2022-04-15

Cool

• Solar storm could supercharge northern lights as far south as New York

Worthy

• unlicensed radio - Computers Are Bad

  That's the important thing about new WiFi standards, of course: spending nearly a grand on an upgrade that only even theoretically helps for your phone, where real-world performance is actually limited by JavaScript execution. Twitter.com still takes 10 seconds to render 140 characters of text, but it's getting that text at the better part of a gigabit per second!

• Cultural Anorexia - by Luke Burgis - Anti-Mimetic

• The Traveller returns - Wyclif's Dust

• Primer: Statistical Tank Armour

• Worth comments too From ancient Gears and Screws to Quantum Mechanics | Locklin on science

etc

• The first known interstellar meteor hit Earth in 2014, U.S. officials say

• NASA halts third attempt at SLS practice countdown

• Boom time for dog walkers, sitters and trainers

• Internal bleeding from severe shoulder injury caused death of Jesus Christ, says doctor-turned-priest - Catholic Herald

• Driving the Jeep Magneto, an electric concept with a manual transmission

Horseshit

• The Cold Logic of Drunk People

• Employee’s unwanted birthday party nets him $450k after lawsuit

  Days before his birthday in August 2019, an employee at a Kentucky-based laboratory asked his office manager to not arrange a celebration for his birthday. When the company threw him a lunchtime party against his wishes, it triggered a panic attack and he left abruptly to spend his break in his car. Four days later, after his office managers confronted him about his reaction to the party, he was fired from the Northern Kentucky company, court records show.

celebrity gossip

• Democratic donor Ed Buck gets 30 years in prison for fetish deaths

Musk / Twitter

• Musk Says There's A 'Plan B' If TWTR Rejects Offer, "Future Of Civilization" At Stake | ZeroHedge

• HN's massive thread

• Vanguard Becomes Twitter's Largest Shareholder Ahead of Elon

• Elon Musk says he’s ‘not sure’ he’ll be able to buy Twitter after $43B bid

• Elon Musk and the Kingdom of Bull

• Twitter Is Weighing a Poison Pill Defense to Thwart Elon Musk’s Takeover Bid

• Elon Musk Offers to Buy Twitter: Everything You Need to Know

• What will Twitter's board say? Tech analysts are divided over Musk takeover bid

• If Elon Musk gets his way, Twitter will lose years of progress

• Vanguard Is Now Biggest Twitter Owner per Share, 10.3%

• Twitter’s board owes it to shareholders to accept Elon Musk’s offer

• Elon Musk Has Triggered a Battle for the Future of Twitter

• The corrupt US government is trying to find a way to intervene to preserve its corrupt defender, by which I of course mean Twitter again.

  • Apparently they're investigating if he filed the wrong form when he passed the 5% ownership threshold of Twitter.

• Twitter's Chickens Come Home To Roost | ZeroHedge

  Probably the funniest effort along those lines was this passage: "We need regulation… to prevent rich people from controlling our channels of communication."

  That was Ellen Pao, former CEO of Reddit, railing against Musk in the pages of… the Washington Post! A newspaper owned by Jeff Bezos complaining about rich people controlling “channels of communication” just might be the never-released punchline of Monty Python’s classic “Funniest Joke in the World” skit.

• Elon Musk Needs 'Massive Loan' or Big Tesla Stock Sale to Buy Twitter

• How Elon Musk could fund his $43bn Twitter takeover

• The establishment’s Orwellian line on Elon Musk’s Twitter crusade

  The establishment doesn’t want free speech because if Americans can talk honestly about what elites are doing, people will understand just how rotten the establishment has become and will want to do something about it. That can’t be allowed, obviously. If democracy dies in darkness, it won’t be an accident. It will be murder.

