2022-06-02

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• Japanese weather satellite accidentally watched Betelgeuse go dim | Ars Technica

• Largest airship built in United States since 1930s to take shape soon

  • HN comments

• Mountain lion corralled in Northern California classroom

• James Webb Space Telescope will release its first science-quality images July 12

• Giraffes May Be Long-Necked for Fights, Not Just Food

Horseshit

• Farmer Says Dealer Wouldn’t Repair His Tractor Until He Filed FTC Complaint

• It’s a Scandi scandal Why has social media turned on Sweden?

celebrity gossip

• Jury awards Depp 15M; Heard 2M in countersuit

  • “The Amber Heard-Johnny Depp trial was an orgy of misogyny”, says Moira Donegan

  • (Apr 2022) Who is Moira Donegan? NYC Columnist Who Created 'Sh**ty Media Men' #MeToo List Faces Defamation Trial

  • Republicans Are Doing Backflips over Johnny Depp Winning His Defamation Case

  • Defiant Amber Heard says Johnny Depp’s defamation trial victory is a ‘setback for women’ and says she feels her freedom of speech as an American ‘has been lost.’

Obit

• 'Father of MIDI' Dave Smith Has Died

Rank Propaganda / Thought Policing / World Disordering

• RNC plans to place poll workers and use Zendesk to skew elections

• Bank apologizes over trucker convoy account freeze

• Covid was liberalism’s endgame

Musk

• We See a Significant Risk That the Twitter Deal Gets Repriced Lower

• An Elon Musk takeover could end Twitter’s permanent work-from-home policy

Gun control / Mass Shooting

• Police Respond To Shooting At Oklahoma Hospital, Describe Scene As “Catastrophic.”

  • Police say 5 Dead after Hospital shooting in Tulsa, Oklahoma

• The problem with schools turning to surveillance after mass shootings

• Buffalo shooting: Suspect charged with domestic terrorism

Pestilence / Pox / COVID / VaxCult

• New Lancet Study Destroys the CDC's Justification for School Mask Mandates

• (Apr 2022) Incidence of Myocarditis and Pericarditis in Post Covid-19 Unvaccinated Patients

  Post COVID-19 infection was not associated with either myocarditis (aHR 1.08; 95% CI 0.45 to 2.56) or pericarditis (aHR 0.53; 95% CI 0.25 to 1.13). We did not observe an increased incidence of neither pericarditis nor myocarditis in adult patients recovering from COVID-19 infection.

• CDC Director Issues Alert On Pfizer's COVID-19 Pill | ZeroHedge

• Trained dogs sniff out Covid-19 as well as lab tests do

  • Dogs can detect Covid with high accuracy, even asymptomatic cases

• Covid death tolls: scientists acknowledge errors in WHO estimates

• The Covid Cult Did Lasting Damage to Our Kids

• Pfizer asks FDA to authorize Covid-19 vaccine for youngest kids

• OPINION: Media coverage of monkeypox paints it as an African virus. That makes me mad

• How 40 years without smallpox vaccinations could make the monkeypox outbreak worse

• Future Covid-19 booster shots will likely need fresh formulations

• Italy is Open

Culture War / Tribal / Re segregation

• BBC ‘altered gender in trans rape claim’

  • BBC altered rape victim's quotes to avoid 'misgendering' her trans attacker

• Google’s plan to talk about caste bias led to ‘division and rancor’

  • HN comments

• Cons of Polyamory

Edumacationalizing / Acedemia Nuts

• Break Up The Elite College Seats Cartel

  • HN comments

• No Free Lunch: Biden Admin Will Pull Meal Funding for Schools That Don’t Comply With Its LGBT Agenda

Media / ShowBiz / Advertising

• Sheryl Sandberg to step down as Facebook chief operating officer

  • Sheryl Sandberg Stepping Down as Facebook COO

  • HN comments

  • Sheryl Sandberg to leave Facebook after 14 years

• Facebook developing a privacy-safe ad product to save its advertising business

• CNN cutting back on over-hyping everything as “breaking news”

TechSuck

• Tim Hortons app violated laws in collection of ‘vast amounts’ of location data

  • HN comments

• Smartphones will kill off the DSLR within three years says Sony

• IBM's self-sailing Mayflower suffers another fault in Atlantic crossing bid

• Canon wireless printers are getting stuck in reboot loops

• Deep dive: How fast are Linux pipes anyway?

