2025-02-06
Ozzy retiring, new old games, why magnets, weaponizing AI, Nissan no, USPS/China drama, major media payola, Chokepoint 2. Gaza USA?, Kamala's media mess, science without public tit, posting politics
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Horseshit
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Gen Z are over having their work ethic questioned when they can't afford a house
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The curious case of the Boeing plane that diverted four times in 25 days
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Mewing, Beta Maxing, Gigachad, Baddie: Parents Are Drowning in New Lingo
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As Internet enshittification marches on, here are some of the worst offenders
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The Grand Slam tennis arms race between Wimbledon, Australian, French, U.S. Open
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Out-of-warranty battery almost left this paralyzed man's exoskeleton useless
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Calif. tech founder admits to stealing millions to live luxuriously
Despite receiving significant funding, his startup, Strategic Innovations, never made a dime or released any products to market, according to legal documents.
celebrity gossip
Musk
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Doxxing and death threats are allowed from the Left, it's always been like that... Reddit bans R/WhitePeopleTwitter after Elon Musk claimed it had 'broken the law'
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Can You Opt Out of Starlink Coverage on iPhone? What We Know
Electric / Self Driving cars
Religion / Tribal / Culture War and Re-Segregation
Edumacationalizing / Acedemia Nuts
Info Rental / ShowBiz / Advertising
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FCC Proposes $4M+ Fine Against Telnyx for Apparently Illegal Robocall Scheme
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Civilization VII review: A major overhaul solves Civ's oldest problems
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Router maker Zyxel tells customers to replace vulnerable hardware
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Why Is Warner Brothers Discovery Dumping Old Movies on YouTube?
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Let's Encrypt is ending expiration notice emails–for some good reasons
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The New York Times Has Spent $10.8M in Its Legal Battle with OpenAI So Far
TechSuck / Geek Bait
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Mt32-pi Developer calls it a day
I have endured a sustained campaign of abuse from members of the VOGONS forum, been labelled a "clout-chaser", had threats sent to my personal email address, code been used in other projects without proper accreditation, my 3D print designs stolen and sold by faceless eBay/Etsy sellers, personal attacks made towards me when people don't get their feature request... the list goes on and on.
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What's the deal with magnetic fields? - lcamtuf’s thing
In other words, the charge, in its frame of reference, would experience a net electric field that’s pulling it toward the conductor — but again, only if it was moving along it in the first place. And this is, in essence, the origin of magnetic fields. It’s not always useful to analyze them this way — but at the very least, it’s good to have a slightly more intuitive explanation of where they come from.
AI Will (Save | Destroy) The World
Space / Boomy Zoomers / UFO
Crypto con games
Economicon / Business / Finance
Gubmint / Poilitcks / Law Making
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USPS lifts suspension of parcels from Hong Kong and China, reversing decision
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Processing of De Minimis Shipments per Executive Orders Issued Feb 1
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US Postal Service Suspends Incoming Parcels from China and Hong Kong
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USPS Halts All Packages from China, Sending the Ecommerce Industry into Chaos
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Breaking: USPS Halts Inbound Packages From China And Hong Kong
Specifically, the administration looks to close the “de minimis” exemption — a loophole which allowed packages valued under $800 USD to pass through customs without having to pay any duties or fees. Those packages will now not only be subject to the overall 10% tax imposed by the new tariff package, but will now have to be formally processed through customs, potentially tacking on even more taxes and fees.
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Sens. Hawley, Sanders Propose 10% Cap on Credit Card Rates.
- Price caps still suck. However, they might be a useful tool in busting a cartel.
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CIA Sends White House an Unclassified Email With Names of Employees
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FBI turns over details of 5000 employees who worked on January 6 cases
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Comics, Drag, and Atheism: List of USAID’s Outrageous Grants.
