2022-05-03

Cool

• Rocket Lab recovers first stage booster via helicopter catch

• 3-meter-long giant squid found stranded on Sea of Japan beach

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• California’s population shrinks for second year in a row

  • California’s demography is at odds with the old California Dream

• Garth Brooks concert registered as earthquake in Louisiana

• Internal Government Report Shows Why Arecibo Couldn’t Be Saved

• Amazon Alphabet and Others Are Quietly Rolling Out Drone Delivery Across America

celebrity gossip

• Bill Gates on how the world needs a pandemic protection team

  • How to Prevent the Next Pandemic

Rank Propaganda / Thought Policing / World Disordering

• Partisan Fight Breaks Out over New Disinformation Board

• Google’s Spamgate.

COVID / VaxCult

• U.S. Seeks 'Urgent' Data on Covid Relapses After Using Paxlovid

• State of Affairs: May 2 – By Katelyn Jetelina

• Covid and Risk

• Omicron subvariants BA.4, BA.5 evade protection from earlier omicron infection

• Media is Slowly Coming Around to Idea that Covid Vaccines Aren’t as Effective as Advertised.

• CDC Tracked Millions of Phones to See If Americans Followed Lockdown Orders

• Yes, Relapses After Paxlovid Happen – Now What?

• The ¥22T question: When will Japan reopen to foreign tourists?

• Shanghai patient taken away in body bag while alive

• BA.4 and BA.5, two new Omicron variants sweeping South Africa, detected in U.S.

• Omicron subvariants BA.4, BA.5 evade protection from earlier omicron infection

• Study into mRNA vaccine death rates sends ‘danger signals’

  Stabell-Benn and her colleagues found no statistically meaningful evidence in the trial data that the mRNA vaccines reduced all-cause mortality. The numbers of deaths from other causes including cardiovascular deaths appear to be increased in this group, compensating for the beneficial effect of the vaccines on Covid. Stabell-Benn is keen to stress that the sample is relatively small and is calling for further investigation,

Media / ShowBiz / Advertising

• Facebook Pulls the Plug on Podcast Business After a Year

• The Untold Story of Disney’s $307 Million Bomb ‘John Carter': ‘It’s a Disaster’

• Paramount+ Adds 6.8M Subscribers in First Quarter

Musk / Twitter

• The flawed math behind Elon Musk’s Twitter deal

• Musk seeks to put in less money in new Twitter deal financing

• Twitters Board Gave Up

• "All's Well That's Orwell" - Musk Tosses Tactical Nukes At 'Ministry Of Truth' And Trust-Fund Journo | ZeroHedge

• The problems with Elon Musk’s plan to open-source the Twitter algorithm

• I Don’t Have a Business Plan: How Elon Musk Wings It

• Musk’s grand vision for 'free speech' on Twitter faces reality check in Asia

• The Real Problem with Twitter

• Twitter warns of possible employee exodus before Musk completes purchase

TechSuck

• Ask HN: What are your favorite examples of elegant software?

• Global Chip Shortage’s Latest Worry: Too Few Chips for Chip-Making

• How I Arrived at Sun as Employee No. 8

Crypto con games

• SEC to Hire More Crypto Cops to Fight Digital Frauds

• Coinbase CEO Predicts One Billion Crypto Users Within a Decade

Economicon / Business / Finance

• The Era of Cheap and Plenty May Be Ending

• Consumer Goods Giant Clorox Slashes Profit Outlook, Signals Further Price-Hikes | ZeroHedge

• BP profit more than doubles on 'exceptional' oil trading

Gubmint / Poilitcks / Law Making

• New book says Trump wanted troops to open fire on BLM protesters: Can’t you just

• Docs: Prominent Journo Showed Draft of Narrative-Driving Russiagate Story to Oppo Firm.

• The UFO briefings on Capitol Hill have begun. Lawmakers aren’t impressed.

Supreme Abortion

• Supreme Court has voted to overturn abortion rights, draft opinion shows

• Roe vs. Wade: US Supreme Court may overturn abortion law, leak suggests

• U.S. Supreme Court set to overturn Roe vs. Wade abortion rights decision

• Leaked SCOTUS Draft Opinion Suggests Imminent Overturn of Roe vs. Wade

  • HN comments

• Key passages from Alito's draft opinion, which would overturn Roe vs. Wade

  • HN comments

• Supreme Court Set to Strike Down Abortion Rights

• Roe v. Wade: Supreme Court Overturning Abortion Rights, in Leaked Draft Opinion

• Leak: Supreme Court to Overrule Roe, Returns Abortion to Voters

• Barricades up around Supreme Court 8pm May 2 2022

  • minutes after the leak"

• Supreme Court Leaks, Progressive America Freaks.

• Supreme Court Barricaded After Bombshell Abortion Leak, Leftists Start to Call for Rash Action.

• Who Leaked the Supreme Court Opinion? – Summit News

• The Destruction of the Supreme Court.

• Biden Urges "Basic Fairness" Over Roe Vs Wade As Protesters Clash Outside Supreme Court | ZeroHedge

• Abortion to become key fight in US midterms after court leak

• Statements on the Supreme Court draft opinion overturning Roe v. Wade - New Jersey Globe

• Chief Justice Roberts responds to leaked Supreme Court draft opinion - ABC News

• The Shocking Supreme Court Leak - by Bari Weiss

• Chief Justice Roberts orders probe into Supreme Court leak | The Hill

  Chief Justice John Roberts on Tuesday directed the marshal of the Supreme Court to launch an investigation into the source of a leaked draft opinion showing that a majority of justices were poised to overturn Roe v. Wade.

• Politico news leak: Chief Justice Roberts opens investigation

Hunter

• Joe Biden used alias of KGB spy from Tom Clancy novels, emails from Hunter’s laptop show.

External Security / Militaria / Diplomania

• Ask HN: Could the fertilizer shortage be caused by weapons manufacturing?

World

• China’s Economy Appears to Be Stalling

• China must rethink its reliance on centralised control to solve every problem

• Indian Supreme Court Declares Forced Vaccinations to Be Illegal

Health / Medicine

• Wearing shoes inside the house is gross – and there’s science to back that up

• Patients taking experimental obesity drug lost more than 50 pounds, maker claims

Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda

• Biden Administration Begins $3B Plan for Electric Car Batteries

• Vail Mountain completes longest season on record with snow to spare.

• Methane Is a Big Climate Problem That Bitcoin Can Help Solve

• Ozone-destroying chemical is on the rise despite crackdown – Science – AAAS

etc

• Moldova: Sources in Ukrainian intelligence claim Russia plans Moldova invasion

• Russian military vehicles still using tires marked "Made in USSR"

• New Video Game Lets You Drive Ukraine's Fearsome Tractors

• So what happens if Putin loses?

• Hacking Russia was off-limits. The Ukraine war made it a free-for-all

• Optimism about the threat of nuclear war

  Russia has not attempted to interdict the flow of weapons inside NATO countries. Not even “plausibly deniable” things like train derailments or warehouse fires. This is all the more remarkable when you consider that the GRU committed attacks in NATO countries in the years before the war started.

• Further observations on the Russian Army

• Pope Admits NATO Likely Provoked Putin's Invasion: "Barking At The Gates Of Russia"