2022-04-14

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• A dirty dish by the sink can be a big marriage problem | Hacker News

• US military confirms an interstellar meteor collided with Earth

• The bizarre drama behind a pinch of moon dust that just sold for $500k

• Dystopian Furniture Design: The Ultimate Gaming Bed - Core77

• Auctioneer puts Space Shuttle CPUs under the hammer • The Register

Horseshit

• A cautionary tale on mass data collection, from Afghanistan - Coda Story

• On Natural Wine, Inherited Money, and the Delusions of the “Future-Rich Millennial” ‹ Literary Hub

• Tell HN: Turned 44 today and I'm lost | Hacker News

celebrity gossip

• The Fortunes of MacKenzie Scott

• Bill Gates real james bond villains wear cardigans - by el gato malo

Musk / Twitter

• Elon Musk offers to buy Twitter

• Elon Musk offers to buy Twitter for $54.20 a share

• Elon Musk’s $43B offer to buy 100% of Twitter

• Elon Musk offers to buy Twitter for $41B

• Elon Musk Launches $43B Hostile Takeover of Twitter

  • HN thread

• Elon Musk’s SEC Schedule 13D to buy Twitter

• "Best And Final Offer" - Elon Musk Offers To Buy Twitter For $54.20 Per Share | ZeroHedge

• Elon's tweet: I made an offer

• Musk offers to buy out Twitter and make it a “platform for free speech”

• How Will Musk Pay for Twitter?

• Elon Musk Talks at TedTalk 2022

• Saudi prince Alwaleed bin Talal rejects Elon Musk's Twitter takeover bid

• Twitter Weighs Poison Pill to Prevent Musk from Increasing Stake Significantly

Obit

• Bodybuilding legend Cedric McMillan dies at age 44

Rank Propaganda / Thought Policing / World Disordering

• Twitter Re-Ban of Scott Ritter, Kafkaesque Support of Impersonator, Is All About Anti-Russia Propaganda | naked capitalism

• Opinion: For Putin to face justice, we must join the International Criminal Court

• The Progressive Movement’s TikTok Army

• (Apr 6) Noam Chomsky: We're Approaching The Most Dangerous Point In Human History, The Lucky Ones Will Die More Quickly | Video | RealClearPolitics

COVID / VaxCult

• Grandparents Step in After Children Lose Parents to Covid-19

• New COVID-19 pill sabizabulin cuts death rate in half, maker says.

• I am currently in Shanghai, the city locked down trying to “Zero-out” Omicron

• New Covid nasal spray outperforms current antibody treatments in mice

• Walgreens Covid-19 Index

• Biden Extends Mask Mandate For Americans, While Scrapping All Restrictions For Illegal Border Migrants | ZeroHedge

  • CDC extends travel mask requirement to May 3 as COVID rises

• Zero-covid strategies are being ditched, but they were the best option

• Coronavirus: Shanghai’s symptomatic cases soar to a record 2,573 as Xi doubles down on zero tolerance battle with Covid-19

• Pfizer-BioNTech Say COVID-19 Booster Protects Kids 5-11 Against Omicron

Culture War / Tribal / Re segregation

• The Law that Banned Everything

• Selling Albright as a ‘Feminist Icon’: Was the Price Worth It?

• NYC shooter’s delusions were likely fed by cultivation of racial resentment

  If that hypothetical white subway shooter had then been discovered to have posted tirades about black people, had he called for whites to get a gun and start shooting blacks, the global media would be in nuclear meltdown about white supremacy. Protests would be breaking out across the country and corporations would be emitting an avalanche of press releases about America’s racial injustice.

  Instead, since the smoke-bomb detonating, race-ranting shooter on a New York City N train Tuesday morning was black, his race and apparent anti-white hatred are nearly taboo subjects.

