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  • Fake news headlines are going viral. Here's what to know. - CBS News

    A screenshot of a news headline that looked like it came from The Atlantic went viral in early October for suggesting Vice President Kamala Harris "may need to steal" the election to save democracy. But the headline was fabricated. The Atlantic said in a statement that the screenshot was the latest in a series of fake Atlantic headlines, most of which are "crudely faked, with grainy resolution, and some of them use hateful language." These fake headlines can mislead voters and the public at a time when factually accurate information is crucial, according to Jeffrey Blevins, a professor at the University of Cincinnati's Journalism & Public and International Affairs department.

Musk

  • Blade Runner 2049 maker sues Musk over robotaxi images

    The maker of the film Blade Runner 2049 has sued Tesla, Elon Musk and Warner Bros Discovery, alleging they used imagery from the movie without permission. Production firm Alcon Entertainment claims it had specifically denied a request from Warner Bros to use material from the film at the launch event for Tesla's long-awaited robotaxi. Alcon alleges that despite its refusal Tesla and the other organisers of the event on 10 October used artificial intelligence (AI) to create promotional imagery based on the film.

Electric / Self Driving cars

Religion / Tribal / Culture War and Re-Segregation

Edumacationalizing / Acedemia Nuts

  • Progressives should worry more about their favorite scientific findings

    Why did I title this article “Progressives should worry more about their favorite scientific findings”? Why is this a progressive problem? First, people tend to believe findings that fit their worldview. Just as parents are too credulous when someone tells them how smart their child is, progressives are too inclined to take progressive-friendly findings too seriously. Second, people tend to notice when systems, organizations, and people are biased against them and ignore biases in their favor. Many progressives don’t know about the editorial positions of journals like Nature Human Behavior, so they assume these journals just tell it like it is. Non-progressives are more aware of the partisan bias of the individuals who publish in and review for these journals and tend to be suspicious (perhaps too suspicious) of politically relevant findings from a community they believe doesn’t like them and your politics.

  • Jewish Students at UCLA Were Harassed, Threatened and Assaulted on Campus

Info Rental / ShowBiz / Advertising

TechSuck / Geek Bait

AI Will (Save | Destroy) The World

Space / Boomy Zoomers / UFO

Crypto con games

  • Peter Todd Was ‘Unmasked’ As Bitcoin Creator Satoshi Nakamoto. Now He’s In Hiding | WIRED

    Documentary maker Cullen Hoback, who in a previous film claimed to have identified the individual behind QAnon, laid out his theory to Todd on camera. The confrontation would become the climactic scene of the documentary. But Todd nonetheless claims that he didn’t see it coming; he alleges he was left with the impression the film was about the history of Bitcoin, not the identity of its creator. Since the documentary aired, Todd has repeatedly and categorically denied that he created Bitcoin: “For the record, I am not Satoshi,” he alleges. “I think Cullen made the Satoshi accusation for marketing. He needed a way to get attention for his film.” For his part, Hoback remains confident in his conclusions. The various denials and deflections from Todd, he claims, are part of a grand and layered misdirection. “While of course we can’t outright say he is Satoshi, I think that we make a very strong case,” says Hoback. Whatever the truth, Todd will now bear the burden of having been unmasked as Satoshi. He has gone into hiding.

Economicon / Business / Finance

Gubmint / Poilitcks / Law Making

  • FTC now tackles fake reviews

  • Required Rulemaking on Personal Financial Data Rights

  • SEC Charges Four Companies with Misleading Cyber Disclosures

  • Take political betting markets literally, not seriously

    Betting markets have exhibited some strange behaviour in the past few weeks, though, with the implied odds of a Trump presidency climbing in a way that didn’t track with polls or election models. The markets, of course, may end up being right. Trump could win. Whether the current odds are fair is a more philosophical, unanswerable question.

  • Dated Oct 14th: Letter to McDonald's CEO re. menu price increases and stock buybacks

  • Can an organization kick members out for not voting?

