2022-05-25

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• Southern Baptist Leaders Withhold List of Accused Sex Offenders from the Public

• The great junk transfer is coming

  • HN comments

• Tesla owners less likely to crash their EV than their other cars

  • wonder if that means the teslas drive fewer miles?

• What's in your weed? You might be surprised

  they found products do tend to fall into three distinct categories: Those high in the terpenes caryophyllene and limonene; those high in myrcene and pinene; and those high in terpinolene and myrcene. But those categories do not neatly correspond to the indica, sativa and hybrid labeling scheme.

• Earth’s orbital debris problem is worsening

• The New York Times Is Wrong About Haiti

• NASA Moves Ahead with Wild Solar Sail Concept

  • Diffractive Lightsails

Horseshit

• We used to come together on social media. Now we come apart

• Why can't USA remove weapons from homes? | Hacker News

• Reclassifying Semi-Automatic Rifles Under the National Firearms Act

celebrity gossip

• Peter Thiel to Leave Meta Board (FB) to Pursue Trump Political Agenda

Rank Propaganda / Thought Policing / World Disordering

• Free speech debate targets big media over tech companies

• How to De-Polarize America: Ranked-Choice Voting Is More Democratic, Not Less

• The ‘Mary Poppins of Disinformation’ Inadvertently Spills the Truth About What the Board Was Going to Do | FrontpageMag

• The Anti-Vaccine Movement’s New Frontier

• The faces from China’s Uyghur detention camps

• Russian hackers are linked to new Brexit leak website, Google says

• No Guns Allowed at Trump Speech to NRA

Davos

• Fact Check-The World Economic Forum does not have a police force

  False. The WEF does not have a police force. The police badges with a WEF logo are used by local officers in Graubunden to mark the organization’s annual conference.

• Videos: Davos Elites Warn ‘Painful Global Transition’ Should Not Be Resisted By Nation States – Summit News

Musk

• How Elon Musk and Jack Dorsey aligned behind Twitter deal

• Tesla loses bid to move sexual harassment lawsuit to arbitration

• Elon Musk Drops Out of $200B Club Again as Tesla Tumbles

• Elon Musk accuses Bill Gates of funding his critics as feud between the billionaires deepens

Abortion

• High tech surveillance in Post-Roe America: Chilling report of a possible future

• Democrats urge Google to limit geo tracking to protect people seeking abortions

Monkeypox

• NTI statement on “Monkeypox” tabletop exercise

  Following the recent detection of monkeypox cases across multiple countries, NTI’s report on the exercise has appeared in a number social media outlets, noting that the associated fictional scenario featured a monkeypox outbreak with a start date that roughly coincides with the current, ongoing outbreak. Some social media activity has included disinformation about our exercise, and we would like to set the record straight.

• Anyone can get monkeypox, but CDC warns LGBTQ community about 'greater chance'

COVID / VaxCult

• How Coronavirus (Covid-19) compares with flu as a cause of death

  • comment: "They combine the flu and pneumonia into the same bucket, and count how many times either word appears on the death certificate vs. the same for COVID-19."

• ‘The Last Generation’: The Disillusionment of Young Chinese

• Everybody has COVID in Bay Area, but hospitalizations are flat

• A New World Health Organization Report Once Again Proves Sweden Right

• Reports of ‘Paxlovid rebound’ have Covid experts looking for theories

• What the public wants in Covid news vs. what the press provides

• Hochul Pledges New Investigation of COVID-19 Nursing Home Deaths.

• Scientists identify ‘trigger molecule’ for Covid-related changes to smell

Culture War / Tribal / Re segregation

• Washington Post deletes tweet that George Floyd was ‘shot’ by police.

• Why Do I Hate Pronouns More Than Genocide?

  If you’re a professor working towards a breakthrough in quantum computing, or even trying to use data in a careful way to get an estimate of the costs and benefits of immigration, you officially have the same job as someone who argues that General Relativity should be doubted because there aren’t enough black female physicists. To the extent he thinks about politics at all, your typical professor in just about any field is more concerned with QAnon and creationism than he is with gender theory and postmodern attacks on science, despite the nonsense coming out of academia being the fault of his own profession and ultimately more influential.

Edumacationalizing / Acedemia Nuts

• The Gentrification of Disability - Freddie deBoer

• NSBA letter drafts called for National Guard and military to be deployed.

• Governments Harm Children’s Rights in Online Learning

Media / ShowBiz / Advertising

• Atwood responds to book bans with ‘unburnable’ edition of Handmaid’s Tale

• Snap’s warning sends shock across digital advertising

• Novelist Mercedes Lackey Accused of Racism, Banned from Nebula Awards

• It’s TikTok’s World Now. Facebook Just Tries to Make People Care About It

• Ask HN: What game you wished existed?

TechSuck

• SpaceX’s Starlink satellite internet surpasses 400k subscribers globally

Crypto con games

• Cryptocurrency is trying to regain your trust

• Crypto links with banks pose threat to financial stability, says ECB

• Is the Cryptocurrency Bubble Bursting?

• Bored Apes Go Hollywood with Coinbase-Produced Movie Trilogy

• Someone Stole Seth Green's Bored Ape, Which Was Supposed to Star in His New Show

• Crypto billionaire says he could spend a record-breaking $1B in 2024 election

  • The Crypto Kings Are Making Big Political Donations. What Could Go Wrong?