• Elon Musk’s ‘Free Speech’ Twitter Risks Scaring Off Advertisers

• What Elon Musk’s Twitter ‘free speech’ promises miss: Governments

• When Your “Public Square” Is a Private Company, Any Sulky Billionaire Can Buy It

• Elon Musk, Baloney King

• Billionaires eye parallel media universe

• Twitter Moves to Block Elon Musk from Increasing Stake

• Twitter adopts poison pill in bid to thwart Elon Musk takeover

• Elon Musk's $43bn bid for Twitter lacks 'legal clout,' experts say

• Twitter board fights Musk takeover with unanimous adoption of poison pill

• Twitter Board Adopts "Poison Pill" To Thwart Musk Takeover, Exposing Itself To "Titanic" Legal Liability | ZeroHedge

Rank Propaganda / Thought Policing / World Disordering

• Panic! On the Editorial Page - by Michael Hobbes

  the cancel culture panic in a nutshell: Left-wing threats to free speech may not be backed up by any evidence and totally unconnected to any Democratic policy agenda. But! If we’re not careful, someday, the Democratic Party could be as dangerous as Republicans are now.

• Twitter Punishes Libs Of Tik Tok For Daring To Expose Radical Leftism

  • Twitter Suspends LibsofTikTok For Featuring Liberals Talking About Themselves? – JONATHAN TURLEY

• Is This the Dumbest Fact Check Ever? – PJ Media

  Something did stain the president’s suit during his speech, but it was distillers grains, according to reporters in the room and the White House. A video clearly shows particles flying around from a giant, nearby grain pile.

• American Occupation - Tablet Magazine

• Everything you need to know about psychedelics and mental illness

  So in the Guardian article, it sounds like the study was a huge victory for psilocybin; in the study itself, it looks like it produced null results on its primary endpoint. How do we reconcile these descriptions? Another article by Carhart-Harris, on the blog of the psychedelics app MyDelica, might help us understand. There, he describes how he felt pressured by one of the editors at the NEJM into writing up the findings in a very conservative way.

• It is not topics that are censored, it is behaviour

COVID / VaxCult

• Autopsies suggest Covid’s smell loss is caused by inflammation, not virus

• Shanghai turns residences into Covid isolation facilities, sparking protest

• Bidenworld projects calm about Covid but bite their nails in private

• FDA Authorizes First Covid Breath Test

  • FDA Authorizes the First Covid Breath Test

• Omicron-targeted vaccines do no better than original jabs in early tests

• Does Vaccination Make You MORE Likely to Catch Covid?

• Transmission of SARS-CoV-2 delta variant (AY.127) from pet hamsters to humans

  Both genetic and epidemiological results strongly suggest that there was more than one hamster-to-human transmission event in this study. This incident also led to onward human transmission. Importation of SARS-CoV-2-infected hamsters was a likely source of this outbreak.

• Long Covid in Feces

• A physician explains how Covid-19 mutes sense of smell

• California bill – revoke license of physicians who promote Covid-19 disinformation

• Anger over Covid Lockdowns Mounts in Shanghai

• US Covid test positivity rates by vaccination status

  yet another set of evidence that vaccines are not working to stop covid spread and that boosters wind up making you more likely to contract covid in the long run

Culture War / Tribal / Re segregation

• Say, where did all that Black Lives Matter money go, anyway?

Edumacationalizing / Acedemia Nuts

• Particle physics: Experiments contradicting the Standard Model are piling up

• 'Teacher of the Year' Randi Chaverria allegedly gave student oral sex

• Why So Many Conservatives Are Talking About ‘Grooming’ All Of A Sudden | FiveThirtyEight

• CNN Slams Libertarian Children’s Books—Causing Sales to Surge - Foundation for Economic Education

Media / ShowBiz / Advertising

• Club Penguin Knockoff Shut Down By Disney, Three Arrested

  Club Penguin was a massively popular children’s MMO that was eventually acquired (and later shuttered) by Disney. However, that hasn’t stopped popular clones from amassing millions of users. Now the official website for the most popular clone, Club Penguin Rewritten, has been seized by the City Police of London. Additionally, three people affiliated with the project were arrested, though as of today they have reportedly been released.

