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• After Eating It, Software Will Bite The World

• (2015) very educational Carbonating at home with improvised equipment and soda fountains

Horseshit

• HP says I should have known its £399 laptop bargain was too good to be true

• 6 in 10 Americans say money can buy happiness–here's how much it would cost

• What we know about aliens, according to science

• Americans ditched big cities during the pandemic. Now many are regretting it.

• Life Is Better Without the Internet

• Alibaba shuts down quantum lab, donates it to university

  idea: A rest home for "Next Big Things". We can have comfy stables for things like "Quantum" and "VR" and so on, a place for them to rest and regain health in between their strenuous public performances, dancing to attract foolish investment money. The rest cycles have been getting shorter and shorter, so the need to care for these reliable fictions is getting more urgent. Why, poor old "3DTV" was put away wet last time, and now stands moldy, stinky, and unloved by anyone. That's not going to work when someone wants to take her out next year and parade her around again to peel off this years retirement fund yields.

• How Do You Hide Secret Codes in Diamonds? Space Lasers

  • Serializing diamonds with lasers. No dog whistles here, no sir!

• NYC Will Sell Your Car from Under You 10 Days After It's Towed

• At this Virginia farm, the goats have GPS

• Traffic / parking issues: 'It gets scary': Neighbors say these Bay Area ghost kitchens are out of control

• Police Warn Parents About iPhone's New 'NameDrop' Feature

celebrity gossip

• Richard Stallman's political discourse on sex

  • HN comment

  • Not to mention: if pedophilia is bad and our idols should be dethroned for once speaking in ways that can be misconstrued to support it... what about our current political leaders?

• Was Napoleon even short? Inside the history of discrimination against short men

Obit

• Marty Krofft, co-creator of H.R. Pufnstuf and Land of the Lost, dead at 86

Rank Propaganda / Thought Policing / World Disordering

• We are restricting freedom, but we are doing it for the common good

Musk

• Elon Musk has a target on his back as Media Matters adds to X drama.

• Elon Musk Visits Site of Hamas Massacre With Netanyahu After Antisemitism Allegations

  • Elon Musk toured the site of Hamas' October 7 terror attacks on Israel, after being accused of antisemitism

• Paris mayor quitting Elon Musk's 'global sewer' platform X before 2024 Olympics

Trump / War against the Right / Jan6

• Christie blames Trump for nationwide spike in Islamophobia, antisemitism.

• Tracking people at Mar-a-Lago was easy. Think your privacy is better protected?

Pox / COVID / BioTerror AgitProp

• China demands more fever clinics amid pneumonia surge

Religion / Tribal / Culture War and Re-Segregation

• The key to mother and child well-being may be many caregivers | Hacker News

• Banned Books - Craig Murray

• A statue of Thomas Jefferson is removed from New York City Hall after 187 years

• Suspect arrested in shooting of three Palestinian students in Vermont

  • Vermont police arrest suspect in ‘hate-motivated’ shooting of Palestinians

• The Implosion of the Climate Left.

  At the end of March 2021, Alex O’Keefe, among the first Black hires of the Sunrise Movement and a member of management, dropped a long manifesto, signed by three others, into the organization’s Slack account, indicting the leadership for a culture of white supremacy. It wasn’t the first internal brushfire the group had seen, but none during the presidential campaign had come this close to becoming public or had been drafted with such intensity. By posting the manifesto in the organization’s main Slack channel, it became visible to all the staff and many volunteers, a significant ratcheting up of pressure.

Edumacationalizing / Acedemia Nuts

• A Jewish professor at USC confronted pro-Palestinian students. He’s now barred from campus.

  Hussam Ayloush, executive director of the Council on American-Islamic Relations in Los Angeles, called for USC to launch an investigation into Strauss and to take actions to protect “Muslim, Palestinian and Arab students as well as any others who are targeted by hate and bigotry.”

• About the Education System

• Too Many Schools Are Misdiagnosing Dyslexia

Entertainment / ShowBiz / Advertising

• Titled Tuesday Cheating - Part 2 - Fantastic Cheaters and Where to Find Them - Personal Website of Dorian Quelle

  I am convinced that there is no evidence that cheating increased after the chess boom in 2020, compared to the offline baseline. I am also convinced that there is no evidence of pervasive and consistent computer assisted cheating in titled tuesday tournaments.

  • HN comments

• The terrific LEGO tower of technique - The Brothers Brick | The Brothers Brick

• Warner Bros. Keeps Cancelling Finished Movies

• Child's Online Mistake Can Ruin Your Digital Life

• Instagram's Algorithm Delivers Toxic Video Mix to Adults Who Follow Children

• Unsealed complaint says Meta ‘coveted’ under-13s and deceives the public about age enforcement.

