2025-01-16
bear bones, Greenland games, CapOne and Deere sued, Musk, CapOne and Deere sued, show ID, Pete's dress, voting broken, corporate MAGA, drones freed, SKorea pres arrested, Gaza deal, FDA bans red
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If you want to know how electro-gravitic drone propulsion works, this is it
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DNA Testing Shatters Cleopatra Legend: Ephesos Skull Identified as Male Child
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Applying Shannon's Information Theory to genetics – mutations are not random
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20,000-year-old 'human' fossils from Japan aren't what we thought | Live Science
The 20,000-year-old fossilized bones of "Ushikawa Man," thought to be some of Japan's most ancient human fossils, are not what scientists believed they were, new research finds. Instead, they are the bones of an ancient bear.
LA Fires
Horseshit
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Humble and Fried, Chips Are the Hot Dish at Fancy London Restaurants
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Ask Wirecutter: Can You Help Me Stop Mindlessly Scrolling on My Phone?
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in many locations around the world, that indigenous groups end up with far more bargaining power than their initial material resources might suggest. For instance, in the United States Native Americans often (not always) can exercise true sovereignty. The AARP cannot (yet?) say the same. In Mexico, indigenous groups have blocked many an infrastructure project. One reason for these powers is that, feeling outmatched, the indigenous groups cultivate a temperament of “orneriness” and “being difficult.” Some of that may be a deliberate strategic stance, some of it may be heritage from having been treated badly in the past and still lacking trust, and some of it may, over time, be acquired culture as the strategic stance gets baked into norms and behavior patterns. Often, in these equilibria, the more nominal power you have over the indigenous group, the more orneriness they will have to cultivate.
- The ethics of "indigenous" vs conquering is not relevant i guess.
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Caltech's Cannon-Launched Squid Drone Doubles in Size, Goes Autonomous
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Brussels' meddling with our phone chargers is a sign big tech has failed
Rank Propaganda / Thought Policing / World Disordering
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Misinformation and Radical-Right Populism
we find that radical-right populism is the strongest determinant for the propensity to spread misinformation. Populism, left-wing populism, and right-wing politics are not linked to the spread of misinformation. These results suggest that political misinformation should be understood as part and parcel of the current wave of radical right populism, and its opposition to liberal democratic institution.
- "Christians are right, and heathens are wrong." If you have any questions, that shows you are a heathen.
Facebok
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Bay Area tech giant Meta to dump workers, then hire replacements
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Meta lawyer Mark Lemley quits AI case citing Zuckerberg 'descent'
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Brazil says Meta hate speech policy changes do not fit with local law
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Opinion | Mark Zuckerberg’s Macho Posturing Looks a Lot Like Cowardice - The New York Times
Having grown up under an authoritarian regime, I cherish the right to free speech that Zuckerberg kept talking about. But having gone on to study the way that authoritarian regimes work, I know to focus on what people do, not what they say.
one of the most recent actions that Zuckerberg’s supposedly emboldened company took was to banish tampons from office men’s rooms. (The products had been provided for transgender or nonbinary employees.) “Masculine energy,” my lady-parts — that is the most snowflake move I’ve heard of in a long time. If the men in your company can’t even handle the sight of a box of tampons, you’ve got bigger problems than an A.C.L. tear. It wasn’t the only bizarre contradiction of the week. Zuckerberg says that in the name of free speech, the company he founded “to give people a voice” will no longer attempt to moderate hate speech and misinformation. Facebook will now allow users to allege, among other things, “mental illness or abnormality when based on gender or sexual orientation.” And the rule that prohibited users from claiming that people of certain races were responsible for spreading the coronavirus? It’s gone. Slander whoever you like. Knock yourself out.
Musk
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SEC sues Elon Musk, alleging failure to properly disclose Twitter ownership
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Elon Musk, Nigel Farage and the Second Cummings – Byline Times
A transatlantic coalition of extreme misfits and weirdos is plotting regime change on both sides of the Atlantic,
described as a “career psychopath” does not see his mission as by any means over. And, in Elon Musk, he has found a weirdo of world-historical proportions with the means and motivation to help him accomplish it.
