2022-04-06

Cool

• Language of fungi derived from their electrical spiking activity | Hacker News

  • My personal speculation is that neurons evolved from fungi infected fat cells; there's symbiotic fungi in some plant species that are systemic and beneficial... can't be faffed to look up references atm.

etc

• Helium is again in short supply

• Families Of Waverly Flood Victims Sue CSX | radio NWTN

• US warship was chased by two car-size ‘balls of light’ UFOs

• UFOs left radiation burns and unaccounted for pregnancies new Pentagon report

• "17 year old plane," landed safely 2nd try. Unresponsive Air France Boeing 777 Aborts Landing In Paris

Horseshit

• Some women shared the messages they get on Instagram. It’s not pretty

• Baseball Is Dying. The Government Should Take It Over

celebrity gossip

• Noam Chomsky: “We’re approaching the most dangerous point in human history”

Musk / Twitter

• Musk joins Twitter board in deal that prevents him from buying majority stake

• Elon Musk to join Twitter’s board of directors | Hacker News

• Twitter is adding an edit button

• Twitter Building Edit Feature

• Twitter working on edit button but says idea did not come from Elon Musk

• 'Free speech absolutist,' Elon Musk has a history of retaliation

• 'Free Speech Absolutist' Elon Musk Censors Employees, Critics

• King Shit - Pirate Wires

Rank Propaganda / Thought Policing / World Disordering

• India Bans YouTube Channels with 2.6B Views for Misinfo

• For Love of the Boot – Professor Ornery Dragon

• Pintrest to Ban Climate Misinformation

• Fox News viewers paid $15/hour to watch CNN changed their views after 30 days

• Scott Ritter account suspended from Twitter

COVID / VaxCult

• China Variants and Omicron XE Put Fresh Focus on Covid Mutations

• 26M people in lockdown after thousands of asymptomatic Omicron cases in Shanghai

• Covid-19: Why has China not attained herd immunity despite high vaccination?

• China can prepare to end its zero-COVID policy

• New crop of Covid-19 mRNA vaccines could be easier to store, cheaper to use

• BA.2 Is Here. Does Anyone Care?

• The Cost of Zero Covid in Shanghai

• African Union, Covax Refuse To Buy More Vaccines From Moderna As Demand Plummets

• Ophthalmic Manifestations of Coronavirus (Covid-19)

• Two years on, we can no longer accept so many children off school because of Covid

• random comment:

  I'm pretty sure no vaccine in history has ever protected against infection. How would that even work?

Culture War / Tribal / Re segregation

• Palm Springs, CA commits $200k to provide a universal income for trans residents

• Researchers Found Puberty Blockers And Hormones Didn’t Improve Trans Kids’ Mental Health At Their Clinic. Then They Published A Study Claiming The Opposite.

• Liberals Freak out Over Being Called 'Groomers' – RedState

Edumacationalizing / Acedemia Nuts

• Accusations of racism and harassment cause battle between Stanford and Cal profs

TechSuck

• Closure of 3M chip coolant plant could upset semiconductor sector: analysts

• Council's electric vehicle chargers hacked to show porn site

• The majority of Atlassian cloud services have been down for for over 24 hours

• Breaking PCBs for Science - News - SparkFun Electronics

Crypto con games

• Worldcoin Promised Free Crypto If They Scanned Their Eyeballs with “The Orb”

• Sky Mavis Raises $150M to Help Reimburse User Losses Stemming from Hack

  The 56,000 ETH compromised from the Axie DAO treasury will remain undercollateralized as Sky Mavis works with law enforcement to recover the funds. If the funds are not fully recovered within two years, the Axie DAO will vote on next steps for the treasury. We believe that Axie will go down in history as the first game to imbue players with true digital property rights and recent events have only strengthened this conviction.