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FDIC Releases Documents Related to Supervision of Crypto-Related Activities
Among the many others who spoke up was Tyler Winklevoss, co-founder, with his twin brother, of the Gemini crypto exchange. “Yes. I was debanked because I’m in crypto, as was Gemini,” he wrote. “The number is probably much larger than 30, thats just in the a16z portfolio alone. They also assassinated several banks because they banked crypto companies. Totally unlawful, evil behavior.”
A key piece of context: If the government did what Andreessen was alleging, it would not have been the first time. A similar plan by the federal government a decade ago, called Operation Choke Point, was deployed against payday lenders, gun-makers, and a few other disfavored industries. But the approach was successfully challenged in court: The government settled with the companies and admitted that it can’t just decide certain categories of businesses don’t deserve access to the banking system, or use threats and intimidation to get rid of them — as tempting as it might be in some cases. And many people assumed the government had learned its lesson, which is why few outside of crypto believed it was happening again, until Andreessen’s comments.
Trump
Democrats
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Joe Rogan Exposes Team Kamala, Legacy Media.
Harris’ handlers had all sorts of restrictions on any possible Rogan interview, Rogan says. The chat had to be roughly an hour long, even though his show often runs three hours in length. They demanded a stenographer be present during the recording as well as Harris staffers. Plus, some insiders worried about the show’s lack of editing. All of the above made sure the proposed interview never happened.
Now, Rogan is disputing the account from “Fight.” Rogan says the book’s authors never bothered to contact him to get his side of the story.
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FCC Chairman Releases Full Transcript Of 'Spliced' Kamala Harris 60 Minutes Interview | ZeroHedge
Left Angst
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U.S. foreign aid freeze derails efforts to stem proliferation risks
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To Stop the Coup, We Must Be Clear About the Truth: Two Plus Two Equals Four
Just as the Party in 1984 demands Winston deny the evidence of his own eyes, we’re being asked to accept increasingly absurd explanations for what we’re witnessing. We’re told this is about “government efficiency” when it’s clearly about seizing control of state power. We’re asked to believe that dismantling civil service protections somehow serves democratic interests. We’re expected to accept that private citizens can gain unauthorized access to classified systems in the name of “reform.”
- We've been assured that math is racist...
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Daniel Penny Is Hired by Venture Capital Firm Whose Founder Backed Trump
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Doge staffers enter Noaa headquarters and incite reports of cuts and threats
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Donald Trump is going to the Super Bowl — and ruining one of America’s best days
We put aside politics. We put aside our differences. We take part in a great American tradition. It’s actually pretty cool. Well, it was. Because now President Donald Trump is attending the game.
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Trumpian policy as cultural policy
You will not win all of these cultural debates, but you will control the ideological agenda (I hesitate to call it an “intellectual” agenda, but it is). Your opponents will be dispirited and disorganized, and yes that does describe the Democrats today. Then just keep on going. In the long run, you may end up “owning” far more of the culture than you suspected was possible. Yes policy will be a mess, but as they say “man kann nicht alles haben.” The culture is worth a lot, both for its own sake and as a predictor of the future course of policy.
Finally, let’s return to those tariffs (non-tariffs?) on Canada and Mexico. We already know Trump believes in tariffs, and yes that is a big factor, but why choose those countries in particular? Well, first it is a symbol of strength and Trump’s apparent ability to ignore and contradict mainstream opinion. But also those are two countries most Americans have heard of. If Trump announced high tariffs on say Burundi, most people would have no idea what it means. They would not know how to debate it, and they would not know if America was debasing itself or thumbing its nose at somebody, or whatever.
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US health agency seeks to cut gender-related terms from scientific papers
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What's happening inside the NIH and NSF
It's become apparent that the Trump Administration is trying to make major changes to the way that the scientific funding agencies of the US government operate. That's about as neutrally as I can put it: my own opinion is that said changes (as they appear at the moment) are an outrage, a vindictive ideological assault on agencies that (for all their flaws) have helped produce major scientific advances in more fields than I can name. But let's go into the details so you can see why I think that way.
