2024-03-22
Cool
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- I can recommend Amazing Beans: Mine arrived today and are happily hopping around my desk.
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Nevertheless, the notion that ordinary media made from ordinary materials have ordinary fields, and that empty space has cosmic fields that bear some rough resemblance to what we see in ordinary media, is useful. The analogy helps us gain some basic intuition for how fields work and for what they might be, even though we have to remain cautious about its flaws, known and unknown. Whether, in the long run, this analogy proves more beneficial than misleading is something that only future research will reveal. But for now, I think it can serve experts and non-experts alike, as long as we keep in mind that it cannot be the full story.
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Deepsea eruption expected off B.C. after intense quake activity
Horseshit
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Why marketing to 'pure vegetarians' landed this Indian delivery giant in pickle
In order to further cater to these strict dietary preferences, their food would be delivered by a “dedicated pure veg fleet.” These riders would wear new green uniforms, as opposed to the red ones worn by the rest of the delivery workers, the company said. While Goyal emphasized the new plans are not meant to “alienate any religious, or political preference,” the company has received a huge backlash on social media. Some users criticized the move as “casteist,” as many Hindus from dominant castes tend to be vegetarian, while many people from marginalized castes are not.
Following the outcry, Zomato has rolled back plans to dress riders delivering vegetarian food in green. “All our riders — both our regular fleet, and our fleet for vegetarians, will wear the colour red,” Goyal said on Wednesday. “This will ensure that our red uniform delivery partners are not incorrectly associated with non-veg food, and blocked by [housing] societies … our riders’ physical safety is of paramount importance to us,” he said.
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'California Forever' Billionaires Accused of Tricking People to Sign Petitions
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'Gen X has had to learn or die': Mid-career workers facing ageism in job market
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Auto, Tech Industries Falsely Claim 'Right to Repair' National Security Threat
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$1,300. Nifty but ouch. 1800W too. The Control Freak Home induction cooktop
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"Sharenting": The Real Cost of Being a Parent Influencer's Kid
Boeing
Electric / Self Driving cars
celebrity gossip
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Everything is espionage: Things I learned researching Assange
Who is this Julian Assange guy? Is he good or bad? Did he do espionage? Why is the US so obsessed with getting its hands on him? At dynomight.net we don’t like to answer questions. Instead, we prefer to replace them with more abstract questions that we also don’t answer.
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Angela Chao was drunk when she drove into pond and died, police say
Obit
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Dungeons and Dragons author Jim Ward has died
Rank Propaganda / Thought Policing / World Disordering
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In a letter from the Berlin Prosecutor’s file on Hopkins, the Bundeskriminalamt (BKA, analogous to our FBI) acknowledges receipt of a document from a government office describing an effort to have tweets deleted. “The Hessen Gegen Hetze reporting office,” the highlighted portion reads, “has already initiated measures to delete the relevant post on the social network”. CJ’s unique insight involves his ludicrous German case, which as you’ll read in the Q&A below has taken bizarre turns since we last checked and will now go to trial yet again. As an expat following the American situation from afar, he’s seen how the authoritarian tide is rising in similar or worse ways all around the globe.
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Discussion With Glenn Greenwald: How "Free Speech" Turned Into a "Far Right" Slogan
Glenn was the original “so-called journalist.” When he broke the story of whistleblower Edward Snowden’s revelations about the NSA’s domestic spying revelations in The Guardian in June of 2013, the same epithets came out in bulk. After New York Republican Peter King said, “Legal action should be taken against him,” denunciations from “colleagues” flowed. David Gregory on Meet the Press asked, “To the extent that you have aided and abetted Snowden, even in his current movements, why shouldn’t you, Mr. Greenwald, be charged with a crime?” Erick Erickson said, “I’d love to see him charged and tried with Snowden,” while Andrew Ross Sorkin of Squawk Box said, “I would arrest [Snowden] and now I’d almost arrest Glenn Greenwald, the journalist.”
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AI images and conspiracy theories are driving push for media literacy education
Musk
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After appeal to Musk, X suspends accounts that outed neo-Nazi cartoonist
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Here's How Much The White House Hates Elon Musk | ZeroHedge
Environmental Protection Agency's event on Wednesday that featured four vehicles on stage: "1 from GM, 1 from Chrysler, and 2 from Ford." "Here's how much the Democrats hate Elon Musk," Sterling wrote on X, pointing out that there were zero Teslas on stage. He said, "Last year, Ford sold 72,608 EVs. GM sold 75,883. Chrysler sold 0. Tesla sold 1,808,581."
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It's almost as if the professed goal was actually of little importance to them all along...
