2025-09-10
Horseshit
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'It's back to the future': the 13th-century castle built by hand in France
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A Napa Wine Tour Owner Built One of the Most Efficient Shared Kitchens
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A Billionaire Owner Brought Turmoil and Trouble to Sotheby's
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Man found hog-tied in burned out SUV after receiving $100K from YouTuber
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Gambling logos and ads seen up to every 13 seconds during big sports games in US
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Korean Navigation App Turns Road Safety into a Game People Want to Win
Rank Propaganda / Thought Policing / World Disordering
Musk
Electric / Self Driving cars
Robot uprising / Humanioid Helpers
Religion / Tribal / Culture War and Re-Segregation
Edumacationalizing / Acedemia Nuts
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The school shooting industry is worth billions – and it keeps growing
There have been more than 400 school shootings since Columbine in 1999, according to an analysis by The Washington Post. The latest was last month, when a former student opened fire at a Catholic school in Minneapolis. Two students were killed and at least 18 other people were wounded. In the wake of those shootings, an industry has emerged to try to protect schools — and business is booming. According to the market research firm Omdia, the school security industry is now worth as much as $4 billion, and it's projected to keep growing.
Researchers say investing in school communities that promote a culture of emotional support and trust, as well as robust mental health services, is key to preventing gun violence, as most school shooters are current or former students and are suicidal.
- "allow armed teachers" not mentioned as an option...
Info Rental / ShowBiz / Advertising
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In court filing, Google concedes the open web is in "rapid decline"
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Former WhatsApp security boss in lawsuit likens Meta's culture to a "cult"
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YouTube Is a Mysterious Monopoly
while views are down, likes and revenue have been mostly steady. He guesses that this might be caused by a change in how views are calculated, but it’s just a guess. YouTube hasn’t mentioned anything about a change, and the drop in views has been going on for about a month. Geerling also notes that many people on YouTube are paid by sponsors, and those sponsors use recent video views as a key metric. If this change has happened suddenly and there’s no official word from YouTube, how are YouTube creators supposed to convince sponsors to re-adjust expectations?
- Don't build your house on someone else's sand.
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Burger King attackers 'impressed by commitment to terrible security practices'
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Windows 11 SSD issues blamed on reviewers using 'early versions of firmware'
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Apple event expected to feature a slimmer iPhone as pricing, AI questions linger
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Meta hid harms to children from VR products, whistleblowers allege
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This is the function of this software: Major Attack on Node.js
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Switch modder owes Nintendo $2M after representing himself in court
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Canon bringing back camera from 2016 with less features and higher price
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California limits on 'addictive' social media feeds for children largely upheld
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How Google dodged a major breakup – and why OpenAI is to thank for it
TechSuck / Geek Bait
AI Will (Save | Destroy) The World
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Sam Altman says that bots are making social media feel 'fake'
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OpenAI Executives Rattled by Campaigns to Derail For-Profit Restructuring
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Microsoft inks AI infra deal with Yandex cofounder's biz for nearly $20B
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Mistral Set for $14B (€12B) Valuation with New Funding Round
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Women in love with AI companions: 'I vowed that I wouldn't leave him'
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Google Cloud details how search giant is making billions monetizing AI products
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Meta to pay 140M to use FLUX (Black Forest Labs) for AI images
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Three big things we still don't know about AI's energy burden
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Tech bros hate this college student. CA should listen what she's saying about AI
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AI Isn't Biased Enough – Without humanity's flaws, chatbots lack its potential
Space / Boomy Zoomers / UFO
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BBC: UFO hit by hellfire, no impact on vehicle & flying away
'That's a hellfire missile smacking into that UFO, and bouncing right off'
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Short-duration space station missions not part of NASA's long-term plans
Crypto con games
Economicon / Business / Finance
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America's First Private Nuclear Fuel Recycling Facility to Open in Tennessee
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Intel ousts CEO of products, establishes new custom-chip design unit
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Last year it was -818k: U.S. Added 911,000 Fewer Jobs in Year Through March Than Reported Earlier
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Target's HQ employees return to in-person work 3 days a week
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What happens when private equity buys homes in your neighborhood
Gubmint / Poilitcks / Law Making
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New Mexico is first state in US to offer universal child care
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Outraged Farmers Blame Ag Monopolies as Catastrophic Collapse Looms
Alarm has turned to extreme despair on many operations. On Sept. 2, 2025, a telltale farm meeting went nuclear. Field representatives from the offices of Sen. Tom Cotton, Sen. John Boozman and Rep. Rick Crawford, along with a rep sent by Gov. Sarah Sanders, initially intended to speak with a handful of growers in Brookland, Ark. Instead, 400-plus farmers packed the house to overflow on a Tuesday — despite the pressing demands of rice and corn harvest and a mere three days’ notice — and unleashed a chain of grievances.