    In America, we encourage voting as a civic duty, but an organization with millions of members is taking that obligation a step further. It’s requiring members to vote — or potentially lose their membership and the financial benefits that come with it. The organization is the Neighborhood Assistance Corporation of America, which helps people get low-cost mortgages. NACA says it has 3.7 million members, including about 870,000 in the seven key swing states this election year. “We’re not saying to people vote for a particular candidate,” says NACA CEO Bruce Marks. “We're saying that there's so much at stake in this election that you have to have your voice heard.”

  • Public opinion alone won't save democracy

    Since Donald Trump’s election, these questions, previously studied largely by political scientists, have become a leading general science research topic. Now, Chu et al. show that most people understand democracy similarly despite living in different societies, which suggests that the public could identify when key democratic norms are violated. Voelkel et al. find that simple interventions such as correcting stereotypes or misperceptions of supporters of opposing political parties can reduce partisan animosity and antidemocratic attitudes. Finally, Tessler et al. show that artificial intelligence (AI) tools can aid in reaching deliberative consensus by more effectively summarizing the collective opinion of a group than human mediators, producing statements that convey the majority opinion while incorporating the minority’s perspective.

    • if "democracy" is more than public opinion now, they must have updated the definition. Like "Vaccine", "Racism", and all the other words that now mean something other than what they once did.

  • Paul Tudor Jones Reckoning on US Spending: "We are going to be broke"

  • Feedback request: how did you spend election night 2016?

    In 2020, Tommy Cragg’s and I wanted Mother Jones to do an oral history of that 24 hour period, but other people didn’t like the idea. I am not going to do a full on oral history but I am going to do a post about my experiences that night, and I would like to include your memories

  • Political fundraisers WinRed and ActBlue are taking millions of dollars in donations from elderly dementia patients to fuel their campaigns

    deceptive political fundraising has misled elderly Americans into giving away millions of dollars

    One 82-year-old woman, who wore pajamas with holes in them because she didn’t want to spend money on new ones, didn’t realize she had given Republicans more than $350,000 while living in a 1,000 square-foot Baltimore condo since 2020. By the time a Taiwanese immigrant from California passed away from lung cancer this year at age 80, she had given away more than $180,000 to Trump’s campaign and a litany of other Republican candidates – writing letters to candidates apologizing for not getting donations to them on time because she was going into heart surgery. She had only $250 in her bank account when she died, leaving her family scrambling to cover the cost of her funeral.

    The biggest beneficiary of the small-dollar donations from unwitting donors identified by CNN was Donald Trump. His current and former campaigns and affiliated political committees brought in more than $400,000 from these elderly consumers between July 2019 and June 2024, which included multiple election cycles. The national committees which raise money to support House and Senate races across the nation also received hundreds of thousands of dollars from such donors, according to CNN’s analysis, and in all, the long list of Republican candidates and causes took in nearly $4 million.

  • Coul this be linked to politcs more than public health? E. coli Outbreak Linked to McDonald's Quarter Pounders

    This is a fast-moving outbreak investigation. Most sick people are reporting eating Quarter Pounder hamburgers from McDonald’s and investigators are working quickly to confirm which food ingredient is contaminated. McDonald’s has pulled ingredients for these burgers, and they won’t be available for sale in some states.

      State of Residence,Number of Sick People,Range
  CO,26,10 to 26
  IA,1,1 to 3
  KS,1,1 to 3
  MO,1,1 to 3
  MT,1,1 to 3
  NE,9,4 to 9
  OR,1,1 to 3
  UT,4,4 to 9
  WI,1,1 to 3
  WY,4,4 to 9

    Ten people have been hospitalized and one older person in Colorado has died after E. coli infections linked to McDonald's, Quarter Pounder hamburger in 10 states, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control said on Tuesday. Shares of the company were down about 9% after the bell.

  • KSHB 41 reporter injured at Lucas Kunce campaign event

    A KSHB 41 News reporter was hit by a metal fragment Tuesday afternoon while covering a campaign event for Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Lucas Kunce. Reporter Ryan Gamboa was covering the event at a private residence in Holt, Missouri — about 40 miles northeast of Kansas City — Tuesday afternoon when he was struck in the arm. It was unclear if he was struck by a bullet ricochet or another type of metal fragment. Kunce was firing an AR-15-style weapon at the time that the reporter was struck.

