2022-05-15

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• Plane Erupts Into Flames After Crash Landing On Miami Bridge

• The Lawyers Who Ate California: Part I

• Ethylene in the food supply chain

• Classic Japanese audio brand Onkyo files for bankruptcy

Horseshit

• Texans asked to turn up thermostats after heat knocks six power plants offline

• The Rich Are Not Who We Think They Are. and Happiness Is Not What We Think It Is

• Social supermarkets offer choice and self-esteem to hard-up workers

celebrity gossip

• Neal Stephenson, Author Who Coined ‘Metaverse,’ Just Bought His First NFTs

Rank Propaganda / Thought Policing / World Disordering

• Liberals Should Be Worried About the Conservative Comedy Scene

• How Disagreement Became 'Misinformation' – The Daily Sceptic

• Dave Chappelle and the Death of Free Speech

• What Propels Cancel Culture? - Rob Henderson's Newsletter

• When Disagreement Becomes Trauma

Musk / Twitter

• Musk: Twitter legal said I violated NDA by revealing bot check sample size = 100

  • Elon Musk says Twitter legal team told him he violated an NDA

• Elon Musk can't just walk away from Twitter deal by paying $1B

Supreme Abortion

• Thousands Gather at Marches for Abortion Rights

• Nationwide 'Bans Off Our Bodies' rallies for abortion rights start Saturday

• Yes, Phones Can Reveal If Someone Gets an Abortion

• Margaret Atwood: The Court Is Making Gilead Real

• MSNBC Condemns ‘Talk About The Constitution’ In SCOTUS Draft Opinion

• Why Roe vs. Wade must be defended

COVID / VaxCult

• Covid and reverse discrimination

• Why is the Covid case rate in San Francisco so much higher than the U.S.?

• Severe acute hepatitis in children: investigate SARS-CoV-2 superantigens

• SARS-CoV-2 infections in children: Understanding diverse outcomes

• How America Lost One Million People

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

• SARS-CoV-2 vaccination can elicit a CD8 T-cell dominant hepatitis

Culture War / Tribal / Re segregation

• LGBTQ advocates fight the homophobic 'grooming' narrative

Edumacationalizing / Acedemia Nuts

• Student Loan Borrowers Don’t Deserve ‘Forgiveness.’ They Deserve an Apology

• The impact of digital media on children’s intelligence

• Watch: Colorado School Board Cuts Off Mom For Reading Out Sex Scene From Book Available To Students | ZeroHedge

Media / ShowBiz / Advertising

• Netflix will stream a Norm Macdonald stand-up special he shot before dying

TechSuck

• Angry IT admin wipes employer’s databases, gets 7 years in prison

• Intel's New Chimera: Alder Lake

  • HN comments

Crypto con games

• Bitcoin’s drastic sell off debunks its image as the 'next sure thing,' experts say

• The NFT market hasn't crashed – it was never not crashed

• Sam Bankman-Fried, Crypto Billionaire, Wants Washington to Follow His Lead

• SEC chief Gensler says crypto exchanges 'market making against their customers'

• Tether now offering 30% interest on USDT deposits

  • HN comments

• Whereabouts of Terra's Bitcoin Reserve a Mystery After Transfers

• Paul Butler – The problem with bitcoin miners

  • HN comments

Economicon / Business / Finance

• The Texas electric grid can barely keep the lights on and it’s not even hot yet | Hacker News

• Relocating New Yorkers Drive Up Miami Apartment Rents by 58%

• The Crypto Crash Is Just the Start

• TSMC plans another price hike amid inflation concerns

• Rivian sold Wall Street on an electric SUV. Then reality hit

• Is this another tech bubble bursting?

• The Rebellion Against the Return to the Office Is Getting Serious

• The Fed Sure Sounds as If It Expects a Recession

• Facebook, Twitter Are Pulling Back on Hiring

• Robinhood aims to court users with 1% interest rate on cash

  • HN comments

Shortages

• Egg Prices Soar As 10% Of Nation's Hens Wiped Out By Devastating Bird Flu

• India bans wheat exports as heat wave hurts crop, domestic prices soar

• GOP’s new midterm attack: Blaming Biden for formula shortage

Gubmint / Poilitcks / Law Making

• Biden Calls on States to Devote Stimulus Funds to Police

• Congress to hold UFO hearing next week

• Bezos: Disinformation Board should review this Joe Biden tweet about inflation

  • Bezos Blasts 'Disinformation'-Spreading Biden Over Latest Inflation Blame "Misdirection" | ZeroHedge

  • White House Admits It Lied About Vaccines | ZeroHedge

Law Breaking / Police / Internal Security

• Seven dead in shooting at Buffalo supermarket

  • Ten Dead After Gunman Livestreams Mass Shooting At Buffalo Supermarket

  • Buffalo Mass Shooter Cites "Great Replacement Theory" In Manifesto  | ZeroHedge

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  • Mass Shooting Apparently Planned on Discord, Streamed on Twitch

  • As Twitter Takes to Blaming Tucker Carlson for Shooting, Suspect’s Manifesto Confirms He’s No Fan of Fox News

External Security / Militaria / Diplomania

• (Mar 16 2022) First Ever Stealth Fighter Encounter China’s J-20 and America’s F-35

• McConnell heads to Kyiv and becomes the latest U.S. official to meet with Zelenskyy

World

• Turkey 'not closing door' to Sweden, Finland NATO entry

  • Erdogan says Turkey not supportive of Finland, Sweden joining NATO

• Secret UK propaganda campaign stoked Israel hatred to appear authentic

• UK family doctor accused of running Indian terror group

• Italian police prevents pro-Russian hacker attacks during Eurovision contest

• Christian democracy is to blame for Europe’s democratic backsliding

• Quebec to pass onerous language law

• Finland Announces It Wants to Join NATO

  • Finland's President Informs Putin Of Application To Join NATO

• Sweden's ruling party backs joining NATO, paving way for bid

Health / Medicine

• America has the NHS but it's far from universal

• MIT, Harvard scientists find AI recognizes race from X-rays and nobody knows how

Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda

• Spreading rock dust on farms is an overlooked but tantalizing climate solution

  • HN comments

• Caesar’s favourite herb was the Viagra of ancient Rome until climate change

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• Russia Is Using Chips from Dishwashers to Fix Its Tanks

• Putin coup is 'impossible to stop,' says Ukraine's military intelligence chief

• The Elite Ukrainian Soldiers Defending the Donbas

• The war in Ukraine is spurring transatlantic co-operation in tech

• A Mini-Russia Gets Squeezed by War

• Russia lost one third combat forces since February

• Zelensky Presses US To Designate Russia "A Terrorist State" During McConnell Visit