2024-01-05

• Our Jan6 Journal is up! Extracts from personal logs for the Week before, and day of Jan 6 2021; the prequel to these Daily News pages.

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• 75% of the world’s industrial fishing vessels are hidden from public view

• I love the National Weather Service. They get to be the public servants that governments should exist to support. SLEP Radar Upgrade 1/3/24 through 1/17/24

• Room-Temperature Superconductor Replicated

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• Maplewood typewriter repair store closes. It's the last of its type

• Culture is Coordination - by Robin Hanson - Overcoming Bias

• Is the west talking itself into decline?

  Ruxandra Teslo, one of a growing community of progress-focused writers at the nexus of science, economics and policy, argues that the growing scepticism around technology and the rise in zero-sum thinking in modern society is one of the defining ideological challenges of our time.

  Some may counter that a rebalancing of priorities from perpetual advancement to caution is a good thing, but this could be a catastrophic mistake. As well as economic growth, the drive for progress brought us modern medicine, significantly longer and healthier lives, plentiful food supplies, dramatic reductions in poverty, and ever more and ever cheaper renewable energy. The challenges facing the modern world will be solved by more focus on progress, not less.

• Why don't grocery stores stock pawpaw fruit?

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  • Pixy @ ace:

    Because (a) they're green even when they're ripe, so you can't tell that they are ripe, and (b) when they are ripe, which you can't tell anyway, they last about three days before turning into inedible mush.

Horseshit

• Pint of wine anyone? UK looks to bring back 'silly measure'

• Fewer people are buying electric cars

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• Technical headaches put the brakes on GM's big EV push

• Pilot accused of threatening to shoot captain midflight first court appearance

• The Xbox Series S toaster is real

• 23andMe risks public relations disaster as it blames customers for data breach

• I Just Learned My Son Is a Webcam Model. Should I Be Troubled? - The New York Times

• A girl was allegedly raped in the metaverse. Is this the start of a dark future?

• Guerlain caught in controversy over using the term "quantum" to promote a cream

• Digital Nomads are awful. I should know, I'm one of them

• Bodycams for civilians

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• Fucking A, bro: Obscenities Are Symptoms of Weak Minds. | Luke's Webpage

  • (2017) Swearing Is Actually a Sign of More Intelligence - Not Less - Say Scientists : ScienceAlert

celebrity gossip

• Zuckerberg's Bunker Plans Fuel Speculation on Billionaires Building Bunkers

• 'Rich Dad, Poor Dad' author Robert Kiyosaki reveals he's $1B in debt | Hacker News

• Olympian Turned Murderer Oscar Pistorius Released From Prison

• Mark Cuban hits back after Elon Musk criticizes business diversity initiatives

• Martin Sheen disputes rumor that he supports Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

  • Martin Sheen Shoots Down Report That He Supports RFK Jr.

• Rage Against the Machine won't tour or perform live again, drummer says

Epstein

• (PDF) Epstein Second Doc Dump

• "AI makes everything more marketable!" Epstein Documents 2024: Full Search with OpenAI and Embeddings

• "President Clinton Is A Key Person": Epstein Files Finally Unsealed | ZeroHedge

• Epstein documents: Names cited in court papers are released

• Second batch of Jeffrey Epstein court documents unsealed | First Thing

• Vanity Fair insiders deny Jeffrey Epstein accuser's claim that Bill Clinton 'threatened' magazine over reporting

  • Bill Clinton Pressured Vanity Fair Not to Write About Epstein, New Docs Claim

• "I have nothing to hide": Alan Dershowitz comes to his own defense regarding Epstein documents

• Newly unsealed documents reveal Jeffrey Epstein’s relationships with powerful people

• The Epstein “list,” explained

• Twitter Is Helping Push the Most Dangerous Conspiracy on the Epstein List Yet

• Her reporting exposed Epstein. She tells NPR why documents naming powerful men matter

• How did Jeffrey Epstein make all of his money?

• What the unsealed Jeffrey Epstein documents say — and don't say — about Stephen Hawking

• Jeffrey Epstein boasted of spurious celebrity connections, documents show

• Where is Jeffrey Epstein's island — and what reportedly happened there?

• Fox News host highlights Trump's inclusion in newly unsealed Jeffrey Epstein court documents

  • Here’s How Trump Is Responding to Being Named in Epstein Documents

• Jeffrey Epstein list: Whose names are on the newly unsealed documents?

Obit

• Glynis Johns, ‘Mary Poppins’ Star, Dies at 100

Rank Propaganda / Thought Policing / World Disordering

• How much will they help someone detailing the FBI malfeasance against Trump? Whistleblower Aid | Hacker News

• McDonald's CEO says 'misinformation' about its stance on the Israel-Gaza war is hitting sales

  • McDonald's hit by Israel-Gaza 'misinformation'

Musk

• SpaceX is suing to bust up federal union protections

Trump / War against the Right / Jan6

• ‘She’s dead, she’s dead’: Jan. 6 video has new angle on Ashli Babbitt shooting.

