2022-05-24

Cool

• The Greatest Lemons Cars of All Time - 24 Hours of LEMONS

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• Hubble identifies unusual wrinkle in expansion rate of the universe

• The last public payphone in NYC has been removed from Midtown

  • New York City Removes Last Public Pay Phone in End of an Era

• Edward Feser: The hollow universe of modern physics

  • HN comments

• Handling Bulk Material: Why Does My Cat Food Get Stuck? | Hackaday

Horseshit

• 70-year-old astronomy photos may be clues to alien visitors — study

• The sistine chapel of socialism

• ww2: Sanctioned brothels on the front line laid bare for the first time

• Much philanthropy is a routinized exchange between salaried bureaucrats

  • HN comments

• America Needs Sleep

• California parents could soon sue for social media addiction

• The Unique Challenge of Raising Teenagers

• Digital Technology Demands a New Political Philosophy

• San Francisco is the most childless major city in the U.S.

• Expanding Research on Digital Wellbeing

Obit

• Star Wars spacecraft designer Colin Cantwell dies aged 90

Rank Propaganda / Thought Policing / World Disordering

• Journalist Jack Posobiec And Film Crew Detained At Davos | ZeroHedge

• Freedom Of Speech Needs "Recalibration" - Aussie Commissioner Sparks Outrage At WEF | ZeroHedge

• Millionaires at Davos say 'tax us more'

• The Australian Regime Is Weaponizing Credentialism to Crackdown on Free Speech

  • HN comments

• Homeland Security’s Rebooted Disinformation Plan Is No Better Than the First.

Musk

• Bill Gates Poured Millions into Dark Money Fund Attacking Elon Musk

• SpaceX executive defends Elon Musk against misconduct accusations

• In a faceoff with Elon Musk, the SEC blinked

• Elon Musk Lawyers Up with Tesla Autopilot Among Washington's Targets

• How many bots are on Twitter? The question is difficult to answer, misses point

Abortion

• SF Examiner editorial board demands Pope remove archbishop who barred Pelosi from communion over abortion

Monkeypox

• Monkeypox 101, unanswered questions, and the bigger picture

• Possible explanation for more mutations in the monkeypox outbreak

• Expert: Monkeypox likely spread by sex at 2 raves in Europe

  • HN comments

• CDC officials sound alarm for gay, bisexual men as monkeypox spreads

COVID / VaxCult

• Tesla Set To Return To Pre-Lockdown Production Schedule At Shanghai On Tuesday

• Why do some people never get Covid while others get it several times?

• The quest for longer-lasting Covid-19 vaccines

• Why is Xi Jinping doubling down on a ‘zero-Covid’ policy that is causing massive economic distress and public anger in China?

• Journalist Gets COVID Despite Never Taking Mask Off Around People: Blames ‘little kids outdoors who came over to say hi to me.’

• "Long COVID patients are actually suffering from some form of mental illness.”

• The Search for Long Covid

  this is an ongoing study, but so far there are no diagnostic findings that would allow you to even say for sure that post-Covid even exists, biochemically. The authors certainly don't put it that way, but I will.

Culture War / Tribal / Re segregation

• When Your Job Fills in for Your Faith, That’s a Problem

Edumacationalizing / Acedemia Nuts

• Princeton Fires Professor and Sparks Debate about “Free Speech”

  • Princeton Fires Tenured Professor, Punishing Twice for Sexual Misconduct

• We Aren't Raising Adults. We Are Breeding Very Excellent Sheep.

  That is the precise form that campus protests have taken in the age of woke: appeals to authority, not defiance of it. Today’s elite college students still regard themselves as children, and are still treated as such.

Media / ShowBiz / Advertising

• Who owns WaPo, again? Is Amazon Prime worth it for you?

TechSuck

• Starlink for RVs | Hacker News

• Street View turns 15 with a new camera and fresh features

  • HN comments

• I have resigned all my positions in ISO C++ in protest

  I have resigned all my positions in ISO C++ in protest of the decision to use CoC anti-discrimination rules to protect a duly convicted registered level 2 sex offender. This would force victims of sexual assault to interact with this person or face censure or ejection.

