2022-05-28

Cool

• Online Spirograph Tool

Worthy

• The Correctives

• 14 Warning Signs That You Are Living in a Society Without a Counterculture

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• Migrating extraterrestrial civilizations and interstellar colonization

  • HN comments

• Can growth continue?

  • HN comments

• Pompeii victim had spinal tuberculosis when he died

Horseshit

• Don’t waste banana peels: Turn them into tasty vegan ‘pulled pork.’

Rank Propaganda / Thought Policing / World Disordering

• The Corruption of the World Health Organization

• Daily Beast issues apology to Hunter Biden laptop repairman John Paul Mac Isaac

• The Unfairness Doctrine

• The Digital Is Political

• The War on ‘Woke Capitalism’

• You shouldn't envy the wealth of Musk, Bezos or Gates

Musk

• The Reclusive Software Billionaire Attacking Elon Musk

• U.S. SEC looking into Musk's Twitter stake purchase

• Substack's Founders Talk About the Culture Wars

• Musk welcomes global recession: ‘it’s been raining money on fools for too long’

• Elon Musk Sees Extinction of Italians on Persisting Low Birth-Rate

Gun Control / Mass Shooting

• Border Patrol tactical team arrived at Uvalde school shortly after noon — but cops stopped them from going in.

  From 12:03 to 12:46, 911 dispatchers received numerous calls from within the classroom, including repeated calls from a child whispering that people were dead and begging: ‘Please send the police now,’ Mr. McCraw said.'”

• Surveillance Tech Didn't Stop the Uvalde Massacre

• TX Governor 'Livid' After He Was 'Misled' About Police Response In Uvalde Shooting

• Teen Who Knew Uvalde Shooter Drops Bomb About Him — The Republic Brief

  “Salvador Ramos was a boy who was not bullied,” Arellano told the news station on Wednesday. “He would try to pick on people but fail, and it would aggravate him.”

  “He always seemed to take his anger out on the most innocent person in the room,” Foutz added, who had attended school with Ramos in addition to working with him. “He would get angry at people thinking he wasn’t OK. He was just always super odd.”

• For contrast: ‘Good gal with a gun’: Woman with pistol kills gunman at party | WOWK 13 News

  • Law-Abiding West Virginian Woman With Concealed Firearm Stops A Mass Shooting

• Trey Ganem Is Customizing 19 Caskets of Uvalde’s Youngest Victims

• Timeline of Events Robb Elementary Shooting

• Ramos threatened rapes, school shootings on Yubo in weeks leading up to massacre

  • HN comments

• Red Flag Laws Are As Good as the Data. Mass shooters don't hide their intentions

• Gun Control Advocacy Group Plans Nationwide Protests After Texas School Shooting

• For Crying Out Loud! ‘The Paramilitary Wing of the American Right,’ Ma’am? : The Other McCain

• Texas Shooting Update: 10-Year-Old Discharged From Hospital, Other Patients' Conditions Improving | ZeroHedge

• The Evidence for Antidepressants Causing Mass Shootings

• Uvalde Police Didn’t Move to Save Lives Because That’s Not What Police Do

• Federal agents DEFIED Uvalde police chief’s order not to storm school classroom and shot dead gunman when he jumped out of closet: 19 local cops stood in corridor as terrified kids phoned 911

Monkeypox

• Monkeypox outbreaks: 4 key questions researchers have

  • HN comments

COVID / VaxCult

• (Apr 2022) COVID UPDATE: What is the truth? - PMC

• Venice Has a 400-Year-Old Covid Monetary Lesson

• Children’s Rights Violations by Governments Using Online Learning During Covid

• (Aug 2020) Coronapolitics and the rise of the measurable

Culture War / Tribal / Re segregation

• On Nazis who read genetics - Wyclif's Dust

  Scientists use data all the time. We often disagree about how to use data, and we criticize each other for it. Some people, approaches and subfields regularly do stupid stuff with data; as a result they are not taken seriously by the rest of the community. What we do not do is ban other people from using our data because we think they might use it wrong. (Imagine that in my field! If economists withheld economic data because someone might misinterpret it, we wouldn’t release any data, ever.) This is less like science and more like the idea attributed to Stalin.

• Why Not Polygamy?

