2024-09-17
Cool
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a combination of the three solar phenomena have come together in a collaboration that could produce auroras as far south as Iowa and Pennsylvania, and the north of England and Wales, in the Northern hemisphere.
Horseshit
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Are “anchor babies” underrated?
Birth rates in Canada and the USA declined sharply in March 2020 and deviated from historical trends. This decline was absent in similarly developed European countries. We argue that the selective decline was driven by incoming individuals, who would have travelled from abroad and given birth in Canada and the USA, had there been no travel restrictions during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Ask HN: Former gifted children with hard lives, how did you turn out? | Hacker News
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They've bought the good "viral marketing" campaign. Shopper's videos of himself trying to beat speedy Aldi cashiers go viral
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Hunched over my smartphone while my family slept, I had to break my addiction
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Why We’re All Too Busy for Friends - The Atlantic
Americans are afflicted by an “epidemic of loneliness,” according to the surgeon general and dozens of researchers. The phrase conjures a nation of friendless hermits who have no one to invite to their birthday parties. But according to a pair of new surveys, American loneliness is more complex than that. The typical American, it seems, texts a bunch of people “we should get together!” before watching TikTok alone on the couch and then passing out. That is, Americans have friends. We just never really see them.
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Titan submersible hearing begins as questions linger over what went wrong
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Unlocking the full potential of digital transformation through technology
The Global Lighthouse Network was co-founded by the World Economic Forum and McKinsey in 2018 to recognize organizations that lead in digital transformation – converting digital capabilities into tangible, sustainable impact across their operations, workforce and environmental footprint. These companies have delivered digital transformation and generated real value at their production sites, along their end-to-end value chains and through their business models. The Global Lighthouse Network is packed with examples of the difference such a people-centred approach can make for workforces and customers. Johnson & Johnson gives one example on the impact of technology on customers looking for a more personalized experience. By scaling digital technologies across its end-to-end value chain to better connect its consumers, it increased its conversion rate by more than 40%. The company also harnessed intelligent automation to reduce costs by more than 30%.
Rank Propaganda / Thought Policing / World Disordering
Musk
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Elon Musk's X Deemed Too Small for EU Crackdown on Big Tech's Power (Archive)
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Elon Musk's Dangerous Tweet About Assassinating Joe Biden and Kamala Harris
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Satellite internet provider Starlink must apply for the necessary licences to operate in South Africa, the Independent Communications Authority of SA has confirmed. One of the requirements for licence approval is that the company must be 30% owned by historically disadvantaged groups.
Edumacationalizing / Acedemia Nuts
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How a Scientific Dispute Spiralled Into a Defamation Lawsuit | The New Yorker
Three of the four papers were, in relatively short order, retracted. (The fourth had already been retracted following the discovery of a separate apparent fraud.) On LinkedIn, Gino posted that she was “limited into what I can say publicly,” but that “there will be more to come on all of this.” A few weeks later, Gino filed a twenty-five-million-dollar lawsuit—for defamation, among other things—against Data Colada and Harvard. Gino’s initial complaint suggests that there were perfectly innocent explanations for all the alleged anomalies in the data sets and, furthermore, that if there were in fact no innocent explanations she was not the one holding the bag. (Gino has never wavered in her denial of any wrongdoing. In April, one of her lawyers noted that the idea that “she engaged in fraud is verifiably false.” ) As her attorney told the investigators, “In all four of the studies in question, Professor Gino had relied on the help of research assistants on any given project.”
Info Rental / ShowBiz / Advertising
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Paraguay Loves Mickey, the Cartoon Mouse. Disney Doesn't (Archive)
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US Used 100T MBs of Wireless Data Last Year (and Paid Too Much for It)
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Hollywood's secret weapon is an animation studio called Titmouse
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Charter's new Spectrum pricing, speeds, aims to 'be a better service operator'
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Linux Foundation Announces Intent to Form Developer Relations Foundation
TechSuck / Geek Bait
AI Will (Save | Destroy) The World
Space / Boomy Zoomers / UFO
Economicon / Business / Finance
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Klarna shuts down Salesforce as service provider amid AI initiatives
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Slower inflation is boosting Americans' attitudes toward the economy
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KKR, Axel Springer said to near €13.5B break up
Private equity firm KKR and German billionaire Mathias Döpfner are close to a deal that would separate Axel Springer's classified's business from its media properties, the Financial Times reports. Why it matters: The deal could free up Döpfner to pursue more media acquisitions as he looks to grow Axel Springer's global footprint.: KKR would own the company's classified's business, a business valued at more than €10 billion, and includes jobs platform StepStone and real estate advertising unit Aviv. Döpfner would control Axel Springer's media properties — Politico, Business Insider and German outlets Bild and Die Welt.
