2025-04-10
Horseshit
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Are E-Bikes a Godsend or the Road to Perdition? An Amish Community Is Torn
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Don't call it a drone: Zipline's uncrewed aircraft wants to reinvent retail
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BBC reinstalls sculpture by paedophile Eric Gill with new protective screen
A controversial sculpture outside the BBC’s London headquarters has been put back on display behind a protective screen after being restored, with the corporation saying it in no way condoned the “abusive behaviour” of its creator. The work by Eric Gill, which depicts Prospero and Ariel from William Shakespeare’s The Tempest, had been largely out of view since it was vandalised with a hammer in 2022. There have long been calls for Gill’s works to be removed since his diaries revealed he had sexually abused his two eldest daughters.
celebrity gossip
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The Mysterious Sinking of the Bayesian
The circumstances surrounding the deaths of British tycoon Mike Lynch, his daughter and five others on a luxury yacht are fraught with improbable coincidences
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'It was a magical chemical balance': How Monty Python and the Holy Grail became a comedy legend
Rank Propaganda / Thought Policing / World Disordering
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Who isn't a big fan of "impartial" news? People who don't have power
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Gen Z, less educated, more conservative people more vulnerable to misinformation
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Leila Fadel and National Public Radio recently interviewed me on free speech. While the program ominously warned that “what you’re about to hear is hate speech” in playing extreme voices on the right, it did interview me and former Columbia University president Lee Bollinger from the free speech community. I wanted to address a statement made about the program that is not accurate but has been repeated like a mantra by many seeking to dismiss the censorship system under the Biden Administration. The claim is that the Supreme Court rejected the claim of coordination between the government and social media companies. That is entirely untrue, but you do not have to take my word for it. The Supreme Court expressly stated that it was not doing so last year.
the justices went out of their way to expressly refute the notion that they were ruling on the merits of the coordination with the social media companies. In footnote 3, the Court states that “Because we do not reach the merits, we express no view as to whether the Fifth Circuit correctly articulated the standard for when the Government transforms private conduct into state action.” The opinion was based on standing, not whether coordination occurred or whether such coordination violated the First Amendment, as found by the district court. Thus, it is demonstrably untrue that “the Supreme Court rejected the claim that social media companies were pressured to take down posts about COVID-19 and the 2020 election.”
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Republicans Are Obsessed with a Censorship Lie
For the past four years, the Republican party has engaged in obsessive mythmaking about supposed collusion by Democrats, disinformation researchers, and the social media industry to suppress conservative viewpoints online. Reputable journalists have punctured holes in this narrative, showing how it is based on distortion and exaggeration. Academics, too, have looked into the question and found not a vast conspiracy aimed at censoring conservatives but a clear imbalance: right-wing users simply break social media platforms’ rules more frequently.
Bluesky
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Bluesky Can’t Take a Joke | WIRED
What Brown experienced is familiar to any former Twitter/X user gathering their bearings on the young and decidedly more earnest social network Bluesky: a distinct humor-detection issue. Some users are unable to decipher jokes, or they are deliberately trying to miss the point to make a different one. Many Bluesky users migrated over from X, where the top DOGE who did Nazi-like salutes on television is live-tweeting the destruction of American infrastructure. That’s a different and much more serious problem. Still, the seeming obliviousness-slash-self-seriousness of many Bluesky users is grating when you’re not used to it.
Musk
Religion / Tribal / Culture War and Re-Segregation
Edumacationalizing / Acedemia Nuts
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California colleges detect more fraudsters stealing millions.
In 2021, the California Community Colleges Chancellor’s Office reported that about 20% of college applicants were likely fake. In January 2024, the state said it was up to about 25%. Now it’s around 34%, according to the most recent data from the last calendar year.
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Judge Tells Colorado School District to Return 'Challenged' Books to Libraries
Info Rental / ShowBiz / Advertising
AI Will (Save | Destroy) The World
Space / Boomy Zoomers / UFO
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Soil from the moon's far side suggests drier conditions than side facing Earth
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Amazon Kuiper launches first satellites to take on SpaceX's Starlink
- the previous plan of having the FCC kill Starlink didn't work, so now they hafta compete by actually competing.
