2023-11-25

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• NASA Warns Solar Storm May Hit Earth Tomorrow as Sunspots Increase Tenfold

Horseshit

• AI divides humanity into two camps – doomers vs. accelerationists

• USDA is giving some farmers an ultimatum: Grow hemp OR marijuana, not both

  Bellavance is just one of many farmers in at least two states — Vermont and Mississippi — who lost their hemp licenses this year after entering their state’s regulated marijuana industry, POLITICO has learned. Another hemp grower in Missouri said USDA informed him in April 2023 that he would lose his hemp license if he applied to participate in the state’s newly legal marijuana industry.

• "Billionaire tech bros" We will coup whoever we want!

• Taking selfies is now considered a ‘public health problem,’ requires ‘safety messaging,’ say researchers: Most common cause of selfie-related deaths was falling from heights, study found.

celebrity gossip

• Bay Area tech CEO Jack Dorsey tells workers he's making it easier to fire them

Rank Propaganda / Thought Policing / World Disordering

• Welcome to the Future of Climate Coverage, Where the Journalists Are the Activists: Covering Climate Now sells top journalists on plan to ‘transform media’ in response to climate ’emergency.’

Musk

• X May Lose Up to $75M in Revenue as More Advertisers Pull Out

• Tesla Claims To Have Open Sourced The Roadster

• X may lose up to $75M by year-end on advertiser exodus

  • HN comments

Pox / COVID / BioTerror AgitProp

• China respiratory illness spike, WHO says no unusual pathogen found

• Vaccinated People Are 4 Times Less Likely to Get Long Covid

• Do shopping carts carry germs that might prove harmful?

Religion / Tribal / Culture War and Re-Segregation

• What Makes Hamas Worse Than the Nazis

• Derek Chauvin stabbed in prison: Former Minneapolis cop is brutally attacked in medium-security Arizona penitentiary where he is serving 22 years for murdering George Floyd | Daily Mail Online

  • Derek Chauvin, convicted in George Floyd’s murder, stabbed in federal prison

Edumacationalizing / Acedemia Nuts

• Jewish teacher hides in Queens high school as ‘radicalized’ students riot: ‘They want her fired.’

Entertainment / ShowBiz / Advertising

• Fire TV now also displays full-screen video ads on its homescreen | Hacker News

• Netflix spent $55M on sci-fi series that will almost certainly never be released

  • The $55M saga of a Netflix series nobody will ever see

  • HN comments

• A Dirty Little Secret About Drudge

• RAW photo processing app, apparently: Darktable: Crashing into the wall in slow-motion | Hacker News

• Gen Z Investigative Reporter Is Rocking Conservative Media

TechSuck / Geek Bait

• The GNU Name System has now been formalized as RFC 9498

• Asus Intros GeForce RTX 4060 Ti Video Card With Integrated M.2 SSD Slot

  • HN comments

• Autonomous excavator constructs a six-metre-high dry-stone wall | Hacker News

• AMD arms three of its gaming GPUs with PyTorch and ROCm for AI development

  RDNA3 desktop graphics cards, the Radeon RX 7900 XT, 7900 XTX, and the Radeon Pro 7900, will now support machine learning development via PyTorch and its ROCm 5.7, which is exclusively for Ubuntu 22.04.

• Spotify Open Sources Voayger, Fast, Simple, In-Memory Nearest Neighbor Search

• Show HN: IP Guide – Info on IP addresses, Networks, and ASNs | Hacker News

AI Will (Save | Destroy) The World

• Our Guide to OpenAI, Sam Altman and What the Heck Happened

• AI 'Accelerationists' Come Out Ahead with Sam Altman's Return to OpenAI

• OpenAI tried to merge with Anthropic –and was rejected

• Was China behind Sam Altman's ousting?

• Was Sam Altman 'Super Pumped'?

