2022-05-19

Cool

• Outhorse Your Email | Hacker News

Worthy

• The Cantillon Effect and Stock Market Crashes

  This is no way to run a country. In a society with a coherent social vision, people would get rich investing in baby formula production, or medical dye, or generic pharmaceuticals, all of which are in shortage. But instead, money has been flooding into cryptocurrencies, weird obvious scams like SPACs, and a manic art market. Christie’s, for instance, just sold a famous Andy Warhol painting, a 1964 silk-screen of Marylin Monroe. The work went for $195 million to an anonymous bidder, which is the size of the annual budget for a small city, like Norman City, Oklahoma. When baby formula is in shortage and art markets are insane, the economy has clearly become the byproduct of a casino. (I suspect there’s probably some form of collusion here, of auction houses, high-end museums, and billionaires, to keep prices high, but the point stands.)

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• Voyager 1 is sending back data from interstellar space that's mystifying NASA

  e readouts from the attitude articulation and control system, which control the spacecraft's orientation in space, don't match up with what Voyager is actually doing. The attitude articulation and control system, or AACS, ensures that the probe's high-gain antenna remains pointed at Earth so Voyager can send data back to NASA. So far, the Voyager team believes the AACS is still working, but the instrument's data readouts seem random or impossible.

  • Engineers Investigating NASA’s Voyager 1 Telemetry Data

• After two failed attempts, Boeing’s Starliner will try again this week to reach the ISS: Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft has yet to make it to the International Space Station, but experts are optimistic about the third test flight.

• NASA confirms impending end for InSight - SpaceNews

• Billionaires on the ISS Weren't Expecting to Work So Hard

• More people would rather sleep with their pet than their spouse.

• MI officials fast-track bridge fix after man says it 'collapsed under my feet' | Hacker News

UFO

• Results of the UFO hearings

• UFO Hearing: Pentagon Shows Declassified Footage of Flying Spherical Object | ZeroHedge

Horseshit

• We Can Cut Traffic Deaths in Half, but Nobody Wants To

• The death of 'mandatory fun' in the office

• Grubhub promotion overwhelms New York City restaurants

• Some Millennials and Gen Z don't see the point in saving for the future

• The Enduring Afterlife of a Mass Shooting’s Livestream Online

celebrity gossip

• Why the Internet Hates Amber Heard

Rank Propaganda / Thought Policing / World Disordering

• Biden's 'Disinfo' Board Paused As 'Scary Poppins' Resigns | ZeroHedge

• "Fact Check" WHO health regulations don’t infringe on US decision-making

• Twitter's Crisis Misinformation Policy

• MAD VAX, YO: Buffalo Shooter Was a left-leaning COVID Nazi, Wore Hazmat Suit to School

• Two Authoritarian Leftist Killers Committed Mass Shootings This Week, Media Silent

Musk

• The Madness of King Musk

• Elon Musk: Democrats have become the party of division and hate

  • Musk Vs. Soros: "I Can No Longer Support Democrats, Will Vote Republican"

  • Musk: I'll vote Republicans, the Democrats become the party of division and hate

  • Elon Musk plans to ‘vote Republican’ and warns of political attacks on him

  • HN comments

• Elon Musk’s Next Target

Abortion

• Roe v. Wade ruling has Biden administration bracing for nationwide wave of violence | Fox News

  • Read the DHS Memo on Left-Wing Threats Against Judges and Priests

COVID / VaxCult

• Vaccine Adverse Events Data

• Limited cross-variant immunity from SARS-CoV-2 Omicron without vaccination

• Hate your face mask? There’s hope

• For two years, Whidbey island has grappled with the long reach of Covid

• The ‘five pandemics’ driving 1M U.S. Covid deaths

• AstraZeneca’s ambitious vaccine dreams are finally, officially dead

Culture War / Tribal / Re segregation

• “Straight White Male: The Lowest Difficulty Setting,” Ten Years On | Whatever

• Fisher-Price releases RuPaul figurines, honors efforts to ‘inspire.’

Edumacationalizing / Acedemia Nuts

• Predatory Journals That Publish Shoddy Research Put People’s Lives at Risk

• My College Students Are Not OK

• He Was a World-Renowned Cancer Researcher. Now's He's Collecting Unemployment.

Media / ShowBiz / Advertising

• Meta freezes hiring for shopping team, Messenger Kids, and other products

• Netflix customers canceling service increasingly includes long-term subscribers

TechSuck

• LWN Is Hiring

• DOJ Announces It Won’t Prosecute White Hat Security Researchers

Crypto con games

• The Crypto Cult of Do Kwon: ‘If It Was a Ponzi Scheme, They Did a Good Job’

• Crypto Exchange FTX Expands into Stock Trading

• TerraUSD Crash Could Speed Up Crypto Regulation, Binance.us CEO Says

• The cryptocurrency sell-off has exposed those swimming naked

• Terra Ecosystem Revival Plan

• NK scammers are posing as American job candidates to infiltrate crypto startups

• There is a moral case against crypto

• Crypto.com spent its way to the top. Now what?

