2024-06-12
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The word ‘bot’ is increasingly being used as an insult on social media | New Scientist
Calling someone a bot on social media once meant you suspected they were actually a piece of software, but now the use of the word is shifting to become an insult to someone you know is human, say researchers.
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Or we could have listened to the "don't make cars heavier" people back when instead of calling them names... It's time to rethink what counts as a "safe car"
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A year after OceanGate’s sub imploded, thousands of leaked documents and interviews with ex-employees reveal how the company’s CEO cut corners, ignored warnings, and lied in his fatal quest to reach the Titanic.
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On her journey to self-discovery — and sexual awakening — she asks women she knows to share with her their true desires: Are they happy in their marriages? And if they’re not, are they going to do anything about it? What are the other possible arrangements for a life? In a sort of whisper network, women who have read “All Fours” are taking a page out of the main character’s playbook and posing these same questions to one another, opening up about their hidden fantasies and frustrations.
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Controversial Chick-Fil-A Summer Camp Charges Kids $35 to Work at the Restaurant
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Tennessee and New York feud over Long Island iced tea's origin
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Joey Chestnut says he's 'gutted' over Nathan's Hot Dog Eating Contest ban
Electric / Self Driving cars
celebrity gossip
Rank Propaganda / Thought Policing / World Disordering
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Canada’s Extremist Attack on Free Speech - The Atlantic
In 1984, George Orwell coined the term thoughtcrime. In the short story “The Minority Report,” the science-fiction author Philip K. Dick gave us the concept of “precrime,” describing a society where would-be criminals were arrested before they could act. Now Canada is combining the concepts in a work of dystopian nonfiction: A bill making its way through Parliament would impose draconian criminal penalties on hate speech and curtail people’s liberty in order to stop future crimes they haven’t yet committed. The Online Harms Act states that any person who advocates for or promotes genocide is “liable to imprisonment for life.” It defines lesser “hate crimes” as including online speech that is “likely to foment detestation or vilification” on the basis of race, religion, gender, or other protected categories. And if someone “fears” they may become a victim of a hate crime, they can go before a judge, who may summon the preemptively accused for a sort of precrime trial. If the judge finds “reasonable grounds” for the fear, the defendant must enter into “a recognizance.” A recognizance is no mere promise to refrain from committing hate crimes. The judge may put the defendant under house arrest or electronic surveillance and order them to abstain from alcohol and drugs. Refusal to “enter the recognizance” for one year results in 12 months in prison. This is madness.
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Deepfakes can be dangerous, but they won't harm our elections
Musk
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All three game console makers have now abandoned X integration
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If it never made any sense to begin with, why was it so common, so soon after Twitter first happened?
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Elon Musk's Boundary-Blurring Relationships with Women at SpaceX
Pox / COVID / BioTerror AgitProp
Religion / Tribal / Culture War and Re-Segregation
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What women in ancient times really thought about sex
A new book tells the history of the ancient world through women. Here author Daisy Dunn explores what they had to say about their own sexuality – flying in the face of misogynist male stereotypes. According to Semonides of Amorgos, a male poet working in Greece in the 7th Century BC, there are 10 main kinds of women. There are women who are like pigs, because they prefer eating to cleaning; women who resemble foxes, as they are peculiarly observant; donkey-women, who are sexually promiscuous; dog-women, marked for their disobedience. There are stormy sea-women, greedy Earth-women, thieving weasel-women, lazy horse-women, unattractive ape-women, and – the one good kind – hard-working bee-women.
Edumacationalizing / Acedemia Nuts
Info Rental / ShowBiz / Advertising
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Apple's AI promise: "Your data is never stored or made accessible to Apple"
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"Around 35 protesters" Child safety advocates disrupt Apple developers conference
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From stealing to Spotify: the story behind how music got free
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Martin Shkreli accused of copying and sharing Wu-Tang Clan album
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T-Mobile users thought they had a lifetime price lock–guess what happened next
TechSuck / Geek Bait
AI Will (Save | Destroy) The World
Space / Boomy Zoomers / UFO
Economicon / Business / Finance
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High Interest Rates Are Hitting Poorer Americans the Hardest
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Affirm buy now, pay later loans will be embedded into Apple Pay later this year
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America: a healthy or healthcare economy?
Here’s a thought. Could bad health outcomes, like the high prevalence of chronic illness or obesity, actually prop-up a nation’s gross domestic product by maintaining high levels of healthcare-related expenditure, and jobs? The US may offer an answer. While most were gawking over the latest bumper non-farm payrolls data, FT Alphaville did some digging beneath the headlines. Over one-third of private sector jobs added in May came from healthcare and social assistance. Of the 3.3mn jobs added by US private employers since the beginning of 2023, 40 per cent has been driven by the health sector.
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Capital One partners with fintech giants Stripe, Adyen to prevent fraud
Gubmint / Poilitcks / Law Making
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Exclusive-US House committee report finds Wall Street colluded to curb emissions
A U.S. congressional committee will accuse the biggest Wall Street firms on Tuesday, in a report seen by Reuters ahead of its publication, of colluding with advocacy groups to force companies to shrink their greenhouse gas emissions. The report is the first of its kind produced by the Republican-led Judiciary Committee in the House of Representatives since it launched an investigation in late 2022 into whether corporate efforts to tackle climate change violate antitrust laws.
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Verdict Reached in Hunter Biden Trial – PJ Media
Hunter Biden was found guilty on three federal felony charges for illegally buying and possessing a gun while addicted to crack cocaine. Federal law expressly makes it illegal for individuals using illicit drugs to possess firearms. He could face 25 years in prison and fines for the conviction. As a first offender, it's unlikely that he will face jail time.
External Security / Militaria / Diplomania
World
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Norway discovers Europe's largest deposit of rare earth metals
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Australian Border Force searched phones of 10k travellers in past two years
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Post Office Horizon scandal not the fault of judges, Lady Chief Justice insists
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EU expected to unveil tariff plans for Chinese EVs this week
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Christian democracy is to blame for Europe's democratic backsliding
Russia Bad / Ukraine War
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Perhaps what is most shocking about this attack on American citizens is the fact that the Data Journalism Agency (TEXTY) has a long affiliation with the US Government itself! In fact, the founder of the publication Anatoly Bondarenko appears prominently on a US Government website as a participant in the US State Department’s “TechCamp” project. The Data Journalism Agency (TEXTY) is listed as an “Implementing Partner” of the US Agency for International Development’s Transparency and Accountability in Public Administration and Services/ TAPAS Project.
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Russian military plane is suspected of violating Finnish airspace
A Russian military plane is suspected of violating Finnish airspace early on Monday, flying some 2.5 km (1.6 miles) inside the Nordic country's border, Finland's defence ministry said in a statement. The violation in the eastern Gulf of Finland lasted for about two minutes, the ministry said. "We take the suspected territorial violation seriously and the investigation has been started immediately," Finnish Defence Minister Antti Hakkanen said.