2024-07-25
Horseshit
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Extreme wealth has a deadening effect on the super-rich – and that threatens all
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Virtual reality players are suffering real broken bones, other injuries
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Capacitive controls could be the cause of a spate of VW ID.4 crashes
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Which Country Should Design U.S. Industrial Policy? - Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
The decision Americans must make about industrial policy is whether policies that drive the nature and direction of the U.S. economy should be designed at home or abroad by its trade partners.
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Large parts of Austrian society still felt strong ties to national socialism, an aggressive Greater German ideology that rejected the notion of Austria as a separate country with its own history and mentality, and cultivated a deeply rooted antisemitism and anti-Slavic sentiment. My family, like many others, held on to their belief in Hitler and the Third Reich until they died. “We are not Austrians but Germans,” was the oft-repeated credo fed to me as a child. “And we will forever be proud of it.” I was born in 1944, a year before the end of the war.
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The extinct Olympic sport that was the 'dullest' of all time
The distance plunge, as it was also known, defied the usual conventions of athletics. It didn't require superhuman strength, endurance, agility, speed, or even creative flair – in fact, apart from an initial dive, any form of exertion was strictly prohibited. But most of all, it was also, according to many contemporaries, eye-glazingly dull to watch, and holds the dubious distinction of having been labelled the lamest, weirdest and most boring Olympic sport of all time. But was it really that easy? And does it deserve its wearisome reputation?
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Injuries from electric bikes, scooters soaring in United States.
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New Zealand "deeply shocked" after Canada drone-spied on its Olympic practices
celebrity gossip
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Mrbeast Transgender Cohost Chris Tyson Accused Of Grooming Underage Boy: What We Know So Far
Over the weekend, Chris Tyson from Mrbeast, who abandoned his family to become a transgender activist, became embroiled in controversy as a video came out exposing his relationship with a 13-15-year-old young boy with inappropriate texts and DMs from the content creator. Mrbeast has entered the fray to run defense for Tyson, connecting content creator Keemstar with the alleged victim, who is also defending the man in a dress.
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Chuck D: Why Today's Artists Can't Fight the Power
“They’re all scared, man … Musicians, artists, entertainers have now been governed by fear, fear of being canceled.” “In my case, I’m like, I don’t know who’s orchestrated this all. All I know is it’s madness.”
Obit
Rank Propaganda / Thought Policing / World Disordering
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Is there a way to stop all the political text messages?
According to Colburn, phone calls and texts for political campaigns are exempt from the Do Not Call list, so even if someone registers their cell number, political groups can still reach out to them. Phone customers can reply “STOP” to a message that comes in, and if the text was generated from a Robocall system, they have to stop, said Colburn. “There are a number of things you can do technologically that will somewhat control it, but as far as trying to stop it, I hate to be bearer of bad news, there’s no way to stop this,” said Colburn.
Electric / Self Driving cars
Info Rental / ShowBiz / Advertising
ClownStrike
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CrowdStrike blames test software for taking down 8.5M Windows machines
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CrowdStrike says bug in quality control process led to botched update
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CrowdStrike offers a $10 apology gift card to say sorry for outage
The email was sent from a CrowdStrike email address in the name of Daniel Bernard, the company’s chief business officer, according to a screenshot of the email seen by TechCrunch. According to one post on X, in the United Kingdom the voucher was worth £7.75, or roughly $10 at today’s exchange rate. On Wednesday, some of the people who posted about the gift card said that when they went to redeem the offer, they got an error message saying the voucher had been canceled. When TechCrunch checked the voucher, the Uber Eats page provided an error message that said the gift card “has been canceled by the issuing party and is no longer valid.”
This shows that CrowdStrike is irredeemable.
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CrowdStrike Timeline Mystery | Bitsight
Looking at all the telemetry, two observations emerge very quickly. First, there is a drop in traffic that started on July 16th, three days before the update in question was rolled out, and second, on July 19th, CrowdStrike servers globally had another decrease in traffic, likely due to the faulty update that took millions of machines offline. While we can not infer what the root cause of the change in traffic patterns on the 16th can be attributed to, it does warrant the foundational question of “Is there any correlation between the observations on the 16th and the outage on the 19th?”.
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CrowdStrike to implement new checks to avoid another global IT outage
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Costs from global outage could top $1B who pays the bill harder to understand
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CrowdStrike outage losses biggest test for risky cybersecurity insurance market
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CrowdStrike global outage to cost US Fortune 500 companies $5.4B
TechSuck / Geek Bait
AI Will (Save | Destroy) The World
Crypto con games
Economicon / Business / Finance
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US corporate bankruptcy filings surge – here are the business types that led.
