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    Trump too distracted by grievances to return docs: NYT
    https://www.businessinsider.com/mar-a-lago-trump-distracted-grievances-never-returned-docs-nyt-2022-8?amp
    Sources told The Times the procedures for returning documents were ignored during the chaotic final days of Trump's presidency.
    Submitted at Today, 02:08 AM by Mordant
    Horseshit
    0 Comments
    The Egg Wars of 1214 Fifth Avenue
    https://www.curbed.com/2022/08/upper-east-side-tenant-egging-neighbors.html
    Residents of the Upper East Side luxury building are “terrified” of being egged.
    Submitted at Yesterday, 06:41 PM by nocash
    Crime
    1 Comment
    'Judas': Gab users are furious its founder handed over data to the FBI without a subpoena
    https://www.dailydot.com/debug/gab-users-revolt-andrew-torba-cooperating-fbi/
    On Monday, federal prosecutors announced the arrest of a Pennsylvania man for allegedly threatening on Gab to kill Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) agents. Gab users are apoplectic. They feel betrayed by the far-right platform and its founder Andrew Torba, who often touts his commitment to “free speech,” and has no qualms with Gab being a haven for racists and other extremists. According to the arrest affidavit, upon request, Gab gave the FBI records including a user’s email, IP addresses, and chat logs. The FBI then used this information to identify Adam Bies of Mercer, Pennsylvania. Bies is allegedly among the many people who took to social media to agitate against the FBI over its search of former President Donald Trump’s residence in Florida last week. The complaint asserts that he posted numerous threats against the FBI such as, “My only goal is to kill more of them before I drop,” and “If you work for the FBI then you deserve to die.” It’s not known whether Bies has issued a plea in the case. News of Gab cooperating with the feds launched a volley of angry posts on the platform. People likened Torba to Judas, the disciple who betrayed Jesus, and accused Gab of betraying its users and commitment to free speech. Many take particular issue with Torba cooperating with the feds without a subpoena. According to the arrest affidavit, Gab handed over the chat logs and other identifying information upon request that led to Bies’ arrest
    Submitted at Yesterday, 06:42 PM by sleeppoor
    Crime
    3 Comments
    Ezra Miller, 'The Flash' star, seeking treatment for mental health issues
    https://www.cnn.com/2022/08/16/entertainment/ezra-miller-seeks-treatment/index.html
    DC announces crossover with Marvel, rolls out Damage Control
    Submitted at Yesterday, 05:52 PM by OldBoringGuy
    Movies
    4 Comments
    Appeals court blocks abortion under Florida consent law
    https://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/florida/fl-ne-florida-abortion-blocked-20220815-a6m4mcflzjehhfzhcdheiqhzdi-story.html
    An appeals court Monday upheld a decision by a Northwest Florida circuit judge to block a teen from having an abortion without notification and consent of a parent or guardian. The teen, described by one appellate judge as almost 17 years old and “parentless,” sought court approval to bypass notification and consent requirements in state law. Escambia County Circuit Judge Jessica Frydrychowicz denied the bypass request, and a three-judge panel of the 1st District Court of Appeal upheld that decision. “The trial court found, based on the non-adversarial presentation below, that appellant (the teen) had not established by clear and convincing evidence that she was sufficiently mature to decide whether to terminate her pregnancy,” said the ruling, fully shared by Judges Harvey Jay and Rachel Nordby and partially joined by Judge Scott Makar.
    Submitted at Yesterday, 05:03 PM by sleeppoor
    Politics
    1 Comment
    Police Used a Baby’s DNA to Investigate Its Father for a Crime
    https://www.wired.com/story/police-used-a-babys-dna-to-investigate-its-father-for-a-crime/
    If you were born in the United States within the last 50 or so years, chances are good that one of the first things you did as a baby was give a DNA sample to the government. By the 1970s, states had established newborn screening programs, in which a nurse takes a few drops of blood from a pinprick on a baby’s heel, then sends the sample to a lab to test for certain diseases. Over the years, the list has grown from just a few conditions to dozens. The blood is supposed to be used for medical purposes—these screenings identify babies with serious health issues, and they have been highly successful at reducing death and disability among children. But a public records lawsuit filed last month in New Jersey suggests these samples are also being used by police in criminal investigations. The lawsuit, filed by the state’s Office of the Public Defender and the New Jersey Monitor, a nonprofit news outlet, alleges that state police sought a newborn’s blood sample from the New Jersey Department of Health to investigate the child's father in connection with a sexual assault from the 1990s. Crystal Grant, a technology fellow at the American Civil Liberties Union, says the case represents a “whole new leap forward” in the misuse of DNA by law enforcement. “It means that essentially every baby born in the US could be included in police surveillance,” she says.
