2024-08-11
Worthy
- 8min video, skip to 7min if rushed. this dude is nuts. in the awesome way. Robot Arm Gives Kids The Roller Coaster Ride Of Their Lives | Hackaday
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2 ancient North American structures crumble as tribes forewarn impending doom
A large geological feature in southern Utah known as the “Double Arch”, the “Hole in the Roof” and sometimes the “Toilet Bowl” has collapsed, National Park Service officials said on Friday. No injuries were reported. The popular arch in the Glen Canyon national recreation area fell on Thursday, and park rangers suspect changing water levels and erosion from waves in Lake Powell contributed to its demise.
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Yamato's final mission blamed on mix-up with emperor's intent
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The spinning ATR crash in Brazil
icing by itself likely cannot be the cause of the recent accident in Brazil.
Horseshit
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Birthrates are plummeting world wide. Can governments turn the tide?
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Infamous $30 Logitech F710 called out in $50M lawsuit over Titan sub implosion
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Online sports betting hurts consumers
This past month, two research teams released papers showing how legalized mobile sports gambling negatively impacts bettors' financial health. While most gamblers wager responsibly, a concerning minority do not. Large samples of individual financial data show that legalized sports gambling decreases credit scores, increases debt loads, and substitutes positive investment activities. These effects are particularly prevalent among low-income men. Legislators in states with legalized sports betting — and those considering it — need to take these harms seriously, and reconsider if the mobile sports betting boom is truly worth the tax dollars it provides.
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Not happy with safe rooms, the super-rich are building luxury fortresses
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Texas town unveils largest 3D-printed neighborhood with identical eco-friendly
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"Jeff Bezos and Amazon tried to imprison my husband"
here's the thing: Amazon still won. They destroyed my family. We lost our home, careers & reputations. The DOJ still holds onto hundreds of thousands of dollars seized from my husband & his businesses.
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The Royal Mint, maker of British coins, begins mining gold from motherboards
LimpLicks
Rank Propaganda / Thought Policing / World Disordering
Musk
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Elon Musk's X just sued a nonprofit advertising group out of existence
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Tesla Discontinues $61K Cybertruck, Prioritizes Higher-End Version
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Elon Musk is bringing lawsuits to Texas. A judge with Tesla stock hearing them
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You know who else should be on trial for the UK's far-right riots? Elon Musk
- just for contrast: Social media's role in the Arab Spring - Wikipedia
Electric / Self Driving cars
Info Rental / ShowBiz / Advertising
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Signal developer explains why early encrypted messaging tools flopped
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Defcon badgemaker escorted off stage, kicked out for adding screen giving credit
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Cover art showing Deadpool’s first appearance could sell for record $7.5 million
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Bumble and Hinge allowed stalkers to pinpoint users' locations down to 2 meters
TechSuck / Geek Bait
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as soon as I logged in with my “production build” version, the appSession cookie was set. With this, the “log out” link was displayed. This triggered a prefetch to the Auth0 “log out” route. Which - as it was managed by JS and not the browser - unset our cookie when the response was received. This was however after the UI had rendered, so UI-level auth had already been checked based on the previously existing cookie and therefore the UI itself stayed accessible. Right up until I did the only thing that required an authenticated response from the back end - recording our starring action. At that time, no appSession cookie was available, and the server dutifully rejected our request with a “401 - I don’t know who you are” status code.
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Potential Painful Blow to FDM Printing in the US
- Stratasys suing Bambu over "patents for heated beds, purge towers, force detection, what appears to be general 3D printing (vague info), among other things."
AI Will (Save | Destroy) The World
Space / Boomy Zoomers / UFO
Economicon / Business / Finance
Harris / TBA 2024 / Democrats Demonstrate "Our Democracy"
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Maine Gov's Democrat Brother Admits 'Republicans for Harris' Organized by Harris Campaign
Peter Mills, the former executive director of the Maine Turnpike Authority, emerged this week as one of the top faces of “Republicans for Harris.” The group mirrored in Maine the sudden emergence of a supposed Republican outpouring of support nationally for far-left Vice President Kamala Harris’s presidential campaign. But in secretly recorded audio obtained by the Maine Wire from a citizen journalist, Peter Mills revealed that the entire group is astroturf organized by Amy Cookson, a campaign staffer for Vice President Harris’s campaign. In the recorded audio, Mills, who is the brother of Democratic Gov. Janet Mills and is himself a registered Democrat, explains to a man posing as ‘Tim Dillon’ — an aspiring member of the astroturf group — that it’s being run by Cookson.
Biden Inc
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Police Audio Corroborates Claims Biden Had A Medical Emergency In Vegas - modernity
As we highlighted at the time, police sources claimed that US Secret Service informed local law enforcement that there was an emergency situation involving Biden on July 17, and to close necessary streets so that he could be transported immediately to the hospital. According to the sources, hundreds of officers and employees heard the broadcast live and set in motion emergency response procedures, with radio dispatchers asking for a “surge” of police resources to secure the area and the emergency room on standby. The plan then abruptly changed and Biden was flown back to Delaware at high speed.
