2024-10-31
child ownership, quantum snake oil, that sat blowed up good, SuperMicro tanks, FL banned banks, GenZ lies about politics, garbage Trumpism, Dimon says WW3 is on, Spain floods, EPA nixes DCPA
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The failure that started the Internet
On 29 October 1969, two scientists established a connection between computers some 350 miles away and started typing a message. Halfway through, it crashed. They sat down with the BBC 55 years later.
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Sunken Temple of Ancient Arabian Civilization Found Off Italy
Horseshit
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Man survives monthlong ordeal in US national park on mushrooms, berries andwater
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The question of when a parent’s rights should take precedence over those of a child is a complicated one with no single correct answer. But it is clear that forced reconciliation, and so many of our laws, treat children not as humans, but as property.
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My mother was told I'd died in a fire at 10 days old. In fact, I was kidnapped
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These new pet calendars for 2025 are elevated versions of previous calendars that “won the internet” (Oregonian’s words, not ours) in 2023 and again in 2024. It’s the format that made its home in thousands of households and offices worldwide: cats and dogs interacting with government infrastructure alongside humorous commentary about the many missions of USACE’s largest and most diversified civil works districts.
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Fired Disney staffer hacks menu, adds profanity, wingdings, nixes allergen info
Musk
Edumacationalizing / Acedemia Nuts
Info Rental / ShowBiz / Advertising
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Tech Reddit shares soar 22% on earnings beat and better-than-expected forecast
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Microsoft Warns of Russian Spear-Phishing Attacks Targeting over 100 Orgs
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After Era of Bloat, Veteran Video-Game Developers Are Going Smaller
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War of the Rohirrim Used Christopher Lee's Archives to Bring Him Back as Saruman
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Matt Mullenweg says Automattic is 'short-staffed' amid WP Engine drama
TechSuck / Geek Bait
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The sad, bizarre tale of hype fanning fears modern cryptography was slain - Ars Technica
The uncertainty leaves a giant vacuum that can be filled with alarmist pronouncements that the world is close to seeing the downfall of cryptography as we know it. The false pronouncements can take on a life of their own as they’re repeated by marketers looking to peddle post-quantum cryptography snake oil and journalists tricked into thinking the findings are real. And a new episode of exaggerated research has been playing out for the past few weeks.
AI Will (Save | Destroy) The World
Space / Boomy Zoomers / UFO
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ExoAnalytic observes 500 pieces of debris from Intelsat 33e breakup.
Intelsat is still investigating what caused the in-orbit breakup of Intelsat 33e, the second in a series of four EpicNG (next-generation) high throughput satellites Boeing built for the operator The first in this series, Intelsat-29e, was declared a total loss in 2019 after three years in orbit. An investigation into the Intelsat-29e anomaly pinned the failure on either a meteoroid impact or a wiring flaw, which led to an electrostatic discharge following heightened solar weather activity.
Crypto con games
Economicon / Business / Finance
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Decade of big S&P 500 gains is over, Goldman strategists say
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Super Micro Computer Auditor Ernst and Young Quits Amid Probe
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TSMC in tussle with golf course to build most advanced 2nm chip plant on planet
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US economy growing despite voter angst
The US economy grew solidly in the three months to September, expanding at an annual rate of 2.8%. Despite there being a slight slowdown from the prior quarter's 3% rate, the figures released by the Commerce Department showed the US is on track for one of the strongest economic performances of any major economy this year. Consumer spending was the biggest driver, picking up from earlier in the year. Economic sentiment, which darkened abruptly during the pandemic, has remained downbeat, as a roughly 21% jump in prices over the past four years overshadows other economic news, no matter how positive. This month, a solid 62% of Americans viewed the economy overall as "bad", according to a poll by the Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research.
Gubmint / Poilitcks / Law Making
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Jeff Bezos "Didn't know" Blue Origin met with Trump as he tries to calm WP storm
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(2020) Jeff Bezos's DC Mansion Has Made Its Social Debut (HN comments)
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After non-endorsement, 250k subscribers cancel The Washington Post
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'Free Gaza' message linked to ballot box attacks in Washington and Oregon: Source
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Nevada Can Count Mailed Ballots Without Postmark 3 Days After Election Day.
