2021-11-29

Cool

• Show HN: Factorio Blueprint Visualizer

• (Jan 2019) 4x Quantum3D Obsidian 2 200SBi – an 8x Voodoo GPU bodge and restoration

• Weather Modification Project Reports

  As part of Public Law 92-205 (1972), all non-Federal weather modification activities must be reported to the U.S. Secretary of Commerce, via the NOAA Weather Program Office. Below is a list of these reports and is updated on an annual basis.

Worthy

• Almost everyone should be less afraid of lawsuits - LessWrong

• Long, detailed: Is Technological Progress Slowing? - by Matt Clancy - What's New Under the Sun

etc

• Overdue book returned anonymously to Idaho library 111 years later

• Large asteroid stronger than nuke heading towards Earth late December.

• Nobody builds hospitals anymore.

• Man Survives Flight from Guatemala to Miami in Plane’s Landing Gear

• Deaf football team falls short of state championship after undefeated season

  The California School for the Deaf in Riverside will not get to play in a state championship. The team fell 74-22 to Faith Baptist Saturday night at the CIF Southern Section Division 2 championship. Until then, the school had been undefeated, winning all 11 games against hearing teams. Last week, the Cubs Varsity football team won the division champion game, which a first in the school's 68-year history.

Horseshit

• The benefits of not joining the Great Resignation - BBC Worklife

• Could AI turn on us, or is natural stupidity a greater threat to humanity?

celebrity gossip

• Maurene Comey: James Comey's Daughter Co-Leading Ghislaine Case

  • The Ghislaine Maxwell Trial Starting Today Will Not Be Livestreamed | ZeroHedge

Obit

• Renowned fashion designer Virgil Abloh dies at 41 after a private battle with cancer

• Justo Gallego, the monk who build his own cathedral from scrap, has died

COVID / VaxCult

• Update on Omicron

  • HN thread

• Why don’t we just open the windows? covid19 prevention lost in translation

• Go get your vaccine, especially with Omicron

• Voters again endorse Swiss government’s pandemic policy

• Omicron Is "Extremely Mild" Says Doctor Who First Discovered Strain As Numerous Mutations "Destabilize" The Virus | ZeroHedge

• Flight from South Africa to Atlanta diverted for “technical specifications”

• Germany: Dozens take illegal mystery Covid vaccine before police shut it down

• Omicron cases found in Canada, UK; experts warn new variant could be in US undetected: Latest COVID updates

• Covid hospitalisations have tripled in Gauteng (SA) over the last 2 weeks

• Omicron poses high global risk, world must prepare -WHO

• With Delta having an R_0 = 5-6 the R_0 of Omicron would be around 10-30

• Why Omicron quickly became a variant of concern

• Dutch police arrest couple trying to flee quarantine for Spain

• Omicron variant now in North America, Canadian officials say

• What to do about Covid-19’s threatening new variant

• The WHO skips forward two Greek letters, avoiding a Xi variant

  • from comments:

  WHO said it was because Xi was a common last name. But I can confirm Xi isn’t a common Chinese last name. It ranks 332 by population,

  The Chinese last name Mu ranks 98 by population. We didn’t see WHO do anything about it.

• Covid viral loads in wastewater in Pretoria, South Africa

• Moderna says an omicron variant vaccine could be ready in early 2022

• Omicron is descended from an early, mostly dead branch of SARS-CoV-2

• Hunt for coronavirus variants: how the new one was found, what we know so far

• Uncontrolled HIV could “become a factory of variants for the whole world”

• The New Covid Drugs Are a Bigger Deal Than People Realize

• Scientist now believes Covid started in Wuhan’s wet market. Here’s why

• (Feb 2020) The Industrially Necessary Doctor Tedros

• How Did the New Variant Get Its Name?

• Why Uruguay's Schoolchildren Are Doing So Well in the Pandemic

• Japan Joins Growing List Of Countries Closing Borders As More Omicron Cases Detected Globally

• NYT update on vaccine efficacy

• Biden says lockdown not part of US’s winter Covid plan

• To protest Covid mandates, CA town declared itself a ‘constitutional republic’

• Covid: All UK adults to be offered booster jab

• Rapid Vitamin D Supplementation May Present Better Outcomes in Covid-19

• Israel Bans All Foreigners Except Beautiful Women Due to Omicron Variant

• Biden Promises US Will Develop Boosters Targeting Omicron Variant, Fauci Says New Lockdowns "Unlikely"

• Media Says Rise in Football Players Suddenly Collapsing is a “Coincidence” – Summit News

Culture War / Re segregation / Identdoctrination

• Miss Nevada Will Be the First Transgender Miss USA Contestant

• Noncompliance with Masking as Coalitional Signal to US Conservatives in Pandemic

• Levi Strauss offered racial trauma specialist after Rittenhouse acquittal - TheBlaze

  • Kyle Rittenhouse update - Best Buy & Levi Strauss face boycott for offering employee counseling over not guilty verdict

• She’s Sitting Bullshit… Canadian Indigenous Leader Fired After Truth Emerges… – CITIZEN FREE PRESS

• Warhammer 40k: I rediscovered an old board game, but found its fans now include hate groups

