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• (Apr 2022) The Space Space: Part 1 - by Dr Pippa

  Several years ago I argued that defense spending was the new Quantitative Easing. As long as it’s for defense, nobody asks any questions. Where is this new wave of money going? It’s going into every aspect of space from asteroid mining to space manufacturing, space medicine, to the building of bases on the Moon and Mars and to the exploration for signs of life beyond our galaxy.

• NASA's Perseverance Mars Rover Has Been Carrying a 'Pet Rock' in its Wheel for Months - TechEBlog

• NASA to buy five additional Crew Dragon flights.

• First Images from NASA’s Webb Space Telescope Coming on July 12th

• A Lesson from the Tiananmen Tank Men

Horseshit

• Court upholds $573,000 penalty against CA homeowner who fixed cars in backyard

  • HN comments

• Spotify Podcasters Are Making $18,000 a Month with Nothing but White Noise

• Why Technology Hasn’t Delivered More Democracy

Obit

• Ann Turner Cook, original Gerber baby, dies at 95

Rank Propaganda / Thought Policing / World Disordering

• Most Dystopian Things Pushed by the World Economic Forum (WEF) | Hacker News

• Red Flag Gun Laws Set The Stage For Selective Disarmament Of Conservatives | ZeroHedge

• Social media trains us to think in black/white

• The Internet Used to Be Smaller and Nicer. Let’s Get It Back

Musk

• Musk's warning could be auto industry's 'canary in the coal mine' moment

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

• Elon Musk Says Tesla AI Day Pushed to Sept. 30, Awaits Optimus Prime

Gun control / Mass shooting

• WATCH: Journalist Tries to Crash Uvalde Victim’s Funeral, Bikers Have a Different Idea

  • Funerals for children continue in Uvalde as bikers barricade press

• They bought the gold PR package for this one, ive avoided all the other stories: A firm proposes using Taser-armed drones to stop school shootings

• Uvalde mom who rescued kids: The cops said I might violate my probation if I keep criticizing them.

• "It Was Chaos" : 3 Dead, 11 More Injured In Philadelphia Mass Shooting | ZeroHedge

  • 'Several Active shooters' in Philadelphia area 3 dead and 11 others wounded

• Solution to gun crime is improving gun-related convictions

Pestilence / Pox / COVID / VaxCult

• Genetic data indicate at least two monkeypox outbreaks underway and wider spread

• Hong Kong gov’t pays out HK$2M for post-vaccine death

• Dutch Airline Pilots Association blocks mandated vaccinations for new pilots

  • HN comments

• Social media spreads rumours about vaccine harms, but doesn’t always start them

• Why It’s So Hard to Make Risk Decisions in the Pandemic

• Fauci blasts ‘conspiracy theories’ in NYC graduation speech.

Culture War / Tribal / Re segregation

• Wokeness, the Highest Stage of Managerialism

Media / ShowBiz / Advertising

• It Costs $110k to Fully Gear-Up in Diablo Immortal

  • HN comments

• Valve Isn’t a Company Interested in Mods Anymore | by The Tax Collector Man | Jun, 2022 | Medium

• “They’ve Got To Pee On It”: A VFX Supervisor Explains Why Their Job Is So Tricky | Defector

• Frances Haugen says Meta can't recover until Mark Zuckerberg steps down

• Top Meta Exec Sandberg Quit Amid Probe into Wedding Expenses

  • What Sheryl Sandberg’s Exit Reveals About Women’s Progress in Tech

• (Oct 2021) Enough Is Enough: The Criminal Case Against Mark Zuckerberg

  • HN comments

• Apple’s AR/VR Headset Will Dominate WWDC–Even Though It Won’t Be There

• Reddit Is the King of Bad Timing

TechSuck

• Brave’s Use of Direct Mailers | Hacker News

• DDR5 RAM prices crashed by 20% in May

  • HN comments

• AOL 3.0 is Back (DRAFT, 6/5/22): g — LiveJournal

Crypto con games

• Search Continues for Source of TerraUSD Crypto Bank Run

• The Unbelievable Number of Cartoon Apes Being Stolen

  • Bored Ape Yacht Club Discord servers hacked. Millions worth of NFTs stolen

• It's still 2014 in crypto payments, and buying a burrito is now a taxable event

• Yuga Labs Confirms Discord Server Hack; 200 ETH Worth of NFTs Stolen

• Crypto’s Value Comes from Crypto’s Volatility

• Insider Trading 'Common' in NFTs, Investors Say After First Arrest

Economicon / Business / Finance

• "Major Turning Point" - US Housing Inventory Rises For First Time Since 2019  | ZeroHedge

• Soaring Cost Of Living Causes Spike In Abandoned And Surrendered Pets | ZeroHedge

• Work from Home and the Office Real Estate Apocalypse

  • HN comments

• Wonking Out: How Low Must Inflation Go?

• For Truck Drivers Across the U.S., Major Change Is Approaching Fast Archive link

  As trucking evolves, the patchwork of businesses across the United States that exist to support the industry is at risk of disappearing.

• Housing Boom Fails to Lift All Homes Above Previous Cycle’s Peak

• Inflation is coming for middle-class households

Shortages

• Policymaker Push Against Fossil Fuels Means "Will Never Be Another Refinery Built In US"; Chevron CEO Says

• Russia limits exports of noble gases, a key ingredient in chip manufacturing

Gubmint / Poilitcks / Law Making

• President Biden Signs Memo to Combat Quantum Computing Threat

• ‘They Just Don’t Get It’: Biden’s Student Loan Forgiveness Push a ‘Complete Disaster’ for Democrats in Midterms

• Trump mobilizing his MAGA allies to defend him ahead of January 6 hearings

Law Breaking / Police / Internal Security

• Washington state drivers don’t have to pull over for the cops anymore, so they aren’t

• Watch: An Enraged Peter Navarro Describes Being Arrested And Shackled Over Misdemeanor J6 Indictment | ZeroHedge

• Real estate agents got $3.9B in PPP loans. The housing market boomed

• Former Judge Killed In "Targeted" Attack Against Judicial System, Officials Say | ZeroHedge

External Security / Militaria / Diplomania

• Every photo I took of a NATO building disappeared from my camera roll

  • HN comments

World

• The Japan that Abe Shinzo made

• Russia plans to restart German telescope without permission

Health / Medicine

• Cooling Towers Spreading Legionnaires’ Disease

• A Cancer Trial’s Unexpected Result: Remission in Every Patient

Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda

• Rethinking air conditioning amid climate change

• Climate change is harder on less educated people

• Washington considers ban on gas, oil, resistance electric heat in residences

• What might degrowth computing look like?

• Claim: Climate Change is Making US Classrooms Too Hot.

• Global Warming’s Six Americas

• The first named storm of the Atlantic hurricane season has formed

• Some of California's rural communities are already tapped out of groundwater

• Don't let climate change stop you from having children

Ukraine War

• Russia Threatens To 'Strike The West' If US-Supplied Rockets Hit Its Territory

• US-made parts keep Russia’s artillery firing in Ukraine

• US confirms military hackers have conducted cyber operations to support Ukraine

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• Russia’s Ill-Fated Invasion of Ukraine: Lessons in Modern Warfare

• Putin warns West of strikes if longer-range missiles supplied