Today
Via:
The Verge: The majority of goods sold on Amazon are not sold by Amazon
itself, but by more than 2 million merchants who use the company’s
platform as their storefront and infrastructure. Some of these sellers
make their own products, while others practice arbitrage, buying and
reselling wares from other retailers. Amazon has made […]
Via:
Reason: An Arizona cop acquitted of murder in 2017 for killing a man
crawling on his knees, begging for his life, in a hotel hallway, was
temporarily rehired by the city he worked for so that he could claim a
disability pension and file for a medical retirement that will pay him
more than […]
Via:
Reason: A former Florida sheriff’s deputy was arrested Wednesday for
planting drugs and falsely arresting at least 10 people, including one
case where Reason obtained body camera footage showing him lying about
the results of roadside field test. The Florida Department of Law
Enforcement (FDLE) announced yesterday that, following a months-long
investigation, former Jackson […]
Yesterday
Via:
New York Magazine: Long before Jeffrey Epstein pleaded guilty to
prostitution charges in Florida more than a decade ago, his fellow Palm
Beach resident and hedge-fund manager Douglas Kass was intrigued by the
local gossip about his neighbor. “I’m hearing about the parties, hearing
about a guy who’s throwing money around,” says Kass, president […]
This
amounts to he-said-she-said, but I’ve assumed that Epstein was state
sponsored from the start. Via: Daily Beast: Epstein’s name, I was told,
had been raised by the Trump transition team when Alexander Acosta, the
former U.S. attorney in Miami who’d infamously cut Epstein a
non-prosecution plea deal back in 2007, was being interviewed for […]
Jul 13
I
like the picture at ZeroHedge of a morbidly obese person ordering slop
at the drive-thru. Wow. Via: ZeroHedge: License plate recognition could
be the new big thing at American drive-thrus, according to FT. Chains
are now looking to deploy cameras that recognize license plates and help
identify customers, personalizing digital menus and speeding up […]
Via:
ZeroHedge: Researchers in Norway have discovered radiation levels in
excess of 100,000 times normal next to a Soviet-era nuclear submarine
which sank in the Arctic 30 years ago – a reading which is higher than
those taken 12 years ago, according to Norwegian news outlet TV2. The
Kosomolets went down in the Barents Sea […]
Cryptogon
always supplies you with the most pleasant reading for the weekend.
Via: CommonDreams: Nothing significant has been done to improve safety
at two coastal reactors upwind of ten million people that are surrounded
by earthquake faults in a tsunami zone like the one where the four
Fukushima reactors have already exploded. Had Friday’s 7.1 […]
CBS
New York Livestream — Update: ConEd Restoring Power, No Cause of Outage
Given — Via: CBSNY: A large power outage has struck Midtown, Times
Square, Hell’s Kitchen, and other parts of Upper Manhattan. CBS2 began
to hear reports that that all restaurants had gone dark in Hell’s
Kitchen around 7 p.m. Saturday evening. There […]
Via:
Guardian: Partial sight has been restored to six blind people via an
implant that transmits video images directly to the brain. Some vision
was made possible – with the participants’ eyes bypassed – by a video
camera attached to glasses which sent footage to electrodes implanted in
the visual cortex of the brain. University […]
Jul 12
If
the electricity from solar plus storage is, “Cheaper than any power
generated with fossil fuel,” why aren’t these systems shooting up like
weeds? The availability of batteries is the bottleneck. We’ve heard
about Tesla’s rumored 1GWh energy storage system and things like the
800MWh system below. This is a drop in the bucket, in […]
Via:
ZeroHedge: Jeffrey Epstein’s attorneys have informed Judge Richard M.
Berman that their client wants out of his 100 sqft holding cell at the
Metropolitan Correctional Center (MCC) in lower Manhattan he’s been in
since his arrest last Saturday at Teterboro airport. Instead, the
registered sex-offender and self-admitted pedophile would agree to house
arrest at […]
Via:
Independent: The body of an American scientist has been found in a
bunker used by the Nazis during the Second World War on the Greek island
of Crete. Suzanne Eaton died as a result of a “criminal act”, says
Antonis Papadomanolakis, a state coroner who examined her body. A
post-mortem concluded the molecular biologist […]
Jul 11
Via:
Nature: Machines have raised the stakes once again. A superhuman
poker-playing bot called Pluribus has beaten top human professionals at
six-player no-limit Texas hold’em poker, the most popular variant of the
game. It is the first time that an artificial-intelligence (AI) program
has beaten elite human players at a game with more than two […]
Jul 10
Definitely
see, Automakers Are Rethinking the Timetable for Fully Autonomous Cars.
