2025-09-29
Horseshit
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A Collision with Another Planet Could Have Allowed for Life on Earth
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Marc Maron and Other Comedians Rebuke Peers in Saudi Festival
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Daylight Savings Time Is So Bad, It's Messing with Our View of the Cosmos
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Two Young Men Got Pulled into Internet Darkness, and How They Got Out
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Making Florida More Flood Resistant Is Forcing Hard Choices for Homeowners
celebrity gossip
Rank Propaganda / Thought Policing / World Disordering
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'Ostrich Effect': Researchers pinpoint the age we start avoiding information
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A sordid tale of Covid Tyranny. Kevin Bass tells his story.
People at my school used every method at their disposal to harm my reputation, even if it meant collaborating with people who engage in criminal online activities. This is not an exaggeration. I have documents exhaustively proving this.
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Time to separate the art from the artist
A developer of a highly successful framework or app speaking their political mind on their social platforms is their right. The same person publishing them on the official blog of the product or starting to stop contributions from people not aligned with their beliefs is an abuse of power. The community of that product should react accordingly, calling out that this behaviour isn’t wanted, limit the powers of that person or – in the worst case – fork it. That isn’t censorship, it’s acting against a hostile takeover from within much like any other social engineering hacking attempt. As a customer or consumer of that person’s product it’s up to you if you want to support such abuse as the product is too useful or if you want to consider alternatives. Nobody has to agree with those who shout the loudest. And being an expert in one thing that gives you a large following doesn’t mean we need to hear you evangelising your truth on all other matters.
- "We can't stand to share ideas with this founder of our community" people oddly never have that problem with the rest of the stuff in their life. They'll drive a Volkswagen, instead of a Tesla, in the name of ideological purity.
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Telegram's Durov says France asked to remove some Moldovan channels from app
Musk
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The most powerful rocket built is set for its next test. Experts are worried
The uncrewed Starship prototype will follow a similar flight plan to the last three missions and aim to complete test objectives left untried during those tests, all of which ended prematurely. SpaceX debuted the current generation of Starship vehicles in January, following a clean run of test missions with a slightly scaled-down version of the rocket in 2024. But since that debut, the vehicle has twice exploded over populated islands east of Florida, creating debris that hit roadways in Turks and Caicos and washed up onto the shores of Bahamian islands. The spacecraft also spun out of control as it headed toward its landing site in the Indian Ocean on its last test flight in May.
Electric / Self Driving cars
Robot uprising / Humanioid Helpers
Edumacationalizing / Acedemia Nuts
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How has mathematics gotten so abstract?
Because the behavior of infinite sets is bizarre, there is a school of mathematics that rejects their existence. Heck, there is a small number of mathematicians who reject infinity altogether. The difficulty is that such a decision requires discarding vast amounts of useful math — or at the very least, tossing out an explanation of why we’re doing that math in a particular way. On some level, this might not be a major concern: calculus is usually still taught without providing a rigorous justification for limits or infinitesimals. On the flip side, as almost any calculus student will attest, it’s an intellectually unsatisfying approach. Just as important, without all these wonderfully confusing notions of infinity, how do you keep the riff-raff out of math?
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People Got Together to Stop a School Shooting – Before It Happened
Info Rental / ShowBiz / Advertising
TechSuck / Geek Bait
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Bundler belongs to the Ruby community
In the last few weeks, Ruby Central has suddenly asserted that they alone own Bundler. That simply isn’t true. In order to defend the reputation of the team of maintainers who have given so much time and energy to the project, I have registered my existing trademark on the Bundler project.
While the trademark has been registered under my name as an individual, I will not keep it for myself, because the idea of Bundler belongs to the Ruby community. Once there is a Ruby organization that is accountable to the maintainers, and accountable to the community, with openly and democratically elected board members, I commit to transfer my trademark to that organization. I will not license the trademark, and will instead transfer ownership entirely. Bundler should belong to the community, and I want to make sure that is true for as long as Bundler exists.
AI Will (Save | Destroy) The World
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Inside the Nuclear Bunkers, Mines, Mountains Being Retrofitted as Data Centers
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If Anyone Builds it, Everyone Dies review – how AI could kill us all
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Alien Oracles: Military Decision-Making with Unexplainable AI
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Most coal-fired power plants will delay retirement to feed AI boom
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How Walmart plans to prepare USAs largest private workforce for AI-driven future
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Accenture plans to "ditch" staff who can't be retrained in AI
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We Bought the Whole GPU, So We're Damn Well Going to Use the Whole GPU · Hazy Research
We're releasing the code here; please be warned that this really is research code; it is sensitive to compiler versions, GPU setup, and sometimes even being looked at the wrong way, and we have no intention whatsoever of supporting it. We hope you'll find the ideas and results interesting nonetheless!
Economicon / Business / Finance
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Product changes likely as Oracle faces an estimated 10k more layoffs by year end
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UK government underwrites £1.5B JLR loan following cyber attack
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Hedge-Fund Stars Are Making So Much Now That They Are Hiring Agents
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Move over, Murdochs: Ellison family dynasty is shaking up US media
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Americans have more money in stocks than ever before. Economists see red flag
Trump
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Trump orders deployment of troops to Portland and authorises 'full force'
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Now, Duffy's DoT issued a "new rule that closes dangerous loopholes, holds states accountable, and launches immediate enforcement action against California for gross negligence" in handing out non-domiciled CDLs to illegals "like candy."
