2022-04-01

April fools

• Hackers Leak Lichess Source Code

• Friday Facts #369 – To the Moon

• LoveStack – matchmaking service based on your reading preferences

Cool

• Finding Waldo in π | Hacker News

• Polar Coordinate Etch-a-Sketch - mitxela.com

Worthy

• A few things to know before stealing my 914 - Hagerty Media

  This is a Porsche 914. It has a mid-engine layout. The transmission is in the far back of the car, and the shift linkage’s main component is a football-field long steel rod formed loosely in the shape of your lower intestine. Manipulating the gear shift lever will deliver vague suggestions to this rod, which, in turn, will tickle small parts deep within the dark bowels of the transaxle case. It is akin to hitting a bag of gears with a stick, hopefully finding one that works.

• Why I don't believe in long-term thinking

etc

• San Francisco Bay Area residents are growing even more dissatisfied, poll says

• Fujifilm to Hike Film Prices by Up to 60% in April 2022: Report

• Why have female animals evolved such wild genitals? | Hacker News

• Information could be the fifth state of matter

• Plane departing from Salt Lake shatters windshield mid-flight

• The Dying Art of Driving a Stick Shift

Horseshit

• In Greece: Mother, 33, is charged with killing her nine-year-old daughter with ketamine

celebrity gossip

• They were still bad performances, even if there was a good reason for them. Razzies Rescind Bruce Willis's Award

Rank Propaganda / Thought Policing / World Disordering

• “We all Hope Clarence Thomas Dies”: UCLA Faces New Free Speech Controversy Over Social Media – JONATHAN TURLEY

Hunter

• iTWire - Ex-NSA man may face Democrat ire over investigating Hunter Biden emails

  "At a later date, I may be able to discuss the specifics of the forensics and look forward to the ability to do so. But even then, it's worth noting that I won't ever be talking about Hunter's specific data, because to be frank, I never viewed the vast majority of it. "My analysis targeted questions of provenance, actions taken by others on the drive, and evidence of manipulation by external parties."

• What New Hunter Biden Revelations Are Coming Down The Pike? « Lawrence Person's BattleSwarm Blog

• Hunter Biden Laptop Revelations Uncover Depth of Institutional Corruption

COVID / VaxCult

• We Need to Clarify the Goal of Our Covid Booster Strategy

• Covid symptoms are reduced by targeted hydration of the nose, larynx and trachea

• Into the wild: Animals the latest frontier in Covid fight

• “This shouldn’t happen”: Inside the virus-hunting nonprofit EcoHealth Alliance | Hacker News

• Trial finds Ivermectin useless against Covid

• Many Teens Report Physical and Emotional Abuse by Parents During Lockdown

• Pregnant people at much higher risk of breakthrough covid, study shows - The Washington Post

  The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has been urging people to get coronavirus shots before or during pregnancy, seeking to dispel fear — widespread in some communities, without scientific basis — that those vaccinations could be harmful.

• Fauci Flashback: "The Most Potent Vaccination Is Getting Infected Yourself" | ZeroHedge

• Omicron appears to be recombining between sublineages at a high rate

• Judge Blocks COVID-19 Vaccine Mandate for Navy.

Culture War / Tribal / Re segregation

• Washington first state with an alert system for missing Indigenous people

• White House: ‘Early’ Trans Surgeries, Hormones Are ‘Crucial’ for Kids

• Oberlin College Loses Its Appeal

Edumacationalizing / Acedemia Nuts

• The Low-Hanging Fruit Argument: Models And Predictions

• BREAKING: Fourth grade teacher arrested, charged with attempted rape of two children | The Post Millennial

Media / ShowBiz / Advertising

• Facebook “Bug” Resulted in Boosted Misinformation for Six Months

  The flaw in the News Feed’s ranking algorithm elevated misinformation, violence, and the Russian state media outlets Facebook pledged to downrank in response to President Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine to more than a billion people worldwide.

• Leaked document indicates Facebook may be underreporting images of child abuse

• Selling high-priced products to very few people

• Meta's A.I. exodus: Top talent quits as lab tries to keep pace with rivals

• Big Tech and the Beautiful Losers in Europe

TechSuck

• HN Jobs:

  • Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2022)

    • Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (April 2022)

  • Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (April 2022)

• Mystery solved in destructive attack that knocked out 10k Viasat modems

• abseil / The Danger of Atomic Operations

• Honda, Kawasaki, Suzuki and Yamaha form joint battery-swapping company for EVs

• Viasat confirms satellite modems were wiped with AcidRain malware

  "The threat actor used the KA-SAT management mechanism in a supply-chain attack to push a wiper designed for modems and routers," SentinelOne hypothesized. "A wiper for this kind of device would overwrite key data in the modem's flash memory, rendering it inoperable and in need of reflashing or replacing."

  This directly contradicts a Viasat incident report on the KA-SAT incident saying it found "no evidence of any compromise or tampering with Viasat modem software or firmware images and no evidence of any supply-chain interference." However, Viasat confirmed SentinelOne's hypothesis, saying the data destroying malware was deployed on modems using "legitimate management" commands.