Crypto con games
Economicon / Business / Finance
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U.S. Bond Sell-Off Is Another Worrisome Echo of the Liz Truss Fiasco
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White House says iPhones can be made in the U.S. It won't be easy
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Chevron to 'triple-frac' half of Permian oil wells in 2025 to cut costs, time
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Fake job seekers are flooding US companies that are hiring for remote positions
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Delta Air Lines had been expecting a record year. Then a trade war broke out
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Amazon Cancels Some Inventory Orders from China After Tariffs
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'Shock therapy' — how to get 7 million dropout men working
Nearly 7 million men in the prime of life — over a tenth of the 25-to-54 age group — are neither working nor looking for work these days. Today, for every “prime age” man who is actually unemployed — out of a job but looking — there are three who are neither working nor looking for work. That means the overwhelming majority of jobless men nowadays are NILFs (for “not in labor force”). And unemployed men differ fundamentally in both mindset and behavior from NILF men. The former consider themselves part of the labor force; the latter do not. The former generally respond to labor market incentives; the latter generally do not. Thus, while unemployed men tend to be out of work for just a few weeks, NILF men tend to be long-termers — often lifers. Furthermore, only a tiny minority of NILF men say they are jobless because they could not find work.
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Goldman Calls "US Recession" At 12:57pm; 73 Minutes Later Rescinds Recession Call | ZeroHedge
Gubmint / Poilitcks / Law Making
Trump
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Press Secretary Says Trump Wasn't Joking About Deporting U.S. Citizens
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Trump says EU must buy $350B of US energy to get tariff relief
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Trump 'simply floated' idea of deporting U.S. citizens, White House says
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Trump administration to fine illegal migrants $998 a day unless they self-deport.
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Trump says he told TSMC it would pay 100% tax if it doesn't build in US
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China trade escalation unfortunate, loss for them, US Treasury secretary says
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Trump announces 90-day pause on 'reciprocal' tariffs with exception of China
President Donald Trump announced a complete pause on all the “reciprocal” tariffs that went into effect at midnight, with the exception of China. Tariffs on China will be increased to 125% from 104%, he said. Trump in a Truth Social post Wednesday said he has “authorized a 90 day PAUSE, and a substantially lowered Reciprocal Tariff during this period, of 10%, also effective immediately.”
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Trump Says Tariffs Paused for 90 Days on Non-Retaliating Countries
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Trump reduces tariffs to 10% for 90 days on all countries but China
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Trump pauses tariffs on most nations for 90 days, raises Chinese import taxes
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Trump raises tariffs on China to 125% announces 90 day pause for other countries
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Trump hits back with a 125% tariff in escalating trade war with China
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Trump pauses tariff hikes for 90 days against most countries, raises China rate to 125%
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Trump orders 90-day pause on some tariffs, raises China's to 125%
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In sudden change of course, Trump lowers tariffs for most countries
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White House says 25% tariff on Canada and Mexico remain in effect
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Adam Schiff Calls for Insider Trading Investigation into Trump over Tariff Pause
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Trump's morning 'buy' call nets returns for those who listened
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White House Uses Reporters’ Pronouns, Just Not the Way They Intended
In a delicious development, the Trump White House press office is flat-out refusing to respond to reporters who display their pronouns in email signatures. When confronted about this practice, Leavitt delivered a devastating response: “Any reporter who chooses to put their preferred pronouns in their bio clearly does not care about biological reality or truth and therefore cannot be trusted to write an honest story.”
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Thwarted Trump Assassin Tried to Buy Rocket Launcher from Ukraine: DOJ - Newsweek
Prosecutors allege that Routh, 58, was communicating through an encrypted messaging app with someone he believed to be a Ukrainian contact with access to military-grade weapons. In one exchange, Routh reportedly requested, "send me an RPG or Stinger and I will see what we can do...(Trump) is not good for Ukraine."
Routh asked the associate about the price of the weapon and if it could be shipped to him, prosecutors said. "I need equipment so that Trump cannot get elected," Routh allegedly wrote.
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Executive Order Revoking Chris Krebs and SentinelOne Clearances, Review of CISA
Democrats
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Now They Tell Us: How Top Democrats Changed Their Tune on Biden's Decline After the Election
The first of several books about the Democratic Party's scandalous cover up, Fight: Inside the Wildest Battle for the White House by Jonathan Allen and Amie Parnes, came out earlier this month. Excerpts from the upcoming titles, such as Uncharted: How Trump Beat Biden, Harris, and the Odds in the Wildest Campaign in History by Chris Whipple_,_ have leaked to the press in an effort to juice sales. The revelations contained in these works of postelection journalism reveal the alarming disparity between what leading Democratic politicians and White House aides felt privately about Biden's cognitive health (very concerned) and their public comments defending the president from criticism.
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Biden admin held private talks with Beijing on Chinese spy balloon | Fox News
Biden administration State Department officials held private talks with Beijing counterparts about the Chinese spy balloon that intercepted U.S. airspace in 2023, and discussed the implications the balloon's publicity would have on the relationship between the U.S. and China, according to Trump administration officials. U.S. officials identified the spy balloon infiltrating U.S. airspace on Jan. 28, 2023, and an Air Force fighter jet shot down the Chinese spy balloon off the coast of South Carolina Feb. 4, 2023, two days after the Pentagon issued a statement on the matter. Biden officials held discussions with Beijing Feb. 1, 2023, about the balloon, and discussed the impact disclosing the balloon to the public could have on the relationship with China, internal State Department documents show, two Trump administration officials told Fox News Digital.
