2023-12-22
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Congrats on the rugrats! In The Long Run, We're All Dad - by Scott Alexander
seriously, I’m not comfortable telling the Internet my kids’ names. I’ll let them get doxxed the usual way - by the NYT, the first time they express a problematic opinion. But I need some way to refer to them online, so their nicknames are Kai and Lyra.
On December 13, 2023, two surprisal-minimization engines registered an unpredecented spike in surprisal. They were thrust from a sunless sea into a blooming buzzing confusion, flooded with inexplicable data through input channels they didn’t even know they had.
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Horseshit
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Oklahoma fans spam family business of player who transferred with 1-star reviews
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Blood, Guns, and Broken Scooters: Inside the Chaotic Rise and Fall of Bird
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A bottle of scotch recently sold for $2.7M – what's behind such prices?
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"metrics" The Great AI Weirding - by Delip Rao
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Polish DRMed trains stop as predicted due to date-based logic-bomb
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Banksy artwork stolen less than an hour after unveiling in south London
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"Nightmare Tenant" Story Amplified by Seattle Times Crumbles Under Scrutiny
celebrity gossip
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court records examined by RadarOnline.com showed the missing eight — known as Doe’s # 12, 28, 97, 107, 144, 147, 171, and 183 — filed court documents in a desperate attempt to remain anonymous in the scandalous case.
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Dukes of Hazzard actor John Schneider called for public hanging of Joe Biden
Actor John Schneider called for the executions of Joe Biden and the president’s son Hunter in a now-deleted social media post that drew ridicule and questions about whether he should be criminally charged.
“Mr President, I believe you are guilty of treason and should be publicly hung,” Schneider wrote to Biden. “Your son too. Your response is..? Sincerely, John Schneider.”
Seriously, folks?” said Schneider to Deadline today in the second of two statements on his Biden remarks. “This is my final comment on this. I neither said nor implied any such thing. Despite headlines claiming otherwise, in my post, I absolutely did not call for an act of violence or threaten a U.S. president as many other celebrities have done in the past. I suggest you re-read my actual post and pay attention to the words before believing this nonsense.”
“It’s my position, which I am entitled to have, that some of our nations leaders in Washington have lost their way, and corruption runs rampant, both on our nation’s borders and abroad,” Schneider went on to say. “Transparency and accountability must happen in order for our constitutional republic to survive. There is no threat implied or otherwise in that statement.”
sources close to events confirm a probe is in the preliminary stage. “We look at all threats against our protectees and, due to intent, this falls under the definition of a threat,” a law enforcement insider informed Deadline Thursday
Rank Propaganda / Thought Policing / World Disordering
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Substack Has a Nazi Opportunity
I am not inclined to denounce people who publish on Substack nor assert that fleeing Substack is the only moral choice. I think that reasonable minds can differ on the morality of renting a walled garden at an estate that also rents walled gardens to Nazis, especially when the other walled gardens on the market are all rife with their own problems. I think reasonable minds can differ on the ethos of creating a platform that makes a conscious decision not to moderate based on most content. But that doesn’t mean I have to accept Substack’s attempt to convince me that its branding is about the good of humanity. It’s about money.
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Substack explains why they are paying Nazis to publish on their platform
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Busting Dictators' Internet Blocks with VPNs, Satellites, and Real News
Musk
Trump / War against the Right / Jan6
Pox / COVID / BioTerror AgitProp
Religion / Tribal / Culture War and Re-Segregation
Edumacationalizing / Acedemia Nuts
Entertainment / ShowBiz / Advertising
TechSuck / Geek Bait
Space / Boomy Zoomers / UFO
Economicon / Business / Finance
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Consumer confidence blows past expectations, surges by most since early 2021
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GM buys out nearly half of Buick dealers in the US who opt to not sell EVs
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The U.S. steel industry is dying because of NIMBYism and de-industrialization
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Is David Solomon Too Big a Jerk to Run Goldman Sachs? – Inside a Banking Mutiny
Gubmint / Poilitcks / Law Making
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The GOP Is Mad Because the FCC Wants to Ban Shitty Cable Early Termination Fees
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Maine delays key vote on phasing out gas-powered vehicles
The original proposal aimed to require electric and plug-in hybrids to make up 43 percent of new car sales for 2027 models and 82 percent of new sales by model year 2032. The Maine Board of Environmental Protection was scheduled to take a final vote on Thursday, but it was postponed because of lingering power outages and damage from Monday’s storm.
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Biden kept at distance from McConnell on border deal talks | The Hill
President Biden has kept a distance from Senate negotiations on a border deal critical to securing congressional aid to Ukraine, even as GOP lawmakers repeatedly called for him to enter the talks. The handling of the talks is now raising eyebrows in Washington, particularly among Republicans who suspect the White House did not want Biden to agree to a deal.
some Democratic senators are worried that if Biden got into a room with McConnell or other Senate GOP negotiators, he might end up cutting a deal on border and asylum policy that will enrage their party’s base.
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As with last October; very few people catch Federal "simple possession" alone Granting Pardon for the Offense of Simple Possession of or Use of Marijuana
I, Joseph R. Biden Jr., do hereby grant a full, complete, and unconditional pardon to all current United States citizens and lawful permanent residents who, on or before the date of this proclamation, committed or were convicted of the offense of simple possession of marijuana, attempted simple possession of marijuana, or use of marijuana, regardless of whether they have been charged with or prosecuted for these offenses on or before the date of this proclamation,