    • I thought "reporter" season wasn't open til next month

    • glad Ryan is okay

    • gun twitter is having giggles over the scoped AR15s and metal targets at small pistol / wrist rocket distances.

Harris / Democrats

  • (Aug 2024) Doug Emhoff, modern-day sex symbol

  • Harris Plagiarized Pages of Congressional Testimony from Colleague

  • Nate Silver: Likability isn't enough

    Harris’s favorability rating is 46.5 percent, according to 538. Donald Trump’s is 43.3 percent. That’s a 3.2-point gap in Harris’s favor. And Harris’s unfavorability rating is 47.2 percent. Her numbers are basically breakeven; in other words, about as many Americans like her as dislike her, which is pretty rare for a politician these days. Trump’s unfavorability rating is 52.4 percent. So that’s an even bigger difference: a 5.2 point-gap favoring Harris. And yet, Harris’s lead in national polls is down to just 1.6 points. With a 3-to-5 point national lead, Harris would very probably win the Electoral College. If it’s closer to 2 points, it’s tenuous.

    fun-loving Trump is a secondary brand. The main brand is he’s an asshole. But he’s your asshole. He’s on your side. Like those plaintiffs’ attorneys, he’s somewhat cleverly owning his abrasiveness and unpopularity. Sure, he’ll take slings and arrows from the (BIASED!!!!!) mainstream media. That’s because they’re elites who are not on your side. Trump fights — for you!

    Our fundamental freedoms. Which ones? Like abortion? That’s a good issue for Democrats, so why not mention it, or at least the term “reproductive rights”? Strengthens our democracy? What does that mean? Well, I know what Harris means, as someone whose job it is to follow the news every day. It means Trump did January 6 and has no respect for the rule of law. But this is some of the same stale messaging from the Biden campaign, which seemed to assume that if you clicked your heels together three times and shouted “DEMOCRACY!”, voters would instantly get it. Polling shows that they don’t: this message resonates with Democrats’ college-educated base but not particularly with swing voters.

  • Kamala Harris and McDonald’s: A College Job, and a Trump Attack - The New York Times

    Donald Trump has claimed without evidence that Ms. Harris never worked at the fast-food chain. Her campaign and a friend say she did.

    Mr. Trump’s latest allegation also appears to be false. Whether a presidential candidate actually flipped burgers as a college student is a far less serious allegation, of course. But Mr. Trump’s seeding of doubts about Ms. Harris’s story, while insidious and outside the lines of traditional fair play in politics, advances his goal of portraying Ms. Harris as a fraud. It exploits the fact that her life story is not as well known or as well documented at this late stage of the campaign as those of most presidential nominees have been. And it gives voters who may already harbor doubts about her another invitation to dismiss her and doubt what she says.

Trump / Right / Jan6

  • Mainstream media are actively encouraging the assassination of Trump and Musk

  • New Yorker writer admits he's never met a Trump supporter at work in 15-year media career | Fox News

  • Fact Check: Did Trump Say He Will Ban Video Games? - Newsweek

    Multiple posts shared on X, formerly Twitter, claimed that Donald Trump has said he will "ban video games." A post by user David Leavitt on October 15, 2024, viewed 8.1 million times, said: "Donald Trump says he will ban videogames. A post by user @EliteGamerHaven, posted on October 15, 2024, said: "Hold up, Donald Trump wants to ban video games, and I'm not making this up." Each of the posts included a video of Trump saying: "We must stop the glorification of violence in our society.

    The video of Trump trended on X this week, organized by X into a stream of posts called "Trump's Video Game Ban Proposal." However, there is no evidence that Trump wants to ban video games or violent video games if elected. Furthermore, the video shared on social media is taken out of context. The clip is from 2019 when Trump made a public statement following back-to-back mass shootings in El Paso, Texas, and Dayton, Ohio. The gunman in the El Paso shooting briefly mentioned the combat game Call of Duty in a hate-filled, anti-immigrant manifesto posted online shortly before the attack.