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GM shares sink 7% despite second-quarter beat as Wall Street fears ‘good times won’t last.’
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Pork demand is uncharacteristically declining - RFD-TV
USDA’s Outlook Board Chair says it is unusual to see a slowdown in demand, especially during summer grilling season. In turn, that means lower hog prices. USDA has lowered its hog price forecast this year by $2.12, landing at $59.13 per hundredweight. Next year is not looking much better and they say it could come in nearly $0.40 lower for next year’s forecast.
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FTC Issues Orders to Eight Companies Seeking Information on Surveillance Pricing
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anks closed 539 local branches across the country in the first half of the year - leaving more and more Americans without access to basic financial services. If the rate continues for the rest of 2024, it will mean more than 1,000 branches wiped from malls, and town and city centers. Bank of America closed the most branches, a total of 90 in just six months.
Gubmint / Poilitcks / Law Making
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Schumer Advances KOSA: Congress's Latest 'But Think of the Children' Crusade
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Republicans pounce after Netanyahu protesters burn U.S. flags – and wave Hamas ones instead
Republicans seized immediately on images of burning U.S. flags and vandalism at Washington, D.C.'s Union Station following Benjamin Netanyahu’s speech as evidence of widespread antisemitism and a harbinger of what can happen under Democratic control of government.
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Massachusetts 'Reviewing' Kei Car Ban After Uproar over Canceled Registrations
TBA 2024 / Democrats Demonstrate "Our Democracy"
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Biden mega-donors balk at contributing to Kamala, suggest she's too unpopular to beat Trump
Big money donors have quietly advised promising candidates — who they view as the future of the party — including Maryland Governor Wes Moore, Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer, and Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo to hold their powder and let Harris clinch the democratic nomination. One deep-pocketed donor told The Post he does not believe any Democrat can win in 2024 — and that it makes sense for Harris to take the fall on some of Biden’s most unpopular positions like immigration. The source dismissed the idea that Harris would push Democrats to victory, “It’s the same ticket … it’s over for both of them [Biden and Harris].” The person added that he and other donors will lay low the rest of 2024 and instead focus on supporting candidates they believe can win in 2028.
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A Kamala Harris Presidency Could Mean More of the Same on A.I. Regulation - The New York Times
Over the past three years, Vice President Kamala Harris has taken a leading role inside the White House on artificial intelligence as the technology is taking off. As A.I. czar, she brought the chiefs of OpenAI, Microsoft, Google and Anthropic to the White House to agree on voluntary safety standards for the technology. She led a White House executive order mandating how the federal government would use and develop A.I. And she pushed Congress to adopt regulations to protect individuals from A.I. killing jobs and other harms — although little legislation has emerged and the companies have so far faced few roadblocks.
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onfusion around the VP's exact role, early media misfires and the rapidly changing regional migration crisis has made the issue a top target for the GOP trying to define their new opponent. And it has become even more critical for Harris' to find a clear border message, fast. The Trump campaign and Republicans have tagged Harris repeatedly with the "border czar" title — which she never actually had. "Harris was appointed 'border czar' in March of 2021, and since that time, millions and millions of illegal aliens have invaded our country and countless Americans have been killed by migrant crime because of her willful demolition of America borders and laws," Trump told reporters on a call on Tuesday.
President Biden is putting Vice President Harris in charge of addressing the migrant surge at the U.S.-Mexico border, senior administration officials announced on Wednesday.
Vice President Harris said Wednesday she plans to visit Mexico and Guatemala "as soon as possible" in a diplomatic effort to address surging migration at the U.S.-Mexico border, Reuters reports. The number of unaccompanied minors crossing the border has reached crisis levels. Harris, appointed by Biden as border czar, said she would be looking at the "root causes" that drive migration.
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ActBlue has been previously been fined for facilitating nearly $44,000 in illegal contributions. Meanwhile, journalist James O'Keefe approached alleged donors with hundreds of thousands of contributions listed in their name, who knew nothing about them.
Biden Inc
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Biden 'absolutely' sharp enough for second term, White House insists
White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre insisted Wednesday that President Biden remains sharp as a tack and “absolutely” could serve another four-year term — stunning journalists at her first briefing since Biden dropped his re-election campaign over concerns about his mental acuity. “Look, he didn’t step down from campaigning or from running because he didn’t believe he can serve in a second term. That is not why,” Jean-Pierre claimed to the incredulity of the press corps.
