2024-05-08

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• Which is better for your dog, kibble or raw meat? Research yields health results

• Cold Brew Coffee in 3 Minutes Using Acoustic Cavitation

• Boy Scouts of America Announces Rebrand to 'Scouting America'

• The unexpected joy of the Squirrel Census

Horseshit

• Swiss Army Knife Now Available Without the Knife

• Boeing faces new US investigation into 'missed' 787 inspections

• Degen communism: the only correct political ideology

• Laser vision is revealing centuries of unseen decay in masterpiece paintings

• The rise of Sweden's super rich

• The Conjoined Twins Who Refused to Be 'Fixed'

• Google co-funding guaranteed basic income trial to give families $12,000 a year

• Your Neighbors Are Retiring in Their 30s. Why Can't You?

Electric / Self Driving cars

• China has won the EV war, and US car makers are changing their electric plans

  • I like that; it's not that EVs are a bad idea as currently conceived that no one wants to buy, a greenie boondoggle... no, It's China's fault!

• Pulling the plug: Three signs EVs are not catching on in the country.

• Self-driving startup Wayve raised $1B from Nvidia, SoftBank, Microsoft

• Motional delays commercial robotaxi plans amid restructuring

celebrity gossip

• Locks of Beethoven's Hair Offer New Clues to the Mystery of His Deafness

  • Beethoven's hair contained toxic levels of lead

• Theranos fraudster Elizabeth Holmes has prison sentence reduced again

  • Elizabeth Holmes shaves more time off her sentence

Musk

• NHTSA Threatens Tesla With $135 Million Fine If It Fails To Hand Over Autopilot Data By July 1

• Cybertruck Owner Breaks His Finger Trying to Show Vehicle Is Safe

• The Musk Industrial Complex

• NHTSA sends Tesla data request as it investigates Autopilot recall

• Putting a Wet Towel on a Tesla Supercharger Handle Gets Faster Charging Speeds

Trump / War against the Right / Jan6

• Former Biden DOJ Official Prosecuting Trump Was on DNC Payroll.

• The DOJ's Doctored Crime Scene Photo of Mar-a-Lago Raid

  “[The] question of whether Trump had classified material with him at his Mar-a-Lago resort has captured the public’s attention. The photo published by the government appears to answer that question quite affirmatively,” Washington Post resident fact checker Philip Bump wrote on August 31, 2022. Some of Bump’s colleagues were more hyperbolic. An ex-CIA officer told ABC News the cover sheets indicated the highest level of secrecy, which in the wrong hands could have resulted in murder. “People's lives are truly at stake. Without being melodramatic, anything that helps an adversary identify a human source means life and death," intelligence expert Douglas London melodramatically warned in reaction to the photo. The New York Times insisted the photo was consistent with how the FBI handles criminal investigations. “[It] is standard practice for the F.B.I. to take evidentiary pictures of materials recovered in a search to ensure that items are properly cataloged and accounted for. Files or documents are not tossed around randomly, even though they might appear that way; they are usually splayed out so they can be separately identified by their markings,” reporters Glenn Thrush and Adam Goldman wrote on August 31, 2022.

  Except…that is not what happened.

• Trump Classified Docs Trial Postponed Indefinitely.

Pox / COVID / BioTerror AgitProp

• AstraZeneca withdrawing Covid vaccine, months after admitting rare side effect

  • AstraZeneca withdrawing Covid vaccine worldwide, after finding rare side effect

Religion / Tribal / Culture War and Re-Segregation

• Highlights from the Comments on "The Origin of Woke"

• Palantir's CEO calls 'woke' a 'central risk to Palantir, America and the world'

Edumacationalizing / Acedemia Nuts

• Kent State shootings: The 1970 student protests that shook the US

Info Rental / ShowBiz / Advertising

• Google Fit APIs get shut down in 2025, might break fitness devices

• Storage Churn

• Mastodon delays firm fix for link previews DDoSing sites

• Jack Dorsey Leaves Bluesky Board and Calls X 'Freedom Technology'

  • Jack Dorsey quits Bluesky board and urges users to stay on Elon Musk's X

• Sony, Paramount Explore Merger as Streaming Sector Runs Out of Ideas

• Microsoft closes several large Bethesda affiliated game studios

• Apple announces new iPad Air and iPad Pro tablets

  • Apple announces its M4 chip

• Eric Schmidt Says He Considered Buying TikTok

• The medieval city-building game that sold a million copies in a single day

• Yes, People Still Buy Books: How a viral post got some key statistics wrong

• Nintendo has broken its silence on the successor to its Switch

TechSuck / Geek Bait

• Raspberry Pi is getting into the services game

AI Will (Save | Destroy) The World

• We've been put in the vibe space

• OpenAI Releases 'Deepfake' Detector to Disinformation Researchers

Space / Boomy Zoomers / UFO

• Rocket issue scrubs launch of Starliner crewed test flight – SpaceNews

• Why a rich guy going to space for a second time matters

Economicon / Business / Finance

• We deserve more: US workers' share of the pie dwindles

• 'Blackstone has misled investors'

• Social Security retirees face automatic cut in 9 years

Gubmint / Poilitcks / Law Making

• Republicans are pulling out all the stops to reverse EV adoption.

