- The NYT Uses Trans Hate to Discipline Its Workers (Everything Is Horrible) Argues that the current anti-trans Jihad at the Gray Lady is primarily about slapping down workers who they felt got too "Uppity" after they got the (really awful) opinion editor James Bennet dropped. Me, I think that it is primarily bigotry.
- Elon Musk is an antisemite (Marisa Kabas) Well, duh!
- Not just Trump: The trial of Texas attorney general Ken Paxton shows MAGA loves crooks as leaders (Salon) Yeah. Pretty much.
- Yes, a Pigeon is Faster for Data Transfer than Gigabit Fiber Internet (Tom's Hardware) 3GB SD card, and the pigeon wins out about 1000 cm.
- China's ancient water pipe networks show they were a communal effort with no evidence of a centralized state authority (Phys.org) A system of ancient ceramic water pipes, the oldest ever unearthed in China, shows that neolithic people were capable of complex engineering feats without the need for a centralized state authority, finds a new study by University College London researchers."
- U.S. Delays Deliveries of M1A1 Abrams Tanks to Ukraine: Vehicles Needed Urgently Amid High Armour Attrition Rates (Military Watch Magazine) It could be training, but my money is on General Dynamics Land Systems Division not wanting to see Abrams brewed up on the battlefield like Leopards and Challengers have been.
- How to ask Meta to not train its AI on your personal info (The Register) Useful, but the the criminal enterprise formerly known as Facebook™ will probably ignore this.
- Osama Bin Laden: The First Great Man Of The 21st Century (Ian Welsh) He means, "Great," as massively influential, like Ghengis Khan.
- Greenwashing set Canada on fire (Cory Doctorow) There were tree planting camps in Canada a generation ago funded by the lumber companies. It turns out that the straight rows of highly flammable black spruces make fires worse.
I geek out on this sort of stuff
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