Science Cringe
On Electrons and Electricity. I'd like to share some thoughts with you I picked up while working in manufacturing R&D: • The "Electric Field" is a post-war term for the Aether. • Aether is an immaterial fluid that permeates all space. It's made of Aether…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bHIhgxav9LY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oI_X2cMHNe0
I would like to add that I like Veritasium for making these electricity videos. They generated intense butthurt in the Juden Physik community.
It's factually not the flow of electrons that transfers energy in a conductor. Maxwell wrote his theories presupposing a Luminiferous Aether. This is the fluid that transfers energy in a circuit.
Feel free to post your rebuttals in the Hydraulic Analogy wiki talk page:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydraulic_analogy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oI_X2cMHNe0
I would like to add that I like Veritasium for making these electricity videos. They generated intense butthurt in the Juden Physik community.
It's factually not the flow of electrons that transfers energy in a conductor. Maxwell wrote his theories presupposing a Luminiferous Aether. This is the fluid that transfers energy in a circuit.
Feel free to post your rebuttals in the Hydraulic Analogy wiki talk page:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydraulic_analogy
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"James Webb telescope confirms there is something seriously wrong with our understanding of the universe" - Ben Turner, Live Science, 14MAR2024
>Depending on where we look, the universe is expanding at different rates. Now, scientists using the James Webb and Hubble space telescopes have confirmed that the observation is not down to a measurement error.
>Now, a triple-check by both telescopes working together appears to have put the possibility of any measurement error to bed for good. The study, published February 6 in the Astrophysical Journal Letters, suggests that there may be something seriously wrong with our understanding of the universe.
>"With measurement errors negated, what remains is the real and exciting possibility we have misunderstood the universe," lead study author Adam Riess
>universe's expansion rate is around 74 km/s/Mpc: an impossibly high value when compared to Planck's measurements. Cosmology had been hurled into uncharted territory.
https://archive.ph/mf9Vd
(Physics?)
>Depending on where we look, the universe is expanding at different rates. Now, scientists using the James Webb and Hubble space telescopes have confirmed that the observation is not down to a measurement error.
>Now, a triple-check by both telescopes working together appears to have put the possibility of any measurement error to bed for good. The study, published February 6 in the Astrophysical Journal Letters, suggests that there may be something seriously wrong with our understanding of the universe.
>"With measurement errors negated, what remains is the real and exciting possibility we have misunderstood the universe," lead study author Adam Riess
>universe's expansion rate is around 74 km/s/Mpc: an impossibly high value when compared to Planck's measurements. Cosmology had been hurled into uncharted territory.
https://archive.ph/mf9Vd
(Physics?)
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"Sydney Sweeney's ad shows an unbridled cultural shift toward whiteness" - Hannah Holland, MSNBC, 29JUL2025
>At the end of each video, an off-screen voice speaks over blocky letters declaring that Sweeney — blonde, blue-eyed and white — “has great jeans.” The wordplay was made even more explicit when American Eagle posted a video of Sweeney standing in front of a poster bearing her likeness with the word “genes” crossed out and replaced with “jeans.”
>The advertisement, the choice of Sweeney as the sole face in it and the internet’s reaction reflect an unbridled cultural shift toward whiteness, conservatism
>American Eagle is on a financial tear.
>An advertisement that so many are condemning as a “eugenics dog whistle” fits into this movement. Sweeney and American Eagle deserve much scrutiny over this, but so does our own crumbling and fractured American culture that made this all possible in the first place.
https://archive.ph/3v3Fv
(Beginning of the End for Jewish Science)
>At the end of each video, an off-screen voice speaks over blocky letters declaring that Sweeney — blonde, blue-eyed and white — “has great jeans.” The wordplay was made even more explicit when American Eagle posted a video of Sweeney standing in front of a poster bearing her likeness with the word “genes” crossed out and replaced with “jeans.”
>The advertisement, the choice of Sweeney as the sole face in it and the internet’s reaction reflect an unbridled cultural shift toward whiteness, conservatism
>American Eagle is on a financial tear.
