2025-10-06
Horseshit
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Is waiting in a 12-hour queue the new cool thing to do? These people think so
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Americans increasingly see legal sports betting as a bad thing for society
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High cost of living forces Bay Area residents to delay medical procedures, kids
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Surgeon Returns to War Zone to Help One of Congo's Thousands of Rape Victims
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Japanese tech giant deploys laser drones to protect chickens and stop avian flu
celebrity gossip
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Mark Sanchez has been arrested in the hospital after allegedly being stabbed in the chest. Sanchez, 38, was rushed to the hospital with critical injuries on Saturday morning after allegedly being stabbed during a dispute with a food delivery driver around 12:30 am. Fox Sports later said Sanchez was in stable condition. However, it was later alleged that the delivery driver acted in self-defense, and Indianapolis police later announced they arrested Sanchez for battery with injury, unlawful entry of a motor vehicle and public intoxication.
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Where the 'PayPal Mafia' Is Today: Founders, Fortunes and Feuds
Rank Propaganda / Thought Policing / World Disordering
Musk
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Wikipedia in Danger? Elon Musk's AI-Powered 'Grokipedia' to Go Live in Two Weeks
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Video shows woman in Chicago wipe dog poop on Cybertruck; sleuths say they found her
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Is burning alive a small price to pay for a button activated door?
- Why has Tesla been able to do this for years without massive media outcry at any point up to now?
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Elon Musk's $1T pay plan faces pushback from investors, state officials
Electric / Self Driving cars
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How the US got left behind in the global electric car race
analysts say the boom was caused by a dash to buy before the end of a government subsidy that helped knock as much as $7,500 (£5,588) off the price of certain battery electric, plug-in hybrid or fuel cell vehicles.
Robot uprising / Humanioid Helpers
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G1 humanoid robots are sending information to China and can easily be hacked
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Food delivery robots have human names and blinking eyes. But they’re not our friends | CNN Business
Three months after their arrival, though, the novelty has worn off. They’re not photo ops anymore. Cyclists swerve to avoid them like any other obstacle in the road. Patrons of Shake Shack (a national partner of Serve) weave around the mess of robots parked in front of the restaurant to make their way inside and place orders on iPads. They’re as much an accepted part of life in my neighborhood as the obnoxious scooters that litter sidewalks. When robots show up in a city, it’s often not because the residents of said city actively wanted them there or had a say in their arrival, he said. They’re being rolled out without any sort of input from people, and as a result, in ways that are annoying and inconvenient,” Ongweso Jr. said. “I suspect that people would feel a lot differently if they had a choice …
Edumacationalizing / Acedemia Nuts
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Generalizing the central dogma as a cross-hierarchical principle of biology
The central dogma of molecular biology, as originally proposed by Crick, asserts that information passed into protein cannot flow back out. This principle has been interpreted as underpinning modern understandings of heredity and evolution, implying the unidirectionality of information flow from nucleic acids to proteins. Here, we propose a generalization of the central dogma as a division of labour between the transmission and expression of information: the transmitter (nucleic acids) perpetuates information across generations, whereas the expressor (protein) enacts this information to facilitate the transmitter’s function without itself perpetuating information.
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If the University of Chicago Won't Defend the Humanities, Who Will?
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Science costs money – research is guided by who funds it and why
- The problem is results that are guided by funding in directions other than the factual.
Info Rental / ShowBiz / Advertising
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Scores of Bollywood AI videos vanish from YouTube after Reuters story
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Amazon's Prime Video rolls back controversial James Bond thumbnails without guns
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Many Debian/Ubuntu Packages for Intel Accelerators and More Have Been Orphaned
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Meta launches Hyperscape, technology to turn real-world spaces into VR
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It took 14 years for a streamer to walk to the Far Lands in Minecraft
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If you can get past the terrible logo, Audacity 4 looks pretty great
TechSuck / Geek Bait
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You can't parse XML with regex. Let's do it anyways
- People who quote that dogma get really upset when you show them they're wrong. Even more when your solution is done before theirs finishes loading the 10GB doc tree.
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Open Source Controller For Old And Expensive Industrial Robots
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NSA and IETF: Can an attacker purchase standardization of weakened cryptography?
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Wherein it is decided that DJB's email sig is sufficient reason for ignoring his objections and efforts to participate in discussions.
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Cool: Aircraft radar display with retro styling. Visualises real-time ADS-B feed
AI Will (Save | Destroy) The World
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OpenAI to boost content owners control for Sora AI video app, plans monetization
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Meta Is Said to Acquire Chips Startup Rivos to Push AI Effort
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OpenAI and Jony Ive grapple with technical issues on secretive AI device
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Nintendo Reportedly Lobbying Japanese Government to Push Back Against Gen AI
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The deadline isn't when AI outsmarts us – it's when we stop using our own minds
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The Demonization of DeepSeek: How NIST Turned Open Science into a Security Scare
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AI Investors Are Chasing a Big Prize. Here's What Can Go Wrong
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In the fight over AI, copyright is America's competitive weapon
Space / Boomy Zoomers / UFO
Crypto con games
Economicon / Business / Finance
Gubmint / Poilitcks / Law Making
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How the US Senate went to war with the biggest rock stars of the 1980s
While video nasties served as folk devils in the UK, in the US Ronald Reagan’s emphasis on “family values” had empowered the religious right: with the surging popularity of MTV, the music video channel, musicians were now drawing increasing ire from Christian organisations.
