2025-02-03
Plane Crashes
Horseshit
Musk
Religion / Tribal / Culture War and Re-Segregation
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Fresco discovery puts Islamic art at the heart of medieval Christianity
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Why are European-Americans suddenly so inferior at math since like 1998?
Do you want the brutal answer? Those "white kids" are being forced into trying to figure out how to capture the value created by those brown kids, because STEM careers in actual research have cratered in prestige, freedom, support and compensation. It's awful. But true. Do you want to raise a serf?
I'm torn. Which is why I fight for scientists to capture wealth; science is my life, but I cannot stand the exploitation and abuse. You actually know this already, you just don't realize it. How many STEM researchers and research scientists have you seen at Mar-a-Lago in photos and stories? Name them. Try.
- Even "white people" might choose passion over power; such freaks aren't likely to be good team members however. We get shit done in our lonely little corners anyway.
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The phone call is coming from inside the house" How did racist mass texts bypass some anti-spam guardrails after the election?
Info Rental / ShowBiz / Advertising
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Simon and Schuster's Flagship Imprint Won't Require Blurbs Anymore
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Snowden slams Nvidia RTX 5080 as 'a monopolistic crime against the consumer'
"Endless next-quarter thinking has reduced the Nvidia brand to 'F-tier value for S-tier prices,'" Snowden wrote on Twitter. "5070 should have had 16 VRAM minimum, 5080 24/32 SKUs, 5090 32/48/+. Releasing a $1,000 GPU in 2025 with a crippling 16 GB is a monopolistic crime against the consumer."
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Costa Rican Supermarket Wins Trademark Battle Against Nintendo
AI Will (Save | Destroy) The World
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DeepSeek and Jevons Paradox: Tech tycoons have got the economics of AI wrong
- Hype the potential of something of little interest until many people are willing to pay you much more than it's worth for it; then jump ship to the next hype cycle. while ensuring no actual development of the potential happens so as to preserve the possibility of selling the same hype cycle again later. Not specifically the "economics of AI" but the modern business scam.
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DeepSeek was downloaded by millions. Deleting it might come next
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Analyst firm say DeepSeek has 50000 Nvidia GPUs and spent US $6B on buildouts
Space / Boomy Zoomers / UFO
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It seems the FAA office overseeing SpaceX's Starship probe still has some bite
Elon Musk's close relationship with Trump, coupled with the new administration's appetite for cutting regulations and reducing the size of government, led some industry watchers to question whether Musk's influence might change the FAA's stance on SpaceX. So far, the FAA hasn't budged on its requirement for an investigation, an agency spokesperson told Ars on Friday. After a preliminary assessment of flight data, SpaceX officials said a fire appeared to develop in the aft section of the ship before it broke apart and fell to Earth.
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Mass Retirement? SpaceX Spotted Deorbiting Dozens of Starlink Satellites.
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I personally estimate a >1% chance, three orders of magnitude larger than the median chance estimate. This puts me in the top 20% of poll respondents. For this, proportionality implies >$12B/yr spending, which makes sense to me. That is, I think we spend way too little on this topic.
Crypto con games
Economicon / Business / Finance
Gubmint / Poilitcks / Law Making
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F.A.A.’s Main Warning System for Pilots Is Restored After Outage
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Census Director Abruptly Resigns: 3 Reasons Why This is Massive News.
Steadily and surely, those who run the most corrupt agencies are having their agendas smashed and hopes dashed. I know it because I have former military colleagues forwarding me screenshots from their internal e-mail servers displaying urgent messages about what is and is not to be tolerated, sometimes containing instructions for resignation if the employee refuses to comply with said changes. I’ve seen them from military reserve components and the Department of the Interior, specifically.
- Raising the question: What "military reserve" does the Dept. Of Interior actually need?
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US Gov sued after mass emails to federal workforce sent from insecure server
- This is a problem now? Is it still OK when Democrats do it?
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DHS to end temporary protection for approximately 350,000 Venezuelans
Left Angst
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After losing son to dark web, mom rips Trump pardon for site's founder
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Wall Street Journal slams Trump's tariff plans: 'Dumbest trade war in history'
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CDC orders mass retraction and revision of submitted research
CDC researchers were instructed to remove references to or mentions of a list of forbidden terms: “Gender, transgender, pregnant person, pregnant people, LGBT, transsexual, non-binary, nonbinary, assigned male at birth, assigned female at birth, biologically male, biologically female,” according to an email sent to CDC employees
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Many obviously feel that the existence of biological sexual characteristics is a religious question; 1st amendment would seem to require that government sponsored or published research would either have to avoid the matter entire or take all faiths on a level footing. Currently there is definitely a bias; "what is a woman?" after all.
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Trump orders USDA to take down websites referencing climate crisis
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USDA inspector general escorted out of her office after defying White House
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Health Programs Shutter Around the World After Trump Pauses Foreign Aid (Archive)
In interviews, more than 20 researchers and program managers described the upheaval in health systems in countries across the developing world. Most agreed to be interviewed on the condition that their names not be published, fearing that speaking to a reporter would jeopardize any possibility that their projects might be able to reopen. Many of those interviewed broke down in tears as they described the rapid destruction of decades of work.
There will now be no one to take custody of millions of dollars’ worth of supplies for vital oxygen systems, purchased for programs funded by U.S.A.I.D. that support health clinics in some of the world’s poorest countries. The shipments, now in transit, are scheduled to reach ports in the coming days, but employees of those programs have been ordered to stop work.
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Opinion | Don’t Believe Him - The New York Times
Donald Trump’s first two weeks in the White House have followed Bannon’s strategy like a script. The flood is the point. The overwhelm is the point. The message wasn’t in any one executive order or announcement. It was in the cumulative effect of all of them. The sense that this is Trump’s country now. This is his government now. It follows his will. It does what he wants. If Trump tells the state to stop spending money, the money stops. If he says that birthright citizenship is over, it’s over. Or so he wants you to think. In Trump’s first term, we were told: Don’t normalize him. In his second, the task is different: Don’t believe him.
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Trump's tariffs, cuts may well put tech in a chokehold, say analysts
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SEC's Republican-led commission tightens oversight of probes, sources say
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Thousands of U.S. Government Web Pages Have Been Taken Down Since Friday
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USAID Website Goes Offline as Trump Continues to Dismantle Government
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Senior USAID officials put on leave after denying access to Musk's Doge team
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Why does Musk want USAID 'to die'? And why did its website disappear?
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"Deep state puppet": Musk causes federal chaos with oversight agency, social media callouts
Law Breaking / Police / Internal Security
External Security / Militaria / Diplomania
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U.S. military airstrikes kill an unknown number of ISIS militants
President Donald Trump announced Saturday that he ordered military strikes that killed several ISIS militants in Somalia. “These killers, who we found hiding in caves, threatened the United States and our Allies. The strikes destroyed the caves they live in, and killed many terrorists without, in any way, harming civilians,” Trump said in the message posted to X, formerly called Twitter. In a statement, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth confirmed the strikes targeting ISIS-Somalia operatives in the Golis mountains occurred in coordination with the Somali government.