A friend of mine, who happens to be involved with AI research,
completely dismissed Musk’s claims that Tesla is anywhere near to having
a full self driving capability. And now… Via: ZeroHedge: Several key
members of Tesla’s Autopilot team have left the company together […]
“Is
there a ball somewhere? Throw the ball… kick the ball.” Via: Global
News: It seems like some parents have forgotten what parenting was like
before smartphones and tablets. According to a recent article in the New
York Times, some parents in the U.S. are hiring screen-free parenting
coaches to help them raise phone-free children. […]
Via:
Los Angeles Times: L.A. has struggled to stymie the growing number of
obstructions that residents and business owners are creating to target
homeless people. There are now about 59,000 people without homes in L.A.
County. Within the city of Los Angeles, the population soared 16% this
year to more than 36,000 — the majority […]
Fascinating.
Via: ZeroHedge: Today we learn that the vessel, the MSC Gayane, is
owned by JP Morgan, and has been seized by US authorities according to
the Wall Street Journal. The Gayane is the world’s second-largest
container ship – operated by Switzerland-based Mediterranean Shipping
Co, MSC.
Jul 09
Via:
Reuters: H. Ross Perot, the feisty Texas technology billionaire who
rattled U.S. politics with two independent presidential campaigns in the
1990s that struck a chord with disgruntled voters, died on Tuesday at
the age of 89, his family said.
Jul 08
Via:
Reason: Once again, responding to a horrendous crime by inflicting
knee-jerk, authoritarian restrictions on innocent people proves to be an
ineffective means of convincing people to obey. Specifically, New
Zealand’s government—which also stepped up censorship and domestic
surveillance after bloody attacks on two Christchurch mosques earlier
this year—is running into stiff resistance to new […
Via:
Bloomberg: Deutsche Bank AG unveiled a radical overhaul that will see
the lender exit its equities business, post a 2.8 billion-euro ($3.1
billion) second-quarter loss and cut the workforce by a fifth to reverse
a slide in profitability.
Jul 06
Via: ZDNet: A step by step guide to enable DNS-over-HTTPS (DoH) support in the Firefox browser.
Via:
LiveScience: Skywatcher and satellite tracker Ralf Vandebergh of the
Netherlands recently caught a rare glimpse of the U.S. Air Force’s
secretive X-37B space plane. Vandebergh said he’d been hunting for the
robotic spacecraft for months and finally managed to track it down in
May. But it took a bit longer to get photos of […]
Via:
Bloomberg: U.S. prosecutors have arrested fund manager Jeffrey Epstein
and charged him with sex trafficking of minors, according to a person
familiar with the matter. Epstein, who had been previously accused of
molesting young girls, is expected to appear in Manhattan federal court
on Monday, according to the person, who declined to comment publicly […]
Jul 04
The
first part. Any prosaic explanations for this? Do any of the many
physicists, engineers, video experts reading want to take a stab at
calculating the acceleration of this thing? The second part is probably
some de-orbiting satellite or space junk. Via: Thirdphaseofmoon:
This
story will disappear quickly. Via: AFP: Italian police have arrested 18
people including a mayor, doctors and social workers for allegedly
brainwashing vulnerable children into thinking their parents had abused
them so they could then be sold to foster parents. Police in the
northern city of Reggio Emilia made the arrests after an investigation
[…]
I’m
think I’ve posted this before, but just in case… Via: Reddit: More:
Inside the Pope’s Reptilian Audience Hall in Vatican City
Via:
TechSpot: With growing concerns over online privacy and securing
personal data, more people than ever are considering alternatives to
Google products.