Past that dislike of the government in general, there's a specific animus towards the NIH and its branches like the CDC after the coronavirus pandemic. That’s a gigantic can of worms that I don’t have the energy to open at the moment, but past that, there is a broader hatred of education and expertise of all kinds. I hate to bring that one up, because it makes me sound like a crank, but there really is a strain of Trumpism that is nothing more than a desire for revenge against snooty over-educated elites who try to tell people what they should do based on their so-called "research." So if by pummelling the NIH and NSF you can simultaneously punch some huge bureaucracies in the face, revenge yourself against your imagined pandemic enemies, and cause distress at a bunch of big universities where they mostly hate you anyway, well. . .what's not to like?
This is all having exactly the results you would expect in the scientific community: fear and disruption, which I'm afraid are two of the goals from the start. My prediction that what is being done to the NIH, NSF et al. was just a preview of what the new administration intends to do to the rest of the government appears to be accurate. The Office of Personnel Management, following up on its bizarre "Fork in the Road" memo, is telling Federal employees that they are in danger of missing a "once in a lifetime chance" to leave their jobs, which is clearly an effort to panic people into leaving.
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Musk creates new power base in Washington with takeover of US agencies
- that was quick and easy. Whose "power base" was it before, then?
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USAID Employee Describes Scramble When DOGE Team Showed Up Last Week
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Trump Brazenly Defies Laws in Escalating Executive Power Grab
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'They've done their homework': The power of Musk's digital assault on D.C
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USAID was Investigating Starlink over its Contracts in Ukraine
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NASA Ordered to Remove Anything About 'Women in Leadership' from Its Websites
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25YO Writing Backdoors in Treasury's $6T Payment System. What Could Go Wrong?
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The 24-Hour Reality Check: Musk's Impossible Power Grab and America's Crisis
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As the Trump admin deletes online data, digital librarians rush to save it
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Project 2025 Creators Dox Wikipedia Editors. The Tool They're Using. Horrifying
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Trump admin seeks to reclassify federal CIOs, opening up to political appointees
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Smashing the ‘rice bowls’ — Why elites are lashing out at Trump and Musk’s reforms.
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You Can't Post Your Way Out of Fascism
the greatest of these sins is convincing ourselves that posting is a form of political activism, when it is at best a coping mechanism—an individualist solution to problems that can only be solved by collective action. This, says Cross, is the primary way tech platforms atomize and alienate us, creating “a solipsism that says you are the main protagonist in a sea of NPCs.” Trusted information networks have existed since long before the internet and mass media. These networks are in every town and city, and at their core are real relationships between neighbors—not their online, parasocial simulacra.
t’s a lesson the Extremely Online Left still hasn’t fully learned, failing where its political enemies succeed. Reactionary right-wing groups like the homophobic and transphobic Moms for Liberty—which seeks to ban books from LGBTQ and BIPOC authors under the guise of “parental rights”—have claimed political victories by seizing power one public school board and small town at a time. Other reactionaries have similarly managed to take their pet grievances about diversity and wokeness to the national level by moving from online outrage to on-the-ground community organizing.
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White House Says Musk Will Police His Own Conflicts of Interest
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The words putting science in the crosshairs of Trump's orders
Law Breaking / Police / Internal Security
External Security / Militaria / Diplomania
World
Russia Bad / Ukraine War
China
Health / Medicine
Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda
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Global warming has accelerated: are the UN and public well informed?
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AI narrows our vision of climate solutions and reinforces the status quo
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Microplastics Could Accumulate in Our Brains More Than in Kidneys and Livers
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College students got first-ever photos of an elusive California mammal
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Climate change target of 2C is 'dead', says renowned climate scientist
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The climate crisis is set to erase $1.47 trillion in US home values.
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America's "First Car-Free Neighborhood" Is Going Pretty Good, Actually?
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New wind turbines will test the world’s longest wooden blades
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Equinor scales back renewables push 7 years after ditching 'oil' from its name
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EU implements delicious worm powder as a new food ingredient