2025-06-03
Horseshit
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Magnus Carlsen slams table after shock loss to Gukesh Dommaraju in Norway
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What megalodon ate to meet its 100k-calorie daily requirement
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Uploading the Human Mind Could One Day Become a Reality, Predicts Neuroscientist
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Heelys Rolled into Millions of Dollars – and Then Crashed in an Instant
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No one goes to happy hour after work anymore. The reason why is grim
This is a difficult trend to prove empirically, but Alison Green, Slate’s resident workplace expert, has noticed a shift: We simply don’t hang out with our co-workers like we once did. “I used to get a ton of questions in my mailbox about happy hours, or drama that happened at happy hours, or even from people who didn’t want to go to their office happy hours,” she told me. “I get far fewer letters like that now.” Unsurprisingly, Green first noticed this change during the lockdowns of 2020, which disrupted every element of our professional routines.
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Cat owners go "of course": Your Cat Knows Your Scent
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Ex-'Top Gear' Producer's License Suspended for Driving 24 MPH in a 20 MPH Zone
celebrity gossip
Musk
Electric / Self Driving cars
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Ford is recalling nearly 30000 F-150 Lightning EV pickups
Ford stated that certain Lightning models may have an improperly torqued nut on the ball joint of the front upper control arm. Due to this, the arm can separate from the knuckle assembly, causing the driver to lose control of the vehicle. Ford estimates only 1% of the vehicles recalled have the defect. If you hear a “clunk or rattle noise” while the suspension moves, it could be that the ball joint is loose or missing.
Religion / Tribal / Culture War and Re-Segregation
Edumacationalizing / Acedemia Nuts
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Scientific Publishing: Enough is Enough - by Seemay Chou
I no longer believe that incremental fixes are enough. Science publishing must be built anew. I help oversee billions of dollars in funding across several science and technology organizations. We are expanding our requirement that all scientific work we fund will not go towards traditional journal publications. Instead, research we support should be released and reviewed more openly, comprehensively, and frequently than the status quo.
Info Rental / ShowBiz / Advertising
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Is "The Phoenician Scheme" Wes Anderson's Most Emotional Film?
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Amazon and the New York Times Announce an A.I. Licensing Deal
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Business Insider recommended nonexistent books to staff as it leans into AI
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US community bank says thieves drained customer data through third party hole
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Ford Mustang 'Eleanor' from Gone in 60 Seconds Can't Be Copyrighted
According to the latest legal update in the legal brawl over "Eleanor," the series of Ford Mustangs from the Gone in 60 Seconds movie franchise, a car is not a character and thus cannot be copyrighted. In a published judgment from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, three judges denied the copyrightability of the Eleanor Mustang. The ruling called the car a prop, not a character.
There's plenty of legalese in the ruling, but it breaks down copyright law via the Towle test, which was a 2015 case involving a builder of Batmobile replicas. In that case, the court ruled that the replicas did indeed violate DC's copyright ownership of the Batmobile in its various iterations. However, the ruling noted that the Batmobile was in fact a character, capable of some autonomy, and of course had very distinctive features. (Holy jet engine, Batman.) In this case, judges ruled that Eleanor failed the three prongs of the Towle test, lacking anthromorphic qualities, consistent traits, and specifically distinctive qualities. For instance, Herbie the Love Bug might pass all three tests. Ecto-1 would be recognizable even if it was a different kind of Cadillac ambulance. Whether a car is a character in law will vary from case to case.