>An advertisement that so many are condemning as a “eugenics dog whistle” fits into this movement. Sweeney and American Eagle deserve much scrutiny over this, but so does our own crumbling and fractured American culture that made this all possible in the first place.
https://archive.ph/3v3Fv
(Beginning of the End for Jewish Science)
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"Donor Organs Are Too Rare. We Need a New Definition of Death" - Sandeep Jauhar, NYT, 30JUL2025
>Brain death is rare. In New York State, with a population of 20 million, there are on average fewer than 500 cases suitable for organ procurement and transplantation each year.
>Far more often, people die because their heart has permanently stopped beating. Organs from people who die this way are often damaged and unsuited for transplantation.
>There is a new method that can improve donation after circulatory death: normothermic regional perfusion, doctors take a donor off life support to determine the heart has stopped beating, then they are placed on a machine that circulates blood through the body to preserve organ function.
>The solution is to broaden the definition of brain death to include irreversibly comatose patients on life support. Using this definition, these patients would be legally dead regardless of whether a machine restored the beating of their heart.
https://archive.is/mdZuu
(Medicine?)
>Brain death is rare. In New York State, with a population of 20 million, there are on average fewer than 500 cases suitable for organ procurement and transplantation each year.
>Far more often, people die because their heart has permanently stopped beating. Organs from people who die this way are often damaged and unsuited for transplantation.
>There is a new method that can improve donation after circulatory death: normothermic regional perfusion, doctors take a donor off life support to determine the heart has stopped beating, then they are placed on a machine that circulates blood through the body to preserve organ function.
>The solution is to broaden the definition of brain death to include irreversibly comatose patients on life support. Using this definition, these patients would be legally dead regardless of whether a machine restored the beating of their heart.
https://archive.is/mdZuu
(Medicine?)
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"Scientific fraud has become an ‘industry,’ alarming analysis finds" - Cathleen O'Grady, Science, 04AUG2025
>The paper, published today in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, paints an alarming picture. Northwestern University metascientist Reese Richardson and his colleagues identify networks of editors and authors colluding to publish shoddy or fraudulent papers, report that large organizations are placing batches of fake papers in journals, suggest brokers may serve as intermediaries between paper mills and intercepted journals, and find that the number of fake papers—though still relatively small—seems to be increasing at a rate far greater than the scientific literature generally.
>For instance, of the 79 papers that one editor had handled at PLOS ONE, 49 have been retracted. Flagged editors handled 1.3% of papers published in the journal by 2024, but nearly one-third of all retracted papers.
https://archive.ph/f7qjY
(Replication Crisis)
>The paper, published today in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, paints an alarming picture. Northwestern University metascientist Reese Richardson and his colleagues identify networks of editors and authors colluding to publish shoddy or fraudulent papers, report that large organizations are placing batches of fake papers in journals, suggest brokers may serve as intermediaries between paper mills and intercepted journals, and find that the number of fake papers—though still relatively small—seems to be increasing at a rate far greater than the scientific literature generally.
>For instance, of the 79 papers that one editor had handled at PLOS ONE, 49 have been retracted. Flagged editors handled 1.3% of papers published in the journal by 2024, but nearly one-third of all retracted papers.
https://archive.ph/f7qjY
(Replication Crisis)
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"Tesla, Elon Musk sued by shareholders over Robotaxi claims" - Jonathan Stempel, Reuters, 05AUG2025
>The proposed class action was filed on Monday night, following Tesla's first public test of its robotaxis in late June in the company's Austin, Texas, hometown.
>That test showed the vehicles speeding, braking suddenly, driving over a curb, entering the wrong lane, and dropping off passengers in the middle of multilane roads.
>Musk and his electric vehicle maker were accused of repeatedly overstating the effectiveness of and prospects for their autonomous driving technology, inflating Tesla's financial prospects and stock price.
>The case is Morand v Tesla Inc et al, U.S. District Court, Western District of Texas, No. 25-01213.
https://archive.ph/QFxzR
(Tech L)
>The proposed class action was filed on Monday night, following Tesla's first public test of its robotaxis in late June in the company's Austin, Texas, hometown.
