2022-04-13

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• Hubble Captures Largest Comet Ever Seen and It’s Headed This Way

• Neurodiverse Candidates Find Niche in Remote Cybersecurity Jobs

Horseshit

• Florida teen killed as boys took turn shooting with body armor on

• How to prevent the coming inhuman future - by Erik Hoel

• Mathematical model offers clear-cut answers to how morals will change over time

• Why American Teens Are So Sad

celebrity gossip

• Saudi Arabia Concluded Jared Kushner Was a Joke, Gave Him $2B

Musk / Twitter

• Elon Musk accused of breaking law while buying Twitter stock

• Twitter investor sues Elon Musk for failure to promptly disclose his shares

• Twitter bots helped cult of Elon Musk and Tesla. But who's creating them?

• Elon Musk suggests changes to Twitter's subscription service

Obit

• Famed aviator John Lear, 79, departs on ‘his next adventure’

Rank Propaganda / Thought Policing / World Disordering

• We've slipped from love-ins to hate-ins

• Scott Ritter: My Personal Experience in Twitter's Ongoing Assault on Free Speech

COVID / VaxCult

• Why Shanghai has done a U-turn on its ‘relaxed’ Covid approach

• (Nov 2021) Omicron is a reminder of how little we're doing on pandemic prevention

• Girls Are Developing GENITAL ULCERS After Getting the Pfizer Covid-19 Vaccine

• Economies face ‘long Covid’ threat as data shows rates surging

• Seven days, 18,000 deaths: A look at omicron’s deadliest week

• The Grief of 1M Covid Deaths Is Not Going Away

• Why It Is Hard to Know Who Needs a Covid Booster

• There's a drug to protect the most vulnerable from Covid-19

Culture War / Tribal / Re segregation

• Opinion: What I wish I’d known when I was 19 and had sex reassignment surgery

  • Woman's op-ed regretting sex re-assignment surgery draws strong media reaction

Edumacationalizing / Acedemia Nuts

• Sex and the Schools, or, An Essay You Don’t Want to Read

Media / ShowBiz / Advertising

• CNN+ struggles to lure viewers, drawing under 10k daily users

• Snapchat partners with 40 newsrooms to add real-time news automatically

• Twitter rolls back change, restoring the text of deleted embedded tweets

• Substack's Growth Spurt Brings Growing Pains

TechSuck

• Tim Cook delivers speech railing against “data industrial complex,” sideloading

• Moxie Marlinspike has stepped down as CEO of Signal

• The Scoop: Inside the Longest Atlassian Outage of All Time

  However, if they [restore backups], while the impacted ~400 companies would get back all their data, everyone else would lose all data committed since that point

Crypto con games

• Why Blockchain Is the Biggest Political Innovation Since Democracy

• The FBI’s takedown of Virgil Griffith for breaking sanctions, firsthand

  • Ethereum dev imprisoned for helping North Korea evade sanctions

  • US sentences crypto expert to 5 years after North Korea blockchain presentation | Hacker News

• Bitcoin fans are psychopaths who don’t care about anyone, study shows

• Jack Dorsey Quit Twitter to Become Bitcoin’s Spiritual Leader

• Insider Trading at Coinbase | Hacker News

• Nexo and MasterCard launch 'world first' crypto-backed payment card

• Eve Online’s success shows why gaming doesn’t need NFTs

• Ethereum transition to proof-of-stake delayed again

  • Ethereum transition to proof-of-stake delayed again, as is tradition

• Wikipedia community votes to stop accepting cryptocurrency donations

Economicon / Business / Finance

• CEO of Square, a financial payments company, says inflation worse than reported

• America’s Highest Earners and Their Taxes Revealed

• We're Not in a Recession

• Grocers Push Through Inflation, Passing Higher Prices to Shoppers.

  Consumers so far haven’t made big changes in how they shop, executives said, though they expect low-income shoppers to start buying fewer groceries later in the year.

• Producer prices rose 11.2% from a year ago in March, the biggest gain on record.

• Taiwan’s Hidden Shoe Giant - by Jon Y

• Why there are growing fears the U.S. is headed to a recession

• Amazon Adds 5% Fuel and Inflation Surcharge for Its Sellers

Gubmint / Poilitcks / Law Making

• John Oliver vows to unleash his “creepy” blackmail on Congress

• States urged to tighten security of elections, balloting.

