2022-05-12

Cool

• Lego built an $170 Transformers Optimus Prime that actually transforms - The Verge

Worthy

• Every Bug is Shallow if One of Your Readers is an Entomologist – SLIME MOLD TIME MOLD

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• ‘It’s Easier to Sell a Dream Than Reality’: Inside Canada’s Cannabis Crash

• Event Horizon Telescope collaboration to announce Milky Way results today

  • Astronomers Reveal 'Groundbreaking Result' of Milky Way's Black Hole

  • Astronomers reveal first image of the black hole at the heart of our galaxy

Horseshit

• Amid Bay Area housing crisis, tiny bunk bed 'pods' offered for $800 a month

• Minnesota Wants to Ban Under-18s from User-Generated Content Services

• How to fix democracy: empower the best informed voters

• Man Dies of Heart Attack While Burying His Girlfriend in His Backyard

• Freckle Tattoos: The Newest Trend in Body Art

• I Stopped To Watch Kids Playing at Recess. Security Was Called.

• Half of U.S. Parents Still Financially Support Their Adult Children

Rank Propaganda / Thought Policing / World Disordering

• Court lets Texas restrictions on social platform content moderation take effect

  • Texas appeals court allows law punishing social media for anti-conservative bias

• Nina Jankowicz says “verified people” should be able to edit people's tweets

• EU Commission is planning automatic CSAM scanning of your private communication

• Survey: Americans love conspiracy theories, and that’s dangerous for everyone

Musk / Twitter

• Running Twitter may be much harder than Elon Musk thinks

  • AP Suggests Elon Musk Is A Hypocrite For Supporting Free Speech But Using It To "Attack" His Critics

• New Twitter TOS | Hacker News

  You agree that you will not work around any technical limitations in the software provided to you as part of the Services, or reverse engineer, decompile or disassemble the software, except and only to the extent that applicable law expressly permits.

• Twitter Freezing Hiring and Cutting Costs as Execs Depart

• Two Twitter leaders are leaving after Musk’s deal to buy the company

• Funding Secured? Musk Looks To Completely Scrap Tesla Margin Loan For Twitter Purchase

Supreme Abortion

• Abortion bill fails in U.S. Senate as Supreme Court weighs overturning Roe

• Why you should never protest outside someone’s home - spiked

• Hey Liberals, Read The Alito Document Or SHUT UP! - The Lid

• America's Abortion Quandary

COVID / VaxCult

• NIH director confirms agency hid early Covid genes at request of Chinese

• Moderna CFO leaves within a day as former employer launches probe

• Understanding the plandemic: countering online far right Covid-19 conspiracies

• The Lab-Leak Theory Is Looking Stronger by the Day

• Health outcomes in people 2 years after surviving hospitalisation with Covid-19

• North Korea says it has detected its first Covid case

  • First case of Covid-19 identified in North Korea

  • North Korea: 'First' Covid cases prompt strict national lockdown

• The evidence keeps pouring in showing the utter failure of all COVID mandates – Behind The Black – Robert Zimmerman

• Should children be vaccinated against Covid-19?

• Xi Jinping moves to silence Covid Zero critics in sign of brewing tumult.

• Covid claims 1M U.S. lives

Culture War / Tribal / Re segregation

• The weird time Nazis made common cause with black nationalists

• How the term “white privilege” affects online communication

• Skin Tones Will Reshape Google’s Approach to AI

• US finds 500 Native American boarding school deaths so far

• Use of ‘white privilege’ makes online discussions more polarized

Edumacationalizing / Acedemia Nuts

• Washington Post Op-Ed Demands Name Change at George Washington University

• Science teachers’ association holds a conference with a presentation on ‘queering your classroom’ – twitchy.com

• Toby Price's firing for reading a ‘Butt’ book upheld by school board

Media / ShowBiz / Advertising

• Disney+ Hits 138M Subscribers

• Cambridge Analytica Reborn? Private Spy Agency Weaponizes Facebook Again

TechSuck

• Nvidia releases open-source GPU kernel-modules | Hacker News

  • Nvidia transitioning to official, open-source Linux GPU kernel driver

• MIPS is switching to RISC-V.