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Florida Accidentally Banned Banks from Doing Business in Sunshine State
Banks for four weeks weren’t allowed to sell securities such as corporate bonds or shares of private companies in the state because of a law that went into effect Oct. 1. The law sought to make it easier for startups and other companies to fundraise while ensuring that bad actors with a criminal record couldn’t take advantage of Floridians. But it wasn’t written as the Florida Legislature had intended. The law appeared to ban any bank that had been punished by the Securities and Exchange Commission or other authorities from selling a range of securities to investors, according to people familiar with the matter. The problem is that nearly all of the country’s big banks—from JPMorgan Chase to Goldman Sachs—have been in trouble with the law at some point. Big banks flagged the issue to the state and called Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis’s office, people familiar with the matter said. Some, such as JPMorgan and Bank of America paused selling the securities to anyone with a Florida touchpoint, the people said.
On Sunday, Florida’s top financial regulator invoked emergency powers tied to recent devastating hurricanes and suspended the part of the law that banned banks from selling securities, according to a proclamation from the state government.
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America's youngest voters become major election liars (Archive)
Half of Gen Z voters — and 1 in 4 U.S. voters overall — have lied to people close to them about who they're voting for, according to the latest Axios Vibes survey by The Harris Poll. Voters 18-27 who came of age during the hyper-polarized Trump era appear to be among the most sensitive to perceived pressure and judgment from friends or loved ones. "There's a new privacy emerging here, where it's far more convenient to either lie or not talk about it," said John Gerzema, CEO of The Harris Poll, which is not affiliated with Vice President Harris' campaign.
Polarization has become so toxic that many Americans are self-censoring or lying to preserve workplace, social and familial relationships, while bracing for the possibility of post-election unrest worse than Jan. 6, 2021. Younger Americans raised on smartphones tend to be more conflict-averse in both political interactions and daily settings such as work. They'd generally prefer to minimize in-person interactions with a digital mindset of, "I'd rather do it through the app." So they may rather lie about how they vote than risk a confrontation or awkward interaction.
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Key facts about U.S. poll workers
Personal safety concerns among poll workers also intensified that year and continue to linger. The Department of Justice recently warned that harassment against poll workers may persist – and potentially worsen with the use of AI – in the 2024 election. Many states have responded to these concerns, with 18 enacting legal protections for election officials and poll workers since 2020, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures.
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Election Skeptics Tell Voting Officials That Certifying the Election Is Optional
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Election betting site Polymarket is rife with fake 'wash' trading
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ABC station mistakenly airs election results declaring Harris winner of key swing state.
Harris / Democrats
Biden Inc
Trump / Right / Jan6
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Election Fraud Conspiracy Theories Are Already Thriving Online | WIRED
In the weeks before the 2020 vote, Trump and his allies had already begun to spread claims that the election would be stolen, but those allegations were vague and unorganized. Over the past four years, however, a well-funded network of election denial groups across the US have worked tirelessly to marshal their supporters and drum up conspiracy theories about voting machines flipping votes in the middle of the night, votes being shredded by the bagful, and “mules” stuffing drop boxes with ballots. These conspiracy theories are being shared by right-wing election denial networks, the Trump campaign, and Russian propaganda groups. With a week left to go before the historic vote, fully formed conspiracy theories about threats to voting are being pushed to audiences that have been primed to believe everything they hear. Many of these narratives are spreading virtually unchecked on social media platforms like X, Instagram, and Facebook, where those in charge have all but abdicated their responsibility to fact-check information around one of the most critical votes in US history—and have also made it harder for everyone else to see what is going on.
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A vote for Donald Trump is a vote for school shootings and measles - The Verge
Like any large open-source project, American democracy is kind of messy, requires a lot of volunteer effort, and often uses way too much memory. But it enables everyone to submit requests for changes so that we might better direct the power of our communities at every level toward solving our problems, and the democratic process provides an essential stability which allows people to keep buying into our country as the platform on which to build their own big ideas. Trump doesn’t give a shit about any of this because he only cares about himself. He generally does not care to solve problems unless it benefits him personally, and the intellectual foundation of the MAGA movement that’s built up around him is the complete denial that collective action problems exist at all. The MAGA worldview is now so batshit that it requires its proponents to look at obvious failures of collective action and declare them immutable features of modern life — or, in an even stupider twist — announce them to be good things. Trump is not rational, and Trumpism cannot abide the idea of a collective action problem. You might think that Trump’s brain is mush, but JD Vance’s weasel-like mind is constantly, actively finding ways to sanitize the chaos, and the philosophical demands of MAGA required him to look America directly in the eye at a recent rally and say that school shootings are “a fact of life.”
