2024-11-01
workplace faith, free speech is fine, Musk misses court, de-dupe sucks, fuzzy bar codes, Biden bit babies, asylum from America, ballots burnt for Gaza, poor organs go dear, bad onions, COVID insanity
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Man arrested over theft of 22 tonnes of cheese from Neal's Yard Dairy
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(2023) Orange Juice Tankers: How Your Breakfast Sails the Seas
Grown in colossal farms near Brazil’s Atlantic coast, most oranges in the world are then squeezed, concentrated, frozen, and loaded on special-purpose carriers, ready for a long transcontinental voyage.
Horseshit
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Scientists Confirm Monkeys Do Not Have the Time to Write Shakespeare
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The problem with your boss, as you’ve laid out the situation, is not so much that this person expresses their beliefs as that they have them. It doesn’t seem unreasonable to worry, as you do, that someone so disconnected from reality might release information in an attempt to avert an imaginary conspiracy. And someone convinced that the mayor, say, was in on the conspiracy wouldn’t be subject to the usual mechanisms of restraint.
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Mars may have been habitable much more recently than thought
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Wealthier Americans Are Paying Millions to Age in Luxury Campuses
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Research shows decline in out-of-home activities since pandemic
celebrity gossip
Rank Propaganda / Thought Policing / World Disordering
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The systematic attack on sense-making - by Lorenzo Warby
The internet, via social media, also allows mobbing behaviour—shaming and shunning behaviour—following patterns that first emerge within the women’s movement in the 1960s and 1970s. As an extension of this, it also generates cancel culture—seeking to destroy the reputation, career and businesses of people for things they said or wrote, or were alleged to have so done. The techniques of cancel culture were pioneered by lobbyists purporting to speak on behalf of Jews. Techniques that social media allows other activist networks to engage in: most dramatically Trans-activists. All of which has led to a situation where majorities of people in the US and elsewhere tell pollsters they have political views they are afraid to express.
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We're in a Free Speech Golden Age - Yassine Meskhout
One of the grievances I’m perennially confused by are right-wing concerns about free speech suppression. I recently had an extensive 2.5 hour discussion with Hunter Ash, someone who is voting for Trump explicitly because he believes Kamala Harris (and the Dems in general) present a particularly pernicious threat to freedom of expression, while a second Trump presidency promises to safeguard it. I was, and remain, extremely confused by this position. One of the judgment calls I had to make was to decide how deep into basic fundamentals Ash & I needed to get into. So I started the discussion with “what is free speech and why is it good?” and at the time, I thought we had enough of a shared understanding, but it became obvious throughout I was mistaken and had not gone deep enough into fundamentals. I want to remedy that in this post. My affirmative belief is actually that we live in a historically unprecedented golden age of free expression, and I wouldn’t expect Kamala Harris to have a meaningful impact (positive or negative), at least not any different from your baseline normie politician. I also believe that it’s beyond dispute that Trump presents a unique danger to free speech, and the only way anyone can disagree would be if they have a vastly different definition of free expression than I do. So let’s start there.
I have no affirmative case for Kamala Harris as a bulwark against suppression except to point to her long barren legislative record within this field, but also because I’ve outlined why I don’t think free speech is in particular jeopardy. I like Harris for the same reason I liked Biden in 2020 — they’re both boring normie politicians who will probably be “fine”, especially when compared to the unhinged alternative.
Musk
Electric / Self Driving cars
Edumacationalizing / Acedemia Nuts
Info Rental / ShowBiz / Advertising
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WordPress co-founder Matt Mullenweg says a fork would be 'fantastic'
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Zuckerberg says AI generated content is coming to fill up your Facebook feed
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Speaking of Concord, the game's developer Firewalk Studios is gone.
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OpenZFS deduplication is good now and you shouldn't use it
with this being the first time in almost two decades that dedup has been worth even considering, I want to get some fresh information out there about what dedup is, how it worked traditionally and why it was usually bad, what we changed with fast dedup, and why it’s still probably not the thing you want.
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Microsoft's gaming revenue keeps going up, even though hardware sales are down
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300 percent price hikes push disgruntled VMware customers toward Broadcom rivals
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Men Arrested for Transcribing Godzilla Minus One, Posting Details to a Website
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Court orders Google to "uninstall" pirate IPTV App on Android devices
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Fuzzing between the lines in popular barcode software
In this blog post, we show how we fuzzed the ZBar barcode scanning library and why, despite our limited time budget, we found serious bugs: an out-of-bounds stack buffer write that can lead to arbitrary code execution with a malicious barcode, and a memory leak that can be used to perform a denial-of-service attack.
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Comcast Considers Spin-Out of Cable Networks, Will Weigh Streaming Partnerships
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Sophos' 5-Year War with the Chinese Hackers Hijacking Its Devices
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Consumers won't be offered all three years extended Windows 10 security updates
TechSuck / Geek Bait
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Newham Council plans to sell 64k block of unused IPv4 Addresses
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Increasing the number of lanes provides a performance gain, but it comes at a linear cost multiplier. While multiple lanes increase the aggregate capacity of the network, individual streams still operate within the capacity constraints of an individual lane.