>That test showed the vehicles speeding, braking suddenly, driving over a curb, entering the wrong lane, and dropping off passengers in the middle of multilane roads.
>Musk and his electric vehicle maker were accused of repeatedly overstating the effectiveness of and prospects for their autonomous driving technology, inflating Tesla's financial prospects and stock price.
>The case is Morand v Tesla Inc et al, U.S. District Court, Western District of Texas, No. 25-01213.
https://archive.ph/QFxzR
(Tech L)
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"Eating this ultraprocessed food may be good for you and the planet, experts say" - Sandee LaMotte, CNN, 21JUL2025
>According to the Good Food Institute, a nonprofit dedicated to promoting alternative proteins, replacing a beef burger with a plant-based patty can reduce greenhouse gas emissions by up to 98% and land use by up to 97%.
>"Doctors and dietitians are reluctant to consider alternative proteins when advising patients on nutrition because they view these foods as ultraprocessed"
>Encouraging consumers to swap their beloved animal flesh for plant alternatives is increasingly critical, experts say. Global meat production and demand — a leading contributor to climate change — is projected to rise by up to 52% by 2050 compared with 2012 levels, according to the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
https://archive.ph/PiQVF
(Climate?)
>According to the Good Food Institute, a nonprofit dedicated to promoting alternative proteins, replacing a beef burger with a plant-based patty can reduce greenhouse gas emissions by up to 98% and land use by up to 97%.
>"Doctors and dietitians are reluctant to consider alternative proteins when advising patients on nutrition because they view these foods as ultraprocessed"
>Encouraging consumers to swap their beloved animal flesh for plant alternatives is increasingly critical, experts say. Global meat production and demand — a leading contributor to climate change — is projected to rise by up to 52% by 2050 compared with 2012 levels, according to the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
https://archive.ph/PiQVF
(Climate?)
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This is sliding under the radar, so I need to break the news.
The Monero blockchain just experienced a deliberate 6 block reorg. Some say that's the result of a successful 51% attack. That's when an attacker can write whatever he wants to the blockchain, destroying the purpose of the cryptocurrency.
Bad news for the smaller Proof of Work blockchains. As bitcoin mining becomes less lucrative, the hardware will be repurposed to destroy other non-proof of stake chains.
Bitcoin itself is expected to see a similar crisis in a decade, unless they fork to increase the coin limit, or implement "tail emissions" like Monero. That might still not be enough long-term.
https://xcancel.com/P3b7_/status/1955173413992984988#m
The Monero blockchain just experienced a deliberate 6 block reorg. Some say that's the result of a successful 51% attack. That's when an attacker can write whatever he wants to the blockchain, destroying the purpose of the cryptocurrency.
Bad news for the smaller Proof of Work blockchains. As bitcoin mining becomes less lucrative, the hardware will be repurposed to destroy other non-proof of stake chains.
Bitcoin itself is expected to see a similar crisis in a decade, unless they fork to increase the coin limit, or implement "tail emissions" like Monero. That might still not be enough long-term.
https://xcancel.com/P3b7_/status/1955173413992984988#m
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Science Cringe
This is sliding under the radar, so I need to break the news. The Monero blockchain just experienced a deliberate 6 block reorg. Some say that's the result of a successful 51% attack. That's when an attacker can write whatever he wants to the blockchain,…
"Qubic Hits 52.72 % Of Monero’s Total Hashrate" - La Rédaction C., Cointribute, 12AUG2025
>Qubic briefly reached 52.72% of Monero’s hashrate with 3.01 GH/s, demonstrating exceptional computing power.
>The project aims to maintain more than 51% hashrate dominance between August 2 and 31, 2025 as part of a planned test.
>A technical collaboration between Sergey Ivancheglo and Shai documents results and addresses accusations of malicious attacks.
>Many Monero miners migrated to Qubic despite a DDoS attack temporarily reducing the pool’s power.
>The temporary reaching of the 51 % hashrate threshold represents a major event in the crypto ecosystem. Theoretically, this level of control allows the blockchain to be reorganized, double spends to be created, or transactions censored.
