2022-05-20

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• The Space Review: Kosmos 482: questions around a failed Venera lander from 1972 still orbiting Earth (but not for long)

  • HN comments

• Panicked NASA cancels spacewalks after ISS astronaut’s helmet ‘fills with water’.

• Edible mechanical metamaterials with designed fracture for mouthfeel control - Soft Matter (RSC Publishing)

  3D printing chocolate proved to be a challenging endeavor, due to the material's polymorphism. There are 6 different crystal forms of chocolate, each with their own mechanical properties and melting points.

• Reflections on babies and how they fuck up household supply chains

Horseshit

• (Apr 2022) Public service perpetrators punished: Sasaram: Thieves stole a 60-foot-long bridge in Bihar

  Jitendra Singh said that just days before the theft, the village head had sent a written petition to the authorities to dismantle the bridge because it had become a health hazard.

• an OnlyFans creator found and slept with FB employees to undelete her IG account | Hacker News

  • OnlyFans star sleeps with Facebook employees to get account reinstated

• New York rolling out noise law, listening tech for souped-up speedsters | Hacker News

• How can we put a shine on drugging, then killing, children? A special brew may have calmed Inca children headed for sacrifice

• Smart, co-operative, emotional: what cutting-edge science tells us about pigs

• Nintendo: Female Characters Will Not Drive Mario Karts After Saudi Investment

Rank Propaganda / Thought Policing / World Disordering

• Twitter Policy Aims to Clear Fog of War Misinformation

• "The Typhoid Mary of Disinformation": Nicolle Wallace. Nobody Spreads it More Relentlessly.

• Misinformation About Misinformation - by Bryan Caplan

• New Pfizer tech: pill with tiny chip that sends a wireless signal when digested

Musk

• Twitter deal leaves Elon Musk with no easy way out

• UCLA_Law has tentatively approved a 2-week course on “The Law of Elon Musk”

• Democrat revenge? The shape of news coverage sure does look familiar: SpaceX paid $250,000 to cover up Elon Musk sexual harassment of flight attendant

  • Elon Musk exposed his genitals to private flight attendant

  • SpaceX Paid $250k to Settle Musk Sexual Harassment Claim, Insider Reports

  • Elon Musk was accused of sexual misconduct by a SpaceX flight attendant: report

  • Elon Musk exposed himself to SpaceX flight attendant, according to documents

  • Musk Challenges Sexual Harassment Accuser To "Describe" Part Of His Body

  • Elon Musk Denies the Accusations

  • Elon Musk faces sexual assault claim from SpaceX flight attendant

  • Elon Musk denies sexual harassment claims

• The left hates Elon Musk because he’s a twin threat that doesn’t tolerate BS.

• Company insiders rip Tesla’s stance on safety in hard-hitting Elon Musk doc

• Elon Musk, Chaos Monkey

Abortion

• Meta tells employees to stop discussing abortion at work

Monkeypox

• How Has Monkeypox Suddenly Spread All Over The Globe At Lightning Speed? | ZeroHedge

• Britain offers smallpox vaccine as monkeypox cases spread in Europe.

• Monkeypox virus: What is it, what are the symptoms, and how does it spread?

• WHO calls emergency meeting as monkeypox cases cross 100 in Europe

• Monkeypox goes global: why scientists are on alert

• (2021, PDF) NTI_Paper_BIO-TTX_Final.pdf

COVID / VaxCult

• So, Have You Heard About Monkeypox?

• A call for an independent inquiry into the origin of the SARS-CoV-2 virus

• Omicron as severe as other Covid variants -large U.S. study

• China eases Covid-19 test rules for Canadian travelers, other countries

Edumacationalizing / Acedemia Nuts

• Cool: Popular education in Sweden: much more than you wanted to know

• Does liberal bias affect academia? Advancing a deadlocked debate

  During the Brexit referendum, I helped organize debates within universities; a major problem was that we could not find academics who would argue for Leave.

