2022-06-03

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• A rare, 5-planet alignment will take over the sky this month

• NASA just bought the rest of the space station crew flights from SpaceX.

• Executive narcissism affects knowledge transfer among business units

• Scientists announce a breakthrough in determining life's origin on Earth—and maybe Mars

  Scientists at the Foundation for Applied Molecular Evolution announced today that ribonucleic acid (RNA), an analog of DNA that was likely the first genetic material for life, spontaneously forms on basalt lava glass.

• The new Sally Ride quarter has a lot of symbolism

Horseshit

• Heartbreak hotels? Las Vegas chapels told to stop using Elvis for weddings

• Nuclear Fusion Is Already Facing a Fuel Crisis

• Met police profiling children ‘on a large scale’, documents show

• Artificial intelligence is creating a new colonial world order

• Ban on Gas Stoves is the end of Korean BBQ in L.A

  • HN comments

• CA Governor race: The Revolt Against Homelessness

• How One Billionaire with a 300-Year Plan Fueled the Popping Tech Bubble

  SoftBank’s $100 billion Vision Fund was a doomed venture for everyone but investors: it might achieve returns, but at the cost of propping up inefficient monopolies whose survival seemed unlikely. Familiar names like Uber, DoorDash, and WeWork, but also Indian hotelier Oyo or now-defunct construction company Katerra, all were given large hoards of capital to use as weapons against competitors in their respective markets. But for many of its portfolio companies to earn their first profit, or to sustain those they were beginning to enjoy, they’d need more than cash to burn—they’d need to restructure society to realize profits that were previously illegal because of basic laws protecting workers and consumers.

celebrity gossip

• Johnny Depp Trial Gives Rise to a New Breed of Content Creators

• ACLU sues Johnny Depp seeking legal expenses for Amber Heard case.

• The Depp Trial and the Demise of the ACLU: How a Celebrity Trial Exposed the Collapse of a Once Celebrated Group – JONATHAN TURLEY

• James Earl Jones is back as voice of Darth Vader

• Boris Johnson booed at Queen’s jubilee

Obit

• Barry Sussman, Washington Post editor who oversaw Watergate reporting, has died

Rank Propaganda / Thought Policing / World Disordering

• Psychopathic propensities contribute to right-wing authoritarianism

• Science Must Not Be Used to Foster White Supremacy

• EU Commission is planning what Apple stopped after backslash: CSAM scanning

• How Big Tech discriminates on misinformation

  To tackle Russian disinformation, serious investments in content moderation should not be available only to the U.S. and parts of Western Europe. Smaller countries, too, must receive similar levels of resources, in terms of human moderators, functioning automated content systems and access to social media executives who are willing to treat requests/complaints from the likes of Bulgaria in the same way they respond to similar issues flagged in the U.S.

Musk

• Elon Musk has 'super bad feeling' about economy, wants to slash Tesla jobs

• Tesla Pauses Hiring, Musk Says Need to Cut Staff by 10%

• Tesla to Cut 10% of Jobs

• Elon Musk's New Second-Gen Starlink Satellites Are Too Big for Current Rockets

• Elon Musk tells Tesla chiefs to ax 10% of staff

• Tosca Musk, Elon’s younger sister, is the force behind Passionflix

• Twitter Announces Expiration of Waiting Period for Transaction with Elon Musk

  • Twitter Says Antitrust Waiting Period for Musk Deal Has Closed

• Tesla’s ‘phantom braking’ problem is getting worse

• Losing a Street Fight to Elon Musk

• Elon Musk’s Plan to Send a Million Colonists to Mars by 2050 Is Pure Delusion

• Elon Musk says Tesla’s fake robot might be ready by September 30th

Gun control / Mass shooting

• New York City lawmaker assumes ‘white supremacy’ motivated Tulsa shooter—he was black

• Tulsa Shooter Identified, Targeted Doctor Who Operated On His Back

• Has Anyone Highlighted This Key Detail About the Texas Shooter’s Background Check?

