2023-11-15

Worthy

• The Religion of Science And Its Consequences.

  While one could interpret “Science” as referring to the epistemological concept of methodologies employed to discern truths, this seems incongruous in our particular context. Instead, “Science” seems to serve as a shorthand for a collective body of research: observations, experiments, and models related to climate change. This body of research presumably “tells us that the sooner we respond to climate change, the lower the risks and the costs will be in the future.” Additionally, “Science” as used here goes beyond the descriptive by implying an ethical obligation to act in a certain way. This violates Hume’s is/ought distinction providing “Science” with a religious character. Blurring the distinction between science and religion (between descriptive and normative claims) leads to the “Believe The Science” disaster observed over the last few years.

  scientists don’t see themselves as regular (well-informed) people expressing their opinions. They think “Science” speaks through them. That’s how to make sense of the strange linguistic observation above. Since all agency is attributed to “The Science,” scientists appear to not have any. Consequently, they can’t be blamed for any mistakes.

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• Rogue Worlds Throw Planetary Ideas Out of Orbit

• Comets that 'bounce' from planet to planet could spread life across the universe

• Another fire breaks out underneath L.A. freeway

• Iowa teen grew 7k pounds of veggies, then gave them all away

Horseshit

• "This is the way of the world now": People think Oreo is putting less filling between cookies and the Wall Street Journal calls it "the biggest 'shrinkflation' scandal yet" | Not the Bee

• Did 'Demolition Man' Predict the Millennial?

• People Are Watching Videos on Phones While Driving. Often, It's Perfectly Legal

• Feds Have No Idea How Many Times Cruise Driverless Cars Hit Pedestrians

celebrity gossip

• Barry Manilow explains why he didn’t come out as gay publicly until 2017.

• Giorgio Armani fashions his own legacy with posthumous succession plan

Rank Propaganda / Thought Policing / World Disordering

• "UK Files" Reports Show: Both Left And Right Can Be Targets Of Censors | ZeroHedge

• NewsGuard: A Surrogate the Feds Pay to Keep Watch on the Internet and Be a Judge of the Truth.

Musk

• Elon Musk railed against shadow bans–now he's using them on his critics

Pox / COVID / BioTerror AgitProp

• New poll finds more than a third of Americans aren’t concerned about rise in flu, COVID and RSV cases.

Religion / Tribal / Culture War and Re-Segregation

• Americans' Trust in Scientists, Positive Views of Science Continue to Decline

• About 900 Jewish people headed to DC Israel rally left stranded by bus drivers staging 'deliberate and malicious' walkout

• The American Multimillionaire Marxists Funding Pro-Palestinian Rage | The Free Press

• Silicon Valley's worldview is not just an ideology; it's a personality disorder

• Vatican reaffirms 'grave sin' of Freemasonry

Edumacationalizing / Acedemia Nuts

• What's Behind the Increase in Homeschooling

Entertainment / ShowBiz / Advertising

• Social media giants must face child safety lawsuits, judge rules

• Apple extends Emergency SOS via satellite for an additional free year

• Google witness accidentally blurts out that Apple gets 36% cut of Safari deal.

• Google paid $8B to make its apps default on Samsung phones

  • HN comments

• The Small Website Discoverability Crisis | Hacker News

• Smash Bros: Could Nintendo's new rules end esports competitions?

• Android isn't cool with teenagers, and that's a big problem

  • HN comments

TechSuck / Geek Bait

• recent Intel only; quite serious: Reptar

  This already seemed like it could be indicative of a serious problem, but within a few days of experimenting we found that when multiple cores were triggering the same bug, the processor would begin to report machine check exceptions and halt. We verified this worked even inside an unprivileged guest VM, so this already has serious security implications for cloud providers. Naturally, we reported this to Intel as soon as we confirmed this was a security issue.

  Intel have published updated microcode for all affected processors. Your operating system or BIOS vendor may already have an update available!

