2024-08-02
Horseshit
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Proposed rule would ban airlines from charging parents to sit with children
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Signs of Life Found on Venus Are Tearing Apart the Scientific Community
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Researchers introduce knitted furniture
Though the machine is now limited in what it can produce, it is possible to use the technique to hand-knit larger, more intricate shapes, such as a pair of sandals.
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Getting drugs into the brain is hard. Maybe a parasite can do the job
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Colorado HOA calls cops on kids’ lemonade stand to get ‘illegal’ operation shut down
A homeowners association (HOA) in Colorado called the local sheriff’s office earlier this month on a group of children who set up a lemonade stand. Authorities say that HOA members first summoned police due to reports of “children running an illegal lemonade stand on county right of way.” When the sheriff’s deputies arrived, they “found that the children were not blocking the roadway but did ask them to move back from the road a few feet for their safety.”
Thinking the matter was resolved, the officers then moved on to other calls about parking issues in the area, only to head back to the scene of the stand when the “original reporting parties came out and began yelling at the children claiming they were on private property.” As the refreshment row reached fever pitch, the officers discovered that the children running the stand themselves lived within the HOA and that the lemonade pushers “had a right to be there” on the association’s communally held property, leaving the wayward youths to continue their street war against scurvy.
LimpLicks
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Track Keeps Banning Drug Cheats. It Worries That Other Sports Are Not
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Will Olympic athletes ever stop breaking records?
Biophysical constraints on muscles — as well as other factors, such as reaction time — could set a limit on human achievement, experts told Live Science. However, innovative techniques and improved sportswear could help athletes continue to unlock new levels of performance.
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The fight between Italy's Angela Carini and her Algerian opponent Imane Khelif took just 46 seconds, with the Italian throwing her helmet onto the floor as the clash was abandoned, yelling: 'This is unjust.' The 25-year-old refused the handshake and fell to the canvas sobbing having received just two punches from Khelif - who had been banned from a major boxing contest before the Olympics. Khelif was thrown out of last year's world championships after failing testosterone tests carried out to establish gender qualification.
After the fight, the Algerian Boxing Federation gloated about Khelif's victory, posting on Facebook: 'Congratulations to the Algerian boxer Iman Khalif, who responds strongly in the ring and qualifies for the quarterfinals, after defeating the Italian Angelina Carini in less than 46 seconds, effortlessly.' Speaking as she left the ring, the Algerian boxer added: 'God willing, this was the first victory. God is willing me to the golden one.' Bosses at the IOC are now facing a furious backlash following the fight, with former Prime Minister Liz Truss blasting the clash. Writing on Twitter, the former Tory MP said: 'When will this madness stop? Men cannot become women. Why is the British Government not objecting to this?'
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2024 Olympics: The Nazi roots of sex testing and discrimination against trans athletes - Vox
Outside of the Games, trans people face so much backlash, often for simply existing. The conversation around sports is particularly fraught, from children’s athletics right up through the pros. Despite the International Olympic Committee vowing to be more inclusive, the future for trans athletes is unclear.
Musk
Electric / Self Driving cars
Religion / Tribal / Culture War and Re-Segregation
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A Test for Life Versus Non-Life - The New York Times
In a new book, “Life as No One Knows It: The Physics of Life’s Emergence,” out on Aug. 6, Sara Walker, a physicist at Arizona State University, offers a theory that she and her colleagues believe can make sense of life. Assembly theory, as they call it, looks at everything in the universe in terms of how it was assembled from smaller parts. Life, the scientists argue, emerges when the universe hits on a way to make exceptionally intricate things. The book arrives at an opportune time, as assembly theory has attracted both praise and criticism in recent months. Dr. Walker argues that the theory holds the potential to help identify life on other worlds. And it may allow scientists like her to create life from scratch. “I actually think alien life will be discovered in the lab first,” Dr. Walker said in an interview.