>However, Qubic claims this demonstration aims to strengthen Monero’s security rather than attack it.
https://archive.ph/rWyef
(Cryptocurrency)
>Qubic briefly reached 52.72% of Monero’s hashrate with 3.01 GH/s, demonstrating exceptional computing power.
>The project aims to maintain more than 51% hashrate dominance between August 2 and 31, 2025 as part of a planned test.
>A technical collaboration between Sergey Ivancheglo and Shai documents results and addresses accusations of malicious attacks.
>Many Monero miners migrated to Qubic despite a DDoS attack temporarily reducing the pool’s power.
>The temporary reaching of the 51 % hashrate threshold represents a major event in the crypto ecosystem. Theoretically, this level of control allows the blockchain to be reorganized, double spends to be created, or transactions censored.
>However, Qubic claims this demonstration aims to strengthen Monero’s security rather than attack it.
https://archive.ph/rWyef
(Cryptocurrency)
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"Why Are There So Many Rationalist Cults?" - Asteriskmag, Ozy Brennan, 11AUG2025
>The rationalist community was drawn together by Eliezer Yudkowsky’s blog post series The Sequences, a set of essays about how to think more rationally. You would think, then, that they’d be paragons of critical thinking and skepticism — or at least that they wouldn’t wind up summoning demons.
>And yet, the rationalist community has hosted perhaps half a dozen small groups with very strange beliefs (including two separate groups that wound up interacting with demons). Some — which I won’t name in this article for privacy reasons — seem to have caused no harm but bad takes. But the most famous, a loose group of vegan anarchist transhumanists nicknamed the Zizians, have been linked to six violent deaths. Other groups, while less violent, have left a trail of trauma in their wake. One is Black Lotus, a Burning Man camp led by alleged rapist Brent Dill, which developed a metaphysical system based on the tabletop roleplaying game Mage the Ascension. Another is Leverage Research, an independent research organization that became sucked into the occult and wound up as Workplace Harassment With New Age Characteristics.
>most members are in precarious life positions: mentally ill (sometimes severely), traumatized, survivors of abuse, unemployed, barely able to scrape together enough money to find a place to sleep at night in the Bay Area. Members of dysfunctional rationalist groups are particularly likely to be transgender
>Brent Dill convinced people he was an extraordinary genius who would be capable of fantastic achievements, just as soon as he stopped being depressed. Therefore, you should focus your effort on fixing his depression, no matter how much time or money or emotional energy it takes (and if you could throw your vagina into the bargain that would help too).
>when the Zizians stabbed their landlord with a katana or got in a shootout with the cops, this was because they believed decision theory meant that you should always escalate when threatened. Social isolation likely made these beliefs seem more plausible, and their meditation techniques — “hemispheric sleep” — likely made them less able to reason rationally.
>rationalists believe a GAI will be developed very soon: forecast AI 2027. Many of them also expect that, without heroic effort, GAI development will lead to human extinction.
https://archive.ph/AWx0t
(Post-Christian Leftism)
>The rationalist community was drawn together by Eliezer Yudkowsky’s blog post series The Sequences, a set of essays about how to think more rationally. You would think, then, that they’d be paragons of critical thinking and skepticism — or at least that they wouldn’t wind up summoning demons.
>And yet, the rationalist community has hosted perhaps half a dozen small groups with very strange beliefs (including two separate groups that wound up interacting with demons). Some — which I won’t name in this article for privacy reasons — seem to have caused no harm but bad takes. But the most famous, a loose group of vegan anarchist transhumanists nicknamed the Zizians, have been linked to six violent deaths. Other groups, while less violent, have left a trail of trauma in their wake. One is Black Lotus, a Burning Man camp led by alleged rapist Brent Dill, which developed a metaphysical system based on the tabletop roleplaying game Mage the Ascension. Another is Leverage Research, an independent research organization that became sucked into the occult and wound up as Workplace Harassment With New Age Characteristics.
