2025-03-19
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Horseshit
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Social Media Pushes Vulnerable Teens Toward Eating Disorders
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Human Perception of Dog Emotions Is Influenced by Extraneous Factors
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The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance Is a Stone-Cold Masterpiece
- comment: "the most positive review I heard from anyone I know was that 'It ruined my childhood'"
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Global population datasets systematically underrepresent rural population
celebrity gossip
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What Happened to Silicon Valley's Most Infamous Thought Criminal?
James Damore, the author of the ‘misogynist’ Google memo, was banished from the tech world and became a digital hermit. Now, his ideas have been vindicated. Will he be?
Rank Propaganda / Thought Policing / World Disordering
Musk
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2024: Artist Crushes Tesla With Colossal Olmec Head Sculpture
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Cybertruck fires at Kansas City Tesla dealership deemed 'suspicious in nature'
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'Molotov cocktails and firearms' used in targeted attack at Tesla center in Las Vegas, police say
During a news conference, Asst. Sheriff Dori Koren said the Las Vegas Metropolitan Department learned of the fire after receiving several 911 calls. “One caller stated said they heard gunshots and that there was a subject wearing black clothing and setting multiple vehicles on fire,” he said.
Electric / Self Driving cars
Religion / Tribal / Culture War and Re-Segregation
Edumacationalizing / Acedemia Nuts
Info Rental / ShowBiz / Advertising
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GitHub supply chain attack spills secrets from 23K projects • The Register
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Microsoft isn't fixing 8-year-old shortcut exploit abused for spying
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Apple loses German antitrust appeal, opening door for greater controls
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Amazon to kill off local Alexa processing, all voice requests shipped to cloud
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Traffic to U.S. Retail Websites from Gen AI Sources Jumps 1,200 Percent
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NVIDIA Launches RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Series Professional Graphics Cards | TechPowerUp
completely maxes out the massive "GB202" silicon, featuring more shaders than even the GeForce RTX 5090, albeit at lower clock speeds. The idea behind this product is to give pro-vis users more shader power, driving a large amount of GDDR7 ECC memory. Specifically, the card comes with 24,064 CUDA cores across all 192 SM physically present on the silicon, besides 768 Tensor cores, 192 RT cores, 768 TMUs, and 192 ROPs. The card gets a humungous 96 GB of ECC GDDR7 memory across the chip's 512-bit wide memory interface, probably using 48 Gbit density memory chips. The card has a TGP of 600 W, making out the 12V2x6 power input.
TechSuck / Geek Bait
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In Python, needing only RTLSDR stick: Writing A GPS Receiver From Scratch
AI Will (Save | Destroy) The World
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Italian newspaper says it has published world's first AI-generated edition
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Saudi Aramco chief says DeepSeek AI makes 'big difference' to operations
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Survey: 47% of North Americans Predict AI Will Be Less Biased Than Humans
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US appeals court rules AI generated art cannot be copyrighted
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400 Hollywood Creatives Reject Calls to Train AI on Copyrighted Material
Space / Boomy Zoomers / UFO
Economicon / Business / Finance
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American Pharmaceutical Companies Aren't Paying Tax in the U.S.
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Intel's new CEO plots overhaul of manufacturing and AI operations
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US listings often fail to boost European companies' valuations
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Rippling Sues Deel, a Software Rival, over Corporate Spying
Rippling is suing Deel, alleging that its competitor “cultivated a spy to systematically steal its competitor’s most sensitive business information and trade secrets.” As far as startup drama goes, this is a nuclear bomb. Deel is backed by a16z, Spark Capital, Y Combinator, and other incredibly well-known names. Rippling is backed by Kleiner Perkins, Founders Fund, Sequoia, and others. As a pair, the two companies have raised around $3 billion, and both sport multi-billion dollar valuations. Life is not like the movies. Forget martinis and fast cars, how about cellphones and toilets? I do wonder what it cost to get the plumbing checked. How Deel’s backers react will prove very telling. The best-case scenario for Deel — provided that Rippling’s allegations are true — is that this was just a few bad apples internally behaving poorly. A worse case would be if the company’s leadership was all in on the gambit. The worst scenario would be provable board knowledge.
