2024-11-02
China is like the US used to be, misplaced faiths, Musk's illegal voters, unstrung theory, 8k hr to decide it sucks, stats lie, jobs "up", election stress, Biden said garbage, Norks in Ukraine
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How China Is Like the 19th Century U.S.
I’ve been struck by how many parallels there are between modern China (roughly the period from the late 1970s till today) and the Gilded Age/Progressive era U.S. (roughly the period from the late 1860s to the 1920s). During these periods, unprecedented levels of economic growth combined with large populations were making both the U.S. and China wealthy and powerful. Both countries were urbanizing, building enormous amounts of infrastructure, and becoming by far the largest manufacturers in the world, with industrial operations of unprecedented size. Both were undergoing wrenching social and cultural change as old institutions were replaced by new ones, and the countries began to become “modern.” Both were nations of ambitious strivers, where it seemed like anyone with talent could make themselves into a success by catching the tide of rising opportunity. Despite the many differences between the two countries, the forces of development pulled them along very similar paths.
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88lbs Nissan's 1.5L, 400-HP 3-Cylinder Engine Deserved to Live on Beyond Racing
Horseshit
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Universe would die before monkey with keyboard writes Shakespeare, study finds
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Crowds gather in Dublin for fake Halloween parade posted on social media
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Freud and the Beatles - by Arnold Kling - In My Tribe
Starting in 1965, and especially in 1966 and 1967, the Beatles left behind the musical formula that appealed to young teenagers. In 1966, I was typical of the adolescents who could not appreciate the Beatles as they evolved that year. I switched my allegiance to other groups, who stuck closer to the Beatles’ original pop formula. But many Beatles fans, especially older teenagers, followed them as their lyrics and music became more sophisticated. By late 1967, the rock music scene was dividing into the mild pop tunes of AM radio and the edgy “underground” music of FM radio. When the Beatles released Sergeant Pepper in 1967, they planted their musical flag in the FM territory. By that time, my tastes had progressed and I was ready to reconnect with them.
- I see it differently; modern marketing and social trends are the schismatic faith fights without the acknowledgment of the religious basis they used to have. We're not Monophysites and Nestorians now; we're Swifties or Tesla drivers.
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300 people applied to rent $700/month sleeping pods in downtown San Francisco
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Broken trust: How a Clearwater man took $100M from funds for disabled
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Facial Recognition That Tracks Suspicious Friendliness Coming to Stores Near You
Rank Propaganda / Thought Policing / World Disordering
Musk
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Musk's political tweets appear in X users' feeds whether they want it or not
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Fact-checking Elon Musk's claim about Democrats importing voters
He has also claimed repeatedly that Democrats have been "importing" immigrants who will vote for them in future elections. But voting and immigration experts we have spoken to have challenged this, pointing out that it is illegal for them to vote in federal elections and that even if some might qualify for citizenship eventually, the process would take many years.
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Everyone bitched about Elon’s pay package, but in fact he was being underpaid
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Why a Memphis Community Is Fighting Elon Musk's Supercomputer
Religion / Tribal / Culture War and Re-Segregation
Edumacationalizing / Acedemia Nuts
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The Crisis in String Theory Is Worse Than You Think
Look, there are still people who believe in the flat Earth, for God’s sakes. There’s people who believe all kinds of weird stuff. Don’t think about individuals. Think about the consensus of the largest fraction of physicists working on these things, and you’ll probably be right. The overall consensus of the field tends to be right. Peculiar individuals, no matter how famous they are, no matter how brilliant they are, if they’re off that consensus, and they’ve been off that consensus for a long time, they’re probably wrong. That doesn’t mean for sure that they’re wrong. Don’t look for the weirdos. Look for what the consensus of the majority of well-respected, highly accomplished physicists believe. And you’ll probably be right. There’s no guarantee of it. There are very few cases where the consensus has gone wrong for a long period of time, just where some offbeat idea of some particular individual suddenly changes everything. I’m not saying it doesn’t happen, but rarely. Penrose, what can I say? He believes all kinds of things that I wouldn’t subscribe to. But more than that, things that the consensus wouldn’t subscribe to.