Jul 03
Via:
Slashdot: At Oak Ridge National Laboratory in eastern Tennessee,
physicist Leah Broussard is trying to open a portal to a parallel
universe. She calls it an “oscillation” that would lead her to “mirror
matter,” but the idea is fundamentally the same. In a series of
experiments she plans to run at Oak Ridge this […]
I
wouldn’t believe that anything can actually be deleted from that thing.
Via: IAfrikan: Amazon has confirmed that it keeps transcripts of users’
Alexa voice recordings indefinitely on its servers. The company also
keeps Alexa voice recordings indefinitely. According to Amazon,
customers customers do have an option to delete both the transcripts and
voice recordings.
Jul 02
Via:
BBC: A fire aboard a Russian navy research submersible has killed 14
crew members, the Russian defence ministry says. The crew was poisoned
by fumes as the vessel was taking measurements in Russian territorial
waters on Monday. The ministry gave no details about the type of vessel.
But Russian media reports say it was […]
Via:
National Post: Some Alzheimer’s researchers are proposing the creation
of human-monkey chimeras — part-human beings with entire portions of the
brain entirely human derived.
Jun 29
Safety?
I can’t find anything related to safety. Also, even if there were
claims about it being safe to consume, should we believe them? See:
Vaccines, aspartame, GM food, fluoride, etc. “The foodstuff was said to
mark a break with a thousand years of production…” Alright. How much
time and effort will be spent studying […]
Limited
Hangout: ‘Wow, What Is That?’ Navy Pilots Report Unexplained Flying
Objects: At some level, there probably exists much more knowledge about
the nature of the objects in the videos than we are being told… I think
there’s at least better than even odds that an American is at the
controls (possibly by remote) of […]
Jun 28
Via:
Miami Herald: Thousands of assault-style weapons and explosives shipped
through the mail from South Florida to South America were seized this
week in a law enforcement crackdown on arms traffickers who rake in
millions on the black market while supplying criminal gangs, federal
authorities said Friday. A portion of the 5,300 firearms and components
[…]
Jun 27
Via:
Science Daily: For the first time, astrophysicists have used artificial
intelligence techniques to generate complex 3D simulations of the
universe. The results are so fast, accurate and robust that even the
creators aren’t sure how it all works. The Deep Density Displacement
Model can accurately simulate how the cosmos would look if certain
parameters […]
It
could be handy for mounting on killer robots. Via: MIT Technology
Review: Everyone’s heart is different. Like the iris or fingerprint, our
unique cardiac signature can be used as a way to tell us apart.
Crucially, it can be done from a distance. It’s that last point that has
intrigued US Special Forces. … […]
Via:
Natural News: The video platform Vimeo has banned Project Veritas and
Natural News on the same day, taking part in the criminal collusion
among tech giants who are systematically silencing independent
journalism that keeps exposing the criminality of the tech giants
themselves. Research Credit: Pookie
Via:
Bloomberg: Tests on Boeing Co.’s grounded 737 Max have revealed a new
safety risk unrelated to two fatal crashes that led to the grounding of
the aircraft, and U.S. regulators are ordering the company to make
additional design changes. The Federal Aviation Administration
discovered that data processing by a flight computer on the jetliner […]
Jun 26
Google
removed it from YouTube within hours. Then they got it removed from
Vimeo. BREAKING UPDATE: @Vimeo has BANNED our account days after
@YouTube PULLED our video. They keep citing "privacy violations." BEING
EMBARRASSED BY LEGITIMATE INVESTIGATE JOURNALISM is not a "privacy
violation." Video STILL ON BITCHUTE. DOWNLOAD + SHARE:
https://t.co/chDsGF0QCk pic.twitter.com/HSrcJjaZ4H — James O'Keefe
Via:
MIT Technology Review: Every year, commercially available satellite
images are becoming sharper and taken more frequently. In 2008, there
were 150 Earth observation satellites in orbit; by now there are 768.
Satellite companies don’t offer 24-hour real-time surveillance, but if
the hype is to be believed, they’re getting close. Privacy advocates
warn that innovation […]
Jun 25
Via:
Reuters: Apple Inc on Tuesday confirmed that it has acquired
self-driving shuttle firm Drive.ai. Technology news website The
Information reported earlier this month that the iPhone maker was
considering acquiring the firm as a move to bring aboard some of its
engineering talent to boost Apple’s own self-driving efforts.
