2022-05-13

Cool

• Great Grey Owl Lands on Wildlife Photographer's Camera | PetaPixel

• Talking with the Moon: Inside Apollo's premodulation processor

Worthy

• Vanishing People: the Population Crisis - by Ryan McEntush

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• Expats are moving to Portugal, taking gentrification with them | Hacker News

• Why Does Pepperoni Curl? | The Food Lab

• SpaceX on pace to shatter US launch records. Again

• Rare Haboob Rips Through Northern Plains | ZeroHedge

Horseshit

• FAA revokes licenses of pilots in failed Red Bull plane swap

• Elon Musk boasts his Neuralink brain chips ‘will 100% cure’ common illness

• You, Too, Could Own This Shitty Bay Area Fixer-Upper – For Just $661,500

Rank Propaganda / Thought Policing / World Disordering

• DHS Disinformation Chief: “Verified users should be able to edit other’s Tweets”

• A Gentler, Better Way to Change Minds

• American Infants Go Hungry While Biden Sends Baby Formula to Illegals.

• The pods are here, pod living, whats next? Eating bugs?

• How Socialism became anti-American

• It's time to kick China off social media, says tech governance expert

• Online and woke: How Eurovision is making Europe sexy again

• Why is Canada euthanising the poor?

Musk / Twitter

• Twitter Deal Temporarily on Hold

• Elon Musk says Twitter deal on hold pending details on fake accounts

• Elon Musk puts Twitter deal on hold over fake account details

• Twitter Deal Temporarily on Hold

  • HN comments

• It's the Night of the Blunt Knives at Twitter.

• Musk Says His Twitter Takeover Is ‘On Hold,’ Then Says He’s ‘Still Committed’

• Elon Musk puts Twitter deal on hold over bot numbers claim

• Elon Musk Trolls Twitter - Bloomberg

• Musk Trolls Twitter on HN

Supreme Abortion

• The Lancet: Why Roe vs. Wade must be defended

COVID / VaxCult

• China shuts down talk of Covid hardship; users strike back

• Fauci’s Royalties and the $350M Royalty Payment Stream Hidden by NIH

• Study finds the SARS-CoV-2 virus is not viable on cash banknotes

• Unvaccinated North Korea reports omicron outbreak, raising fears of new variants

• The latest good and bad news about Covid-19 drugs

• Meatpackers hyped 'baseless' shortage to keep working despite Covid. 269 died

• Face masking and COVID-19: potential effects of variolation on transmission dynamics

  Face masks do not completely prevent transmission of respiratory infections, but masked individuals are likely to inhale fewer infectious particles. If smaller infectious doses tend to yield milder infections, yet ultimately induce similar levels of immunity, then masking could reduce the prevalence of severe disease even if the total number of infections is unaffected. It has been suggested that this effect of masking is analogous to the pre-vaccination practice of variolation for smallpox, whereby susceptible individuals were intentionally infected with small doses of live virus (and often acquired immunity without severe disease)….. Our results suggest that if variolation is a genuine side-effect of masking, then the importance of face masks as a tool for reducing healthcare burdens from COVID-19 may be under-appreciated.

• South Africa’s COVID-19 spike intensifies

• China Tightens Restrictions On Overseas Travel While Shanghai Aims For 'Zero COVID' By Mid-May

• America, Unmasked

Culture War / Tribal / Re segregation

• I Criticized BLM. Then I Was Fired. - by Zac Kriegman

• Calling a man ‘bald’ is sexual harassment, employment tribunal rules

• What Do Female Incels Want?