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Companies ready price hikes to offset Trump's global tariff plans
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A single apostrophe — or lack thereof — caused an uproar in the presidential race Tuesday night after President Joe Biden criticized former president Donald Trump during a virtual event and later denied he was referring to Trump’s supporters as “garbage.”
“They’re good, decent, honorable people. The only garbage I see floating out there is his supporters. His — his — his demonization of Latinos is unconscionable, and it’s un-American,” Biden said, according to an audio recording from a Washington Post reporter who listened in on the call. Asked for comment, a White House spokesperson, Andrew Bates, said in a statement, “The President referred to the hateful rhetoric at the Madison Square Garden rally as garbage.”
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Trump's Truth Social valued at more than Musk's X after extraordinary rally
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Brigadier General Buzz Aldrin Endorses Donald J. Trump for President of the United States
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Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk and the Billions of Ways to Influence an Election - The New York Times
The world’s richest men have their own rocket fleets, their own media and their own schemes to succeed with Donald J. Trump.
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Donald Trump Asks Reporters How They Like His New Garbage Truck – Twitchy
Law Breaking / Police / Internal Security
External Security / Militaria / Diplomania
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World War III Has Already Begun, JP Morgan Boss Says
"World War III has already begun. You already have battles on the ground being coordinated in multiple countries," Dimon said. Dimon went on to say that the United States needed to avoid being naive and allowing larger global events to play out without any intervention. "What we should be thinking about is we can't take the chance this will resolve itself. We have to make sure that we are involved in doing the right things to get it resolved properly," he added. Still, the banking leader said there was a chance the threat of WWIII could diminish over time, but the implications could be dire if things continue as they are. "I talk about the risk to us if those things go south," Dimon said. "We run scenarios that would shock you. I don't even want to mention them." Russia's threat as a nuclear power was one of Dimon's top concerns.
World
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Police in New South Wales recover 40k stolen Bluey coins from storage unit
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At least 51 people feared dead after torrential rain and floods in Spain
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Mexic an TikTokers coded words to report on narco-violence without getting banned
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Sweden and Norway rethink cashless society plans over Russia security fears
Israel
Russia Bad / Ukraine War
Health / Medicine
Pox / COVID / BioTerror AgitProp
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H5N1 virus isolated from infected dairy worker is 100% lethal in ferrets
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The Health and Employment Effects of Employer Vaccination Mandates
While mandates did slightly increase staff turnover, the effects were concentrated on staff working less than 20 hours per week, and resulted in a reduction of less than two minutes per patient-day. Furthermore, there is only limited evidence of lower levels of care at mandate facilities in typically-monitored conditions such as patient falls, pressure ulcers, or urinary tract infections. In contrast, implementing a vaccine mandate led to large increases in staff vaccinations at mandate facilities, which directly led to less transmission of and lower patient mortality from COVID. We estimate that vaccine mandates saved one patient life for every two facilities that enacted a mandate, a large effect given the typical facility has around 100 beds.
Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda
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Harvard Study Links Popular Plastic Ingredient to DNA Damage
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Japan's Mount Fuji has yet to see snow this season, breaking a 130-year record
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Musk, Bezos need just 90 minutes to match your lifetime carbon footprint: Oxfam
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EPA cancels pesticide shown to be harmful to unborn babies
The action comes after years of mounting scientific evidence of the dangers posed by exposure to the chemical dimethyl tetrachloroterephthalate, also known as DCPA or Dacthal. The agency said “robust studies” demonstrated “thyroid toxicity,” and said that unborn babies whose pregnant mothers are exposed to DCPA could experience changes to fetal thyroid hormone levels. Such changes are “generally linked to low birth weight, impaired brain development, decreased IQ, and impaired motor skills later in life, some of which may be irreversible,” the EPA said.
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Pesticides found in 80% of air samples from California farm communities