• What Does It Mean To Be A “Good-Faith Skeptic” & When Is “Bad-Faith” Warranted | Hunter Walk

Economicon / Business / Finance

• The S&P 500 fell 3.8 percent in afternoon trading

  • HN comments

• Lehman Brothers’ Collapse: The Bankruptcy That Took over a Decade to Unwind

• Vast Swath of US at Risk of Summer Blackouts, Regulator Warns

• Overhead doors: Hourly workers to receive $20k-$800k each in private equity factory sale

• The Fed's $2.7T mortgage problem

• Dow Slides More Than 1,100 Points in Worst Day Since 2020

• Gas stations in Washington reprogram pumps to prepare for $10-a-gallon fuel

• Why MasterCard and Visa rarely shut down scams

• JPMorgan shareholders vote down pay bump for CEO Jamie Dimon

• YC advises founders to ‘plan for the worst’ amid market teardown | TechCrunch

• 2008 All over Again: An Analysis of Home Prices

• Is The Housing Crash Starting? | ZeroHedge

• Cisco stock plunges as company forecasts surprising revenue decline

• In This Economy, Getting Fired Takes Hard Work

• Melvin Capital, hedge fund torpedoed by the GameStop frenzy, is shutting down

  • Melvin Capital winding down funds, returning money to investors

• More Subprime Borrowers Are Missing Loan Payments

  • Subprime Car Loan Defaults Hit an All-Time High in February

• Fed’s Esther George said the focus now is fighting inflation, not stock prices

• Global Economy Loses $1.6T as World Struggles to Avoid a New Cold War

• Future of Work: ‘The office as we know it is over,’ Airbnb CEO says

Shortages

• Ukraine war has stoked global food crisis that could last years, says UN

• Biden invokes Defense Production Act amid baby formula shortage

• The banks collapsed in 2008 – and our food system is about to do the same

• The Coming Food Catastrophe

Gubmint / Poilitcks / Law Making

• "The Invasion Of Iraq... I Mean Of Ukraine" - George W. Bush Makes Mother Of All Gaffes

  In the most amazing and well-timed Freudian slip we've ever seen, former President George W. Bush denounced the "wholly unjustified and brutal invasion of Iraq" during an event in Dallas on Wednesday. "The result is an absence of checks and balances in Russia, and the decision of one man to launch a wholly unjustified and brutal invasion of Iraq," Bush said, before quickly catching himself, shaking his head to then say: "I mean, of Ukraine."

  • "The universe is speaking loudly here"

• GOP-Led Legislation Would Force Breakup of Google’s Ad Business

  • Senate bill could force Google, Meta to break up ad businesses

• You Pay Super-High Taxes. You Deserve Nice Things. Why Don't You Demand Them?

Hunter

• Joe Biden’s Claim That Hunter ‘Has Not Made Money’ From China Debunked by NBC

  • Hunter Biden Took In $11 Million Over 5 Years According To NBC Analysis

Law Breaking / Police / Internal Security

• Shkreli released from prison to halfway house after serving under 5 of 7 years

• SEC in-house judges violate right to jury trial, appeals court rules

• NY Attorney Launches Investigations into Social Media for Role in Buffalo Attack

  • HN comments

  • Amazon’s Twitch, Discord, 4chan face New York AG probe after Buffalo shooting

  • HN comments

• 80 ‘Suspicious Actors’ Under Scrutiny by Jan. 6 Defense Attorneys

• Clinton campaign lawyer charged in Durham probe seeks mistrial

• Gunman targets Taiwanese faith with long pro-democracy link

External Security / Militaria / Diplomania

• Congress approves a $40B military and economic aid for Ukraine

World

• Ransomware gang threatens to overthrow Costa Rica government

• China Insists Party Elites Shed Overseas Assets, Eyeing Sanctions on Russia

• Turkey to reject Sweden and Finland's bid to join NATO

• Sri Lanka defaults on debt for first time in its history

• Chinese Hackers Tried to Steal Russian Defense Data, Report Says

Health / Medicine

• Tuberculosis Is the Oldest Pandemic, and Poverty Makes It Continue

• What is monkeypox, the rare virus now confirmed in the U.S. and Europe?

  • Monkeypox cases under investigation in Canada as outbreak spreads in Europe, USA

  • First monkeypox case in US this year reported in Massachusetts

• Why are We Basing Food Policy on Black Box Data?

  about a $380 million, influential study backed by the Gates Foundation, which is informing global health policies yet turns out to be producing highly unreliable numbers on the health risks of foods—red meat, especially. The study authors acknowledge that some numbers in a recent paper were inaccurate, yet they do not plan to correct or retract the paper.

• Analyses of volatile organic compounds from human skin

Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda

• Frogs Keep Mating With the Wrong Things.

• Mysterious beaked whale washes up on California beach north of San Francisco

• Australia election: How climate is making Australia more unliveable

• Rocket Engine Exhaust Pollution Extends High into Earth’s Atmosphere

Ukraine War

• Russia Expels Diplomats, Including the French

• Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, May 18.

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• Hacktivists are spam calling Russian officials and they want your help

• Google's Russian subsidiary to file for bankruptcy after bank account seized

• How the war in Ukraine appears to Russians

• Regime Media Refuse to Call Mass Surrender of Azov Fighters Holed Up in Azovstal Plant a Surrender

• Ongoing Surrender "On Far Bigger Scale Than Kyiv Has Acknowledged" At Azovstal | ZeroHedge