2022-05-14

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• Anyone home? ‘Doorway’ on Mars spawns alien conspiracy theories Archive link

• See it: Tesla crashes into Columbus convention center at 70 MPH

• Researchers offer alarming reason ‘why aliens have never visited Earth’.

  a new paper published on May 4 in the journal Royal Society Open Science claims that “civilizations either collapse from burnout or redirect themselves to prioritizing homeostasis, a state where cosmic expansion is no longer a goal, making them difficult to detect remotely.”

  • (Jan 2022) Interstellar Travel is Hard - NeuroLogica Blog

• ‎Cracking the Code: Sneakers at 30

• The revealing junk of abandoned Soviet nuclear bases

Horseshit

• Soylent Green predicted a grim 2022. What did the dystopian movie get right?

• Startup offering cocoon-like pods to allow 14 residents to share a single house

• The World’s a Mess. So They’ve Stopped Saving for Tomorrow

Rank Propaganda / Thought Policing / World Disordering

• By a wide margin, Americans view inflation as the top problem facing the country

• Stop insisting the West is as bad as Russia

• Two judges gave Texas control over Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube

• Kim Dotcom on Twitter: This may be the most important thread that I ever make | Hacker News

  You may have heard of the great reset or the world government.

• Nazis Are Actually Fine Now, According to the Southern Poverty Law Center and Anti-Defamation League

• “Reddit is being funded by a fake company” | Hacker News

  • Reddit is being funded by a fake company. : conspiracytheories

• Trump officials and meat industry blocked life-saving Covid controls, investigation finds

  • The Plot to Keep Meatpacking Plants Open During Covid-19

• A coalition wants to change how social media sites control followers

Musk / Twitter

• Elon Musk Aims to Scrap Margin Loan with New Twitter Funding

• Twitter CEO: A lot has happened over the past several weeks

• Musk said his team to do a 'random sample of 100 followers' of Twitter

• Elon Musk can't use Twitter bots to get out out of acquisition agreement

COVID / VaxCult

• CDC Admits It Can't Back Claim That Vaccines Don't Cause Variants | ZeroHedge

• Growing Number Of COVID-19 Deaths Among Vaccinated People: Federal Data | ZeroHedge

• We’re living with Covid but more of us are dying than ever

• Are the COVID vaccines killing people over time? The data suggests yes.

  Something is killing off large numbers of 25- to 54-year-olds in the United States, and the powers that be in government and the media are pretending it is not happening. There is no visible effort to study the alarming statistics gathered by actuaries for the life insurance industry, which keeps track of deaths because they directly impact their bottom line through claims from the insured.

• America Reached One Million Covid Deaths

• Survey shows over 500,000 killed by the COVID vaccines so far

• North Korea: Covid outbreak a great disaster, says Kim Jong-un

• Coronavirus: I’ve endured 20 days of lockdown in Beijing. No one can tell me when it will end

• The Public Health Prophet We Did Not Heed.

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

Culture War / Tribal / Re segregation

• Fisher Price Offers RuPaul Drag Queen Set for Littles - Victory Girls Blog

Edumacationalizing / Acedemia Nuts

• Kindergartners sent home with masturbation assignment

• Stanford president urges criminal investigation into noose found on campus

• On college decision day, don’t sentence your child to decades of debt

• Predictive analytics to identify at-risk children works but is called racist

• Stanford Law scraps all tuition for low-income students, joining Yale

TechSuck

• White House joins OpenSSF and the Linux Foundation in securing open-source

  • that sure sounds ominous

• Look behind the curtain: Don’t be dazzled by claims of ‘artificial intelligence’

• Zyxel silently patches command-injection vulnerability with 9.8 severity rating | Ars Technica

• Funds, server hosting and more | Hacker News

• A tale of a trailing dot | daniel.haxx.se

• Who Is Thinking About Open Source Firmware?

Crypto con games

• Luna Cryptocurrency Collapse: How UST Broke

  • HN comments

• Why All Cryptocurrency Should Die in a Fire

  • HN comments

• ‘The Guilt Is Unbearable’: UST-Luna Investors Discuss the 99.99% Crypto Crash

• The week that shook crypto

• Salvadorans Struggle to Adapt to Bitcoin

• Swiss City Ties Its Crypto Metropolis Dreams to Tether

• More Than $1T of Crypto Vanished in Just Six Months

• Matt Damon’s crypto ad blamed for losing people money

  • Matt Damon Under Fire Again for ‘Fortune Favors the Brave’ Crypto Ad

• Tether cuts commercial paper holdings, says majority of exposure in Treasuries

• Over $1.2B in Bitcoin reserves remains unaccounted for by Luna Fdn. Guard

• What to know as crypto such as Bitcoin and stablecoins plunge

• We will be giving 1,000,000 $LUNA for everyone who Retweet this and comment $LUNA.

