2023-11-22
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Dogs sickened by mystery respiratory illness: States affected, symptoms
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NH man had no car and no furniture, but died leaving his town millions
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Children, left behind by suburbia, need better community design
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Checksum restaurant bills and discover failures: (2007) A low-bandwidth, high-latency, high-cost, and unreliable data channel
What I've found is a shocking number of restaurants don't charge me what I write. For a while I thought I just had bad handwriting, but I then went out of my way to write very clear numbers and that didn't help.
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Hell is other people - Why individualism shrinks the next generation
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Ford Is Killing the Explorer Hybrid Because Cops Are Buying All of Them
The 2024 Ford Explorer Hybrid and Lincoln Aviator Hybrid just got the ax, because it wants to focus its hybrid production capabilities on the Explorer Police Interceptor Utility Hybrid model. It seems that police forces across the nation just can’t get enough of the 318-horsepower 322 pound-feet of torque hybrid monster.
Presumably the lithium battery allows officers to power the accessories without having the engine run as much,
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Army ants use collective intelligence to build bridges. Robots can learn from it
Horseshit
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As more of the world thirsts, luxury water becoming fashionable among the elite
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Deciphering clues in a news article to understand how it was reported
As news consumers, the credibility of the publication itself is important. We need to know which news sources have high editorial standards, such that they are unlikely to publish rumors that have not been verified using the techniques described above. I don’t have a shortcut for this. I trust publications like the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Guardian (my former employer) and the Atlantic.
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New Kodak Super 8 Film Video Camera Is Coming Out, Costs $5,495
Rank Propaganda / Thought Policing / World Disordering
Musk
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X Corp Donates War-Related Ads Revenue to Gaza and Israeli Hospitals
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Twitter’s Former Head of Trust and Safety Finally Breaks Her Silence
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X has been placing ads for Apple, Bravo, IBM, Oracle next to pro-Nazi content
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Ken Paxton announces investigation of media group following Elon Musk's lawsuit
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Judge finds evidence that Tesla, Musk knew about Autopilot defect
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Why Can't Anyone but Tesla Make a Buck on EVs? Thank 20 Years of Public Policy
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Tesla's Standoff with Swedish Workers Is Escalating Dramatically
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People are debunking the claims Elon Musk made in advertising lawsuit
Trump / War against the Right / Jan6
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A Georgia judge on Tuesday rejected Fulton County prosecutors' bid to immediately send a Donald Trump co-defendant to jail for witness intimidation before his trial and instead requested his bond conditions be modified to restrict his social media activity.
he former leader of Black Voices for Trump signed an agreement with bond conditions that instructed him he wasn't supposed to contact witnesses or codefendants in a direct or indirect way about the facts of the case. He was also forbidden from intimidating any co-defendants or witnesses. Last Friday, Willis flagged more than a dozen of Floyd's recent posts on X and said they were clearly violations of those bond conditions.
In McAfee's courtroom on Tuesday, she questioned three witnesses who backed up her argument that the messages were seen as threats to former Trump lawyer Jenna Ellis, Georgia Secretary of State Chief Operating Officer Gabriel Sterling and election worker Ruby Freeman. For those reasons, Willis argued that Floyd should be immediately taken into custody pending trial.
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Jan. 6 police video captures Metro D.C. officer saying 'we go undercover as Antifa' | Just The News
Pox / COVID / BioTerror AgitProp
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The mRNAs didn’t end Covid, Omicron did - by Alex Berenson
What accounted for this miraculous end to the plague of all plagues? Not vaccines. They were given in early 2021, a year before the tide rolled out, and even their backers concede they don’t work well against Omicron.
No, what happened was Omicron itself. It swept through the United States in the winter of 2022, the vaccinated and unvaccinated alike. Its mortality rates were overall much lower than the earlier variants - probably in the range of 0.05-0.1% - though its transmissibility meant that the winter of 2022 still saw a lot of deaths (particularly in older people, no matter that they were jabbed).
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I recall when "Omicron" first hit, there was speculation that it looked like an early sample that had been in a lab for a while. Someone may have built it as a counter-agent. "All the hallmarks of serial mouse passage" and talk of South African bio labs.
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still "the pandemic's wrongest man" HN comments
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Lockdowns’ evolutionary pressure made Covid virus more transmissible earlier.
Religion / Tribal / Culture War and Re-Segregation
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Facebook approved ad calling for assassination of pro-Palestine activist
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Beliefs that kill birth rates - Aria Babu
I now think it is safe to say that, in the rich world, if your people believe that a working mother somehow harms her children, this means you will have lower birth-rates. It seems that moving from this being a fringe opinion to being something most people believe, loses you one baby for every four women.
In this particular case, I think the birth-rate-destroying belief is not really a conservative belief about women and gender. It is actually a belief about babies. My guess is that if the World Values Survey asked whether “It takes a lot of work to raise a child well”, then we would find an even stronger correlation.
