2022-05-27

Worthy

• Collections: Total Generalship: Commanding Pre-Modern Armies, Part I: Reports – A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry

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• Yes, the US Govt Really Stashes Billions of Pounds of Cheese in Missouri Caves

• How to Improve the Search for Aliens

• KLM temporarily halts ticket sales for Amsterdam flights due to airport chaos

• Infirmity

• S.F. population fell 6.3%, most in nation, to lowest level since 2010

  • HN comments

Horseshit

• Can history be used to predict the future? Some experts say it can

• Analysis of fossilised faeces near Stonehenge say builders ate raw cattle organs

celebrity gossip

• Amber Heard and the Death of MeToo

• Paris Hilton wants to be the 'Queen of the Metaverse'

Rank Propaganda / Thought Policing / World Disordering

• Instagram moderators say Iran offered them bribes to remove accounts

• Our Economic Misery Isn’t an Accident, It’s the Plan | FrontpageMag

• The WHO's Pandemic Treaty

• Libs Of TikTok Suspended From Instagram.

Gun Control / Mass Shooting

• The Buffalo Attack Is a Reminder That Mass Surveillance Doesn’t Protect Us

• There Have Been 13 Mass School Shootings Since 1966, Not 27 This Year

• Uvalde Shooter Fired Gun For 12 Minutes Outside School Before Entering

• Guns are now the leading cause of death for Children in the US

• As young gunmen turn toward new social networks, old safeguards fail

• Uvalde police was outside school for an hour before entering to confront gunman

  • HN comments

• Thousands of workers at Salesforce stop working with NRA

• Uvalde Shooter Fired Outside School for 12 Minutes Before Entering: Local residents express anger and frustration as police detail new timeline of mass shooting.

• On that report that police in Uvalde were just standing around – The New Neo

  don’t think we have anywhere near enough information to judge what actually happened and what the police did right or wrong. Inflammatory videos tell only a tiny part of the story, and I don’t rely on them for an understanding of what actually happened except in regard to the tiny part they are telling. In this case, we know that desperate parents were angry at what they perceived as police inaction, and the police restrained some of them.

• The Uvalde shooting conspiracies show how far-right misinformation is evolving

• Two teens arrested in ‘mass casualty’ plot in 2018 targeting a Uvalde middle school.

• Texas Rep Tony Gonzalez: Uvalde gunman was arrested 4 years ago for threatening to shoot up school | Daily Mail Online

• Uvalde shooting: Texas police change key details as criticism mounts

• Uvalde: Border Patrol Tactical Team Was Ordered to Hold Back, Officials Say

• Police waited to enter Texas school as shooter went on killing spree

• White House sidesteps question about police response to Texas school shooting | Washington Examiner

• Schumer vows to force vote on gun control legislation after Memorial Day recess | The Hill

Davos

• Alibaba executive draws scorn for proposed individual carbon tracker

  • ‘Individual carbon footprint tracker, stay tuned’: Alibaba president at WEF 2022

• The Elites Have Every Intention of Controlling Our Lives

Musk / Twitter

• Twitter investors sue Elon Musk and platform over takeover bid

• When I First Saw Elon Musk for Who He Is

• Who do you trust less: Politicians or Billionaires?

• Twitter Will Keep Durban on Board Despite Shareholder Vote

  • Egon Durban won't leave Twitter board despite shareholder vote to remove

Monkeypox

• U.S. confirms 9 monkeypox cases in 7 states

COVID / VaxCult

• Apple Supplier Faces Worker Revolt in China's Covid Locked Down Factory

• Virological Characteristics of Omicron Variants and BA.2.12.1, BA.4, BA.5

• CDC: 1 in 5 Adult Covid-19 Survivors Has Long Haul Covid

Culture War / Tribal / Re segregation

• Microsoft exec allegedly watched VR porn, behaved inappropriately toward women

• All-Black Climbing Team Makes History Reaching Top of Everest

• If You’re the Right Race, Your Doctor Will See You Now.