  • HN comments

• The Internet Origin Story You Know Is Wrong | WIRED

Crypto con games

• The Bitcoin Investment Thesis Is Broken

• $40bn crypto collapse turns South Korea against the ‘Lunatic’ leader

• Nearly half of US cryptocurrency investors last year had six-figure incomes

• Cryptocrash: ‘I was arrested for knocking on Luna boss's door'

  • HN comments

• Tether seems to have invested $286M in Salvadoran volcano energy bonds

• Tether Withdrawals Top $10B

  • HN comments

• Miladys NFT Prices Tumble After Creator Doxxes Self as Person Behind 'Miya'

• Adam Neuman (WeWork) is back, now in crypto

  • Adam Neumann’s blockchain-based redemption story now sponsored by A16Z

Economicon / Business / Finance

• Swedish fintech Klarna to cut 10% of workforce

  • Klarna laid off 10% of its workforce through a video message

• There will be ‘further layoffs’ that will be ‘fast and furious,’

• Airbnb to take down its listings in China

• PayPal is laying off 83 employees mostly engineers, managers and directors

  • PayPal to cut more than 300 jobs from its Irish operations

  • PayPal lays off 308 employees in Ireland

• On-demand grocery app Gorillas lays off half its office workforce

• Snap stock falls 30% saying it will miss estimates due to deteriorating economy

• Walmart – drone delivery to six states this year

  • Walmart delivery drones selling photo surveillance service

• All the biggest Bay Area tech companies that have paused hiring

Shortages

• US Receives First Shipment Of Baby Formula From Europe, Via Military Plane

  • First shipment of formula arrives from Germany and it’s not going where you might think.

• Why Is the FDA Seizing Baby Formula During a Baby Formula Shortage?

• Global chip shortages: Why supplies must be prioritized for healthcare

• The "winter wheat" harvests are beginning in 3 weeks or so: Analyst Warns World Has Just 'Ten Weeks' Of Wheat Supplies Left In Storage

Gubmint / Poilitcks / Law Making

• Is the SEC Unconstitutional?

• Stolen IRS Files: A Year Later, Still No Answer from Biden Administration

• Video: Biden Admits Sky Rocketing Energy Prices Are Part Of Green “Transition” – Summit News

• Long, worthy: California Gubernatorial Candidates From Z to Z

  Realistically, none of these people besides Gavin Newsom will become governor. Gavin Newsom will continue to run California for four more years, then run for President and very possibly win. When he leaves for DC, the political machine that created him will find some other excellently-hairstyled person, he or she will succeed Newsom as Governor, and none of these candidates will be consulted in any way. California will continue to have homelessness, fires, water shortages, worst-in-the-nation business climate, near-worst-in-the-nation schools, muddled and inconsistent COVID-19 policies, and all the other things these people are complaining about.

• Who’s Afraid of Elise Stefanik?

• The Supreme Court just gutted the constitutional right to effective counsel

Law Breaking / Police / Internal Security

• He Was Arrested for Criticizing the Cops. A Federal Court Says He Can Sue

• Bush Assassination Plot Revealed In FBI Warrant - Outraged Ted Cruz Demands "Secure The Border NOW" | ZeroHedge

External Security / Militaria / Diplomania

• Navy investigation finds submarine crash in South China Sea was ‘preventable’

World

• Xinjiang Police Files reveal details of Uyghur internment in China

• Hungary Declares Wartime State Of Emergency

• Evidence suggests journalist killed in targeted attack by Israeli forces

Health / Medicine

• Living with dogs (but not cats) as a toddler might protect against Crohn’s disease.

Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda

• Above-Normal Summer Heat Is Forecast for Most of the U.S.

• France’s Deepening Nuclear Crisis Means More Energy Pain for Europe

• Climate change made South Asian heatwave 30 times more likely

• New study explains how to broaden strategy to avert catastrophic climate change

• Farm vehicles approaching weights of sauropods exceed limits for soil function | Hacker News

• Two Sides of Climate Is a Distraction

• Time to consider the impact of rocket exhausts on the atmosphere

• The Origins Of Stuff - by Tony - The Polymerist

  petroleum and coal are basically just decomposed biomass that we are mining because our economy was built on the refinement and use of these carbon sources. Things do not have to be this way though and biomass is still readily abundant. Through this series of posts I am seeking to show that our economy is really built on just a few commodity chemicals that we need to produce at scale and at low cost. If we can figure out a way to go from biomass to our commodity chemicals we can cut out the need to fossilize our biomass before we can use it.

• The ‘carbon bombs’ set to trigger catastrophic climate breakdown

Ukraine War

• Powerful American Artillery Enters the Fight in Ukraine

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• No Way Out but War | Hacker News

• Russia intensifies Donbas offensive as war enters fourth month.

• 'Blue-Checks' Furious After Henry Kissinger Says Ukraine Should Cede Territory For Peace With Russia

• War Enters 'Most Active Phase' As Russia Encircles Ukraine Troops In East

• Why Europe Hedges Its Support for Ukraine

• After 3 Months of War, Life in Russia Has Profoundly Changed