Info Rental / ShowBiz / Advertising
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Guy gives a negative review to Battlezone after playing 8k hours; He's right
Herp McDerperson—real name Scott Smith—who I discovered one day when I stumbled on the negative review he left on Steam for Battlezone 98 Redux (BZ98R), Rebellion's 2016 remaster of the original RTS/FPS hybrid from 1998. A negative review which he left, says Steam, after 8,461.1 hours of playtime, then followed up with 600 more.
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They Are Scrubbing the Internet Right Now ⋆ Brownstone Institute
- Archive has always been a subcreature of the Tides Foundation; and has always has politically motivated holes in it coverage.
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Cybercriminals Are Stealing Cookies to Bypass Multifactor Authentication
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Google employees pressure execs at all-hands meeting for clarity on cost cuts
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Hate and harassment have no place on Twitch
There is no place on Twitch for racism, hatred, or harassment of any kind, including antisemitism and Islamophobia.
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Study: 76% of U.S. Residents Want Government to Address Soaring Broadband Prices
TechSuck / Geek Bait
AI Will (Save | Destroy) The World
Space / Boomy Zoomers / UFO
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Voyager 1 Reconnects with Earth over Radio That Hasn't Been Used in 47 Years
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A sign of life for Europe's sovereign satellite Internet constellation
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NASA panel calls on SpaceX to "maintain focus" on Dragon safety after anomalies
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Apple sinks $1.1B into Globalstar's satellite network, takes ownership stake
Crypto con games
Economicon / Business / Finance
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Can we trust official statistics? The data gaps shaping our view of the economy
In theory, we live in an age of data abundance. But in some high-profile cases, we simply know less than we once did. The sorriest case is Britain’s labour force survey (LFS). Whereas in 2014 roughly half of households bothered to respond, these days the share is closer to one in five. This collapse has exposed figures to volatility and potential bias, enough for the Office for National Statistics to have downgraded measures of inactivity and unemployment to “official statistics in development”. (I prefer the “numerical naughty step” or “nonsense number territory”.)
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Payroll employment essentially unchanged in October; jobless rate holds at 4.1%
of course, as has been the case for the entire Biden admin, previous months were revised sharply lower once again: August was revised down by 81,000, from +159,000 to +78,000, and September was revised down by 31,000, from +254,000 to +223,000. With these revisions, employment in August and September combined is 112,000 lower than previously reported. This means that even after the monster September revision when 818K jobs were removed, 7 of the past 9 months were again revised lower!
while the total payroll number was just barely positive, if one excludes the 40K government jobs, private payrolls was in fact negative to the tune of -28K, down from 223K pre-revision last month, and the first negative print since December 2020. In other words, we were right... when it comes to actual, non-parasite "government" jobs.
Friday’s downbeat employment update, released only days before the US election, revealed just 12,000 non-farming jobs were added in October, down from 223,000 a month earlier. This marked the slowest rate of growth since late 2020, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, as analysts blamed the impact of hurricanes and strike action at Boeing. While hiring slowed, America’s unemployment rate remained unchanged at 4.1pc.
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FTC Sends $2.5M to Consumers Deceived by Credit Karma's "Pre-Approved" Offers
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US Government tries to rein in an out-of-control subscription economy
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As datacenters strain the power grid, bills projected to rise for customers
Gubmint / Poilitcks / Law Making
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US FTC probing Deere over customers' 'right to repair' equipment
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Elite School Will Offer a Day Off for Students Distressed by Election - The New York Times
One of New York City’s elite private schools told families on Thursday that “students who feel too emotionally distressed” the day after Election Day will be excused from classes, and that psychologists will be available during the week to provide counseling. In a section of an email to members of the school’s community headed “Election Day support,” Stacey Bobo, principal of the upper school at the institution, the Ethical Culture Fieldston School, said that it “acknowledges that this may be a high-stakes and emotional time for our community.” “No matter the election outcome,” she wrote, the school “will create space to provide students with the support they may need.” No homework will be assigned on Election Day, the email said, and no student assessments will take place on Wednesday. Excused absences will be allowed on Wednesday or whatever day the election results are announced for students who feel unable to “fully engage in classes.”