• 'Woke Capitalism' Does Not Advance Social Justice

Media / ShowBiz / Advertising

• Today’s Wordle is ending winning streaks

• Substack Drops Fund-Raising Efforts as Market Sours

• The Plan to deliver a digital-first BBC (laying off up to 1k people)

TechSuck

• Internet drama in Canada | Hacker News

• Color Vector Display Controller Brings Arcade Classics Back To Life

Crypto con games

• Barclays Warns Even Fully Collateralized Stablecoins May Be Prone to Down Spiral

• WeWork co-founder Adam Neumann’s carbon credit crypto project sounds like a scam

• Taiwanese man commits suicide after losing NT$60M from Luna crypto crash

• TerraUSD Crash Led to Vanished Savings, Shattered Dreams

• (2019) Joseph Stiglitz: 'We should shut down the cryptocurrencies'

  • HN comments

• Bitcoin breaks from stocks in continued slide

Economicon / Business / Finance

• Ford Beats Tesla to the Punch with First Electric F-150 Delivery

  • HN comments

• The Truth about Inflation

  • HN comments

• Mortage Crisis Here We Come - Do Dah, Do Dah - Victory Girls Blog

• The coming wave of“boss loss”

• Opinion: It's Time to Prepare for a Recession

• The Real Estate Frenzy Is Over

• SPACs Are Warning They May Go Bust

• Joby inches closer to getting full government approval for electric air taxis

• Why the government took home prices out of its main inflation index

  • HN comments

• PayPal Announces Layoffs, Closes San Fransisco Office

Shortages

• Rash of parts thefts is leaving Freightliner trucks inoperable

  • HN comments

• East Coast Diesel Inventories Tighter Again; Other Numbers Offer Buyers Hope

• Hospitals postpone imaging tests due to worldwide shortage of imaging dyes

• US General Floats Military Options to Help Export Ukrainian Grain

• The rising risk of a global food crisis

Gubmint / Poilitcks / Law Making

• In private, vulnerable Senate Dems back off tech bill ban favoring own products

• Team Biden might be purposefully grinding down the middle class.

• Team Thomas wages war with New York Times over Ginni ‘smear.’

• Biden Plans To Cancel $10,000 In Student Debt Per Borrower Ahead Of Midterms

  On April 6, the White House announced it would extend the pause of federal student loan repayments through August 31.

  • White House officials planning to cancel $10k in student debt per borrower

• Top Fed official warns about U.S. falling behind in digital dollar race

Law Breaking / Police / Internal Security

• FBI Reveals How Many Active Shooters Were Stopped by Citizens.

• "Dirty Political Trick": Bill Barr Says Hillary Clinton Guilty Of 'Sedition' | ZeroHedge

External Security / Militaria / Diplomania

• CIA forecasting model predicts change in US-China relations

• For your ears only: What’s behind Havana syndrome

• Biden Readies Approval Of Long-Range Rockets To Ukraine - Russia Warns Over "Red Line"

• Watch: Mysterious South China Sea Missile Launch Came Dangerously Close To Commercial Airliner

World

• Japan's living standards are too low - by Noah Smith

• China must destroy Elon Musk's satellites with ‘hard kill’ weapon, say academics

Health / Medicine

• The Opioid Crisis: Everyone is Fucking Stupid | Mike Burr - log

• IV infusions with lidocaine may relieve chronic migraines

Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda

• "Heat waves hot enough to cook human flesh are already happening this month"

• New data reveals climate change might be more rapid than predicted

• A New Way to Curb the Rise of Oversized Pickups and SUVs

• Can we cut the US’s carbon emissions in half this decade?

• 30 years after Mt. Pinatubo: the relationship between vulcanism and climate

Ukraine War

• A Major Nerve Center for Shipping Military Aid to Ukraine

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• Sanctions were supposed to crush the Russian ruble. Why did it hit 2-month high?

• Russia cuts its benchmark rate to 11 percent as the ruble hits a multiyear high

• Russia's forcibly depopulating hundreds of thousands from east Ukraine to Russia

• Ukrainian volunteers in the east feel abandoned as Russia advances

  • In Stunning Shift, WaPo Admits Catastrophic-Conditions, Collapsing-Morale Of Ukraine Front-Line Forces

• Russians Could Use Hedge Funds, Private Equity to Evade Sanctions

• A cyberwar is already happening in Ukraine, Microsoft analysts say

• Western countries to consider letting Russian oligarchs buy relief from sanction

• Russian national guard soldiers sacked for refusing to fight in Ukraine

• Russia Using Smartphone “Game” to Recruit Ukrainian Children as Unwitting Spies