>most members are in precarious life positions: mentally ill (sometimes severely), traumatized, survivors of abuse, unemployed, barely able to scrape together enough money to find a place to sleep at night in the Bay Area. Members of dysfunctional rationalist groups are particularly likely to be transgender
>Brent Dill convinced people he was an extraordinary genius who would be capable of fantastic achievements, just as soon as he stopped being depressed. Therefore, you should focus your effort on fixing his depression, no matter how much time or money or emotional energy it takes (and if you could throw your vagina into the bargain that would help too).
>when the Zizians stabbed their landlord with a katana or got in a shootout with the cops, this was because they believed decision theory meant that you should always escalate when threatened. Social isolation likely made these beliefs seem more plausible, and their meditation techniques — “hemispheric sleep” — likely made them less able to reason rationally.
>rationalists believe a GAI will be developed very soon: forecast AI 2027. Many of them also expect that, without heroic effort, GAI development will lead to human extinction.
https://archive.ph/AWx0t
(Post-Christian Leftism)
archive.ph
Why Are There So Many Rationalist Cults?—Asterisk
archived 11 Aug 2025 19:59:28 UTC
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"Baidu robotaxi with passenger falls into construction pit in China, raising safety concerns" - Reuters, 08AUG2025
>BEIJING - An autonomous vehicle operated by Baidu’s Apollo Go robotaxi service fell into a deep construction pit while carrying a passenger in south-western China, according to local media reports.
>The incident occurred on Aug 6 in Chongqing, according to media outlets including the Southern Metropolis Daily and Huashang Newspaper.
>A local shop owner told Huashang Newspaper that the construction site had barriers and warning signs, though it remained unclear how the vehicle bypassed these safety measures.
>The female passenger was uninjured and was rescued by local residents using a ladder, the reports said.
https://archive.ph/Wsopq
(Tech L)
>BEIJING - An autonomous vehicle operated by Baidu’s Apollo Go robotaxi service fell into a deep construction pit while carrying a passenger in south-western China, according to local media reports.
>The incident occurred on Aug 6 in Chongqing, according to media outlets including the Southern Metropolis Daily and Huashang Newspaper.
>A local shop owner told Huashang Newspaper that the construction site had barriers and warning signs, though it remained unclear how the vehicle bypassed these safety measures.
>The female passenger was uninjured and was rescued by local residents using a ladder, the reports said.
https://archive.ph/Wsopq
(Tech L)
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"Linux Foundation’s AOUSD and ASWF Released Inclusive Language Guide in Tech" - SK, OSTechnix, 12AUG2025
>Have you ever thought about the words we use every day, especially in tech? It turns out, they can make a big difference! The Linux Foundation's Alliance for OpenUSD (AOUSD) and the Academy Software Foundation (ASWF) recently teamed up to release an Inclusive Language Guide.
>Common Words to Rethink
>The guide also gives us common terms to reconsider, along with friendlier alternatives. Here are a few examples:
>Instead of 'master'/'slave', try 'primary'/'secondary'.
>For 'blacklist'/'whitelist', use 'deny list'/'allow list'.
>Swap 'man hours' for 'labour hours' or 'work hours'.
>Refer to a group as 'folks' or 'team' instead of 'guys'.
>Change 'sanity check' to 'validation check' or 'logic check'.
>When you hear 'grandfathered', consider 'established' or 'rollover'.
>Autodesk
>DreamWorks Animation
>Sony Pictures Imageworks
https://archive.ph/tLGhz
(Linux Transexuals)
>Have you ever thought about the words we use every day, especially in tech? It turns out, they can make a big difference! The Linux Foundation's Alliance for OpenUSD (AOUSD) and the Academy Software Foundation (ASWF) recently teamed up to release an Inclusive Language Guide.
>Common Words to Rethink
>The guide also gives us common terms to reconsider, along with friendlier alternatives. Here are a few examples:
>Instead of 'master'/'slave', try 'primary'/'secondary'.
>For 'blacklist'/'whitelist', use 'deny list'/'allow list'.
>Swap 'man hours' for 'labour hours' or 'work hours'.
