2025-03-29
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7.7 magnitude earthquake hits Southeast Asia, affecting Myanmar and Thailand
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More than two months after the Palisades Fire, only four permits had been issued as of Monday for homeowners to rebuild their properties -- a low figure that one Los Angeles city councilmenber said was "concerning."
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2,200-year-old pyramid filled with coins and weapons found near Dead Sea
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Don't let the leftists memory-hole their madness
Did the last five years, call it “the age of woke,” really happen — or were they just a fever dream? Apparently we all imagined a time where COVID and cancel culture collided to oppress us. No one was shunned for saying really obvious and true things, schools weren’t closed indefinitely under pressure from teachers’ unions, and race conflict wasn’t pushed on Americans from every direction. At least that’s what the left would have us believe. On Wednesday when National Public Radio CEO Katherine Maher testified in a congressional hearing, she stumbled on some basic questions . . . involving her own opinions.
“Do you believe that America is addicted to white supremacy?” Rep. Brandon Gill asked her. Maher grimaced as if she found that belief ridiculous, but at last admitted, “I tweeted that.” “But as I’ve said,” she added, “much of my thinking has evolved over the last half decade.”
Horseshit
Rank Propaganda / Thought Policing / World Disordering
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The Epicenter of Conspiracy Belief
Individuals with economically left-wing and culturally conservative attitudes tend to score highest on conspiracy thinking. People at this ideological location seem to long for both economic and cultural protection and bemoan a “lost paradise” where equalities had not yet been destroyed by “perfidious” processes of cultural modernization and economic neoliberalism. This pattern is found across all countries and holds regardless of socioeconomic characteristics such as education and income.
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the Ninth Circuit said that plaintiffs could get around Section 230 in their lawsuit against the app maker YOLO because the app maker said it would ban users for inappropriate statements and would unmask harassers. This opinion raised numerous Section 230 jurisprudential issues. First, those kinds of statements are almost certainly not enforceable promises. Second, a more recent Ninth Circuit opinion (Doe v. Grindr) rejected a Section 230 workaround for Grindr’s statement that it provides a “safe and secure environment for its users” because the statement was “a description of its moderation policy.” So where exactly is the Ninth Circuit’s law on this topic? I don’t know.
Musk
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How BYD's battery breakthrough is about to bury Elon Musk's Tesla
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"Tesla Takedown" movement plans mass protests amid U.S. crackdown
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67% of Americans would not consider buying a Tesla, new poll says
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Musk Pressured Reddit CEO During Moderator Revolt over Nazi-Style Salute: Report
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Elon Musk must face fraud lawsuit over disclosure of Twitter stake
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Musk threatens to sic the government on people 'pushing' Tesla 'propaganda'
Electric / Self Driving cars
Edumacationalizing / Acedemia Nuts
Info Rental / ShowBiz / Advertising
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LibreOffice downloads on the rise as users look to avoid subscription costs
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Games were indie smash hits – but what happened next?
The developers of Thank Goodness You’re Here!, Frog Detective and Consume Me discuss burnout, ‘second-album syndrome’, erotic fan art, and the other highs and lows of having a breakout success
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GitHub to impose limit on owned repositories per user, starting April 28th
Starting on April 28th, 2025, GitHub will implement a new limit of 100,000 repositories on the total number of repositories per owner for both user accounts and organizations.
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Nintendo reinvents digital games as swappable, lendable Virtual Game Cards
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Efforts to Weed Out Fake Users for Online Advertisers Fall Short
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Oracle has reportedly suffered 2 separate breaches exposing customers' PII
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Microsoft forces Windows 11 to use a Microsoft Account – removes bypassnro
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TV is watching you – Companies inventing new ways to make money off your data
- I don't think it's possible to buy a TV now without some monitoring functionality, but it may still possible to get models without their own independent network connection / cell modem.