  • Meta designed platforms to get children addicted, court documents allege

• Voice-Over-LTE: The Reason Why Your Phone May Soon Stop Working

• Zarf Updates: All that Infocom interpreter code

• Google is deleting unused accounts this week

• Is it time to concede Apple was right to eliminate the headphone jack?

TechSuck / Geek Bait

• Brother have gotten to where they are now, by not innovating | Hacker News

• Google Drive misplaces months' worth of customer data

  • HN comments

• Where Is OpenCV 5? | Hacker News

• Data-destroying defect found in OpenZFS 2.2.0

• Signal reflections in electronic circuits - lcamtuf’s thing

  • HN comments

• How Apple's developers reflashed Mac ROMs in the '90s

  • HN comments

AI Will (Save | Destroy) The World

• AI could power the climate breakthrough the world needs

• Pentagon's AI initiatives accelerate hard decisions on lethal autonomous weapons

• Battling Implicit Bias

• The man who tried to overthrow Sam Altman

• Elon Musk warns ‘something scared’ OpenAI chief scientist Ilya Sutskever as CEO Sam Altman’s return fails to answer key questions.

Space / Boomy Zoomers / UFO

• China makes progress on Raptor-like engines for super heavy rocket

• US Government UFO cover up

  I believe the UFO cover-up is about more than state secrets. The government routinely hides information important and meaningless on all manner of subjects, regardless of whether legitimate national-security concerns are involved. Its default position is to stonewall, especially to conceal embarrassing revelations. After reading thousands of pages of government reports, I believe that the government’s uneasiness over its sheer ignorance drives its secrecy. It just doesn’t know very much.

• Mars Needs Insects

Economicon / Business / Finance

• The new plan to create a stock market portfolio for every child in America

• Owners Keep Zombie Malls Alive Even When Towns Want to Pull the Plug

• 64 US Bank Branches File To Shut Down In A Single Week; Are You Affected? | ZeroHedge

• Consumers Use 'Buy-Now, Pay-Later' Option To Fund Record Black Friday Purchases | ZeroHedge

• Amazon Takes the Delivery Throne from Ups and FedEx

  • The Biggest Delivery Business in the U.S. Is No Longer Ups or FedEx

• Inflation Is Making Americans Hate the US Economy

• Broadcom lays off many VMware employees after closing acquisition of the company

Gubmint / Poilitcks / Law Making

• Biden Quietly Apologized to Muslims for Doubting Hamas Claim: Report

• How Dare He! Biden Bails On Major International Climate Summit In Dubai | ZeroHedge

Law Breaking / Police / Internal Security

• NY retailers lost $4.4 billion due to organized shoplifting rings in 2022: group.

• Northern District of California | Former San Francisco Venture Capitalist Convicted Of Multiple Fraud And Money Laundering Charges | United States Department of Justice

  Michael Brent Rothenberg, a former San Francisco venture capitalist once described in Bloomberg as “Silicon Valley’s Party Animal,” was convicted today of wire fraud, money laundering, bank fraud, and making false statements to a bank by a federal jury. All told, the evidence introduced at trial established that Rothenberg’s schemes resulted in approximately $18.8 million in missing money.

External Security / Militaria / Diplomania

• Sidestepping GPU ban, Chinese factories transform RTX cards into AI accelerators

• BREAKING. US Navy Rescues Hijacked Israeli-Managed Oil Tanker and Captures Houthi Pirates – RedState

  • American Naval Forces (with a Japanese assist) Capture Pirates

• Army Tries to Bring Back Soldiers Booted for Refusing the COVID Vaccine

World

• Europe's grid is under a cyberattack deluge

• Why there is a labour shortage in the EU inspite of deindustrialization?

• Human case of flu seen in pigs found in UK for first time

• In Country Where Houses Are Bought in $100 Bills, Plans for Sweeping Change

Israel

• Reuters Sure Had a Curious Way to Describe Israeli Hostages.

• Deal Reached To Extend Gaza Truce By Two Days

Russia Bad / Ukraine War

• Cisco aids Ukraine defense with modified switches to counter Russian attacks

Health / Medicine

• Amazon Once Inspired Fear in the Health-Care Industry. No Longer

• The obesity pay gap is worse than previously thought

• Nutrient found in beef and dairy improves immune response to cancer

  • HN comments

• The Prophylactic Extraction of Third Molars: A Public Health Hazard

Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda

• India plans to triple underground coal mining to meet energy demand

• CO2 readings from Mauna Loa show failure to combat climate change

• Time to limit how often we travel abroad – 'carbon passports' may be the answer

• UAE plotted to use COP28 to push for oil and gas deals, leaked notes show

• Exposing plants to Ethylene may bolster their growth and help feed the world

• 7in Saturday’s November snowfall was Topeka’s heaviest in 135 years. How much snow fell here?

• Robots Checking for Climate Collapse

• Vampire bats may soon take up residence in the United States

• Brazil's mysterious tunnels made by giant sloths

• More than 1M gallons of oil leaks into Gulf of Mexico