2024-06-30
Horseshit
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I'm terrified of old people - Alexey Guzey
no 80-year old is going to be as idealistic or energetic or attractive as when they were 20. But if you ask me if I’d rather have a President who is 20 or who is 80, I’ll pick the 80-year old in a heartbeat.
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Dying together: Why a happily married couple decided to stop living
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Everyday Philosophy: Is it better to forget your past or keep revisiting it?
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'Happiness machines': Meet the team behind SF's photo booth resurgence
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Viral $488,000 SF home has a buyer – and the deal exposes a dramatic backstory
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How ‘Rural Studies’ Is Thinking About the Heartland - The New York Times
Published in February, “White Rural Rage,” by the journalist Paul Waldman and the political scientist Tom Schaller, is an unsparing assessment of small-town America. Rural residents, the authors argued, are more likely than city dwellers to excuse political violence, and they pose a threat to American democracy. Several rural scholars whose research was included in the book immediately denounced it. In a critical Politico essay, Nick Jacobs, a political scientist at Colby College, wrote, “Imagine my surprise when I picked up the book and saw that some of that research was mine.” Ms. Lunz Trujillo excoriated the book in an opinion piece for Newsweek as “a prime example of how intellectuals sow distrust by villainizing” people unlike them. (The book’s authors were taken aback. Mr. Waldman said in an interview that he surmised the academics were reacting out of protectiveness toward the subjects of their own research and that he viewed some responses to the book as “over-the-top insults.”)
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Survivor of Parkland school massacre wins ownership of shooter's name in lawsuit
The most severely wounded survivor of the 2018 massacre at Parkland's Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School now owns shooter Nikolas Cruz's name, and Cruz cannot give any interviews without his permission, under a settlement reached in a lawsuit. Under his recent settlement with Anthony Borges, Cruz must also turn over any money he might receive as a beneficiary of a relative's life insurance policy, participate in any scientific studies of mass shooters and donate his body to science after his death. The agreement means that Cruz, 25, cannot benefit from or cooperate with any movies, TV shows, books or other media productions without Borges' permission. Cruz is serving consecutive life sentences at an undisclosed prison for each of the 17 murders and 17 attempted murders he committed inside a three-story classroom building on Feb. 14, 2018.
Electric / Self Driving cars
celebrity gossip
Rank Propaganda / Thought Policing / World Disordering
Pox / COVID / BioTerror AgitProp
Religion / Tribal / Culture War and Re-Segregation
Edumacationalizing / Acedemia Nuts
Info Rental / ShowBiz / Advertising
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Google, Snap, Meta and others are changing privacy policies to allow AI training
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German bank drops the ball on own ad campaign and doesnt register domain
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Etsy to ban sale of most sex toys, explicit content, and more
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The majority of Gen Z describe themselves as video content creators
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Are Diablo fans getting too old for the old-school item grind?
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All-AI Ad from Toys 'R' Us Inspires Debate over the Future of Marketing
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Redbox Owner Chicken Soup for the Soul Files for Chapter 11
After months of financial struggles, Redbox parent Chicken Soup for the Soul Entertainment has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. The company relayed news of the Delaware court filing in a message to employees in the early hours of Saturday. “Overnight we filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection,” the message said. “In connection with the filing, we have applied for approval of a debtor in possession [DIP] loan. Upon court approval, we expect payroll to be funded early in the week and funding for this upcoming week’s payroll to also be secured. We also expect to have the funds to reinstate medical benefits back to May 14, 2024 and going forward. We will provide regular updates.”
TechSuck / Geek Bait
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Who Knew What When | OS/2 Museum
Readers may be wondering why Multitasking DOS 4 has its own native floppy driver at all, unlike regular DOS. In fact it not only has a floppy driver, but also a hard disk driver. For PC/XT hard disks only, not for PC/AT hard disks. I can only guess that the motivation was multitasking. The PC and XT BIOS has absolutely no provisions for multitasking. That is especially painful f0r floppy access, which is quite slow; when using the ROM BIOS, the CPU just does a lot of waiting. Using a “modern” interrupt-driven disk driver gave Microsoft the ability to run disk operations in the background, and use the CPU for other tasks in the meantime. But that required writing a custom disk driver; the ROM BIOS just couldn’t do it.