• Biden Claims Gun Control Not About ‘Taking Away’ Rights Before Listing Ways He Wants To Take Away Rights | The Daily Wire

  • Biden’s plea for gun control draws fire and praise from the usual quarters

• 2 dead, plus suspected shooter, outside Iowa church

• If Joe Biden Cared About Gun Laws, Hunter Biden Would Already Be In Jail.

Abortion

• What Roe vs. Wade being overturned could mean for startups in red states

Pestilence / Pox / COVID / VaxCult

• Accuracy of non-invasive detection of SARS-CoV-2 infection by canine olfaction

• Watch: Fauci Admits Biden Mask Mandate Is About Preserving "Authority"

• Monkeypox is new global threat. African scientists know what world is up against

• How China’s lockdown policies are crippling the country’s economy

• Sanctuary: Thousands gather to see Bedworth Covid memorial burned

• Behind the high-tech Covid-19 tests you probably haven’t heard about

• Welcome to the Great Reinfection

• Biden admin says COVID vaccine may be available to children under 5 by late June

• We Should Have Seen Monkeypox Coming

Culture War / Tribal / Re segregation

• Americans Believe Race Relations Are Getting Worse. We're Being Lied To

• Kuwait Summons US Diplomat Over Gay Pride Month Tweet | ZeroHedge

Edumacationalizing / Acedemia Nuts

• Science Is Getting Harder

  • HN comments

• School's In: Teens Prefer an IRL Education

• College admissions should depend on academics alone

  • HN comments

Media / ShowBiz / Advertising

• Record Labels Dig Their Own Grave, and the Shovel Is Called TikTok

  • HN comments

• Leaked transcript:What Mark Zuckerberg told employees about Sheryl Sandberg exit

  • Burnout Drove Sheryl Sandberg’s Meta Exit

  • Who Is Mark Zuckerberg’s New No. 2? It’s a Trick Question

  • Sheryl Sandberg’s Legacy

• Amazon’s Kindle bookstore to quit China

• Twitter Blocks Linking to Mastodon.social | Hacker News

• Clubhouse is losing talent and steam

• In defence of Ricky Gervais and the right to offend people

TechSuck

• The Hidden Worlds of the Klein Tools TI250 Thermal Imager

  • HN comments

• Shimano Forces Hammerhead to Remove All Di2 Related Functionality From Karoo

  • HN comments

• Google settles lawsuit with Illinois residents for $100M over photo app concerns

• Apple’s Space Ambitions are Real | I, Cringely

  While Apple’s stated goals will be only iMessage and Find My, followed by IoT, in the longer run Cupertino plans to dis-intermediate the mobile carriers — becoming themselves a satellite-based global phone and data company. That will require shifting over additional Globalstar bandwidth plus launching another 300-600 satellites, so it is several years away but IS coming.

Crypto con games

• Winklevoss twins’ Gemini cutting 10% of staff, saying ‘crypto winter’ is here

• CFTC sues Gemini Trust over statements ahead of Bitcoin futures launch

• Senate Bill S6486D Establishes a moratorium on cryptocurrency mining

  • HN comments

  • New York Senate Passes Bitcoin Mining Moratorium

• Regulators sue Winklevoss crypto firm over futures contracts

• Coinbase extends hiring freeze, will rescind some accepted offers

• Crypto firms say 1000s of digital currencies will collapse, compares to .com era

• Crypto fraudsters are stealing millions from Silicon Valley techies

Economicon / Business / Finance

• Tech companies lay off workers at highest rate since 2020: ‘I feel deceived’

• What’s the Story with Mortgage Rates?