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Amazon Gets Default in Suit over Twitch Access by Oligarch's Son
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Ubisoft's $4B carveout sells Tencent a 25% stake in some of its biggest games
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Intel's rumored high-end Battlemage GPUs have been cancelled
AI Will (Save | Destroy) The World
Space / Boomy Zoomers / UFO
Crypto con games
Economicon / Business / Finance
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Percentage of parents financially supporting adult children reaches 3-year high
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Three Intel board members to retire in chip industry-focused reshuffle
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Irvine, California: How One Billionaire Controls the Hottest Housing Market
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IBM US cuts may run deeper than feared ‒ and the jobs are heading to India
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TSMC's US builds won't make America great at chips again, says Gelsinger
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Microsoft's President: US needs more electricity, and more electricians
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Uber adds new $10 shuttle rides between JFK Airport and Manhattan
Gubmint / Poilitcks / Law Making
Trump
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Senior Trump officials ordered to preserve Signal group chat
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Trump calls Signal chat fallout a 'witch hunt',says 'app could be defective'
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Previous administrations were wary of Signal: Trumpworld has embraced it
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Opinion | Hillary Clinton: This Is Just Dumb - The New York Times
t’s not the hypocrisy that bothers me; it’s the stupidity. We’re all shocked — shocked! — that President Trump and his team don’t actually care about protecting classified information or federal record retention laws. But we knew that already. What’s much worse is that top Trump administration officials put our troops in jeopardy by sharing military plans on a commercial messaging app and unwittingly invited a journalist into the chat. That’s dangerous. And it’s just dumb. This is the latest in a string of self-inflicted wounds by the new administration that are squandering America’s strength and threatening our national security.
Cirrhosis isn't just a river in Egypt.
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Trump says US will 'go as far as we have to' to get control of Greenland
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Nikola's Trevor Milton says he has been pardoned by Donald Trump
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Rubio says at least 300 foreign students’ visas have been revoked.
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Restoring Truth and Sanity to American History
Over the past decade, Americans have witnessed a concerted and widespread effort to rewrite our Nation’s history, replacing objective facts with a distorted narrative driven by ideology rather than truth. This revisionist movement seeks to undermine the remarkable achievements of the United States by casting its founding principles and historical milestones in a negative light. Under this historical revision, our Nation’s unparalleled legacy of advancing liberty, individual rights, and human happiness is reconstructed as inherently racist, sexist, oppressive, or otherwise irredeemably flawed. Rather than fostering unity and a deeper understanding of our shared past, the widespread effort to rewrite history deepens societal divides and fosters a sense of national shame, disregarding the progress America has made and the ideals that continue to inspire millions around the globe. The prior administration advanced this corrosive ideology. At Independence National Historical Park in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania — where our Nation declared that all men are created equal — the prior administration sponsored training by an organization that advocates dismantling “Western foundations” and “interrogating institutional racism” and pressured National Historical Park rangers that their racial identity should dictate how they convey history to visiting Americans because America is purportedly racist.
To advance this policy, we will restore the Smithsonian Institution to its rightful place as a symbol of inspiration and American greatness –- igniting the imagination of young minds, honoring the richness of American history and innovation, and instilling pride in the hearts of all Americans.
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Trump restores funding for Radio Free Europe,Open Technology Fund after lawsuits
Left Angst
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Ferrari says it will raise prices by 10% on some models to offset auto tariffs
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Trump pushes for near-total control of Ukraine's minerals and energy
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As NASA faces cuts, China reveals ambitious plans for planetary exploration
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I thought the free market was forever - then Trump came along
The reign of the free market is facing its biggest ever challenge. But that challenge is coming not from supporters of socialism who ideologically back a big role for the state. Instead, the challenge is coming from Trump, a man who is broadly speaking of the right and has no qualms with capitalism allowing people to become very rich.
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Fearing Trump cuts, California Democrat proposes creating state's own NIH
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US no longer a reliable partner, old relationship is over: Canadian PM Carney
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Yale professor who studies fascism fleeing US to work in Canada
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New video of feds ambushing student and vanishing sparks deep concern
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Delaware 'Billionaire's Bill' Is Bad News for Everyone Who Isn't a Billionaire
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ICE Deported Someone to El Salvador Megaprison over Paperwork Error
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They Are Going to Take Everything If We Don't Stop Them
The worst thing that the federal government has done to labor unions in my lifetime happened last night. Donald Trump signed an executive order saying that the government will no longer recognize and bargain with a huge portion of the unions that represent federal workers. Among the agencies where he says he is tossing out the union contracts are the VA, the Department of Homeland Security, the State Department, the Department of Energy, the EPA, the Treasury Department, the Department of Justice, and others. To justify this move, Trump said that all of these agencies are involved in “national security.” This is a fiction. His statement also said that “Certain Federal unions have declared war on President Trump’s agenda,” which is closer to the true motivation. He doesn’t like these unions, so he is just trying to erase them with the stroke of a pen. None of his Republican predecessors in the White House for the past half century ever considered doing something this outrageous. In comparison to this, Ronald Reagan’s firing of the striking air traffic controllers at PATCO was a calm and reasonable decision.
