2024-03-26
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Horseshit
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Ready or not, AI chatbots are here to help with Gen Z's mental health struggles
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Step aside, influencers – we're now in the era of de-influencing
"They film their hands, and they throw stuff kind of willy-nilly in the cart," Wiebe said. "I just kept saying stuff like ... 'This is garbage. Like, why is this person buying this?'" So Wiebe began to post her own videos on TikTok. Her videos don't influence; rather, they seek to de-influence. And she is one of many who have found a foothold in the last few years as the #deinfluencing hashtag on TikTok has racked up more than 1.5 billion views.
"I see [de-influencing] as a growing movement. I think it's going to be a foundational aspect of our society."
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Led by Its Youth, U.S. Sinks in World Happiness Report - The New York Times
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Why So Many People Think They Can Get Cheaper Flights Using Incognito Mode
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Wait, When Did the Schlubs of Silicon Valley Learn to Dress?
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'It's Causing Them to Drop Out of Life': How Phones Warped Gen Z
Boeing
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Boeing CEO Dave Calhoun to step down in wake of ongoing safety problems
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Boeing CEO Dave Calhoun to step down, will be paid $62M bonus
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Boeing CEO Dave Calhoun to step down, part of a shakeup after 737 MAX problems
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Three Top-Level Executives at Boeing Resign Amid Safety Concerns Following Alaska Airlines Blowout
Electric / Self Driving cars
Rank Propaganda / Thought Policing / World Disordering
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Why the Department of Justice Wants to Take Down Apple
there is a darker agenda here. It’s about bringing new media into the government propaganda fold, exactly as Psaki threatened. Apple is a main distributor of podcasts in the country and world, just behind Spotify (which is foreign controlled). There are 120 million podcast listeners in the US, far more than pay attention to regime media in total. If the ambition is to control the public mind, something must be done to get those under control. It’s not enough just to nationalize Facebook and Google. If the purpose is to end free speech as we know it, they have to go after podcasting too, using every tool that is available.
Musk
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'White hat hackers' carjacked a Tesla using cheap, legal hardware
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Why Elon Musk's "everything app" ambition for X is likely to fall short
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Starlink satellites: Facts, tracking and impact on astronomy
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Judge dismisses Musk lawsuit against group that cataloged racist content on X
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Tesla Must Give Driver-Assist Demonstration with Every US Sale
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Elon Musk's Starlink Terminals Are Falling into the Wrong Hands (Archive)
A Bloomberg News investigation identified wide-spanning examples of Starlink kits being traded and activated illegally. How they are smuggled and the sheer availability of Starlink on the black market suggests that its misuse is a systemic global problem, raising questions about the company’s control of a system with clear national security dimensions. In Yemen, which is in the throes of a decade-long civil war, a government official conceded that Starlink is in widespread use. Many people are prepared to defy competing warring factions, including Houthi rebels, to secure terminals for business and personal communications, and evade the slow, often censored internet service that’s currently available.
- Cypherpunk days, "internet everywhere is better than no internet" was agreed. The arguments that were logical then still hold. If anyone thinks the NSA can't monitor Starlink better than Elon can, I suggest rethinking the implications of the stuff that Snowden released and the "Room 641A" revelations. Strategically speaking; wouldn't it be better for the USA to allow and monitor communications from everyone in these areas that has something the need to say? Let everybody's troops use Strava.
Trump / War against the Right / Jan6
Religion / Tribal / Culture War and Re-Segregation
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Barcelona’s famous Sagrada Familia will finally be completed in 2026 | CNN
The Sagrada Familia in Barcelona will finally be finished in 2026, more than 140 years after construction started, officials have confirmed. “The Chapel of the Assumption is expected to be finished in 2025 and the tower of Jesus Christ, in 2026,” the Sagrada Familia said in a statement announcing the publication of its 2023 annual report.
Info Rental / ShowBiz / Advertising
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Sexualized culture on livestreaming platforms: a content analysis of Twitch.tv
After analysis of the livestreams (n = 1920), our scale made it possible to distinguish three levels of intensity: non-sexualized, sexualized, or hypersexualized. Statistically significant evidences was found in the level of sexualization between men and women in different categories of livestreaming. The results show that women are self-sexualized more and in greater intensity than men; there are also differences in the behavior and context of their livestreams. The sexualized representation of women in the media shapes gender attitudes, dehumanizes women, and legitimizes violence against them, and so it is essential to understand the role of media platforms in self-sexualization and the consequences to show women as sexual objects, principally for young people.
