2025-04-13
Horseshit
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Why AI Is Better Than Doctors at the Most Human Part of Medicine
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New Mexico made childcare free. It lifted 120k people out of poverty
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Perfume brands fighting a 'lost cause' against cheap dupes, say lawyers
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‘Puppy Prozac’ surges tenfold as owners medicate anxious lockdown dogs
Lockdown puppies can suffer from separation anxiety but vets say some owners are psychoanalysing their pets and expecting them to be perfect
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19-year-old influencer goes viral as stay-at-home wife, defying societal norms
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New urinal designs prevent 265,000 gallons of urine splashing onto the floor
celebrity gossip
Musk
Electric / Self Driving cars
Religion / Tribal / Culture War and Re-Segregation
Edumacationalizing / Acedemia Nuts
Info Rental / ShowBiz / Advertising
AI Will (Save | Destroy) The World
Gubmint / Poilitcks / Law Making
Trump
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Trump Exempts Phones, Computers, Chips from 'Reciprocal' Tariffs
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Trump gives Apple a giant break with wide-ranging tariff exemptions
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iPhone won't face Trump tariff price hike for now following exemption
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Apple, Nvidia, Dell, and Others Get a Tariffs Exemption Under New Rules
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Trump administration to exempt smartphones and computers from China tariffs
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Smartphones and computers are now exempt from Trump's latest tariffs
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Trump administration says it will exclude some electronics from tariffs
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Trump Exempts Smartphones, Other Electronics from Chinese Tariffs
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Newly declassified FBI memos detail concerns, payments to Russia collusion informant | Just The News
The new FBI records also show Halper was paid $70,000 by the FBI between August 2016 and the start of February 2017 — a time period spanning his activation as an informant targeting the Trump campaign and then the 2016 election and Trump’s inauguration. The FBI records also showed that the bureau had paid Halper “$1,181,064.44” from 1991 into early 2017.
Left Angst
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Trump May Be Triggering the Fastest Nuclear Weapons Race Since the Cold War
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FDA Announces Plan to Phase Out Animal Testing Requirement for Drugs
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RFK Jr. vows to find cause of autism by September – experts have doubts
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Education Department Is Threatening to Cut All Federal Funding for Maine Schools
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US Secretary of Education Linda McMahon thinks AI is "A One" (steak sauce)
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Pentagon to end $5.1 billion in contracts with Accenture, Deloitte, others | Reuters
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Nintendo Switch Game Console Release Is Whipsawed by Tariff Threats
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Tariffs Will Hammer Solo Stove. Its Amish-Made Rival Is Ready
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Producing something this stupid is the achievement of a lifetime
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Fewer UK tourists visiting US amid Trump's policies and rhetoric
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Energy Department cuts university overhead rates to 15% on research grants
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Here's another sign Musk's power is waning - POLITICO
The National Institutes of Health told employees Thursday it was rolling back directives from Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency to probe worker productivity and limit purchases and travel on company cards, according to messages obtained by POLITICO. It’s a possible sign that the agency’s recently confirmed director, Jay Bhattacharya, is willing to break with Musk and DOGE.
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Sneak Preview of 2026 NASA Budget Is a Science-Killing Horror Show
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Trump administration overrode Social Security staff to list immigrants as dead
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Pro-Palestinian protester's lawyer stopped and searched at US border
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Restarting 56-year-old coal plants makes no economic sense for US electricity
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CDC denies help for lead poisoning in Milwaukee schools due to layoffs
Law Breaking / Police / Internal Security
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Monper sought and obtained a firearms permit shortly following President Trump’s inauguration. In February 2025, Monper commented using his “Mr Satan” account: “I have bought several guns and been stocking up on ammo since Trump got in office.” Further, in March 2025, Monper commented using his account: “Eventually im going to do a mass shooting.” One week later, Monper commented: “I have been buying 1 gun a month since the election, body armor, and ammo.”
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NYC Subway Horror: Worst Story of the Week | National Review
Aside from the obscenity of the act itself, I am even more horrified at the idea of a man feeling confident enough to take his time to do such a thing on an empty subway car. It is unique (near as I can tell) in the annals of public transit. But realize that the most insane aspect of this story is not the corpse-abuse, but the fact that this man got away and is still on the loose. He doesn’t seem likely to repeat the offense anytime soon, mind you, but this is the present state of security in the subway even moderately late at night.
it at least beats the story of the poor woman who was immolated by an illegal immigrant psychopath while asleep on a different New York City train late last December. Yes, people died in both situations, but at least nobody was technically murdered this time. In Eric Adams’s New York, we must regard this as an improvement.
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Chief Robert Farley is accused in court documents of assaulting and harassing officers since he was appointed chief in February 2024. The lengthy list of complaints includes defecating on floors, exposing himself, attempting to drug coworkers and sticking a hypodermic needle into an officer’s penis. He’s also been accused of shaving his body hair over the desks of co-workers and smearing bodily fluids onto the clothes of unsuspecting victims, according to court documents.
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Chinese Woman Detained in Arizona Border Station Dies by Suicide
External Security / Militaria / Diplomania
World
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E2EE messaging encryption and online anonymity at risk in Switzerland draft law
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Why Marine Le Pen should be allowed to run for president
The danger of aggressive sentences for politicians is that courts will be seen as partisan. The system relies on citizens accepting verdicts with which they disagree. Elections are supposed to generate consent for a new government. A poll after Ms Le Pen’s conviction found 54% of French people thought she was treated like any other accused, a narrow margin of confidence in judicial independence. Among RN voters, 89% thought she was singled out for political reasons.
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How the French Are Winning the Currency War One Croissant at a Time
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Mother arrested and held in cell for ‘confiscating child’s iPad.’
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Powerful programming: BBC-controlled electric meters are coming to an end
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British Steel: Government aims to take control with emergency law
The UK government is taking control of Chinese-owned British Steel after emergency legislation was rushed through Parliament in a single day. Business Secretary Jonathan Reynolds told MPs the government's likely next step would be to nationalise the Scunthorpe plant, which employs 2,700 people. But he said he was forced to seek emergency powers to prevent owners Jingye shutting down its two blast furnaces, which would have ended primary steel production in the UK. MPs and peers were called back from their Easter holidays to debate the legislation in an extremely rare Saturday sitting of both houses of Parliament. It has now received Royal Assent after being passed by the Commons and Lords.