Info Rental / ShowBiz / Advertising
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LightBurn Turns Back The Clock, Bails On Linux Users | Hackaday
To really add insult to injury, LightBurn is paid software, with users having to purchase a yearly license after the time-limited demo period. Accordingly, any Linux users who recently purchased a year’s license for the software can ask for a refund. Oh, and if you’re holding out hope that the community can swoop in and take over maintaining the Linux builds, don’t — LightBurn is closed source.
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(Jan 2024) None of these people exist, but you can buy their books on Amazon anyway
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PSA: Internet Archive “glitch” deletes years of user data & accounts ⌘I Get Info
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Guinea pig home in cash crunch after Facebook funding row
The couple pay for the care of their huge number of guinea pigs through advertising and premium live-streams that people pay a subscription fee to watch. They had 2,000 subscriptions at the time their page was demonetised, but this number has since fallen to 1,900 - and they cannot receive the fees while their page is restricted. But they are no closer to fixing the problem, after Ms Mason's efforts to contact Facebook were unsuccessful. "Apparently I've broken a rule, but it hasn't told me what the rule is," she said. "I've spoken to to the tech people at Facebook a couple of times and sent endless emails to try and to get this sorted out - but not even their tech team can work out why this has happened."
TechSuck / Geek Bait
AI Will (Save | Destroy) The World
Space / Boomy Zoomers / UFO
Economicon / Business / Finance
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MA businesses with at least 24 employees must disclose salary range for new jobs
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23-Floor Manhattan Office Building Just Sold at a 97.5% Discount
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Bill Ackman Abruptly Withdraws IPO of Pershing Square US Fund
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Meta's Upbeat Earnings Buy Time for AI Investment to Pay Off
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Apple sales rise 5%, topping estimates as iPad and services revenues jump
Gubmint / Poilitcks / Law Making
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San Francisco becomes first US city to ban automated rent-fixing technology
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September Rate Cut Would Thrust Fed Into Brutal Election Campaign.
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Teens Lobbying Against the Kids Online Safety Act
Broken clocks may be accidentally correct twice a day, and sometimes those broken clocks save the internet. The House GOP has killed KOSA over unclear “concerns” about the version of KOSA that was approved earlier this week. There were rumors this might happen, but in a note at the bottom of a Punchbowl News Congressional roundup, there’s a short report that, effectively, KOSA is dead in the House:
Breaking news: The House Republican leadership won’t bring up the children’s online safety bill that the Senate passed with 91 votes on Tuesday. A House GOP leadership aide told us this about KOSA: “We’ve heard concerns across our Conference and the Senate bill cannot be brought up in its current form.”
with the GOP killing it, it sounds like Senator Rand Paul’s really excellent letter laying out the reasons he couldn’t support the bill may have had an impact. That letter was quite clear and direct about the very real problems with the bill, and presented them in a non-partisan, non-culture war fashion.
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Ernst Exposes Tax Evasion at IRS, Demands an Audit of the Auditors
TBA 2024 / Democrats Demonstrate "Our Democracy"
Biden Inc
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No, he's not done governing at all.
He's still very much the President, and we're trying to figure out what the next six months are going to look like, but we are committed. The President is steadfast on continuing to build on the unprecedented record that he has had with the Vice President over the last three and a half years. That doesn't change, but just give us a beat and we certainly will be, will be out there. And the President does want to — to continue to speak directly to the American people.
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The president appeared with family members of freed Americans as he announced the intricate swap that released 24 prisoners and involved seven countries. Biden, who hasn't been seen publicly since early Tuesday, hailed the 'feat of diplomacy' and friendship involving multiple nations. In one awkward moment, he led the room in a round of 'Happy Birthday' for Miriam Butorin, the 13-year old daughter of Alsu Kurmasheva, a freed Russian-American journalist with Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty.
Biden interrupted his remarks to bring Butorin in close, then encouraged people to join in singing, which attendees did, calling it a Biden family tradition. 'Remember, no serious guys until you're 30,' he told her, earning some chuckles in the room.
He invoked his own late son Beau as he tried to describe what they grappled with. 'Family is the beginning, the middle, and the end,' he said. He invoked his own late son Beau as he tried to describe what they grappled with. 'Family is the beginning, the middle, and the end,' he said.
