2024-11-10
self driving quibbles, South Park insensitive, scalpers scuppered, reasons RasPi rules, satellite hacked (in the 1970s), ludicrous liberal lamentations, marketing miracles, COVID quarantine camps
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Horseshit
Musk
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NHTSA: Tesla's social media posts falsely implied that its cars are robotaxis
“Tesla’s X (Twitter) account has re-posted or endorsed postings that exhibit disengaged driver behavior,” Gregory Magno, the head of the NHTSA, wrote to Tesla’s board in an email in May that was made public on Friday. “Tesla’s postings conflict with its stated messaging that the driver is to maintain continued control over the dynamic driving task.” Magno warned that viewers of Tesla’s online communications, including posts on X, may expect a car with the company’s Full Self-Driving Supervised, or FSD, system to have the capabilities of a robotaxi even though they require human supervision, meaning a driver ready to steer or brake at any time.
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Elon Musk appears to have tweaked X's algorithm to promote Trump, study claims
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Elon Musk endorses plan to let presidents meddle with Federal Reserve
Religion / Tribal / Culture War and Re-Segregation
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South Park Timmy: The disabled character from 24 years ago getting me harassed today
My name is Alex. But increasingly young people shout “Timmy” at me in the street. This isn’t mistaken identity - it‘s mockery because I use a wheelchair. I should ignore it, but this time, I react. I turn to see a group of young teenage boys smirking in front of me. “I heard you,” I tell them. “I know exactly who Timmy is.” I know this because although we do not share a name, I have felt the shadow of Timmy since childhood - never through choice.
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Authorities investigating racist SMS' sent to Black people after US elections
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They apparently didn't lose enough of the "advocacy" division: Mozilla Festival: Co-Creating a Feminist AI Alliance for Climate Justice
Info Rental / ShowBiz / Advertising
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This week saw Sony launch the mid-cycle PlayStation 5 Pro refresh. These enhancements haven't won over everyone – they're not always immediately noticeable – and the Pro's $699 price raised plenty of eyebrows. It's probably why there hasn't been a huge amount of fanfare around its launch this week, but that didn't stop the scalpers expecting to make a profit on other people's desperation. What the resellers didn't count on is PS5 Pro demand not outpacing supply. The console is in stock and available from most retailers, including Newegg.
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MacOS runs apps inside a sandbox for added security. Does it add security? No.
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Period Tracking App Refuses to Disclose Data to American Authorities
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Patents Nintendo Suing Palworld over Confirmed, But, Damn, This Suit Is Weird
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Core Contributors Voice Concerns over "Culture of Fear" in WordPress Community
TechSuck / Geek Bait
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Why Raspberry Pi for an SBC guy | Jeff Geerling
So many times I hop on a new SBC board train, and end up spending more time just getting to the point I can start doing a project... than actually doing a project.
AI Will (Save | Destroy) The World
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It might even work for other sentient beings: Debate May Help AI Models Converge on Truth
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OpenAI defeats news outlets' copyright lawsuit over AI training, for now
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AI groups rush to redesign model testing and create new benchmarks
Space / Boomy Zoomers / UFO
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Somebody moved UK's oldest satellite, and no-one knows who or why
aunched in 1969, just a few months after humans first set foot on the Moon, Skynet-1A was put high above Africa's east coast to relay communications for British forces. When the spacecraft ceased working a few years later, gravity might have been expected to pull it even further to the east, out over the Indian Ocean. But today, curiously, Skynet-1A is actually half a planet away, in a position 22,369 miles (36,000km) above the Americas. Orbital mechanics mean it's unlikely the half-tonne military spacecraft simply drifted to its current location. Almost certainly, it was commanded to fire its thrusters in the mid-1970s to take it westwards. The question is who that was and with what authority and purpose?
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NASA Remains Silent on Why Crew Went to Hospital After Dragon Splashdown
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NASA SpaceX Crew-8 astronauts to speak publicly for first time since return.
Economicon / Business / Finance
Trump
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Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos, and other execs congratulate Trump on election win.
The cowards of Silicon Valley have spoken. After former President Donald Trump defeated Vice President Kamala Harris to clinch a second stint in the White House, he was greeted with a chorus of overzealous congratulations from the richest people in the United States.
