2024-07-24
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US opens investigation into Delta after airline cancels flights
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On Tuesday, tourists clad in bucket hats and Converse sneakers were traipsing along the boardwalk in Biscuit Basin when a pool of hot water bubbling up from below the surface of the earth began rising up into the air. Some people stopped and started taking videos on their phones as the black cloud rose. Then, rocks started falling from the sky.
Horseshit
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Rolls-Royce gets $6M to develop its ambitious nuclear space reactor
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Hugo awards reveal thousands spent on fraudulent votes to help one writer win
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Why Gen Z Won't Show Their Feet | HuffPost Life
Today, many kids “wouldn’t wear their slides without socks,” said Michelle, who is a millennial (born between 1981 and 1996). “It was confusing to me because I live in San Diego County. I grew up wearing either Rainbow sandals or Ugg boots.” Gen Z has also taken to pairing chunky sneakers with everything and slipping socks under dressy sandals — or, perhaps even more horrifying to millennials, they’re wearing Crocs with socks. “That stood out as super weird that [my students] were dressing like my dad on a fall day,” Michelle said. Not only do they often prefer not to show their own feet, but they can take offense to others who do. Michelle, who was in the habit of exposing her feet in sandals, was heckled by her high school students for the sartorial choice. “Usually, I hear, ‘Miss, the dogs are barking!’ or ‘Miss — for free?! You just giving out those free foot pics?’” she recalled. She has even experienced students barking at her feet.
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About Dry Grasses is very good, perhaps the movie of the year
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Traveling this summer? Maybe don't let the airport scan your face
Rank Propaganda / Thought Policing / World Disordering
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The marketplace of misleading ideas - by Dan Williams
one of the dominant ways journalists, social scientists, and politicians today attempt to understand epistemic problems in society involves the concept of “misinformation” (or “disinformation”, often defined as “intentional misinformation"). According to this narrative—what I will call the “misinformation narrative”—Western democracies have recently experienced an explosion of misinformation connected primarily to social media, right-wing populist politicians, and foreign (e.g., Russian) influence campaigns. As a result, many citizens are embracing misperceptions—for example, conspiracy theories, election denial, anti-science beliefs, and so on—which are leading them to make bad decisions, such as voting for demagogues, attacking democratic institutions, and rejecting public health advice.
In a future post, I will return to these questions, focusing on the positive features of open societies. I will also explore how we (those of us who champion the ideals of such societies) might address some of the epistemic challenges.
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The lawsuit from Nina Jankowicz alleged that Fox News had defamed her on numerous occasions, leading to waves of online attacks and threats of violence after the formation of the Disinformation Governance Board, where she served as a director. In rejecting Jankowicz's claims, the judge said that 36 of the 37 statements made on Fox News programs were about the disinformation board and not Jankowicz. The judge ruled that the remaining statement — which was also a reference to the board and not Jankowicz, despite showing an image of her as it was said — was not disinformation because it was a factual statement that matched the wording in the board's own charter describing its purpose.
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Book Review: ‘The Quiet Damage,’ by Jesselyn Cook - The New York Times
It started to become clear that the fantastical beliefs associated with QAnon — for instance, that a secret cabal of elites was engaged in widespread sex trafficking of children — were no longer a fringe phenomenon. Many QAnon supporters were among the mob that attacked the Capitol on Jan. 6. As journalists and pundits attempted to parse the movement’s threat to American democracy, Jesselyn Cook, an investigative reporter at NBC News, took on another aspect of QAnon’s rise: the fractured families and relationships it has left in its wake.
Musk
Electric / Self Driving cars
Religion / Tribal / Culture War and Re-Segregation
Info Rental / ShowBiz / Advertising
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Intel says it has found the issue causing 13th and 14th Gen CPUs to crash
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Windows 11 strikes again with annoying pop-up that can't be disabled
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Why Did CrowdStrike Update Only Hit Windows? Blame the EU, Microsoft Says
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BBC plans to lay off 500 more staff, reports £263M operating deficit in 2023/24
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Switzerland now requires all government software to be open source
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AT&T February wireless outage blocked more than 92M calls, agency says
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Humble Games confirms 'restructuring' amid reports all staff have been laid off
AI Will (Save | Destroy) The World
Space / Boomy Zoomers / UFO
Economicon / Business / Finance
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Salesforce mandates October RTO for most employees as layoffs contine
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Nvidia Likely to Announce Surprise Positive Earnings Next Month, Says Goldman
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US graduates face cut-throat job market as companies scrap internships
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CrowdStrike shares slide as IT disruption continues
Shares in cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike have plunged more than 13% as the company reckons with the aftermath of causing a global IT outage. Chief security officer Shawn Henry said the incident had been a "gut punch" for the firm, which had previously been one of the most trusted names in the industry.
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The global semiconductor talent crunch: How protectionism backfired
Gubmint / Poilitcks / Law Making
TBA 2024 / Democrats Demonstrate "Our Democracy"
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Time for all "not MAGA" folks to come together
Time for all "not MAGA" folks to come together for KamalaHarris to beat Trump and save our democracy, reject bad values, reject Project 2025 and the dictatorship that Trump loves, all while being a good global citizen. As I said there are democrats, independents, republicans, and then there are MAGA assholes (test: election denialism). Good people on both sides. We should stand together
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10 things we're getting wrong about the Biden/Harris swap
“We need to lower the temperature in our politics.” Sure, right. Watching Republicans spend a week pretending to care about this was pretty rich. "We need to tone down the violent rhetoric. No more hanging Mike Pence, okay? We'll just torture him a little bit until he caves."