• Crypto’s steep decline has investors worried. What do celebrity boosters say?

• What kind of financial asset is Bitcoin?

Economicon / Business / Finance

• Housing supply finally improving as high prices and rising rates weigh on sales

• Record diesel prices, tight supplies could be next blow to the US economy

• Wheat Farmland Under Threat Worldwide As USDA Reveals Dismal Grain Outlook | ZeroHedge

• Better.com Founder/CEO Personally Liable for $750M SoftBank Loan

• Is It Safe to Ship Thousands of Electric Cars on Big Ships?

  • HN comments

• Tech Companies Coddled Their Employees. Now They're Firing Them

• The Companies Cutting Staff, Freezing Hiring or Slashing Costs

• You're Not Imagining It: Concerts Are More Expensive Than Ever

• Reasons the economy looks like it's crumbling – and what to do about it

Baby Formula

• Baby formula producer expects delays through 2022

• The FDA won’t allow European formulas to be sold here because of inane labeling concerns…

• Worry and fear as US faces baby formula shortage

• (Video) Tucker: They are hoarding baby formula

• “Pro-Life” Republicans Complain Biden Isn’t Starving Babies at the Border

• (Apr 28 2022) Former employee blows whistle on baby formula production plant tied to outbreak | Food Safety News

  • HN comments

• How Bad Government Policy Is Fueling the Infant Formula Shortage

  • America’s Infant Formula Crisis and the ‘Resiliency’ Mirage

Gubmint / Poilitcks / Law Making

• Catherine Rampell on the inflation conspiracy theory

• California expects a record $97.5B budget surplus

• Biden admin cancels massive oil and gas lease sale amid record-high gas prices

Law Breaking / Police / Internal Security

• Boba tea shop was cover for ‘massive global’ theft operation, DA says

• Trump’s Potential Document Tampering Now Under Federal Investigation

• Judge orders Steele dossier firm Fusion GPS to turn over 22 emails to John Durham

• ICE became a $2.8b domestic surveillance agency

External Security / Militaria / Diplomania

• The Bizarre, Unanimous Dem Support For The $40b War Package To Raytheon And CIA: "For Ukraine" | ZeroHedge

  This vote, and their silence about it, is particularly confounding — one could, without hyperbole, even say chilling — given how rapidly Democrats’ rhetoric about Ukraine is escalating. As we noted on Tuesday, many leading Democrats, such as Rep. Jason Crow (D-CO), have begun speaking about this war not only as an American proxy war — which it has long been — but as “our war” that we must fight to the end in order for “victory” to be ours, while Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) vows that there be “no off ramps” to end the war diplomatically, since the real goal of the war is regime change in Moscow.

  Even worse, the eighty-two-year-old House Democratic Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-MD), now in his twentieth term in Congress, went to the House floor on Friday to twice say that "we are at war” — meaning the U.S is now at war with Russia — and that it is therefore inappropriate to heavily criticize our president

World

• Food Riots In Sri Lanka Turn Deadly As Protesters Beat Up Police, Burn Down Politicians' Houses

• Iran arrests dozens protesting sudden price hike in food staples

• Russia To Cut Electricity Supplied To Finland Saturday On Heels Of Announced NATO Bid

  • Russian operator to suspend electricity supply to Finland

• India just banned all wheat exports with immediate effect

  • India bans wheat exports to deepen global food crisis

  • HN comments

• UK’s nuclear power push will add to energy bills, ministers say

• The strange detention of EU diplomats returning from Tehran

Health / Medicine

• Why do those with higher IQs live longer? A new study points to answers

Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda

• Poisoned legacy: why the future of power can’t be nuclear

Ukraine War

• Elon Musk says Russia is ramping up cyberattacks on SpaceX's Starlink systems

• Briefing: analysis of documents related to the military biological activities of the United States on the territory of Ukraine May 11, 2022

• The Art of Disinformation–Western Lies About the War in Ukraine

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• The Ukrainian who walked 225km to safety from Mariupol

• The Overlooked Reason Russia’s Invasion Is Floundering

• Putin “gone crazy” and has blood cancer

• Russian toops are proving that cell phones in war zones are a bad idea

  • HN comments

• Ask HN: DJI possibly providing location of Ukranian drones

• Ukraine: Moscow Threatens Finland Over NATO, Russia Supposedly Lost Battalion in Failed River Crossing.

• Readout of Secretary of Defense Lloyd J. Austin III’s Call With Russian Minister of Defense Sergey Shoygu