• Down the drain: The elusive ‘default’ PulseAudio sink – brokkr.net

• IBM's autonomous Mayflower ship breaks down in second transatlantic attempt

• Open-source leaders' reputations as jerks is undeserved

Crypto con games

• ‘It's a Bloodbath’: The Crypto Crash Is Real

• Bitcoin Is Acting Like Just Another Tech Stock

• Cryptocurreny retailer BitPrime closes trading after running out of money

• ‘I lost my life savings’ Bitcoin Collapse

• Tether starting to lose its peg too, after Terra did

  • HN comments

• El Salvador buys more Bitcoin after ratings agency downgrades its debt

• Terra was designed by the same people behind failed stablecoin Basis Cash

• 99 problems and Tether ain’t $1

• Tether has reduced its exposure to commercial paper, CTO says

• Live charts Coinbase: Tether to Dollar

• Turmoil in crypto market as ‘stablecoin’ tether breaks dollar peg

• Crypto Carnage Continues As Stablecoin Crisis Spreads To Tether

• Stablecoin tether breaks its peg and drops to $0.95 as panic hits

• The exchanges shored up Tether/Bitfinex starting at 4AM Pacific

• Bitcoin Price Falls Below $26,000

• Tether breaks $1 peg as pressure mounts on world’s biggest stablecoin

• Cautionary Tales from Cryptoland

• Ask HN: Is anyone else glad the crypto market is crashing? | Hacker News

• Terra blockchain was officially halted at a block height of 7603700 | Hacker News

• Bitcoin Hits Session Highs As Terra Developers Halt Blockchain | ZeroHedge

Economicon / Business / Finance

• Turn Off the Memes, This Party's over for Markets Like in 2000

• Is There a Housing Shortage or Not? - by Brian Potter

• Canva, Amazon, Google and Atlassian paying graduates salaries up to $350k

• Disney shares slip after earnings report, as Covid closures take a toll in Asia

• U.S. East Coast Diesel Supply Is Running on Fumes

• Euro Is at $1.05–The Lowest It’s Been in Years

• MSM Warns Against Homemade Baby Formula As Manufacturer Says 'At Least Two Months' Delay | ZeroHedge

  • Baby Formula Shortage: What’s Causing It?

  • Baby formula shortage worsens as national out-of-stock rate hits 43%

  • Baby Formula Shortage Could Last Months

• Gulf State OPEC Members Sound Alarm About Dwindling Global Energy Capacity | ZeroHedge

• Less immigrant labor in US contributing to price hikes

• Online grocery delivery platform Instacart confidentially files for IPO in U.S.

• Here We Go Again: GameStop Halted Multiple Times As It Explodes Higher | ZeroHedge

Gubmint / Poilitcks / Law Making

• The battle for American conservatism

• Biden reverses Trump move to open up more oil drilling in Arctic

• Biden administration cancels oil and gas lease sales in Alaska, Gulf of Mexico.

  • Biden administration cancels oil and gas lease sales in Alaska, Gulf of Mexico

• Yes, Safe Smoking Kits Include Free Crack Pipes. We Know Because We Got Them.

• FCC proposes funding Wi-Fi on school buses

Law Breaking / Police / Internal Security

• FBI Whistleblowers Claim Agents Investigated Parents Accused of Threatening School Boards over Mask Policies.

• U.S. cities are backing off banning facial recognition as crime rises

External Security / Militaria / Diplomania

• Europe refiners benefit from U.S. emergency oil stock releases | Reuters

World

• Military agreement with UK, Sweden and Finland

• Why I’m Bullish on Britain, and Betting on Its Future

• Finland Applying for NATO Membership

  • Finland will seek NATO membership immediately

  • HN comments

  • Finland to apply to NATO ‘without delay,’ as Sweden mulls stance.

  • Finland’s president and prime minister back NATO membership

• Videos of Ruined Wheat Fields in China Boost Food Security Fears

• China stops issuing passports for non-essential travel

  • China says it will ‘strictly limit’ citizens from going abroad

Health / Medicine

• 'Pregnant women should avoid cosmetics that contain endocrine disruptors’

• Blocking Inflammation May Lead to Chronic Pain

• Slowly Parsing SMTM's “Lithium Is Making Us Fat” Thing

• Can we trust the oxygen saturation measured by consumer smartwatches?

• Rising income inequality linked to Americans’ declining health

Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda

• Study finds cleaner air leads to more Atlantic hurricanes

• US fracking boom could tip world to edge of climate disaster

• Rising sea levels: House worth 381k collapsing in the ocean in Rodanthe, NC

• A Natural Language - by Denis de Bernardy

  exposes the environmental narrative as propaganda and puts bottom-up solutions in front of the actual problem.

• California’s AI-Powered Wildfire Prevention Efforts Contend with Data Challenge

• Creaky U.S. power grid threatens progress on renewables, EVs

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• What I did to destroy Russian pontoon bridge over Siverskyi Donets, a thread

• Why Ukraine’s army still uses a 100-year-old machinegun

• Kherson’s military administrators to call for Russian annexation

• Siemens to wind down Russian business