2024-05-10
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Horseshit
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because there’s no Twitter support email or number, it appears that I shit out of luck. Beyond being very annoying because of how long I spent building an account, it’s a pretty big setback for my career. I work in tech. Tech hangs out on Twitter. If I can’t get on Twitter, then that’s no bueno. At the end of the day, I have nobody to blame but myself. I was aware of the risks of building on rented land and chose to anyway. So, I’ll give you the same advice that I largely ignored: if you’re investing a lot of time building a brand on a platform where you don’t own your followers (Twitter, Insta, YouTube, etc), funnel them into an email list. That way you won’t be completely screwed if you do get banned for whatever reason.
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Baidu's PR head has a PR problem after workaholic social media posts
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The Emotional Support Animal Racket
the process runs into the same failure mode as Adderall prescriptions: it combines an insistence on gatekeepers with a total lack of interest over whether they actually gatekeep. The end result is a gatekeeping cargo cult, where you have to go through the (expensive, exhausting) motions of asking someone’s permission, without the process really filtering out good from bad applicants. And the end result of that is a disguised class system, where anyone rich and savvy enough to engage with the gatekeeping process gets extra rights, but anyone too poor or naive to access it has to play by the normal, punishingly-restrictive rules.
I have no solution to this, I just feel like I incur a little spiritual damage every time I approve somebody’s ADHD snake or autism iguana or anorexia pangolin or whatever.
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Hertz Charged Member $277 for Not Filling Gas Tank on a Tesla, Won't Remove Fees
Electric / Self Driving cars
celebrity gossip
Rank Propaganda / Thought Policing / World Disordering
Musk
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Tesla is under a federal wire fraud probe for misleading investors
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Elon Musk's Neuralink chip malfunctions in first in-human brain implant
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Inside the Climate Protests Hell-Bent on Stopping Tesla | WIRED
This week, she will be joined by the notorious German climate group Here And No Further (Ende Gelände), known for its theatrical, often law-breaking blockades, for a five-day-long protest. Anticipating the arrival of hundreds of demonstrators, Tesla said it would shut the factory for four days, telling its employees to work from home, according to an internal email obtained by the German newspaper Handelsblatt.
Their reasons for being here are part environmental, part anti-capitalist, Mara explains, turning a piece of bark between dirt-encrusted fingernails. Tesla’s ambition, to produce 1 million electric cars a year in Germany, isn’t in service to the climate, Mara says. Instead she describes the 300-hectare Tesla factory as a byproduct of “green capitalism,” a plot by companies to appear environmentally friendly in order to convince consumers to keep buying more stuff. “This has been completely thought up by such companies to have more growth, even in times of an environmental crisis,” she says, adding that the protesters have had no contact with Tesla. To people like Mara, Tesla is a symbol of how the green transition went wrong and, as a result, the company’s German gigafactory has become the target of increasingly radical protests.
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Musk's lawyers succeed in challenge to remove OpenAI case judge
Pox / COVID / BioTerror AgitProp
Edumacationalizing / Acedemia Nuts
Info Rental / ShowBiz / Advertising
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US libraries are fighting for a better deal on e-books.
"We need the coercive power of the state sitting behind us at the table saying, 'We need a special slice of the pie.'"
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Workers seek to alter the balance of power in Canadian video game industry
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Microsoft says it needs games like Hi-Fi Rush the day after killing its studio
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New 'Lord of the Rings' Films for Warner Bros., Targeting 2026 Debut
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Apple faces celebrity backlash over piano-crushing iPad advert
Apple is facing a backlash online over an advert in which objects including musical instruments and books are crushed into oblivion by a hydraulic press. The video is meant to demonstrate how their creativity has been compressed into the latest iPad. But celebrities including Hugh Grant and Justine Bateman have reacted with horror to the destruction on view.
TechSuck / Geek Bait
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How fast can construct a small list of strings in C for Python? – Daniel Lemire's blog
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It's always TCP_NODELAY. Every damn time
- Latency and legacy used to be taller hills.
AI Will (Save | Destroy) The World
Space / Boomy Zoomers / UFO
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How bad are satellite megaconstellations for astronomy?
In his “Blinded by the Light” treatise, Koplow describes the incipient clash between satellite megaconstellations and astronomy, assesses the relevant international and domestic legal authorities, and proposes compromise solutions to mitigate the damage. “Overall, the thesis is that a better balance must be struck between these competing types of space activities,” Koplow adds, “without ceding to either a comprehensive right to proceed in disregard of the key functions of the other.”
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From outer space? Farmers baffled after discovering wreckage in field
Jonathan McDowell, a Harvard astronomer believes the debris found on Sawchuk’s farm also belongs to SpaceX. His collaborator out of the University of Regina told CTV News he re-tracked a re-entry over Saskatchewan in February. The debris is believed to be the trunk of a spacecraft that made its way back to Earth. "The ground track goes right through Saskatchewan so exactly where debris will hit the ground is fairly unpredictable, because you don't know where pieces will fall off and the exact atmospheric turbulence and everything can have. The line goes right through Ituna,” Associate Professor of Astronomy Samantha Lawler explained.
