2022-05-06

Worthy

• Efficiency is the Enemy - Farnam Street

  • see also: Church of the SubGenius - Wikipedia

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• Largest known cave art images in US discovered in Alabama

• Trading and weighing metals in Bronze Age Western Eurasia | PNAS

  • Also: Did Copper For The Old World's Bronze Age Come From Mines In The New World?

• Ice cream freezers to get ‘warmed up’ in trial by Ben and Jerry’s owner

• Devouring the Heart of Portugal • Damn Interesting

Horseshit

• Russia to Rent Tech-Savvy Prisoners to Corporate IT?

• The State Took Her Home Because She Missed $900 in Property Taxes

• The pandemic was hard on office suck-ups. Now they’re back and ready to schmooze

• A Wild Turkey Is Attacking People in D.C

• How Rivian’s CEO became the anti-Elon

Rank Propaganda / Thought Policing / World Disordering

• Twitter top censor donated to Democrats before shutting down laptop revelations

• New York’s Museum of Jewish Heritage bans Ron DeSantis to promote ‘its message of inclusivity.’

• Head of FDA Says Misinformation Is Now the Leading Cause of Death

• What the Hell Is Going On at the Washington Post

  It has been four weeks since Musk’s intentions to take Twitter private became clear, and in that time the Post has published over 75 stories on the subject — a mix of analysis, opinion, and further opinion masquerading as hard reporting. That’s more than two stories a day. Many of them are op-eds, including such bangers as Ellen Pao, the failed former Reddit CEO, arguing on behalf of government platform control. But it was in hard reporting where the Post truly ceded credibility.

  • HN comments

• Missouri, Louisiana AGs Sue Biden Admin, Allege Big Tech Collusion

• Progressive Dusts Off ‘My Body, My Choice’ Sign She Put In Storage At Beginning Of The Pandemic

Musk / Twitter

• Elon Musk Left a South Africa That Was Rife with Misinformation/White Privilege

• Musk Will Fund Twitter Deal with Money from Countries That Suppress Free Speech

• Why Saudi Prince Alwaleed Reversed Course on Elon Musk's Twitter Bid

• Musk calls for investigation into groups controlling access to information

• Job interest in Twitter skyrocketed more than 250% since Elon Musk

• Elon Musk probably got a tax break when he sold off Tesla shares

• Ford's New Ad Pokes Fun at Elon Musk's Loud Mouth and Thin Skin

COVID / VaxCult

• FDA Limits Use of Johnson and Johnson Covid-19 Vaccine

  • FDA Limits Use of Johnson and Johnson Covid Vaccine

  • FDA restricts J&J’s Covid-19 vaccine due to blood clot risk

  • FDA Limits J&J's COVID-19 Vaccine Over Blood Clot Risk | ZeroHedge

  To nobody's surprise, Twitter labeled the headline "Misleading" when tweeted by @Breaking911, however AP's same exact headline wasn't flagged. Perhaps the Ministry of Disinformation can provide us with 'context.'

• What I learned on my trip to the Ohio Statehouse

• Pollen Can Raise Your Risk of Covid-19

• Can Covid Lead to Impotence?

• Public health agency tracked Canadians' movements via phone data during pandemic

• New omicron subvariant fueling Covid surge across much of U.S.

• New omicron subvariant fueling Covid surge across much of U.S.

Culture War / Tribal / Re segregation

• Donate to protect women’s rights: a call to my fellow creepy, gross, misogynist

• Saga Of Sage

Edumacationalizing / Acedemia Nuts

• NY Times: Research shows ‘remote learning was a failure’ driven primarily by Democratic partisanship.

• As acceptance rates fall, some Ivy Leagues stop publicizing admissions data

Media / ShowBiz / Advertising

• It’s Time to Open the Black Box of Social Media

• Netflix stands to make billions from ads–and other platforms will follow

• Facebook denies claims the blocking of non-news pages was an intentional tactic

  • Facebook accused of deliberately disrupting Australia emergency services

• The NATO TikTok Pipeline: Why Is TikTok Employing Many National Security Agents?

