2022-05-29

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• It is now irresponsible not to talk about UFOs

• Turkey’s temple mounds illuminate the birth of civilisation

• A giant planet may have “escaped” from our solar system, study finds

• I'm Retiring From the Engineering Profession

  I’m only 48 and not near the end of my career. So, I am not leaving my work, but I have already discontinued using the initials “PE” behind my name and I no longer refer to myself as a “professional engineer” since this dispute with the licensing board went off the rails. Those designations have no added value to me in the context of our work, and so by entering into retired status, I am giving up nothing I’ve not already voluntarily relinquished. What I hope I gain is some protection against future harassment by both the licensing board and people who would enlist the board to use the power of the state to come after me and Strong Towns.

Horseshit

• A deadly earthquake positively will ravage Seattle at some point

• The Ups and Downs of Automated Code Checking Software

• The Plot to Out Ronald Reagan

Rank Propaganda / Thought Policing / World Disordering

• About 2018 hearings? Twitter’s validation of Pakistani blasphemy laws flayed by US Senate

• Britain should scrap its online safety bill

• the "Overton Window" is in there somewhere too: Pluralistic ignorance, spiral of silence - Dan MacKinlay

Musk

• Elon Musk Compares Himself to Dr. Manhattan in Another Cryptic Tweet

• Elon Musk welcomes global recession: ‘it’s been raining money on fools’

• Elon Musk thinks the American work ethic is alive and well in China

• Elon Musk Says Bill Gates' Short Position In Tesla Has Ballooned To $1.5 To $2 Billion

Gun Control / mass Shooting

• While Dying Children Called 911 for Help, 19 Uvalde Police Waited in the Hallway

• Uvalde police response proves need to abolish the police, says MSNBC guest

• Off Duty BORTAC Agent Drove 40 Miles To Storm the Uvalde School and Take Down the Killer.

• There Is No Epidemic of School Shootings.

• “There was almost a mutiny”: Uvalde cop says force is furious that they were held back.

• Texas Gunman Made 'Frequent' Death Threats And Disturbing Posts

• Cops Handcuffed, Arrested a Uvalde Mom for Trying to Rescue Her Kids

• Uvalde shooting: The cowards in Stetsons

• How long are Americans sad and angry about mass shootings? Four days

• Maker of rifle used in Texas shooting faces outrage over ad featuring child

  Georgia-based Daniel Defense, which manufacturers the gun used in the Uvalde mass shooting where 21 people died, posted an ad on Twitter on 16 May showing a toddler holding a rifle, with the caption: “Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old, he will not depart from it.”

• Law Enforcement’s Attempt to Cover Its Own Ass In the Robb Elementary Tragedy Is Unforgivable

COVID / VaxCult

• Why are women more prone to long Covid?

• CDC warns of 'Covid-19 rebound' after taking Paxlovid antiviral pills

• Gov. Gavin Newsom tests positive for COVID-19, has 'mild symptoms'

• Hong Kong dog shelter struggling to provide as number of animals doubles while volunteers move abroad amid pandemic

• SARS-CoV-2 and Mitochondrial Proteins in Neural-Derived Exosomes of Covid-19

• The FDA should make Paxlovid easier to get

Culture War / Tribal / Re segregation

• His Name Was Seth Smith - by Chris - Karlstack

  • His Mom, Friday: "white supremacy and hatred kills ALL OUR CHILDREN"

• The myth of the white male scientific genius – and why its time is up

• Did Elites Really Take Over Identity Politics?

• The AI That Draws What You Type Is Racist, Shocking No One

Edumacationalizing / Acedemia Nuts

• My students cheated... A lot • crumplab

  • HN comments

• 90% of remote learning apps used during school lockdowns - in the US and elsewhere - collected data on children and transferred it to ad companies.

• Not by g alone: The benefits of a college education among individuals with low levels of general cognitive ability - ScienceDirect

  Although most individuals with IQs ≤ 90 did not have a college degree, the rate at which they completed college had increased approximately 6-fold in men and 10-fold in women relative to rates in the previous generation. The magnitude of the college effect on occupational status, income, financial independence, and law abidingness was independent of IQ level,

• TN Taps COVID-19 Emergency Relief Funds to Make CS a HS Graduation Requirement - Slashdot

• To the Class of 2022: Maybe Don't Reach for the Stars

Media / ShowBiz / Advertising

• BBC to close BBC Four and children's network CBBC, move content online

TechSuck

• Face Search Engine Anyone Can Use Is Alarmingly Accurate

Crypto con games

• Luna 2.0 is down 75% from its launch 12 hours ago

• New Low for Ethereum at 1500$

• Why I dread the Ethereum Merge, and why you should too

• On-Chain Forensics: Demystifying TerraUSD De-Peg

  we refute the popular narrative of one “attacker” or “hacker” working to destabilize UST. The de-peg of UST could instead have resulted from the investment decisions of several well-funded entities, e.g. to abide by risk management constraints or alternatively to reduce UST allocations deposited into Anchor in the context of turbulent macroeconomic and market conditions.

