2026-02-02
Horseshit
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Why American cities pay over $3k for one trash can
It’s not an unusual price. Portland’s new trash cans cost ~$2k each. Washington, DC’s are ~1.5k. New York City has started replacing its longtime green mesh receptacles with $1.1k designer Better Bins that cost more than 2x as much. Meanwhile, in San Francisco, the $1.4k Slim Silhouettes are expected to finally hit sidewalks this summer. If the new models prove as rummage-resistant and easy to maintain as intended, Rachel Gordon says San Francisco’s Public Works Department may expand the number of trash cans in the city.
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No Phone, No Social Safety Net: Welcome to the 'Offline Club'
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We have lost so much of ourselves to smartphones: can we get it back?
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Oregon gave homeless youth $1k/month with no strings. Here's what happened
Epstein
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MIT Lied about Aaron Swartz and Jeffrey Epstein
srael put Jeffrey Epstein in MIT, paid his handler Joi Ito $1 million to look after him, then hired the Paul, Weiss law firm to write a fraudulent report when the New Yorker leaked the trivial issue of Epstein's donations. Can we finally end Israel's occupation of America?
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Reddit post by "maxwellhill" used as FBI evidence in Ghislaine's investigation
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Elon Musk attacks "legacy" media amidst Epstein files meltdown on Twitter
celebrity gossip
Rank Propaganda / Thought Policing / World Disordering
Musk
Electric / Self Driving cars
Robot uprising / Humanioid Helpers
Info Rental / ShowBiz / Advertising
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Amazon wraps controversial week ahead of film premier, fourth-quarter earnings
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Magnetic core memory 128-byte USB drive
A computing enthusiast has assembled one of the most bizarre USB drives we have ever seen. Despite being the size of a dinner plate, this drive holds just 128 bytes of data. The incredibly poor data density is largely due to the use of the archaic Magnetic Core Memory technology, which predates integrated circuits. Moreover, data saved to this drive is non-volatile (good), but bits are erased during the read process (bad).
TechSuck / Geek Bait
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Converting floats to strings quickly
When serializing data to JSON, CSV or when logging, we convert numbers to strings. Floating-point numbers are stored in binary, but we need them as decimal strings. The first formally published algorithm is Steele and White’s Dragon schemes (specifically Dragin2) in 1990. Since then, faster methods have emerged: Grisu3, Ryū, Schubfach, Grisu-Exact, and Dragonbox. In C++17, we have a standard function called std::to_chars for this purpose. A common objective is to generate the shortest strings while still being about to uniquely identified the original number.
Space / Boomy Zoomers / UFO
AI Will (Save | Destroy) The World
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ChatGPT isn't the only chatbot pulling answers from Elon Musk's Grokipedia
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Gaming market melts down after Google reveals new AI game design tool
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'I spoke to ChatGPT 8 times a day' – Gen Z's loneliness 'crisis'
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OpenClaw and Moltbook let attackers walk through the front door
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OpenClaw is everywhere all at once, and a disaster waiting to happen
I will give the last words to Nathan Hamiel, “I can’t believe this needs to be said, it isn’t rocket science. If you give something that’s insecure complete and unfettered access to your system and sensitive data, you’re going to get owned”.
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Moltbook: the social network where AI agents talk to each other
Neo Gambling / Crypto con games
Economicon / Business / Finance
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Minute Maid to Discontinue Frozen Orange Juice from Concentrate This Year
Minute Maid is discontinuing its line of frozen juices as consumer demand declines and tastes change, and it may have been the only company still selling the concentrated products into the Canadian market. The brand's frozen canned orange juice, lemonade, Fruitopia fruit punch and Five Alive juice blend will be discontinued by April, a spokesperson for parent company Coca-Cola confirmed to CBC News. The company is leaving the frozen can category in both Canada and the U.S. "in response to shifting consumer preferences," the spokesperson said, as it focuses on products that "better match" what its customers want.
