2024-10-13
need for new lives, microwaving meat, spendy safe saws, off grid threatens poors, pushers knew their goods, Rambo 3 was propaganda!, Trump caused hurricanes, TD Bank got jacked, super science shrooms
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Wyoming's Wildfires Prompt National Online Conspiracy Theories
some users on the social media platform X (formerly Twitter) are complaining that national media outlets haven’t been covering the fires burning up the Cowboy State. Insurrection Barbie, a conservative poster who has more than 497,000 followers on X, posted that she finds it strange there’s “almost no media coverage” of “half of Wyoming burning down.” Both those claims are inaccurate as Cowboy State Daily and other Wyoming news outlets have been providing extensive coverage of the fires; however, Barbie is correct there has been minimal national coverage. The claim that half of Wyoming is burning down is also wrong as the ongoing fires make up about 0.2% percent of the state.
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I have a theory about the immense wave of adolescent transgenderism
When a young person applies for a job, or to a new school, their credit, criminal, housing, and social media records are all evaluated. They're SCRUTINIZED. They don't get to change. And that's a terrible, suffocating thing.
This has become the only "state-sanctioned" path to creating a new life - a new name, a new wardrobe and personality and identity.
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Why are we seeing the Northern Lights so often lately?
Experts say the Northern Lights, or Aurora Borealis, are more visible right now due to the sun being at what astronomers call the “maximum” of its 11-year solar cycle. The current 11-year cycle, the 25th since records began in 1755, started in 2019 and is expected to peak next year.
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Tomb filled with a dozen skeletons found underneath the Treasury in Petra
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After Hurricane Milton, a feeling of 'fight or flight' along Pinellas beaches
Horseshit
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Hurricane Milton, Helene: Is the home insurance industry doomed?
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Is electromagnetic hypersensitivity real? Depends who you ask — WHYY
“The most important symptom was the lack of good sleep,” Ganjavi said. On top of the insomnia were headaches, fatigue, a “restless mind” — and one more strange symptom. I noticed that I had more wrinkles,” Ganjavi said. “I was getting older, quicker.” For Ganjavi — a self-described “yogi,” who eats an organic, vegetarian diet, and eschews smoking and drugs — it was a concerning development. So he started hunting around for a cause; something, anything, that had changed in his environment over the past few weeks. “It didn’t click until one day I was using my laptop and I noticed that there was a Wi-Fi connection that I didn’t recognize,” Ganjavi said.
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'Shoe doping' changed marathon times in ways we still don't understand
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I'll pass... i dont want to ask "how do they?" ... "messily" Meet the kink enthusiasts locking up their penises for Locktober
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Let me guess: expensive government mandates? "What does it take to make table saws safer?"
He says they crunched the numbers over and over. And for him, this new safety rule is worth it because the cost of the thousands of injuries a year is just so much bigger than the cost of adding the safety features to the saws. The cost-benefit ratio is just spectacular.
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Off grid is a win for some, but a threat for poorer families and the environment
those who can’t afford to leave the grid — often the poorest households — will end up paying the most for left-over fossil fuel electricity from the grid. Leaving the grid requires a hefty up-front cost, and not everyone can afford it. Second, our research shows that the diesel generators used as back up for off-grid solar and battery systems will cause significant pollution — even more than the grid in some locations.
- round here "off grid" is often synonymous with "poor". The folks getting the panties twisted about generator emissions already done a number on wood stoves... They're still in use.
Musk
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Also saw WaPo ads again today: Elon Musk Apparently Managed to Sue Unilever into Advertising on Twitter Again
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Tesla shares drop 9% after Cybercab robotaxi reveal 'underwhelmed' investors
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The Tesla Cybercab is a cool-looking prototype that needed to be much more than that - The Verge
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Ex-Twitter execs push for $200M severance as Elon Musk runs X into ground - Ars Technica
Electric / Self Driving cars
Edumacationalizing / Acedemia Nuts
Info Rental / ShowBiz / Advertising
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WordPress vs. WP Engine battle gets seriously stupid, with new login requirement
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TikTok executives know about app's effect on teens, lawsuit documents allege
After Kentucky Public Radio published excerpts of the redacted material, a state judge sealed the entire complaint following a request from the attorney general’s office “to ensure that any settlement documents and related information, confidential commercial and trade secret information, and other protected information was not improperly disseminated,” according to an emergency motion to seal the complaint filed on Wednesday by Kentucky officials. NPR reviewed all the portions of the suit that were redacted, which highlight TikTok executives speaking candidly about a host of dangers for children on the wildly popular video app. The material, mostly summaries of internal studies and communications, show some remedial measures — like time-management tools — would have a negligible reduction in screen time. The company went ahead and decided to release and tout the features.
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Google is preparing to let you run Linux apps on Android, just like Chrome OS
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The Military-Entertainment Complex Is Bigger Than You Realize
Rambo III was just one of many propaganda films churned out by Hollywood during the Cold War. And it’s not as much of a relic as we’d like to think. The military-entertainment complex is every bit as robust today, with vast numbers of American movies and video games designed to promote American imperial ideology — often with the support of the military itself.
AI Will (Save | Destroy) The World
Space / Boomy Zoomers / UFO
Economicon / Business / Finance
Gubmint / Poilitcks / Law Making
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Free Speech vs. Free Ride: Navigating the Supreme Court's Social Media Paradox
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Cards Against Humanity campaigns to encourage voting, expose personal data abuse
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Supreme Court takes nuclear waste case too wild to believe
The Supreme Court took up a spate of new cases last week as the justices regrouped for a new term. Although the court is obviously trying to duck controversial disputes before Election Day, it took up some strange and important appeals—including a case that poses the curious question: What if a federal court—in this case, yet again, the hyper-reactionary U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit—declared that the nation’s entire system of nuclear waste storage is actually illegal? On a new Slate Plus bonus episode of Amicus, Dahlia Lithwick and Mark Joseph Stern discussed the justices’ obligation, yet again, to rein in a rogue lower court stacked with extreme Donald Trump appointees.