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(Video, 1984) Dee Snider tells Tipper off
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I have never understood how Tipper Gore had authority. Even then, laws were not really important when the media's darling Democrats wanted something.
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US judge blocks Trump's deployment of Oregon National Guard to Portland for now | Reuters
Democrats
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Rural Californians Want to Secede
This ranching region with a libertarian streak might have more in common with Texas than the San Francisco Bay Area. But it’s not Texas. Five hours northeast of Sacramento on an easy day, Modoc County and its roughly 8,500 residents are still — begrudgingly — in California. And California is dominated by Democrats, who are embroiled in a tit-for-tat redistricting war with the Lone Star State that will likely force conservative Modoc County residents to share a representative in Congress with parts of the Bay Area.
Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom is proposing to split up the solidly Republican 1st Congressional District covering 10 rural, inland counties in the North State as part of his plan to create five more Democratic seats to offset a GOP-led effort to gain five red seats in Texas. That would mean Republican Doug LaMalfa, the Richvale rice farmer who represents the district, would likely lose his seat. Modoc County and two neighboring red counties would be shifted into a redrawn district that stretches 200 miles west to the Pacific Coast and then south, through redwoods and weed farms, to include some of the state’s wealthiest communities, current Democratic Rep. Jared Huffman’s home in San Rafael and the northern end of the Golden Gate Bridge, all in uber-liberal Marin County. “It’s like a smack in the face,” said local rancher Amie Martinez. “How could you put Marin County with Modoc County? It’s just a different perspective.”
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Jones then sent a series of text messages to a Republican delegate, where he scoffed at the “glowing” tributes that were being made by Republicans. “If those guys die before me,” Jones wrote, “I will go to their funerals to p*ss on their graves” to “send them out awash in something.” Jones then suggested that, presented with a hypothetical situation in which he had only two bullets and was faced with the choice of murdering then-Speaker of the House Todd Gilbert or two dictators, he’d shoot Gilbert “every time." When the Republican delegate expressed her alarm, Jones called her to explain his reasoning over the phone, where he shockingly doubled down, and later he tripled down with more vile texts, which, among other things, called Gilbert’s children “little fascists” who deserved to die. It goes without saying that Jones' behavior was unbelievably and disgustingly evil, reckless, crazy, and stupid. It is absolutely beyond the pale of American political discourse. Which makes it impressive that the GOP operatives were patient enough to wait till the very last month of the campaign to explode this scandal. Jones, although he had to know this was coming, seems to have made things worse for himself by doing nothing to prepare for it, not even by warning his own party.
Left Angst
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Apple Takes Down ICE Tracking Apps in Response to Trump Pressure Campaign
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He Drops Trump Jr.'S Name in Pursuit of Billion-Dollar Deals
- Really. After Hunter. we're caring about the probity of presidential relatives now.
Law Breaking / Police / Internal Security
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$1,000,000 Worth of Whiskey Stolen
Thieves made off with roughly $1million worth of bottles, including 3,000 of the newly launched and highly coveted 10 Year Old Garryana Oak 10th edition single malt, and a large amount of their newest flagship product called Watchpost. The heist was not a spontaneous or random act of burglary either, with the perpetrators having carefully planned and orchestrated the theft using fraudulent logistics documents and a freight truck to carry it out. They arrived at the Burlington, Washington warehouse on the 31st of July posing as freight carrier crew bound for New Jersey with the delivery, but the distillery was alerted to the theft when after a week the bottles failed to arrive at their scheduled destination on the East coast.
External Security / Militaria / Diplomania
World
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As Goldman trader Ippei Yamaura writes, the outcome was a shock: "Before the election began, polymarket were pricing an 80%+ probability of a Koizumi victory. Odds for Koizumi dipped somewhat as local vote tallies came in, but most observers still viewed developments as broadly in line with expectations. Betting markets held around 60–80% until the first-round result was released. The first-round outcome was largely in line with expert expectations (arguably a touch less favorable for Takaichi), and betting markets again raised the implied probability of a Koizumi win. However, in the runoff, Takaichi secured more Diet member votes than anticipated, reportedly with support from the Aso faction. Some Diet members who had backed Hayashi were also said to have shifted to Takaichi, as Hayashi did not whip his supporters for the runoff. Virtually no one—including media, political analysts, opposition parties, and even LDP insiders—had expected this result (and myself)."
Takaichi, the pro-stimulus and anti-immigration conservative poised to become Japan’s first female prime minister widely viewed as Abe 2.0, is an energetic nationalist with a soft spot for the hard-nosed politics of Iron Lady Margaret Thatcher and the heavy metal music of Iron Maiden. In choosing the former economic security minister as its leader, the Liberal Democratic Party is essentially betting on a swing back to the right to attract the younger voters who have flocked to smaller populist outfits, including the arch-conservative Sanseito party. Her ascent to the top of the political world will send ripples through the male-dominated society that languishes near the bottom end of global gender equality rankings. But like Thatcher, the former UK prime minister whom she cites as an inspiration, her conservative views place her a long way from the stance of progressive feminism.
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U.N. food agency to suspend food aid for 750k people in Somalia next month
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Fire destroys Korean government's cloud storage system, no backups available
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Deaths, disappearances, forced recruitment: Horrors of relentless war in Sudan