    Submitted at Yesterday, 03:34 PM by sleeppoor
    Crime
    2 Comments
    Uh, Can the NYT Please Not Treat Catholic Reactionaries as a Fun Sexy Trend Story?
    https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2022/08/nyt-dimes-square-trad-catholic-op-ed.html
    That buzzy "Dimes Square" opinion piece left out some important context.
    Submitted at Yesterday, 03:42 PM by nocash
    Politics
    0 Comments
    Asparagus and guac: Dr. Oz builds a nonsensical vegetable platter to complain about inflation in resurfaced video
    https://www.dailydot.com/debug/dr-oz-grocery-shopping-crudite-video/
    Pennsylvania Republican gubernatorial candidate Dr. Oz roasted over a resurfaced video of him grocery shopping for crudité.
    Submitted at Yesterday, 03:40 PM by nocash
    Food
    2 Comments
    The Most Seductive and Poetic of Roxy Music, According to Bryan Ferry
    https://www.vulture.com/2022/08/bryan-ferry-roxy-music-superlatives.html
    “We didn’t want to be a one-trick pony.”
    Submitted at Yesterday, 01:58 PM by nocash
    Music
    3 Comments
    What Do People Who Work in Genetics Think About Gattaca 25 Years After Its Release?
    https://slate.com/technology/2022/08/gattaca-25th-anniversary-genetics-crispr.html
    “I think I think about it more than my patients do,” says one expert.
    Submitted at Yesterday, 02:09 PM by nocash
    Movies
    0 Comments
    Alex Mashinsky took control of Celsius trading strategy months before bankruptcy
    https://www.ft.com/content/43d4fb5d-72a1-468c-aac8-9e11c4693f4e
    In January, Celsius Network boss Alex Mashinsky gathered his investment team to tell them he would be taking control of the crypto lender’s trading strategy ahead of an upcoming US Federal Reserve meeting. Prices of popular cryptocurrencies such as bitcoin and ether had fallen from their all-time highs and the former telecoms entrepreneur said Celsius needed to protect itself from further declines. A hawkish outcome, he was convinced, could crash crypto prices. In the days before the Fed met, Mashinsky personally directed individual trades and overruled executives with decades of finance experience, according to multiple people familiar with the matter. In one case, Mashinsky ordered the sale of hundreds of millions of dollars’ worth of bitcoin, refusing to wait to double check Celsius’s often unreliable information on its own holdings. Celsius — which at the time held $22bn of customer crypto assets — bought the bitcoin back a day later at a loss.
    Submitted at Yesterday, 02:11 PM by Forensic
    The Economy
    2 Comments
    A kilometer-wide asteroid will make its closest pass by Earth next week
    https://www.cnn.com/2022/01/11/world/asteroid-earth-flyby-scn/index.html
    Nobody expects the asteroid to hit Earth, but it's the closest the space object will come for the next two centuries, according to NASA projections.
    Submitted at Yesterday, 05:17 AM by Grief Bacon
    Science
    11 Comments
    Domino’s retreats from Italy having failed to conquer the home of pizza
    https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/aug/10/dominos-retreats-from-italy-having-failed-to-conquer-the-home-of-the-pizza
    After seven years and an ambitious plan to open 880 outlets, US chain’s local franchise files for bankruptcy
    Submitted at 08-15-2022, 11:12 PM by Nibbles
    Food
    2 Comments
    ‘I am, in fact, a person’: can artificial intelligence ever be sentient?
    https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/aug/14/can-artificial-intelligence-ever-be-sentient-googles-new-ai-program-is-raising-questions
    According to Michael Wooldridge, a professor of computer science at the University of Oxford who has spent the past 30 years researching AI (in 2020, he won the Lovelace Medal for contributions to computing), LaMDA is simply responding to prompts. It imitates and impersonates. “The best way of explaining what LaMDA does is with an analogy about your smartphone,” Wooldridge says, comparing the model to the predictive text feature that autocompletes your messages. While your phone makes suggestions based on texts you’ve sent previously, with LaMDA, “basically everything that’s written in English on the world wide web goes in as the training data.” The results are impressively realistic, but the “basic statistics” are the same. “There is no sentience, there’s no self-contemplation, there’s no self-awareness,” Wooldridge says.
