2022-04-22

Cool

• After Two Year Restoration,1927 American LaFrance Back Home In Paris | radio NWTN

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• Riding a Bike in America Should Not Be This Dangerous

• Shimmering 'night spiral' captured above Hawaii is a SpaceX rocket

• Tens of thousands of birds euthanized after avian flu found in Colorado counties

• Large Hadron Collider to restart and hunt for a fifth force of nature

• The World’s Food System Is Too Dependent on Wheat

• Rare Commodore 65 Prototype Is Selling for Nearly $30k on eBay

Horseshit

• US bride and caterer arrested for allegedly drugging guests with cannabis

celebrity gossip

• Sheryl Sandberg under fire for trying to kill story about ex, CEO of Activision

• Wirecard executive Jan Marsalak reportedly hiding in Moscow

Rank Propaganda / Thought Policing / World Disordering

• Humans are not smart enough to have ideas that lie beyond challenge and debate

• Obama calls for tech regulation to combat disinformation on social media

• The Onion has been permanently banned from Twitter

COVID / VaxCult

• Combo Covid booster is the way to go this fall, Moderna data suggests

• The Covid Vaccines Are Hazardous and Should Not Be Used

• Boosters customised for Omicron seem to offer little advantage

• First person to have Covid infection for more than a year identified in UK

• Innate immune suppression by SARS-CoV-2 mRNA vaccinations

Culture War / Tribal / Re segregation

• U.S. professor who refused to call trans student a woman wins payout

• Disney to Lose Special Tax Status in Florida Amid ‘Don’t Say Gay’ Clash

• Google’s AI-powered ‘inclusive warnings’ feature is very broken

  • HN comments

  As a Google employee expressing my own opinion and observations of company culture, I can say that these are 100% not mistakes. Many Google employees are just so out of touch with the real world that they believe it is the duty of Google Docs to change the English language to exclude the words "landlord", "motherboard", and even "mother" in most contexts (sub with birthing person).

  This may seem unbelievable, but the word "motherboard" is literally banned within Google and you are required to use "mainboard" instead. You are not allowed to use this word in documentation or code, and you're also not allowed to say it privately in chats or emails.

• Hiring discrimination: a problem for men in female-dominated occupations

Edumacationalizing / Acedemia Nuts

• FL Department of Education: Examples of Problematic Elements in Math Textbooks

  • A Look Inside the Textbooks That Florida Rejected

Media / ShowBiz / Advertising

• 'Go Woke, Go Broke': Conservatives Celebrate Failure of CNN+

• The Chaotic Collapse of CNN+

Musk / Twitter

• Elon Musk’s Twitter saga is capitalism gone rogue

• Elon Musk unveils $46bn financing package to fund Twitter bid

• Musk Forms ‘X Holdings’ After Hints at a Parent Company for Tesla, SpaceX

• There’s only one way for Twitter to dodge Elon Musk’s Twitter takeover

• Musk forces Twitter board to take him seriously–what’s next?

TechSuck

• Apple Discontinues macOS Server

• Running Arduino Firmware on a GOJO LTX-7 Soap Dispenser

• The end of Insteon and why the smart home keeps faltering - Stacey on IoT | Internet of Things news and analysis

Crypto con games

• Bitcoin investors tend to have low financial literacy – Bank of Canada research

Economicon / Business / Finance

• The Second Wave of the Russian Oil Shock Is Starting

• U.S. Home Prices Hit a Record in March

• Why the Federal Reserve has made a historic mistake on inflation

Gubmint / Poilitcks / Law Making

• Jeff Bezos is worth $160bn yet Congress might bail out his space company

Law Breaking / Police / Internal Security

• Top Prosecutor Drops Out Of Whitmer Kidnapping Case

• Breaking Down The Flurry Of Legal Filings By Clinton Campaign Associates In Durham Case | ZeroHedge

• Dozens of guinea pigs dumped near adult novelty store

External Security / Militaria / Diplomania

• U.S. Air Force Creates Completely New Drone for Ukraine, in 2 Months

• Third US defence department official resigns, warning US risks losing tech edge

• SpaceX beating Russian jamming attack was ‘eyewatering’: DoD official.

World

• Taliban orders TikTok, PUBG ban for 'misleading' youths

Health / Medicine

• CDC issues health advisory about acute hepatitis in children

• Contra Hoffman On Vitamin D Dosing - by Scott Alexander

• Are US Fertility Rates Starting to Decline?

• More American clinics are offering ketamine to treat depression

Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda

• North American Birds Face Their Own Pandemic with Latest Bout of Avian Flu

• Video tutorial: Finding historical temp & precip date from NCEI - Andrew Skurka

• The Best Climate Science You’ve Never Heard Of | MICHAEL E. MANN

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• Russia's Largest Chemical Plant Engulfed In Flames Hours After Mystery Fire At Military Research Facility

• Russia’s biggest chemical plant burns down in second suspicious fire in a day

• Putin’s Nuclear Threat Makes Armageddon Thinkable

• How Russia is trying to prove it can live with sanctions

• UK Embassy In Kiev To Reopen Next Week, But Johnson Warns Russian Victory A "Realistic Possibility"

• Ukraine war: Russia 'plans to seize southern Ukraine'

• Analyzing Mariupol's damage using SAR satalite data and algorithmic models

• Crypto giant Binance built ties to a Russian FSB-linked agency

• Timely reporting from NYT: One Ukrainian War Casualty: The World’s Largest Airplane

• Russian submarines launch cruise missiles at Ukraine from Black Sea