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SpaceX forced workers to sign illegal severance agreements, US agency claims
Trump / War against the Right / Jan6
Pox / COVID / BioTerror AgitProp
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What Did the US Get Wrong During Covid? We Need to Know - Bloomberg
Lockdowns caused homes to become more crowded — with college students moving in with families, school age kids at home and others spending much more time in their houses or apartments. Epidemiologists have confirmed that hours of household exposure caused many more cases than exposures of less than 30 minutes. Again, time matters. A Covid commission should also measure the lasting impact of these early fumbles. After vaccines were introduced, the US started to see many more deaths than other comparably wealthy countries. We had lower vaccine uptake in part because the public health community had lost the people’s trust during that first year. The justification for blunt, long-term restrictions was the assumption that more people would die as a result of more targeted measures. But that needs close examination — it’s also possible that those policies made the situation here much worse and deadlier than it had to be. Lots of countries made mistakes as Covid spread around the world. The only way to learn from them is to give them a hard, nonpartisan look.
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There Are Already More Measles Cases in the US This Year Than All of 2023
Edumacationalizing / Acedemia Nuts
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Biden administration to forgive $5.8B student debt for 78,000 borrowers
The Biden administration announced on Thursday it would forgive $5.8 billion in student debt for 77,700 borrowers through the Public Service Loan Forgiveness program. It also said President Joe Biden would email another 380,000 public service workers starting next week, notifying them that they’re on track to have their debt canceled within two years.
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Stanford Math-Education Expert Has ‘Reckless Disregard for Accuracy,’ Complaint Alleges
Jo Boaler, a Stanford University professor and one of the country’s most influential experts on math education, has misrepresented scholars’ findings in her work to the point of showing a “reckless disregard for accuracy,” according to an anonymous complaint reportedly filed with Stanford on Wednesday. The 100-page document details 52 instances in which Boaler, a professor of math education at the university’s Graduate School of Education, allegedly misstated or misconstrued outside studies about learning, neuroscience, and math education in her own articles, lectures, and books.
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Superconductor Scientist Engaged in Research Misconduct, Probe Finds
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Study on ‘World’s Oldest Pyramid’ Is Retracted by Publisher - The New York Times
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California teen dies from brain injuries from high school fight, mom claims.
Info Rental / ShowBiz / Advertising
Apple
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DOJ files antitrust suit against Apple
Apple is the only major tech giant the federal government has yet to sue since the company was named in a sprawling House report in 2020 finding that the iPhone maker, along with Meta, Google and Amazon, hold "monopoly power." Beyond fines that Apple might face, remedies in the case could strike at the heart of Apple’s business strategy to build distinct hardware and software products and to create walls and revenue streams around that product ecosystem.
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U.S. Sues Apple, Accusing It of Maintaining an iPhone Monopoly - The New York Times
The government argued that Apple violated antitrust laws by preventing other companies from offering applications that compete with Apple products like its digital wallets, which could diminish the value of the iPhone. Apple’s policies hurt consumers and smaller companies that compete with some of Apple’s services, according to excerpts from the lawsuit released by the government, which was filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey. “Each step in Apple’s course of conduct built and reinforced the moat around its smartphone monopoly,” the government said in the lawsuit.
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U.S. Sues Apple, Alleges Tech Giant Exploits Illegal Monopoly
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Merrick Garland's Remarks on the Lawsuit Against Apple's Supposed Monopoly
Superiority is exactly what made the iPhone what it is — superior hardware, superior software, superior integration. Even a superior retail experience. Not only is the DOJ’s take on the iPhone’s success a complete misunderstanding of the actual market dynamics for phones, it’s flabbergastingly insulting.
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Apple slams DOJ case as misguided attempt to turn iPhone into Android
TechSuck / Geek Bait
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The Long Strange Trip To US Color TV | Hackaday
By 1964, only 3.1% of US homes with a TV had a color set. It was 1972 before color TV sales exceeded black-and-white, and that same year, the percentage of homes with color was more than half. When you think about it, the ability to shoehorn a color signal on a black-and-white signal is remarkable. Even more so when you think of all the manipulation required without the sophisticated techniques we’d use today to generate precise frequencies and times.
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(Jun 2017) Designing a Tree Diff Algorithm Using Dynamic Programming and A* - Tristan Hume
AI Will (Save | Destroy) The World
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Tech Leaders Fled San Francisco During the Pandemic. Now, They're Coming Back
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The UN adopts a resolution backing efforts to ensure AI is safe
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"AI Spam overwhelms the Internet" Something exceptionally grim is happening on the Internet
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Tennessee becomes first US state with law protecting musicians from AI
Space / Boomy Zoomers / UFO
Crypto con games
Economicon / Business / Finance
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"$10bn" in 2021, tho: Reddit's IPO Is a Content Moderation Success Story
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Reddit set for hotly anticipated debut after pricing IPO at top of range
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Reddit's IPO is a regrettable mis-step in corporate governance (Archive)
Reddit has listed with unequal voting rights under a dual-class share structure. This means some shareholders — mostly insiders and pre-IPO investors — hold superior voting rights over those for independent shareholders. In doing so, the company is contributing to a trend that undermines a fundamental tenet of good corporate governance and may potentially cause further detriment for long-term investors and the savers served by fund managers and pension funds.