Crypto con games

• Former OpenSea executive Nate Chastain arrested for insider trading of NFTs

• Ask HN: Is Tether Under Attack? | Hacker News

• Bank of England to take over collapsed stablecoin cryptocurrencies

• As Bitcoin Falters, Crypto Miners Brace for a Crash

• Winklevoss Twins’ Gemini Slashes Staff 10% on Crypto Slump

Economicon / Business / Finance

• Jamie Dimon says ‘brace yourself’ for an economic hurricane caused by Fed

• Report: Samsung will soon stop making traditional LCD panels | Ars Technica

• I quit my Netflix engineer $450k/year job, money wasn't worth the boredom

• GM is slashing prices for the Chevy Bolt amid high demand for electric vehicles

• 'Crazy stuff is happening at my work': Silicon Valley engineers are freaking out

• Inflation is caused by too little capacity

• ADP Employment Data Signals Weakest Labor Market Since COVID Collapse

• Marginalized workers are opting out. Here’s how to entice them back

• Impact of Institutional Buyers on Home Sales and Single-Family Rentals

  Institutional buyers made up 13% of the residential sales market in 2021, with the median purchase price of institutional buyers typically 26% lower than the states’ median purchase prices

  in areas with a higher share of institutional buyers than the national average, there are twice as many Black households as areas with a lower share of institutional buyers.

  The states with the institutional buyer market shares were Texas (28%), Georgia (19%), Oklahoma (18%), Alabama (18%), Mississippi (17%), Florida (16%), Missouri (16%), North Carolina (16%), Ohio (16%), and Utah (16%)

  • unmentioned but graphed is the news that this "institutional share" peaked over 15% in 2012 and has been fading since.

• Moving From Opportunity: The High Cost of Restrictions on Land Use - Marginal REVOLUTION

• Turkish Magician Built a $600M Nasdaq-Listed Scam Based on Lies | Hacker News

• Microsoft lowers fourth-quarter guidance

• Gen Z Workers Want Mission-Driven Jobs. A Big Paycheck Would Be Nicer

• OPEC agrees to ramp up oil production, but fails to exclude Russia

• Most Student-Loan Borrowers Made No Payment During US Freeze

• Russia’s ‘failure to pay’ bond interest triggers credit default swaps

Shortages

• Biden says he wasn't aware of baby formula shortage severity until two months ago

Gubmint / Poilitcks / Law Making

• Biden Administration to Cut Costs for Wind and Solar Energy Projects

• Court Finds Illegal Votes Cast, Orders Election Overturned in Compton

• On Student Loans, Joe Biden Is in Thrall to the Most Radical Voices in America

Law Breaking / Police / Internal Security

• Man Who Tried to Assassinate Reagan Will Get Unconditional Release

• FBI thwarts cyberthreat to Boston Children's Hospital by Iran state hackers

External Security / Militaria / Diplomania

• US ran offensive cyber ops to support Ukraine, says general

  • US Engaged In "Offensive" Cyber Ops Against Russia In Ukraine: NSA Director

World

• ‘Consequences will be dire’: Chile’s water crisis is reaching breaking point

• PRC Defense: Starlink Countermeasures

• UN registers 'Türkiye' as new country name to replace 'Turkey'

  • HN comments

• Queen Elizabeth II’s Platinum Jubilee Kicks Off With Pomp

• Canada says China 'buzzing' military flights in Asia

• Russia’s Alexei Navalny faces extra 15 years in jail over ‘extremism’ claims

Health / Medicine

• Coffee Drinking Linked to Lower Risk of Dying, New Study Finds

• Despite ‘right-to-repair’ law, there’s no easy fix for wheelchair users

Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda

• Seasonal allergies have been amped up by climate change

• Giant gas field in Algeria found to be leaking methane for decades

• EU overshoots 2020 climate target, records 34% drop in emissions

• What birds can tell us about climate change

• HSBC Suspends Executive for Climate Comments

• Biden’s Navy Secretary: The Existential Threat Is Climate Change.

Ukraine War

• Ukraine war: how far can US, NATO push Putin before he uses nuclear weapons?

• US To Sell Ukraine Advanced Drones Armed With Hellfire Missiles In Coming Days

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• Top Russian Military Brass Caught Venting, ‘You’re Fcked, Putin—Motherfcker!’

• The Tide Is Turning Toward Russia: It’s time to face some grim facts about the war in Ukraine.

• In Chernobyl’s delicate nuclear labs, Russians looted safety systems

• Of Sanctions and Strategic Bombers

• Russia in “failure to pay” credit event, investor committee says

• Taiwan restricts exports of modern CPUs to Russia and Belarus

• HP turns back on $1b in annual sales by quitting Russia and Belarus

• Russia Controls 20% of Ukraine

• US sanctions more Russian elites, targeting yachts and aircraft

• U.S. Imposes Sanctions on Yacht Company That Caters to Russian Elites

• X-22MA rocket fragments near Odesa. Ferrite RAM for 352 bytes and vacuum tubes