• OpenAI's origins explain the Sam Altman drama

• The week when AI got high on its own supply

• Yann LeCun: Ignore the deluge of complete nonsense about Q*

• 90-Day Suspension of Lawyer Who Filed ChatGPT-Written Motion

• Where are all the 'godmothers' of AI? Women's voices are not being heard

Space / Boomy Zoomers / UFO

• Cosmic radiation could increase risk of erectile dysfunction in astronauts

Crypto con games

• The Bond villain compliance strategy

  (Someone needs to write an East Asian studies paper on how Tokyo became Switzerland for Asian crypto enthusiasts due to a combination of governance, network connectivity, latency, and geopolitical risk. I nominate anyone other than me.)

  ... We know it was a lie, because (among many other reasons) we have the chat logs where the parts of their criminal conspiracy that operated in the U.S. complain that the parts of their criminal conspiracy that operated in Shanghai kept information from them that they needed to do their part to keep the crime operating smoothly. Coworkers, man.

  You might reasonably ask “Hey, doesn’t the U.S. typically require a warrant to go nosing about in the business of people who haven’t been accused of a crime?” And, to oversimplify half a century of jurisprudence, one loses one’s presumption of privacy if one brings a business into one’s private affairs. All of Binance’s customers and counterparties gave up their privacy to Binance by transacting with it. The U.S. has Binance’s permission to examine all of Binance’s historical, current, and future records, at will, for at least the next three years. It also secured a promise that Binance would assist in any investigation.

  • HN comments

• Sam Bankman-Fried didn't ask where the $8B went

Economicon / Business / Finance

• Your Rewards Card Is Bad for You, and for Everyone Else

• Don't expect the same raise you got last year

• How the ballooning subscription economy reduces consumer choice

• Why Americans Can't Buy Cheap Chinese Electric Vehicles

• Empty Bed Bath and Beyond stores are hot real estate. Here's who's moving in

• Customers furious as HSBC outage goes on for hours

Gubmint / Poilitcks / Law Making

• More than 43,000 people voted in a Louisiana election. A candidate won by 1 vote

• (Jan 2023) Guccifer 1.0 / Clinton emails Sorry, Not Sorry

Law Breaking / Police / Internal Security

• Photographer's Long Exposures Show Heavy Surveillance for APEC Summit

• Crime in San Francisco Is So Bad, There's Now Actual Pirates in the Bay

• A pioneering pilot's exceptional life story led to clues of second JFK shooter

External Security / Militaria / Diplomania

• Chinese factories dismantle and transform Nvidia cards into AI accelerators

• The Pentagon moving toward letting AI weapons autonomously decide to kill humans

World

• Argentina's Milei says shutting central bank 'non-negotiable'

  • Argentina's Milei backs away from dollarisation

• Foxconn founder Terry Gou drops out of Taiwanese presidential race

• Racing to the moon, U.S. intelligence sees China advancing with remarkable speed

• Argentina and Turkey floored by new Steam price hikes as high as 2900%

Israel

• Israeli-Owned Ship Comes Under Iranian Suicide Drone Attack In Indian Ocean

• Hamas Announces Delay Of 2nd Round Hostage Handover

Russia Bad / Ukraine War

• Drones and AI Could Locate Land Mines in Ukraine

• Putin says West cannot have AI monopoly so Russia must up its game

• Russia Launches Single Largest Drone Attack Of Ukraine War Saturday

Health / Medicine

• The Cannabis That People Are Using for Anxiety Is Probably Making It Worse

• Why You Should Be Able to Sell Your Kidney

Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda

• Motor emissions could have fallen by over 30% without SUV trend, report says

• Largest iceberg breaks free, heads toward Southern Ocean

• World facing 'hellish' 3C of climate heating, UN warns

• I'm a Climate Scientist. I'm Not Screaming into the Void Anymore

• Corruption can increase environmental efficiency in developing countries: study

• New maps show where snowfall is disappearing

• 'I thought climate change was a hoax. Now I've changed my mind'

• Richest 1% emit as much planet-heating pollution as two-thirds of humanity

• How to electrify your life when you rent