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Nvidia to cut gaming GPU shipments by 30% by reallocating them to enterprise AI
TechSuck / Geek Bait
AI Will (Save | Destroy) The World
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Hey chatbot, is this true? AI "factchecks" sow misinformation
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ChatGPT future just revealed – get ready for a 'super assistant'
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New Data Confirms That AI Is Already Taking Human Jobs, Roles
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It's not your imagination: AI is speeding up the pace of change
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'Humanity deserves better': Jony Ive, Laurene Powell Jobs on tech's next chapter
Space / Boomy Zoomers / UFO
Economicon / Business / Finance
Trump
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Trump Amplifies Outlandish Robot Biden Conspiracy Theory - The New York Times
President Trump shared an outlandish conspiracy theory on social media on Saturday night saying former President Joseph R. Biden had been “executed in 2020” and replaced by a robotic clone, the latest in a string of dark, fringe material amplified by the president to his millions of followers. Mr. Trump reposted a false rant that another user had made on the president’s social media platform, Truth Social, just after 10 p.m. on Saturday. The White House did not respond to requests for comment on the post about Mr. Biden, whom Mr. Trump has targeted for criticism almost daily since the start of his second term. The president has blamed Mr. Biden for all manner of societal ills and assailed his mental acuity, including with the specious theory that Mr. Biden’s aides used an autopen to enact policies and issue pardons without Mr. Biden’s knowledge. (Mr. Trump has acknowledged that his administration uses the autopen system on occasion.)
Democrats
Left Angst
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US vets agency orders scientists not to publish in journals without clearance
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FBI arrests DoD IT worker, claim he tried to leak intel • The Register
Nathan Vilas Laatsch, 28, of Alexandria, Virginia, was the subject of an FBI investigation after law enforcers claim they received a tip that Laatsch had advertised his willingness to transmit intelligence to a "friendly foreign government" back in March. According to the DoJ, Laatsch is alleged to have stated that he did not "agree or align with the values of this administration and intend to act to support the values that the United States at one time stood for." He was therefore "willing to share classified information," feds are claiming.
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NIH grant cuts will axe clinical trials abroad – could leave 1000s without care
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The Trump administration has shut down more than 100 climate studies
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Why Is NASA Shuttering This Iconic Institute in New York City?
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Analysis: Trump's "Gold Standard Science" is already wearing thin
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FEMA staff baffled after head said he was unaware of US hurricane season
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Justice system being weaponized agains journalists critical of Musk and Twitter
Law Breaking / Police / Internal Security
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FBI investigating targeted terror attack near Boulder's Pearl Street Mall | Fox News
The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is investigating a "targeted terror attack" where multiple people were set on fire Sunday afternoon near Pearl Street Mall in Boulder, Colorado. At about 1:26 p.m. local time, officers with the Boulder Police Department were called to the county courthouse on Pearl Street for reports of a man, who had a weapon, setting people on fire, according to Boulder Police Chief Steve Redfearn. The man, who has not yet been identified, was arrested at the scene without incident, Redfearn said. The attack took place near an event put on by "Run for Their Lives," a grassroot organization that facilitates global run and walk events calling for the release of Israeli hostages held by Hamas.
External Security / Militaria / Diplomania
World
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Apple Challenges EU Order to Increase Compatibility with Rivals' Products
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Mexico’s Vote on Nearly 2,700 Judges Will Test Its Democracy - The New York Times
On Sunday, Mexicans will head to the polls to elect every federal judge in the nation and many local ones — 2,682 justices, judges and magistrates in all — a first-in-the-nation vote to overhaul the judiciary. Morena leaders said they decided on the election to fix a justice system rife with corrupt judges who served the elite, rather than everyone, and who kept frustrating the party’s plans. In the process, they could eliminate the final major check on Morena’s power. Many legal and political analysts in Mexico expect candidates aligned with Morena to dominate the election, filling judgeships from local courthouses to the Supreme Court and giving the party effective control over the third branch of government. As a result, Mexicans face the paradox that giving more power to the public may undercut their democracy.
