2023-11-30

Worthy

• On Pneumatic Tires.

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• Nikola Tesla's historic Wardenclyffe lab site at risk after devastating fire

• nice interactive animations The origins of the steam engine

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• A 27,000-year-old pyramid? Controversy hits extraordinary archaeological claim

• Who makes the most reliable new cars?

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Horseshit

• Higher cognitive ability linked to higher chance of having voted against Brexit

• Tell everyone you know to stop worrying about NameDrop already

• We Spied on Our Teenage Daughter with a Hidden Camera. Now What Do We Do?

• It's Time to Chop Wood With a Blunt Axe

  xe mastery paid dividends for up to 8000 years: over 100 human lifetimes! Optimization and mastery have been no-brainer investments for most of human history. But we’ve crossed a threshold where the metagame has fundamentally changed. Mastery of tools no longer pays dividends for the rest of our lifetime—we’re lucky if a new AI tool stays relevant for 12 months! It’s incredibly disorienting when the “sharpen the axe” strategy that worked for thousands of years suddenly stops working.

• Mars uses cocoa harvested by kids as young as 5 in Ghana

• The big bet on "tiny homes" to fix homelessness

Obit

• Henry Kissinger Dead at 100

  • Henry Kissinger Has Died

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  • Henry Kissinger Has Died

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  • Henry Kissinger dies at 100

  • Henry Kissinger Dead at 100

  • Henry Kissinger, America’s most famous diplomat, dies at 100.

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  • Henry Kissinger, War Criminal Beloved by America's Ruling Class, Finally Dies

  • Henry Kissinger, secretary of state to Richard Nixon, dies at 100

  • Henry Kissinger, Who Helped Forge U.S. Foreign Policy, Dies at 100

  • Anthony Bourdain always wanted to punch Henry Kissinger over Cambodia

Rank Propaganda / Thought Policing / World Disordering

• Meta reveals plans for 2024 global elections

• (Video) (9a CST) Hearing on the Weaponization of the Federal Government Alternate link

  the House Committee on Weaponization of the Federal Government will livestream the testimony of muckraking journalists Michael Shellenberger and Matt Taibbi who yesterday published a story that anyone even remotely interested in the collusion (yes, I used that word) between the government and scummy faux-“disinformation” outfits who are raking in the dough, some of it — surprise, surprise — coming from taxpayer funds.

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  • YouTube Files: Biden White House Dictated Censorship Demands Under "Misinformation" Canard | ZeroHedge

  I watched this shit. Better written political theater from the Democrats than some of them could play. "Ignore the naked Emperor because the alternative is Trump2!" ... They couldn't be slinging Trump2 better. the trump campaign should be paying the Democratic members of this committee for their advertising.

  Every single Democrat has used their time to talk about Trump2 and the threat / promise attack the Deep State. I've heard more good things about "Trump's plan for his next administration" here in this 2 hours than I have heard from Trump in the last 2 years. They have convinced me that they believe Trump will be the next President.

  haven't seen more than 3k "watching" on this youtube stream. Pity. Aside from (more) real evidence of government leaning on companies to censor, the Democratic performance of double sided Trump hate / sales pitch is worth seeing.

• Pro-meat misinformation rife on social media, says report

Musk

• Major brands are not only pausing ads on X. They're stepping away altogether

• Cybertruck Launch

• Elon Musk curses out advertisers who left X over antisemitic content

  • Elon Musk to advertisers boycotting X: "Go fuck yourself"

  • Elon Musk on X antisemitism controversy: "Don't advertise. Go f yourself"

  • Musk apologizes for antisemitic tweet but tells advertisers 'go fuck yourself'

  • Elon Musk Uses a Crude Insult to Slam Advertisers for Pulling Back from X

• Tesla Fans Blame Four-Year-Old Child for Falcon Wing Door Closing on His Head

• United Auto Workers Launches Campaign to Unionize Tesla

Trump / War against the Right / Jan6

• Special Counsel Jack Smith Demanded Info On Americans Who "Favorited Or Retweeted" Trump Tweets; Newly Released Docs Show

Pox / COVID / BioTerror AgitProp

• New COVID-19 variant is spreading, poses ‘low’ public health risk.

• CDC: New Covid-19 variant cases have tripled in two weeks

Religion / Tribal / Culture War and Re-Segregation

• AI image generator Stable Diffusion perpetuates racial and gendered stereotypes

• Wall Street Journal Very Upset by Efforts to Stop Racism in Broadband Deployment

Edumacationalizing / Acedemia Nuts

• The Covid kids starting school unable to speak

Entertainment / ShowBiz / Advertising

• Google agrees to pay $100M per year to news companies in Canada

  • Canada says Google will pay $74M annually to Canadian news industry

• is this religion, yet? Apple Is Doing Its Part to End Green Bubble Shaming. It's Our Turn

• Mailchimp is shutting down TinyLetter

• Meta's Threads to Launch in Europe in App's Biggest Expansion Since Debut

• Substack for Videos

• 'Weird Al' Roasts Spotify's Artist Payout System in Year-End Wrapped Video

• Inactive Google accounts to be deleted from Friday

• Oakland's unprecedented triple exodus is a unique sporting tragedy

• IMDB-rename: A command line tool to rename media files based on titles from IMDB

• Meta files suit to kneecap the FTC

TechSuck / Geek Bait

• Does the Internet Route Around Damage? – Edition 2023

  each outage shows, the vast majority of paths we see in RIPE Atlas that go via these important infrastructures get diverted, so even when outages occur, the Internet - by means of BGP and possibly manual intervention - will route around damage.

• XCurl

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• SAP faces more accusations of breaching on-prem customers' trust

• Say it again: values not expressions | Ned Batchelder

  This is one of the reasons I’m always interested to help new learners: even well-trodden paths can reveal new insights.