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Intel scraps coffee stations and phone benefits as financial pressures mount | Ctech
Intel continues to surprise its employees with cost-cutting measures. After canceling the contracts for most of its leased vehicles, Calcalist has learned that the company is implementing two additional benefit reductions. The first is the closure of the luxurious coffee stations, replacing them with simpler alternatives. The second involves ending corporate funding for mobile phone plans for employees who are not officially entitled to this benefit.
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Intel aims to turn foundry business into subsidiary to allow for outside funding
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Boeing crafts plan to furlough 'many' employees as workers strike for higher pay
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New York Times' tech staff threatens strike during Election Day crunch
Gubmint / Poilitcks / Law Making
Harris / Democrats
Trump / Right / Jan6
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VILE: NBC, ABC Tie 2nd Trump Assassination Attempt to ‘Dogs and Cats’
the Regime Media have wasted no time in blaming former President Donald Trump’s “rhetoric” for the second assassination attempt against him. The evening newscasts have now picked up MSNBC’s lead, tying the attempted shooting to the “dogs and cats rhetoric coming out of Springfield, Ohio.
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Alleged would-be Trump assassin Ryan Routh donated exclusively to Democrats since 2019
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Eddy Grant Wins: Trump's 'Fair Use' of 'Electric Avenue' Was Anything But
- ASCAP / compulsory licensing?
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Media Assures Americans The Real Threat Is The Side That Keeps Getting Shot At | Babylon Bee
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the leak of Trump's whereabouts is coming from Homeland Security, not USSS
Homeland Security is leaking location details to FBI, and FBI is running the assassins. The entire top leadership of the FBI is desperately trying to figure out how to eliminate Trump, while the loyal elements of US Secret Service are trying to stop it.
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Ryan Wesley Routh has a criminal record that spans the Himalayas. We’re waiting to see if he was on the radar for any federal law enforcement agencies vis-à-vis recent threats: the FBI has a terrible track record of being ‘in the know’ concerning future perpetrators of firearm-related crimes nowadays. Yet, in an odd turn, the media had this joker on their radar. They interviewed him. When his name was released, The New York Times must’ve checked their clips because there he was. The publication interviewed him about the ongoing war in Ukraine—Routh appears to have been obsessed with the subject.
Semafor also spoke to this man.
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Springfield cancels CultureFest, citing safety concerns due to threats
Springfield city officials announced the cancellation of an annual celebration of diversity, arts and culture due to safety concerns, after numerous threats were received by city, county and school facilities. Those threats came after Springfield landed in the national spotlight over its Haitian immigration tensions, especially in the wake of baseless claims agains immigrants going viral on social media and being shared by top Republican politicians including former President Donald Trump and U.S. Sen. and vice presidential candidate JD Vance. “We deeply regret having to cancel CultureFest, as we know it is a beloved event for our community,” City Manager Bryan Heck said in a release. “However, the safety of our residents and visitors must come first.”
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Democrats are responding by attacking Elon Musk, claiming that he is calling for the murder of / assassination of the president. This kind of willful twisting of words to stir up hate against the political opposition is part of the climate that has led us to a place where political violence is now the norm. The long term consequence is that our best qualified leaders will not want to serve, because they don’t want to endure attacks on their family and attempts on their life.
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suspected Trump gunman was rejected by Ukraine army
Ukrainian military recruiters appear to have spotted almost immediately that Mr Routh, who had a long criminal record, was not promising material. According to an interview that he later gave to the Financial Times, he was rejected for service when he first reported to a Legion office on the Polish border at the war’s outset.
- (Sep 17 2023) Ukraine war one year on: Updates from the first anniversary of the conflict | Financial Times
Routh, a former construction worker who lives in Hawaii, is one of the thousands of foreigners who, after seeing news reports about the invasion, travelled into Ukraine in early 2022 to volunteer as fighters or medics. Aged 56, he was told he was too old to fight and instead set up a tent on the Maidan to help co-ordinate foreign volunteers, then the flag memorial too. Routh says he is still active in helping to recruit foreign volunteers so this war “doesn’t drag on for years”.