• Biden to Celebrate Dem J6 High Holy Day With White Supremacy Fairy Tale – PJ Media

  This year's shiny object to distract voters from the Biden disaster will be WHITE SUPREMACY. Remember kids: the real internal threat to the country is white supremacy-fueled domestic terrorism. The various criminal elements who have access to our southern border? NOTHING TO SEE HERE... MOVE ALONG. I hope they keep Biden squinting at teleprompters and barking "MAGA Republicans" like a trained seal with a saliva problem.

  • IP thread

• (PDF) White House for Sale: How Princes, Prime Ministers, and Premiers Paid Off Trump

  • "In Defense Of Democracy", Desperate Dems Drop 'Trump Paid Off By Princes & Premiers' Report (But Suggest No Charges) | ZeroHedge

  • China and Saudi Arabia topped a list of 20 countries whose governments or state-linked entities pumped millions of dollars into Trump

  • Trump businesses got millions in foreign money during presidency

  • Foreign governments paid millions to Trump's companies while he was president

  • Trump Businesses Received Millions From Foreign Government

  • Trump’s Two-Year Take From Foreign Governments While He Was President Is Staggering

• Clinton-Appointed Judge Dismisses Trump Ballot Disqualification Case 'With Prejudice' | ZeroHedge

  A plaintiff attempted to argue that they suffered “emotional injury” due to the breach of the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, and watched the events unfold on television, on the radio, and in various publications. They then argued that the incident caused them “severe emotional distress” and then filed a lawsuit to keep the former president from California’s ballots. But the judge wrote that because the events occurred “more than two years before the plaintiff” filed suit, it was outside of the two-year statute of limitations.

• Latest on Trump's appeals of Colorado ballot ruling, federal 2020 election case

• Trump Lawyers Urge Contempt After Jack Smith Defied Court

  • “Sure, Jan”: Legal experts mock Trump’s motion seeking to hold Jack Smith in contempt

• Illinois voters file petition to remove Trump from Republican primary ...

• Biden to argue Trump remains a threat to democracy — a case his campaign thinks resonates with voters

• Jan 6 anniversary: Remember these leaders, values that unite us and protect our democracy

• How is U.S. democracy faring 3 years after Jan. 6?

• The 14th Amendment plan to disqualify Trump, explained

• 7 Reasons Trump's Lawyers Say He Is Not Disqualified From Running for President

• Can Trump Be Barred From the 2024 Ballot? What to Know About the Law

• Proud Boy who fled police after being convicted for Jan. 6 receives 10 years

  • Florida man who fled before Jan. 6 sentencing gets 10 years in prison

  • Proud Boy who fled prosecution, faked drug overdose after J6 riot gets 10 years

Pox / COVID / BioTerror AgitProp

• Long Covid causes changes in body that make exercise debilitating – study

• Researchers discover physical cause of long Covid tiredness

• Muscle abnormalities worsen after post-exertional malaise in long Covid

  we provide new insights into the pathophysiology of post-exertional malaise in patients with long COVID. We show that skeletal muscle structure is associated with a lower exercise capacity in patients, and local and systemic metabolic disturbances, severe exercise-induced myopathy and tissue infiltration of amyloid-containing deposits in skeletal muscles of patients with long COVID worsen after induction of post-exertional malaise.

  • we systematically induced post-exertional malaise in a cohort of 25 well-defined patients with long COVID and controls.
  • Results were compared with those obtained from 21 age- and sex-matched controls who fully recovered from a mild SARS-CoV-2 infection

  • sniff this? smells like "dont exercise, you'll make yourself weak" .. which will happen if you lie about. lo, the prophecy is fulfilled! also n = ( 21 + 25) = 46 ...

• Hydroxychloroquine could have caused 17,000 deaths during Covid

• DeSantis’ Anti-Vax Surgeon General Calls COVID Shots ‘the Antichrist'

  • Florida official takes aim at COVID vaccines with "misleading" claims, FDA says

  • ‘Scientific nonsense’: experts dismiss Florida official’s Covid vaccine remarks

Religion / Tribal / Culture War and Re-Segregation

• Ramaswamy Destroys WaPo Reporter Over Dumb Gotcha Question About ‘White Supremacy.’