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As Democrats push to ban caste discrimination, some Indian Americans object
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New Study: One in four African-American families have a net worth of Zero
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Opinion | Cass Sunstein On Why He Is a Liberal - The New York Times
Liberals like laughter. They are anti-anti-laughter.
Edumacationalizing / Acedemia Nuts
Entertainment / ShowBiz / Advertising
TechSuck / Geek Bait
AI Will (Save | Destroy) The World
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The interested normie's guide to OpenAI drama
The four-sentence version of this story is something like:
Sam Altman, the co-founder OpenAI, a cutting-edge machine-learning start-up structured for funny ideological reasons as a non-profit, was fired by the board of directors from his position as C.E.O. for reasons that are still somewhat vague but seem to come down to the feeling that he was not taking “safety” part of the company’s mission to create a safe machine super-intelligence.
Microsoft, OpenAI’s top investor and provider of the platform on which its software works, hired Altman and several other colleagues who had resigned or were threatening to resign because of Altman’s departure, while OpenAI hired Twitch co-founder Emmett Shear as OpenAI’s interim C.E.O.
At least one board member, OpenAI Chief Scientist Ilya Sutskever, apologized for the way he voted, seemingly thanks to the tearful pleas of the wife of another resigned colleague, and signed a letter demanding Altman’s return along with like 90 percent of OpenAI’s employees.
After several days of negotiations, the board reinstated Altman as C.E.O. and resigned (except for one member, Quora C.E.O. Adam D’Angelo), replaced by Bret Taylor and … Larry Summers.
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OpenAI: How could Microsoft have let this happen after betting so many billions?
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Elon Musk shares letter detailing allegations against Sam Altman
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We have reached an agreement in principle for Sam to return to OpenAI as CEO
- BIG thread HN comments
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Sam Altman to return as OpenAI CEO after his tumultuous ouster
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Larry Summers Jumps to Center of AI Stage With OpenAI Board Seat
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Meet Adam D'Angelo, the OpenAI Board Member Who Brokered Sam Altman's Return
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An inordinate amount of our attention is afforded to absurdly rich children — Keenan
If the end game is possessing the ability to impulse-purchase social media companies because my dad didn’t love me and now the only validation I can get is from my army of obsequious right wing shitasses, I guess I’d rather just Fargo myself into a wood chipper.
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Sam Altman wins power struggle, returns to OpenAI with new board
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Altman's pattern of self-dealing behavior, led to PG firing him from YC in 2019
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OpenAI brings back Sam Altman as CEO just days after his firing unleashed chaos
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No females on the new OpenAI board, no scientists, no ethicists
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Before OpenAI, Sam Altman was fired from Y Combinator by his mentor
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FTC Authorizes Compulsory Process for AI-Related Products and Services
The Federal Trade Commission has approved an omnibus resolution authorizing the use of compulsory process in nonpublic investigations involving products and services that use or claim to be produced using artificial intelligence (AI) or claim to detect its use.
The omnibus resolution will streamline FTC staff’s ability to issue civil investigative demands (CIDs), which are a form of compulsory process similar to a subpoena, in investigations relating to AI, while retaining the Commission’s authority to determine when CIDs are issued. The FTC issues CIDs to obtain documents, information and testimony that advance FTC consumer protection and competition investigations. The omnibus resolution will be in effect for 10 years.
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Internet Archive Submits Comments on Copyright and Artificial Intelligence | Internet Archive Blogs
Space / Boomy Zoomers / UFO
Crypto con games
Economicon / Business / Finance
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Mutual Fund Executive Made Millions Trading the Same Stocks His Fund Was Trading
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Initial Unemployment Claims in US Decline by Most Since June
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Fed gave no indication of possible rate cuts at last meeting, minutes show.
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Fidelity National Financial shuts down network in wake of cybersecurity incident
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Bay Area nonprofit Signal shows how bloated tech companies have become
Gubmint / Poilitcks / Law Making
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IRS delays controversial new rule on tax reporting for apps like Venmo
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Video Of More OF That Voter Fraud That Doesn’t Exist « Lawrence Person's BattleSwarm Blog
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Democratic Rep. Anna Eshoo announces retirement after three decades in Congress
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Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley was asked to explain her earlier remarks about social media companies on Wednesday and said that while she didn't mind "anonymous American" free speech, she didn't support anonymous free speech for actors in Russia, Iran and China.
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Supreme Court case about stocks could make Trump's authoritarian dreams reality
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Big Pharma gave $9M to dark money groups to fight drug pricing reform
Law Breaking / Police / Internal Security
External Security / Militaria / Diplomania
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Explosion at Rainbow Bridge closes all WNY border crossings between U.S., Canada
The City of Niagara Falls said the incident involved a vehicle attempting to enter the U.S. The FBI Buffalo Field Office termed the incident an explosion. Thick smoke could be seen in a viewer video from the scene.