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Judge Sets Monday Deadline For Giuliani To Hand Over Assets | ZeroHedge
Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani has until Monday, Nov. 11 to transfer some of his assets from his Palm Beach property to the law firm representing plaintiffs in the defamation suit against him.
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JD Vance says US could drop support for NATO if Europe tries to regulate Musk
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Biden and Trump will meet in the Oval Office on Wednesday, the White House says
Democrats / Biden Inc / Left Angst
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Living in a Post-truth World | Not Even Wrong
I grew up in the 1960s and 70s, at a time when fundamental physics was making huge dramatic progress and Western democracies were changing in equally dramatic ways, mostly for the better. It truly did seem that the Age of Aquarius was upon us, and that human societies were on a consistent route to progress, however uneven. By the late 1970s and early 1980s things had started to change, but that humanity and my chosen field of science were sooner or later moving forward still seemed self-evident. By the late 1990s the situation started getting more disturbing. The likes of Newt Gingrich started taking over the Republican party, with a highly successful propaganda arm called Fox News running 24 hours a day, pushing lies about the Democrats, especially the Clintons (remember Whitewater?). For some mysterious reason, even the New York Times joined in. In theoretical physics, proponents of a failed theory dominated the subject, putting out endless propaganda to the public such as Michio Kaku’s Hyperspace.
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The Problem With Blaming White Women - The Atlantic
Democrats should not dismiss Trump’s win as the result of sexism and racism alone.
It was an egregious mistake—not just in retrospect but in real time—to allow Joe Biden to renege on his implicit promise to be a one-term president, and to indulge his vain refusal to clear the way for younger and more charismatic leaders to rise up and meet the magnitude of the political moment. Perhaps no candidate, not even one blessed with the talents of a Bill Clinton or a Barack Obama, could have overcome the handicap imposed on Kamala Harris when she emerged valiantly from the wreckage of the Weekend at Bernie’s campaign this summer, which her own administration had so brazenly tried to sneak past the voting public. But other major mistakes were made over the past four years. The Biden presidency was understood to be a return to normalcy and competence after the terrible upheavals of the early months of COVID and the circus of the first Trump administration. That was the deal Americans thought had been accepted—that was Biden’s mandate. Instead, as president, even as he leaned into plenty of policies that served all Americans, Biden either could not or would not forcefully distance himself from the Democratic Party’s need for performative “wokeness”—the in-group messaging used by hyper-online and overeducated progressives that consistently alienates much of the rest of the nation.
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This is what a Democrat staffer thinks
Far too often in this campaign, we felt like we were settling our diversity quota by taking queer white people and putting them in positions of power, not understanding that at the core of their being, if they haven't unlearned their toxic whiteness and white fragility, that they would see all of their decisions through the lens of a person that is more aligned and more fitting with a Trump presidency than that of a presidency of Kamala Harris.
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Liberal women withhold sex, shave heads to protest Trump win: ‘My bodily autonomy matters’.
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Bitter Pelosi now says Biden should have dropped out earlier so Democrats could have ‘open primary’.
The former House speaker, a party grandee who was instrumental in persuading the president to eventually step aside, criticised Biden for not dropping out of the race sooner. She also said there should have been an internal process to decide on the candidate rather than the coronation of Kamala Harris. Pelosi, 84, believes Harris would have “done well” in the primary and “been stronger going forward”. The San Francisco representative told the New York Times: “Had the president gotten out sooner, there may have been other candidates in the race.” She added: “The anticipation was that, if the president were to step aside, that there would be an open primary. And as I say, Kamala may have, I think she would have done well in that and been stronger going forward. But we don’t know that. That didn’t happen. We live with what happened. “And because the president endorsed Kamala Harris immediately, that really made it almost impossible to have a primary at that time. If it had been much earlier, it would have been different.”
- "defending democracy" with a candidate that no one voted for turned out to be a poor idea. who could have known...
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Democratic Party Chairman Goes After Sanders, Questions North Carolina Results in Online Posts.
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'A fatal miscalculation': masculinity researcher on why Democrats lost young men
The expectation was we’re going to see this break towards Trump among men overall and we’re going to see a break towards Kamala Harris among women overall. But only half of that really seemed to come true. Trump did overperform among young men, but Harris underperformed among young women. That is a surprise. I think that an election that was initially expected to be about women and women’s issues turned out to be an election about men. My former colleague Elaine Kamarck, now of Brookings Institute, was on NPR saying that abortion just didn’t play as big an issue as people thought. It’s not that women didn’t care about it. It just wasn’t as salient.