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German army deserts X as Berlin vs. Elon Musk feud rumbles on
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Safety advocates fear Tesla will face less accountability for car crashes
Electric / Self Driving cars
Edumacationalizing / Acedemia Nuts
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Henrietta Lacks Seems Like A Nice Person, But Not A Scientific Hero
Everybody talked about HeLa cells, the amazing cell line that makes research much more effective, and nobody talked about Henrietta Lacks, the person. Companies published the HeLa cells’ DNA, and records of Lacks’ cancer, without asking family members. It would be an understatement to say that has since been corrected. There have been hundreds of articles talking about how racist and disgusting science is for not treating Lacks’ family better or acknowledging Henrietta the person.
her life and legacy are now successfully being acknowledged and celebrated. Congress passed a resolution honoring Lacks in 1997. She has received honorary degrees, the WHO’s Director General Award, and membership in the National Women’s Hall Of Fame. Atlanta declared October 11 “Henrietta Lacks Day”. There is a high school named after her in Washington, a plaza named after her in Virginia, and an asteroid named after her somewhere between Mars and Jupiter. In 2014, at the 9th annual Henrietta Lacks Memorial Lecture, the dean of Johns Hopkins announced the college’s new research building would be named after Lacks
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The relationship between homeschooling and college attendance
Info Rental / ShowBiz / Advertising
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Tech supplier ARM plans to hike prices, has considered developing its own chips
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TikTok Prepares for Immediate Shut-Off in the U.S. on Sunday
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they didn't push Bluesky this hard: Do you think RedNote will replace TikTok?
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Duolingo sees 216% spike in U.S. users learning Chinese amid TikTok ban
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Intel, AMD engineers rush to save Linux 6.13 after dodgy Microsoft code change
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Mozilla Settles Case over Its Refusal to Hire Apple Activist
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Hands on With Nvidia Multi Frame Gen on the RTX 5090
During a closed-door media session with journalists, Nvidia touted the power of its new, bulky, and expensive RTX 50-series cards. The pack is led by the $2,000 RTX 5090, with the desktop GPU running with 32GB of VRAM.
Nvidia claims a game like Star Wars: Outlaws will only run at 50 FPS at 4K and max settings on a 5090 and no upscaling. With DLSS 4, plus all the bells and whistles, Nvidia claims you can get more than 250 FPS with less latency than standard. It sounds too good to be true, and if you’re a PC gaming purist, it may well be. In essence, Nvidia’s frame gen uses a generating model to predict the next frame in a sequence, then inserts a new frame based on the normal, rendered in-game image.
- Hands on == "we told we were being shown a real product"
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FTC Action Against GoDaddy for Lax Data Security in Its Website Hosting Services
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Your Exercise Gear Reserves The Right To Track And Sell Data On How You Smell
TechSuck / Geek Bait
AI Will (Save | Destroy) The World
Space / Boomy Zoomers / UFO
Economicon / Business / Finance
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CFPB sues Capital One for 'cheating' customers out over $2B in interest
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Shove your office mandates, people still prefer working from home
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Microsoft lays off employees in security, experiences, devices, sales and gaming
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Hindenburg Research to Be Disbanded
Nate Anderson, who started Hindenburg in 2017, cited the toll of the "rather intense, and at times, all-encompassing” nature of the work as the reason for his decision, in a note published on Wednesday. "The plan has been to wind up after we finished the pipeline of ideas we were working on," he said. "That day is today."
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US state regulators fine Block Inc $80M for insufficient AML controls
Gubmint / Poilitcks / Law Making
Trump
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OpenAI's Sam Altman urges Trump to ease power plant, data center construction
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Jack Smith, the prosecutor who would never admit what he was doing - Washington Examiner
All this time, Smith never, ever mentioned the election he was racing to beat. Obviously, if he said, “I am trying to put the Republican presidential nominee in jail before the election,” that wouldn’t have gone over too well with many people. But that is exactly what Smith was trying to do.
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Pete Hegseth Dresses for Defense - The New York Times
To be specific, he was wearing the now-signature Trump uniform: the bright blue suit, pristine white shirt with spread collar and perfectly knotted red tie, this time with subtle navy stripes, that acts as a Pavlovian allusion to the American flag. The uniform that has been adopted by Trump acolytes like Vice President-elect JD Vance. The one that is a sign of allegiance not only to the country but to Mr. Trump himself. In case anyone didn’t get the picture, Mr. Hegseth added an Old Glory print pocket square — one he also favored during many of his previous visits to Capitol Hill — in matching red, white and blue. Not to mention some star-spangled socks and a flag belt buckle.