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OctoPrint.org - OctoPrint's anonymous usage stats were manipulated
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Appeals court seems lost on how Internet Archive harms publishers
AI Will (Save | Destroy) The World
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Amazon Is Investigating Perplexity over Claims of Scraping Abuse
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Amazon hires founders from well-funded enterprise AI startup Adept
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I can’t decide if I should criticize Tempus or commend it. The market wants AI companies, Tempus wants the market’s capital, and it pairs the trade via AI washing. Everybody’s doing it, and the company’s ability to attract cheap capital may provide the steroids to turn it from Carl Lewis to Ben Johnson. Tempus AI isn’t the first company to play the name game: C3.ai started life as regular “C3,” had a cup of coffee as “C3 Energy,” and jumped on the “internet-of-things” bandwagon as “C3IoT” before going public as C3.ai.
Space / Boomy Zoomers / UFO
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NASA and SpaceX misjudged the risks from reentering space junk
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NASA orders more tests on Starliner, but says crew isn’t stranded in space | Ars Technica
“I want to make it very clear that Butch and Suni are not stranded in space."
With Starliner docked, the space station currently hosts three different crew spacecraft, including SpaceX's Crew Dragon and Russia's Soyuz. There are no serious plans under consideration to bring Wilmore and Williams home on a different spacecraft. "Obviously, we have the luxury of having multiple vehicles, and we work contingency plans for lots of different cases, but right now, we’re really focused on returning Butch and Suni on Starliner," Stich said.
Crypto con games
Economicon / Business / Finance
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Slowing U.S. Inflation Fuels Expectations of Interest Rate Cuts
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Amazon Decides Speed Isn’t Everything - The Atlantic
Now Amazon, for once, is slowing down. Earlier this week, The Information first reported that Amazon plans to follow the Shein and Temu playbook and open a new online store for low-cost products shipped directly from China. It will focus on unbranded clothing and household items priced under $20 and weighing less than a pound, and orders will arrive in nine to 11 days—a relative eternity compared with how long most of its customers are used to waiting. A spokesperson for Amazon didn’t refute any of these details, saying only that the company is “always exploring new ways to work with our selling partners.” When given the choice, Amazon seems to have realized, lots of people will choose stuff that is really cheap over stuff that arrives really quickly.
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Hybrid working makes employees happier, healthier and more productive
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Small Businesses in Crisis as Rising Numbers Unable to Pay Rent
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Why the Fed must change how it targets inflation
The last proper review of how the US measures inflation was in the Greenspan era in the 1990s. It’s certainly time for another one. And it’s worth doing it before any broader review on the validity of a 2 per cent target. But even more important than any particular inflation measure or target is fixing how the Fed actually goes about communicating and calibrating its response.
Gubmint / Poilitcks / Law Making
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The Money Coup: What the fall of Chevron deference means for state capacity
The decisions this week represent the culmination of some long-held goals. With Jarkesey and Loper-Bright, the courts have dismantled Chevron deference and regulatory powers. Chevron deference is the judicial shorthand for the idea that as Congress writes vague laws (because it cannot anticipate every aspect of the law that needs to be specified), judges should defer to experts in the federal agencies to fill in the gaps. In 1984, John Paul Stevens wrote in a unanimous ruling establishing “Chevron deference” that “Judges are not experts in the field and are not part of either political branch of the government.” Forty years later, the Roberts court disagrees. They believe they are experts enough in the field to second-guess agency officials. They welcome the opportunity to side with moneyed interests who have the capacity to bring such legal challenges. In her dissent, Justice Kagan declared: “In every sphere of current or future federal regulation, expect courts from now on to play a commanding role. It is not a role Congress has given them…It is a role this court has now claimed for itself, as well as other judges.” The demise of Chevron is being widely interpreted as an expansion of judicial power. It is that, but it also and more profoundly an expansion of power of moneyed interests.
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Forget the debate, the Supreme Court just declared open season on regulators | TechCrunch
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What SCOTUS just did to broadband, the right to repair, the environment, and more - The Verge
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Technology is about to accelerate. Because Chevron deference is over
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Delegation and Deference in the Administrative State: The Fate of Chevron Deference
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We Just Witnessed the Biggest Supreme Court Power Grab Since 1803
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Supreme Court overturns Chevron doctrine, curbing federal agency power
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Opinion | To Serve His Country, President Biden Should Leave the Race - The New York Times
Donald Trump has proved himself to be a significant jeopardy to that democracy — an erratic and self-interested figure unworthy of the public trust. He systematically attempted to undermine the integrity of elections. His supporters have described, publicly, a 2025 agenda that would give him the power to carry out the most extreme of his promises and threats. If he is returned to office, he has vowed to be a different kind of president, unrestrained by the checks on power built into the American political system. Mr. Biden has said that he is the candidate with the best chance of taking on this threat of tyranny and defeating it. His argument rests largely on the fact that he beat Mr. Trump in 2020. That is no longer a sufficient rationale for why Mr. Biden should be the Democratic nominee this year. At Thursday’s debate, the president needed to convince the American public that he was equal to the formidable demands of the office he is seeking to hold for another term. Voters, however, cannot be expected to ignore what was instead plain to see: Mr. Biden is not the man he was four years ago.
