2022-05-31

Worthy

• the "Darwin Finch" pics are worth the click: A Guide To Asking Robots To Design Stained Glass Windows

  • HN comments

• (Jan 2022) On Progress — Acko.net

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• James Webb First Research Targets

• How to Improve the Search for Aliens

• Residents evacuate as fire rages at Omaha chemical company

• Killer Asteroids are hiding in plain sight; a new tool finds them

• The Need for New Communities in the West

• A 3400-year-old city emerges from the Tigris River | University of Tübingen

• Engineers enhance cannabis strain with 20% more THC

  • Cannabis Strain with 20% More THC | The Robert H. Smith

• Ask HN: Why Are You Here? | Hacker News

Horseshit

• France bans English gaming tech jargon in push to preserve language purity

• Wealthiest homeowners most at risk of wildfire hazard

Rank Propaganda / Thought Policing / World Disordering

• They Did Their Own ‘Research.’ Now What?

• Davos 2022 – about the future of finance

• Bill Gates: Next Pandemic Likely To Be Caused By Climate Change

• Princeton Study: U.S. No Longer an Actual Democracy

Gun Control / Mass Shooting

• Biden Insists 2nd Amendment Isn’t Absolute: When it Was Passed ‘You Couldn’t Buy a Cannon.’

• Canada's new bill would freeze importing, buying or selling handguns

• The Uvalde Police Force Called For Backup Last Week From Texas Law Enforcement — To Protect Themselves From The Public

Musk

• To Understand Elon Musk, You Have to Understand This ’60s Sci-Fi Novel

  Elon Musk says "The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress" is one of his favorite books.

• Elon Musk's right-hand man, a Mormon ex-Morgan Stanley banker

• Dogecoin co-creator: Elon Musk is a grifter, doesn't know how to run basic code

  • Dogecoin co-creator: Elon Musk a 'grifter' who had trouble running basic code

  • HN comment

• Elon Musk Gets into Embarrassing Fight with Video Game Site, Loses

Monkeypox

• WHO can’t rule out monkeypox pandemic risk

• 71 More Monkeypox Cases Detected in England, Bringing UK Total to 179

• Britain urges people with monkeypox to abstain from sex as cases rise

COVID / VaxCult

• Image of a genome autosuspends you from Twitter | Hacker News

• Viruses that were on hiatus during Covid are back, behaving in unexpected ways | Hacker News

• Australia begins to reap what it has sown. It's grim.

• Africa’s Covid vaccine factory might close due to lack of demand

• Genomic determinants of Furin cleavage in SARS-related bat coronaviruses

• Long Covid Archives – 23andMe Blog

• Large survey finds who may be at highest risk for long Covid

• Shanghai Moves Toward Ending 2-Month COVID-19 Lockdown

Culture War / Tribal / Re segregation

• Asian Americans face longer periods of unemployment

Edumacationalizing / Acedemia Nuts

• Working notes on the role of vision papers in basic science

  One striking illustration of how unusual vision papers can be is provided by one of my favorite examples in the genre, Alan Kay's 1972 paper "A Personal Computer for Children of All Ages". This paper is perhaps most often described as inspiring parts of the iPad design – a worthy achievement, but the paper is deeper than that description suggests.

• How to Fix Higher Ed

Media / ShowBiz / Advertising

• Streaming climbs to new heights again in April despite a dip in total TV viewing

• Netflix cracks down on password sharing, but early efforts in Peru are a mess

TechSuck

• So long, home T1 line; hello, hacking the T1 router

Crypto con games

• Britain proposes safety net against failing stablecoins

Economicon / Business / Finance

• Car Executives Want to Remain on the Low Inventory Business Model

• Refurbished Gear from Phones to Vacuums: It’s Cheap, but What’s the Catch?

• Eurozone Inflation Hits Fresh Peak as More Energy Sanctions Loom

• Discord Is the World’s Most Important Financial Messenger, Hotbed for Scammers

• Fed Governor Christopher Waller says he’s prepared to take rates past ‘neutral’ to fight inflation.

• Pandemic Housing Boom Hits a Wall with US Buyers Priced Out

Shortages

• USDA to Allow Producers Termination of Conservation Reserve Program Contract

• Hinkley Point B owner says it will not extend life of nuclear plant

• Ford’s Electric Pickup Can Power Your House for 10 Days

  • HN comments

• Ice cream customers waited 45min due to staff shortage a month ahead of summer

• Millions warned of power cuts this winter.

Gubmint / Poilitcks / Law Making

• As US Economic Data Crashes, Biden 'Invites' Powell To Oval Office | ZeroHedge

  • Biden to meet Fed chair as inflation bites pocketbooks

• Joe Biden: My Plan for Fighting Inflation Archive link

  • Rabo: I Love It When Biden's "Plan For Fighting Inflation" Comes Together... I Just Don't Know What It Is | ZeroHedge

  • Analysis: Joe Biden wants to show he's in charge of inflation ... while showing someone else is in charge

• More Shoes Drop in the Paul Pelosi Arrest Story.

• Supreme Court leak investigation heats up as clerks are asked for phone records in unprecedented move

  • THE NEW REFORM CLUB: Query for CNN's Joan Biskupic

  • Supreme Court Reportedly To Demand Cellphones and Affidavits From Clerks in Leak Investigation – JONATHAN TURLEY

• GOP senators want to ban China’s digital currency from US apps and app stores

• Top-Paid LA Lifeguards Earned Up to $510,283 in 2021

Hunter

• New bid to spin Hunter Biden’s laptop.

Law Breaking / Police / Internal Security

• Hillary-Lawyer Sussman Acquitted Of Lying To FBI In 'Russia Hoax' Farce

  Michael Sussmann, a lawyer representing Hillary Clinton's 2016 campaign, has been found not guilty of a single count of lying to the FBI when he said he was not working on behalf of any client when he alleged a covert communications channel between the Trump Organization and Russia's Alfa Bank.

  • Michael Sussmann has been acquitted - by Techno Fog

External Security / Militaria / Diplomania

• Updated autonomous weapons rules coming for The Pentagon

World

• Trudeau Proposes Law Banning Handgun Sales In Canada

• Imran says Pakistan rulers ‘tasked with recognising Israel’

Health / Medicine

• Outbreak Investigation of Hepatitis a Virus: Strawberries (May 2022) – FDA

Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda

• Apparently Eating Chicken Bones Is What It Takes to Save the Planet

• By running shit downhill: How Electric ‘Infinity Trains’ Could Run Forever on One Initial Charge

• Big tobacco's environmental impact is 'devastating': WHO

• Miracle Fuel Hydrogen Can Make Climate Change Worse

• China’s Curbs on Property and Covid Have Cut Emissions – For Now

• California Joins Bid to Save Nuclear Power

• Rocket Engine Exhaust Pollution Extends High into Earth’s Atmosphere

• Securities and Exchange Commission presses on with anti-greenwashing proposals

• German police raid DWS and Deutsche Bank over greenwashing allegations

• The dirty truth about clean energy

• The world has passed ‘peak agricultural land’ | Hacker News

Ukraine War

• EU leaders agree to ban 90 percent of Russian oil by year-end

• How did the IR community get Russia/Ukraine so wrong?

• US Will Not Send Ukraine Long-Range Rockets That Can Reach Russia, Biden Says

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• Putin’s real goal in Ukraine isn’t territory

• Russia’s QAnon Followers Can’t Make Up Their Minds About Ukraine