• The Intel 386 processor die: the clock circuit

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• ooo nifty IMDb Non-Commercial Datasets

• The Weirdest Bug I’ve Seen Yet

  • After uninstalling Grammarly and restarting the computer, the gif loaded in Chrome without crashing.

  Why did this particular gif crash Chrome when Grammarly was installed? Unfortunately, with access to neither the Chrome source code nor the Grammarly source code, we can only guess. In the time since we replaced the gif, either Grammarly or Chrome or both have fixed this issue, because the original gif no longer causes Chrome to crash.

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AI Will (Save | Destroy) The World

• OpenAI's board needs to say something

• Helen Toner resigned from the OpenAI board

• Sam Altman returns as CEO, OpenAI has a new initial board

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• Prominent Women in Tech Say They Don't Want to Join OpenAI's All-Male Board

• Interview: Sam Altman on being fired and rehired by OpenAI

• Researchers Made an IQ Test for AI, Found They're All Pretty Stupid

• Behind China's Plans to Build AI for the World

• Inactive Google accounts to be deleted from Friday

• AI could endanger humanity in 5 years: Former Google CEO

• Microsoft president says no chance of super-intelligent AI soon

• Sam Altman's New Order Doesn't Include OpenAI's Chief Scientist

Space / Boomy Zoomers / UFO

• ISS astronauts watch Russian cargo ship burn up in Earth's atmosphere

• After 50 years, US to return to moon on January 25

  • "If it is worth doing next year; it was worth doing 50 years ago. If it was not worth doing 50 years ago, how is it worth doing today?"

• The alien hunter: has Harvard's Avi Loeb found proof of extraterrestrial life?

• SpaceX Announces a Starship Version Two Is in the Works

• Satellite imagery reveals explosion at China’s Jiuquan spaceport.

Crypto con games

• It's not just electricity – Bitcoin mines burn through a lot of water, too

• Footballer sued for $1B after promoting NFTs from crypto exchange Binance

Economicon / Business / Finance

• General Motors is buying back 1/4 of the stock of the entire company

• Apple Pulls Plug on Goldman Credit-Card Partnership.

  • Apple ending relationship with Goldman Sachs, fate of Apple Card unclear

  • Apple to end credit card partnership with Goldman Sachs

• Short Sellers Are Misunderstood

• Toyota's profit more than doubled due to hybrid demand is all time high

• US: Real GDP grows at an annual rate of 5.2% in Q3 vs. 5.0% expected

  • U.S. GDP Grew at a 5.2% Rate in the Third Quarter, Even Stronger Than Indicated

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• Gas prices drop more than 60 days in a row

• Blackstone acquires pet care app Rover in $2.3B all-cash deal

• Nvidia CEO: US chip independence may take 20 years to achieve

• Jamie Dimon worried US economy in a ‘sugar high,’ says lower-earning Americans should be ‘p—ed off.’

• You Don't Want 2020 Prices Back

Gubmint / Poilitcks / Law Making

• After criticism for Biden skipping global climate summit, White House to send Kamala Harris | Just The News

• Biden says prices 'too high,' asks sellers to lower them

• Senator calls for the public release of AT&T 'Hemisphere' surveillance records

• EPA to Require Removal of All Lead Pipes from U.S. Water System

• Federal Judge Orders FBI To Finally Release Seth Rich's Laptop

• Bank Investigator Flagged 'Unusual' Chinese Payments behind $40k Check to Biden | National Review

Law Breaking / Police / Internal Security

• As crime surges, ‘Defund’ morphs to ‘Defend’ the police.

• Founder of spyware maker Hacking Team arrested for attempted murder

External Security / Militaria / Diplomania

• India Accidentally Hired DEA Agent to Kill Sikh Activist Federal Prosecutors Say

• Japan asks US Military to ground Osprey aircraft after fatal crash

• Army unveils first-ever doctrine for 'information'

• People are realizing that the Arsenal of Democracy is gone

World

• Gold Bars and Tokyo Apartments: How Money Is Flowing Out of China

• PSNI treating Belfast ‘Irish lives matter’ graffiti as ‘hate incident.’

• France bans ministers from WhatsApp, Signal; demands French alternatives

• CSAR: European Parliament rejects mass scanning of private messages

Israel

• Israel is using AI to target civilians

• Hamas terrorists open fire at bus stop near Jerusalem, leaving 3 dead, 11 injured

Russia Bad / Ukraine War

• Russia warns of tension as Finland shuts last border crossing.

• Ukrainian group, SBU hack Russian Labor Ministry database

• Putin Urges Russians to Have 8 Kids Amid Population Crisis

Health / Medicine

• Canadian life expectancy is the lowest it's been in over a decade, says StatsCan

• Just because you won't see it, doesn't mean it isn't there

• Innovative Cancer Treatment May Sometimes Cause Cancer, FDA Says

• What works for treating the common cold? Many doctors say 'not much'

• Study: Vegan Twins Surpass Meat-Eaters in Health Metrics over 8 Weeks

• NY woman clears $108M of other people's medical debt – after dying of cancer

Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda

• 27% of New Cars in France Now Plugin Electric Cars

• I'm Appalled by What I Learned About Recycling. But We Can Fix It

• What the U.S. will look like if the world heats up beyond 1.5 degrees

• Recalibrated limits of growth suggests near-term collapse

• Saving CO2 using location and time shifting in Azure

• HHow We Turned the Tide in the Roach Wars

• Coal-producing West Virginia is converting an entire school system to solar

• Why No One Wants to Pay for the Green Transition

• Electric vehicles have almost 80% more problems than gas-powered ones