2022-05-02

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• My penis fell off but it regrew on my arm — now I'm a real man again

Horseshit

• The Agony of Eros: Dating | Hacker News

• Zelensky Compound NDA — /dev/lawyer

  • HN comments

• In a world gone mad, elites keep peddling untruths

• Law firm says staff can work from home for 20% less pay

• Hertz to face 100 new false arrest claims from customers

celebrity gossip

• Bill Gates says we should prevent pandemics with a permanent task force

Obit

• Kathy Boudin, Weather Underground member, Kathy Boudin dead at 78

Rank Propaganda / Thought Policing / World Disordering

• Time Columnist Denounces Free Speech As A White Man's "Obsession"

• Mayorkas cites misinformation about Homeland Security's disinformation board

• THE COLUMN: At Last, a Hill to Die On | The Pipeline

• TIME’s Charlotte Alter explains that free speech means something entirely different now than it used to – twitchy.com

• Psaki Blames Trump for the Disinformation Governance Board – PJ Media

• Do We Draw the Line at a US Ministry of Truth?

• Free Speech as a ‘Right Wing Value’ - Based Politics

COVID / VaxCult

• Omicron Sublineages Evade Antibodies from Earlier Infections

• South Africa's Aspen Covid-19 vaccine plant risks closure after no orders

• Bill Gates warns 'we've NOT seen the worst of Covid'

• The Foegen effect: A mechanism by which masks contribute to Covid-19 CFR

• Ask HN: Is the USA in a silent Covid wave?

• The Pros and Cons of Giving People Covid for Science

• 4-Times Vaxxed Kamala Harris Is Prescribed COVID Drug For Severe Illness.

Culture War / Tribal / Re segregation

• Why Critics of Angry Woke College Kids Are Missing the Point

Edumacationalizing / Acedemia Nuts

• Children Must Be Made To Work

Media / ShowBiz / Advertising

• Square-Enix sells all of its Western game studios and their games to Embracer

Musk / Twitter

• Elon Musk Already Showed Us How He’ll Run Twitter

• Elon Musk Isn't Buying Twitter to Defend Free Speech

• Freeze peach and the Internet - by Antonio García Martínez

  In fact, nobody who’s ever been involved directly with moderation inside social media companies has seriously advocated for absolute free speech of the pure 4chan flavor. As I spent an entire chapter describing in my memoir Chaos Monkeys, Facebook was already doing beyond-the-law content moderation as early as 2011 (and presumably before I arrived on the scene, as the team was already scaled up). That level of ‘moderation’ isn’t really in question by anyone whose opinion matters.

  if you think the platforms should be putting their fingers on the scales and declaring this or that eruption of the collective hive mind to be acceptable (or not) for the sake of some greater good or capital ‘T’ Truth, then you’re on the anti-Elon/DiResta side of the debate. If you think that, conversely, we must put up with the Alex Jones bullshit for the sake of the greater good, you’re on the other side of the debate.

• Panicked CNN Guest Wonders “How We’re Going To Control The Channels Of Communications In This Country” – Summit News

• Elon Musk’s vision for Twitter endangers Jews and other minorities

• ‘Sh*t JUST got real’: Elon Musk swings back at ‘lovely people’ at MSNBC in a big way for calling all Republicans ‘Nazis’ and OH HELL YEAH – twitchy.com

  • Musk Goes Nuclear Over MSNBC's 'Republicans Are Nazis' Narrative

TechSuck

• Another Firing Among Google’s A.I. Brain Trust, and More Discord

• The “Chipageddon” parts shortage is weird

• Tim Cook’s strategy to depend on China comes back to haunt him

• Grindr User Data Has Been for Sale for Years

• Strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats facing the GNU Autotools | Hacker News

Crypto con games

• Cryptocurrency is no longer being accepted by Wikipedia

• Dorsey and others defend environmental impact of Bitcoin mining in letter to EPA