• Coinbase's $51B Nosedive Isn't Only About Crypto Winter

• Oh, goody! The subject needs more horseshit. First she documented the alt-right. Now she’s coming for crypto

Economicon / Business / Finance

• Whirlwind talks led to Broadcom’s $69.1bn capture of VMware

• John Deere tapping into Apple-like tech model to drive revenue

• Car rental startup Kyte didn't know money was running out, rescinds offer(s)

• At least 50% of startup stock options are now worthless

• $100k in prizes plus "we're hiring": American Express Default Prediction ML Competition

Shortages

• No One Is Talking About This - by Jeffrey Carter

• Baby-Formula Shortage Worsened by Drop in Breast-Feeding Rates

• Baby Formula Shortage Highlights US Racial Disparities

• The Energy/Food Crisis Is Far Worse Than Most Americans Realize

  The Fed’s assumption that raising interest rates will somehow reduce current high energy costs is comparable to medieval physicians’ belief that leech bloodletting would cure diseases like tuberculosis.

• Green energy policies are making the nation’s power grid increasingly unstable

  • (PDF) 2/3 of USA has elevated risk for power outages in Summer 2022

• Food Security and the Coming Storm

• Goat’s milk from Australia: Operation Fly Formula draws wide net

• Two Women-Led Startups Look To Solve Baby-Formula Crisis With Synthetic Breast Milk

Gubmint / Poilitcks / Law Making

• (Apr 2022, UK) The Triumph of Janet- by James - Himbonomics

• America Needs a Liberalism That Builds, Not Adversarial Legalism

• Joe Biden’s Whispered Remark During Naval Academy Grad Speech Is Raising Eyebrows.

  “And, by the way, once you’re commissioned, remember: I’m your Commander-in-Chief,” Biden whispered into the microphone after his speech. “So don’t ask me too tough a question, okay?” . . .

• Biden Falsely Claims Jan. 6 Rioters ‘Killed Two Police Officers’ In Speech At Alma Mater

Hunter

• Far-Left Daily Beast Grovels Apology to Hunter Laptop Whistleblower

  Editor’s note: an earlier version of this story mistakenly referred to Hunter Biden’s laptop as “stolen.” We have removed that word, and we apologize to Mr. Mac Isaac for the error.

External Security / Militaria / Diplomania

• (2017) The Rise of the Stupid Terrorist

• The U.S. must commit to making South and Southeast Asia rich

  people who hoped for a constructive U.S.-China relationship in the first half of the 21st century have now had their hopes conclusively dashed. The two countries may engage in ad-hoc cooperation on certain issues, as the U.S. and USSR did during the Cold War, but overall this is looking much less like a complex “frenemy” relationship and much more like Cold War 2.

• The mystery of China’s sudden warnings about US hackers

• Time is ticking to replace The Pentagon’s 1970s-era Doomsday planes

• The US Can’t Beat China If It’s Scared of Trade

World

• Why Germany Is Offering a Summer of Cheap Trains

Health / Medicine

• A History of Infant Feeding

• Red Cross, hospitals at odds over expensive blood technology

Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda

• UN Warns of ‘Total Societal Collapse’ Due to Breaching of Planetary Boundaries

• California’s drought has caused entire towns to sink nearly a foot in one year

• ‘Flash Droughts’ Are the Midwest’s Next Big Climate Threat

• Southern thought, islandness and real-existing degrowth in the Mediterranean

• Althouse: "Two blazes that grew into New Mexico's largest ever wildfire were both started by the U.S. Forest Service..."

• Inconvenient truth for globalists: Arctic ice at 30-year high

• Humming birds suffer if they move uphill to escape the warming climate

Ukraine War

• Zelensky Signals Donbas Could Soon Fall: "Indescribably Difficult" Russian Onslaught

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• Captured Russian Weapons Are Packed with U.S. Microchips

• Ukraine's intelligence chief 'fully confirms' Vladimir Putin has cancer

• Ukraine condemns arrival of Russian vessel in Mariupol port to load metal

• Russian MoD: Briefing on the results of the analysis of documents related to the military biological activities of the United States on the territory of Ukraine