TechSuck

• Tell HN: AT&T disabled phone numbers and accounts of users using the old phones | Hacker News

• Should you delete your period-tracking app? | Hacker News

• Blobs in Games: Upgrading my PRNG for procedural generation

• Eve Online x Microsoft Excel announced

  • Sci-fi virtual world EVE Online is getting Microsoft Excel support

  • EVE x Microsoft Excel is probably the least surprising collaboration in history

  • Eve Online’s MS Excel partnership makes “spreadsheets in space” official

Crypto con games

• New York is close to a Bitcoin mining crackdown

• NFT Sales Are Flatlining

• SEC Charges Nvidia with Inadequate Disclosures about Impact of Cryptomining

  • HN comments

Economicon / Business / Finance

• Homes in 97% of U.S. cities are overvalued, Moody's says

  • HN comments

  The sooner we collectively decide that housing shouldn't be a market, the better. We all need it, and we should figure out mechanisms to make it available to all.

• Managing by Moonshot Doomed Zillow’s Home Flipping

• As Fed issues rate hike, more warnings that stagflation coming to North America

• Brexit has clobbered smaller businesses

• That Doesn’t Feel Like $150 Worth of Groceries | Hacker News

• Global Grain Reserves "Extremely Low," Will Be Depleted For Years, Warns Top Fertilizer Boss  | ZeroHedge

• Average home prices in New Zealand reaches 8.8 times average household income

• The Case for Higher Rates - The Last Bear Standing

• Celebrating the end of The Good Times

• Worker output fell 7.5% in the first quarter, the biggest decline since 1947

• Mortgage Rates Hit 5.27%, Highest Level Since 2009

• Rare Earths Supply Is About to Get Much Tighter

• Nationwide Baby Formula Shortage Hits "Shocking" Levels, Sparking Panic Among Parents | ZeroHedge

Gubmint / Poilitcks / Law Making

• FAA wants U.S. airlines to retrofit, replace radio altimeters

• Exclusive: Researchers Said DNC Hack Claims Relied On 'Spoofed' Data

• Biden White House avoids Oval Office for press events in part because it has no teleprompter.

Supreme Abortion

• Left-Wing Group To Protest Conservative Supreme Court Justices' Homes As Police Brace For Turmoil Over Roe Leak

• Abortion deserts: America’s new geography of access to care – mapped

• Statement on the draft Supreme Court decision to overturn Roe v. Wade

• Police erect higher security fencing at U.S. Supreme Court as protest crowds grow.

• No, repeal of Roe vs. Wade doesn’t mean “government-mandated pregnancy.”

• The Left Is Here: Pro-Abortion Group Doxxes 6 GOP-Nominated Supreme Court Justices After Roe Leak – PJ Media

• Psaki Says There Is No ‘Official U.S. Government Position’ On Activists Protesting Outside SCOTUS Justices’ Homes | The Daily Wire

• Without Roe, data will become a company headache and a user nightmare

• The Fight over Abortion History

Law Breaking / Police / Internal Security

• True the Vote Has RICO Ballot Trafficking Evidence: Americans Should Care

• DA declines felony charges in Chappell attack

• AI Identifies 160 Possible 'Crews' of Criminal Cops in Chicago

• CA Appeals Court Rules San Francisco Cannot Ban Tenderloin Drug Dealers

  • HN comments

World

• China Orders Government, State Firms to Dump Foreign PCs

• Chinese social media groups reveal nationalist influencers blogging from abroad

• Britain has become unexpectedly European

Health / Medicine

• (Apr 18) Endemic Pathogens Are Making You Crazy And Then Killing You: Toxoplasmosis Spotlight

• An end to high cholesterol and heart attacks by editing human DNA

• U.S. Life Expectancy Falls Further to 76.6 Years

Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda

• Is the insect apocalypse upon us? It's complicated, say researchers

• Global bird populations steadily decline

• Rescuing the Swamp Our Country Depends on but Has Mostly Forgotten

• Eating one-fifth less beef could halve deforestation

Ukraine War

• U.S. provided intelligence that helped Ukraine sink Russian warship.

  • US provided intelligence that helped Ukraine target Russian warship

• Is the left agitating for war with Russia so it can cement domestic tyranny? - American Thinker

• Russian Campaign Assessment, May 5 | Institute for the Study of War

• Do Not brag about your status as an undeclared belligerent and all the sweet sweet KILLS you're making

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• Ukraine’s IT Army is disrupting Russia's alcohol distribution

• Russian warship Admiral Makarov ‘on fire after being hit by Ukrainian missile.’

• Russia: NATO Not Taking Nuclear Threat Seriously | ZeroHedge

• US Intel Assisted In Sinking Russian Flagship Vessel: Officials Claim Bombshell Escalation | ZeroHedge

• Pausing Google Play's billing system for users in Russia

• Spain arrests Ukrainian blogger accused of ‘high treason’ by Kyiv