2022-04-17

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• Chinese Shiyan-10 satellite reappears in new Molniya orbit months after launch anomaly - SpaceNews

• Powerful space laser detected by South African telescope

• Soil compaction meter: Portable nuclear device missing from stolen vehicle in Pennsylvania

• NASA to roll back its mega rocket after failing to complete countdown test

• Social Animals Seek Power in Surprisingly Complex Ways

• Does Spain have the Holy Grail?

• The $1m challenge: ‘If the Turin Shroud is a forgery, show how it was done’

Horseshit

• 2nd Antonov An-225: biggest unfinished airplane lies hidden in warehouse

Musk / Twitter

• Federal Judge agrees Elon Musk’s takeover tweet was misleading

• The Twitter Army of Elon Musk Superfans

• “if it were up to me I’d take away likes too”

• Twitter and the War of Oligarchs | Compact Mag

  Ganz implicitly expresses the sentiment, now widespread on the left, that capitalist oligarchs are good so long as their politics are progressive. “The main enemy will always be the tech capitalist reactionary oligarchy (Musk, Thiel, Andreesen),” he writes, “who constantly plot intrigues day and night against the organized power of the working class and its allies.” In this telling, non-“reactionary” oligarchs are to be praised as allies of progress and friends of workers.

• TGIF: It’s Elon’s World - by Nellie Bowles - Common Sense

Rank Propaganda / Thought Policing / World Disordering

• Noam Chomsky on How to Prevent World War III

• Social Media is Making us Stupid

• The Jews Who Didn’t Leave Egypt - Tablet Magazine

COVID / VaxCult

• India drug regulator ignored red alerts on Covaxin imperilling millions of lives

• India's Covid toll might have been more than 8 times officially reported

• How China’s Zero Covid policy is failing Shanghai

• Philadelphia to reinstate mask mandate on Monday after rise in Covid cases

• Following first unmasked concert, chorus members share cautionary tale

• WHO-convened global study of origins of SARS-CoV-2: China Part

• Vaccines are no match for long Covid. Treating it is science’s next challange

• Stress Plays Key Role in Developing Long Covid and Cognitive Symptoms

• Something Is Rotten In The State Of Shanghai's Latest COVID Lockdowns | ZeroHedge

Culture War / Tribal / Re segregation

• Trans doctor who helps teens transition says it’s now ‘gone too far.’

Edumacationalizing / Acedemia Nuts

• Florida targets math textbooks, citing CRT

  • Florida says it rejected math textbooks for referring to critical race theory

• Fuck your Miracle Year - by Roger's Bacon

• Addressing the Covid-Caused Decline in Child Literacy

• Michigan kindergartener brings Jose Cuervo margaritas to snack time, made students ‘woozy.’

Media / ShowBiz / Advertising

• They Said Foundation Couldn't Be Filmed, and It Still Hasn't Been

  Goyer’s Foundation isn’t Asimov’s Foundation. It’s not an adaptation, and it’s so different that calling it “inspired by the works of Isaac Asimov” still feels like a stretch. Maybe it truly is impossible to bring this seminal work of science fiction into another medium, but other shows could still do a hell of a lot better job than this.

TechSuck

• DuckDuckGo removes search results for major pirate websites

  • DDG: We are not “purging” any media outlets from results

• Semiconductor average lead time breaks half-year barrier

  • comment:

  I've noticed that some computer models and Thunderbolt docks no longer come with headphone jacks, and that's because they can't get the fifty-cent chip to drive the analog audio output on a $300 device

• Atlassian Cloud offerings 99% restored over the weekend

• The games Nintendo didn't want you to play: Tengen

  Unable to reverse engineer the chip, Tengen convinced the United States Copyright Office to hand over the source code of the lockout chip, claiming it was necessary for a lawsuit. With the code in hand, Tengen could make their own clone with ease. And Tengen was going to sue Nintendo for antitrust violations, so they probably figured they could get away with it.

• GitHub suspends accounts of Russian devs at sanctioned companies

• Western Electric gearing up for domestic production of guitar amp tubes

• Ask HN: What's the big deal about YT-dl when streaming has replaced downloading?

Crypto con games

• The Philosophical Argument Against Crypto

Economicon / Business / Finance

• Rotting fruit, spoiled vegetables: How Texas just made the supply chain worse

• Several Million U.S. Workers Seen Staying Out of Labor Force Indefinitely

• Get ready for the next supply chain shockwave

• Avian flu has spread to 27 states, sharply driving up egg prices

• The Pandemic Was Supposed to Push All Shopping Online. It Didn’t

Gubmint / Poilitcks / Law Making

• Ukraine ambassador’s memoir shows Trump was right about the deep state. Thank God.

• He wants to destroy Elon Musk. He could end up endangering Dems' Senate plans

• Hillary Clinton’s Odd Midterm Counsel

• The Slime Machine Targeting Dozens of Biden Nominees

• CIA Bombshell: The Sussmann data was "user created"

Law Breaking / Police / Internal Security

• Operation Chucklefuck continues! Judge declines to jail two men accused of impersonating federal agents Archive link

  "There's been no showing that national security information has been compromised," U.S. Magistrate Judge Michael Harvey said. At the same time, Harvey said he does believe prosecutors have enough evidence to secure convictions in the case. Earlier on Tuesday, federal prosecutor Joshua Rothstein told the judge the FBI was forced to move before it was ready against the two after a Secret Service investigator for unclear reasons tipped them off that they were under scrutiny. In a hearing, Rothstein said the tip-off occurred on April 4 after the Secret Service launched an internal inquiry and placed four agents on administrative leave for accepting gifts from Taherzadeh and Ali.

External Security / Militaria / Diplomania

• How Russia Beat America to the Hypersonic Missile

• "Not What We Are Seeing" - US Intel Officials Reject Biden's "Genocide" Claims

• The unseen scars of those who kill via remote control

• U.S. cannot 'take lightly' threat Russia could use nuclear weapons – CIA chief

• The Department Of Defense Just Released An “Equity Action Plan” And I’m Sure This Is Probably The Most Important Thing For Our Military To Focus On Right Now

• Shortwave radio: can you hear me now? - by Matt Armstrong

Health / Medicine

• 100 People with rare cancers who attended same NJ high school demand answers

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• Moskva, Russia’s Prized Ship, Was Hit by Missiles, U.S. Officials Say

• Russia Says It Shot Down Ukrainian Transport Plane Carrying Western Arms

• Ukraine did a year’s worth of work in 2 weeks to get on Europe’s energy grid

• US and Russia clash over cause of food price rises

• Russian soldiers appear to have taken home souvenirs from Chernobyl.

• Russians who fled at outbreak of Ukraine war reluctantly go home

• Russia offers Mariupol defence a surrender window

• Military transport plane reportedly brought down outside Odesa – as it happened

• UK’s top nuclear submarine arrives in Gibraltar as Putin issues Boris Johnson warning

• Russia Announces Space War On Elon Musk’s Starlink Satellites, Accepts Moskva Was Attacked

• Zelensky says Ukraine won't give up territory to end war with Russia

• Mariupol Has Been "Wiped Off The Face Of The Earth," Ukrainian Governor Says | ZeroHedge