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Pump and Dumps Are Legal Now - Bloomberg
If you lie to the market, and the market believes you and gives you money, then that is fraud, even if the particular people who believe you are different from the people who give you money. Or, I mean, that’s what I thought yesterday.
yesterday a federal judge in Texas dismissed the criminal charges against MrZackMorris and friends in an absolutely wild opinion ruling that, in fact, a pump and dump is not securities fraud, because the people who bought the stock didn’t buy it from the pumpers. ... the main part of the judge’s theory is just that, since the victims bought stock on the stock market instead of directly from the pump-and-dumpers, the pump-and-dumpers could not have been doing fraud on them. Fraud requires a direct connection, a victim who “directly surrenders their property to the defendant.” And in the public stock market, where everyone is buying and selling anonymously and probably through market makers, you can never really prove that the victim traded with the defendant.
Gubmint / Poilitcks / Law Making
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Biden Says Pot Smokers Should Not Be Arrested—or Allowed To Own Guns
President Joe Biden declared that "no one should be jailed for simply using" marijuana or "have it on their record." He amplified that message on X (formerly Twitter) that night, saying, "No one should be jailed just for using or possessing marijuana." Biden said those things on the same day that federal prosecutors in North Carolina filed a brief defending the federal ban on gun possession by cannabis consumers, whom they likened to "lunatics" and violent felons.
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Call me crazy, but when Democrats hyperventilate over something Republicans are doing politically and say the strategy is ill-advised or will lead to disaster, I tend to think the strategy might have some merit. Since that's been their reaction to the swift changes enacted at the Republican National Committee, you can assume they think the changes are good for Republicans - or at least are capable of being good for Republicans.
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US Congress releases $1.1T spending package to avert shutdown
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Biden’s lawfare joke - Washington Examiner
this is a joke Biden told, according to news accounts: “Our big plan to cancel student debt doesn’t apply to everyone. Just yesterday, a defeated-looking man came up to me and said, ‘I’m being crushed by debt. I’m completely wiped out.’ And I said, ‘Sorry, Donald, I can’t help you.'” In February, Politico reported that Biden has “grumbled to aides and advisers that had [Attorney General Merrick] Garland moved sooner in his investigation into former President Donald Trump’s election interference, a trial may already be underway or even have concluded.”
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The One Idea That Could Save American Democracy - The New York Times
Winning elections is critical, especially as liberal and progressive forces try to fend off radical right-wing movements. But the democratic crisis that our society faces will not be solved by voting alone. We need to do more than defeat Donald Trump and his allies — we need to make cultivating solidarity a national priority. For years, solidarity’s strongest associations have been with the left and the labor movement — a term invoked at protests and on picket lines. But its roots are much deeper, and its potential implications far more profound, than we typically assume. Though we rarely speak about it as such, solidarity is a concept as fundamental to democracy as its better-known cousins: equality, freedom and justice. Solidarity is simultaneously a bond that holds society together and a force that propels it forward.
As our profit-driven economy has made us more insecure and atomized — and more susceptible to authoritarian appeals — the far right has seized its opportunity. A furious backlash now rises to cut down the shoots of solidarity that sprung up as a result of recent movements pushing for economic, racial, environmental and gender justice. In response, programs that encourage diversity and inclusion are being targeted by billionaire investors, while small acts of solidarity — like helping someone get an abortion or bailing protesters out of jail — have been criminalized.
Solidarity is the essential and too often missing ingredient of today’s most important political project: not just saving democracy but creating an egalitarian, multiracial society that can guarantee each of us a dignified life.
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Secretary Buttigieg Announces First Industry-Wide Privacy Review of US Airlines
(DOT) will undertake a privacy review of the nation’s ten largest airlines regarding their collection, handling, maintenance, and use of passengers’ personal information. The review will examine airlines’ policies and procedures to determine if airlines are properly safeguarding their customers’ personal information. In addition, DOT will probe whether airlines are unfairly or deceptively monetizing or sharing that data with third parties. As DOT finds evidence of problematic practices, the Department will take action, which could mean investigations, enforcement actions, guidance, or rulemaking.