Trump / Right / Jan6
Law Breaking / Police / Internal Security
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Forgetting a Child in a Car's Backseat Is a Horrifying Mistake. Is It a Crime?
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Teen accused of causing train derailment for 'most insane' YouTube video
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Last week: Jordanian migrants who 'tried to breach' Quantico base freed on bail
They were arrested on May 3 for trespassing onto the military installation and handed over to ICE officers because of their immigration statuses. The men both posted bond in their ICE cases — with Hamdan’s set at $15,000 and Dabous’ set at $10,000 — and were released in early June, according to federal law enforcement sources.
Hamdan and Dabous were charged with misdemeanor trespassing on military property and appeared before a judge for the first time on July 22, when they were ordered released on the conditions that they show up to court for their immigration proceedings and stay away from Quantico or other military bases, according to the court documents, which were first reported by Todd Bensman of the Center for Immigration Studies.
They were issued citations for trespassing and told to appear in federal court in Alexandria on July 22, court papers show. Magistrate Judge William B. Porter signed off on their release on the condition they continue to appear for future court dates in their criminal and immigration cases. Criminal defense attorneys for Hamdan and Dabous didn’t immediately return requests for comment Wednesday. The two accused have September court hearings scheduled.
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He Was an FBI Informant—and Inspired a Generation of Violent Extremists | WIRED
Joshua Caleb Sutter firmly fits into this framework. A longtime occultist and neo-Nazi, Sutter became an FBI informant roughly 20 years ago after being sent to prison for trying to buy a silencer and a defaced Glock .40 pistol from an undercover fed in Philadelphia. At the time of his arrest, Sutter was living on an Aryan Nations compound in Pennsylvania. Since then, he’s earned at least $140,000 infiltrating a range of far-right organizations, most notoriously the Atomwaffen Division (AWD) starting in 2017. Details of Sutter’s involvement—which the government has yet to officially confirm—emerged in 2021 during the federal trial of AWD leader Kaleb Cole, information first revealed that August.
This spring, WIRED found evidence of Sutter’s extensive influence on and promotion of an international child abuse network that goes alternatively by “com” or “764.” Sutter’s continued involvement in the most extreme corners of the far right, which engage in homicidal violence and systematically abuse minors, raise questions about how the FBI selects their informants, how they hold them to account, and what degree of blowback the bureau is willing to tolerate in order to make cases against violent extremists.
External Security / Militaria / Diplomania
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US Reporter Released by Russia in Multi-Country Prisoner Swap
World
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Suspicious data pattern in recent Venezuelan election
A political party trying to overturn the will of the voters by using physical force and denying the election outcome—that bothers me when it happened in the United States on 6 Jan 2021 (see here for some review of evidence) and it bothers me when it’s happening in a much more extreme way in Venezuela right now. I agree that the statistical error is kind of funny,
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Nigeria's economic crisis is fueling a stunt philanthropy boom
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Malaysia is working on an internet 'kill switch', says minister
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Germany names China as source of attack on government geospatial agency
Israel
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How Hamas Leader Ismail Haniyeh Was Killed in Iran - The New York Times
Ismail Haniyeh, a top leader of Hamas, was assassinated on Wednesday by an explosive device covertly smuggled into the Tehran guesthouse where he was staying, according to seven Middle Eastern officials, including two Iranians, and an American official. The bomb had been hidden approximately two months ago in the guesthouse, according to five of the Middle Eastern officials. The guesthouse is run and protected by the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps and is part of a large compound, known as Neshat, in an upscale neighborhood of northern Tehran. Mr. Haniyeh was in Iran’s capital for the presidential inauguration. The bomb was detonated remotely, the five officials said, once it was confirmed that he was inside his room at the guesthouse. The blast also killed a bodyguard. Mr. Haniyeh, who had led Hamas’s political office in Qatar, had stayed at the guesthouse several times when visiting Tehran, according to the Middle Eastern officials. All of the officials spoke on the condition of anonymity to share sensitive details about the assassination.
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The Crowdfunding Campaign for Deadly Israeli Military Drones