Hidden were almost all of his tattoos: a large Jerusalem Cross, a “Join or Die” snake, and an American flag with a stripe replaced by an AR-15 among them, among others. Just a hint of ink reaching from his right forearm to his wrist peeked out from a carefully buttoned shirtsleeve. (It seemed to be the tail end of his “We the People” script.) Left behind was the stars ‘n’ stripes cowboy hat. Unseen was the Uncle Sam jacket linings that Mr. Hegseth occasionally flashed in his role as a Fox News host — though contained, perhaps, under the neatly buttoned jacket. (Flashes of shirtsleeves suggested there may have been some red underneath.)
Certainly he did not look like the hard-drinking, adulterous, budget-mismanaging person that critics of his nomination had described. He looked clean-cut, not politically correct but patriotically correct. How could anyone doubt his love for his country or his standards? He was wearing them on his back.
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FBI Declares No 'Credible Threats' Ahead Of Trump Inauguration | ZeroHedge
Democrats / Biden Inc
Left Angst
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Opinion | How to Fix America’s Two-Party Problem - The New York Times
In less polarized political times, winner-take-all systems can do a decent job of reflecting public opinion and maintaining democratic stability, but when a nation is deeply divided and large numbers of people fear that they will not be represented at all, the result is an erosion of trust in government and rising extremism and political violence. As the political scientist Barbara F. Walter has observed, a majority of civil wars over the last century appear to have broken out in countries with winner-take-all systems. No democracy can survive long in the face of this much division and distrust. It’s hardly surprising, then, that more than two-thirds of Americans want to see major changes in our political system. Roughly the same proportion wish they had more than two parties to choose from. They’re right: Two parties competing in winner-take-all elections cannot reflect the diversity of 335 million Americans.
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Fearing Trump visa crackdown, immigrant tech workers cancel travel plans
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Corporate America Cozier With Trump the Second Time Around | National News | U.S. News
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Is corporate America going Maga?
Bezos’s rush to cosy up to the Trumps has been matched by corporate executives across America, as tech billionaires, financiers and the leaders of some of the US’s best-known consumer groups hurry to adjust to a more conservative zeitgeist in the wake of Trump’s election victory and the Republican sweep of both houses of Congress. In a mirror image of the 2020 corporate rush to support social justice causes after the murder of George Floyd by a policeman, companies today are reshaping the way they interact with their customers, employees and society at large. Some of the moves, such as the parade of CEOs visiting Trump in Florida, the donations, and the effort to do business with people in his inner circle, appear designed to curry favour with a man famous for attacking companies and executives he dislikes.
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Trump's DOT pick wants EV owners to pay to use roads
In many states, EV owners already pay to use roads in order to compensate for the fact that they don’t contribute to fuel tax revenues. Some, like Georgia and Illinois, charge a flat fee (and in Illinois’s case that fee is higher than what owners of gas-burning cars pay). Others like Utah charge based on weight or mileage, which is tracked by the state.
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Zuckerberg urges Trump to stop the EU from fining US tech companies
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Heritage Foundation plans to identify and target Wikipedia editors
Law Breaking / Police / Internal Security
External Security / Militaria / Diplomania
World
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South Korea's impeached President Yoon Suk Yeol arrested, local media reports
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NATO launches 'Baltic Sentry' to increase critical infrastructure security
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Trapped in dark for 35 hours Red Sea dive-boat survivors tell terrifying escapes
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Halt illegal imports of conflict minerals from DRC, campaigners urge EU
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Great Britain's energy system operator blocks access to grid connection queue
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Javier Milei doubles down on Argentina’s unorthodox currency policy
Argentina’s libertarian President Javier Milei is slowing the monthly devaluation of the peso, doubling down on an unorthodox currency policy that he says is essential to ending the country’s inflation crisis. Milei last year allowed the peso’s official exchange rate to weaken by just 2 per cent a month, or 22.8 per cent over the year, despite consumer prices rising 117 per cent in 2024 compared with 2023. That caused the peso to appreciate more than any other currency in real terms last year, fuelling concerns about the competitiveness of Argentine businesses among some economists.
Israel
Health / Medicine
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Drinking green tea linked to fewer white matter lesions in brains of olderAdults
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Longevity-Obsessed Tech Millionaire Discontinues De-Aging Drug
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FDA Proposes Reducing Nicotine to Nonaddictive Level in Tobacco Products
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US Will Ban Cancer-Linked Red Dye No. 3 in Cereal and Other Foods
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How a Company Makes Millions Off a Hospital Program Meant to Help the Poor