2022-04-28

Cool

• Drone Filming Chile’s Urban Bike Race Takes Some Fancy Radio Gear | Hackaday

etc

• Letter from a Young Distributist: Georgism and Distributism

• Enormous ‘potentially hazardous’ asteroid to soar past Earth tomorrow

• Nobody Will Admit The Best Novel of Our Generation is About Football

• US egg factory roasts alive 5.3M chickens in avian flu cull

• A dog’s breed doesn’t determine much about its behavior

Horseshit

• Tech Giants Duped into Giving Up Data Used to Sexually Extort Minors

• Binaural beats are helping people get happy horny and high

• The Pandemic Became a Form of Birth Control for Some

• U.S. and more than 55 other countries pledge to keep an open internet

• 75 Percent of car buyers don’t want features locked behind subscriptions

Rank Propaganda / Thought Policing / World Disordering

• Hillary Clinton warns of ‘fascism’ at Madeleine Albright funeral

• A new study casts doubt on prominent theories about extremism-by-algorithm

• Conflict avoidance keeps people from calling out misinformation in groups

• Questions that are rarely asked

  Is there even a single @NetNeutrality activist who is pro free speech today?

• (2018) Exposure to opposing views on social media can increase political polarization

• 'Libs Of TikTok' WaPo-Dox Backfires After Account Gains 500,000 New Followers In One Week | ZeroHedge

COVID / VaxCult

• 75% of US children have now had Covid, up from 44%

• Denmark is first country to pause Covid-19 vaccinations

• Seroprevalence of Infection-Induced SARS-CoV-2 Antibodies

• How Paxlovid came to be: From the germ of an idea to a vital tool against Covid

• Beijing enforces lockdowns, expands Covid-19 mass testing

• Danish study shows no benefit to overall mortality from mRNA vaccines

• Covid-19 infection linked to increased nightmare frequency

• High Court Rules Government Dumping COVID Patients from Hospitals to Nursing Homes Without Testing ‘Unlawful’ and ‘Irrational.’

• (Oct 2021) How I Woke Up - by Sarah Beth Burwick

• Roper Trend: Mask-Wearing During the Covid-19 Pandemic

Culture War / Tribal / Re segregation

• Reading “triggering” traumatic material does not appear to increase distress

• The Catch-22 Facing Black Voters at the Ballot Box

Edumacationalizing / Acedemia Nuts

• Biden Claims School Children Don’t Belong to Parents ‘When They’re in Classroom’

• Schools and police punish students with costly tickets for minor misbehavior

Media / ShowBiz / Advertising

• Facebook shrugs off fears it's losing users

• Shadowbanning Is Big Tech’s Big Problem

Musk / Twitter

• Elon Musk on Politically Neutral Twitter

• Elon’s Already Daring Twitter to Break Off the Deal

• Editorial: Elon Musk probably won't buy Twitter

• Elon Musk Thinks Social Media Isn't Rocket Science

• Elon Musk, Twitter’s next owner, provides his definition of “free speech”

• Elon Musk's Twitter Has a Cryptocurrency Scam Problem to Fix

• Twitter miscounted its daily users for three years straight

  • Twitter admits overstating audience figures for 3 years

  • Twitter admits it overstated users for years ahead of Elon Musk takeover

  • HN comments

• This 2020 Time Article Explains Why The Left Fears Losing Twitter

• Is Twitter “Burning The Evidence” By Unshackling Conservative Accounts? – Summit News

• Elon’s Twitter challenges: Free-speech idealism will clash with laws–and reality

• Elon Takes Twitter - by Mike Solana - Pirate Wires

• Twitter and Elon Musk

• 30k New Users Signed Up for Mastodon After Elon Musk Bought Twitter

TechSuck

• EU launches Mastodon and PeerTube derived social media for official institutions

Crypto con games

• Blockchain is Dangerous Nonsense | Eisfunke

  • HN comments

• Eric Schmidt: Web3 doesn’t work yet, but it will

Economicon / Business / Finance

• PayPal shuttering its San Francisco Office

• Bill Hwang's Archegos Catastrophe Was Wilder Than Anyone Knew

  • DOJ and SEC Portray Multi-Felonious Wall St Banks as Hapless Victims of Archegos

• The Revolt of the College-Educated Working Class

• Boeing CEO calls Air Force One deal a risk it ‘probably shouldn’t have taken'