• Tech for Palestine launches to provide tools to help support Palestinians

• Mapping Middle-earth: The lopsided demographics of Tolkien's universe - Big Think

  The stats bear this out: 82% of Tolkien’s characters are male. Hobbits come closest to parity, with 30% women, followed by Men (which is what Tolkien called the human race in his books), where the imbalance is 87% versus 13%. Females are rarer still among Elves, and are not attested among Orcs, at least not in the canon. That doesn’t mean Tolkien didn’t give the matter any thought. In a letter from 1963, he wrote to an inquiring fan that “there must have been Orc women.”

• Genetic variants tied to human bisexual behavior are reproductively advantageous

Gay Hahvahd

• Joy Reid: Claudine Gay Was Ousted So White Dudes Can Run Harvard Again

• Claudine Gay Is Not the Real Story

• Coordinated social media campaign attempts to smear Gay’s Jewish replacement as agent of ‘Zionist control.’

• Claudine Gay “was the DEI president and that is the deeper problem that I don’t think” Harvard is “ready yet to confront”

• Bill Ackman's wife academic celebrity Neri Oxman plagiarized in her dissertation

Info Rental / ShowBiz / Advertising

• Google Is Finally Killing Cookies. Advertisers Still Aren't Ready

  • Google to Disable Third-Party Cookies for 1% of Chrome Users

  • Google to start third-party cookie cull for 30M Chrome users

  • Google turns off Cookies on Chrome, news faces fight for survival

• Fan-Revived City of Heroes MMO Given Official License to Continue

• Jeff Bezos Bets on a Google Challenger Using AI to Try to Upend Internet Search

• Google's security firm Mandiant has its Twitter account hacked

  • Mandiant, the security firm Google bought for $5B, gets its X account hacked

• Windows 11 struggling to escape the shadow of Windows 10

• Oppenheimer and the resurgence of Blu-ray and DVDs

• Jeff Bezos Bets on a Google Challenger Using AI to Try to Upend Internet Search

• YouTube demonetizes public domain 'Steamboat Willie' video after copyright claim

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Bodycams for civilians

TechSuck / Geek Bait

• Kioxia reportedly kills off 30-year-old Plextor brand

• AMD Proposes an FPGA Subsystem User-Space Interface for Linux | Hacker News

• Microsoft's keyboards and mice will live on under a unique new partnership

• Don't pass structs bigger than 16 bytes on AMD64

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• SIMD in Pure Python | Blog

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Space / Boomy Zoomers / UFO

• Navajo Nation request to delay private mission placing human remains on the moon

• SpaceX needs to build Starships as often as Boeing builds 737s

Crypto con games

• Massive 'Whales' Dominated Crypto-Buying In December, ETH Demand Trumps BTC | ZeroHedge

• Bitcoin rises as its volatile year continues ahead of an expected ETF approval

• Goldman Sachs reportedly wants in on the bitcoin ETF hype

Economicon / Business / Finance

• Sliding mortgage rates are helping to thaw the frozen housing market, Redfin says

  • The Hidden Force Pushing Mortgage Rates Down

• ADP: 164,000 private sector jobs created in December; fourth straight increase

  • Private payrolls added 164,000 in December, beating expectations, ADP says

• TGI Fridays to close 36 'underperforming' locations across the U.S.

Gubmint / Poilitcks / Law Making

• 2024 is the biggest global election year in history

• Deduplication of US voter data to identify voting fraud

• Suicide nets installed on Golden Gate Bridge

• Biden education appointee resigns over Israel-Gaza war | Just The News

  • Second Biden Official Resigns Over War in Gaza: “I Cannot Be Quietly Complicit”

  • Education Department Official Quits Over Biden's Gaza Stance

• Could this obscure tax idea reshape American housing?

• "The System Is Not Going To Let Trump Win" - Dems' Real Puppet Isn't Gavin, It's Nikki: Tucker And Vivek | ZeroHedge

• New York City sued 17 transportation companies that brought migrants to the city from Texas

• Haley brushes off quip that New Hampshire primary will ‘correct’ Iowa caucus

  • Trump, Haley make gains in latest New Hampshire poll

• Chris Christie Says His 2016 Trump Endorsement Was A ‘Mistake’

  • Chris Christie Repeatedly Trashes Hugh Hewitt During Train Wreck Interview

• DeSantis Lobs Most Forceful Attacks Yet Against Trump, Days Before Iowa Caucuses

• Stefanik pulls endorsement of House GOP recruit over Trump criticism

• Ramaswamy slams 'knee-jerk policy reactions' after Iowa shooting

• Vivek Ramaswamy Is Running Out Of Time

• Worth watching the actual interaction: Ramaswamy blasts WaPo reporter with viral response to question on condemning 'white supremacy': 'Shame on you'

• UC Berkeley is using a wall of shipping containers to block activists from the new site of its People's Park

  • California police clear historic People’s Park in surprise midnight operation

  • Photos: People's Park in Berkeley cleared in dead of night

• He Defended the Capitol on Jan. 6. Now He’s Running for Congress.

