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France Investigates Temperature Spikes That Led to Big Payouts on Polymarket

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arxiv.org 9mo ago

Acoustic Eavesdropping via Mouse Sensors

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www.smithsonianmag.com 12mo ago

CCTV footage captures video of an earthquake fault in motion

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www.nytimes.com 2y ago

Fearing losses, banks are quietly dumping real estate loans

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www.first.org 2y ago

FIRST has officially published CVSS v4.0 (Common Vulnerability Scoring System)

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wilsonminesco.com 2y ago

6502 PRIMER: Building your own 6502 computer

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Deflation: Why falling prices in China raise concerns

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blog.zoom.us 2y ago

How Zoom’s terms of service and practices apply to AI features

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Voyager 2: NASA picks up 'heartbeat' signal after sending wrong command

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en.wikipedia.org 3y ago

Protocol Wars

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twitter.com 3y ago

Elizabeth Holmes sentenced to 11.25 years in prison

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www.ietf.org 4y ago

Mathematical Mesh 3.0 Part I: Architecture Guide

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Ingenuity helicopter takes photos of debris field on Mars

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www.nytimes.com 4y ago

A YouTuber purposely crashed his plane in California, FAA says

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Junkers G.38

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Twelve Tables

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www.engadget.com 4y ago

US will reportedly impose crypto sanctions amid ransomware attacks

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YIsrael, Once the Model for Beating Covid, Faces New Surge of Infections

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www.engadget.com 5y ago

'Terraria' will hit Stadia after all

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spaceweatherarchive.com 5y ago

Ham Radio Signals from Mars

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Librem 14 Shipping in December

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Automaton Rover for Extreme Environments

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www.theatlantic.com 5y ago

A Biblical Mystery at Oxford

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www.smithsonianmag.com 5y ago

Archaeologists Just Beginning to Reveal Secrets in Ancient Manuscripts (2017)

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www.bleepingcomputer.com 6y ago

Microsoft Fixes Critical Windows 10 Wormable Remote Desktop Flaws

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www.securityweek.com 9y ago

Over-The-Air Update Mechanism Exposes Millions of Android Devices

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I am not sure if it aligns to the approach in OP's article but it's the last ~minute or two of the linked video.

As an aside:

OnlyFans, which generated $7.2bn (£5.3bn) revenue in 2024, ..

I didn't expect their revenue to be that high, but I suppose it's also unsurprising.

For the most part, the purpose of the long haul Amtrak services isn't to make it economical go from one end of the line / one major city to the other (e.g. NYC to Chicago); It's to provide a transportation service for all the intermediate, rural stations who might not be near an airport or have any other public transportation options.

A lot of these old services used the email address as the fixed user identifier making it much less likely (certainly for those bucket of services) that he'd have a user-facing option of changing it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gell-Mann_amnesia_effect

Briefly stated, the Gell-Mann Amnesia effect is as follows. You open the newspaper to an article on some subject you know well. In Murray's case, physics. In mine, show business. You read the article and see the journalist has absolutely no understanding of either the facts or the issues. Often, the article is so wrong it actually presents the story backward—reversing cause and effect. I call these the "wet streets cause rain" stories. Paper's full of them.

In any case, you read with exasperation or amusement the multiple errors in a story, and then turn the page to national or international affairs, and read as if the rest of the newspaper was somehow more accurate about Palestine than the baloney you just read. You turn the page, and forget what you know.

That is the Gell-Mann Amnesia effect. I'd point out it does not operate in other arenas of life. In ordinary life, if somebody consistently exaggerates or lies to you, you soon discount everything they say. In court, there is the legal doctrine of falsus in uno, falsus in omnibus, which means untruthful in one part, untruthful in all. But when it comes to the media, we believe against evidence that it is probably worth our time to read other parts of the paper. When, in fact, it almost certainly isn't. The only possible explanation for our behavior is amnesia.

Surprised this hasn't been posted within a comment yet :)

No, [journalists] know what they are doing ... Carefully calibrated, highly-selective use of (often, quite awkward) linguistic constructs does not happen unconsciously, it is a deliberate, knowing choice.

The incredible vast majority of people in the world are acting in good faith. The way you are framing this is that nearly all journalists are acting in bad faith, which makes me believe the arguments of the parent ("The journalists don't think they're writing these stories to amplify the police narrative") more so than the argument you're making here.

I kinda wish computer systems were more involved in planes.

Computer systems have controlled the movement of elevators for 50+ years. They stop the elevator moving when the door isn't shut very effectively. They have certainly saved more lives compared to even a well trained elevator operator.

I thought you were talking about the elevators on a plane and was trying to figure out why whether a plane door was closed mattered for controlling the elevators.

Made me think of https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Hanssen

In the letter, he gave the names of three KGB agents secretly working for the FBI: Boris Yuzhin, Valery Martynov, and Sergei Motorin ... Hanssen was recalled yet again to Washington, D.C., in 1987. He was tasked with studying all known and rumored penetrations of the FBI to find the man who had betrayed Martynov and Motorin; this meant, in effect, that he was charged with searching for himself.