  • Trump Proposes Reviving Reagan-era 'Star Wars' missile defense program

  • Let’s Be Honest, Trump’s Running As a Fascist

    DONALD TRUMP IS RUNNING THE MOST openly fascist campaign ever undertaken by a major-party nominee for president of the United States. That’s not hype; it’s a textbook application of the term. In 2021, Trump used violence to try to overturn an election; in 2022, he called for terminating the Constitution. Now, on the brink of returning to power, Trump is reaffirming his intent to take America deeper into autocracy.

    THE AGENDA TRUMP IS PRESENTING in these interviews and rallies—political violence, suspension of the Constitution, suspension of civil liberties, unchecked presidential power, censorship of the media, imprisonment of opposition leaders, execution of people for nonviolent crimes, and legal immunity for the president and his thugs—isn’t just close to fascism. It is fascism. It’s what fascists have advocated and practiced in other countries. We like to think that fascism can’t happen in America. But it’s happening right now. A president who tried to impose elements of fascism in his first term—and who then deployed mob violence in an attempt to stay in power—is seeking a mandate to go much further. And half of the electorate is on the brink of giving him that mandate.

  • Giuliani must turn over Manhattan apartment, other valuables to election workers he defamed, judge says - CBS News

    Ten months after a jury awarded two Georgia election workers nearly $150 million in a defamation lawsuit brought against Rudy Giuliani, a federal judge ruled Tuesday that the former attorney to Donald Trump must fork over his luxurious New York apartment and other valuables. Giuliani, who rose to fame in the 1980s and 1990s as a federal prosecutor and mayor of New York City, has seven days to turn over his possessions to a receivership controlled by Ruby Freeman and Shaye Moss. Giuliani spread conspiracy theories targeting the ballot counters after Trump lost the 2020 election. Giuliani has previously tried to sell the apartment for about $6 million. In his 24-page order, Judge Lewis Liman also ruled that Freeman and Moss should be the beneficiaries of some $2 million that Giuliani has said Trump's 2020 campaign owes him. Other valuables he must turn over include more than two dozen high-end watches, a jersey signed by New York Yankees Hall of Famer Joe Dimaggio, furniture and other sports memorabilia.

  • Handwriting analysis expert catches Cassidy Hutchinson in apparent false testimony | Just The News

    In her public testimony before the special committee in June 2022, Hutchinson told Congress, under oath, that she wrote the note for a proposed tweet as her boss, President Donald Trump’s Chief of Staff Mark Meadows, and Eric Herschmann, a personal attorney to Trump, dictated it to her. Immediately after her public testimony, Herschmann disputed Hutchinson’s claim, according to the House Republicans. Now, the House Administration Subcommittee on Oversight said it ordered a handwriting analysis from an expert who determined was consistent with Herschmann’s writing, not Hutchinson’s. “This new evidence provided by an independent, Certified Questioned Document Examiner, not only contradicts Ms. Hutchinson's numerous claims that she penned the note, but also exposes the Select Committee’s willingness to accept all her testimonies without corroboration or further investigation,” Chairman Barry Loudermilk said in a press release.

  • Trump: ‘I Need the Kind of Generals That Hitler Had’ - The Atlantic

  • Trump denigrates Harris as ‘lazy,’ invoking racist trope against Black people

    Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump on Tuesday called his Democratic opponent Kamala Harris “lazy,” criticizing the vice president with a word long used to demean Black people in racist terms. “Who the hell takes off when you have 14 days left,” Trump said at a campaign event in Doral, Florida, aimed at courting Latino voters. “She’s lazy. She’s lazy as hell.” Harris was spending Tuesday in meetings in Washington, D.C., and was scheduled to sit for recorded interviews with Telemundo and NBC to air Tuesday evening. It was the first day in more than two weeks that the Democratic nominee had no public events scheduled after a run of more than 14 consecutive days of travel to political events in pivotal states,

Law Breaking / Police / Internal Security

External Security / Militaria / Diplomania

World

Israel

Russia Bad / Ukraine War

China

Health / Medicine

Pox / COVID / BioTerror AgitProp

Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda

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