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Poland’s Presidential Election Too Close to Call - The New York Times
A pivotal presidential election in Poland was too close to call Sunday night, with exit polls showing the two contenders nearly neck and neck and each candidate claiming victory a day before the official ballot count was to to be announced. Rafal Trzaskowski, the liberal mayor of Warsaw, declared victory Sunday evening after the release of early exit poll data that showed him with a tiny lead over his right-wing rival. But an updated set of survey data released later flipped the results and gave Mr. Trzaskowki’s opponent, Karol Nawrocki, a narrow lead. Mr. Nawrocki, a nationalist historian backed by Poland’s right-wing former governing party, Law and Justice, told supporters in Warsaw that the official count, to be released on Monday, would show him to be the victor. “I believe that we will all wake up tomorrow morning with President Nawrocki putting the broken Poland back together,” he said Sunday night. Quoting a passage from the Bible, he said that God would “heal the land” of those who “turn away from wicked ways.”
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Australian ransomware victims now must tell the government if they pay up
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Italy's Mount Etna volcano erupts with an ash cloud and a "lava fountain"
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Deadly superbugs thrive as access to antibiotics falters in India
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French lawmakers unanimously back posthumous promotion for Captain Dreyfus
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India and Pakistan's Air Battle Is Over. Their Water War Has Begun
Russia Bad / Ukraine War
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Ukraine's drone attack sends critical message to Russia – and the West
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Will Russia’s Retaliation To Ukraine’s Strategic Drone Strikes Decisively End The Conflict?
Ukraine carried out strategic drone strikes on Sunday against several bases all across Russia that are known to house elements of its nuclear triad. This came a day before the second round of the newly resumed Russian-Ukrainian talks in Istanbul and less than a week after Trump warned Putin that “bad things..REALLY BAD” might soon happen to Russia. It therefore can’t be ruled out that he knew about this and might have even discreetly signaled his approval in order to “force Russia into peace”.
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One Turkish publication writes that even as talks happened, there are "no sign that the two sides are any closer to a deal, the mood in Russia was angry as the talks kicked off, with influential war bloggers calling on Moscow to deliver a fearsome retaliatory blow against Kyiv after Ukraine on Sunday launched one of its most ambitious attacks of the war, targeting Russian nuclear-capable long-range bombers in Siberia and elsewhere."
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Ukraine Building Drone Hunters as Fight Moves Far Beyond Front
China
Health / Medicine
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Neuralink Rival Paradromics Tests Brain Implant in First Human
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Younger generations less likely to have dementia, study suggests
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Taurine Revisited | Science | AAAS
this work also makes a person wonder if supplementation with taurine could lead to more favorable conditions for AML to start in the first place. That's not a given, but it's not outside the realm of possibility, either, and that possible connection set off a host of headlines in the press when this paper first appeared in late April. In addition to looking at taurine transport inhibitors for leukemia therapy, I think it would be worthwhile to look at whether taurine supplementation in normal cells and animals leads to any suggestive bone-marrow changes. Overall, I would hope that the answer is "no", since taurine seems to have a number of other beneficial effects. But anyone with mutations that are known to be suggestive of AML risk (or the myelodysplasias in general) would probably be well advised not to pile on the extra taurine.
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They Were Diagnosed with Autism as Adults. It Has Changed Their Lives
Pox / COVID / BioTerror AgitProp
Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda
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Turning used cooking oil into soap where deep-Fried foods rule
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New sonar tool is a 'game changer' for mapping the sea floor
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Flesh-eating screwworms in cattle could raise US beef prices
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How the little-known 'dark roof' lobby may be making US cities hotter
The Tennessee representative Rusty Grills says the lobbyist proposed a simple idea: repeal the state’s requirement for reflective roofs on many commercial buildings. In late March, Grills and his fellow lawmakers voted to eliminate the rule, scrapping a measure meant to save energy, lower temperatures and protect Tennesseans from extreme heat. Grills, a Republican, told Floodlight that he introduced the bill to give consumers more choice. It was another win for a well-organized lobbying campaign led by manufacturers of dark roofing materials.
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Could floating solar panels on a reservoir help the Colorado River?