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The Story Behind Trump's Second Assassin Took a Strange Turn...and It Involves the Media
Ryan Wesley Routh has a criminal record that spans the Himalayas. We’re waiting to see if he was on the radar for any federal law enforcement agencies vis-à-vis recent threats: the FBI has a terrible track record of being ‘in the know’ concerning future perpetrators of firearm-related crimes nowadays. Yet, in an odd turn, the media had this joker on their radar. They interviewed him. When his name was released, The New York Times must’ve checked their clips because there he was. The publication interviewed him about the ongoing war in Ukraine—Routh appears to have been obsessed with the subject
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While the suspect’s motive remained unclear on Sunday night, some Republicans immediately seized on the incident — in which the Secret Service opened fire on a suspect who officials said appeared with an AK-47-style rifle near Trump’s golf course in southern Florida — to again accuse Democrats of endangering Trump by casting the GOP nominee as a threat to democracy.
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Sheriff Suggests “Ominous Conspiracy” Behind Trump Assassination Attempt - modernity
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NY Times Big Reveals on Deliberations in Three Trump Cases
The biggest reveal is that Chief Justice Roberts sent his colleagues a confidential memo on February 22 about the immunity case, urging the Court to grant review on the case. Justices generally do not discuss a case before the conference, but here it seems that Roberts was getting ahead of the issue.
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Trump's second assassination attempt was brought on by his own lies
- Archive caught the original headline: Trump’s second assassination attempt was brought on by himself
Donald Trump brings a lot of this stuff on himself. When he continues to push lies about legal immigrants like the ones in Springfield, Ohio; when he continues to insist he was not the loser of the 2020 election; when he continues to spout how he wants to use our military to "round up" and deport immigrants who are not white from this country, he brings the crazies out, and one of those crazies tries to shoot him.
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well, at least they're accepting someone tried to shoot Trump. Not all of them are that connected to reality.
Law Breaking / Police / Internal Security
External Security / Militaria / Diplomania
World
Israel
Russia Bad / Ukraine War
China
Health / Medicine
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Doctors warn against poisonous TikTok shop herbal tea that can kill you
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"Golden Lettuce" genetically engineered to pack 30 times more vitamins
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Opinion | Inflammation May Be the Root of Disease - The New York Times
As a critical care doctor, I have long considered inflammation a necessary evil, the mechanism through which our bodies sound an alarm and protect us from threat. But a growing body of research complicates that understanding. Inflammation is not just a marker of underlying disease but also a driver of it. The more medicine learns about inflammation, the more we are learning about heart disease and memory loss. This should serve as a reminder of the delicate balance that exists in our bodies, of the fact that the same system that protects us can also cause harm.
by the time we make it to our 50s and beyond, our innate immune system can become more of a hindrance as inflammation begins to take a toll on the body. Acute inflammation, which happens in response to an illness, for instance, is often something we can see — an infected joint is swollen and red. But chronic inflammation is usually silent. Like high blood pressure, it’s an invisible foe.
- I've heard several stories like this before. "By having police in the neighborhood, we encourage negative interactions with citizens," foe example. But my favorite version was "Trees cause wind by waving their branches"
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Trojan Condoms Contain Cancer-Causing Chemicals: Lawsuit Claims
Pox / COVID / BioTerror AgitProp
Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda
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What Happens if China Stops Trying to Save the World? - The New York Times
In climate world, something that once seemed almost unthinkable may now be happening. Preliminary data shows that while global carbon emissions are continuing to rise, China’s emissions may already be peaking — the longtime climate villain turning the corner on carbon before the planet as a whole does. Forecasts like these are not perfectly reliable, but already China has completely rewritten the global green transition story.
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A new constellation of satellites can detect smaller wildfires earlier
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Western wellness industry drives Ethiopian frankincense trees towards extinction
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Controlling hurricanes is bold, risky and failed idea. Some want to try again
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Experiments show cost-effective manufacturing of animal-free cultivated chicken
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Shrinking island, vanishing polar bears — the climate scare stories that turn out to be false
At the start of this century, the polar bear was the emblem of climate apocalypse. Protesters dressed as polar bears, while Al Gore’s hit 2006 film “An Inconvenient Truth” showed us a sad, animated polar bear floating away to its death. The Washington Post warned that polar bears faced extinction, and the World Wildlife Fund’s chief scientist even claimed some polar bear populations would be unable to reproduce by 2012. And then in the 2010s, campaigners just stopped talking about polar bears.
Why? Because after years of misrepresentation, it finally became impossible for them to ignore a mountain of evidence showing that the global polar bear population has increased substantially from around 12,000 in the 1960s to around 26,000 in the present day. (The main reason? People are hunting a lot less polar bears). The same thing has happened with depictions of Australia’s Great Barrier Reef.