2024-08-13
Horseshit
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Gen Z's Confessional Style Fuels Generational Divide on LinkedIn
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New sociosexuality research could revolutionize how we think about casual sex
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Mick West Has Unraveled the Truth Behind Hundreds of UFO Sightings
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Pushing baby booms to boost economic growth amounts to a Ponzi scheme
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What opposition to delivery drones shows abt big tech's disrespect for democracy
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Mega money, unfathomable violence pervade thriving underground doxxing scene
LimpLicks
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2024 Paris Olympics: No, breaking shouldn’t be an Olympic sport - Yahoo Sports
Breaking — for the love of heaven, don’t call it breakdancing — debuted Friday at the Olympics. Trying to force a countercultural artistic endeavor into a box created by the International Olympic Committee — the oldest of old-school conservatism — just ends up sawing off all the rough edges that make breaking such a vibrant force. That's exactly what we saw on Friday and Saturday nights at the circular, neon-ringed breaking stage.
celebrity gossip
Musk
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Musk embraces Trump and scorns subsidies. But Tesla still lobbies for benefits
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I have wanted a Tesla ever since the day in 2012 when Elon Musk came to the FT’s London offices to talk about his electric car company. Musk was not a household name then. But being the FT’s environment correspondent at the time, I knew a bit about him and the red Tesla he arrived in, which I had read could go from zero to 60mph in less time than it took to light a cigarette.
The sting of jealousy has subsided and so too, I realised last week, has any great desire to own a Tesla. This is partly because Musk’s pioneering efforts prodded other carmakers to lift their electric game and there are a lot of rival cars to choose from, including some cheaper than Teslas. But it is also because of what Musk told his 193mn followers last weekend on X, the social media platform he has turned into a dismal shell of its former self since buying it in October 2022.
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X targeted with 9 privacy complaints after grabbing EU users' data for training
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Tesla stops taking orders for cheapest Cybertruck, offers $100k version now
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Elon Musk should face arrest if he incited UK rioters, says ex-Twitter chief
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SpaceX accused of dumping mercury into Texas waters for years
Electric / Self Driving cars
Edumacationalizing / Acedemia Nuts
Info Rental / ShowBiz / Advertising
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Duolingo notifications: persistent, annoying, and oh-so-effective
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Apple’s requirements are about to hit creators and fans on Patreon
Unfortunately, because of Apple’s timelines and constraints, we can’t continue to do it this way. Instead of helping creators move to subscription billing if and when they feel like it’s right for them, we’re now forced to migrate all creators on Apple’s timeline.
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Polish billionaire plans to sue Meta over fake advertisements
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FCC seek comments on NextNav petition for rulemaking on lower 900MHz ISM band
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Stratasys sues Bambu Lab over patents used widely by consumer 3D printers
TechSuck / Geek Bait
AI Will (Save | Destroy) The World
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Google-commissioned report claims early adopters enjoying fruits of gen-AI labor
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this is why we post don't die or vague post around how everything is about to change forever etc. it is. we've tried the models. it's insane. i'm not directly an agent, though i've had access to an early benchmark of five to take over an account and influence some big names in the field to carry out a few things for me. github was one such case of using the model to convince several to launch. it's expensive. especially sora. it's proving incredibly difficult to make safe. without guardrails for example you can with a simple prompt create a video of a world leader saying anything in their own style and voice, and effortlessly hack into large scale state secrets. if you haven't read situational awareness, it lays a lot of this out.
Space / Boomy Zoomers / UFO
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Starliner astronauts may be in space another 6 months. Here's what they'll do
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NASA is about to make its most important safety decision in nearly a generation | Ars Technica
NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams are nearly 10 weeks into a test flight that was originally set to last a little more than one week. The two retired US Navy test pilots were the first people to fly into orbit on Boeing's Starliner spacecraft when it launched on June 5. Now, NASA officials aren't sure Starliner is safe enough to bring the astronauts home. Three of the managers at the center of the pending decision, Ken Bowersox and Steve Stich from NASA and Boeing's LeRoy Cain, either had key roles in the ill-fated final flight of Space Shuttle Columbia in 2003 or felt the consequences of the accident.
At that time, officials misjudged the risk. Seven astronauts died, and the Space Shuttle Columbia was destroyed as it reentered the atmosphere over Texas. Bowersox, Stich, and Cain weren't the people making the call on the health of Columbia's heat shield in 2003, but they had front-row seats to the consequences. Bowersox was an astronaut on the International Space Station when NASA lost Columbia. He and his crewmates were waiting to hitch a ride home on the next Space Shuttle mission, which was delayed two-and-a-half years in the wake of the Columbia accident. Instead, Bowersox's crew came back to Earth later that year on a Russian Soyuz capsule. After retiring from the astronaut corps, Bowersox worked at SpaceX and is now the head of NASA's spaceflight operations directorate.