• University sidelines sonnets as 'products of white western culture'

Media / ShowBiz / Advertising

• Facebook Monetizing Searches for the Buffalo Shooting Video

• Tell HN: Reddit does not allow comments post via old.reddit.com | Hacker News

TechSuck

• Apple reportedly showed off its mixed reality headset to board of directors

• Department of Justice announces new policy for charging cases under the CFAA | Hacker News

• Wafer Shortage Improvement in Sight for 300mm, but Not 200mm | Hacker News

• China’s GitHub clone making all repos private pending mysterious ‘review’

Crypto con games

• Tether Cuts Commercial Paper, Boosts Treasuries Behind USDT

• Coinbase is reeling in its big spending

• The cryptocurrency sell-off has exposed those swimming naked | Hacker News

• Tether Required Recapitalization in May 2022

  • HN comments

• Miami’s mayor backed MiamiCoin crypto–then its price dropped 95%

Economicon / Business / Finance

• Y Combinator's Message to Founders | Hacker News

• The U.S. Housing Market Has Peaked but we're not headed for 2008

• Caribou Financial Now an Auto Refinance Unicorn

• Don’t Look to Oil Companies to Lower High Retail Gasoline Prices

• Google gives ex-FDA digital health head Bakul Patel strategic role

• Giant container ships are ruining everything

• Uber and Dig Lure New Yorkers by Making Fun of Grubhub Debacle

• The next shock for homeowners: Surging property tax assessments

• Inflation-linked U.S. bonds crashed the TreasuryDirect website

• ‘Different from the US’: why Japan does not worry about inflation

• US inflation dips to 8.3% but stays close to 40-year high

• The SPAC Bust Is Expensive

• Stocks fall into bear market with S&P 500 now off 20% from record

Shortages

• The Coming Food Catastrophe | Hacker News

• FDA head says baby formula factory could reopen in the next week or two

• How the U.S. got into an infant formula mess

• German beer producers running out of bottles

• Formula for a Shortage

  I am going over this again, now that the full picture is clear and politicians have made various new insane statements, because the situation is so perfect. It’s terrible, in the sense that mothers are panicking and having trouble finding formula to keep their kids alive. I’m quite unhappy about it happening. What I mean is that this is the perfect example of a situation in which all the things our government likes to do combine to create a mysterious completely unnecessary shortage of a vital product via driving out most potential suppliers. Then those forces combine to prevent the problem from being fixed, and those responsible then blame capitalism and corporations for a problem they would have handled quite well if they’d been permitted to do so.

Gubmint / Poilitcks / Law Making

• Census Miscounted the Population of 14 States, a Review Shows

  • Census screw-up favors blue states? Shocking

• The rise and importance of Secret Congress

• Biden Seeks New Unilateral Powers For WHO Chief To Declare Public Health Emergencies | ZeroHedge

  • Yesterday: WHO health regulations don’t infringe on US decision-making

• Lawmakers reach consensus on Puerto Rico status bill, call for plebiscite

Hunter

• Hunter Biden's hard drive shows his firm took in about $11M, spent it fast

• Newly Leaked Hunter Biden Emails Point to Possible White House Corruption.

Law Breaking / Police / Internal Security

• Town Seized Building, Offered to Return It If Owners Bought Two Cars for Police

  • HN comments

• 15 People joined Buffalo shooter's Discord private chat shortly before shooting

• How FBI bigwig aided and abetted Hillary Clinton plot

• Tale of Two Trials: How Sussmann is Receiving Every Consideration Denied to Flynn – JONATHAN TURLEY

• Michael Sussmann: Clinton lawyer 'lied to manipulate FBI over Trump'

External Security / Militaria / Diplomania

• Asian military hotspots and how they play into Biden's visit

• America, China, Russia and the Avalanche of History

• Surging Dollar Raises Possibility of Parity with Euro

World

• Russia Halts Finland's Gas Supply Two Days After Applying To NATO

  • Russia is about to cut off Finland's natural gas

• China cuts key mortgage reference rate

Health / Medicine

• Lavender's Game: Silexan For Anxiety - by Scott Alexander

• Puberty Starts Earlier Than It Used To. No One Knows Why

• Environmental toxins are worsening obesity pandemic, say scientists

• The madness of reduced medical diagnostics

Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda

• Italy's longest river dries up, threatening agricultural collapse

• NYT: Why Do We Swallow What Big Oil and the “Green” Movement Tell Us?

• Coca-Cola Begins Introduction of Attached Caps

• Spain braces for heatwave of ‘extraordinary intensity’

Ukraine War

• Plausible, first hand: I spent most of April and some of May traveling around Ukraine

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• Pro-Russia operatives claimed Zelensky committed suicide to sway public opinion

• The Russian Riot Cops Who Stormed Kyiv by Themselves

• Ukrainian Soldiers Uncover Fourth-Century Urns While Digging Defense Trenches

• A Mini-Russia Gets Squeezed by War