• Rocket Mortgage to trim 8% of workforce as home-loan market shrinks

  • HN comments

• U.S. economy shrank at a 1.4% annual rate in the first quarter

  • The US economic growth rate plunged in the first quarter

  • U.S. GDP fell at a 1.4% pace to start the year as pandemic recovery takes a hit

• Dollar hits 20-year peak on yen as Bank of Japan stays super-easy

Gubmint / Poilitcks / Law Making

• San Francisco spends millions on homeless hotels, the results are disastrous

• DHS Creating 'Disinformation Governance Board' Ahead Of Midterms

  • DHS Creating Disinformation Governance Board Led by Information Warfare Expert

  • Biden creates 'Disinformation Governance Board' to fight 'misinformation'

• Trump allies breach U.S. voting systems in search of 2020 fraud ‘evidence’

• House Passes Bill Urging Biden to Sell Seized Russian Yachts to Aid Ukraine

• Biden ‘Not Concerned about Recession,’ Touts ‘Enormous Growth’ after Economy Shrinks in First Quarter

• Biden To Visit Lockheed Martin Alabama Facility Producing Javelin Missiles

• Jan. 6 leaks undermine committee's plans for made-for-TV hearings

  The public now has an incomplete picture of the committee's closed-door work through a combination of court filings and leaks of thousands of documents and private conversations. They undercut what Axios has learned was a committee goal: building drama, mystery — and widespread public interest — ahead of hearings slated for June and the release of its report later this summer.

Hunter

• Wikipedia deletes entry for Hunter Biden investment firm

Law Breaking / Police / Internal Security

• Russia Hoax: Durham Staffer Accidentally Reveals Emails Showing Coordination Between Fusion GPS And Media | ZeroHedge

• Judge Rules Elon Musk Didn’t Act Unlawfully in SolarCity Takeover

• Sheriffs shocker: ‘No border left.’

• A bite mark, a forensic dentist, a murder: how junk science ruins innocent lives

External Security / Militaria / Diplomania

• Is Russia gearing up to go to war with NATO?

• 'Al Qaeda is on our side': How Obama-Biden team empowered terrorists in Syria

• Watch Live: President Biden Explains Why Ukraine Needs Another $33 Billion Of US Taxpayer Money | ZeroHedge

  • Biden asks Congress for $33B in more aid for Ukraine

World

• EU energy groups prepare to meet Putin's terms for Russian gas

• Angela Merkel’s nuclear folly fuelled Putin’s ambitions in Ukraine

• Any forces that target Chinese nationals in attacks will be stricken hardest

• Weibo shows user locations to combat 'bad behaviour'

• Highlights From The Comments On Xi Jinping

Health / Medicine

• China reports first human case of H3N8 bird flu

• Doctor's Heart Attack Part #1 - by Suman Manchireddy

• One million children receive first dose of malaria vaccine

Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda

• Lake Mead falls to an unprecedented low, exposing the original intake valves

• There’s No Scenario in Which 2050 Is ‘Normal’

• A Mostly Wind- and Solar-Powered U.S. Economy Is a Dangerous Fantasy :: Gatestone Institute

Ukraine War

• Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, April 26

  Russia is staging false-flag attacks in Transnistria, Moldova, likely setting conditions for further actions on that front. The two motorized rifle battalions Russia has illegally maintained in Transnistria since the end of the Cold War are not likely sufficient to mount a credible attack on Odesa by themselves, nor are the Russians likely to be able to reinforce them enough to allow them to do so.

  the false-flag attacks and Russian and Russian proxy reactions to them are alarming, and it behooves NATO and the West to consider the most dangerous courses of action and prepare to meet them.

etc

• Russia Is Being Hacked at an Unprecedented Scale

• Putin warns he WILL use nukes against West if anyone interferes in Ukraine

• How deep does the rot in the Russian army go?

  • HN comments

• Trained Russian Navy Dolphins Are Protecting Black Sea Naval Base, Photos Show

  • Russia deploys trained dolphins at Black Sea naval base, satellite images show

• A chilling Russian cyber aim in Ukraine: Digital dossiers

• Ukraine Says Russia Increasing Pace Of Attack In "Almost All Directions"

• Russia's tanks in Ukraine have a 'jack-in-the-box' design flaw

• Ukrainians are scrubbing OpenStreetMap to keep Intel from Russia’s army

• Donetsk separatists’ desperate draft campaign empties streets of men