2021-11-30

Cool

• Mythic white sperm whale captured on film near Jamaica

• Benzene | Azimuth

Worthy

• US public health problems which are more serious than Corona-chan

• America Against America: the Chinese de Tocqueville | Locklin on science

  Mind you: the morons described by Bloom and Wang are now professors in the universities and high officials in government. They’re still ignorant pustules, now responsible for creating ever more callow gelded toads to infest the crumbling halls of American power.

• Earth Alienation As A Service - by L. M. Sacasas

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• Researchers Find Finger Snap Has Highest Acceleration the Human Body Produces

• NASA postpones spacewalk over 'debris' alert

• Pfizer Is Lobbying to Thwart Whistleblowers from Exposing Corporate Fraud

• Camel beauty contests take center stage at a celebration of Bedouin culture

• More than a third of world’s population have never used internet, says UN

Horseshit

• Renault Unveils Flying Car For Travel On Sky Highways  | ZeroHedge

  • Renault teaches the 4 how to fly for its 60th birthday

• Inside the bizarre world of TikTok's 'timeline shifters | Daily Mail Online

• Why cryptocurrency miners pose the next big threat to the Texas electric grid

• USPS Priority Mail Small Flat Rate Sized Tungsten Block - Element Block | OpenSea

  With the purchase of this NFT, we will transfer ownership of the physical 8 ⅝” x 5 ⅜” x 1 ⅝” tungsten block. A USPS Small Flat Rate shipping box filled with a solid block of tungsten is an object most adults can barely lift, and kids strain to nudge across a smooth surface. The entire package weighs 48.5lbs. It's right at the brink of human strength. Any bigger, most people wouldn’t be able to move it.

• Companies are increasingly using automated video interviews to assess candidates

celebrity gossip

• The FAA disclosed over 2k flight records associated with Jeffrey Epstein's jets

• 'Partner In Crime': Maxwell Prosecution Opens With Sordid Details Of Epstein Sexual Predation | ZeroHedge

• Why Russia's mania for Elon Musk just keeps on growing

COVID / VaxCult

• Canada calls for international pandemic treaty summit, second in history

• BBC: Vaccine Booster Schedule Accelerated to 3 Months

• Omicron Variant Rattled the World in One Week

• Israel’s spy agency will track Omicron patients’ phones, at least thru Thursday

• MM: Omicron Variant

• Moderna boss says vaccines likely no match for Omicron

  + [Omicron variant likely to resist Covid vaccines, warns Moderna
    CEO](https://www.euronews.com/next/2021/11/30/omicron-variant-likely-to-resist-covid-vaccines-warns-moderna-ceo)
  

  • Moderna chief predicts existing vaccines will struggle with Omicron

  • Markets Freak Out Again After Moderna CEO Repeats That Vaccine Won't Work For Omicron

• Covid Parenting Is Reaching a Breaking Point

• Scientists Square Off over Covid, Wuhan, and Peter Daszak

• US preps vaccine contingencies amid panic over poorly understood omicron

• Covid-19: Ventilation in Buildings

• We don’t need universal booster shots. We need to reach the unvaccinated. - The Washington Post

• Continued mass vaccination will only push the evolutionary capacity of SARS-CoV2

• Omicron variant in Netherlands earlier than thought

• Rights groups petition Israel's top court over Omicron phone tracking

• Will omicron be more contagious than delta? What researchers know

• BioNTech CEO Says Vaccines Likely Protect from Worst of Omicron

• UK’s minimum gap for Covid booster jabs to be halved to three months

• Anthony Fauci: I Am the Science

• FDA panel to discuss emergency use authorization for Merck COVID-19 pill.

• The Pfizer vaccine: ‘a once-in-an-epoch windfall’ Archive link

• A Princeton campus protest against Covid restrictions

• Jason Abaluck writes me about masks and the Bangladesh RCT study

• Covid: First signs that vaccine protects against Omicron – health minister

• Omicron variant was in Europe before South African scientists alerted world

Culture War / Re segregation / Identdoctrination

• Social Justice Advocates vs the Left-Leaning “Anti-Woke” Community

• Conservatives outraged over old tweet from Twitter CEO quoting 'The Daily Show'

• "It's not peaches and cream either for men"

  when I came across Crossing the Divide, four accounts of transgender men who have experienced life being treated as women and now living as men, I was fascinated.

• Making people aware of their implicit biases doesn’t usually change minds

• Landlords are less likely to reply to applicants with Black and Latino names

• Salvation Army Issues Sorry, Not Sorry Statement, Withdraws Racist Guide “For Appropriate Review”

• The First Privilege Walk – Nonsite.org

  How Herbert Marcuse’s widow used a Scientology-linked cult’s methodology to gamify Identity Politics and thus helped steer the U.S. Left down the dead-end path of identitarian psychobabble.

