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  • Orders soar at Airbus, which makes jets where the side doesn’t fall off

    In further “Boeing is a metaphor for neo-liberalism has run out of steam” commentary. For those that don’t know… here is the 2 sentence history that plots the descent of Boeing… “boeing was reverse acquired by McDD and that company was full of Welch trained dipshits. they ousted all the engineer trained managers that made…

  • South African Scholar DISMANTLES Israel at ICJ Trial

  • This high-tech sex toy syncs its vibes with music

    Oh! can also work interactively with The Handy. Both devices can also be controlled remotely to help long-distance couples stay connected, or help someone with limited dexterity or mobility use the devices. But all of this raises the eternal question with the Internet of Dongs: privacy. “We don’t gather any personal data and we’re bound…

  • There are Mysteries at Venus. It’s Time for an Astrobiology Mission

    When scientists detected phosphine in Venus’ atmosphere in 2020, it triggered renewed, animated discussions about Venus and its potential habitability. It would be weird if the detection didn’t generate interest since phosphine is a potential biomarker. So people were understandably curious. Unfortunately, further study couldn’t confirm its presence. But even without phosphine, Venus’ atmosphere is…

  • The Value of Indigenous Knowledge in Permafrost Research

    Permafrost emissions are the climate change issue that really keep me awake at night. Like wild fires we need to tap into the lived knowledge of the people who have inhabited that biome for centuries if we’re to stand any chance. But according to Patrick Murphy, a field research technician with the Woodwell Climate Research…

  • Corporadelic: MAPS For-Profit Arm Raises $100 Million

    The financialisation of psychedelics is going to set the whole field back, long term, almost as muc has banning the substances. The Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies (MAPS) has reversed course on its long-held commitment to retain full ownership of its pharmaceutical development arm. On Jan. 5, MAPS Public Benefit Corporation (MAPS PBC) announced that…

  • Optically Decoding the TMS0801 ROM

    I’ve seen a couple of these projects… just bonkers. Decoding the contents of a ROM by looking at the physical structure. The TMS0801, from 1972, was one of the first chips to completely contain everything to need to run a calculator. It was used to power the Sinclair Cambridge. It contained the CPU, RAM, and ROM,…

  • Avi Schiffmann’s Tab AI necklace has raised $1.9 million to replace God

    “Tab is not an assistant, period. I’m not building something that’s going to connect to Notion or your emails any time soon. I’m solely building . . . a friend that morphs into your creative partner, life coach, [or] therapist as needed,” he says. “What I’m trying to do is create a new relationship in your life;…

  • The Proud Boys are collapsing: Surprise! Legal consequences do hurt authoritarian movements

    There’s a few things going on. As Owens notes, it’s common for extremist groups to fall apart fairly quickly.  They are composed of nasty people who seek conflict, so it’s inevitable that they fight and splinter over time. There’s evidence some Proud Boys are decamping to neo-Nazi groups. I’d argue that the Proud Boys are…

  • The airplane blowout came from our rotten Big Tech economy

    So we see that “growth at any cost” doesn’t just apply to tech companies. The surveillance state, and the expanding powers of the government to spy on its citizens, is another runaway problem. Meantime we are all but forced to use Big Tech software that spies on us, with no way for us to decline…