The press secretary said the 81-year-old president’s decision to drop out Sunday and endorse Vice President Kamala Harris, 59, was in the “best interest” of the country and the Democratic Party and that viewers should “stay tuned” for a fuller explanation from Biden in an 8 p.m. Oval Office address on Wednesday.
Trump / Right / Jan6
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Trump plans to stop holding outdoor rallies after assassination attempt
Former President Donald Trump plans to stop holding outdoor rallies like the one where he was shot during an assassination attempt this month in Butler, Pennsylvania, according to two sources familiar with his campaign’s operations. The sources said current plans are to hold indoor rallies, but they also said it's possible Trump will participate in smaller outdoor events or larger rallies in facilities where entrances are more fully controlled and there are not issues with high ground nearby, like stadiums.
The U.S. Secret Service is encouraging former President Trump not to hold large outdoor rallies in some instances following the assassination attempt on the Republican presidential nominee, the Washington Post first reported Tuesday and Axios can confirm. It's signature Trump to hold large outdoor rallies, per a source, who emphasized that this didn't mean he wouldn't hold another big-crowd event outside. But the shift to deciding on a case-by-case basis whether to hold an event indoors or outdoors is part of increased security measures following the Pennsylvania rally shooting.
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Trump Readies Mar-a-Lago for Netanyahu Visit While Harris and Many Democrats Boycott the Speech
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JD Vance did not have sex with a couch
CLAIM: Republican vice presidential nominee JD Vance wrote in his 2016 memoir about having sex with a couch.
AP’S ASSESSMENT: False. Vance does not write about performing such an act in his bestselling book. A searchable PDF of the memoir includes 10 mentions of the word “couch” or “couches,” none of which are related to accounts of salacious escapades. Some social media users have claimed the story appears on pages 179 to 181, where Vance actually writes about his first days as a freshman at The Ohio State University
- Where did the "sex positivity" go? Where did "let your freak flag fly" go?
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Genghis Khan vs. George Washington - by Noah Millman
Looming behind the resentful misogyny that Vance was tapping into, I see Genghis Khan’s shadow, and I see it eclipsing Washington’s as a model for what greatness inherently is, with all sorts of implications for relations between men and women and the plausibility of small-r republican government. We can push back moralistically and say that it’s appalling to think that way, but the people who think that way likely already don’t find goodness sufficiently compelling as compared to greatness, and may well see moral hectoring as little more than a mask for someone else’s ambition and lust for power. (That’s almost certainly how they would see any high-minded defense of Vice President Harris by her stans.)
Law Breaking / Police / Internal Security
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US Prosecutors Secure Guilty Plea First Espionage Act Case for Drone Photography
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(July 8 2024) To prosecute parents of a school shooter, Michigan prosecutors led a rare case - Washington Post
McDonald had chosen to do what no prosecutor in the United States had ever done before: charge the parents of a school shooter with homicide. It was a decision celebrated by those desperate for a new approach to address gun violence and criticized by some legal experts who called it prosecutorial overreach. The Crumbleys, whose attorneys declined comment for this story on their behalf, maintained they’d done nothing wrong and shouldn’t be held responsible for their son’s actions. Many people agreed with them. Even inside her own office, some of McDonald’s most experienced attorneys opposed what she was doing, dubious that she could win convictions in prosecutions that would cost taxpayers hundreds of thousands of dollars. She did win, though, at a pair of nationally televised trials that set new legal precedent not just in Michigan, but also across the country. To make history, McDonald endured death threats, a judge-imposed gag order and unrelenting public scrutiny and skepticism. Over the course of more than two years, The Washington Post embedded behind the scenes with the prosecutors, attending their strategy sessions, witnessing their obsessive research on potential jurors and arguments over high-risk witnesses, watching their chaotic scramble before one of the case’s most critical moments and their agonizing wait for a verdict they’d feared had been lost.
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They were mean to me: 7-year-old Saskatoon girl describes lemonade stand robbery
External Security / Militaria / Diplomania
World
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Businesses in Japan consider charging tourists more amid surge in visitors
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Olympic officials try to crush US Chinese doping probe, threaten Salt Lake Games
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Official data: over a million Cubans migrated in two years | Miami Herald
A stunning 10% of Cuba’s population — more than a million people — left the island between 2022 and 2023, the head of the country’s national statistics office said during a National Assembly session Friday, the largest migration wave in Cuban history. Most of those migrants have come to the United States in what experts call the most significant migration wave in Cuban history. According to U.S. border immigration statistics, 645,122 Cubans came to the U.S. seeking asylum at the border with Mexico and through a legal parole program created by the Biden administration from October 2021 to June 2024.