Sunday, May 14
Daily News Stuff 14 May 2023
Capippalism Ho Edition
Capippalism Ho Edition
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- Astronomers have discovered another 62 moons orbiting Saturn, bringing the total known to 145. (Space)
Which used to be a lot.
The article doesn't have a list but Wikipedia does. Most - perhaps all, it's not obvious - of the newly discovered moons don't have names yet, just catalog numbers.
Tech News
- Right wing Twitter worried Musk's CEO pick could return Twitter to its roots. (Ars Technica)
Ars Technica A/B tests news headlines and it's often unintentionally revealing. The alternate headline for this piece is Twitter users fear new CEO will end Musk's commitment to free speech on platform.
So what they are saying is that (a) Twitter's roots were opposed to free speech and (b) only conservatives care about it.
Neither of which is true. Twitter was a mostly free-speech platform from its founding in 2006 until the lunatics took over the asylum in 2018. I had an account there from 2008 and didn't have a single problem until late 2018. I was suspended or locked out 112 times in the subsequent 15 months before being banned permanently.
And there are dozens of liberals who still care about free speech. Well, at least a dozen. Five.
- A former ByteDance executive (ByteDance is the company that owns TikTok) claims that TikTok is an operation of Chinese intelligence agencies and that the CCP maintains access to user data despite vehement denials from TikTok and ByteDance alike. (Axios)
Yeah, no shit.
- How the NFL used 4000 servers at AWS to create its annual game schedule. (Amazon)
A remarkable feat of engineering, except that...
- How the NBA and MLB used an Imsai 8080 system with 64k of RAM to do the same thing back in 1978. (Atari Compendium)
The article starts on page 38 of the PDF.
And before that, of course, it was all done by hand.
Disclaimer: For small values of five.
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Yeah, late 2018 is diagnostic of domestic origin model, /not/ a pure PRC influence model for the Democratic Party's murderous shenanigans in 2020 on.
Obama was probably subtly frauded in, and was gradually pushing a race war agenda. He seems to have gotten very angry with American blacks after blacks did not wholeheartedly embrace his call to race war.
Hillary lost what passed for her sanity in 2016 after failing to cheat her way in, and dragged the rest of the Democratic Party with her. The 2018 cycle was basically where I was able to start guessing the magnitude of what has followed.
For a TV show of the last thirty years of American politics, I would think of casting Joss Whedon as Billy Jeff, Harvey Weinstein as Hillary, Amber Heard as Barry, and Ezra Miller as Joe Biden.
Obama was probably subtly frauded in, and was gradually pushing a race war agenda. He seems to have gotten very angry with American blacks after blacks did not wholeheartedly embrace his call to race war.
Hillary lost what passed for her sanity in 2016 after failing to cheat her way in, and dragged the rest of the Democratic Party with her. The 2018 cycle was basically where I was able to start guessing the magnitude of what has followed.
For a TV show of the last thirty years of American politics, I would think of casting Joss Whedon as Billy Jeff, Harvey Weinstein as Hillary, Amber Heard as Barry, and Ezra Miller as Joe Biden.
Posted by: PatBuckman at Sunday, May 14 2023 10:14 PM (r9O5h)
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I caught a ban on early Twitter. Apparently at the time if you @'ed someone who blocked you, you were considered to be trying to circumvent the block and harassing. That was before they separated who you were tagging from the messages.
Posted by: Mauser at Monday, May 15 2023 06:00 AM (BzEjn)
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Twitter was fun, for a while, and then it was a chore, and then I logged out and started to realise that it's mental illness in a conventient spray-can.
Posted by: normal at Monday, May 15 2023 05:31 PM (obo9H)
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