2022-04-20

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• Probing Uranus Is Top Priority This Decade

  • Make Uranus mission your priority, NASA told

  • Remember Uranus?

  • Uranus should be NASA’s top planetary target, influential report finds

• Hey, You Might Be Right. - by Adam - Orexinomics

• A 4-year-old can run errands alone and not just on reality TV

Horseshit

• Scientists Invent Device for Optimally Separating Oreos

• Global population is crashing, soaring and moving

  • HN comments

• Newly-Released Documents Shed Light on Government-Funded Research into Worm Hole

celebrity gossip

• Elon Musks take on why Netflix is tanking

• Elon Musk says college is 'basically for fun and not for learning'

• Assange extradition order issued by UK court, moving him closer to US transfer

  • UK court approves extradition of Julian Assange to US

Rank Propaganda / Thought Policing / World Disordering

• Changing the conversation about science through citizen communicators

• America's Intellectual No-Fly Zone - TK News by Matt Taibbi

COVID / VaxCult

• No contact required: Covid fuels vending machine revival in Japan

• “being infected makes you 25x more likely to die after elective surgeries”

• Mysteries Experts Hope to Unravel

• Biden administration will appeal ruling that lifted Covid mask mandate on travel

• Argentina reports zero daily Covid-19 deaths for first time since pandemic began

Culture War / Tribal / Re segregation

• Humanity Is Vibe-Checking Itself to Death

Edumacationalizing / Acedemia Nuts

• Impact of family background on children's education unchanged in a century

• Why the crisis of academic credibility may not have a solution

Media / ShowBiz / Advertising

• Netflix reports loss of 200k subscribers in quarterly results

  • Netflix shares crater after losing subscribers for the first time in 10+ years

  • HN comments

  • Netflix shares drop 26% after it loses 200K subscribers

  • Netflix loses $45B in value as subscriber numbers drop

• Netflix Plans to Launch Cheaper Ad-Supported Plans

  • Netflix Officially Adding Commercials

  • Netflix Will Face Hurdles in Courting Advertisers, but Biz Abuzz About New Model

• Netflix hints at password sharing crackdown as subscribers fall

• A woman behind Libs of TikTok, fueling the right’s outrage machine

  • HN comments

  • Reporter slammed as hypocrite for 'doxxing' Libs of TikTok Twitter account

  • Twitter Employee Revealed Identity of User to WaPo Reporter

  • HN comments

  • The Washington Post LIES—claims they did not publish details about Libs of Tik Tok's personal life | The Post Millennial

Musk / Twitter

• Elon Musk Races to Secure Financing for Twitter Bid

• Elon Musk and Twitter's Declining Relevance

TechSuck

• WebAssembly 2.0 First Working Draft | Hacker News

• Nvidia and AMD GPUs are returning to shelves and prices are finally falling

• Framework Laptop Mainboard | Hacker News

• Lithium is expensive: why don't we recycle lithium batteries?

• GitHub can't be trusted. Or, how suspending Russian accounts deleted project history and pull requests · Jesse Squires

Crypto con games

• North Korean hackers target gamers in $615m crypto heist – US

• Atari token falls 70% just days after public sale concludes

• Bitcoin Whale Do Kwon’s $10B Plan to Prop Up Terra, Luna Coin

• On anti-crypto toxicity

  • HN comments

• Why the Yuppie Elite Dismiss Bitcoin

• Guido van Rossum: Let Web3 die in a flaming ball of fire

Economicon / Business / Finance

• Bosses Don't Follow Their Own Advice in Returning to the Office

• Why the world is hungry – and how to help

• U.S. dollar rockets to 20-year peak vs. yen on Fed, BOJ policy difference

• Netflix's collapse is a warning sign for stocks

Gubmint / Poilitcks / Law Making

• Biden launches $6B effort to save distressed nuclear plants

• “Democratic Elites Don’t Understand the Class Culture Gap”

• Watch: Virtually No One Shows Up To Hear Biden Claim He Was The "Poorest Man In Congress" | ZeroHedge

• U.S. forgives 40k student loans

  • HN comments

  These are being forgiven under the Public Service Loan Forgiveness program, created in 2007 (fifteen years ago), which eliminates your remaining debt after you've made ten years of payments while working in the public sector (government or non-profit). This has nothing to do with current debates around loan forgiveness.

Law Breaking / Police / Internal Security

• Former eBay Security Director to Plead Guilty to Cyberstalking

  • Former eBay exec who ran bizarre harassment campaign to plead guilty

External Security / Militaria / Diplomania

• What happens to weapons sent to Ukraine? The US doesn't know

• US officials heading to Solomons over China pact worries

• NATO Will Need a Transition Plan If Finland, Sweden Ask to Join

• US and allies warn of Russian hacking threat to critical infrastructure

World

• China’s demographic crisis sparks renewed calls to lower world’s marriage age

• South Africa is running out of Marmite

• Taiwan news channel accidentally airs false report of Chinese invasion

• Russia Tests New ICBM

Health / Medicine

• Woman tells of 'mind-blowing' cystic fibrosis drug

• Discovery of bacteria linked to prostate cancer hailed as potential breakthrough

• Cannabis Affects Our Cognition and Psychology

Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda

• Results from first US trial of genetically modified mosquitoes

• Geoengineering to slow global warming may increase malaria risks

Ukraine War

• Germany, Scapegoat of the Ukraine War

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• Britain examining anti-ship missile solution for Ukraine

• IMF says Russia's war in Ukraine will 'severely set back' global economy

• Putin signs law forcing Russian companies to delist their overseas shares

• Kadyrov stole the agricultural equipment in Ukraine worth 1.5M euros

• I interview everyday Russians on YouTube. Viewers think we're brainwashed

• Russia Decides to Blame NATO for Sinking the Moskva.

• Ukraine and the Logistics War

• One-Third Of Ukraine Farmland May Go Unplanted As Russia Begins 'Second Phase' Of War

• Ukraine Has Received Fighter Jets From Unnamed US Ally: Pentagon

• Putin's war in Ukraine puts Germany's Greens in a tight spot

• US Says 'No Major Territorial Gains' By Russians In Donbas So Far