Jun 24
Mmm
hmm. Via: AFP: Mexico has deployed nearly 15,000 soldiers and National
Guardsmen to its border with the United States, the army chief said
Monday — admitting they are detaining migrants who try to cross, after
the policy triggered backlash. Under pressure from US President Donald
Trump to slow the surge of Central Americans crossing […]
Via:
ZeroHedge: The lawsuit, filed by a plaintiff who goes by “Pilot X” in
court documents out of “fear of reprisal from Boeing and discrimination
from Boeing customers,” accuses the Chicago-based aviation giant of “an
unprecedented cover-up of the known design flaws of the MAX, which
predictably resulted in the crashes of two MAX aircraft […]
Via:
ZeroHedge: Today in “Amazon’s reasons to listen to everything that’s
going on inside your household” news, its being reported that products
like the Amazon Echo could one day be used to detect signs of cardiac
arrest, according to Bloomberg. The first signs of cardiac arrest are
usually irregular gasps of breath, and researchers at […]
Via:
MarketWatch: Hasbro announced Wednesday it will release a version of
the classic board game Monopoly designed for the digital age. But
financial experts argue the game’s new design could deprive children of
important financial lessons. In Hasbro’sclatest edition of Monopoly,
gone are the paper money and Community Chest cards. Instead, the board
game now […]
Update:
Google Removed the Video, Of Course Here’s a backup on Project Veritas.
Insider Blows Whistle & Exec Reveals Google Plan to Prevent "Trump
situation" in 2020 on Hidden Cam from Project Veritas on Vimeo. — Via:
Project Veritas:
Gallery
on Flickr Via: BBC: Archivists who bought a stash of CDs at a house
clearance sale found 2,400 photos of Ground Zero in New York taken
following the 9/11 attacks in 2001. They appear to have been taken by an
as yet unidentified construction worker who helped to clear up the
wreckage of the […]
Jun 23
Via:
ZeroHedge: A standoff between Republican and Democratic Oregon state
senators escalated on Friday after Governor Kate Brown (D) authorized
state police to track down Republican lawmakers who have stalled a vote
on carbon credit legislation by walking out and refusing to vote.
Via: The Corbett Report:
Jun 22
Via:
CBS: Nearly a decade after Bill Reynolds and Mark Sersansie first
learned about one of the most outrageous medical frauds in California
history, they met with some of the patients who say they are still
suffering from the devastating consequences of this scam. “After
surgery, it was nothing but pain-filled days,” said patient Derika […]
Via:
Capital Hill Seattle Blog: Quickly, an estimated 2,800 curies of
cesium-137 spread into the irradiator, the “chamber,” the loading dock
and a 100-feet radius around the loading dock, plus the first three
floors and one stair of the R&T building, resulting in “widespread
contamination.” The leak happened at 9.30 PM and was discovered during
[…]
Jun 21
Via:
The Intercept: For over 17 years, Moath al-Alwi has been held at
Guantánamo Bay without charge. A Yemeni citizen, al-Alwi is one of
Guantánamo’s “forever prisoners,” those whom the U.S. government has not
charged with a crime but is unwilling to release. On June 10, the
Supreme Court declined to hear an appeal in […]
Jun 20
I’ll
Tweet, as they request, but I’ve been persona non grata at Google since
the mid 2000s. haha I don’t know what it’s going to take for people who
deal with controversial topics to understand that Google platforms are a
trap. They are out to screw you. Via: Thirdphaseofmoon:
Update:
Post Removed from Quora Thanks to Blacklisted News for Mirroring!
Mirror 2 Mirror 3 Mirror 4 Mirror 5 Via: Quora: So, these advanced
crafts do exist— there is no question about it.
