2025-03-10
burner phones, wikiwar. Tesla trends, gun religion, boy bias beef, unofficial GPU sport, Pi5 PIO hacks, egg cartels, no budget, Musk's past, German distrust, Syrian sectarian slayings, eat ze nutria
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Rebuilding Los Angeles Is California's Economic Moment of Truth
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Plane crashes near retirement community in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania
a single-engine Beechcraft Bonanza, crashed around 3:18 p.m. ET on the property of Brethren Village retirement community in Manheim Township, Scott Little, the chief of Manheim Township Fire, said at a Sunday evening news conference. Five people were on board and were transported to local hospitals, according to Little. About a dozen cars were damaged, five “severely,” officials said. There was no structural damage to the retirement community building and no one on the ground was injured, Little said.
Horseshit
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Peeled ginger root? The household item turning runners into world record holders
Rank Propaganda / Thought Policing / World Disordering
Musk
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Chinese investors privately take stakes in Elon Musk's companies
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Elon Musk Dubiously Blames George Soros, Reid Hoffman over Tesla Protests
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Tesla Sales Fall Off a Cliff Globally, Including Germany, Australia, and China
- comments on this one are golden. "I just sold my Tesla. don't want anyone to think I'm one of those fanboi MAGA idiots that bought a Tesla just becuz. Remote controlled spybot you just pretend to own, anyway."
Religion / Tribal / Culture War and Re-Segregation
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a distinct and crucial sub-set of owners express an additional and strong attachment to their weapons (Gun Sanctity). Gun Sanctity measures the extent to which owners think their guns make them more patriotic, respected, in control, and valued by their family and community. We propose that Gun Sanctity is a form of quasi-religious or magical thinking in which an object is imbued with unseen powers. To assess this proposal, we look at the extent to which gun ownership, Gun Security, and Gun Sanctity are related to traditional religion and various forms of magical thinking, namely, (a) conspiratorialism, (b) the belief that prayer can fix financial and health problems, and (c) support for Christian Statism, a form of American theocracy. We find that Gun Sanctity is highly predictive of different forms of magical thinking but is often unrelated to more traditional religious practices and beliefs.
- Neat. Can we have the same study for the 'Gun Control" faithful?
Edumacationalizing / Acedemia Nuts
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Boys Are Falling Behind - by Steve Stewart-Williams
Terrier compared children’s marks on gender-blind national exams with non-blind marks given by their teachers. The findings revealed a persistent marking bias in favor of girls. Although the effect wasn’t huge, Terrier found persuasive evidence that the bias contributes to boys falling behind in school.
Info Rental / ShowBiz / Advertising
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How Facebook Marketplace is keeping young people on the platform
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GTA 6 fans gutted after learning it will be unplayable for PC Players at launch
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Did America's least-hated printer take a turn for the worse?
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Unofficial ROCm SDK Builder Expanded To Support More GPUs - Phoronix
- RDNA1/RDNA2/RDNA3 discrete GPUs (AMD 5600 - 7900 XTX)
- CDNA based GPUs (AMD Radeon VII and MI50)
- RX 7700S discrete GPU on Framework laptop (gfx1102)
- iGPUs like AMD 680M/780M/880M/Strix Point/Strix Halo
On the downside, ROCm SDK Builder 6.1.2 is still tracking the ROCm 6.1 series compared to upstream ROCm on the v6.3 series for some time already.
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Professor ends Bulwer-Lytton bad writing contest after 43 years
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A Reddit moderation tool is flagging 'Luigi' as potentially violent content
TechSuck / Geek Bait
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How we added interlaced video to Raspberry Pi 5 DPI - Raspberry Pi
There are some gotchas: the DE signal must be output on GPIO1, whether it’s used or not. PIO is not synchronised to the DPI clock and its VSync output can jitter up to ±5 ns. That isn’t significant at standard-definition TV rates, but it could be a problem at higher resolutions! Finally, the sync fixup consumes most of RP1’s PIO instruction memory, so PIO can’t be used for other cool things at the same time as generating interlaced DPI.