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Tech workers continue to lose jobs in droves as economy shows positive signs
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How a BlackRock Loss Reignited Worries About What Is Hiding in Private Credit
Left Angst
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ICE protester says her Global Entry was revoked after agent scanned her face
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'Unsubscribe' and 'opt out': A new Big Tech boycott to protest ICE
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Elon Musk pours millions more into helping Republicans keep Congress
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St. Peter police chief intervened and got federal agents to release resident, sources say | MPR News
MPR News has learned that the police chief in the small southern Minnesota city of St. Peter intervened Thursday to prevent federal immigration agents from taking a local resident into detention, although the city of St. Peter denied the intervention in a statement Saturday. It’s believed to be the first time a local police department in Minnesota intervened in a federal law enforcement action since the surge in immigration enforcement began two months ago. The resident, a woman, had been observing and recording video of immigration enforcement actions from her car Thursday afternoon when agents took her into custody.
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French tech giant Capgemini to sell US subsidiary working for ICE
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Right-wing media is full of mug shots of heavily tattooed, scowling criminals that ICE has allegedly yanked from the streets. The banner on the television underneath their mug shots reads “Democrat voters.” President Trump’s raids and indictments prove to them that they were right all along: The 2020 election was corrupt. And when federal judges issue injunctions requiring federal law enforcement to stay away from polling places, that’s all the proof they need to raise the alarm. “This election is rigged!” they shout. And they’re right. Just not in the way they think. The horrifying thing about our current moment is that not a single aspect of the scenario above is far-fetched. In fact, some of it is already happening. Not only did the F.B.I. raid a Georgia election center last week, Tulsi Gabbard, the director of national intelligence, was present. She’s a cabinet-level official responsible for coordinating the activities of American intelligence agencies, yet there she was, in Fulton County, Ga.
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Trump Jokes About Suing Warsh If He Doesn't Lower Interest Rates as Fed Chair
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A Wonkish Note on Tariffs and Inflation
the basic point is that there isn’t a big puzzle about the limited effect of tariffs on inflation. Some economists may have overhyped that effect, and Trumpists are happy to promote a straw man, but the reality is that the inflationary effect of tariffs has been more or less in line with what we should have expected.
External Security / Militaria / Diplomania
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'Spy Sheikh' Bought Secret Stake in Trump Company for Access to USA AI Chips
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Will He, Won’t He ‘TACO’ on Iran?
Trump’s conception of war is built around a fantasy that he can manipulate some lightening ‘in-boom-out’ stunt – one in which the U.S. loses no soldiers and its military infrastructure remains untouched. Reports from those regular ‘phone buddies’ of Trump say that he still says he wants a ‘guaranteed’ decisive outcome in Iran – a short, violently sharp, decisive war. He does not want casualties – especially American casualties. Neither does he want mass casualties or a long drawn-out conflict. Colonel Larry Wilkerson explains that decisive is a military term of art. It means you’ve hit the enemy so hard they’re unable to respond. Or, in other words, it hints that Trump would like a ‘stunt’ like that of seizing Maduro.
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A separatist group is asking for Trump's help to split from Canada
World
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(Sep 2025) Blair and the Billionaire
Insiders reveal how Larry Ellison’s money turned Blair’s institute into a tech sales and lobbying operation for Oracle
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'It Wasn't Working': Canada Province Ends Drug Decriminalization
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US, UK, EU, Australia and more to meet to discuss critical minerals alliance
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India gives 20-year tax holiday to foreign firms using local data centres
China
Health / Medicine
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Weren't they saying it was an all time low during the pandemic? U.S. life expectancy hits all-time high
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Why are so many younger Americans getting and dying of colorectal cancer?
Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda
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The ‘Doomsday Glacier’ Could Flood the Earth. Can a 50-Mile Wall Stop It? - The Atlantic
This month, an international team of scientists has been trying to set up sensors on and around Thwaites Glacier, one of the most unstable in the world. It’s often called Antarctica’s “doomsday glacier” because, if it collapses, it would add two feet of sea-level rise to the world’s oceans.
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Polar bears and climate change: New research in Norway has scientists baffled | Vox
Now, research in the journal Scientific Reports adds yet another wrinkle of hope for the species. The study, an analysis of hundreds of polar bears in the Norwegian archipelago of Svalbard, found that declining sea ice is not causing polar bears to starve. They actually appeared healthier in the last two decades of the analysis, from 2000 to 2019. The overall population, meanwhile, is either stable or growing, according to Jon Aars, the study’s lead author and a scientist at the Norwegian Polar Institute.