Edumacationalizing / Acedemia Nuts

• The Fundamental Issue of Our Time - by C. Bradley Thompson - The Redneck Intellectual by C. Bradley Thompson

• “Rittenhouse Should Pay for his Crimes”: ASU Students Demand the Expulsion of Kyle Rittenhouse – JONATHAN TURLEY

Media / Many Ministries of Truths / Censorship

• ‘Misinformation’ Wars

Twitter

• Jack on Twitter: not sure anyone has heard but, I resigned from Twitter

  • HN thread

• Co-Founder Parag Agrawal to Be New CEO of Twitter – His Email to Jack

• Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey is expected to step down, sources say

• Twitter CTO Parag Agrawal Will Replace Jack Dorsey as CEO

• Jack Dorsey: Why might he be resigning?

• Jack Dorsey Expected to Step Down as CEO of Twitter

• Trading in Twitter halted with Jack Dorsey expected to quit; shares jump 10%

• Jack Dorsey steps down as Twitter chief executive

• Twitter founder Jack Dorsey expected to step down as chief executive – reports

• Parag Agrawal is new Twitter CEO

• Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey is stepping down

• Dorsey pushes back against founder-led companies in quit letter

• (Feb 2020) Republican mega-donor buys stake in Twitter and seeks to oust Jack Dorsey

• Jack Dorsey's Exit from Twitter Could Worsen Tech Censorship

Facebook

• UK regulator set to block Meta's Giphy deal

• Illinoisans still waiting on Facebook checks, but a billion users' faces deleted

• Ahead of the 2022 elections, Facebook’s toxicity is rearing its head again

TechSuck

• Samsung Bricks Smart TVs

• It's 2021 and someone's written a new Windows 3.x mouse driver

• T-Mobile CDMA network shutting down soon | Hacker News

• Oxide Computer's Rack Switch

  The primary network ASIC is an absolute monster, with the core rail alone requiring up to 500A peak current with a ridiculous load step and virtually no droop.

Economicon

• Black Friday Is Causing Toxic Traffic Jams at US Ports and Warehouses

• Online spending on Black Friday decreased for the first time

• It’s Not a Supply Chain Crisis — It’s a Failing Economy | by umair haque | Nov, 2021 | Eudaimonia and Co

• Nvidia at risk of $1.25bn loss if Arm takeover falls through

• Half of this year’s big IPOs are trading below listing price

• Elon Musk : Rushing and spending loads of money did not help deliver more cars

• The $5 billion hoard of metal the world wants but can’t have - MINING.COM

• Bitcoin and Electricity

Gubmint / Poilitcks

• Hunter Biden agreed to spread Chinese influence for $10 MILLION a year and an $80,000 diamond | Daily Mail Online

  • Joe Biden expected 10 percent cut in deal with a Chinese giant

• Sens. Cruz, Paul Blast "Astounding Authoritarian" Fauci For "I Am Science" Claim | ZeroHedge

• (Feb 2019) A Constitutional Convention is closer than you think

• DOT slammed over infrastructure meme with some saying it violates the law | Fox News

• Hospital Struggles To Treat 18 Waukesha Parade Victims Because Of Vaccine Mandate.

• Disney’s Influence on U.S. Copyright Law

• Modeling suggests friendships may lead to lopsided elections

• Biden's Build Back Better Wants to Save America's Child Care Business

Law / Crime / Police

• Antifa Member Who Took Axe to Senate Office Given Probation and his Axe Back – JONATHAN TURLEY

• Waukesha parade attack: 7 children still recovering in hospital one week after deadly ambush

  • Waukesha will hold a moment of silence Sunday, one week after a car plowed through Christmas parade

• (Oct 2021) Massachusetts gun-control legislation has had no effect on violent crime

• FBI Document Says the Feds Can Get Your WhatsApp Data – In Real Time

Security / Militaria / Diplomania

• As U.S. Hunts for Chinese Spies, University Scientists Warn of Backlash

• China’s use of refueling aircraft during recent Taiwan sortie raises concern

• As China menaces Taiwan, island's friends aid its secretive submarine project

World

• The Secretive Prisons That Keep Migrants Out of Europe

• The WHO is seeking a new treaty on handling future pandemics

• How China Managed to Wipe Out All Mentions of Its Most Explosive MeToo Case

• Chinese journalist jailed over Covid reporting is ‘close to death’, family say

Health / Medicine

• Could One Shot Kill the Flu?

Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda

• Madagascar: Severe drought could spur world’s first climate change famine

• Ancient kauri trees capture last collapse of Earth's magnetic field | Science | AAAS

• The Profound Junk Science of Climate – Watts Up With That?

• Codecarbon: Pip package to Track and reduce CO2 emissions from your computing

• Vancouver's TransLink offers public transit passes in exchange for old cars

• Weather Lulls: Germany Forced To Burn 20% More Coal, The Very Energy Source That’s To Be Phased Out – Watts Up With That?

• Satellite reveals Australian coal mines emit much more methane than expected

• Fact check: Is nuclear energy good for the climate?

• Nurdles: The worst toxic waste you’ve probably never heard of

• Interior Dept. Report on Drilling Is Mostly Silent on Climate Change