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Rank Propaganda / Thought Policing / World Disordering

  • Miami Beach mayor backs down from 'No Other Land' theater threat - Los Angeles Times

    A series of showings of the documentary “No Other Land” at a single-screen art-house theater in Miami Beach has become a flash point of controversy. Miami Beach Mayor Steven Meiner sent a letter dated March 5 to the O Cinema ahead of the screenings imploring the organization not to screen the film, which recently won the Academy Award for feature documentary. The mayor’s letter called it “a one-sided propaganda attack on the Jewish people that is not consistent with the values of our City and residents.” When the theater decided to screen the film despite his protests, Meiner put forth a formal resolution to the city commission to discontinue grant funding from the theater and, more crucially, to terminate its lease from the theater’s current location on city-owned property.

    • Free Speech means you can show your propaganda; but using taxpayer resources to do so is a bit sketchy... Can the house do a showing of something from the other side and claim balance? Would they?

  • ‘Independent’ anti-Russia outlet Meduza faces collapse after US funding slashed - The Grayzone

    Now that the self-exiled troll’s former employers at Meduza have been plunged into a financial crisis by the Trump administration’s pause on foreign development assistance, Kovalev’s smears of The Grayzone have been exposed as an exceedingly embarrassing exercise in projection. As The New York Times reported this February 26, grants from the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) reportedly accounted for 15% of the outlet’s budget. So while The Grayzone accepts no foreign state support, it turns out that Meduza can not survive for a day without a constant cash infusion from its government sponsors in Washington.

Musk

Electric / Self Driving cars

Religion / Tribal / Culture War and Re-Segregation

Edumacationalizing / Acedemia Nuts

  • The Future of Higher Ed Is in Austin

  • The Dawn of Post-Literacy

    So we have two trends in learning: answer-first interfaces, and video for skills acquisition and information transfer. Couple that with voice-first interfaces (Alexa, Google, Siri, and all the LLMs doing audio work), and you've got the recipe for post-literacy in the sense of a strong decreasing reliance on text (Terminal to GUI, anyone?) in favor of graphical and audio interfaces. That gets us to "post-literacy" as a non-hypothetical evolutionary endpoint if trends persist. So the next logical question is, "Are those trends actually persisting (at least prevalent enough)?" Given that this is a blog post and not a formal paper for publication, I'll stake a "yes" in the ground. It's my opinion and particularly my _vibes-_based opinion (the word of late 2024, eh?).

Info Rental / ShowBiz / Advertising

AI Will (Save | Destroy) The World

Space / Boomy Zoomers / UFO

Crypto con games

  • Director Charged with Fraud After Blowing $4M Netflix's Cash on Dogecoin

  • Tornado Cash Delisting

    Based on the Administration’s review of the novel legal and policy issues raised by use of financial sanctions against financial and commercial activity occurring within evolving technology and legal environments, we have exercised our discretion to remove the economic sanctions against Tornado Cash as reflected in Treasury’s Monday filing in Van Loon v. Department of the Treasury.

Economicon / Business / Finance

Gubmint / Poilitcks / Law Making

Trump

Left Angst

Law Breaking / Police / Internal Security

  • The FBI Seized This Woman's Life Savings–Without Telling Her Why

  • Nonprofit’s Leader Convicted of Siphoning Off $240 Million in Federal Food Aid - The New York Times

    The leader of a Minnesota anti-hunger nonprofit was convicted in U.S. District Court on Wednesday of masterminding a brazen scheme that reaped more than $240 million in pandemic relief funds with a network of bogus food kitchens that billed the government for 91 million meals. The nonprofit’s leader, Aimee Bock, 44, was convicted by a jury of seven counts, including wire fraud and bribery. Another defendant, Salim Said — a 36-year-old who oversaw one of the bogus kitchens — was convicted of 20 counts, also including wire fraud and bribery. When Ms. Bock was charged in 2022, federal prosecutors said her scheme was the largest known fraud against the government’s Covid-19 relief programs.

    Ms. Bock ran a sponsor nonprofit called Feeding Our Future. Prosecutors said she had conspired with dozens of people to set up 250 nonexistent feeding operations around Minnesota and used her oversight power to hide that network from the government. By law, Ms. Bock’s nonprofit got a cut of the money. Prosecutors said it had eventually totaled $18 million. Many of the fake operations submitted invoices for implausibly large numbers of children: Mr. Said’s operation, for instance, said it had fed 6,000 a day, more than all the children in its ZIP code. In another instance, a man said he was feeding 5,000 children a night — from a location that turned out to be a second-floor apartment.

  • Cori Bush's Husband Indicted for Wire Fraud, Allegedly Submitted False Applications To Obtain COVID Relief Funds

    Former left-wing congresswoman Cori Bush’s husband was charged on Thursday with defrauding the federal government to illegally collect tens of thousands of dollars in loans under COVID-era small business relief programs. Cortney Merritts, who secretly married Bush in 2023, falsified details about his purported businesses in order to obtain more than $20,000 in loans from the Small Business Administration in 2020 and 2021 under the Paycheck Protection Program and Economic Injury Disaster Loan Program, the Department of Justice said in a statement. The indictment comes roughly one year after the DOJ launched an investigation into Bush over a separate ordeal: Bush's campaign payments to Merritts. Bush used her congressional campaign budget to pay for more than $812,000 on questionable private security services. She paid more than $150,000 to her husband.

  • Conservative Influencers Targeted by 'Swatting' Calls

  • Feds indict ex-Michigan FB coach Matt Weiss: Hacked computers to spy on women

External Security / Militaria / Diplomania

World

Iran / Houthi

Israel

Russia Bad / Ukraine War

China

Health / Medicine

  • Is the FDA cracking down on poppers? And if so, why?

  • Do Viruses Trigger Alzheimer's?

  • Your Poop Schedule Says a Lot About Your Overall Health, Study Discovers.

    • Products promoting "regularity" used to be a major sector of the advertising business.

  • Dreams of improving the human race are no longer science fiction

    But the “enhancement” industry is still hobbled by out-of-date regulation

    Human enhancement, from wearable devices that monitor health to neural implants intended to overcome paralysis, is already a $125bn industry, according to imarc, a consultancy, and is growing by more than 10% a year. Firms seeking to increase longevity, just one element of enhancement, attracted almost $5bn in venture capital in the first half of last year. Tech luminaries such as Peter Thiel, co-founder of both PayPal and Palantir, and Sam Altman, the boss of OpenAI, are pouring money into the idea that the human body can be improved. It is not just the vision of a future in which ageing is held at bay and Olympic feats of strength, speed or endurance are commonplace that is exciting investors. They are also energised by the sense that America’s current leaders are open to this sort of techno-utopianism and may help foster it. Last month Donald Trump Jr, the eldest son and namesake of America’s president, joined Messrs Angermayer and Thiel as an investor in the Enhanced Games. The competition, the younger Mr Trump explained, embodies “excellence, innovation and American dominance on the world stage—something the MAGA movement is all about”. Could the combination of enthusiastic investors and official encouragement pave the way for treatments that redefine the capacity of the human mind and body?

  • Urgent recall for popular laundry detergent over potentially deadly bacteria contamination | Daily Mail Online

    A recall has been issued for Woolite laundry detergent due to possible contamination with bacteria that can cause serious, sometimes deadly infections. The voluntary recall applies to more than 16,000 bottles of certain 50 fluid-ounce bottles that were sold on Amazon in January. Consumers who purchased the detergent have been urged to immediately stop using it and check bottles for lot codes S24364, S24365 or S24366, which are found near the lid on top.

Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda

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