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  • Treasury recovers $1.3 billion in unpaid taxes from high-wealth tax dodgers

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  • Who's Yellen now? (This song was actually commissioned by APM's Marketplace when Janet Yellen became Secretary of the Treasury, but feels appropriate now.)

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  • I just started Ray Bradbury's Dandelion Wine, which I've been meaning to read for ages.

    Before that I read The Queen's Thief series, by Megan Whalen Turner, which was fun.

  • Madrid bans hired e-scooters over safety concerns

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  • Prevenir que usarios del servicio operen los scooters en áreas prohibidas y los dejen en las ceras y plazas donde no se permite.

  • The Internet Archive just lost its appeal over ebook lending

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  • Not a surprise, but still somehow crushing. It's a loss for us all.

  • Response

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  • I generally agree. At this point, I can't tell if Stein is that stupid or not, but she's still be used to undermine representative democracy. A candidate can make good points and still be a tool of fascism.

  • US squandering billions on unproven climate solutions, critics say

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  • Put a fraction of that in wind, solar, or forced geothermal, and you'd get a real benefit. But the fossil fuel industry demands a fig leaf to cover its naked greed, so here we are.

  • TIL Cessna made a budget Fighter Jet using Cessna jet engines and other Cessna parts.

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  • I think US military operations moved away from counter-insurgency to preparedness with conflicts with mechanized military forces that have actual air power, so a low-and-slow airframe wasn't considered as necessary. That, and drones are filling a lot of the air coverage and surveillance gap (though no one on the ground will tell you there could ever be a complete replacement for the BRRRRRRRR of an A-10.)

  • TIL Cessna made a budget Fighter Jet using Cessna jet engines and other Cessna parts.

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  • As I understand it, the Armed Overwatch pick that would at least sometimes replace the A-10 for close air support is the OA-1K Sky Warden, which has 10 hard points, and a 7,257kg gross weight. I don't know how to accurately calculate the Sky Warden's weight budget, but it's a little more than half of the gross weight of the A-10, so I'd guess it's roughly half, or 3,500kg or so. Which is definitely a step down in terms of weight and ability, but I guess the hope is that it will be cheaper to fly and maintain, particularly since it's based off the long-running Air Tractor AT-802 airframe. I think the other two planes in consideration, the EMB-314 Super Tucano and the AT-6B Wolverine, have fewer hard points (5 each) and lower maximum take-off weights (5,400kg and 2,948kg, respectively).

  • TIL Cessna made a budget Fighter Jet using Cessna jet engines and other Cessna parts.

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  • Is Google Training AI on YouTube Videos?

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  • But really it’s just stealing with extra steps.

    Accurate.

  • Tumblr to move its half a billion blogs to WordPress

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  • yahoo

    Nowadays, I don't know that they could, but more than a decade ago they still had enough mail and search users to be somewhat relevant, and Marissa Meyer had just taken over after she left Google. There was a real thought that Yahoo! could so something new. It obviously didn't pan out, but for a hot minute, people really talked about Yahoo!

  • Climate scientists flee Twitter [to Mastodon] as hostility surges

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  • What sort of stuff do you like? Maybe some folks can make some good recommendations to jump-start a more interesting experience.

    Recommendations and boosts from other users are how I've discovered interesting people there, and at this point, my feed feels just as full as my old twitter feed.

    If you like news, a lot of breaking news is happening on Mastodon much more accurately and faster than on Twitter. There are a LOT of publications on there now, here are a few off the top of my head:

    There are a lot more local news sources too, so depending on where you live, you can probably follow news for your specific area. The account @FediFollows@social.growyourown.services regularly bundles up follow suggestions for different regions, interests, and topics. If you go that account and search for a hashtag (i.e., #texas) you'll get a lot of active and high-quality local accounts to follow.

  • TIL Cessna made a budget Fighter Jet using Cessna jet engines and other Cessna parts.

