2022-06-07

Cool

• James Webb Space Telescope's first full-color images revealed on July 12th

Worthy

• When do ideas get easier to find? - by Eric Gilliam

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• More cyclists are being killed by cars. Advocates say US streets are the problem

• Mercedes 'do not drive' brake recall expands to 1M vehicles

• Seventeen Theses on Disability - Freddie deBoer

Horseshit

• Axon halts plans for Taser drone as 9 on ethics board resign

• Is New York City More Dangerous Than Rural America?

Rank Propaganda / Thought Policing / World Disordering

• The Satanist Neo-Nazi Plot to Murder U.S. Soldiers

• Would You Believe San Francisco’s Too Right-Wing?

• Rethinking the Second Amendment | FrontpageMag

Gun control / Mass Shooting

• Canadian Gun Stores Report Panic Buying Following Trudeau's Plan To Ban Handgun Sales

Musk

• Texas AG Launches Investigation Into Twitter; Alleges Company Lied About Number Of Bots

  • Echoing Elon Musk, Texas AG Is Investigating Twitter over Bots

• Musk, Twitter, and Bots; Bot Experience; Bot Science

  • HN comments

• Elon Musk threatens to walk away from Twitter deal

• Elon Musk says an IPO of SpaceX’s Starlink business is still ‘3 or 4 years’ away

Pestilence / Pox / COVID / VaxCult

• We Can’t Keep Getting The Same Formula in COVID-19 Booster Shots, Says Immunologist.

• Indigenous Alaskans died from Covid-19 at nearly 3X the rate of white Alaskans

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

• Covid vaccines can be updated for new variants. So, where's my Omicron booster?

• CDC raises monkeypox alert as global cases surpass 1,000

• The linguistics search engine that overturned the federal mask mandate

Edumacationalizing / Acedemia Nuts

• A Conservative Quits Georgetown’s Law School Amid Free Speech Fight

• Please, don't build another Large Hadron Collider

  • HN comments

• The Math Myth (2016) | Hacker News

Crypto con games

• US Probes Binance over Token That Is Now World’s Fifth Largest

• How Anonymous Is Bitcoin, Really?

• Paul Krugman – From the Big Short to the Big Scam

• Reuters: Binance facilitated $2.35B in illicit transfers from 2017-2021

• Why the Central African Republic Adopted Bitcoin

• Crypto industry scores big win under long anticipated Senate bill

Economicon / Business / Finance

• Hedge Fund Elliott Sues LME For $456 Million Over Losses From Nickel Trading Halt

• (July 2021) Unleash the trailers: End regulatory discrimination against manufactured housing

  • HN comments

• BuzzFeed Shares Drop 41% in Wake of Investor Lockup Expiration

• Abramovich's telecom company Truphone, once worth 500m dollars, will sell for $1

• AT&T Is Raising the Price of Grandfathered Cell Phone Plans

• US import demand is dropping off a cliff

Shortages

• KFC Australia forced to swap lettuce for cabbage

• Carmakers feel chip crisis easing

  • HN comments

Gubmint / Poilitcks / Law Making

• Biden’s press office plagued by negative coverage, messaging gaffes as media signals ‘honeymoon is over.’

• FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried spent $30M+ on political donations

• Spare 'documented Dreamers' from deportation, tech giants tell Biden official

Jan6

• Proud Boys Charged With Seditious Conspiracy in Capitol Riot

Law Breaking / Police / Internal Security

• Man murdered after girlfriend used AirTag to investigate cheating

• Arizona police placed on leave after watching man drown

• Illegal legal advice: Kudos to Upsolve for fighting to provide debt-collection advice – New York Daily News

• Florida mom charged with manslaughter after 2-year-old son shoots dad in back

• High court won't hear appeal over McCloskeys' law licenses

• San Francisco could vote out progressive DA in heated recall

External Security / Militaria / Diplomania

• US May Allow More Iran Oil to Flow Even Without Deal, Says Vitol

World

• China’s Top Influencer Is Cancelled over a Piece of Cake

• What's next for Boris Johnson? Here's what you need to know

Health / Medicine

• California aims to slash insulin prices

  • HN comments

• A Bloody Waste

Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda

• Climate change is coming for your pizza sauce

• Why chasing the AI dragon may force big tech to take sustainability seriously

• Paris rolls out ban on big-polluting diesel vehicles

• Target, Dollar Tree stop selling glue traps for rodents.

• Biden utilizes Defense Production Act for solar panels?

• 42% chance of hitting 1.5 degrees Celsius if we stopped emissions today

Ukraine War

• Russia’s invasion after 100 days: Ukraine goes on the offensive.

• Kremlin Declares "Land Bridge" Complete From Western Russia To Donbas To Crimea

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• Smartphones Blur the Line Between Civilian and Combatant

• Turkey, Russia Agree To De-Mining Operation In Ukrainian Ports To Erect 'Grain Corridor'

• 15Y boy hailed 'hero of Ukraine' for saving Kyiv with his toy drone

• Why Has Germany Been So Slow to Deliver Weapons?