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browserman··on Elemind's headband suppresses alpha waves for better sleep
Am I misremembering, or was Ubeam, the founder’s previous start up, not sort of a legendary disaster/borderline fraud?
browserman··on Supreme Court blocks controversial Purdue Pharma opioid settlement
How do feel about Brown v Board?
browserman··on Law enforcement is spying on Americans' mail, records show
No, they can and will open your mail at will if they think something fishy is going on. USPS can’t open anything without a warrant.
browserman··on US Supreme Court lifts ban on gun bump stocks
It needs to be kept in mind that this ruling is not really about so-called “gun rights” but part of the Right’s concerted attack on the ability of the federal government to tie the hands of private actors in any capacity. The goal is to gum up the works such that any dispute over any interpretation of technical language must come before a panel of (ideally right-wing, FedSoc) judges, rather than the technical experts vested by Congress with the power to make such interpretations.
browserman··on Elon Musk Is Absolutely Raging About the Trump Verdict
Yes, it was indeed bad when Petain decreed Reynaud's arrest and handed him over to the Nazis to be imprisoned in a concentration camp. It's unclear what connection this has with the conviction of Donald Trump by a jury of his peers for falsifying business records.
browserman··on The inside story of Elon Musk’s mass firings of Tesla Supercharger staff
Well, you see, a woman disagreed with him. At that point the only reasonable response to go completely nuclear.
browserman··on How The Pentagon learned to use targeted ads to find its targets
Being an undocumented resident is not a crime.

https://www.aclu.org/sites/default/files/field_document/FINA...

browserman··on Disrupting malicious uses of AI by state-affiliated threat actors
OpenAI said this work was done in conjunction with Microsoft’s long established threat intel center, these are almost certainly the code names Microsoft security intel teams have assigned to these actors. Threat actor naming is generally a mess and every company has a different naming scheme for the same cluster of indicators/ttps
browserman··on Elon Musk Has Used Illegal Drugs, Worrying Leaders at Tesla and SpaceX
I really don't understand this instinctive urge people have to grovel and simp for wealthy celebrities.

Musk is the owner and CEO of one of the most important defense contractors in the country. It is a matter of national strategic importance if he is spending his time coked out of his gourd or neck-deep in a k-hole.

browserman··on Emmett Shear becomes interim OpenAI CEO as Altman talks break down
Kara Swisher was basically working as Altman’s press secretary
browserman··on Great Male Renunciation
You are in luck; skinny jeans are once again out of style and straight or flared legs are back in.
browserman··on YouTube blocks Russell Brand from making money through its platform
With any luck we'll go even further than that and confine him to a small metal box for a period of several years.
browserman··on Substack Is Leaning into Politics
I think everyone figured that out when Hamish was going around promoting open white supremacist Richard Hanania
browserman··on Beaten ex-SF fire commissioner accused of bear spray attacks on homeless people
I'm having trouble parsing who you think is the wronged party here, but to be clear this fire official was going around bear spraying random innocuous homeless people before one of his victims fought back and beat him up.
browserman··on Elon Musk fires a top Twitter engineer over his declining view count
This seems unfair to Hughes, who actually was an accomplished engineer and pilot and genuinely had a serious mental illness.
browserman··on Meta employee buys 12-year lease on cruise ship to see the world while working
There seems to be a big uptick in the number of people who like to scold others for their family planning choices, especially women, and especially for choosing to delay beyond some particular threshold the scolder takes to be ideal (often representative of some imagined sepia toned traditional time). The truth is if you're reasonably affluent nearly all of these supposed downsides can be mitigated and are usually preferable to trying to take care of kids on a shoestring budget while still building a professional and economic foundation.
browserman··on TikTok admits to spying on U.S. users as effort to ban the app heats up
nah its a big fat nothing-burger cooked up by a giant rich baby and a couple of right-wing polemecists
browserman··on Thomas Pynchon, famously private, sells his archive
Jules Siegel, Pynchon's college friend and roommate, once wrote that "...you have to accept the fact that Tom’s grasp of things that he glibly sets down as if he were a master of the material is usually quite superficial, based on reading anything from, say, Bible Comics to learned journals. This is not a criticism, but a description."

Of course, Siegel was maybe not the most reliable informant, given that Pynchon also famously slept with his wife.

browserman··on JFK Assassination Records – 2022 Additional Documents Release
There is zero evidence that Joseph Kennedy was ever involved in bootlegging except the much, much later claims of various extremely unreliable mafia figures.
browserman··on Twitter applies 7-day suspension to half a dozen journalists
It remains very funny that he paid forty-five billion dollars for the privilege of humiliating himself daily with these petulant temper-tantrums. Amazing bit.
browserman··on Twitter has re-suspended ElonJet account
> with intent to place another person in reasonable fear for his or her safety

This would cover LibsOfTikTok, but not ElonJet

browserman··on Elon Musk is taking legal action against the operator of the ElonJet account
If you believe anything Musk says for longer than a microsecond I have an NFT of the Brooklyn Bridge I'd like to sell you.
browserman··on Twitter has re-suspended ElonJet account
Definitely believe this self-justifying story made up on the spot by a notoriously inveterate liar.
browserman··on Ask HN: Why Twitter is not releasing “Twitter files” to the public?
Because the whole purpose of the exercise is to manufacture right-wing agitprop, not an actual good-faith effort to provide transparency to the public?
browserman··on Automation enables founders to grow companies with fewer and fewer employees
Every time some VC asshole makes some pompous self-gratifying pronouncement like this, their personal capital gains tax rate should go up 10%.

EDIT: Just astonishing that uses Instagram as an example. Quick question: After Facebook paid a billion dollars for it, did they a) continue to employ only 13 people or did they b) hire more fucking people in order to actually realize the potential of their investment?

EDIT2: Just saw that he also claims 'automation accumulating wealth in the hands of the ownership class at the expense of workers' contradicts Marx. Amazing. Paul, if you're reading this, please take an introductory class on Marxist thought at your local state college, or have your personal assistant take it and send you the notes.

browserman··on Findings from 3,300-year-old Uluburun shipwreck reveal complex trade network
There’s certainly no harm in indulging in wild, unfounded recreational speculation, as long as one is clear that’s what’s happening. Usually that’s not what going on with people who allude darkly to “[unspecified] political motivations for controlling the narrative around evolution and the birth of civilization”
browserman··on Neuralink faces federal probe, employee backlash over animal tests
Yes, that’s generally how luck works.
browserman··on Findings from 3,300-year-old Uluburun shipwreck reveal complex trade network
For those unaware, OP is referring to a crackpot theory most recently advanced by the journalist Graham Hancock. The idea of sophisticated pre-ice age civilizations is universally regarded by the archaeologists and experts to be roughly on par with the "ancient aliens" hypothesis.
browserman··on Neuralink faces federal probe, employee backlash over animal tests
Neither the sale of Zip2 nor the success of PayPal had anything to do with Musk. He was simply lucky to be in the Valley with a lot of his parent's money and connections at the right time.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c-FGwDDc-s8

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Note that this CSPI is NOT the non-partisan Center for Science in the Public Interest, but rather the far-right think-tank "Center for Study of Partisanship and Ideology".
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