  • Three arrested in London over unofficial Club Penguin site

• Reddit Announces Comment Search

TechSuck

• It’s Still Stupidly, Difficult to Buy a ‘Dumb’ TV | Hacker News

• Wikipedia globally blocks Apple Private Relay IP ranges from editing

Crypto con games

• FBI: North Korean hackers stole more than $600M in cryptocurrency in single hack

• Axie Infinity’s financial mess started long before its $600M hack

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

• Cryptocurrency Gave Birth to the Ransomware Epidemic

• The NFT bubble is showing clear signs of bursting

• Peter Thiel Deems Buffett, Dimon, Fink Enemies of Bitcoin

Economicon / Business / Finance

• Millions of Americans are resorting to risky ways to buy an affordable home

• Uber Slammed over Pricing Surge After Brooklyn Subway Shooting

• Mortgage Rates Hit 5% for First Time Since 2011

• Cut the Fed some slack - by amni rusli - EightateEight

  The need for the Fed to act may tempt the institution to hike aggressively to show that it means business, but this must be tempered with the knowledge that in the long run, the US economy is fighting against struggling productivity and an ageing workforce. The problem for the Fed is therefore one of deflation and staying off the zero lower bound, hence avoiding the fate of the Bank of Japan. It’s such a looming problem that the current high inflation might even be seen for some as an opportunistic exercise to achieve the 2% target, when for so long this target has been undershot.

• How I (and US policymakers) got inflation wrong

  At the time I wrote my July 2021 piece, “Don’t worry about inflation,” a prescient copy editor noted that this headline might look bad if I was wrong and inflation got increasingly worse. I responded that I stood by it, and if I was wrong, I would write a groveling follow-up piece. So here we are.

Gubmint / Poilitcks / Law Making

• Wealthiest Americans pay just 3.4% of income in taxes, investigation reveals

• House lawmakers launch investigation of face-scan contractor ID.me

• Migrants Bused In From Texas Greeted By DC’s Rampant Homelessness | The Daily Caller

• Tax the Land

• As food prices soar, some states consider cutting taxes on groceries

Hunter

• Smoking guns: Joe Biden referred business and mingled finances with son Hunter, messages show | Just The News

Law Breaking / Police / Internal Security

• Hacked US companies to face new reporting requirements – AP News

• Ten Members of International Stock Manipulation Ring Charged in Manhattan

External Security / Militaria / Diplomania

• U.S. National Security: Looking Beyond the War in Ukraine

• Beijing Carries Out Military Drills Over Taiwan As US Lawmakers Meet With President Tsai | ZeroHedge

• Should We Commit to Fight Russia — for Finland? – Patrick J. Buchanan – Official Website

Health / Medicine

• Permanent birth control methods for women have up to 6% failure rates

• Puzzling cases of severe liver disease in children spark international probe

  The officials note two possibilities if an adenovirus is behind the acute cases: A new adenovirus has evolved to cause severe liver injury, or an existing variant that routinely circulates in children is causing severe disease because they have not previously been exposed to adenoviruses and are immunologically naïve. "The latter scenario may be the result of restricted social mixing during the COVID-19 pandemic," the officials speculate.

  • U.S., U.K. investigating unusual cases of hepatitis in young children

Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda

• Yellowstone is Offering a $1,500 Annual Pass That You Won’t Be Able to Use for 150 Years

  In exchange for a $1,500 donation, park supporters can snag a current annual parks pass and one of these “Inheritance Passes,” handing it down to their descendents to use in 2172.

• Our food system isn't ready for the climate crisis

Ukraine War

• Russian warship Moskva has sunk – defence ministry

• Russian Long-Range Bombers Strike Ukraine For 1st Time In War

etc

• Cruiser “Moskva” sank while towing

  • Cruiser “Moskva” sank while being towed | Hacker News

• Russian warship sinks in Black Sea after Ukraine claims it was hit by missile

• Sexual war crimes need to be prosecuted more strongly

• What Is at Stake in Ukraine

  • HN thread

• Behind the scenes in Zelensky's modern HQ

• Uber resumes services in Kyiv without service charge

• Putin’s War Is an Existential Crisis for the United Nations

• Sunken Moskva Could Be the Biggest Naval Combat Loss in 40 Years

  • HN thread

• Why Russians Support Putin

• Ukraine is scanning faces of dead Russians, then contacting the mothers