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Researchers uncover 'pornification' trend among female streamers on Twitch
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"Format Drive" UI: Microsoft forgot to update this Windows feature for 30 years - The Verge
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When Private Equity Came for the Music Industry - The New York Times
Private equity — the industry responsible for bankrupting companies, slashing jobs and raising the mortality rates at the nursing homes it acquires — is making money by gobbling up the rights for old hits and pumping them back into our present. The result is a markedly blander music scene, as financiers cannibalize the past at the expense of the future and make it even harder for us to build those new artists whose contributions will enrich our entire culture.
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EU rejects Apple's changes: Company could be fined 10% of global turnover
TechSuck / Geek Bait
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Tiny Corp Changes Course Yet Again With Plans To Offer AMD Radeon GPUs - Phoronix
Overnight George Hotz' Tiny Corp tweeted:
A hard to find "umr" repo has turned around the feasibility of the AMD tinybox. It will be a journey, but it gives us an ability to debug. We're going to sell both, red for $15k and green for $25k. When you realize your preorder you'll choose your color. Website has been updated. If you like to tinker and feel pain, buy red. The driver still crashes the GPU and hangs sometimes, but we can work together to improve it.
due to discovering the UMR debugger, they've been able to better deal with some of the Radeon GPU issues they're encountering. UMR may not be marketed well and thus perhaps harder to find, but it's hardly something new. Seven years ago already I wrote about AMD open-sourcing their UMR debugger and since that 2017 debut I have covered more of their UMR debugging improvements for this user-space AMD graphics debugger for Linux. AMD engineers continue developing UMR and it remains open-source, just it perhaps need to be better promoted for developers.
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(2002) 3Mb Ethernet and Holy Wars
AI Will (Save | Destroy) The World
Crypto con games
Economicon / Business / Finance
Gubmint / Poilitcks / Law Making
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During his off-topic ramble, Biden described how when he was a new associate attorney, a senior partner invited him to lunch at a whites-only private club. Biden says that he evaded that invitation by falsely claiming that he was going to see his father who was visiting from out of town. He testified (at p. 59) that this excuse for missing lunch at a racist club was the “only time I ever lied that I can remember.”
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Joe Biden’s ‘Bloodbath’ Remarks Resurface After Trump Speech Fury
Biden’s 2020 remark has been taken out of context by Trump supporters.
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Man changes name to Literally Anybody Else and announces US presidential run
Law Breaking / Police / Internal Security
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Why Is Joe Biden's DOJ Prosecuting a Journalist While Pretending Otherwise?
FBI agents raided the home of journalist Tim Burke. He is scheduled to be arraigned in the coming weeks under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA) and wiretap laws for finding and disseminating unaired Fox News footage of Kanye West’s antisemitic rant to Tucker Carlson. The indictment doesn’t accuse Burke of hacking or deceit. Instead, its theory is that he didn’t have permission to access the video, even though it was at a public, unencrypted URL that he found using publicly posted demo credentials.
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America Is Going to Be Targeted for a Massive Terrorist Attack...Will You Be Ready?
External Security / Militaria / Diplomania
World
Israel
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Israel tells UN it will reject UNRWA food convoys into northern Gaza
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Israel's Meddling in US Politics Is Aggressive and Unceasing
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UN Security Council Passes Ceasefire Resolution (Archive)
The United Nations Security Council on Monday passed a resolution calling for an immediate cease-fire in Gaza for the month of Ramadan, breaking a five-month impasse during which the U.S. vetoed several calls for ending the war, even as the humanitarian toll climbed higher. The resolution passed with 14 votes in favor. The U.S. abstained which allowed the resolution to pass. The chamber broke into applause after the vote.
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Israel Angrily Halts Delegation To D.C. After US Allows UN Ceasefire Resolution To Pass
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We are about to witness in Gaza the most intense famine since the 2nd world war
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez: the US must stop facilitating mass killing in Gaza
Russia Bad / Ukraine War
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Moscow Terror Attack Suspects Hauled Before Court, One Literally Unconscious
Images widely circulated Sunday showing the Moscow concert hall terror attack suspects being hauled before court. One of them was literally unconscious as clearly they have been severely roughed up - and likely tortured - by security services. Russian authorities haven't been shy about this considering the number of videos now circulating showing portions of the intense and physical interrogations in action. The maximum penalty is reported to be life imprisonment, though it's likely that torture or continued harsh physical punishment awaits them.
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Russia attack IS suspect force-fed own ear
Video released on Russian social media showed Russian security officers torturing the suspects, including one being subjected to electric shocks to his genitals. In one video, the suspect named as Rachabalizod spits as he is fed his own ear. Appearing in court on Sunday, he had a large bandage attached to the right side of his head.
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Was Victoria Nuland involved in the Moscow terror attack? - American Thinker