Left Angst
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All Federal Experts on HIV Prevention in Children Overseas Were Dismissed
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Silicon Valley's gamble on Trump isn't paying off
Contrary to the New York Times, however, I don’t think it’s hard to explain why some voices in the Valley — including Musk, who has signaled his displeasure with Trump’s tariff policy in increasingly unsubtle ways and reportedly pushed him privately, too— are now having second thoughts. (Some of Trump’s backers on Wall Street also want “backsies”.) They were betting on, essentially, a replay of Trump’s first term. After years of feeling piqued by California’s leftward cultural swing and heavy tax and regulatory burdens, they thought they’d get on the right side of a conservative vibe shift. But they also thought they’d get a good economy, run on free market principles — or better still, one where they’d be dealt into an advantaged position because of Trump’s predictable cronyism. Whether heartfelt or cynical, this willingness to play ball with Trump initially appeared to provide a strongly positive ROI. Shares in the top publicly-traded Silicon Valley firms — I’ll explain in a moment how I define that term — rose by 21 percent from the day before the election on Nov. 4, 2024 through their peak on Feb. 18, 2025, considerably outpacing major stock indices (including the NASDAQ, which also heavily weights many Silicon Valley firms). Since that peak through yesterday (Apr. 7), however — in barely more than six weeks — they’ve plunged by 27 percent, also more than the rest of the market.
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Nvidia's AI chip empire is under threat from Trump's tariffs
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The Mississippi Library Commission ordered the deletion of two research collections that might violate state law, a March 31 internal memo obtained by Mississippi Today shows. One of the now deleted research collections focused on “race relations” and the other on “gender studies.” “There was a lot of sweat and hard work put into this research. This is an attempt to erase history and make history the way they want it to be interpreted,” Harness said. “When you do things like this, take away that important content, they’re creating a powder keg. I’m just going to tell you, the Republicans are creating a powder keg. People are not going to stand for this.”
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Trump Team to Freeze Nearly $2B at Cornell and Northwestern Universities
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Stocks slide again as US forges ahead with 104% tariffs on China
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Doge 'didn't test' Social Security fraud detection tool at appropriate scale
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Trump's Billionaire NASA Pick Says Mars Will Be Key Priority
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We Should All Be Very, Very Afraid: Trump's Gulag Archipelago
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Doge 'didn't test' Social Security fraud detection tool at appropriate scale
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IRS agrees to send immigrant tax data to ICE for enforcement
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After April Fools' Day purge, U.S. health agencies spiral into chaos
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Trump administration backs off Nvidia's 'H20' crackdown after Mar-a-Lago dinner
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How Musk and Trump Are Working to Consolidate Government Data About You
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About 90% of Migrants Sent to Salvador Lacked US Criminal Record
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Reddit small business owners realizing what tariffs mean for their bottom line
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U.S. says it is now monitoring immigrants' social media for antisemitism
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Trump Administration Cuts Research Funding, Claiming It Creates Climate Anxiety
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Dr. Oz Pushed for AI Health Care in First Medicare Agency Town Hall
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Our Privacy Act Lawsuit Against DOGE and OPM: Why a Judge Let It Move Forward
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Trump Wants to Merge Government Data. Here Are Things It Might Know About You
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Leveraging international standards to protect US consumers without Congress
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They fled Putin's Russia. After ICE detention, they're choosing to leave again
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I Invented a Popular Kitchen Gadget. Tariffs Will Kill My Business.
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How to Avoid US-Based Digital Services–and Why You Might Want To
Law Breaking / Police / Internal Security
External Security / Militaria / Diplomania
World
China
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Fitch Ratings Has Downgraded China's Long-Term Foreign-Currency IDR
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China is not backing down from Trump's tariff war. What next?
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China may weaponise service trade to hit back against US tariffs
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China state firms vow to boost share purchases to stabilize plunging market
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TSMC blew whistle on suspected verboten exports to Huawei –that may cost it $1B+
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In a Storm of Tariffs, Many Companies See China as the Safest Harbor
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China's central bank asks state lenders to reduce USD purchases
Health / Medicine
Pox / COVID / BioTerror AgitProp
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Seven Americans may have contracted COVID-19 in Wuhan in October 2019, several months before the reported start of the pandemic, according to a bombshell military report obtained by the Washington Free Beacon that the Biden administration concealed from the public.