Trump / Right / Jan6
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The records show Crooks became a member of Clairton Sportsmen’s Club last August and visited there at least 43 times, the last visit being the day before he tried to kill Trump at the July 13 campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania. Crooks was a member of the Clairton Sportsmen’s Club “through his family,” according to the Associated Press. Of his 43 trips, Crooks might have had company at least four times: Aug. 31, 2023; Sept. 28, 2023; Nov. 10, 2023; and April 24 of this year. On those dates, someone signed into Clairton on the exact same time and used the same ranges—with Crooks and the mystery visitor both using the rifle and pistol range on Nov. 10.
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We received internal Trump documents from "Robert". Campaign confirmed hack (Archive)
The campaign blamed “foreign sources hostile to the United States,” citing a Microsoft report on Friday that Iranian hackers “sent a spear phishing email in June to a high-ranking official on a presidential campaign.” Microsoft did not identify the campaign targeted by the email and declined to comment Saturday. POLITICO has not independently verified the identity of the hacker or their motivation, and a Trump campaign spokesperson, Steven Cheung, declined to say if they had further information substantiating the campaigns’ suggestion that it was targeted by Iran. “These documents were obtained illegally from foreign sources hostile to the United States, intended to interfere with the 2024 election and sow chaos throughout our Democratic process,” Cheung said. “On Friday, a new report from Microsoft found that Iranian hackers broke into the account of a ‘high ranking official’ on the U.S. presidential campaign in June 2024, which coincides with the close timing of President Trump’s selection of a vice presidential nominee.”
On July 22, POLITICO began receiving emails from an anonymous account. Over the course of the past few weeks, the person — who used an AOL email account and identified themselves only as “Robert” — relayed what appeared to be internal communications from a senior Trump campaign official. A research dossier the campaign had apparently done on Trump’s running mate, Ohio Sen. JD Vance, which was dated Feb. 23, was included in the documents. The documents are authentic, according to two people familiar with them and granted anonymity to describe internal communications. One of the people described the dossier as a preliminary version of Vance’s vetting file. The research dossier was a 271-page document based on publicly available information about Vance’s past record and statements, with some — such as his past criticisms of Trump — identified in the document as “POTENTIAL VULNERABILITIES.” The person also sent part of a research document about Florida Sen. Marco Rubio, who was also a finalist for the vice presidential nomination.
The person said they had a “variety of documents from [Trump’s] legal and court documents to internal campaign discussions.” Asked how they obtained the documents, the person responded: “I suggest you don’t be curious about where I got them from. Any answer to this question, will compromise me and also legally restricts you from publishing them.”
Law Breaking / Police / Internal Security
External Security / Militaria / Diplomania
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New 9/11 Evidence Revives Questions About Hijackers’ Saudi Ties - The New York Times
Former U.S. intelligence officials say the new evidence could change the story of the 2001 attacks, which killed nearly 3,000 people, and of the possible involvement in the plot of Omar al-Bayoumi, the Saudi national. The officials also question why some of the evidence was not shared with the 9/11 Commission, a bipartisan group of lawmakers and experts who were tasked with writing the definitive account of the attacks. Michael J. Morell, a former deputy director of the C.I.A., said that Congress or the Justice Department should investigate the apparent lapse in processing the evidence. “What happened to this stuff after it was turned over to the F.B.I.?” he asked in an interview. The F.B.I. declined to comment.
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US Arms-Makers Warily Consider Production In Ukraine At Pentagon's Urging | ZeroHedge
World
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A week of unrest – and a week of silence from big tech
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Two men jailed for social media posts that stirred up far-right violence
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The real story of the website accused of fuelling Southport riots
Channel3Now - a website whose story giving a false name for the 17-year-old charged over the Southport attack was widely quoted in viral posts on X. Channel3Now also wrongly suggested the attacker was an asylum seeker who arrived in the UK by boat last year. This, combined with untrue claims the attacker was a Muslim from other sources, has been widely blamed for contributing to riots across the UK - some of which have targeted mosques and Muslim communities. The BBC has tracked down several people linked to Channel3Now, spoken to their friends and colleagues, who have corroborated that they are real people, and questioned a person who claims to be the “management” at the site. What I found appears to be a commercial operation attempting to aggregate crime news while making money on social media. I did not find any evidence to substantiate claims that Channel3Now’s misinformation could be linked to the Russian state. The person claiming to be from Channel3Now’s management told me that the publication of the false name “shouldn’t have happened, but it was an error, not intentional”.
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Video doorbells, CCTV, facial recognition: how the police tracked UK rioters