2024-09-03
Horseshit
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Boomers are selling businesses to millennials in a generational handover
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Four Days a Week: This Labor Day, Let's Talk About Laboring Less
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Journalists leaving US's big cities gain deeper community perspectives, insight
By 2019, however, a Pew Research study found that more than 20 percent of newsroom employees were huddled in just three American cities: New York, Los Angeles, and Washington, DC. Among digital news workers, 41 percent lived and worked in the Northeast. These digital reporters were least likely to call the Midwest or the South home.
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Beloved Russian celebrity ‘spy’ whale is found dead off Norway
The white beluga whale had appeared regularly along the coast of Norway since it was first spotted in the country’s north in April 2019, wearing a harness and what appeared to be a mount for a small camera. Together with a buckle that read “Equipment St. Petersburg,” that prompted speculation that it was an escaped “spy whale” that had been trained for military purposes in neighboring Russia. The whale seemed to love being around people and quickly captivated local residents, who came up with the name Hvaldimir — a combination of the Norwegian word for whale, “hval,” and the first name of Russian President Vladimir Putin. The 14-foot, 2,700-pound whale was found dead Saturday in the harbor of Stavanger, a city in southwestern Norway, after having resided in the area since last year, the Norwegian Directorate of Fisheries said in a statement Monday.
Rank Propaganda / Thought Policing / World Disordering
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Apple Helped Nix Part of a Child Safety Bill. More Fights Are Expected
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Why Did Zuckerberg Choose Now to Confess? ⋆ Brownstone Institute
Zuckerberg of all people knows the stakes. He understands the implications and the scale of the problem, as well as the depths of the corruption and deception at play in the US, EU, UK, and all over the world. He may figure that everything is going to come out at some point, so he might as well get ahead of the curve. Of all the companies in the world that would have a real handle on the state of public opinion right now, it would be Facebook. They see the scale of the support for Trump. And Trump has said on multiple occasions, including in a new book coming out in early September, that he believes Zuckerberg should be prosecuted for his role in manipulating election outcomes. What if, for example, his own internal data is showing 10 to 1 support for Trump over Kamala, completely contradicting the polls which are not credible anyway? That alone could account for his change of heart.
Telegram
Musk
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Elon Musk is an unguided geopolitical missile
The ownership of X has handed Musk a massive megaphone to broadcast his views. But focusing on his social media platform obscures the real extent and source of his geopolitical power. It is the control of SpaceX, Starlink and Tesla that have given Musk a central role in the war in Ukraine and in the growing rivalry between the US and China; as well as a walk-on part in the war in Gaza. In these conflicts, Musk’s role is more ambiguous than in the west’s culture wars. His unpredictable interventions — combined with immense technological and financial power — make him an unguided geopolitical missile, whose whims can reshape world affairs.
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Brazil Court votes unanimously to uphold X ban. Users switch to Threads, Bluesky
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Elon Musk Promotes Tweet Calling for 'Republic' Run by 'High Status Males'
Electric / Self Driving cars
Edumacationalizing / Acedemia Nuts
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US Schools In Mad Dash To Spend COVID Cash As Deadline Looms | ZeroHedge
The $122 billion program aimed at boosting learning recovery in the wake of the pandemic expires Sept. 30, leaving just 30 days. According to Georgetown University's Edunomics lab, which tracks how the American Rescue Plan Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief (ESSER) funds have been spent, nine districts have yet to submit more than $30 million of previously granted funds for reimbursement. According to the Lab, most of the grant funds were spent on labor, including additional teachers, classroom aides, counselors, tutors, reading coaches, subject area specialists and administrators.
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Congress Should Make Universities Pay for Handing Out Useless Degrees
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Fears children born during lockdown are years behind as they start at school
Info Rental / ShowBiz / Advertising
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Kevin Boone: They don’t make ’em like that any more: the 3.5mm headphone jack socket
What makes the loss of the headphone jack so hard to bear is that it wasn’t done for the consumer’s benefit. To be sure, manufacturers made certain claims about the alleged benefits of losing the jack, but few of them stand up to much logical scrutiny. The first manufacturer to make a point of dropping the headphone jack (I believe) was not Apple – as is commonly believed – but Oppo, and back in 2014. Their reason for doing so was at least a credible technical one: they said it made their phones about half a millimetre thinner. Maybe that was a selling point, maybe it wasn’t. But Apple couldn’t fall back even on this claim, because people found ways to fit a 3.5mm jack socket into the iPhones that lacked one, and even posted videos on Youtube showing how they did it. It wasn’t easy, but it was clearly possible. If Apple genuinely thought that omitting the jack would leave more room for other features, they didn’t actually provide any.
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Oasis Ticketmaster fiasco prompts UK probe into 'dynamic pricing'
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DirecTV Users Lose Access to Disney Networks Including ESPN and ABC
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CrowdStrike faces onslaught of legal action from faulty software update
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Microsoft says its Recall uninstall option in Windows 11 is just a bug
TechSuck / Geek Bait
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HN Jobs:
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RISC-V 'The Linux of processors' – New breed of Chinese super CPUs emerge on US soil
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Compressing floating-point numbers quickly by converting them to brain floats
If you have a recent AMD processor (Zen 4 or better) or a recent Intel server processor (Sapphire Rapids), you have fast instructions to convert 32-bit floating-point numbers to and from 16-bit brain float numbers.
- and if you dont has such a CPU, U R b0n3d. when accuracy is less important ya might wanna benchmark using ints and shifts for approximated quantities in sub-byte segments. let the bit field rise again.
AI Will (Save | Destroy) The World
Space / Boomy Zoomers / UFO
Crypto con games
Economicon / Business / Finance
Gubmint / Poilitcks / Law Making
Harris / Democrats
Trump / Right / Jan6
External Security / Militaria / Diplomania
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NIH cancels 'Havana syndrome' research, unethical coercion of participants
The NIH said it would end the work “out of an abundance of caution” after an internal investigation found that people had been coerced into to being part of the research. The coercion, the agency specified, was not on its own part, but the NIH did not elaborate as to who may have forced the participation. However, it noted that voluntary consent is a fundamental pillar of the ethical conduct of research. Some of the people who reported being sick previously claimed that the CIA made them join the research as a prerequisite for getting health care.
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US seizes Venezuelan President Maduro's plane
The US has seized a plane belonging to Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro - claiming it was bought illegally for $13m (£9.8m) and smuggled out of the country. According to the US justice department, the Falcon 900EX aircraft was seized in the Dominican Republic and transferred to the US state of Florida. It is unclear how and when the plane ended up in the Dominican Republic. Tracking data showed it leaving La Isabela airport near the capital Santo Domingo on Monday, arriving at Fort Lauderdale airport in Florida soon after. There was no immediate comment from Mr Maduro or the Venezuelan government over the matter.
World
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ICC warns against further proliferation of unilateral trade measures
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In Final Act, Mexico's Departing Leader Aims to Shake Up Judiciary
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Volkswagen warns of plant closures in Germany, citing tense situation
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Uber-backed e-scooter startup Lime enters Japan after Korea exit
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AfD loses seat in Saxony - this has major consequences | blue News
The electoral officer has corrected the provisional results of the Saxon state election. Due to a software error, an incorrect distribution of seats had been published, the state electoral administration announced. As a result of the recalculation, the AfD has lost the blocking minority in the state that it would have had in the coming legislature according to the first published election results.
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The far right scored its biggest election victory in Germany since World War II
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Venezuela attorney general requests arrest warrant for opposition leader Gonzalez