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New York Times first US paper urging Biden to drop out of presidential race
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The New York Times editorial board calls for Biden to drop out of the presidential race
The Biden campaign brushed off the decision by the editorial board in a statement Friday. “The last time Joe Biden lost the New York Times editorial board’s endorsement it turned out pretty well for him,” said campaign co-chair Cedric Richmond, who was previously a White House aide and a congressman from Louisiana.
“I know I’m not a young man," Biden told supporters in Raleigh, North Carolina on Friday afternoon. "I don’t walk as easy as I used to. I don’t speak as smoothly as I used to. I don’t debate as well as I used to, but I know what I do know — I know how to tell the truth!” Biden, at 81, is the oldest president in American history. His opponent, former President Donald Trump, is the second-oldest person ever to serve as president.
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Katty Kay: Reality sinks in as Democrats weigh Biden's future
There are now serious conversations taking place at the top of the party, in the White House and in the Biden-Harris campaign about a range of options, one of which is whether Joe Biden should step down as a candidate for president. Democratic officials, political operatives, and people close to the president paint a picture of an anxious Democratic Party that is seriously concerned about the strength of their candidate and whether he can beat Donald Trump in November.
Among some of the president's allies I’ve spoken to, there’s been hand-wringing about how the preparation for the debate in Atlanta was handled.These people say Mr Biden was over-prepared and overworked by his campaign team - and that if he had been given more time simply to rest in the week leading up to the debate, he would have done much better. Maybe there were too many voices and perspectives and data points put in his head, one campaign source suggested to me, and that just threw him off.
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Bob Woodward brands Biden debate performance a ‘political h-bomb.’
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Johnson says Biden's Cabinet should discuss invoking 25th Amendment - Live Updates - POLITICO
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The Gaslighting of the American Public
What the evening exposed was not Biden’s infirmity, though it did that too, but the years-long effort on the part of various White House communications aides, Democratic lawmakers, and mainstream media organs to gaslight the American public. It is they who were left exposed last night, and the panic that has fallen over the Washington establishment is over their own public humiliation.
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Bill Ackman: the media deserve far more derision and scorn
People very close to me, my closest family and friends, trusted the media on Biden until the CNN commentators finally owned up to the truth about Biden last night. For months I have been accused by many friends and family of being misled by an X -based ‘right wing echo chamber.’ The sad reality is that one of our most important institutions, the so-called ‘Fourth Estate,’ fourth only after the clergy, the nobility, and the commoners, has destroyed any remaining credibility it has.
The media can no longer save itself. A suggestion. Rely on empirical data as much as possible. Listen to what someone actually said, rather than a headline summary or article about what someone said. Get your news from people who have a track record of telling the truth, people who do so at significant personal cost like whistleblowers.
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‘It’s a mess:’ Biden turns to family on his path forward after his disastrous debate
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Behind the Curtain: Biden oligarchy will decide fate - MSN
This decades-long kitchen cabinet operates as an extended family, council of elders and governing oligarchy. These allies alone hold sway over decisions big and small in Biden's life and presidency.
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The Trump Skeptic Who Fended Off a Far-Right Challenge in Utah - POLITICO
External Security / Militaria / Diplomania
World
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Mystery tax defaulter settles debt by handing in 200 Goya artworks
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Labour is telling Britain it is now a conservative party – we should believe it
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Panama Papers: Court acquits all 28 charged with money laundering
A Panamanian court has acquitted all 28 people charged with money laundering in connection with the Panama Papers scandal, concluding a trial that began in April. The secret financial documents were leaked in 2016, revealing how some of the world's richest and most powerful people use tax havens to hide their wealth. Judge Baloisa Marquinez said the evidence considered by the court was "not sufficient" to determine the criminal responsibility of the defendants.
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How Tippi Hedren made Vietnamese refugees into nail salon magnates
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Bolivia's president accused of plotting coup against himself to boost popularity
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French court rules Ravel is sole author of classical music masterpiece 'Bolero'
Russia Bad / Ukraine War
China
Health / Medicine
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Losing Both Ovaries Could Come at a Serious Cost to the Brain, Researchers Find
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In head lice outbreaks, 'selfies' may be a surprising culprit
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Alcohol is riskier than we previously knew. But what does that mean for you?
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Health insurers cover fewer drugs and make them harder to get
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The World’s Most Common Pain Relief Drug May Induce Risky Behavior.