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Deal done: Google parent Alphabet agrees to buy Wiz for $32B
Gubmint / Poilitcks / Law Making
Trump
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‘Don’t Tell Melania’: Trump Once Offered Rising MAGA Star His Bed
Donald Trump once offered a MAGA newcomer his bed while she was feeling unwell, but told her to keep it a secret from Melania, according to a new bombshell book. The president made the offer aboard his personal jet in 2023, when Florida Congresswoman Anna Paulina Luna, 35, was pregnant. “If you need a bed to lay down in, there’s one here on the plane. If you feel sick and you need to lay there, you can lay on it,” Trump reportedly told Luna. “Just don’t tell Melania. She doesn’t like other women on my bed,” he joked.
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Trump warns Iran it will face ‘consequences’ of further attacks from Yemen’s Houthi rebels.
Democrats
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Top Senate Democrat Schumer postpones book tour for security reasons.
Top Senate Democrat Chuck Schumer, who has faced backlash from his party since saying he would not block a Republican spending bill, postponed public events planned for this week for security reasons, according to several venues where he had been scheduled to appear. Schumer sparked anger over last week's decision not to block the Republican spending bill that most Democratic lawmakers said gave President Donald Trump too much power. It was not clear what prompted the cancellation of events in Baltimore and Washington where the New York Democrat was due to speak to promote his new book, "Antisemitism in America: A Warning." A publicity firm handling the events did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
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(PDF) Autopen Memorandum
The warrants we determined to be wet signatures contain significant variations between the signatures. Some warrants spell out the President’s entire first name “Joseph.” Others have only a diagonal line to indicate the letter “J.” Other wet signed warrants have significant variations in the President’s middle initial “R” and “B” in the last name “Biden.” At the time of publication of this Memorandum, the variations of the wet signatures are so severe, that it is unclear whether the same person signed all of the warrants. We are continuing to investigate this issue.
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Gavin Newsom Is Reportedly Sending Burner Phones to Tech CEOs
Left Angst
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Elon Musk Is Unplugging the Monitors of the Earth's Vital Signs
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Top Broadband Official Exits Commerce Department with Warning About Starlink
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Trump Administration Aims to Eliminate EPA's Scientific Research Arm
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How to prep for another period of violent radicalism in America
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Did Joy Reid Really Just Say That About America?
She said, “When my mother came from Guyana, she realized it is not a land of opportunity for people like us.” I don’t even know what that means, Joy. You were on MSNBC for years and accumulated generational wealth. What other county could an immigrant child, like yourself, grow up, get educated, and become a millionaire through the media industry? The only problem, Joy, is that your views are trash, and you have an insufferable personality. It’s just an ungrateful take.
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Court filing: DOGE aide broke Treasury policy by emailing unencrypted database
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DOGE USDA Cuts Could Cause US Grocery Price Inflation, Invasive Species Spread
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FTC Removes Posts Critical of Amazon, Microsoft, and AI Companies
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The Continuing Crisis, Part VIII: mRNA Vaccines Under Attack
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Gates warns White House he can't fill shortfalls in US global health funding
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FCC to get Republican majority and plans to "delete" as many rules as possible
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Kennedy's Alarming Prescription for Bird Flu on Poultry Farms
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Trump plans to issue EO designating fentanyl as a "Weapon of Mass Destruction"
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Musk discovers goverment 'magic money computers' that make money out of thin air
Ben Bernanke has been talking about this for years. “The U.S. government has a technology, called a printing press (or, today, its electronic equivalent), that allows it to produce as many U.S. dollars as it wishes at essentially no cost,” Bernanke, the former Fed chair, said in a famous 2002 speech, when he was a governor at the Fed. Adherents to what’s called modern monetary theory — derided by critics as magic money theory — go further. They say there are no limits at all to spending for governments with their own currencies. Taxes are not needed, though they can be used to keep inflation from running too hot, or to redistribute wealth.
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Doge order leads to journal cancellations by U.S. agricultural library
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Judge Says DOGE's Dismantling of Usaid Likely Unconstitutional
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Judge Finds Musk's Role in Dismantling Aid Agency Likely Violated Constitution
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Obama Judge Rules Against DOGE Shutdown Of USAID, Orders Employee Access Reinstated | ZeroHedge
US District Judge Theodore Chuang ruled in favor of more than two dozen unnamed current and former USAID employees and contractors who challenged the Trump administration's efforts to shutter the organization. In a 68-page decision, Chuang granted in part their request for a preliminary injunction, ruling that DOGE and Musk likely violated the Constitution's Appointments Clause and separation of powers.
