2025-09-22
Horseshit
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Yangwang U9 Xtreme hits 308mph(496km/h), becomes fastest production car
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World Cup's dynamic pricing model lays bare FIFA's singular motive: profit
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I took a job on a whim, and ended up stranded at sea for six months
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Earth is a desert planet compared to these ocean worlds in the solar system
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New research shows how the Vesuvius eruption turned a man's brain to glass
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Dining across the divide: 'We disagreed on almost everything – it was great'
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Why your outdoorsy friend suddenly has a gummy bear power bank
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The Surprising History of Making Alcohol a Powdered Substance
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An Engineer Says He's Found a Way to Overcome Earth's Gravity
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Anger after pharaoh's gold bracelet stolen from a Cairo museum is melted down
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It's still cooking, give it another billion years: Why is Venus hell and Earth an Eden?
Rank Propaganda / Thought Policing / World Disordering
Musk
Electric / Self Driving cars
Religion / Tribal / Culture War and Re-Segregation
Edumacationalizing / Acedemia Nuts
Info Rental / ShowBiz / Advertising
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Microsoft's Entra ID vulnerabilities could have been catastrophic
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Apple takes control of all core chips in iPhoneAir with new arch prioritizing AI
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Meta exposé author faces bankruptcy after ban on criticising company
An MP has claimed in parliament that Mark Zuckerberg’s company was trying to “silence and punish” Sarah Wynn-Williams, the former director of global public policy at Meta’s precursor, Facebook, after her decision to speak out about her time at the company. Louise Haigh, the former Labour transport secretary, said Wynn-Williams was facing a fine of $50,000 (£37,000) every time she breached an order secured by Meta preventing her from talking disparagingly about the company.
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Nvidia wants 10Gbps HBM4 to blunt AMD's MI450, report claims
TechSuck / Geek Bait
AI Will (Save | Destroy) The World
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Artificial intelligence ushers in a golden age of hacking, experts say
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Artists are losing work, wages, and hope as bosses and clients embrace AI
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Science journalists find ChatGPT is bad at summarizing scientific papers
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Cognitive and AI scientists call to reject uncritical adoption of AI in academia
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Meta Accused of Torrenting Porn to Advance Its Goal of AI 'Superintelligence'
Space / Boomy Zoomers / UFO
Economicon / Business / Finance
Gubmint / Poilitcks / Law Making
Trump
Left Angst
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Rand Paul's last-minute demands push key cybersecurity law to the brink
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U.S. Is Losing Race to Return to Moon, Critics Say, Pointing at SpaceX
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What’s interesting on this chart is that the author — who may or may not himself be American, but who is certainly doing a good job of riling Americans up on social media — doesn’t try to establish a hard and fast cutoff, but instead defines a system of grades, where the longer your ancestors were in the country, the more points you get. This kind of thing is natural in a polyglot country of immigrants like America. In every country you’ll find some form of restrictive nationalism — the idea that no matter what the citizenship laws say, only certain groups of people are truly members of the nation. But in most countries, there’s some kind of hard cutoff you can use — usually, membership in a specific ethnic group or religion. But America is so diverse that any attempt to draw a hard, bright line around which groups are “real Americans” is probably going to fail, because the cutoff will be transparently arbitrary. And so our restrictive nationalists resort to drawing concentric circles, defining a whole spectrum of American-ness based on some combination of family history, race, ethnicity, and religion.
The bond my friend and I share is rooted in the land, and in community. It is tied to the place we grew up — College Station, Texas, and the United States of America — that taught us to be who we are. In contrast, the bond that natcons feel with the German Empire, or with other natcons in Australia and the UK, or with the idea of heritage and whiteness and Christendom and so on, is what I call a vertical community. It’s a notional bond between a bunch of people who find each other online and decide that they have more in common with those distant people than with the people who live next door in physical space.
Right now, the MAGA movement is in charge of America. It is fundamentally an online creature — a weak bond between a bunch of people whom social media has taught to have the same notional enemies. In our division and our complacency, the American majority, who does not live for online hate memes, has allowed ourselves to put people in power who would tear up our actual heritage in the service of those memes. But eventually, no nation ruled by the Extremely Online can thrive, and I think my countrymen are starting to realize that.
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NPR's Latest Article on the Charlie Kirk Assassination Is Why It Got Defunded
"In fact, little is still known about Robinson's politics."
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Leftist Boomer Arrested For Shooting Into Sacramento ABC TV Station | ZeroHedge
An X account matching that profile contains a steady stream of anti-Trump commentary.
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California bans masks meant to hide law enforcement officers' identities
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I spent $8k to get back to US after fears over Trump visa deadline