    Submitted at 08-15-2022, 11:10 PM by Nibbles
    The World
    4 Comments
    Introducing Fritz! Cincinnati Zoo chooses name for baby hippo
    https://www.cincinnati.com/story/news/2022/08/15/baby-hippo-cincinnati-zoo-name-fritz/65403619007/
    The Cincinnati Zoo has announced a name for the newest member of the hippo bloat.
    Submitted at 08-15-2022, 04:23 PM by DamnHead
    Off Topic
    0 Comments
    Ride along with MACRO: Oakland’s new alternative to the police
    https://oaklandside.org/2022/08/15/ride-along-macro-oakland-new-alternative-police/
    We followed unarmed emergency responders with MACRO to see their groundbreaking program at work on the Oakland streets.
    Submitted at 08-15-2022, 07:06 PM by Forensic
    Crime
    0 Comments
    Trump-allied lawyers pursued voting machine data in multiple states, records reveal
    https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/2022/08/15/sidney-powell-coffee-county-sullivan-strickler/
    A team of computer experts directed by lawyers allied with President Donald Trump copied sensitive data from election systems in Georgia as part of a secretive, multistate effort to access voting equipment that was broader, more organized and more successful than previously reported, according to emails and other records obtained by The Washington Post. As they worked to overturn Trump’s 2020 election defeat, the lawyers asked a forensic data firm to access county election systems in at least three battleground states, according to the documents and interviews. The firm charged an upfront retainer fee for each job, which in one case was $26,000. Attorney Sidney Powell sent the team to Michigan to copy a rural county’s election data and later helped arrange for them to do the same in the Detroit area, according to the records. A Trump campaign attorney engaged the team to travel to Nevada. And the day after the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol the team was in southern Georgia, copying data from a Dominion voting system in rural Coffee County.
    Submitted at 08-15-2022, 06:52 PM by Forensic
    Politics
    0 Comments
    Investing in Flow
    https://a16z.com/2022/08/15/investing-in-flow/
    Adam is a visionary leader who revolutionized the second largest asset class in the world — commercial real estate — by bringing community and brand to an industry in which neither existed before. Adam, and the story of WeWork, have been exhaustively chronicled, analyzed, and fictionalized – sometimes accurately. For all the energy put into covering the story, it’s often under appreciated that only one person has fundamentally redesigned the office experience and led a paradigm-changing global company in the process: Adam Neumann. We understand how difficult it is to build something like this and we love seeing repeat-founders build on past successes by growing from lessons learned. For Adam, the successes and lessons are plenty and we are excited to go on this journey with him and his colleagues building the future of living.
    Submitted at 08-15-2022, 04:51 PM by Nibbles
    Horseshit
    8 Comments
    Better Call Saul was the perfect show for America’s grifter era
    https://www.avclub.com/better-call-saul-america-grifter-era-perfect-why-1849398246
    The year 2015 was the beginning of a boom time for conmen in America. The next seven would see the rise of the MAGA movement, Fyre Festival, NFTs, QAnon, and a grifter-led insurrection. Conmen and scammers are not a new American phenomenon. But Better Call Saul, a show about a gifted grifter, countered their mainstream success and prevalence with a question: How can these people live with themselves?
    Submitted at 08-15-2022, 02:20 PM by droog
    Television
    0 Comments
    The rise of the side startup
    https://www.vox.com/recode/23299590/side-startup-remote-workers-founding-businesses-while-employed
    At face value, this trend might look like the latest version of side hustles, which have been a thing forever. People have been picking up freelance projects, driving Ubers, or selling crafts on Etsy as a way to make extra cash and nurse their creativity for years. But having a side startup is different because people are creating full-fledged businesses that are meant to supplant their main job. The current trend is also distinct from being over-employed, a situation in which remote workers secretly take on two full-time jobs for someone else. Their goal is two paychecks for one 40-hour work week and to get back at what they think is an unfair system.
    Submitted at 08-14-2022, 08:08 PM by Nibbles
    The Economy
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