Edumacationalizing / Acedemia Nuts

• 5 years ago, New York made 4 years of college free for residents. How it's going

• Oops – Gibson’s Bakery Seeks To Execute On $36 Million Appeal Bond Since Oberlin College Failed To Obtain Stay Of Appeals Court Mandate

Media / ShowBiz / Advertising

• Local Newspapers Fact Sheet

• (May 21) EA reportedly looking for a buyer and has spoken to “Disney, Apple and Amazon”

• Tim Sweeney: Epic will fight Apple and Google to keep the metaverse open

TechSuck

• NYC removes last payphone from Manhattan streets | Hacker News

• RED is suing Nikon for infringing on its video compression patents

  • HN comments

Crypto con games

• Dark Moon: The Inevitable Collapse of Luna

  • HN comments

• Vitalik on algorithmic stablecoins

• No slump for pump and dump cryptocurrency gangs

• Luna 2.0 already down 70% and counting

Economicon / Business / Finance

• Ford starts customer deliveries of the F-150 Lightning electric pickup truck

• Robinhood agrees to settle customer lawsuit over 2020 outages

• The Tech Rout Isn’t Just Cyclical–It’s Well-Earned, and Overdue

• Startup investors are warning of dark days ahead

• Worry about stagflation, a flashback to ’70s, begins to grow

• Uber and Lyft Are Out of Ideas, Jacking Up Prices in Desperation for Profit

  • HN comments

  • Nail on head

  I think we're about to see a lot of tech ideas with questionable economics come back to earth. When the cost of capital was below a single digit, "parking" money in a growth bet could vaguely make sense. After all, someday Uber would figure it out, or get AVs, or .. something? Better than leaving the money in a .01% money market for 10 years, or parking the money in something with no path for growth like industrials.

Shortages

• The Hot Ride This Memorial Day Weekend Is a Minivan. Good Luck Finding One

• Regarding the upcoming food crisis – The Laughing Wolf

• Baby Formula Shortage Could Persist Until July: FDA Commissioner

Gubmint / Poilitcks / Law Making

• Biden plans to cancel $10,000 in student loans per borrower, announcement won't come this weekend: report - MarketWatch

  President Joe Biden had planned to announce forgiveness for student loans as soon as this weekend as he gives a speech at the University of Delaware's commencement, but that timing has changed after Tuesday's school shooting in Uvalde, Texas,

• How Biden Stopped Worrying and Learned To Love Inflation

Trump

• Obama Admin Officials Conducted Shadow Diplomacy with Iran to Undermine Trump

• Shouldn’t Hillary Clinton Be Banned From Twitter Now?

Law Breaking / Police / Internal Security

• Illegal Immigration Is Down, Changing the Face of California Farms

• Seattle man, fed up with rampant crime, uses drone to recover stolen property

External Security / Militaria / Diplomania

• (Apr 2022) The U.S. Wants to Tackle Inflation. That Should Worry the Rest of the World

• No Progress In Turkey's Talks With Sweden, Finland On NATO As Delegations Return Home

World

• Alleged leaked audio reveals Chinese commanders planning mobilization

• Chinese Researchers Publish Strategy to Destroy Elon Musk's Starlink

• German Card payment problems

• ‘Empress of terror’: Japanese Red Army founder released from prison

Health / Medicine

• Hepatitis in children: What’s behind the outbreaks?

• The Sit-Up Is Over

Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda

• IndyCar is moving to 100% renewable ethanol in 2023

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

• Just how crazy are these people? – Watts Up With That?

• As 2022 Hurricane Season Looms, a Current That Fuels Monster Storms Is Warm

• We never got good at recycling plastic. Some states are trying a new approach

• Massive New Mexico Fire Started By U.S. Forest Service

• Greece passes first climate law, vows to cut dependence on fossil fuels

• Rethinking air conditioning amid climate change

Ukraine War

• (2019) Moxie Marlinspike >> Stories >> Scene report from the Chernobyl Zone

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• An argument that Ukraine is not exactly winning

• Russian Academics Aim to Punish Colleagues Who Backed Ukraine Invasion

• Putin plays his asshole card | I, Cringely

• The LPR declared control over the entire territory of the republic

• Russia Gains Ground in Bid to Encircle Troops Defending Ukraine’s East

• Russia’s ‘cauldron’ tactic may be tipping Donbas battle in its favour

• Ukraine War Day 93: Water Crisis In The Donbass

• The first ship since the start of the special operation arrived in Mariupol

• Russian reserves frozen by EU much smaller than expected – Reuters