Crypto con games

• You Can Safely Ignore Web3

• Elizabeth Warren Calls for US to Create a CBDC

Economicon / Business / Finance

• Millennials have almost no chance of being able to afford a house

• The Reason Young People Can’t Afford a Home

• The 2-yr/10-yr treasury yields curve has inverted

  • U.S. 2s/10s Treasury yield curve inverts again

  • 2-year Treasury yield tops 10-year rate, a signal for possible future recession

• Federal Reserve warns of “brewing U.S. housing bubble”

• General Average Declared for Ever Forward After Unsuccesful Attempts to Refloat the Ship

  General Average is a maritime law principle requiring that the shipowner and cargo interests proportionately share in the costs associated with rescuing a vessel after a major casualty. When GA is declared, cargo owners are required to contribute to a GA fund before their cargo can be released. Evergreen also declared General Average following the grounding of the Ever Given in the Suez Canal.

• Why I believe a freight recession is imminent - FreightWaves

  We were turning down 4 loads for every truck a year ago. Today, we are barely keeping our trucks running.

• "Fertilizer Is Out Of Control" - US Farmers Ditch Corn For Soy To Save On Costs  | ZeroHedge

• Stocks in China Suffer Worst Quarter in Years

• Strong job growth in March, economy picks up 431,000 jobs

• Energy price: Bill shock for millions as rises hit

• Key Fed inflation gauge jumps 5.4% in February, biggest gain since 1983.

• Amazon Workers Vote to Unionize in Stunning Win for Organized Labor

• 100% of excessive inflation is due to bad monetary policy

Gubmint / Poilitcks / Law Making

• Biden's Massive SPR Release "Does Not Resolve" Upside Risks, Goldman Warns As It Hikes 2023 Oil Price Target To $115 | ZeroHedge

• Seven Decades Later, the 1950 Census Bares Its Secrets

  • 1950 Census Records | National Archives

• US House passes Bill to limit cost of insulin to $35/mo

• The US House of Representatives has voted to decriminalize marijuana

• Another January 6th 'Bombshell' Conspiracy Crumbles – PJ Media

  CNN thus deemed the switchboard logs for January 6, 2021, to be “complete based on an official review of White House records” and found “there are no missing pages and the seven-hour gap is likely explained by use of White House landlines, White House cell phones and personal cell phones that do not go through the switchboard.”

Law Breaking / Police / Internal Security

• Corruption Is Endemic | Power Line

• Transcript: the Michael Sussmann hearing - by Techno Fog

• Judges strike down Tennessee law allowing warrantless searches by state wildlife officials

External Security / Militaria / Diplomania

• Insights for Marine (and Beyond) Force Design from the Russo-Ukrainian War

• The Return of Pax Americana? Putin’s War Is Fortifying the Democratic Alliance

• What We Can Learn From Russia's Debacle – PJ Media

  If there’s any lesson in this for Washington, it must be to ask: how much of America’s power is myth like Russia’s? Dare we collapse the wave function? If too much is spin then put it not to the test, but keep on bluffing until the reality is restored. You can’t live in the narrative forever.

World

• French intelligence chief Vidaud fired over Russian war failings

• Baby dies after treatment delayed by Israeli blockade of Gaza

• The World’s Deadliest War Isn’t in Ukraine, but in Ethiopia

• Number of people who left Canada in the 4th annual quarter at almost 50-year high

• Finnish president says NATO referendum no longer necessary

  NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg may have assured Niinistö in last week’s talks that NATO is convinced that public support for membership already exists.

Health / Medicine

• Fine Particulate Matter Exposure from Secondhand Cannabis Bong Smoking

Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda

• The Ocean Is Having Trouble Breathing

• African wild dogs 'sneeze to vote'

Ukraine War

• The problem with the Donbas

• Ukrainian Mi-24 Attack Helicopters Fly Daring Cross-Border Strike On Russia

  Belgorod sits roughly just 18 miles north of the border with Ukraine, but there are a huge amount of Russian forces arrayed between there and Kharkiv, Ukraine's second-largest city, which has been under assault from Russian forces since the war began. The possible fact that lowly Mi-24s were able to infiltrate Russia in such a heavily militarized area to make such a brazen attack would be a damning indictment of Russia's air defense capabilities. That area would be especially heavily populated by layers of air defense systems, including many short-range units that are specifically designed to target and engage low-flying helicopters in any conditions.

  • Ukrainian Forces Reportedly Blow Up Fuel Depot On Russian Territory In "Daring Cross-Border Attack" | ZeroHedge

  • Russian logistics hub ablaze, Moscow blames Ukraine for cross-border raid

etc

• Russians leaving Chernobyl after radiation exposure

• Russian conscripts say they've been 'thrown into the shitt!' with 1940s rifles on Ukraine frontline | Daily Mail Online

• Russian Troops Suffer Acute Radiation Sickness After Digging Chernobyl Trenches

• DJI rejects claim that it leaks data to Russia on Ukrainian military positions

• Invasion of Ukraine: not the first social media war, but the most viral

• Explainer: What would paying for natural gas in rubles mean?

• Tory MPs lobby No 10 to let royal family use seized Russian superyacht

• There Is No Liberal World Order

• Over 40k Syrians reportedly register to fight for Russia in Ukraine

• Why Russia’s military is bogged down by logistics in Ukraine

• In Major Escalation, Germany Approves Delivery Of Infantry Carrier 'Tanks' To Ukraine

• Russia threatens Wikipedia with a fine if it doesn't remove page about the war

• China accused of hacking Ukraine days before Russian invasion