  • Former USCP officer Harry Dunn launches run for Congress in Maryland

• President Joe Biden will stress democracy is still a 'sacred cause' in a speech near Valley Forge

  • Biden to start election year with speech on third anniversary of Capitol attack

  • Biden to focus on Trump in speech marking 3 years since Jan. 6 Capitol riot

• The U.S. Mint releases new commemorative coins honoring Harriet Tubman

Law Breaking / Police / Internal Security

• The Curious Case of MD5 | Kate Sills

  MD5 is extremely old, in tech years. It was introduced in 1992, problems were noticed in 1996 and 2005, and by 2008, it was deemed unusable. Carnegie Mellon’s Software Engineering Institute stated in 2008:

  “Do not use the MD5 algorithm. Software developers, Certification Authorities, website owners, and users should avoid using the MD5 algorithm in any capacity. As previous research has demonstrated, it should be considered cryptographically broken and unsuitable for further use.”

  Note that this was not controversial in any sense among technologists. But, we find ourselves in the year 2023, a full 15 years after being told not to use MD5, with the legal community using and even recommending MD5.

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• Story Disappears in 3, 2, 1 –> Iowa High School Mass Shooter Appears to Be LGBTQ/Trans Activist (Pics)

  • Iowa shooting updates: Suspect, 6th grader dies in shooting

  • What do we know about the school shooting in Iowa?

  • 2 dead, including gunman, in Iowa high school shooting

• Nevada judge is back to work a day after being attacked by defendant who jumped atop her

External Security / Militaria / Diplomania

• US carries out strike in Baghdad against militia leader

  • US Hits Back at Iran-Backed Militia in Iraq, Killing Leader

  • U.S. Kills Iran-Backed Militia Leader With Airstrike in Iraq

• B-1 bomber crashes while trying to land at its base in South Dakota

World

• Why Britain’s economy is failing

• Expert sounds alarm bells over upcoming NHS data platform

• IMF Sees Mauritania Growth Almost Tripling on Gas Exports

• Helium discovery could be worth billions

• India Is Chasing China's Economy. But Something Is Holding It Back

• I'm the mayor of Amsterdam – the Netherlands risks becoming a narco-state

• Largest French Supermarket Chain Boycotts PepsiCo Due To "Unacceptable Price Increases"

  • French grocer Carrefour says non! to PepsiCo price hikes

• Neo-Nazi Podcasters Who Targeted Prince Harry Jailed on Terror Charges

  • Neo-Nazi podcasters sent to prison on terror charges for targeting Prince Harry

Iran / Houthi / Red Sea / Mediterranean

• Military action against land-based targets in Yemen moves a step closer

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• Spot Container Rates Surge By 173% Due To Red Sea Disruptions | ZeroHedge

• ISIS Claims Responsibility For Mass Casualty Suicide Bombings In Iran

  • Islamic State Claims Responsibility for Iran Explosions That Killed 84

Israel

• Second American hostage in Gaza confirmed dead as Hamas holds body | Just The News

• Israel unveils 'limited self-rule' blueprint for Gaza post-war

• Israel lays out plans for the next stage of its Gaza war

• South Africa to Take Israel to Top UN Court on Genocide Claim in Gaza

• Israel’s war on Gaza: List of key events, day 91

• Gaza Health Ministry says 22,438 dead; IDF claims killing of Jihad leader

• Beirut bombings: Israel’s long history of assassination attempts in Lebanon

• Israeli bombings in Lebanon stoking fears of wider conflict in Middle East

• Israeli officials double down on mass expulsion of Gazans despite rebuke from Biden administration

Russia Bad / Ukraine War

• Ukraine's Leopard 2 tanks are nearly all destroyed or broken

• Ukrainian scientists are tallying the consequences of the Kakhovka Dam disaster

China

• A restless Gen Z is reshaping the Chinese Dream

• Tesla Recalls 1.6M Cars in China Due to Autopilot Crash Risk

• Court decision barring Chinese student sends message about espionage risk

Health / Medicine

• New study ties hearing aid use to longer life. But only if worn regularly

• The Plastic Chemicals Hiding in Your Food

Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda

• Scientists turn whisky-making by-product into fuel for the future

• Fossil evidence of photosynthesis gets a billion years older

• How Tomato Plants Use Their Roots to Ration Water During Drought

• 'There isn't enough cooking oil in the world to power one day of green aviation'

• Their land is sinking. But Tulare Lake farm barons defy calls to cut pumping

• Badger culls are not best way to cut bovine TB, report finds

• Arabia's alluvial fans grow and decay with Earth's orbital cycles

• Study suggests climate change will make submarine warfare more complex

• Journal of Insects as Food and Feed

• Avian flu detected in polar bear in Alaska