2024-06-01
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Horseshit
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Recycling old copper wires could be worth billions for telcos
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In Colorado, an Ambitious New Highway Policy Is Not Building Them
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The QR Backlash Has Won. Restaurants Are Ditching Them for Good.
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Accusers of 'Canada's Jeffrey Epstein' could sue his reanimated corpse
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It's quick and easy to clone famous politicians' voices, despite safeguards
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Centuries of milk marketing warped the way we think about dairy and nutrition
Dairy’s stranglehold on school food began some 80 years ago and has only tightened since. It was built on the outdated idea that cow’s milk is essential for children’s health — an idea that has had immense staying power due to a vast and deep-pocketed marketing, lobbying, and research machine. That misconception has resulted in policies like the one Williamson was up against, and the nationwide requirement that milk must at least be offered, and in many schools must be served, to every student at every school meal.
Electric / Self Driving cars
Rank Propaganda / Thought Policing / World Disordering
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Supersharers of Fake News on Twitter
The authors found that supersharers were disproportionately Republican, middle-aged White women residing in three conservative states, Arizona, Florida, and Texas. Supersharers’ massive volume did not seem automated but was rather generated through manual and persistent retweeting. These findings highlight a vulnerability of social media for democracy, where a small group of people distort the political reality for many.
- It all depends on what you define as "fake news" doesn't it? How about in that same time frame "51 Intelligence Experts Say Hunter's Laptop is Russian Disinformation" or "Trump will release an untested vaccine to boost his election chances," were those factored into the study? I kinda suspect they weren't. This defined "fake" as "anything posted by someone NewsGuard doesn't approve".
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Quantifying the impact of misinformation and vaccine-skeptical content on Facebook | Science
Fortunately, the impact of flagrant vaccine misinformation on Facebook was greatly attenuated once such posts were flagged and debunked as false by third-party fact-checkers. However, ambiguous misinformation remained unflagged. Allen et al. examined a gray area that eluded fact-checkers: factually accurate but deceptive content. This unflagged content cast doubts on vaccine safety or efficacy and was 46-fold more consequential for driving vaccine hesitancy than flagged misinformation. Tech companies assert that unflagged content must be protected by First Amendment free speech rights. However, this study’s causal evidence that unflagged content posed the greatest threat to public health carries policy implications for government regulation needed to save lives.
Trump / War against the Right / Jan6
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If Trump's Conviction Lands Him in Prison, the Secret Service Goes, Too
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Trump is trending on Chinese social media, and many are rejoicing
As a rising authoritarian superpower, China has long sought to project its political system as superior to American democracy. But while Trump’s trial has been a boon for that narrative, it’s also offered a potential window into something unimaginable and dangerous to the ruling Chinese Communist Party — an elected leader held accountable by independent courts and prosecutors, convicted by a jury of his peers.
For months, Chinese propagandists have attempted to use Trump’s indictments to strengthen Beijing’s narrative of a United States in decline, citing the months-long legal battle as a prime example of the polarization and dysfunction of American politics. And as China woke up Friday to the news of Trump’s conviction on 34 felony counts of falsifying business records, the country’s heavily censored social media lit up. Some nationalist influencers gleefully mocked the verdict. “It seems that in 2024, a civil war in America is not just a dream!” said one such blogger with 4 million followers.
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Trump Guilty Verdict: It Could Happen to You – PJ Media
National Review's Jeff Blehar really nailed it when he posted to X last night, "Gonna be wild when Trump appeals a conviction based upon questionable legal theories all to the way to the Supreme Court and you suddenly realize why the Left has been methodically laying so much groundwork in advance trying to tar SCOTUS as corrupt."
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After Biden's presidency, Trump has a lot of supporters in Silicon Valley
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Trump supporters call for riots and violent retribution after verdict
After Trump became the first U.S. president to be convicted of a crime, his supporters responded with dozens of violent online posts, according to a Reuters review of comments on three Trump-aligned websites: the former president's own Truth Social platform, Patriots.Win and the Gateway Pundit. On Gateway Pundit, one poster suggested shooting liberals after the verdict. “Time to start capping some leftys,” said the post. “This cannot be fixed by voting."
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Distributor of '2000 Mules' election conspiracy film pulls film from platforms
The conservative media company behind the book and film “2,000 Mules,” which alleged a widespread conspiracy by Democrats to steal the 2020 election and was embraced by former president Donald Trump, has issued an apology and said it would halt distribution of the film and remove both the film and book from its platforms.