Growing 2,400 acres of soybeans, rice, and corn in east Arkansas’ Woodruff County, Chappell, 46, accuses USDA of head-in-the-sand policy: “I’m sick of USDA graphs saying agriculture income is set to rise. They’re baking cattle and coming payments into their recipe and pretending things are good. Bull.” “This is the worst agriculture economy of my lifetime over at least the past three years, and right this minute, guys are going under — as in bankruptcy or leaving the farm,” he exclaims. “The solution is supposedly another bailout or a gap payment the following year? Wake the hell up: Where do you think that money is gonna go? It won’t go to farmers. It’ll go into supplier’s pockets.”
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California announces task force to reduce homeless encampments in big cities
Left Angst
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Can a Despised Autocrat Consolidate Power?
As G. Elliott Morris points out in Strength in Numbers, what stands out in Trump’s polling isn’t just that a majority of Americans disapprove of Trump, but that almost half the country strongly disapproves. The Trump administration is obviously attempting to follow the familiar playbook by which autocracies consolidate their power, effectively turning America into a one-party state where almost everyone accepts that resistance to the regime is futile and is afraid to show any signs of opposition.
- "Let's Go Brandon"
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The US Tightens the Dollar's Death Grip on Brazilian Democracy
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Diseases that the U.S. had all but eliminated decades ago through mass vaccination campaigns have returned. Measles is surging and whooping cough is close on its heels, with cases tripling in many states over the past year.
- Replacing effective, proven vaccines with "new" ones, then insisting that any questions about that is "anti-vax" total rejection of Science, the One Source of Truth; might have had an impact on the credibility of the people pushing it. "Vaccine" no longer means what it once did. Officially.
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How MAHA Influencers Spread Conspiracies About Health Care - The New York Times
How does someone become an anti-vaxxer or come to believe that chemotherapy is more dangerous than cancer? It can begin with what seems like a harmless health tip: Cut seed oils or artificial food dyes from your diet. From there, the road can get treacherous. It’s paved with good intentions, surrounded by misinformation and filled with influencers who say they just want to make you, and America, healthy again. Using artificial intelligence to identify narrative patterns across nearly 12,000 videos and podcasts from the world of wellness, New York Times Opinion Video reconstructed the MAHA conspiracy theory rabbit hole.
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Harvard Funding Cuts Endanger Fruit Fly Database That Powers Genetic Research
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South Koreans feel betrayed by workforce detentions at Georgia Hyundai plant
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A day of rebranding at The Pentagon, this name change slipped under the radar
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Fed helpless as US economy faces structural challenges, not monetary
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Trump breaks from RFK on vaccines: "Pure and simple, they work"
Law Breaking / Police / Internal Security
External Security / Militaria / Diplomania
World
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India turns to alternative motors amid China's rare earth cut offs
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'Competence Is Controversial' – Meet the Strictest Headmistress in Britain
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Majority in EU's biggest states believes bloc 'sold out' in US tariff deal
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Do foreign gamers need a visa to play competitive Esports in the UK?
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Johnson and Cummings' secret meeting with Palantir founder revealed
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Jobseekers from Africa being tricked into slavery in Asia's cyberscam compounds
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Norway's Labour party wins election after seeing off populist surge
The Norwegian Labour party has secured four more years in government after seeing off a surge of support for the populist right in a polarised election. Soon after the polls closed, the centre left was projected to win with 89 seats with the centre right taking 80 seats. A minimum of 85 seats are needed for a majority. Just two hours later, with 99% of the vote counted, the result had held, according to state broadcaster NRK. Støre welcomed the results, playing down any shift to the right. “This is a signal to outside Norway that social democracy can also win despite a right-wing wave,” he told a jubilant crowd of Labour supporters chanting “four more years”.
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UK Home Office dangles £1.3M prize for algorithm that guesses your age
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Commercial shipping likely cut Red Sea cables that disrupted internet access
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350k UK households on low-interest fixed-rate mortgages set to increase
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Czech Police Arrest Driver of Mysterious Fake Ferrari F1 Car After 6 Years