Media / ShowBiz / Advertising

• Netflix Updates Corporate Culture Memo

  • Netflix Fires Major Warning Shot at Its Woke Employees with New ‘Culture Memo’

• EverQuest players break sacred MMO code by waking up 20-year-old dragon | PC Gamer

• CNN+ Staffers Received Insulting 'Gift Boxes' After Getting Fired

TechSuck

• Demand for GPUs used to mine crypto 'disappearing', says ASUSTeK

• Open DNS resolvers, from bad to worse

• Modeling Interconnected Social and Technical Risks in OSS Ecosystems

• NSA Says ‘No Backdoor’ for Spies in New US Encryption Scheme

• Starlink now available to ship immediately in 32 countries

  • Starlink Map

Crypto con games

• The Cryptocurrency Crash Is Replaying 2008 as Absurdly as Possible

• Coinbase experiencing major outage as crypto prices plummet

• Crypto Could Be Contagious

• Tether Sinks Below $1 in Nightmare Scenario for Bitcoin

• Crypto crash: Stablecoin collapse sends tokens tumbling

• Global crypto regulation body likely in next year, top official says

• Cryptocurrencies Melt Down in a ‘Perfect Storm’ of Fear and Panic

• Cryptocurrency Luna crashes to $0 as UST falls further from dollar peg

• Bitcoin: The Return to Reality

• People with dark personality traits more enthusiastic about Bitcoin, study finds

• The cryptocurrency dream is fading fast

• Why the Powerful Forces That Run Faltering NFT Markets Won’t Let Prices Crash

• Terraform Restarts Blockchain Behind UST Stablecoin, Luna

• Ask HN: How do I convince my sister to stay away from investing in crypto?

• Why the market crash could be good for crypto

• Coinbase Customers Sue Over Stablecoin That Was ‘Anything But’

• Brief Comments on the TerraUSD and Tether Stablecoin Breakdowns | naked capitalism

• What Terra's 'Hyperinflationary' Collapse Teaches About 'Crypto' & Bitcoin | ZeroHedge

• Coinbase Customers Sue over Stablecoin That’s ‘Anything But’

Economicon / Business / Finance

• The end of free money. It all has to do with something called ‘the Fed put’

• Fed Chair Powell: Controlling inflation will “include some pain”

• Sam Bankman-Fried takes activist position in Robinhood

  • FTX CEO acquires 7.6% in Robinhood

• Apple loses position as most valuable firm amid tech sell-off

  • Apple slips behind Saudi Aramco to lose spot as most valuable company

• BlackRock, Vanguard and State Street Control a Piece of Nearly Everything

• Global wheat crop set to fall for first time in four years, US forecasts

• What are millets and can they help create global food security?

• Samsung in Talks to Hike Chipmaking Prices by Up to 20%

• Wholesale inflation climbs 11% in April, remaining near 40-year high.

• Gold Tumbles Below $1800, Erases All YTD Gains

• "Diesel To Be Rationed On East Coast This Summer," Warns US Oil Billionaire

• Tech bubbles are bursting all over the place

  • HN comments

• a16z’s IPO Megahits Fall Hard

• U.S. FAA finds Boeing 787 certification documents incomplete -sources

• Most media about tech layoffs is alarmist BS

• Norwegian oil fund denounces ‘corporate greed’ over executive pay

Baby Formula

• What’s Behind America’s Shocking Baby-Formula Shortage?

• FDA Takes Important Steps to Improve Supply of Infant Formula Products

• FDA Was Complicating Formula Long Before The Supply Chain Imploded

• Baby Formula Shortage Could Leave Parents Scrambling for Months

• THE NEW REFORM CLUB: Shortages

• With Baby Formula Shortage, Pete Buttigieg Forced To Chestfeed

• Baby formula supply shortage and oligopolistic interests

  Abbott provides 43% of the baby formula in the United States, under the brand names Similac, Alimentum and EleCare, so removing this amount of supply from the market is the short-term cause of the problem. (Abbott and Mead Johnson produce 80% of the formula in the U.S., and if you add in Nestle, that gets to 98% of the market.) The problem is not, however, that there isn’t enough formula, so much as the consolidated distribution system creates a lot of shortages in specific states.