Musk has been ordered to reinstate access to email, payment and other electronic systems for all current USAID employees and personal services contractors, while the Trump administration is now prevented from taking any further actions related to the shutdown of USAID - including placing employees on administrative leave, firing USAID workers, closing buildings, bureaus or offices, and deleting the contents of its websites or collections. Of note - the order does not currently require the reinstatement of fired employees, after roughly 83% of USAID programs have been officially canceled according to Secretary of State Marco Rubio.
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Trump Gloats About Dubious Golf Title as Americans Die in Storms
The stock market is down, a measles outbreak is spreading, and tens of thousands of federal workers have been fired, hamstringing many of the government services Americans depend on daily — but don’t worry, we have some good news for you: Donald Trump won another golf tournament at his private club in Florida.
Law Breaking / Police / Internal Security
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AI-generated CSAM may be protected by first Amend in some cases, judge rules
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Former Principals of Aerospace Start-Up Charged with Fraud and Tax Crimes
An indictment was unsealed today charging five former principals of Theia Group Inc., a Washington, D.C.-based aerospace start-up company, with conspiracy and fraud. Theia planned to launch 112 satellites starting in 2022 at a cost of $10 billion to $15 billion. Theia’s principals allegedly originally planned to raise the requisite funds from various nation-states by promising perpetual data and analytics for an upfront payment of $2 billion. However, from Theia’s founding in 2015 through its placement into receivership in 2021, Theia was allegedly unsuccessful in obtaining any funding except for approximately $250 million in loans and investments received from institutional and individual investors and lenders. To secure the funding, Olson, Gallagher, Buscher, Fargnoli, and Swati’s fraud scheme allegedly included making materially false statements about revenue from non-existent government contracts, providing multiple false financial statements, including a fake $6 billion escrow account statement, and making false representations about Theia’s technical capabilities.
External Security / Militaria / Diplomania
World
Israel
China
Health / Medicine
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The New York Times Remains Utterly Dedicated to Telling Only One Story About Mental Illness
Greenwich, Franklin Roosevelt, the Waldorf and Astoria and the Plaza, fucking debutante balls…. It’s impossible that they don’t know how this all reads, and yet the piece does nothing to address the immense privilege here. There are desultory waves to the broader reality in the form of expert quotes, asking not to overgeneralize, and then those brief notes are drowned out by cheery talk about how Delano is now living her best life and helping others to live theirs by abandoning conventional psychiatric treatment - if they can afford to pay the $600 a month Delano and her partner charge for coaching, natch.
It’s all a farce. It is a farce that the paper of record keeps holding these utterly unrepresentative figures up as symbols of what mental illness looks like, while they do their liberal fretting routine about medicating people with serious mental illnesses. In the now-infamous NYT magazine piece I linked above, the value of psychiatric medicine is debated purely through the lens of a tiny number of incredibly privileged schizophrenic outliers who, like, live in Sedona and believe in the power of crystals and manage their illnesses from their tasteful adobe homes. Is this a sound way to understand the importance of medication in managing chronic mental illness? No, no it’s not! They ran it anyway. And yes, reading another piece like this made me mad. I confess, I am mad online. But what really fried my noodle was when I realized why this all sounded so familiar.
The Times piece casually mentions that Delano and her nonprofit were already the subject of a 10,000-word New Yorker profile. And her husband, who runs her nonprofit with her - he’s the aftershave model-looking dude in the picture in the NYT piece, the face of mental illness in a $250 sweater - recently received similarly hagiographic coverage from the Atlantic! Isn’t that extraordinary? That this one couple, pushing a contentious agenda about an immensely controversial subject and making a lot of money doing so, have received universally sympathetic attention in three of the most elite publications in the industry? I find that really something. Indeed, it compels me to ask… fucking why? What is going on here?
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Americans borrowed $74B last year to cover health care costs, survey finds
Pox / COVID / BioTerror AgitProp
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Dr. Leana Wen: Some COVID ‘Conspiracy Theories’ Were Actually True › American Greatness
Wen admits that concerns that were raised about the vaccine’s impact on women’s menstrual cycles are supported by studies that “have shown that there may be some changes to the menstrual period in the short term.” According to Wen, medical experts now admit that a person who has been infected with Covid does enjoy short term immunity benefits, saying, “It’s also true that … you do get some degree of pretty good immunity after having infection.”
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Bird flu virus may survive aging process in raw milk cheese.