• Biden expected to suspend E15 summer sales ban at Iowa ethanol plant

Law Breaking / Police / Internal Security

• 16 Injured, 10 Shot In Brooklyn Subway Station Attack; NYPD Says Active Shooter Not A Terrorist

  • Suspect at large after 10 shot at Brooklyn subway station

  • Social Media Posts From Person Of Interest In Connection To Subway Shooting Show Leftist Views: Report | The Daily Wire

  • Frank R. James ID'd as person of interest in Brooklyn subway shooting

  • Brooklyn subway shooting suspect was on FBI's terrorist radar until 2019 | Daily Mail Online

  • "Black Nationalist" Brooklyn Subway Shooting Suspect Frank James In Custody

  • Brooklyn shooting suspect Frank James arrested

• FBI Memos Suggest Agency Had Moles In Media | ZeroHedge

• L.A. gangs have sent out crews to follow and rob city’s wealthiest, LAPD says

• Seattle’s transit system struggles as riders refuse to pay: Almost 70% of passengers ride for free.

• Sex, Lies, and UFOs: Pentagon's Head of Counterintelligence and Security Ousted - The Debrief

• California Lawyer Quits over Allegation Newsom Meddled in Activision Case

• Brooklyn shooting suspect Frank James arrested

External Security / Militaria / Diplomania

• Mexico truckers protest new Texas inspections, halt trade at border bridges

• Snapchat partners with 40 newsrooms to add real-time news automatically

• Taibbi: Straight Out Of Dr. Strangelove | ZeroHedge

• The war next door: Conflict in Mexico is displacing thousands

• Finland and Sweden move closer to joining NATO | Hacker News

  • Finland debates joining NATO, possibly expanding alliance Putin hates

  • Sweden To Apply For NATO Membership - Finland To Decide "Within Weeks"

  • Finland to decide within ‘weeks’ whether to join NATO

  • Sweden’s PM wants to apply to join NATO at end of June

World

• Saudi Arabia leads OPEC decision to drop IEA data as US ties fray

• Clearing NHS backlog will take years, Glasgow doctor warns

• Things not being said about Chinese tech management

  Recently a founder mentioned to me that rather than adding headcount this year, they are planning to do more with their existing headcount. Just adding more people was causing more hassle than output, he said. That was refreshing to hear. I don’t think his thinking is unique amongst tech players large and small. In fact, the firing now might be long overdue from years of accumulated operational debt. A crisis is a terrible thing to waste

Health / Medicine

• As gonorrhea becomes untreatable, a repurposed vaccine may prevent it

• Cases of gonorrhea, syphilis rose nationally in 2020, CDC reports.

• Obscure Pregnancy Interventions: Much More Than You Wanted To Know

Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda

• CA asks Native American Tribes to help prevent wildfires with traditional burns

• Sunscreen chemicals accumulating in Mediterranean seagrass, finds study

• Who cares about climate change? Biden brings back E15 gas

• Microsoft: We Need More Carbon Capture Businesses to Fight Climate Change

• The Science of Climate Change Explained: Facts, Evidence and Proof

Ukraine War

• Americans Are “In Charge” of the War Says French Journalist Who Returned From Ukraine – Summit News

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• Putin Breaks Silence, Says Russia Will Triumph In Ukraine

• Biden says Russia is committing 'genocide' in Ukraine -first time he has done so

• This Is The War’s Decisive Moment

• Putin's mysterious Facebook 'superfans' on a mission

• The Beginning of the End of Putin? Why the Russian Army May (and Should) Revolt

• Don’t assume populists will be burnt by Putin

• Why so much of the world won’t stand up to Russia

• Japan to phase out coal imports from Russia, add sanctions

• 'Capable of anything': 1999 apartment bombings explain Putin's rise and regime

• Why Russia may think it can win a war against the US. A thread by KimDotcom

  Russia has Super-EMPs. They orbit earth disguised as satellites. Just Google it. Mind blowing stuff. If Russia detonates Super EMPs in Space above the United States the US power grid goes offline instantly. Most electronics get fried and the Internet is gone, permanently.

  Russia has over 10,000 interceptor missiles that can destroy incoming ICBMs. So as long as the number of incoming missiles is small enough the Russian military can neutralize them before detonation.

• Stop matching lone female Ukraine refugees with single men, UK told

• Kremlin Again Warns US-NATO Weapons Transports Into Ukraine Will Be Attacked

• Ukraine official denies Zelenskiy rejected visit offer from Germany's Steinmeier

• World's top oil trader will stop buying Russian crude

• Netflix subscribers in Russia launch class action for loss of service