- With so much recent news involving air travel; the public will certainly be reassured by the quick, decisive actions of the DOT. I might even suggest that the problem of securing customer data extends beyond the air travel industry; and might perhaps be better addressed as part of an effort also spanning across "folks that has customers." DOT might be better advised to focus on their own bailiwick and figure out what to do about airlines, railroads, and other industries where maintenance budgets have apparently been cut past the point where public failures become inevitable.
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GOP leaders unleash on Janet Yellen over $110B energy tax hike
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Senators push to declassify TikTok Intel, hold public hearing ahead of ban vote
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Down the Rabbit Hole of Money in Politics - by Jamie Paul
ever since Donald Trump bucked the trend in 2016, winning both the primaries and general election against more well-funded opponents, money in politics, as an issue, has been shunted to the back burner of progressive politics. Reformers, shaken by the Trump upset, seem to have lost some of their confidence in the issue’s foundational claims. I, too, was once quite animated about money in politics, but have found myself discussing it less and less over the years. This isn’t because I have changed my opinion, but rather due to the subconscious feeling that a significant amount of the wind has been taken out of this issue’s sails. The question is, does money in politics meaningfully influence elections and governance, or is it an overrated non-issue that activists have exaggerated? When we shift away from the realm of perception, the data shows that money in politics plays an enormous role in the American political system, in ways big, small, and sometimes unexpected.
- Make politicians wear a registered symbol of each of their donors, on all official occasions. Scale them to the size of the politician's campaign funding and report the details online. Or just go full NASCAR with well recognized logos, ad agencies, and endorsement deals.
Law Breaking / Police / Internal Security
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Drone Video Reveals Massive NYC Migrant Tent City, Kept Under Wraps By Democrats & Media | ZeroHedge
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TikTokker tells immigrants how to 'invade' American homes invoke squatter rights
Leonel Moreno, who goes by @leitooficial_25 online and appears to be a Venezuelan migrant, has told his followers that under US law, 'if a house is not inhabited, we can seize it'. He is referring to squatter's rights, or adverse possession laws - a common law principle that allows an illegal inhabitant to acquire ownership of a property based on continuous occupation without the legal owner's consent. Moreno, alleging he has friends who 'have already taken about seven homes', argued the only way for migrants to not live in the streets or be a 'public burden' is to 'seize' and 'invade' abandoned properties.
What makes Pacific Heights a horror movie is that the tenant’s rights laws depicted are very real. Here’s just one example of thousands from NYC
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Feds Can Film Your Front Porch for 68 Days Without a Warrant, Says Court
External Security / Militaria / Diplomania
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If SpaceX's Secret Constellation Is What We Think It Is, It's Game Changing
The NRO has historically focused more on strategic-level intelligence, rather than supporting tactical operations where space-based GMTI would be particularly relevant. NRO and Space Force have also been working for years now to nail down exactly where their respective intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR) responsibilities lie. Cooperation between the two on acquiring and fielding this capability would not be surprising. It is also very possible, if not plausible that the constellation NRO is acquiring from SpaceX will have sensor suites capable of performing multiple kinds of ISR tasks.
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US and Japan call for ban of nuclear weapons in outer space.
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Drone Swarms Are About to Change the Balance of Military Power
Israel
Health / Medicine
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CDC sharply overestimates maternal death rate, new study finds
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Human proinsulin production in the milk of transgenic cattle
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UnitedHealth Group has paid more than $2B to providers following cyberattack
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U.S. life expectancy rebounded in 2022 but Covid, drug overdoses still deadly
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FDA says marijuana has a legitimate medicinal purpose
The FDA released a report saying that marijuana does have a legitimate use for medical purposes and recommended the US Drug Enforcement Agency change its classification from Schedule 1 to Schedule 3.
Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda
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Fossil fuel firms could be tried for homicide
esearchers are promoting a new legal theory that says fossil fuel companies – which, data show, are the leading contributors to planet-heating pollution – could be tried for homicide for climate-related deaths. The radical idea, first proposed last year by consumer advocacy non-profit Public Citizen, may sound far-fetched, but it’s gaining interest from experts and public officials.
The Public Citizen researchers are currently holding events at top law schools including Yale, the University of Pennsylvania, Harvard, University of Chicago and New York University to promote the idea. “I strongly support the effort to go after these bastards,” Christopher Rabb, a Pennsylvania state representative said at a recent UPenn event. The researchers say other public officials have expressed interest behind the scenes as well.
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Scientists studied how cicadas pee.Insights could shed light on fluid dynamics
in addition to large animals that pee in jets, and small animals that pee in droplets, Challita's found a third category: small organisms that also pee in jets.
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Why the spread of organic farms may prompt growers to use more pesticide