2024-10-21
CIA manipulated media, Moldova disinfo, "global majority", decorator deprecation directive, some get "sick days", election security through enforced silence, Trump makes fries, make Earth fabulous
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Horseshit
celebrity gossip
Rank Propaganda / Thought Policing / World Disordering
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Do you think the CIA stopped manipulating the media half a century ago?
Bernstein's article came out in 1977 and pushed the story into the mainstream. He found that journalists not only wrote the stories the CIA asked them to and presented them to Americans as fact, but they often had very close relationships with intelligence officers. They willingly shared their notebooks and actively collaborated with them to disseminate elaborate lies or to put twists on real stories that made them appear entirely different than they actually were. Berstein also revealed that the CIA was not merely manipulating the foreign press, but the domestic press as well, and went as far as to name the networks, publications, and people who had aided the CIA in their efforts. CBS, Time, the New York Times, the Louisville Courier-Journal, ABC, Reuters, NBC, and the Copley News Service were all working for the CIA and being compensated very well financially for their troubles. George H.W. Bush, then director of the CIA, ordered the agency to cease domestic media manipulation.
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The Disinformation Warning Coming From the Edge of Europe | WIRED
Moldova is facing a tide of disinformation unprecedented in complexity and aggression, the head of a new center meant to combat it tells WIRED. And platforms like Facebook, TikTok, Telegram, and YouTube could do more.
Musk
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Elon received crucial help from the NSA in starting up SpaceX.
A launch contract before he had a working rocket, and behind-the-curtain assistance in getting a "buy American" NASA contract when he was still South African.
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Der Spiegel has declared Elon Musk to be "public enemy number two"
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I ran Twitter's civic integrity team. Elon Musk has no idea how elections work
Electric / Self Driving cars
Religion / Tribal / Culture War and Re-Segregation
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Global majority: Should the term replace ethnic minority?
While other terms such as ethnic minority and people of colour are still routinely used, another appears to be building momentum - people of the global majority. Global majority refers to people who are "black, Asian, brown, dual-heritage, indigenous to the global south, and or have been racialised as 'ethnic minorities'" and "represent approximately 80% of the world's population", according to educator and activist Rosemary Campbell-Stephens, who coined the term.
Edumacationalizing / Acedemia Nuts
Info Rental / ShowBiz / Advertising
TechSuck / Geek Bait
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Built-in Decorators | TypeSpec
Deprecated: @deprecated decorator is deprecated. Use the
#deprecateddirective instead.
AI Will (Save | Destroy) The World
Space / Boomy Zoomers / UFO
Economicon / Business / Finance
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Kmart shoppers bid farewell to the last outpost of a once-beloved 'mainstay'
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Starbucks sales tumble as customers reject high-priced coffee
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Insurer Blue Cross Blue Shield agrees to $2.8B antitrust settlement
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Boeing union is set to vote on a new contract deal, possibly ending strike
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with flu season bearing down and Covid rates rising again, I kept thinking about this incident and wondering why, years after the pandemic made us hyper-aware of workplace contagion, we can still be so useless at handling it. I suspect there is a need for a constant reminder of one of the first rules of office etiquette: if you cough, you’re off.
since most of us are not required to host the Oscars or get sworn in as US commander-in-chief, it is fine to stay home instead.
- The "essential workers" laugh in your face as they keep your services running and deliver your shopping. wishing they had the option of being concerned with their health in their concern for the comfort of others.
Gubmint / Poilitcks / Law Making
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50 years of tax cuts for the rich failed to trickle down, economics study says
- One might thing from such phrasing that there's never been a tax increase
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Supreme Court justices vindicates a citizen journalist's rights
Villarreal had alleged that she was arrested for seeking and obtaining nonpublic information from police as a journalist — the identity of a person who had killed himself — and publishing it on Facebook. The Fifth Circuit ruled that the police could claim immunity from the lawsuit she brought, and the justices just set that decision aside.
Advocacy journalism is now the norm. Former New York Times writer (and now Howard University journalism professor) Nikole Hannah-Jones has declared that “all journalism is activism.” Emilio Garcia-Ruiz, editor-in-chief at the San Francisco Chronicle, similarly announced that “Objectivity has got to go.”
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Michigan has more registered voters than eligible citizens!? Is that true CommunityNotes?
The state currently has 8.4 million registered voters, according to the latest records obtained by Bridge Michigan, nearly 500,000 more than the number of people in the state who are old enough to vote.