  • HN comments

  • 'Reptar', a new CPU vulnerability

  • Intel fixes high-severity CPU bug that causes "strange behavior"

• So of course there has to be an AMD notice today, too: CacheWarp: A new software fault attack on AMD SEV-ES and SEV-SNP

  Specifically, a malicious hypervisor can

  • ... a "malicious hypervisor" == u is already 0wnz0red

  • HN comments

  • AMD INVD Instruction Security Notice

• Checking Out Zen 4's Die Photo

• Diskomator – NVMe-TCP at your fingertips

AI Will (Save | Destroy) The World

• CNN: 4Chan users weild AI in the wake of Hamas attacks

• AI outperforms conventional weather forecasting for the first time: Google study

• Microsoft announces custom AI chip that could compete with Nvidia

Space / Boomy Zoomers / UFO

• Astronauts drop tool bag into orbit that you can see with binoculars | Hacker News

• NOAA forecasts quicker, stronger peak of solar activity

Crypto con games

• NFT Developer Pleads Guilty to an International Scheme to Defraud NFT Purchasers

Economicon / Business / Finance

• US Inflation Broadly Slows, Erasing Bets on More Fed Rate Hikes

• Soaring Coal Prices a Big Part of Rocky Mountain Power's 30% Rate Hike

• WeWork's Rescue Wasn't Real

• Inflation Appears to Be Over

Gubmint / Poilitcks / Law Making

• "We Can Finish It Here": US Senator Challenges Teamsters President To Fight During Congressional Hearing | ZeroHedge

  As the two men stood their butts up, Chairman Bernie Sanders (I-VT) put the kebash on the squabble. "Hold it. No, no, no, sit down. Sit down! You’re a United State senator, sit down," Sanders yelled. "This is a hearing. God knows the American people have enough contempt for Congress, let’s not —" he continued, before being cut off by more trash-talking between Mullin and O'Brien.

  • (Video) Mullin challenges Teamsters President to fight during Hearing - YouTube

• Miami mayor's side gig was advising Kremlin-linked oligarch's associates

• ARRL Hails FCC Action to Remove Symbol Rate Restrictions

  • HN comments

• Doug Casey on the Imminent Bankruptcy of the US Government

• ‘Bad actors’ used state program to store pallets, hand sanitizer under 10 Fwy before arsonist struck, Newsom says

  • Freeway fire set with 'malice intent,' Newsom says

  • We Now Know What Caused That Devastating LA Freeway Fire – PJ Media

• Nikki Haley: "I want everybody's name" (on social media)

• The Supreme Court's new ethics code is a joke

• Why Democrats Are Ride or Die for Biden

• US lawmakers question Apple over Jon Stewart's China content

• ‘He’s a beast’: White House adviser dismisses questions about Biden’s age | Semafor

• California Targets AI and "Disinformation" in the Run-Up to the 2024 Election

• Nikki Haley calls social media anonymity a "national security threat"

Law Breaking / Police / Internal Security

• Two Czech journalists visiting SF for APEC robbed at gunpoint in North Beach

• Final report in former St. Louis circuit attorney investigation | ksdk.com

  25,000 cases dismissed. 2,735 cases dismissed by judges for failure to prosecute. $351,500 in taxpayer money paid to an unlicensed attorney providing legal advice. Countless violations of the Crime Victims' Rights Act. A resignation just hours before a judge was to order potentially damaging records be turned over and a deposition be scheduled.

• Las Vegas teens who beat 17-year-old student to death near high school facing murder charges | Fox News

• FBI Director: FISA Section 702 warrant requirement a 'de facto ban'

External Security / Militaria / Diplomania

• Tech execs are reportedly 'scrambling' to score a ticket to a dinner with Xi

• Scenes Of Red Dawn 2023 In San Francisco As Biden & Xi Enter 4 Hours Of Talks | ZeroHedge

World

• Finland considers closing border with Russia amid spike in asylum seekers

• Sunak will pass emergency law declaring Rwanda safe

Israel

• Israel offers incubators for Gaza babies after Biden says hospitals "must be protected" - CBS News

Russia Bad / Ukraine War

• Cyprus confidential: Top German journalist received €600000 from Putin ally

• Russian Troops Bled Dry by Cluster Bombs

• Cyprus lit up with flurry of oligarch transactions after Russia invaded Ukraine

Health / Medicine

• Does Anaesthesia Prove Ketamine Placebo?

• Life expectancy for men in US falls to 73 – six years less than women, study | Hacker News

• Gut epithelial barrier damage caused by dishwasher detergents and rinse aids | Hacker News

• Is the US's Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System broken?

• Australia's overuse of antibiotics driving rate of drug-resistant infections

• Advertising money rains down The Obesity-Drug Era Starts Now

Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda

• New Toyota Camry to Be Sold Only as Hybrid

• Major US climate disasters occur every three weeks, report finds

• Trust climate predictions from climate models that cannot reproduce the past?

• Ex-FARC members aim to restore 1M native trees in the Colombian Amazon