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  • It looks like the Scorpion was not selected by the USAF for the light-strike or patrolling craft role, in favor of pursuing turboprop options (Beechcraft AT-6 Wolverine and Embraer EMB-314 Super Tucano).

  • Fighting Sexual Temptation? Play Badminton, Hong Kong Tells Teenagers.

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  • Tumblr to move its half a billion blogs to WordPress

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  • Like, two owners ago. Wordpress took Tumblr off Verizon's hands for $3 million USD, ~six years after Yahoo! bought it for $1.1 billion.

  • Tesla's self-driving is still not working in Boring Company's one-way tunnels

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  • Oh, gotcha, and 100% that. Didn't he eventually admit that his phoney-baloney Hyperloop design was just an attempt to undermine California HSR? What a cancer that dude has become.

  • Tesla's self-driving is still not working in Boring Company's one-way tunnels

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  • Elon started this just to push better forms of public transit out more Tesla cars.

    FTFY. If Musk wanted better transit this would have been a tram or train, and it would serve the whole strip and the airport.

  • US grid adds batteries at 10x the rate of natural gas in first half of 2024

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  • This is even more impressive when you realize that in some regions of the country, power companies are adding zero renewables. TVA, the biggest power provider in the country, is all-in on natural gas, allegedly because its board members get incentives from natural gas providers and refuse to expand predicted demand with solar, wind, or forced geothermal.

  • Drivers Hate The Tech In Their Cars

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  • then you see how easy it is to open up a car with a traditional lock using one of those shims

    True. As far as I can tell, most competent thieves can get in most cars, and it's trivially easy to break the window out anyway with small tools. I'm not even sure of car alarms deter thieves anymore. The real deterrence is the interlock that prevents them from taking anymore than your stereo or loose change, and the interlock/transponder doesn't require a fob.

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    Supreme court declines to expedite decision on Trump’s immunity claim in 2020 election case

    www.theguardian.com /us-news/2023/dec/22/supreme-court-trump-immunity-claim-2020-election-case
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    Biden pardons all offenses of simple possession/use of marijuana (even those not yet prosecuted)

    www.whitehouse.gov /briefing-room/presidential-actions/2023/12/22/a-proclamation-on-granting-pardon-for-the-offense-of-simple-possession-of-marijuana-attempted-simple-possession-of-marijuana-or-use-of-marijuana/
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    Rudy Giuliani files for bankruptcy in Manhattan

    www.nydailynews.com /2023/12/21/rudy-giuliani-files-for-chapter-11-bankruptcy-protection-in-manhattan/
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    Colorado Supreme Court justices face a flood of threats after disqualifying Trump from the ballot

    www.nbcnews.com /politics/donald-trump/colorado-justices-face-flood-threats-disqualifying-trump-ballot-rcna130720
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    Colorado Supreme Court disqualifies Trump from ballot

    www.cpr.org /2023/12/19/colorado-supreme-court-disqualifies-trump-from-ballot/
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    In 2000, Clarence Thomas was deep in debt, complained about not having enough money, and talked about resigning from the Supreme Court. Then the lavish gifts began to flow.

    www.propublica.org /article/clarence-thomas-money-complaints-sparked-resignation-fears-scotus
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    New York’s Rich Condo Buyers Risk Losing Secrecy Cloak of LLCs

    news.bloomberglaw.com /business-and-practice/new-yorks-rich-condo-buyers-risk-losing-secrecy-cloak-of-llcs
  • Fuck Cars @lemmy.ml
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    NYC MTA sets Manhattan congestion price at $15 for most vehicles, just one MTA vote left before the first congestion pricing in North America

    www.planetizen.com /news/2023/12/126689-nyc-mta-approves-congestion-pricing-details
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    Last week, for the first time ever, a commercial offshore wind farm delivered power to the US grid

    apnews.com /article/offshore-wind-farm-orsted-eversource-biden-south-fork-new-york-a94722b3f4a52e93580ad15a2de257a0