AI Will (Save | Destroy) The World
Space / Boomy Zoomers / UFO
Crypto con games
Economicon / Business / Finance
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Amazon workers 'appalled' by AWS CEO's return to office remarks, urge reversal
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Super Micro's $50B stock collapse underscores risk of AI hype
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US construction industry productivity is lower than in 1970
Vice President Kamala Harris has offered an ambitious plan to build more: “Right now, a serious housing shortage is part of what is driving up cost,” she said last month in Las Vegas. “So we will cut the red tape and work with the private sector to build 3 million new homes.” Included in her proposals is a $40 billion innovation fund to support housing construction. Former president Donald Trump, meanwhile, has also called for cutting regulations but mostly emphasizes a far different way to tackle the housing crunch: mass deportation of the immigrants he says are flooding the country, and whose need for housing he claims is responsible for the huge jump in prices. (While a few studies show some local impact on the cost of housing from immigration in general, the effect is relatively small, and there is no plausible economic scenario in which the number of immigrants over the last few years accounts for the magnitude of the increase in home prices and rents across much of the country.)
Chad Syverson, one of the authors, admits he is still trying to pinpoint the reason—“It’s probably a few things.” While he says it’s difficult to quantify the specific impact of various factors on productivity, including the effects of regulatory red tape and political fights that often delay construction, “part of the industry’s problem is its own operational inefficiency. There’s no doubt about it.” In other words, the industry just isn’t very innovative.
- thats the only two mentions of "regulation" in the article.
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Swiggy IPO gets bids of $15B from big investors like Fidelity, sources say
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The McMansion Apocalypse approaches: Low-cost homes are deteriorating, worsening the US housing shortage
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Intel's Gaudi AI chips are far behind Nvidia and AMD, won't even hit $500M goal
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US inflation falls to 2.1%, almost hitting Federal Reserve target
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If you invested $10k any of these stocks in 1999, you'd have over $1M now
Gubmint / Poilitcks / Law Making
Biden Inc
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Apostrophegate: White House, Politico Writer Try to Cover Up Biden’s Latest Whopper.
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Biden bites three babies at White House Halloween party | Daily Mail Online
Biden - infamous for his playful interaction with children at public events - also feigned fright at the creepy costumes of his young visitors alongside his wife Jill who was dressed in a full-body panda suit. The 81-year-old president was pictured biting the leg of a baby dressed as a turkey, chomping the toe of a child in an ice cream cone costume and nibbling at a third baby wearing a blue dress.
Trump / Right / Jan6
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That "Little Secret" Between Trump and Johnson? Here's What It Could Mean
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A serene Steve Bannon says his stint in the slammer was ‘empowering’ - The Spectator World
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What happens if Americans claim asylum from a Trump regime?
Donald Trump has made very public threats to persecute his political opponents should he be re-elected and statements by him and by other leading Republicans suggests that he might persecute others on the grounds of their religion or their membership of certain social groups. If this were happen (rather than simply being bluster) then it could turn out, very soon, that some US citizens will find themselves outside of their country, with a well-founded fear of persecution on grounds outlined in the 1951 Refugee Convention, and on the territory of a state signatory of the Convention. Some of those states will also be allies of the US through NATO and other treaties and will have extradition treaties with the US. In which case what might happen?
- Snowden and Reade went to Russia: The agonizing story of Tara Reade - Vox
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Silicon Valley's Andreessen, Horowitz Give Millions to Trump
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What Trump's pollster is telling him about his 2024 election chances
Law Breaking / Police / Internal Security
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Rock-wielding stranger bashes NYC subway rider’s head in random attack: sources.
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Police say the man behind ballot box fires has metalworking experience
Investigators believe the man who set the incendiary devices at ballot boxes in Portland, Oregon, and nearby Vancouver, Washington, had a “wealth of experience” in metal fabrication and welding, said Portland Police Bureau spokesperson Mike Benner. The way the devices were constructed and the way they were attached to the metal drop boxes showed that expertise, Benner said. Authorities described the suspect as a white man, age 30 to 40, who is balding or has very short hair. Police previously said surveillance video showed the man driving a black or dark-colored 2001 to 2004 Volvo S-60. The vehicle did not have a front license plate, but it did have a rear plate with unknown letters or numbers.
The incendiary devices were marked with the message “Free Gaza,” according to a law enforcement official who spoke to The Associated Press on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss an ongoing investigation.
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A Financier Penned a Crime Novel. Prosecutors Want to Know How Much Was Fiction
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Gun death rates in some U.S. states comparable to conflict zones, study finds
External Security / Militaria / Diplomania
World
Russia Bad / Ukraine War
Health / Medicine
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Person accidentally poisoned 46 coworkers with pancit, a Filipino noodle dish
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How Low Socioeconomic Status Hinders Organ Donation
we propose that this effect occurs in part because the body is more central to the sense of self of lower-SES individuals. We test our predictions across seven studies (N = 8,782) conducted in different countries (United States and Brazil) with qualitative, observational, and experimental data in controlled and field settings. Results show that lower-SES individuals ascribe a greater weight to their bodies in forming their self-concept, which reduces their willingness to donate organs.
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Slivered onions are likely cause of McDonald's E. coli outbreak, CDC says
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Study: Less sugar in first 1k days of life protects against chronic disease
Pox / COVID / BioTerror AgitProp
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Covid-19 No Longer the Leading Cause of Death from Infectious Diseases
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Why Do Mental Health Conditions Lead to More Severe Covid? - The New York Times
It’s been clear since the early days of the pandemic: People with mental illness are more likely to have severe outcomes from Covid. Compared to the general population, they’re at higher risk of being hospitalized, developing long Covid or dying from an infection. That fact puts mental illness on the same list as better-known Covid risk factors like cardiovascular issues, chronic kidney disease and asthma. When it comes to Covid risk, mental illness “shouldn’t be treated differently than you treat diabetes or heart disease or cancer,” said Dr. Ziyad Al-Aly, the chief of research and development at the Veterans Affairs St. Louis Healthcare System.
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Idaho health district abandons Covid shots amid flood of anti-vaccine nonsense