Space / Boomy Zoomers / UFO
Economicon / Business / Finance
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Global coffee trade grinding to a halt, hit hard by brutal price hikes
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Hatching a Conspiracy: A Big Investigation into Egg Prices
something doesn’t add up about this “avian flu is the sole and natural cause of high egg prices” story. Despite the “act of God” going on — and the skyrocketing prices accompanying it — egg production is actually . . . not down by all that much. 115 million hens is a lot of birds to cull, but it’s important to put the loss of those hens in context: They weren’t lost all at once. They were lost over three years. And there have always been around 300 million other hens alive and kicking to lay eggs for America—not to mention a continuous pipeline of 120-130 million female chicks (called “pullets”) in the process of being raised into adult hens to replace the ones dying or aging out. As a result of this pipeline, the effect of avian flu outbreaks on egg production, while not insignificant, has been relatively small. Monthly egg production during each of the last three years has averaged only 3-5% lower than it was in 2021, the year before the epidemic started. Meanwhile, demand for eggs has actually declined. According to a private report by the Egg Industry Center, Americans went from consuming an average of 210 eggs each in 2021 to less than 190 in 2024 — a ~10-percent nosedive. As many countries have closed their markets to American eggs since 2021 on account of the avian flu, egg exports have also fallen off a cliff — going down by nearly half between 2021 and 2022 and staying there ever since. That dynamic, according to my analysis of USDA data, has shaved another ~2.5% off aggregate demand on U.S. egg production.
So, reports of an unprecedented egg “shortage” are exaggerated. Nonetheless, egg prices — and egg company profits — have gone through the roof. Cal-Maine Foods — the largest egg producer and the only one that publishes its financial data as a publicly traded company — has been making more money than ever. It’s annual gross profits in the past three years have floated between 3 and 6 times what it used to earn before the avian flu epidemic started — breaking $1 billion for the first time in the company’s history. All of this extra profit is coming from higher selling prices, which have been earning Cal-Maine unprecedented 50-170 percent margins over farm production costs per dozen. Taking Cal-Maine as the “bellwether” for the industry’s largest firms — as people in the egg business do — we can be pretty confident that the other large egg producers are also raking in profits off the relatively small dip in egg production.
Trump
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President Trump on Saturday implored 'All Republicans' to vote on a 99-page spending bill that would keep the government funded through September, as a March 14 deadline approaches for the latest government shutdown threat.
Left Angst
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State Department Will Use AI to Search for 'Pro-Hamas' Students to Deport
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Opinion | Elon Musk Is South African. We Shouldn’t Forget It. - The New York Times
discussion of Mr. Musk, especially in the United States, often misses something: He is a white South African, part of a demographic that for centuries sat atop a racial hierarchy maintained by violent colonial rule. That history matters. For all the attempts to describe Mr. Musk as a self-made genius or a dispassionate technocrat, he is in fact a distinctly ideological figure, one whose worldview is inseparable from his rearing in apartheid South Africa. More than just an eccentric billionaire, Mr. Musk represents an unresolved question: What happens when settler rule fails but settlers remain? That’s what is playing out in America today.
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Trump administration plans AI vetting of Social Media accounts
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NASA officials undermine Musk's claims about 'stranded' astronauts
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DOGE's Cuts to the IRS Threaten to Cost More Than Doge Will Ever Save
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'We're losing our environmental history': The future of government information
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DOGE's government cuts may hurt business, companies warn investors
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RFK Jr. could further deter childhood vaccinations as rates fall in the U.S.
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US added to international watchlist for rapid decline in civic freedoms
Law Breaking / Police / Internal Security
External Security / Militaria / Diplomania
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SpaceX, Palantir, Anduril in Talks to Build America's "Golden Dome"
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Back in Military Service – From Blue to Green – Robert M. Lee
I was direct commissioned into the Army as a Lieutenant Colonel in Feb 2025 serving as part of the 91st Battalion in Virginia. I was told that I’m the first ever direct commission to the rank of LTC in cyber in the Army – but to be fair I only skipped 1 rank (Major) if you think of my Air Force service – I don’t think the Army counts the Air Force time though (said playfully). My current role is as the Executive Officer of the IOSC Battalion where I get to inherit the amazing work already done by the team on the exercise Cyber Fortress (seriously it’s impressive) and use it as part of the larger strategy. I don’t intend to detail everything in a public blog but the short of it is to establish a strategy for how the government responds to infrastructure attacks in partnership across government agencies and the private sector in Virginia using Cyber Fortress to demonstrate it and then work across government to take insights from all the other pockets-of-excellence that have formed on this topic and roll out a national strategy all while training our most powerful capability – our people – in how to prepare and respond to infrastructure attacks that threaten our citizens.