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Voting machine companies are fighting the next disinformation war
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CPAC claims evidence of Wisconsin illegal ‘ballot harvesting.’
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Iconic Gun-Makers Gave Sensitive Customer Information to Political Operatives (Archive)
At least 10 gun industry businesses, including Glock, Smith & Wesson, Remington and Mossberg, secretly handed over names, addresses and other data to lobbyists, who used the details to rally firearm owners to elect pro-gun politicians.
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After the Election, California Will Keep Moving the World Forward No Matter What | WIRED
The state has been written off as a woke wasteland. But it’s still inventing the future on a bunch of frontiers nobody’s talking about. Even if Trump wins, it will remain a golden, global example.
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Record numbers of wealthy Americans are making plans to leave US after election
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Half of Young Voters Say They've Lied about Which Candidates They Support
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The Trump Betting Whale Speaks Out: 'I Have No Political Agenda'
Harris / Democrats
Biden Inc
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WhiteHouse altered transcript of "garbage" remarks despite stenographer concerns
White House press officials altered the official transcript of a call in which President Joe Biden appeared to take a swipe at supporters of Donald Trump, drawing objections from the federal workers who document such remarks for posterity, according to two U.S. government officials and an internal email obtained Thursday by The Associated Press. Biden created an uproar earlier this week with his remarks to Latino activists responding to racist comments at a Trump rally made by the comedian Tony Hinchcliffe, who referred to the U.S. island territory of Puerto Rico as a “floating island of garbage.”
Biden, according to a transcript prepared by the official White House stenographers, told the Latino group on a Tuesday evening video call, “The only garbage I see floating out there is his supporters — his — his demonization of Latinos is unconscionable, and it’s un-American.”
The transcript released by the White House press office, however, rendered the quote with an apostrophe, reading “supporter’s” rather than “supporters,” which aides said pointed to Biden criticizing Hinchcliffe, not the millions of Americans who are supporting Trump for president.
The change was made after the press office “conferred with the president,” according to an internal email from the head of the stenographers’ office that was obtained by The AP. The authenticity of the email was confirmed by two government officials who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss internal matters. The supervisor, in the email, called the press office’s handling of the matter “a breach of protocol and spoliation of transcript integrity between the Stenography and Press Offices.”
Trump / Right / Jan6
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Listen to Jeffrey Epstein Spill Intel on Donald Trump's White House
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MAGA world's hyper-confidence raises risk of post-election meltdown
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Brace, Brace, Brace – The Laughing Wolf
We could well see an action as was just seen in France, where Macaroon refused to acknowledge the results of the last election. What happens here, if the peaceful transfer of power does not take place? It really doesn’t matter how or even if there is a shred of legality to anything done, the question will come back to what happens now. What happens when one side knows lawfare and more (and if you think the people killed/murdered in unnecessary dawn raids were not noticed, you are mistaken). What if one side sees it as the end of the life they’ve known, and other other knows it means the end of their lives and that of their loved ones? What happens if the Constitution is null and void. Do I think the so-called ‘elites’ are stupid enough to go there? Yes. Most live in a bubble and have no clue about reality, history, or much else. They do think the deplorables will just accept, go along, and wear the chains. They have no clue of what is and has been building, and that their place in history is gone.
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The Untold Story of Trump's Failed Attempt to Overthrow Venezuela's President | WIRED
A successful CIA hack of Venezuela's military payroll system, insider fights for spy agency resources, and messy opposition politics: A WIRED investigation reveals a secret Trump-era attempt to oust autocratic ruler Nicolás Maduro.
Law Breaking / Police / Internal Security
External Security / Militaria / Diplomania
World
Israel
Russia Bad / Ukraine War
China
Health / Medicine
Pox / COVID / BioTerror AgitProp
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OHA reports 3 humans with bird flu traveled to Oregon during Washington outbreak
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Bird Flu Is Step Closer to Mixing with Seasonal Flu and Becoming a Pandemic
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An Idaho health department isn't allowed to give Covid vaccines anymore
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Tuberculosis patient possibly exposed hundreds at Georgia school, amid global rise.