• Illegal Aliens Skew Elections By Inflating Certain States’ Electoral Power. This Bill Would Change That.

• Biden Administration Rolls Out International Cybersecurity Plan at RSA

• Political foes join forces to fix SF's job-killing business tax

• TikTok Sues US Government Over Potential Ban - The New York Times

  • TikTok sues to challenge law forcing sale or ban

  • TikTok sues the US government over law that could ban the app

• Neoliberal economics: The road to freedom or authoritarianism?

Law Breaking / Police / Internal Security

• San Diego Sues CNC Milling Technologists, Alleging They're Flouting California ‘Ghost Gun’ Laws | ZeroHedge

  The lawsuit, filed on behalf of the county by the gun-control legal advocacy group Giffords Law Center, alleges the “Coast Runner” CNC machine, marketed by Coast Runner Industries, Inc., is simply a rebrand of the “Ghost Gunner” CNC machine previously developed and marketed by Defense Distributed and Ghost Gunner Inc. Gun rights activist and technologist Cody Wilson has been working for years against gun control efforts by expanding access to the tools necessary to produce firearms at home. He has used his non-profit, Defense Distributed, as a platform to pioneer technological advancements in the manufacture of firearms using both 3D-printing and CNC technology.

• Appetising, delicious food served up to prisoners works for the Nordic countries

• May 7th Is National Fentanyl Awareness Day

External Security / Militaria / Diplomania

• Navy Pays $100K to Replace EA. F/A-18 Tire, 3D Printed Repairs Cuts Cost to $300

World

• Germans grill Olaf Scholz over soaring cost of doner kebabs

• Dog owner whose pit bulls killed 86-year-old fined $18K

• World's Biggest Construction Project Gets a Reality Check

• Japan is not a xenophobic country

• More German firms are moving from China to Japan

Israel

• Israel Army Says in 'Operational Control' of Gaza Side of Rafah Crossing

• A look inside the cyberwar between Israel and Hamas reveals the civilian toll

• Israel frustrated with U.S. over hostage talks

  sraeli officials claim the Biden administration knew about the latest hostage and ceasefire deal proposal Egypt and Qatar negotiated with Hamas, but didn't brief Israel before Hamas announced it accepted it on Monday. A senior U.S. official pushed back saying "American diplomats have been engaged with Israeli counterparts. There have been no surprises."

• Israel-Hamas war: Hamas accepts Egyptian-Qatari cease-fire proposal | AP News

Russia Bad / Ukraine War

• Ukraine Has Changed Too Much to Compromise with Russia

• Ukraine Says It Foiled Russian Plot to Kill Zelensky

• Ukrainian Drone Boats Now Armed with Adapted Air-to-Air Missiles

China

• Chinese warplane fired flares, put Australian Navy helicopter in danger

• China is 'moving at breathtaking speed in space,' Space Force general says

• China's Xi gets red-carpet welcome in Serbia

Health / Medicine

• When your policy is too lefty for Jacobin - by Tom Knighton

  The thing is, when the state is footing the bill for everything, sooner or later, someone’s going to decide that enough money has been spent on some people and it would be better if their heart stopped beating. Jacobin wants the system that will invariably lead to people being killed in some manner because it’s not in the state’s interest to continue treating them. MAiD just makes it a little faster. As a result, they’re upset over a lefty program being too lefty for even their socialist standards, though I suspect the real issue is that it’s tipping the socialist hands on healthcare a little too well for their comfort.

• In Medicine, the Morally Unthinkable Too Easily Comes to Seem Normal - The New York Times

  Last month the Department of Health and Human Services issued new guidance requiring written informed consent for pelvic exams and other intimate procedures performed under anesthesia. Much of the force behind the new requirement came from distressed medical students who saw these pelvic exams as wrong and summoned the courage to speak out.

  What is it that leads a rare individual to say no to practices that are deceptive, exploitative or harmful when everyone else thinks they are fine? For a long time I assumed that saying no was mainly an issue of moral courage. The relevant question was: If you are a witness to wrongdoing, will you be brave enough to speak out? But then I started talking to insiders who had blown the whistle on abusive medical research. Soon I realized that I had overlooked the importance of moral perception. Before you decide to speak out about wrongdoing, you have to recognize it for what it is.

• Do you need a dentist visit every 6 months? That filling? The data is weak

• A Year on Ozempic Taught Me We're Thinking About Obesity All Wrong

• Gates Foundation Loves Toilets, their sanitation exhibit educates

• Seeking medical insights in the physics of mucus

Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda

• Shell's flagship carbon capture project sold $200 million worth of emission credits backed by absolutely nothing.

• 99% of cars sold in US 2015 and 2022 expose to toxin linked to cancer and autism

• The science behind why the world is getting wetter

• Giant Batteries Are Transforming the Way the U.S. Uses Electricity

• Sweetgreen Is Introducing Steak. What About Its Climate Goals?

• Oil Co. Contaminated a Family Farm. Courts and Regulators Let Them Walk Away

• Study reveals what carbon damage would cost if corps paid for their emissions

• Cracking Soils Could Accelerate Climate Change

• Shell sold carbon credits for carbon that was never captured

• Renewable energy passes 30% of world’s electricity supply

• Models show heat waves in north Pacific may be due to China reducing aerosols