>Refer to a group as 'folks' or 'team' instead of 'guys'.
>Change 'sanity check' to 'validation check' or 'logic check'.
>When you hear 'grandfathered', consider 'established' or 'rollover'.
>Autodesk
>DreamWorks Animation
>Sony Pictures Imageworks
https://archive.ph/tLGhz
(Linux Transexuals)
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"Beyond Meat is headed to Chapter 11 bankruptcy" - Celine Provini, TheStreet, 10AUG2025
>Beyond Meat hired corporate restructuring expert as interim chief transformation officer. It has also let go of 44 employees in North America (6% of its global workforce) as it seeks to cut operating expenses amid disappointing sales.
>Sales in the second quarter dropped by nearly 20% year-over-year.
>2019: Sales of plant-based meat reach approximately $939 million in the U.S.
>2023: Sales reach between $2 billion and $2.25 billion, according to varying reports.
>2024: Estimated at $3.4 billion, according to IMARC Group.
>2030: Grand View Research projects $6.14 billion in sales.
>Beyond Meat also has a significant cash problem. As of June 28, 2025, Beyond Meat’s cash and cash equivalents balance was $117.3 million, and total outstanding debt was $1.2 billion.
https://web.archive.org/web/20250811032103/https://www.thestreet.com/restaurants/beyond-meat-is-headed-to-chapter-11-bankruptcy
(Climate?)
>Beyond Meat hired corporate restructuring expert as interim chief transformation officer. It has also let go of 44 employees in North America (6% of its global workforce) as it seeks to cut operating expenses amid disappointing sales.
>Sales in the second quarter dropped by nearly 20% year-over-year.
>2019: Sales of plant-based meat reach approximately $939 million in the U.S.
>2023: Sales reach between $2 billion and $2.25 billion, according to varying reports.
>2024: Estimated at $3.4 billion, according to IMARC Group.
>2030: Grand View Research projects $6.14 billion in sales.
>Beyond Meat also has a significant cash problem. As of June 28, 2025, Beyond Meat’s cash and cash equivalents balance was $117.3 million, and total outstanding debt was $1.2 billion.
https://web.archive.org/web/20250811032103/https://www.thestreet.com/restaurants/beyond-meat-is-headed-to-chapter-11-bankruptcy
(Climate?)
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"@jordanbpeterson is taking some time off of everything." - Mikhaila Peterson, X, 13AUG2025
>CIRS is not widely recognized as a distinct medical condition by mainstream science or organizations like Mayo Clinic and CDC. It's a controversial diagnosis linked to mold exposure, promoted in integrative medicine but lacking strong evidence and often criticized as unproven. Mold allergies and toxicities are real, but CIRS remains debated.
https://xcancel.com/MikhailaFuller/status/1955777019712819287
https://xcancel.com/grok/status/1955829698136826213
(Jordan 🅱 Peterson, GRIDS)
>CIRS is not widely recognized as a distinct medical condition by mainstream science or organizations like Mayo Clinic and CDC. It's a controversial diagnosis linked to mold exposure, promoted in integrative medicine but lacking strong evidence and often criticized as unproven. Mold allergies and toxicities are real, but CIRS remains debated.
https://xcancel.com/MikhailaFuller/status/1955777019712819287
https://xcancel.com/grok/status/1955829698136826213
(Jordan 🅱 Peterson, GRIDS)
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"this screenshot from GPT-5 livestream has to be among the worst chart crimes of the century" - Ege Erdil, X, 07AUG2025
https://xcancel.com/EgeErdil2/status/1953505551570415718
(GAI, Tech L)
https://xcancel.com/EgeErdil2/status/1953505551570415718
(GAI, Tech L)
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"Child abuse imagery found within bitcoin's blockchain" - Samuel Gibbs, Guardian, 20MAR2018
>Researchers from the RWTH Aachen University, Germany found that around 1,600 files were currently stored in bitcoin’s blockchain. Of the files least eight were of sexual content, including one thought to be an image of child abuse and two that contain 274 links to child abuse content, 142 of which link to dark web services.