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Climate Change Action Depends on the 2024 Election | Scientific American
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Dominion is prepared to defend election integrity
Dominion is closely monitoring claims around the Nov. 2024 election and strongly encourages use of verified, credible sources of info. We remain fully prepared to defend our company & our customers against lies and those who spread them.
Despite generating only about $50 million in annual revenue, Dominion raked in nearly $800 million last year from defamation settlements alone. The message is clear: speak negatively about their machines or even share someone else’s critique, and they may come after you with lawsuits.
- Elections so secure you can't ask how secure they are.
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Senate: Medicare Insurers Use AI to Increase Denials, Boost Profits
Harris / Democrats
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Facebook censoring broadband claim, despite agreement on facts
Facebook is now censoring the fact that VP Harris has failed to connect even one person to the Internet despite leading the Administration’s $42 billion infrastructure plan for 1,000+ days. Facebook is labeling this “false information,” not because anyone has been connected—no one has—but because the government has been spending money while not connecting anyone. Worse? The fact checker’s only sources are Biden-Harris officials.
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How Progressive Overreach Gave Trump His Favorite Attack Ad
Next to her association with the deeply unpopular Biden presidency, the suite of left-wing stances Harris adopted in that ill-fated effort are still, five years later, the largest obstacles in the path of her presidency. What makes this all so maddening is that those obstacles were placed there by well-meaning progressives.
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A group of over 1,700 Democrat fact-checkers on X have pledged to use Community Notes in a strategic effort to prevent Trump supporters from raising potential concerns about election fraud and or election integrity.
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McDonald’s branch swears employees to secrecy over Kamala Harris’s employment history
Employees at the franchise in Alameda, California told The Telegraph they had been instructed by bosses not to talk about the vice-president, after claims that she invented her summer job to appear more authentic to voters.
Trump / Right / Jan6
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‘The Threat Remains’: Trump’s Path to Overturning a 2024 Defeat - POLITICO
Four years ago, a sitting president — rejected by American voters — attempted to seize a second term anyway, plunging the nation into confusion, conflict and, in its last gasp, violence. Now, Donald Trump’s political comeback has revived a sense of dread among the officials and institutions who stood in his way last time: Could it happen again? Dozens of interviews with people deeply familiar or involved with the election process point to a clear consensus: Not only could Trump make a second attempt at overturning an election he loses, he and his allies are already laying the groundwork. “The threat remains,” said Tim Heaphy, who led the investigation into Trump’s election subversion efforts for the House’s Jan. 6 select committee. 2024 is not 2020. Trump’s path to pulling it off this time is even narrower and more extreme. For one thing, Trump lacks some of the tools he threatened to wield four years ago to upend the transfer of power; today, the military and Justice Department answer to Joe Biden. Trump also needs allies to win elections that would put them in a position to reverse a defeat: Overturning a Kamala Harris victory would require an enormous amount of help from Republican power brokers in statehouses and Congress, some of whom spurned him four years ago.
Law Breaking / Police / Internal Security
External Security / Militaria / Diplomania
World
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European space chief says Europe must be able to compete globally
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Millions of Cubans face third day without power as Hurricane Oscar closes in | Just The News
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Over 40% of foreigner deaths in Korea have unknown causes
According to the report disclosed Saturday by Rep. Cha Gyu-geun of the minor opposition Rebuilding Korea Party, 15,325 foreign nationals died in Korea between 2018 and 2022. A total of 7,698 of them, or 50 percent, were confirmed to have died of disease, followed by car accidents (211), natural causes (177), falling (155), self-harm (152), natural disasters (71), drowning (61), homicides (19) and addiction (10). Most notably, a staggering 44.2 percent, or 6,771 deaths, were attributed to “other” causes, meaning the reasons were unclear. This figure is significantly higher compared to the number of deaths among Korean nationals.
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"Korean Fan Death" is true in Korea. Poor, ignorant furriners think they know better than the locals and suffer the consequences.
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Israel
Russia Bad / Ukraine War
Health / Medicine
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Why do humans have near-equal numbers of male and female babies?
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or you know, friends or even dens... Overdoses often happen when users are alone. Hotlines, sensors can save lives
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Tallow fries and beer are the ultimate food: Beef fat prevents alcoholic liver disease in the rat
Pox / COVID / BioTerror AgitProp
Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda
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Less Carbon, More Carbon ... The only thing we're really sure about is that it ain't right the way it is. Could injecting diamond dust into the atmosphere help cool the planet?
The model suggested that injecting 5 million tons of synthetic diamond dust into the atmosphere per year could cool the Earth by 1.6°C in 45 years. The downside, of course, would be the huge cost—approximately $200 trillion.