Via:
MarketWatch: Gold prices shot to levels not seen since 2013 on
Thursday, as investors flocked to the metal after the U.S. Federal
Reserve left key interest rates unchanged but shifted away from its
“patient” stance on monetary policy. “Central banks everywhere are
preparing to cut rates and re-start [quantitative easing], opening up a
new […]
Via:
Reuters: Iran has shot down a U.S. drone which the elite Revolutionary
Guards said on Thursday was flying over southern Iran, raising fears
that a major military confrontation could erupt between Tehran and
Washington. Guards website Sepah News said the “spy” drone was brought
down over the southern Iranian province of Hormozgan, which is […]
Jun 19
Via:
MarketWatch: U.S. farmers are millions of acres behind their usual pace
of corn planting this spring because of flooding, which may lead to a
supply shortage that lifts prices by year end past $5 a bushel to their
highest in more than five years. Corn planted in the 18 states that
account for the […]
Via:
Times: Amazon’s delivery drones could one day be fitted with an arsenal
of cameras and sensors to monitor customers’ homes in between
drop-offs. The retail giant has obtained a patent for a “surveillance as
a service” function for the drones, which could be fitted with
thermal-imaging cameras, surveying lasers and chemical sensors to detect
[…]
Via:
CNBC: A pharmacy warned the Food and Drug Administration that it found a
chemical believed to cause cancer in a widely used blood pressure
medication, according to a filing from the federal agency. Valisure, an
online pharmacy company licensed in 37 states, told the FDA last week
that high levels of dimethylformamide were found […]
Via:
Nextgov: The Homeland Security Department is looking to upgrade the
software it uses to analyze biometric data on hundreds of millions of
people around the globe, and it plans to store that information in
Amazon’s cloud. The agency’s Office of Biometric Identification
Management will replace its legacy biometric analysis platform, called
the Automated Biometric […]
Via:
Fox6: The Huntington Park Police Department is set to unveil “HP
RoboCop,” the latest tool in the force’s arsenal that will keep an
electronic eye on public areas, the city of Huntington Park announced in
a news release. The device is “an autonomous data machine that is meant
to serve outdoors,” that will use […]
Jun 18
Via:
CBS: Over $1 billion worth of cocaine was seized during a drug bust at
Packer Avenue Marine Terminal in South Philadelphia on Tuesday, the U.S.
Attorney’s Office says. Federal sources confirmed to CBS3 that a bust
took place on a cargo ship that was docked at the port. … According to
the U.S. Attorney’s […]
This
is hilariously stupid. Via: ZeroHedge: It won’t, however, be a
cryptocurrency in the traditional sense. It won’t have a limited supply,
defined inflation rate or any commodity character whatsoever.
Proof-of-work? Phsaw! Every good Friedmanite knows that opportunity cost
in creating new monetary units is simply wasted capital! Only
mouth-breathing rubes stuck in the 19th […]
Jun 17
Via:
AFP: The researchers found two muscles around the eye were routinely
present and well formed in the domestic dogs, but not the wolves, and
only dogs produced high-intensity eyebrow movements as they gazed at the
human. “It makes the eye look larger, which is similar to human
infants,” Professor Anne Burrows of Duquesne University […]
Via:
Ars Technica: Since becoming fully operational in 1995, Global
Positioning System technology has become widely adopted in the United
States and abroad. The concept of satellite-based navigation has become
so essential that other world powers, including China, Russia, the
European Union, India, and Japan, have all started building their own
regional or global systems. […]
Jun 16
I
began warning on Tom Delonge back in 2016. My current best guess
assessment of this To The Stars/CIA imbroglio is that it’s a high
profile limited hangout. See, Limited Hangout: ‘Wow, What Is That?’ Navy
Pilots Report Unexplained Flying Objects. Via: Dark Journalist:
In
other news: U.S. Ramps Up Online Attacks on Russian Power Grid, NYT
Says: The U.S. is stepping up digital incursions into Russia’s electric
power grid in a warning to President Vladimir Putin, the New York Times
reported, citing current and former government officials. While the U.S.
has probed the Russian grid since at least […]
Via: Richard Dolan:
Jun 15
Via: Team BlackSheep:
Via:
Reuters: Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam on Saturday indefinitely delayed a
proposed law that would have allowed extraditions to mainland China, in
a dramatic retreat after anger over the bill triggered the city’s
biggest and most violent street protests in decades. The extradition
bill, which would have
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