Economicon / Business / Finance

• HN Jobs:

  • Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2022)

  • Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (May 2022)

  • Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (May 2022)

• Alarming Signs Farmers Reduce Fertilizer May Wreck Crop Yields  | ZeroHedge

  • Can the World Feed Itself? Historic Fertilizer Crunch Threatens Food Security

  • HN comments

• Spotify Shares Now Selling at Less Than the IPO Price 4 Years Ago

• Trucking shortage shifts from drivers to vehicles

• The Great Resignation is becoming a “great midlife crisis”

• Dollar surge leaves trail of destruction

• Corporations turn tens of thousands of NC homes into rentals

• “Flash crash” (-8% Nasdaq Nordic) hits EU stock markets

• Depression-Era foods that are weirdly making a comeback.

• America's Homebuilding Boom (That Isn't)

• Millennials are ahead of their parents in retirement savings

• Soaring prices fuel calls for US Government to step in

• A U.S. Recession, Are We There Yet?

• 10-Year Treasury Yield Hits 3% for First Time Since 2018

• Diesel prices soaring beyond crude, gasoline — and likely to stay that way.

Gubmint / Poilitcks / Law Making

• Biden Jokes About Low Approval Ratings At Correspondents' Dinner, Says "Some Guy Named Brandon" Is Having A Really Good Year

• Pro-crypto cash floods Democratic primaries, rankling some lawmakers

• Trevor Noah used the White House Correspondents' dinner to force Joe Biden to laugh at how bad the nation is suffering under his own policies | Not the Bee

Law Breaking / Police / Internal Security

• U.S. Supreme Court backs Christian group in Boston flag flap

External Security / Militaria / Diplomania

• Starlink fought off Russian jamming attack faster than the military could

• Pelosi's 'Victory' Rhetoric During Surprise Trip To Kiev Making Some Allies Nervous

World

• Spanish prime minister's telephone infected by Pegasus spyware

• Germany expects to be independent of Russian oil by summer's end

• New report recommends turning the Canadian Armed Forces into a secular theocracy

• Experts fear political use of digital yuan

• Israel demands apology after Russia says Hitler had Jewish roots

• Finland will decide to apply for NATO membership on May 12, says Iltalehti

• The Only Five Paths China’s Economy Can Follow

Health / Medicine

• Overtreatment in American Health Care

• Online Pharmacy Truepill Halts Adderall Prescriptions

Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda

• Fruits and vegetables are less nutritious than they used to be

• India and Pakistan swelter in 'unprecedented' heatwave

• The climate benefits of veganism and vegetarianism

• Nearly all of the West is in drought and it's not even summer yet

• Avoiding ocean mass extinction from climate warming

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• The ‘Ghost of Kyiv,’ Who Was Never Real, Just Got Killed in the Press

• John Deere remotely locked thieves out of $5m stolen equipment

• Mass flight of tech workers turns Russian IT into another casualty of war

• Ukraine Is Now America's War, Too

• Her anti-war protest on TV was seen by millions. But is she a Kremlin stooge?

• Russia’s trolling on Ukraine gets ‘incredible traction’ on TikTok

• 'We can only be enemies'

• Failing to Deter Russia’s War Against Ukraine: The Role of Misperceptions

• Russia to discuss lunar base with China

• Ukraine war: Children in Mariupol 'drank rainwater from puddles'

• Ukraine War Puts Spy Satellites for Hire in the Spotlight

• Besieged Azovstal Steel Plant "Worse Than Hell" As UN Brokers 'Safe Passage Operation' For 100 Civilians | ZeroHedge

• Russian Moms Can Play a Part in Helping to End the War in Ukraine

• Putin the Planner

• As Satellite Images Reshape Conflict, Worries Mount About Keeping Them Safe

• Russian TV Warns Britain Can Be 'Drowned In Radioactive Tsunami’ By Single Nuclear Sub Strike