Media / ShowBiz / Advertising

• Yahoo Is in a ‘Shocking’ State of Disarray

• The New York Times compels the Wordle Archive project to be shut down

TechSuck

• Honda Orders Takedown of 3D Printing Models from Maker Communities

• Why I quit this battle

• AMD's Ryzen 5800X3D is too flawed for consumer use - SemiAccurate

  On the latency front the L3 cache on the -3D is about 4 cycles slower than the non-3D parts, something AMD went to very tortured lengths to try and minimize in the briefings. the real problem is in overclocking, AMD completely locked it out from the 5800X3D. Yup, their gaming flagship is clock locked, how stupid can you get.

Crypto con games

• Jack Dorsey First Tweet NFT listed for $48M, ends with best offer of $280

• Bitcoin’s Value Drops Amid Inflation

• Happy Tax Season, Crypto Bros

• Ethereum Has Issues

• US Officials Tie North Korean Hacker Group to Axie's Ronin Exploit

Economicon / Business / Finance

• Amazon workers made up almost half of all warehouse injuries last year

• Amazon is adding a 5% fuel and inflation surcharge

  • Amazon adds 5% ‘fuel and inflation surcharge’ to seller fees

• Inflation: Five things that are going up in price and why

• Jamie Dimon: Fed risk tipping the economy into recession to combat inflation

• Baby formula shortage strains families, forces stores to ration

• Amazon Cracks Down on Organizing After Historic Union Win

• White House Expects More Inflation, Not Recession.

• The economic shock hitting the housing market is starting to do some damage

Gubmint / Poilitcks / Law Making

• White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki Says Loan Repayments to Restart “Sometime”

• Democrats move to upend their presidential nominating calendar

Hunter

• Hunter Biden Likely to be Charged Under FARA . . . If the Justice Department Applies the Mueller Standard – JONATHAN TURLEY

Law Breaking / Police / Internal Security

• Our tracking devices have replaced state surveillance

• Inside FBI’s probe and entrapment of a Michigan militia crew

• 'We got him': Brooklyn subway shooting suspect arrested after calling himself in

• United States Leads Seizure of One of the World’s Largest Hacker Forums

• Feds Apologize to Violent BLM and Antifa Rioters for Not Being Nicer to Them as They Set Fires in Front of White House.

External Security / Militaria / Diplomania

• Finland and Sweden take major step towards joining NATO

• Russia Warns Of Baltic Nuclear Build-Up If Finland & Sweden Enter NATO | ZeroHedge

World

• Putin says Russia will resume lunar program

• Inside the Palace with Mohammed Bin Salman

• China's oil champion prepares Western retreat over sanctions fear

• White House Looking To Send High Level Official To Kiev, Possibly Biden Or Harris

• Europe starts drafting a ban on Russian oil imports

Health / Medicine

• Mystery of why humans die around 80 may finally be solved

Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda

• Paper straws were based on a fake study

• (2019) The horrors of mass-produced bee houses » Colin Purrington

• The climate case for seizing superyachts, Russian and otherwise

Ukraine War

• CIA Admits Feeding Americans False Info About Ukraine – The New American

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• Anonymous claims to hijack Putin's spy satellites using Russian hacking tools

• Prepare for Armageddon: Ukraine’s tactic against Russian hackers

• Russia Admits Black Sea Flagship In Flames As Ukraine Claims Missile Attack

• Google to demonetize content talking about the war

  Due to the war in Ukraine, we will pause monetization of content that exploits, dismisses, or condones the war. This pause includes, but is not limited to, claims that imply victims are responsible for their own tragedy or similar instances of victim blaming, such as claims that Ukraine is committing genocide or deliberately attacking its own citizens.

• TikTok created an alternate universe just for Russia

• Russia says flagship of Black Sea fleet badly damaged by blast

• Russia’s Black Sea Flagship Sunk; Ukraine Claims Missile Strike Sank It

• Ukrainians Fleeing ‘Hell’ in Mariupol Find a City Free of Russian Occupation, but in Denial

• Ukraine war: What weapon killed 50 people in station attack?

• How U.S. Intelligence Sees Russia’s Behavior After Bucha

• Will the United States Run Out of Javelins Before Russia Runs Out of Tanks?

• (Apr 2) Americans’ views on the war reveal a striking generational divide

• Ukraine Says It’s Doxxing Russian Troops and Spies