• Ford Is Going to 100% Online, Fixed-Price Sales for EVs

  • HN comments

• Restaurants Add New Fees to Your Check to Counter Inflation

• Faulty battery pack caught fire inside Rivian's Illinois assembly plant

• Layoffs and Hiring Freezes

• Payrolls rose 390k in May, better than expected as companies keep hiring

• Despite high-profile staff cut, the job market remains ‘burning hot’ for workers

• Reasons high oil prices are here to stay

• Uber loses appeal as top Swiss court rules company is an employer

• The last Howard Johnson’s restaurant closed

• The New Yorkers in crisis over skyrocketing rents

• Panic in Startupland! - Nicolas Bustamante

• Equifax coding error may have resulted in errors to consumer credit scores

• An Old Way to Fight Inflation Gets New Fans

Shortages

• The Baby Formula Shortage: What’s the Root Cause?

  Abbott should ask themselves how such a situation arose in the first place. In fact, they should shut down all their plants and conduct a whole root cause analysis of how such a culture was allowed to prevail.

• The world may be careening toward a 1970s-style energy crisis – or worse.

• Breaking down the Biden administration's response to the baby formula shortage

Gubmint / Poilitcks / Law Making

• Social Security fund will be able to pay benefits one year longer than expected

• AOC-backed progressive candidate drops out of NY race, blames Democratic Party’s redistricting and accuses it of racism

• Biden Admin Considering Proposal To Tax Oil, Gas Windfall Profits

• "Is This Real?": Biden Gives Bizarre Inflation Speech Full Of Obvious Lies | ZeroHedge

  Biden suggested that "families are carrying less debt" and "their average savings are up" since he took office, adding that "more Americans feel financially comfortable."

Law Breaking / Police / Internal Security

• FBI Maintains Workspace Inside Democrat Law Firm Perkins Coie | ZeroHedge

• Retro Game Collector Accused of Selling $100k Worth of Intricate Forgeries

• The L.A. County Sheriff’s Deputy-Gang Crisis

• Peter Navarro: Former Trump adviser Peter Navarro indicted for contempt of Congress - CNNPolitics

• Seattle police stopped investigating new adult sexual assaults this year

External Security / Militaria / Diplomania

• Chinese Aircraft Carrier Seen with a Fleet of Drones on Its Deck

• Let's Buy Pakistan's Nukes

• Starlink's success in Ukraine amplifies interest in anti-satellite weapons

• China Gears Up to Launch Its Third Aircraft Carrier

• Line Between Criminal Hackers and Nation-State Threats Blurs, US Officials Say

• Classified specs leaked on War Thunder forum for third time

  • HN comments

World

• Chad declares 'food emergency', urges international help

• Italy Is Held Back by 2.6M People Who Have Given Up on Work

  • HN comments

• ‘We were all wrong’: how Germany got hooked on Russian energy

• Poles get OK to gather firewood as energy prices soar

  The public has long been allowed to purchase branches left after logging in state forests. “Collecting branches for fuel is allowed at all times, with the consent of the forester,” Edward Siarka, the deputy minister of climate and environment, reminded last week.

• Swiss say Germany can freely dispose of Leopard 2 tanks sold back to Rheinmetall

Health / Medicine

• Coffee drinking linked to lower mortality risk, new study finds

  • HN comments

• Growth Hormone to Reverse Aging

Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda

• Greenhouse gases: Cutting air pollution could boost crop yields by up to 28%

• Car tyres produce vastly more particle pollution than exhausts, tests show

• Indoor air filtration could lead to increased airborne endotoxin levels

• Meerkats Are Getting Climate Sick

Ukraine War

• Behind the Scenes: The pots, pans, and people that make millions of meals

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• U.S. Intel: 'Everyone Is Sensing the End Is Near' for Putin – PJ Media

• ‘Everything is gone’: Russian business hit hard by tech sanctions

• Has Russia legalised intellectual-property theft?

• Google and Russia's Delicate Dance

• As Invasion Enters 100th Day, Russia Now Holds 20% Of Ukraine: Zelensky

• U.S. Technology, a Longtime Tool for Russia, Becomes a Vulnerability

• A digital conflict between Russia and Ukraine rages on behind the scenes of war

• Ukrainian professor gives lecture from front lines of fight against Russia

• Putin’s war is just beginning