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!!!! Happy Healthy Sweet New Year to all who celebrate !!!!
DOJ unseals previously unseen evidence in Trump Jan 6 case
PDF of 165 page redacted motion detailing previously unseen
evidence against Trump in Jan 6 case, just released.
https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.dcd.258148/gov.uscourts.dcd.258148.252.0.pdf
Dish creditors “revolt” over DirecTV merger, try to block loss-making deal
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/10/dish-creditors-revolt-over-directv-merger-try-to-block-loss-making-deal/
Uber crash victim can’t sue because of Uber Eats agreement
Another case where companies try to weasel out of responsibilities. Similar
to the recent Disney case where they finally backed down.
https://www.npr.org/2024/10/02/nx-s1-5136615/uber-car-crash-lawsuit-uber-eats-arbitration-terms
Google’s NotebookLM creates AI-generated insipid podcasts, ideal for spam
https://pivot-to-ai.com/2024/10/02/a-terrible-day-to-have-ears-googles-notebooklm-auto-generates-ai-podcasts/
AI worse than humans in every way at summarizing information,
government trial finds
https://www.crikey.com.au/2024/09/03/ai-worse-summarising-information-humans-government-trial/
JAM YOUR RAM, AND RAM YOUR JAM
New attack leaks secrets using RAM as a radio – very interesting!
The RAMBO Attack on RAM is truly amazing. Some of the best research I’ve seen.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ihtAijebU-M
PayPal is updating their ToS to let themselves give your data to merchants starting Nov & they’re banking on people not knowing to opt out, SO to opt out before they start:
go to Settings
>Data & Privacy
> Manage shared info
>Personalized shopping, & toggle that sh*t off.
How Many People Hold Bitcoin in 2024?
As of 2023, there are an estimated 106 million global Bitcoin users, with the US accounting for 67 million.
What is xylazine used for?
Houston lawyer says Diddy allegedly drugged victims’ drinks with horse tranquilizer. Xylazine aka tranq mixed with heroin, cocaine, or meth causing an increase in overdose deaths.
Cops uncovered 1,000 bottles of lube and baby oil in the rapper’s home. Diddy says he “buys in bulk” at Costco. Costco says they don’t sell it!
Diddy’s Infamous Stash of 1,000 ‘Bulk Bought’ Lube Bottles Feared to Be ‘Disguised Liquid Date Rape Drug’
According to the 14 page indictment against the music mogul, the bottles were confiscated as alleged “freak-off supplies” which included “narcotics and more than 1,000 bottles of baby oil and lubricant”. “Rumors are circulating it’s not “baby oil” the FEDS confiscated but 1,000’s of bottles of GHB drug at P. Diddy’s place, a drug known on the streets as “Liquid Ecstasy. The drug is a clear, slippery liquid that once applied to the body acts as a “performance enhancing additive mentally and physically paralyzing an individual and is known to cause commas and seizures.”
Ford seeks patent for tech that listens to driver conversations to serve ads
Ford Motor Company is seeking a patent for technology that would allow it to tailor in-car advertising by listening to conversations among vehicle occupants, as well as by analyzing a car’s historical location and other data, according to a patent application published late last month. “In one example, the controller may monitor user dialogue to detect when individuals are in a conversation,” the patent application says. “The conversations can be parsed for keywords or phrases that may indicate where the occupants are traveling to.”
< – > By monitoring dialogue between vehicle occupants the ad controller system can determine when to deliver audio versus visual ads, providing ads to drivers as they travel “through a human-machine interface (HMI) of the vehicle,” the application said.
“Such systems and methods provide maximum opportunity for ad-based monetization,” the application said. “These systems and methods may use knowledge of vehicle destination prediction to provide more relevant advertisements, for example, if a user is going grocery shopping, merchandise purchasing, etc.”
< – > The patent application does not describe how the collected data would be protected. The technology would be primarily software-based and would require no new hardware, according to the application…….
An angry and intolerant younger generation is destroying American democracy
EXCERPT:
The year 1968 is considered by many to be the worst in modern American history: assassinations of political leaders, race riots in our urban areas, student protests and harsh crackdowns on college campuses, an intractable and increasingly unaffordable war thousands of miles away.
But what is happening right now, particularly at schools and universities on both sides of the Atlantic, is equally troubling – and may pose an even greater threat to our wellbeing in the years ahead.
According to a 45,000-participant College Plus survey on respect, tolerance and open-mindedness on American campuses – the largest ever conducted – an appalling 62 per cent of students said it’s “at least sometimes acceptable” to shout down a speaker, and one in five students said that using violence to stop a campus speech is “sometimes acceptable.”
Really?
One-fifth of all US students now think it’s okay to use violence to stop someone they disagree with from speaking?
Academia is the one place in the world where intellectual freedom is supposed to be welcomed and celebrated – but it isn’t.
Generation Z may claim they are the most tolerant, enlightened generation ever, but that’s not the reality. So many students are so angry at so many things.
It pains me to write these words, but I truly believe American democracy is in peril… […]
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