>“Our analysis shows that certain content, eg, illegal pornography, can render the mere possession of a blockchain illegal,” . “Although court rulings do not yet exist, legislative texts from countries such as Germany, the UK, or the USA suggest that illegal content such as CSAM can make the blockchain illegal to possess for all users.”
>While the spending of bitcoin does not necessarily require a copy of the blockchain to facilitate, some processes, such as some mining techniques, require the downloading of the full blockchain or chunks of it.
https://archive.ph/P3NJG
(Cryptocurrency)
>Researchers from the RWTH Aachen University, Germany found that around 1,600 files were currently stored in bitcoin’s blockchain. Of the files least eight were of sexual content, including one thought to be an image of child abuse and two that contain 274 links to child abuse content, 142 of which link to dark web services.
>“Our analysis shows that certain content, eg, illegal pornography, can render the mere possession of a blockchain illegal,” . “Although court rulings do not yet exist, legislative texts from countries such as Germany, the UK, or the USA suggest that illegal content such as CSAM can make the blockchain illegal to possess for all users.”
>While the spending of bitcoin does not necessarily require a copy of the blockchain to facilitate, some processes, such as some mining techniques, require the downloading of the full blockchain or chunks of it.
https://archive.ph/P3NJG
(Cryptocurrency)
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"‘Ozempic vulva’ is making women look aged and droopy down there" - Tracy Swartz, NYPost, 18AUG2025
>As GLP-1s have become widely used, there’s been a corresponding increase in awareness of their potential risks and side effects. Add another one to the list — “Ozempic vulva” or “Ozempic vagina.”
>“[The rapidity of] weight loss can cause visible skin sagging, laxity and wrinkles throughout the body,” Dr. Sherry Ross, an OB-GYN in Santa Monica, CA, and author of “She-ology” and “She-ology, the She-quel,” told HealthCentral.
>“All areas of the body can show visible skin changes in response to this significant weight loss,” “including the lower belly, pubic mons and inner and outer labia.”
>Some GLP-1 users have complained that their weight loss has led to a decrease in the volume of their labia majora, causing it to appear deflated or aged.
>Labia puffing may help. The procedure restores volume and fullness to the labia majora via dermal fillers or fat grafting.
https://archive.ph/jltFI
(Medicine?)
>As GLP-1s have become widely used, there’s been a corresponding increase in awareness of their potential risks and side effects. Add another one to the list — “Ozempic vulva” or “Ozempic vagina.”
>“[The rapidity of] weight loss can cause visible skin sagging, laxity and wrinkles throughout the body,” Dr. Sherry Ross, an OB-GYN in Santa Monica, CA, and author of “She-ology” and “She-ology, the She-quel,” told HealthCentral.
>“All areas of the body can show visible skin changes in response to this significant weight loss,” “including the lower belly, pubic mons and inner and outer labia.”
>Some GLP-1 users have complained that their weight loss has led to a decrease in the volume of their labia majora, causing it to appear deflated or aged.
>Labia puffing may help. The procedure restores volume and fullness to the labia majora via dermal fillers or fat grafting.
https://archive.ph/jltFI
(Medicine?)
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"A Solana Critique; Lies, Fraud & Dangerous Trade-Offs" - Justin Bons, Cyber Capital, 2024
Article Sections:
>Birthed in Fraud
>Faking Usage Number
>Fake TPS
>Caught Lying About Fake TPS
>Fake TVL
>Dangerous Design Trade-Offs
>Frequent Downtime
>Dangerous Vulnerabilities
>Solana Phone
>Solana Is Not Innovative
>A Pattern of Bad Behavior
https://cyber-capital-amsterdam.webflow.io/news/a-solana-critique-lies-fraud-dangerous-trade-offs
(Cryptocurrency)
Article Sections:
>Birthed in Fraud
>Faking Usage Number
>Fake TPS
>Caught Lying About Fake TPS
>Fake TVL
>Dangerous Design Trade-Offs
>Frequent Downtime
>Dangerous Vulnerabilities
>Solana Phone
>Solana Is Not Innovative
>A Pattern of Bad Behavior
https://cyber-capital-amsterdam.webflow.io/news/a-solana-critique-lies-fraud-dangerous-trade-offs
(Cryptocurrency)
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Science Cringe
"A Solana Critique; Lies, Fraud & Dangerous Trade-Offs" - Justin Bons, Cyber Capital, 2024 Article Sections: >Birthed in Fraud >Faking Usage Number >Fake TPS >Caught Lying About Fake TPS >Fake TVL >Dangerous Design Trade-Offs >Frequent Downtime >Dangerous…
"Is Ripple a Scam?" - Jason Blomberg, Forbes, 10DEC2021
>the Ripple business model is a pump and dump scheme, as it undergoes numerous activities to increase its value. Unlike most crypto pump and dumps, XRP takes numerous steps to obscure this basic fact.