Harris / Democrats
Trump / Right / Jan6
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Hurricanes are doing little to change Republicans' minds on climate change - POLITICO
Two major hurricanes hitting the same region of the country just weeks apart are not moving the needle for most congressional Republicans when it comes to endorsing tougher action against climate change. After Hurricanes Helene and Milton devastated huge swaths of the Southwest and continue to stress the limits of federal disaster relief coffers, Republicans are by and large still not ready to change the way they react and respond to natural disasters, which studies show to be growing in both intensity and frequency as global warming persists. Their reasons range broadly from questioning the science to offering solutions different to what advocates and other experts say is needed. Most Republicans don’t see climate change as a crisis and the storms aren’t changing that.
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Trump campaign worked with Musk's X to keep leaked JD Vance file off platform
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If Trump wins on November 5, it will be because of his support from a majority of white America. As a white American, and a white American man to boot, I’ve got to say, in the immortal words of Pogo: We have met the enemy and he is us.
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Rumors on X Are Becoming the Right’s New Reality - The Atlantic
The amplification of emotionally manipulative chatter is a familiar issue on social media. What’s more disconcerting is that Republican political elites—with Musk now among them—are openly legitimizing what the X rumor mill churns out when it serves their objectives. X’s owner has claimed that FEMA is “actively blocking citizens” who are trying to help flood victims in North Carolina, and that it “used up its budget ferrying illegals into the country instead of saving American lives.” J. D. Vance, the Republican vice-presidential candidate, elevated rumors of pet-eating Haitians to national attention on social media for days; Donald Trump did the same in a presidential debate. Influential public figures and political elites—people who, especially in times of crisis, should be acting as voices of reason—are using baseless, often paranoid allegations for partisan advantage.
What of left-wing rumors? They exist, of course. After the assassination attempts on Trump, some commentators insinuated that they were “false flag” attacks—in other words, that his camp had staged the incidents to gain public sympathy for him. But mainstream media called out left-wing conspiracism and fact-checked the rumors. The people expressing them were overwhelmingly censured, not encouraged, by fellow influencers and elites on their side of the political spectrum. In contrast, when social-media companies stepped in to address false claims of voter fraud in 2020, the political influencers who most frequently spread them clamored for retribution, and their allies delivered. Representative Jim Jordan, one of the House’s most powerful Republicans, convened a congressional subcommittee that cast efforts to fact-check and label misleading posts as “censorship.”
Rumors have always circulated, but the decision by Republican politicians and Musk to exploit them has created a problem that’s genuinely new. In the modern right-wing propaganda landscape, where facts are recast as subjective and any authority outside MAGA is deemed illegitimate, eroding trust in institutions is not an unfortunate side effect—it is the goal. And for now, the result is a niche political reality wherein elites on the right, including the world’s richest man, amplify baseless claims without legitimate pushback.
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Hurricanes test limits of Trump's war on experts
A second Donald Trump presidency would usher in a new type of class warfare — empowering populists to steamroll mainstream experts on issues such as climate change, economics and public health. This year's devastating hurricane season has exposed the perils of Trump's war on climate experts, who have long warned that human-caused global warming is exacerbating extreme weather.
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Trump Calls Kamala Harris ‘Retarded’ During a Donor Dinner: Report
Donald Trump is an insult machine, worse, he is an insult machine that has no bottom, particularly it seems when he’s feeling frustrated, not getting his way, and there’s a woman he wants to blame. Trump recently referred to his Democratic presidential nominee opponent Kamala Harris as “retarded,” according to The New York Times.
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While Trump didn't disclose details about how the plan would be implemented, tax experts say it would likely provide the most benefits to wealthy Americans while offering little aid to those who need it most — low-income workers.
Law Breaking / Police / Internal Security
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Attorney General Remarks on TD Bank's Guilty Plea
TD Bank created an environment that allowed financial crime to flourish. By making its services convenient for criminals, it became one. Today, TD Bank became the largest bank in U.S. history to plead guilty to Bank Secrecy Act program failures and the first U.S. bank in history to plead guilty to conspiracy to commit money laundering.
TD Bank pled guilty to multiple felonies, including conspiring to violate the Bank Secrecy Act and commit money laundering. TD Bank has also agreed to a $1.8 billion criminal penalty. Combined with civil enforcement actions announced today by other agencies, the United States will be imposing a total [penalty] of approximately $3 billion against TD Bank.
External Security / Militaria / Diplomania
Russia Bad / Ukraine War
Health / Medicine
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She was on the surgical table just once but was billed for two operations
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Drug trials are 50% more effective when sponsored by the manufacturer
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Six transplant patients in Brazil contract HIV from infected organs
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Psychedelic Mushrooms Are Getting Much, Much Stronger (Archive)
New cultivation methods are making psychedelic mushrooms stronger, and fiendishly potent varieties are kicking in faster and lasting longer—even if you eat only a fraction of what you would with another variety. Subsequent testing showed that one batch of Mattucci’s mushrooms contained almost 5 percent psychedelic alkaloids, which was once unheard of within the Psilocybe genus. Typically, mushrooms contain 1 percent of these psychoactive compounds, although species like Psilocybe azurescens are generally stronger, and some varieties within the Panaeolus genus are even more potent.
- whiffy between "genetic manipulation" and "cultivation technique. Vaguely recall people bragging of 4% back in the day with things like tryptophan infused substrates.