Pentagon UFO boss to step down next month

Crypto con games

• After SBF, Investors Targeting Larry David, Tom Brady and Other FTX Endorsers

• The Crypto ATM Business Is Somehow Still Booming

• Sam Bankman-Fried and the People Who Gave Up Their Money for Nothing

Economicon / Business / Finance

• Global wine production falls to 62-year low in 2023

• Toyota’s $10,000 Future Pickup Truck Is Basic Transportation Perfection

• IMF raises alarm over 'contagion' from private capital in life insurance

• Seeing like a Bank

  the customer will feel frustrated and they have been lied to, Tier 2 certainly doesn’t feel like they’ve lied to anyone (they read the script, it’s a Tuesday), Ops feels like the world is on fire because the world is always on fire, and senior bank management cannot detect this problem because no metric available to them is capable of disaggregating it from the complex monster that is the financial system.

  • HN comments

• How WeWork's founder flew too close to the Sun

• Vox explains it all: The problem isn't inflation. It's prices. What goes up may not come down

• Microsoft closes at all time high on fresh OpenAI related optimism

• CFPB Proposes New Federal Oversight of Digital Wallets and Payment Apps

  • A proposed rule would subject digital wallet providers same scrutiny as banks

  • Consumer Finance Protection Bureau wants regulate Venmo, Apple Cash like banks

• Nextdoor to lay off 25% of its staff as part of cost reduction plan.

• SoftBank paid $1.5B to WeWork lenders days before bankruptcy

• Target CEO says shoppers are pulling back, even on groceries

• The housing market is starting to crack – Sellers are cutting prices

• How to Hijack a Quarter of a Million Dollars in Rare Japanese Kit Kats - The New York Times

Gubmint / Poilitcks / Law Making

• Fresh revelations contradict Joe Biden’s sweeping denials on Hunter - POLITICO

• Lawmakers push 702 reauthorization requiring warrant to access info on Americans

• Mitch McConnell’s Protégé Goes Down To Defeat In Kentucky Governor’s Race.

• 6 warning signs for Biden in new battleground state poll.

• An exonerated 'Central Park Five' member will win a New York City Council seat

  • Exonerated 'Central Park 5' Member Yusef Salaam Wins New York City Council Seat

  The victory comes more than two decades after DNA evidence was used to overturn the convictions of Salaam and four other Black and Latino men in the 1989 rape and beating of a white jogger in Central Park. Salaam was imprisoned for almost seven years.

  • Exonerated 'Central Park Five' member wins New York City council seat

• One Regulation Could Have Stopped Nationwide Car Theft Wave.Why Don't We Have It

• Texans Vote in Favor for Fund to Fix Faulty Grid

• Voters Overwhelmingly Pass Car Right to Repair Law in Maine

Law Breaking / Police / Internal Security

• Capitol Police arrest armed man near Senate - Roll Call

External Security / Militaria / Diplomania

• “The U.S. Army on Monday released a recruitment ad that critics argue is a sure sign the military is gearing up for war. There are no signs of diversity, equity, and inclusion in the 30-second spot, which features white males jumping out of a plane.”

• Xi to Meet US Business Leaders for Dinner in San Francisco

World

• China Is Lending Billions to Countries in Financial Trouble

• EU's concealment of secret 'expert list' on CSAM regulation is maladministration

  • HN comments

• Italy threatens to seize more than $800M from Airbnb over unpaid taxes

Israel

• Nurse Who Volunteered in Gaza Shares What She Experienced

• We Keep Our Gaze Fixed on Gaza

• Israel, Venture Capital Collaboration and the Genocide of Palestinians

• Hamas puts Gaza hospital at forefront of Israel war with hidden underground terror headquarters: ‘Human shields are a key pillar’.

• The Escalating Cyber Front in the Israel-Hamas Conflict

• Investigation disproves Israel claim of Hamas tunnel under Gaza hospital

• Israel kills Hamas weapons boss and corners mastermind of October 7 massacre as IDF advances ‘deep inside’ Gaza City and warns terror leaders they are ‘dead men walking’.

  The military wing of Hamas, which has ruled the small, densely populated territory for 16 years, said its fighters were inflicting heavy losses and damage on advancing Israeli forces. It was not possible to verify the battlefield claims of either side.

• Google's Open Culture Collides with the Israel-Hamas War

• Adobe Is Selling AI-Generated Images of Violence in Gaza and Israel

• Humanity Just Witnessed Its First Space Battle

• Netanyahu Says Israel Will Control Gaza Security Indefinitely.

• (video) Inside Gaza's fragile tunnel network supplying essentials to Palestinian

Russia Bad / Ukraine War

• Adding Taurus Cruise Missiles to Ukraine's Su-24s Would Take Six Months

• Russia formally withdraws from key post-Cold War European armed forces treaty.

• Ukraine war: Zelenskyy rules out wartime elections

  • Zelensky Cancels Elections To Focus On Fighting For Democracy

• Russia Still Has Three Years of Tanks in Storage Based on Satellite Imagery.

Health / Medicine

• As another retinal implant company fails, the tech's future dims

• FDA Proposes to Ban Food Additive, brominated vegetable oil

  • (2014) No More Bromine: Coke, Pepsi Drop Controversial Ingredient : The Salt : NPR

  • (2020) Fact check: Mountain Dew free of BVO, but it isn't a flame retardant

  Despite the 2014 announcement by both companies, reports from as recently as last year showed the ingredient remained in Mountain Dew. But that ingredient has recently been removed. Nutrition facts posted on PepsiCo's product information website no longer include brominated vegetable oil as an ingredient. PepsiCo did not respond to a request for comment on when and why it removed the ingredient from the soft drink.

  the reality is more nuanced, said Christopher Reddy, a scientist at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution -- BVO could be used — and has been patented as — a flame retardant, he said. But the fact that it's patented doesn't mean it's in common use,

• Biogen-Sage Therapeutics postpartum depression pill priced at $15900

  • HN comments

• Rural America Is Losing Nursing Homes, and Small Towns Are Reeling

• Does cannabis use affect empathy?

• Find out why your health insurer denied your claim

• Cognitive decline accelerated in over 50s during pandemic, study finds

• Intermittent fasting more effective than calorie restriction

  • HN comments

• Smokers Should Be Screened for Lung Cancer–Even If They Quit Long Ago

• Amazon Prime One Medical Plan

• CDC sounds alarm on newborn syphilis ‘epidemic.’

• Dietary guidelines may soon warn against ultraprocessed foods

Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda

• Toyota's Chairman Is Having His 'I Told You So' Moment About EVs

• Ocean soundscapes reveal changes in mammal populations from climate change

• Delhi's toxic air pollution has left non-smokers with 'smokers lungs'

• New Study Finds Most Of Antarctica Has Cooled By Over 1°C Since 1999…W. Antarctica Cooled 1.8°C.

• This year 'virtually certain' to be warmest in 125,000 years, EU scientists say

• 2023 on track to be the hottest year ever

• Humanity Keeps Upping Fossil-Fuel Production Despite Climate Pledge

• How to Fix Our Green Infrastructure Problem

• 'Insanity': petrostates planning expansion of fossil fuels, UN report

• Reducing pesticides in food: Major food manufacturers earn an F grade