Gubmint / Poilitcks / Law Making

• Texas’ Unconstitutional Social Media Law Allowed to Proceed

  • HN comments

  • “Radical” ruling lets Texas ban social media moderation based on “viewpoint”

• US issued subpoena to access Guardian reporter’s phone records

• Biden administration to release $45B for nationwide internet

• The Democrats’ War On Children – Issues & Insights

• Meatpackers drafted Trump order on meat plants during Covid-19

• The scourge of Rec DOT gov | PMags.com

Law Breaking / Police / Internal Security

• Jan. 6 Prosecutors Threatened Oath Keepers With Life Sentences, Raised Treason Analogy

• Knoxville TN area: Buchanan County supervisor Trey Adkins indicted on election fraud, embezzlement | WJHL | Tri-Cities News & Weather

• The Richmond Observer - OPINION: R.I.P Randy Weaver: Ruby Ridge is not forgotten

• Final ex-eBay employee in cyberstalking case pleads guilty

• note source: Stopping Modern Financial Crimes Requires a Modern Approach

External Security / Militaria / Diplomania

• Gulf War Syndrome mystery solved: US scientists blame the condition on SARIN gas released into the air when Iraq’s chemical weapons cache was bombed

• Central Asia Could Be the Key to Driving a Wedge Between Russia and China

• Senator Rand Paul single-handedly holds up $40bn US aid for Ukraine

  Paul is demanding that the legislation be altered to require an inspector general to oversee spending on Ukraine.

World

• Chinese Passenger Jet Burst Into Flames After Aborting Takeoff

• India is likely to be the world’s fastest-growing big economy this year

• (PDF) Deterioration of the security environment – implications for Sweden

• Turkey does not favor Sweden and Finland’s membership in NATO

  • Turkey Not Favorable To 'Terror Safe-Havens' Sweden, Finland Entering NATO: Erdogan

  • Turkey’s president objects to Finland and Sweden’s NATO applications

  • Turkey’s leader opposes letting Finland, Sweden join NATO

  • Turkey opposes NATO membership for Finland, Sweden

• Germany: Crypto held for more than a year will not get taxed

• Watch: Chaos In Jerusalem As Israeli Police Attack Slain Al Jazeera Journalist's Funeral Procession

  Israeli police on Friday moved in on a crowd of mourners at the funeral of Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh, beating demonstrators with batons and causing pallbearers to briefly drop the casket,

• Lost’ Picasso spotted in Imelda Marcos’s home after son’s election win

Health / Medicine

• Butyrylcholinesterase is a potential biomarker for Sudden Infant Death Syndrome

• FDA Authorizes Underwear to Protect Against S.T.I.s During Oral Sex

• Covid vaccine has given new impetus to developing an HIV vaccine

Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda

• The Future of Distributed Wind in the US: Unlocking Terawatt-Level Potential

• Extreme weather: What is it and how is it connected to climate change?

• The Biggest Potential Water Disaster in the United States

• Paper as a Plastic Substitute

• April 2022 Tied as Earth’s Fifth-Warmest, Asia Saw Its Warmest April on Record

• India’s Heatwaves Are Testing the Limits of Human Survival

• New study lays out hidden backstory behind deadly Pacific Northwest heat wave

Ukraine War

• Russia Curbs Gas Supplies to Germany in Warning for Europe.

• Russia's Inter RAO to halt power exports to Finland due lack of payment

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• Commander in Ukraine Wants Quiet Electric Bikes for His Sniper Teams

• What Sanctions? Russian Oil Revenues Soar 50%, Hitting A Record High

• Bloated Vladimir Putin video heightens theories Russian leader is sick

• Russia is swaying Twitter users outside the West to its side

• America Must Embrace the Goal of Ukrainian Victory

• We Must Make Sure Russia Finishes This War in a Worse Position Than Before

• Ruble Surpasses Brazil’s Real as Year’s Best-Performing Currency

• For Russia, It’s All About the Benjamins

• A Journalist Just Spotted Russia’s ‘Admiral Makarov’ Frigate, Intact And At Sea.

• Russian Annexation of Occupied Ukraine Is Putin’s Unacceptable “Off-Ramp”