Democrats
Left Angst
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US autism research gets $50M funding boost – amid row over Tylenol
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The current war on science, and who's behind it
Mann and Hotez have more in common than being pilloried all over the internet. Although they trained in disparate disciplines, their fields are now converging (as if they weren’t each threatening enough on their own). Climate change is altering the habitats, migrations, and reproductive patterns of pathogen-bearing wildlife like bats, mosquitoes, and other insects. It is causing the migration of humans as well. Our increasing proximity to these species in both space and time can increase the opportunities for us to catch diseases from them. And they point to an obvious culprit: “There is, unquestionably, a coordinated, concerted attack on science by today’s Republican Party.”
They’ve helpfully characterized “the five principal forces of antiscience “ into alliterative groups: (1) plutocrats and their political action committees, (2) petrostates and their politicians and polluters, (3) fake and venal professionals—physicians and professors, (4) propagandists, especially those with podcasts, and (5) the press. The general tactic is that (1) and (2) hire (3) to generate deceitful and inflammatory talking points, which are then disseminated by all-too-willing members of (4) and (5). There is obviously a lot of overlap among these categories; Elon Musk, Vladimir Putin, Rupert Murdoch, and Donald Trump can all jump between a number of these bins. As such, the ideas and arguments presented in the book are somewhat redundant, as are the words used.
- Lifelong champions of consensus over facts continue their grift; film at 11.
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Autism Has Always Existed. We Haven't Always Called It Autism
Law Breaking / Police / Internal Security
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Multiple people shot at Mormon church in Michigan and shooter is down, police say
At least one person was killed and nine others were wounded in a shooting at the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Grand Blanc Township, Michigan, according to police. Authorities say a gunman rammed a vehicle through the front of the church during a large service, began shooting, and then intentionally set a fire that grew into a large blaze. Police believe they may find additional victims when it is safe to enter the building. Officers exchanged fire with the gunman and killed him, according to police. He has been identified as a 40-year-old Michigan man.
The deranged madman who killed at least two people and wounded eight others at a Michigan Latter-day Saints church is a 40-year-old Iraq War veteran who served in the US Marines, The Post can confirm. Thomas Jacob Sanford rammed his Chevy Silverado truck into the building before opening fire on worshipers at a Sunday service of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Grand Blanc Township, Michigan. The vehicle had two large American flags behind the cab and a set of deer antlers attached to the bumper.
He also set the church ablaze, causing the entire structure to burn down. Authorities fear there may be more victims in the fire. A Facebook post by Sanford’s mother says the gunman — who died at the scene in a shootout with cops — served in Iraq from 2004 to 2008. He was killed minutes after the first 911 call came in. A Department of Natural Resources officer and a local township cop responded to the scene in about 30 seconds, authorities said. A dormant GoFundMe page from 2015 raised more than $3,000 for the couple’s now-10-year-old son who was born with congenital hyperinsulinism, or CHI, a rare, genetic condition where the pancreas releases too much insulin. Pictures from the Sanfords’ Facebook page show the family smiling, posing in the beds of pickup trucks or in a field of tall sunflowers. An unnamed witness told Fox 2 Detroit that the attack started at about just after the congregational hymn, when hundreds of people were inside the building for the 10 a.m. service.
External Security / Militaria / Diplomania
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MSM Says It Knows What Hegseth's Mystery Meeting Of Hundreds Of Generals Is All About | ZeroHedge
Apparently this somewhat unprecedented gathering is due to his "mounting impatience that the Pentagon hasn’t readily adopted the Trump administration’s directives on military culture, according to officials briefed on the plan." The speech will aim to get everyone on the same page in terms of Trump's desire to tighten up discipline and professional standards across military ranks. So far, President Trump has only said when asked about the somewhat unprecedented meeting by reporters, "It’s great when generals and top people want to come to the United States to be with a now-called secretary of war." The Washington Post states:
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth ordered hundreds of generals to travel from around the world to hear him make a short speech on military standards and the "warrior ethos," multiple people familiar with the event told The Washington Post.
World
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"Are You Alawi?" Identity-Based Killings During Syria's Transition
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Meta to launch ad-free Facebook and Instagram subscriptions in UK
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Dismissed as a joke, UK's first rice crop ripe for picking after hot summer
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South Korea's booming market for traditional (and novel) hangover remedies
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Explosive battery blaze in South Korea 'paralyzes' vital government services
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Vietnam wins World Xiangqi Championship, breaking China's 35 years dominance
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Madagascar sacks energy minister after repeated power cuts spark protests
Russia Bad / Ukraine War
China
Health / Medicine
Pox / COVID / BioTerror AgitProp
Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda
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Your kitchen is full of microplastics. Here's how to eat less of them
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Experts call for immediate cuts to water use from the Colorado River
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Claim: Climate Change is Making Amazon Rainforest Trees Fatter.
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2025 is a mast year. That's an opportunity
You may have spotted a surplus of acorns littering the woodland paths. This year's bumper crop is mainly due to a phenomenon called a 'mast year' - and the weather may also have a part to play.
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Leaf miners identified as oldest insect plague in the history of Earth