• Terra (LUNA) 2.0 is coming

  • Collapsed ‘stablecoin’ terra to be rebooted in attempt to recover losses

  • Terra Is Back from Bankruptcy

• Lonely Ape: the NFT dating service cancelled due to a lack of women

• Web3 skeptics and believers both need a reality check

• They spent a fortune on pictures of apes and cats. Do they regret it?

• Hacker Steals $1.4M in NFTs from Collector in One Sweep

Economicon / Business / Finance

• Why the Fed wants corporate America to have a hiring freeze

• This Is The Worst Possible Time For The FHFA To Mess With Lending Standards

• Searches for “recession” higher than in Jan 2008

• Ask HN: How worried are you about the upcoming recession?

• Tell HN: Job interview canceled due to looming recession | Hacker News

• US Middle Class Is Shutting Down As Spending By The Rich Remains Robust | ZeroHedge

• US New Home Sales Plummet, Inventory Rises To The Highest Level Since 2008

• Walmart Plans $3.99 Drone Deliveries in Six States by Year-End

• NakedCapitalism used to watch this closely, before they stopped covering economic news: Fear and Greed Index: 12 out of 100

• Opinion: The US solar panel industry is on the verge of collapsing

• Strippers say a recession is guaranteed b/C the strip clubs are suddenly empty

Shortages

• Stunning Images Show Potash Train Derailed In Canada Amid Fertilizer Crunch

• Chemical Supplier: I Have Never Seen Anything Like the Current Supply Problems

• India imposes restrictions on sugar exports from June 1

  • India limits sugar exports at 10 million tonnes

• Natural gas market is hurtling toward historic winter shortages

• Solicitation for Public Comments on Factors that May Have Contributed to the Infant Formula Shortage and Its Impact on Families and Retailers

Gubmint / Poilitcks / Law Making

• Facebook opens political ad data vaults to researchers

• American Democracy Isn’t Ready for This? – Lessons from the iVote Meltdown

• Nonprofit will use big data to fight voter suppression in the midterms elections

Law Breaking / Police / Internal Security

• The Sussmann Trial: fingers pointed at FBI leadership

• The Supreme Court Just Said That Evidence of Innocence Is Not Enough

• At least 14 children injured, 1 teacher killed in school shooting in Uvalde TX

  • Children and a teacher were killed at an elementary school in Texas

  • Watch Live: President Biden Delivers Remarks On The Texas Elementary School Massacre

  • At least 18 children are killed at Texas elementary school by an 18-yo suspect

  • Border Patrol Agent Killed Texas Shooter After Rushing In With No Backup

• Isis operative in U.S. plotted to assassinate George W. Bush, FBI alleges

• DOJ Rule Change Requires Agents to Intervene

• He Heckled a District Attorney on TV. Now He Faces 10 Years Behind Bars

• NYC Subway Shooter Who Killed Goldman Banker Had "About 20 Prior Arrests", Including Murder Charge From 2017

External Security / Militaria / Diplomania

• Russian and Chinese jets deliver pointed send-off on last day of Biden Asia trip

• Palantir Technologies CEO sees 20%-30% risk of nuclear war

• Twenty-Two House Republicans Demand Accountability on Biden’s $40b War Spending

• Stumbling Toward War On Two Fronts

• Chinese Carrier Strike Group Now Operating in East China Sea

World

• N. Korea fires ballistic missile eastward: S. Korean military

  • North Korea Launches 3 Ballistic Missiles Soon After Biden Departed Japan

• Server hack yields harrowing images of life inside Chinese detention camps

• China military must be able to destroy Starlink(s) if they threaten security

  • Beijing needs the ability to 'destroy' Starlink, say Chinese researchers

• More on civil defense in Taiwan

• Boris Johnson's staff got drunk, brawled, abused cleaners during Covid lockdowns

Health / Medicine

• Firearms overtook auto accidents as the leading cause of death in children

• U.S. Birthrate Ticks Up 1 Percent

• CVS Will Stop Filling Controlled-Substance Prescriptions for Cerebral and Done

• In Partial, Grudging Defense Of The Hearing Voices Movement

Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda

• Climate worries galvanize a new pro-nuclear movement in the U.S.

• The U.S. Has Spent More Than $2B on a Plan to Save Salmon

• How the big banks fell to climate panic

• None So Blind As Those Who Will Not See - by Steve Keen

  Tipping points reduce global consumption per capita by around 1% upon 3°C warming and by around 1.4% upon 6°C warming, based on a second-order polynomial fit of the data.

• California threatens ‘mandatory water restrictions’ if people don’t cut back

• Shell consultant quits and accuses firm of 'extreme harms'

• The Wetlands Are Drowning

• As liquified gas exports surge at Port Everglades, risk of catastrophic accident rises

• A Hot, Deadly Summer Is Coming With Frequent Blackouts

• California governor pleads for more water conservation

• Pakistan city fearful after hitting 51C

Ukraine War

• Much of Ukraine is paralysed by a fuel shortage

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• What is a war crime and could Putin be prosecuted over Ukraine?

• UK backs Lithuania’s plan to lift Russian blockade of Ukraine grain

• Ukraine accuses SAP and Cloudflare of enabling Russia’s war effort

• Henry Kissinger: Ukraine must give Russia territory

• Ukraine invasion may be start of ‘third world war’, says George Soros

• ‘Russia Had To Begin Special Operation To Stop Genocide In Ukraine’: Russian Defence Min

• The Secret American Plan to Make Russia Great Again