In a statement posted to their website, Salem Media Group, Inc. apologized specifically to Mark Andrews, a voter from Georgia falsely depicted illegally voting in “2,000 Mules.” According to a court filing in a related case, Salem settled the lawsuit brought by Andrews for an undisclosed "significant" amount. In the statement on its website, Salem wrote, “It was never our intent that the publication of the ‘2000 Mules’ film and book would harm Mr. Andrews. We apologize for the hurt the inclusion of Mr. Andrews' image in the movie, book, and promotional materials have caused Mr. Andrews and his family.”
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Republicans Should Do To Democrats What They Did To Trump
if you’re a GOP candidate or elected official, and especially if you’re a Republican district attorney or attorney general, and your response to Trump’s conviction isn’t to begin making plans to indict President Biden and other leading Democrats on criminal charges, then you have no idea what time it is and need to be primaried, sidelined, or otherwise run out of the party.
Put bluntly, Republicans have to make Democrats play by their own rules. They have to inflict pain ruthlessly on Democrats with endless show trials and lawfare, just as Democrats have done to Trump. The leftist radicals who run the Democrat Party only understand power, and they will only stop when they are force-fed their own medicine over and over.
Pox / COVID / BioTerror AgitProp
Religion / Tribal / Culture War and Re-Segregation
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Department of Labor panned for posting advice for how ‘menstruators’ can ‘thrive at work.’
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She Made an Offer on a Condo. Then the Seller Learned She Was Black. - The New York Times
The seller wanted to pull out of the deal. Why? “You could hear the fear and disbelief in his voice,” Dr. Baxter said, recalling what her broker told her next. “He said, ‘I don’t know how to tell you this, but she doesn’t want to sell the home to you, and it’s because you’re Black.’” The seller, Jane Walker, 84, is white. Ms. Walker did not respond to requests for comment. Bill Loftis, Dr. Baxter’s broker, said, “We have no comment on this as we can’t do anything to jeopardize our clients [sic] transaction.”
Edumacationalizing / Acedemia Nuts
Info Rental / ShowBiz / Advertising
TechSuck / Geek Bait
AI Will (Save | Destroy) The World
Space / Boomy Zoomers / UFO
Crypto con games
Economicon / Business / Finance
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'It's better for humans': The four-day workweek is closer than you think
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Whassup with those economists who predicted a recession that then didn't happen?
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Chobani Yogurt Billionaire Buys San Francisco's Anchor Brewing Co
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The end of US revenge travel has arrived
After the pandemic put the brakes on the travel industry, leisure spending bounced back strongly over the past two years. All that pent-up demand from the pandemic is at risk of being tapped out. If “revenge travel” was the buzz word in 2023, then “normalised demand” is poised to be this year’s corporate catchphrase. Investors should adjust their expectations accordingly.
Gubmint / Poilitcks / Law Making
Law Breaking / Police / Internal Security
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Audio: Sheriff’s Office Releases 911 Calls From Dowd Road Shooting
This person is from, this person is from Chechnya,” the caller said. “He's from out of country?” the dispatcher asked. “He's from Chechnya. He came up on our poverty line. My kids are in the backyard," the caller said. "He's taking pictures of our property. My husband is, he's a military specialist. He's trained and he knows what he's doing, but I really need some police presence here." "He's taking pictures of your property?" the dispatcher asked. "Of our children, of our property," the caller said.
External Security / Militaria / Diplomania
World
Iran / Houthi
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US and UK air strikes hit several strategic sites across Yemen
According to the officials, American and British fighter jets and US ships hit a wide range of underground facilities, missile launchers, command and control sites, a Houthi vessel and other facilities. The officials spoke on condition of anonymity to provide early details of an ongoing military operation. Also struck by the U.S. were eight un-crewed aerial vehicles in Houthi-controlled areas of Yemen that were determined to be presenting a threat to American and coalition forces.
The strikes come a day after a US MQ-9 Reaper drone went down in Yemen, and the Houthis released footage they said showed the aircraft being targeted with a surface-to-air missile in a desert region of Yemen’s central Marib province. It marked the third such downing this month alone.
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Yemen strikes USS Eisenhower with missiles in response to bombings