The Harris-Walz campaign could have leaned pretty hard into a pro-male policy agenda and presentation. When you have a woman at the top of the ticket, no one thinks she’s a closet misogynist. With Walz, you’ve got the first public school teacher to run for high office, who is also a coach. I mean, if you’re ever going to have a ticket that could speak to men, for the love of God, it was this one. They could have gone out there with some pretty substantive ideas. Instead, zip. Even my progressive feminist friends were watching the DNC and saying: “Is there going to be anything for men?” Whereas the RNC was a carnival of masculinity. The Republicans put out a welcome mat there for men and said: “We can see you, we’re cool with you being guys, we like guys, the Democrats hate you, they think you’re the problem.”
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Democrats suddenly see value in Federalism and states' rights: Gov. Gavin Newsom Moves Quickly to Counter Trump in California - The New York Times
In California, Gov. Gavin Newsom called lawmakers on Thursday into a legislative special session next month “to safeguard California values and fundamental rights in the face of an incoming Trump administration.” In Illinois, Gov. JB Pritzker said on Thursday he would ask his state’s legislators, possibly as soon as next week, to address potential threats from a second Trump term. “You come for my people,” Mr. Pritzker said at a news conference, “you come through me.”
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CNN’s Bill Weir Declares ‘Notorious Climate Denier’ Trump Will Let Earth ‘Go to Hell.’
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Radical Left Activates Anti-Trump Protests In Midtown Manhattan | ZeroHedge
Law Breaking / Police / Internal Security
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Horowitz isn’t alone in this approach to supporting police. Soliciting donations to police foundations to cover the cost of specific equipment purchases is an increasingly popular and controversial approach taken by some of the largest departments around the country. Experts and advocates on police accountability and surveillance told TechCrunch that police foundations bypass the typical procurement process that can include public meetings, a city-approved budget, and a potential bidding period to give competitors a chance. “It’s horrifying from a good government perspective, from a nonprofit [and] ethics perspective, and just really has become such a major part of how novel police technologies are advertised and marketed,” Albert Fox Cahn, founder and executive director of the Surveillance Technology Oversight Project, said in an interview. Fox Cahn and others also said donations can set up companies for ongoing contracts where taxpayers foot the bill. And they say it can tilt the playing field. In Skydio’s case, the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department owned products from at least three other drone companies before Horowitz’s donation, a prior public records request revealed.
External Security / Militaria / Diplomania
World
Russia Bad / Ukraine War
Health / Medicine
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Marketing budgets confer miraculous effectiveness: Anti-obesity drug has life-changing benefits for arthritis
The drug, semaglutide, provided pain relief on a par with opioid drugs. At the end of the trial, many participants’ pain had subsided enough that they were no longer eligible for the study, says Henning Bliddal, a rheumatologist at Copenhagen University Hospital at Bispebjerg and Frederiksberg who helped to conduct the trial. “They got a therapy that was so effective that they more or less were treated out of the study,” he says.
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Scientist treated her own cancer with viruses she grew in the lab
Pox / COVID / BioTerror AgitProp
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The CDC Planned Quarantine Camps Nationwide ⋆ Brownstone Institute
People were to be isolated, given only food and some cleaning supplies. They would be banned from participating in any religious services. The plan included contingencies for preventing suicide. There were no provisions made for any legal appeals or even the right to legal counsel. The plan’s authors were unnamed but included 26 footnotes. It was completely official. The document was only removed on about March 26, 2023. During the entire intervening time, the plan survived on the CDC’s public site with little to no public notice or controversy. It was called “Interim Operational Considerations for Implementing the Shielding Approach to Prevent COVID-19 Infections in Humanitarian Settings.”
The shielding approach aims to reduce the number of severe COVID-19 cases by limiting contact between individuals at higher risk of developing severe disease (“high-risk”) and the general population (“low-risk”). High-risk individuals would be temporarily relocated to safe or “green zones” established at the household, neighborhood, camp/sector or community level depending on the context and setting.1,2 They would have minimal contact with family members and other low-risk residents.
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7% of participating dairy workers had recent infection with bird flu