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Trump's FCC Starts Harassing Public Broadcasters with Bogus Investigations
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'Scientists will not be silenced': thousands protest research cuts
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Trump Still Considering Tariffs on Taiwanese Chips, Despite $100B TSMC Deal
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EU will go easy with Apple, Facebook punishment to avoid Trump's wrath
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In Hot Water: YETI Bars Conservative Group from Customizing Cups – JONATHAN TURLEY
Kimberly Begg, the president of the northern Virginia-based organization told Fox Business that YETI suddenly cancelled its order for its signature seafoam mugs after the order was placed and after they paid $1,608. She said that the use of the the phrase “conservative women” was on the “political aisle.” A YETI spokesperson told Fox Business:
“Starting with our first customized Rambler® Drinkware in 2015, we’ve used our best efforts to create and adhere to a policy that prevents customizing products aligned with any political affiliations or organizations in addition to content that could be considered obscene, vulgar, profane, discriminatory, defamatory, or hateful.”
It is not clear how this policy has been applied and whether CBL was barred as political or hateful or other criteria. I am assuming that the word “conservative” triggered the response.
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ICE arrested a U.S. citizen and allegedly created warrants after an arrest
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Trump promised scientific breakthroughs. Researchers say he's breaking science
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DHS, FBI docs question using tattoos to ID Tren de Aragua gang members
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Russian researcher at Harvard, protested the Ukraine war, detained by ICE
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What Happens to an Economy When Deals Replace Rules? - Bloomberg
Americans of all political affiliations will miss the checks and balances that Donald Trump is trying to dispense with.
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Aid cuts predicted to cause 2.9M more HIV-related deaths by 2030
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RFK Jr. To Shut Down HHS Office of Infectious Diseases and HIV Policy
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US Securities and Exchange Commission beginning to bring on DOGE staff
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Heart surgeon Dr. Marc Ruel chooses Canada over U.S. amid political uncertainty
Law Breaking / Police / Internal Security
External Security / Militaria / Diplomania
World
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Remote Australian town seeks a doctor, offering a $400k salary and free rent
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Affluent India's pet obsession is fuelling a boom in care industry
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Secure encryption and online anonymity are now at risk in Switzerland
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'It's ended up being nothing to no one': can K-pop overcome crisis?
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Amsterdam stabbing: 5 seriously wounded; suspect in custody | AP News
Authorities said in a statement that no motive had been established for the attack, but that police were considering a scenario where the man targeted victims at random. The victims were identified as a 67-year-old woman and a 69-year old man from the United States, a 73-year-old woman from Belgium, a 26-year-old man from Poland and a 19-year old Dutch woman from Amsterdam.
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I Am the Turkish President's Main Challenger. I Was Arrested
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'What the hell is this stuff?': French people on the culture shock of flossing
Russia Bad / Ukraine War
China
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Ko Wen-je needs medical treatment urgently: TPP - Taipei Times
Former Taiwan People’s Party (TPP) chairman Ko Wen-je (柯文哲) is in urgent need of medical treatment as he has blood in his urine and is experiencing pain and nausea, the TPP said today. He might be suffering from acute renal failure as he has been experiencing pain on the two sides of his lower back due to having kidney stones and vomiting, Ko’s wife Peggy Chen (陳佩琪), a retired pediatrician, told a news conference this afternoon.
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Fourth Beijing warning for Li Ka-shing's Hutchison over Panama ports deal
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China built AI data centers to catch the AI boom. Many are unused
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To get big in China, NBA stars enlist social media surrogates
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Taiwan accuses China's biggest chipmaker SMIC of illegally poaching tech talent