If Dems were to host an open contest for President, it would wind up dominating the news cycle for weeks on end...and introduce a bunch of younger candidates to the American public...and turn the DNC into must watch TV. We can’t have that! Too bad politicos don't understand earned media. We've anointed Kamala cuz she gets Biden's $240M when an open competition between her/Shapiro/Big Gretch/Mayor Pete/etc. woulda dominated media for a month and coulda been worth a $500M+ ad spend. In a way, Dems are leaving money on the table.
not having primaries is a great way to avoid having to kowtow to the wacko extremists in your base. I’m here for it.
which doctor treated Trump in Pennsylvania? Does he have a name? Do we ever get to hear from him? Because that note from Doc Ronny (who’s medical license expired due to ordering 34 fentanyl packs, 40 morphine packs and 34 ketamine packs in a nine-month span) was eyebrow-raising. Just saying, I’ve watched enough pro wrestling to know all about “the guy who disappears from view for a moment and then comes back bleeding” move.
Biden Inc
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Top Dems threatened to remove Biden unless he dropped out
Operatives at the very highest levels of the Democratic Party threatened President Biden with forcibly removing him from office unless he stepped down, sources told The Post. The well-orchestrated “palace coup” to stop the faltering president from seeking re-election had been in place for weeks, but stubborn Biden fought it every step of the way, a source close to the Biden family told The Post on Monday.
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The president swore for weeks that he wouldn’t drop out of the race. Then he got sick, disappeared from the public eye, dropped out of the race through a tweet, and hasn’t been seen since. The corporate media is trying to gaslight us into thinking this is all fine and normal.
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Biden makes first public appearance since officially dropping out
Trump / Right / Jan6
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Heritage Foundation Claims to Use Location Data to Track Trump Shooter's Movemen
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Elderly Trump Supporter In Critical Condition After ‘Politically Motivated’ Attack, Police Say
The man, who has not been identified, was putting up a yard sign supporting President Donald Trump around 5:45 p.m., when a suspect driving a Honda ATV drove onto the man’s yard and ran him over with the vehicle, the Hancock Police Department said in a press release. The driver reportedly began to pull out the yard signs, and when the victim tried to put them back in the ground, the driver ran him over. The victim was taken to the hospital with serious injuries, including a brain bleed, and is reportedly still in critical condition. The 22-year-old suspect, whose name has not been released to the media, was found dead Tuesday in a home in Quincy Township with a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head.
On Sunday, police received reports of three attacks likely tied to the same suspect in Hancock, Michigan, a small city at the base of the Keweenaw Peninsula, the stretch of land that juts out into Lake Superior in the northwestern area of the state's Upper Peninsula. Two of the incidents involved "intentionally vandalized" vehicles, a press release from the City of Hancock Police Department said. On one car, "the tire valves were broken off," while the other had all its windows "smashed ... out," added Hancock Police Chief Tami Sleeman.
Law Breaking / Police / Internal Security
External Security / Militaria / Diplomania
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in essence, we’ve expended all of 2022, 2023, and part of 2021’s procurement in just nine months. Against. A. Sub-4th Rate. Non-state. Actor.
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Why US–China relations are too important to be left to politicians
World
Russia Bad / Ukraine War
China
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Countering Chinese Aggression in the South China Sea
Over the weekend, the Philippines and China, which have been locked in a tense stand-off around the Second Thomas Shoal for months announced an agreement to deescalate tensions. While potentially positive, we believe that the long-term risk of conflict in the South China Sea remains alarmingly high. Our new dataset shows that China’s military coercion is more rampant than previously documented and disproportionately directed at the Philippines, the weakest link in the chain of U.S. alliances in Asia.
Health / Medicine
Pox / COVID / BioTerror AgitProp
Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda
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The growing problem of how extreme heat damages mental health
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Donkeys are dying with stomachs full of plastic – and other animals are at risk
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Californians told to stop grilling food to help improve air quality after spike in pollution
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Science-based climate targets miss the mark
To address the multiple dimensions of equity associated with climate mitigation targets for individual actors such as companies or countries, social sciences and humanities need to become a core part of the science that informs target setting, including economics, political science, socio-technical transition theory and ethics. This requires embracing the wide range of actions that can contribute to the mitigation goals of the Paris Agreement, as opposed to hobbling acceptable actions by narrow and arbitrary decision-making rules.
Science-based methodologies transform this distributional choice into a universal burden-sharing principle. This deeply embedded value judgement makes so-called science-based targets a highly attractive proposition to companies with high current emissions and/or high capacity to act, who would need to reduce their emissions far more rapidly than the global average under any other equity-based approach to global burden-sharing
Equity principles cannot necessarily be applied in the same way to companies, but core considerations are the same: given the sum of actions needed to achieve a global goal, and taking into consideration the diversity of actors and their capacities, histories and needs, companies need to decide and demonstrate what contribution might be considered consistent with the global challenge.
We recognise the importance of simple concepts such as net-zero emissions to act as a focal point for global action, both at government and corporate levels. However, those concepts cannot serve as substitute for science. Those engaged in supporting the formulation, monitoring and implementation of long-term emission targets at corporate and country level need to re-balance the use of overly simplistic, eye-catching numerical targets with the considerations needed to increase the ambition of all actors. For many companies and countries, this means stretching far beyond the global average and aiming for net-negative emissions (at a minimum for long-lived, but potentially for the sum of all greenhouse gases) to establish ambitious, science-informed target-setting at individual level.