Crypto con games
Economicon / Business / Finance
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Which is not to say that we have no idea how much "phantom debt" is out there: according to the report, it is projected to reach almost $700 billion globally by 2028, and yet, time and again, the companies that issue it have resisted calls for greater disclosure, even as the market has grown each year since at least 2020. That, as Bloomberg accurately warns, is masking a complete picture of the financial health of American households, which is crucial for everyone from global central banks to US regional lenders and multinational businesses.
In fact, the recent explosion in installment debt may explain why the US consumer remains so resilient even when most conventional economic metrics suggest consumers should be struggling: "Consumer spending in the world’s largest economy has been so resilient in the face of stubbornly high inflation that economists and traders have had to repeatedly rip up their forecasts for slowing growth and interest-rate cuts."
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A tale of two downtowns in L.A.: As offices languish, apartments thrive
Gubmint / Poilitcks / Law Making
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TikTok sues the US government over its plan to ban – so now what?
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President Biden Is Ready to Use the SPR Again If Needed.
“We have been replenishing into the SPR for the last several months. I think we have sufficient supply in the SPR to address any kind of concern in the economy if we need it,” Hochstein said, speaking at the Milken Institute Global Conference, as quoted by Reuters. The U.S. saw the stockpiles of crude oil in the SPR fall from 638 million barrels at President Joe Biden’s inauguration to just 347 million barrels by the summer of 2023 as the administration tried to bring down gasoline prices for consumers by releasing over 180 million barrels from the SPR.
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California's electricity rates will shift to a fixed fee based on income
Law Breaking / Police / Internal Security
External Security / Militaria / Diplomania
World
Iran / Houthi
Israel
Russia Bad / Ukraine War
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Kremlin botnet launches disinformation claiming Havana Syndrome doesn't exist
The Doppelgänger bot network has begun spreading Moscow’s response to The Insider's joint investigation with 60 Minutes and Der Spiegel into Havana Syndrome. According to analysis by the Bot Blocker project, which closely tracks Doppelgänger’s online disinformation efforts, the current campaign has targeted German audiences. The joint investigation in question, which was published on Mar. 31 of this year, uncovered new evidence suggesting that heretofore unexplained “anomalous health incidents” (AHIs) reported by U.S. government officials and their families, also known as Havana Syndrome, may have their origin in the use of directed energy weapons wielded by members of GRU Unit 29155, a notorious assassination and sabotage squad attached to Russia’s military intelligence service.
China
Health / Medicine
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Sleep problems as a child may be associated with psychosis in young adults
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The ACL Cross Bracing Protocol healed my torn ligament. This is how it works
In the last few years, research has proven that ACLs can, in fact, heal on their own, but the bracing protocol takes it one step further. Just like a cast helps broken bones heal, the brace facilitates the healing of ruptured ACLs that otherwise wouldn't have healed at all, or might have healed poorly.
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FDA recalls defective iOS app that injured over 200 insulin pump users
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these drugs haven't been available for 5 years, surely? Endoscopic Sleeve Gastroplasty Beats Wegovy and Ozempic over 5 Years
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Hospitals Are Refusing to Do Surgeries Unless You Pay in Full First
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Ozempic Is Repairing a Hole in Our Diets Created by Processed Foods
Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda
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No one has seen the data behind Tyson's "climate friendly beef" claim
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Tracking Illicit Brazilian Beef from the Amazon to Your Burger
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Methane emissions from gas flaring being hidden from satellite monitors
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Signal shows Atlantic meridional overturning circulation is on tipping course
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- They changed the reporting standards some time back. Previously these would have been "funnel clouds" and so on, the storm would've had one "official" tornado possibly with wide damage across scattered tracks. Today its counted as 10 tornadoes.
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Microsoft employees spent years fighting the tech giant's oil ties
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US is propping up gas while the world moves to renewable energy
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The Truth About the Bees - The Atlantic
For years, we’ve understood honeybees to be at imminent risk of extinction, despite a small mountain of evidence to the contrary.
In 2022, at least 18 states enacted bee-related legislation. Last year, a cryptocurrency launched with the intention of raising “awareness and support for bee conservation.” If you search Etsy right now for “save the bees,” you’ll be rewarded with thousands of things to buy. Bees and Thank You, a food truck in suburban Boston, funds bee sanctuaries and gives out a packet of wildflower seeds—good for the bees!—with every grilled cheese sandwich it sells. A company in the United Kingdom offers a key ring containing a little bottle of chemicals that can purportedly “revive” an “exhausted bee” should you encounter one, “so it can continue its mission pollinating planet Earth.” All of the above is surprising for maybe a few different reasons, but here’s a good place to start: Though their numbers have fluctuated, honeybees are not in trouble. Other bees are. But the movement’s poster child, biggest star, and attention hound is not at risk of imminent extinction, and never has been. “There are more honeybees on the planet now than there probably ever have been in the history of honeybees,” Rich Hatfield, a biologist at the Xerces Society for Invertebrate Conservation, told me. “They are in no threat of going endangered. It’s not an issue.”
The idea that honeybees need our help is one of our most curiously persistent cultural myths. It is well intended. But it is also unhelpful: a distraction from more urgent biodiversity problems, and an object lesson in the limits of modern environmentalism and the seductiveness of modern consumerism.
- just because this cause celebre was horseshit; don't begin to think that the others might be as well... nono, this has been a distraction from the real biodiversity crisis. prolly engineered by MAGA Republican Russian bots.
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Does mining for batteries erase the climate benefits of EVs? No, and here's why