• MicroStrategy Buys More Bitcoin with Bitcoin-Backed Loan

• Official Formula 1 NFT Game Shuts Down, Tokens Are Now Practically Worthless

Economicon / Business / Finance

• World may be on cusp of new inflationary era, BIS central bank group says

• Developers flood Arizona with homes even as historic Western drought intensifies

• U.S. stops Russian bond payments, raising risk of default

• The future of the dollar - Fin-Fi (finance fiction) and Putin's war

• Personal Savings Has Fallen Off a Cliff - by Eric Soda

• Ukraine War Sparks Global Scramble for Cooking Oils

• 30-year fixed mortgage crosses 5%

Gubmint / Poilitcks / Law Making

• Heated Exchange Between Gaetz & Pentagon Chief On Russia, China: "I'm Embarrassed By Your Leadership!" | ZeroHedge

• White House to extend student loan pause through August

• Senate Judiciary Committee Deadlocks on SCOTUS Nominee, Jackson Won't Get Favorable Recommendation

• Corporate Profits are Soaring as Prices Rise: Are Corporate Greed and Profiteering Fueling Inflation?

Hunter

• Washington Post Admits What We Already Knew

• “Lets See How We Can Be Helpful”: Joe Biden Wrote Letter to Help One of Hunter’s Foreign Contacts – JONATHAN TURLEY

Law Breaking / Police / Internal Security

• The Justice Department announced today the seizure of Hydra Market

• John Durham, Michael Sussmann, and the Broader Clinton Conspiracy

• Police Records Show Women Are Being Stalked with Apple AirTags Across Country

World

• Israel foils 15 attacks in 2 weeks deadly wave

• Inflation Protests Erupt Across Peru As President Imposes Curfew, Calls In Military

• Elon Musk's Starlink Loses Frequencies in France

  • French court annuls license granted to Musk's Starlink

  • French court pulls SpaceX's Starlink license

• Imran Khan: What we know so far as PM’s fate hangs in balance

• In stunning reversal, protests leave Sri Lanka’s ruling dynasty teetering

• Nigerian humanist jailed for 24 years after pleading guilty to blasphemy

Health / Medicine

• Canada will soon offer doctor-assisted death to the mentally ill

• It's Time to Start Studying the Downside of Psychedelics

Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda

• IPCC: We can tackle climate change if big oil gets out of the way

• Every ambitious tech company will eventually have a "Head of Climate"

etc

• Stop Saying Ukraine Is Winning the Information War

• Ukrainian Nuclear Disaster Scientist Talks Worst-Case Wartime Scenarios

• NATO: Russia Regrouping To Try To Take Ukraine's East | ZeroHedge

• Ukrainian Hackers Take World First Responsibility for Russian Scada Hack

• Why Russia is losing this war

• Is Russia’s Invasion a Case of Coercive Diplomacy Gone Wrong?

• US fighting Russia 'to the last Ukrainian': veteran US diplomat – The Grayzone

• Intel Suspends Operations in Russia

• Ukraine Receives Tanks From Czech Republic After Reports Of US 'Quietly' Assisting

• Europe To Cap Potash Imports As Planting Season Begins  | ZeroHedge

• 'We Became Like a Big Startup.' How Kyiv Adapted the City's Tech to Save Lives

• Russian tourists stranded in Asia are running out of cash

• ‘Bucha incident’ not to be used as pretext for inflaming situation: Global Times editorial.

• New witness testimony about Mariupol maternity hospital ‘airstrike’ follows pattern of Ukrainian deceptions, media malpractice

• The Bucha Provocation

• EU to propose import ban on Russia coal, chemicals, wood -source

• EU avoids imposing sanctions on Russian oil, despite war crimes in Ukraine

• The U.S. Has Its Own Agenda Against Russia

• Total News Blackout: US General Captured Leading Azov Nazis in Mariupol (confirmations coming in)

  Our sources on the ground report that the last two helicopters trying to evacuate foreign VIPs from Mariupol were shot down this morning. They were sent on a suicide mission to collect Lt.General Coultier, who was, we are told, hiding in a huge industrial complex with some Special Forces staffers and about 30 Ukrainian Army, not Azov, soldiers. This hours old story from Tass is below.

• PolitiFact | No, NATO Allied Land Command leader wasn’t captured by Russians in Ukraine

• Russia Skirts Default After Dollar-Bond Payment Rejected

• Russian cosmonauts were not making a pro-Ukraine statement with their spacesuits

• Russian Oligarch Charged with Violating U.S. Sanctions

• Yandex CEO relocates to Israel over Ukraine: 'Cannot work for a country at war'