• Study: Stereotypes Affect Girls' Interest in STEM Subjects as Early as Age 6

• The Waukesha killer/racist: down the memory hole – The New Neo

• A Tale of Two Cities: Kenosha vs. Waukesha › American Greatness

Edumacationalizing / Acedemia Nuts

• School pulls event with former Islamic State sex slave, fearing 'Islamophobia'

• Alumni Withhold Donations over Free Speech

• Campus Reform | UPDATE: Rittenhouse no longer enrolled in ASU Online ahead of protest demanding the 'violent blood-thirsty murderer' be removed

Media / Many Ministries of Truths / Censorship

• 'We Make Mistakes': Twitter's Embrace of the Extreme Far Right

• GOG is losing money and refocusing on ‘handpicked selection of games’ - The Verge

• Movie theatres must 'urgently' rethink the experience, a study says

• FUMING POTATO: Brian Stelter says Biden meme makers need to be 'combatted' | The Post Millennial

• Forza Horizon 5 bans and nerfs ask if a game is ours to play how we want

Twitter

• Will Twitter Become an Ocean of Suck?

• Without Dorsey around Twitter will turn on free speech

• Jack Dorsey Was the Soul of Twitter

• Who Is Parag Agrawal, Twitter’s New CEO?

• Twitter Has a New CEO; What About a New Business Model?

• Expanding our private information policy to include media

  When we are notified by individuals depicted, or by an authorized representative, that they did not consent to having their private image or video shared, we will remove it. This policy is not applicable to media featuring public figures or individuals when media and accompanying Tweet text are shared in the public interest or add value to public discourse.

  The misuse of private media can affect everyone, but can have a disproportionate effect on women, activists, dissidents, and members of minority communities.

  + [HN thread](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29392314)
  
  + [Twitter bans sharing images/videos of private individuals without
  

  their consent](https://twitter.com/disclosetv/status/1465683993869828097)

  • Twitter will not allow sharing of images without subject’s consent

Facebook

• UK regulators tell Facebook to sell Giphy

  • U.K. regulators order Facebook-owner Meta to sell Giphy

• The leader of Facebook’s stalled cryptocurrency project is leaving the company

TechSuck

• Ask HN: Are there any 4K “dumb” televisions?

• Ex-Google workers sue company, saying it betrayed 'Don't Be Evil' motto

• Tesla Model Y Switches from Intel to AMD Ryzen Processors

• Panasonic admits intruders got inside its servers for months

• Intel Is Maintaining Legacy Technology for Security Research

• Users revolt as Microsoft bolts a short-term financing app onto Edge

• Ask HN: Has Google search become quantitatively worse?

• The US C-Band Spectrum Saga, Explained - Payload

Economicon

• Satya Nadella Sells Half of His Shares in Microsoft

• What Uber’s Spies Did

• Workers Quit Jobs in Droves to Become Their Own Bosses

• Union Vote at Amazon Warehouse in Alabama Is Overturned by Regional Labor Office

• Private equity’s biggest Ponzi scheme

• The Next Austin? How About Arkansas. Seriously

• Elon Musk says SpaceX faces ‘genuine risk of bankruptcy’ from Starship engine

  • HN thread

  • Musk tells employees that Starship engine crisis creating a risk of bankruptcy

  • Elon Musk says Raptor engine production is a ‘disaster’; risks SpaceX bankruptcy

• O’Toole: No, inflation is not ‘good for you’ – Complete Colorado – Page Two

• Supply Chain Problems Have Small Retailers Gambling on Hoarding

• "Team Transitory" Is Dead After Powell Says "Time To Retire Word Transitory Regarding Inflation"

Gubmint / Poilitcks

• With Kamala Harris looking unelectable, the Democrats are considering the nuclear option

• Steve Bannon Wants All Documents Related to His Contempt Charges Made Public, Which Biden's DOJ is Desperately Resisting.

Law / Crime / Police

• Community policing found to be ineffective in improving trust or reducing crime

Security / Militaria / Diplomania

• Shadow war in space is heating up fast

World

• ChinaCables leak is identical subset of Xinjiang Papers reported by NYT in 2019

• South Korea will use VR to determine if the elderly can keep driving

• China Is Winning the Big Data War, Thanks to Xi

• Russia threatens criminal charges against a NASA astronaut

• The English turned Barbados into a slave society. After 396 years, we’re free

Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda

• Satellites Reveal Arctic Rivers are Changing Faster Than We Thought

• Climate action can lessen poverty and inequality worldwide

• "Slow Disaster Playing Out" As Germany Moves To Shut Down 8.5 GW Of Baseload Nuclear Capacity

• Arctic Ocean started getting warmer decades earlier than we thought

• How ‘Climate Migrants’ Are Roiling American Politics - POLITICO