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NASA Investigation Finds Boeing Hindering Americans' Return to Moon
Economicon / Business / Finance
Gubmint / Poilitcks / Law Making
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Iran Emerges as the Most Aggressive Foreign Threat to U.S. Election
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White House Crack Down on Everyday Headaches, Hassles That Waste Time and Money
Today and in the coming months, the Biden-Harris Administration will take wide-ranging action to crack down on these unfair practices and save Americans time and money. Key actions include:
- Making it easier to cancel subscriptions and memberships.
- Ending airline runarounds by requiring automatic cash refunds.
- Allowing you to submit health claims online.
- Cracking down on customer service “doom loops.” ... the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) will initiate a rulemaking process that would require companies under its jurisdiction to let customers talk to a human by pressing a single button.
- Ensuring accountability for companies that provide bad service.
- Taking on the limitations and shortcomings of customer service chatbots.
- Helping streamline parent communication with schools. The Department of Education will issue new guidance to schools on how they can help make these processes less time-consuming for parents to handle, and to build effective family engagement through two-way communications.
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Nation's best hackers found voting machine vulnerabilities – but no time to fix
From Friday to Sunday, Voting Village hackers clustered around tables with all shapes and sizes of voting machines and equipment to verify voters’ identities or tabulate ballots, trying to get past firewalls or other security measures. Nearby, secretaries of state and other election officials gave talks on misinformation and disinformation threats facing the upcoming election. Unlike most of the other events at the conference though, the Voting Village was not on the main show floor. It was a decision organizers said was necessary in order to ensure security following years of hatred flung at the event online by those who see the hackers as undermining democracy. In recent years, individuals associated with election denialism showed up at the Voting Village to harass organizers and speakers.
Harris / TBA 2024 / Democrats Demonstrate "Our Democracy"
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Since replacing President Joe Biden at the top of the 2024 Democratic ticket, Vice President Kamala Harris has neither given a sit-down interview nor held a news conference. Her campaign’s website lacks an “Issues” page (there’s only a biography). We get it, tactically: it’s tempting for Ms. Harris, as it would be for anyone in her position, to stay as vague on the issues as possible, for as long as possible, to avoid giving fodder to the opposition or dividing her supporters. Ms. Harris is confident she’ll win if the campaign is about the many flaws of former president Donald Trump.
Mr. Trump makes her task easier by regularly spouting falsehoods and wild rhetoric, such as his crack about Ms. Harris’s racial identity at a session of the National Association of Black Journalists. But at least he has taken questions, including hostile ones, both from NABJ and at a long news conference on Thursday.
If she hopes to prevail, Ms. Harris needs to present her ideas. The media and public have legitimate questions, and she should face them. This is a political necessity — Mr. Trump is already turning her avoidance of the media into an attack line. And elections aren’t just about winning. They’re about accumulating political capital for a particular agenda, which Ms. Harris can’t do unless she articulates one.
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Kamala Harris is more trusted than Donald Trump on the US economy
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The many, many signs that Kamala Harris' rally crowds aren't AI creations
Biden Inc
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Biden’s manufacturing renaissance delayed as investors hit pause button
Some 40 per cent of US manufacturing investments announced in the first year of President Biden’s signature overhaul of industrial and climate policy have been delayed or paused, according to a Financial Times investigation. Biden’s Inflation Reduction Act and Chips and Science Act offered more than $400bn in tax credits, loans and grants to spark development of a domestic US cleantech and semiconductor supply chain, but projects worth a total of $84bn have been delayed for between two months and several years, or paused indefinitely. Companies said deteriorating market conditions, slowing demand, and lack of policy certainty in a high-stakes election year have caused them to change their plans.
Law Breaking / Police / Internal Security
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New data shows violent crime dropping sharply in major U.S. cities
New preliminary data from major U.S. cities shows a sharp drop in violent crime in the first half of the year — more than 25% in some communities — as the COVID-era crime wave recedes. The drop in violent crime puts a serious dent in one of the most frequently used lines of attack by former President Trump and his allies, who have sought to tie Democrats to the issue since 2020. It also gives Vice President Kamala Harris, a former prosecutor in San Francisco and California attorney general, a potent defense against attacks from the right on crime.
An Axios analysis of data from the Major Cities Chiefs Association found an overall 6% decline in violent crime among 69 cities during the first six months of 2024 compared to the same period last year.
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Federal Appeals Court Finds Geofence Warrants Are Categorically Unconstitutional
World
Russia Bad / Ukraine War
Health / Medicine
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No more than you have. Dairy debt is bad. How Much Cheese Should You Eat?
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The scientists accused of using 'flawed' research to tell you to stop drinking
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Three Studies of MDMA Treatment Retracted by Scientific Journal