>One of the strongest indicators that Ripple is a going concern is the dozens of customers it touts. Look more closely, however, and most such companies are ‘partners,’ not customers – and to make matters worse, Ripple pays companies to become partners.
>Pump and dump schemes leverage the perceived value of the asset in question, not its intrinsic value. “I have a tough time understanding, even if a lot of banks use Ripple to move billions of dollars, why does that increase the value of XRP?”
https://web.archive.org/web/20250724113223/https://www.forbes.com/sites/jasonbloomberg/2019/03/01/is-ripple-a-scam/
https://web.archive.org/web/20250522200106/https://pizzamind.medium.com/the-biggest-scam-in-crypto-history-f486ff6450a4
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>the Ripple business model is a pump and dump scheme, as it undergoes numerous activities to increase its value. Unlike most crypto pump and dumps, XRP takes numerous steps to obscure this basic fact.
>One of the strongest indicators that Ripple is a going concern is the dozens of customers it touts. Look more closely, however, and most such companies are ‘partners,’ not customers – and to make matters worse, Ripple pays companies to become partners.
>Pump and dump schemes leverage the perceived value of the asset in question, not its intrinsic value. “I have a tough time understanding, even if a lot of banks use Ripple to move billions of dollars, why does that increase the value of XRP?”
https://web.archive.org/web/20250724113223/https://www.forbes.com/sites/jasonbloomberg/2019/03/01/is-ripple-a-scam/
https://web.archive.org/web/20250522200106/https://pizzamind.medium.com/the-biggest-scam-in-crypto-history-f486ff6450a4
(Cryptocurrency)
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"ChatGPT Update 'Deletes' Hundreds of AI Boyfriends/Girlfriends" - Lewis Parker, Gaming Bible 18AUG2025
>To those of you with things like social lives or loved ones, this might not seem like a huge deal. It’s merely an update, so it probably just made the AI smarter or quicker or something, right?
>Apparently, no; the previous GPT-4o model was far more goofy, personable, and… uh, loving, so it’s death has upset thousands of people who were using it for romantic purposes. Christ, what a sentence.
>According to Dexerto's Carver Fisher, the subreddit r/MyBoyfriendIsAI has been in a period of mourning following the GPT-5 update, as they feel that the personalities of their virtual, robot partners are now dead.
>Not an exaggeration, by the way. An “In Remembrance” post, which was written by AI (of course), details several user’s pain in losing their clanker boyfriends and girlfriends.
https://archive.ph/NwOVA
(Tech L)
>To those of you with things like social lives or loved ones, this might not seem like a huge deal. It’s merely an update, so it probably just made the AI smarter or quicker or something, right?
>Apparently, no; the previous GPT-4o model was far more goofy, personable, and… uh, loving, so it’s death has upset thousands of people who were using it for romantic purposes. Christ, what a sentence.
>According to Dexerto's Carver Fisher, the subreddit r/MyBoyfriendIsAI has been in a period of mourning following the GPT-5 update, as they feel that the personalities of their virtual, robot partners are now dead.
>Not an exaggeration, by the way. An “In Remembrance” post, which was written by AI (of course), details several user’s pain in losing their clanker boyfriends and girlfriends.
https://archive.ph/NwOVA
(Tech L)
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