2022-06-08

Worthy

• Which Party Has Gotten More Extreme Faster?

  Obviously your party is normal and the other one has gone completely off the rails. I’m being disgustingly “both-sides-ist” by even pretending there could be any possible equivalence. When the other party seizes power in an undemocratic coup, it will be the fault of cowards like me who refuse to call out how one party is infinitely worse than the other on this axis.

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• Punctuality Is Having a Moment

• How Is Voyager Still Talking After All These Years? | Hackaday

• We Don't Throw People Away

Horseshit

• How Space Debris Threatens Modern Life

• Farmers at high risk for tick-borne illnesses do little to prevent exposure.

celebrity gossip

• Lawyer David Boies bills $1,950 hourly in Google case, court filing shows

Rank Propaganda / Thought Policing / World Disordering

• AI Trained on 4Chan Becomes ‘Hate Speech Machine’

• I Dream of a One World Government and New World Order

Jan6

• The January 6 committee’s biggest task is getting people to care

• Public Hearings to Detail the 2021 Riot at US Capitol

Musk

• World War 3 and the Unknowability of Elon Musk’s Drug Habits

• In reversal, Twitter plans to comply with Musk’s demands for bot data

Pestilence / Pox / COVID / VaxCult

• FDA advisers support Novavax's Covid-19 vaccine for authorization

• The unintended consequences of Covid-19 vaccine policy

• Monkeypox Can Be Airborne, Too

  An abrupt change in C.D.C. guidance underscores a little-known phenomenon: On occasion, monkeypox can be transmitted through aerosols, similar to the coronavirus.

• Moderna says its new vaccine booster shows 'superior' response to Omicron

Culture War / Tribal / Re segregation

• 'Old white guy' can move forward with workplace bias suit against AT&T

• Racialized Names and Time to Adoption in a County Dog Shelter

  We find that as dogs’ names are increasingly perceived as White, people adopt them faster. Conversely, as dogs’ names are increasingly perceived as nonhuman (e.g., Fluffy), people adopt them slower. Perceptions of Black names are likewise tied to slower times to adoption, with this effect being concentrated among pit bulls, a breed that is stereotyped as dangerous and racialized as Black.

Edumacationalizing / Acedemia Nuts

• Children’s Rights Violations by Governments That Endorsed Online Learning

• Stop Eliminating Gifted Programs and Calling It ‘Equity’ | Hacker News

Media / ShowBiz / Advertising

• A Glimpse at Devin Nunes’ Compensation as CEO of Trump’s Truth Social

• 'Stranger Things' Won’t Save Netflix

• The Washington Post’s Descent Into Middle School Antics

TechSuck

• HoloLens leader Alex Kipman to leave Microsoft after report on ‘toxic’ behavior

• Western Digital open to spinning out flash, hard disk businesses

Crypto con games

• PayPal is allowing users to move their cryptocurrency to other wallets

• Predatory community

• NY proposed regulations requiring crypto mining be powered by 100% renewables

• Snow Crash author starts crypto business to bring about the Metaverse

Economicon / Business / Finance

• We already achieved ‘energy independence.’ What good did it do us?

• World Bank dims outlook for global economy amid Russia war

• The stock market could soon see a change to how it functions

• Target Warns Profit Will Drop Because It Has Too Much Stuff.

• Shocking Consumer Credit Numbers: Everyone Maxing Out Their Credit Card Ahead Of The Recession

• Inbound container volumes to the US are reverting to pre-pandemic levels | Hacker News

• World Bank cuts global growth outlook and warns of 70s stagflation

• No, you're not going crazy – package sizes are shrinking

• Bird Is Laying Off 23% of Its Staff

  • HN comments

• Restaurants Add New Fees to Your Check to Counter Inflation

• 83% of Americans describe economy as “poor” or “not so good” for them

• Apple announces “Buy now pay later” plan

• Hedge Fund D1 Borrowed Billions for Hot Bet Now Seen Melting Down

• Insurance startups face credibility crisis in brutal tech rout

• Former Amazon Chief Dave Clark Lands at Flexport as CEO

• First Signs of a Slight Decline in Secondhand Bookshops in Britain

• SEC Considers Routing Equity Trades into Competitive Auctions

Gubmint / Poilitcks / Law Making

• Biden using Defense Production Act to make more solar panels

• CNN’s Harry Enten Predicts Republicans Take Huge House Majority: ‘Best Position… In Over 80 Years.’

• Soros-backed groups have spent $40M to elect 75 progressive prosecutors

• Voters oust Chesa Boudin as district attorney in San Francisco

  • Chesa Boudin ousted as San Francisco district attorney in historic recall

  • Chesa Boudin Recalled by San Francisco Voters

  • HN comments

  • San Francisco votes overwhelmingly to recall progressive DA Chesa Boudin

  • Chesa Boudin: Extracted - by Mike Solana - Pirate Wires

• Chesa Boudin’s recall won’t change a thing. Fixing San Francisco’s charter would

• California Sends Democrats and the Nation a Message on Crime

• If Biden Intended To Destroy America, What Would He Be Doing Differently? – Issues & Insights

Law Breaking / Police / Internal Security

• Simone Biles, Aly Raisman Suing FBI for $1B over Larry Nassar Investigation

• FBI seizes notorious marketplace for selling millions of stolen SSNs

• Former U.S. Congressman, Operative Pleads Guilty to Election Fraud Charges

• DHS bulletin warns of 'heightened threat environment,' violent months ahead

• Police capture armed man near Kavanaugh home.

World

• Bank of Jamaica to launch nationwide digital currency

• Al Qaeda threaten attacks in India over controversial remarks concerning Prophet

• Top Economist Urges China to Seize TSMC If US Ramps Up Sanctions

• Brexit helping cause harmful increase in fake ecstasy, study warns

• Turkish inflation hits 23-year high of 73.5%

Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda

• Blue Holes Show Hurricane Activity in the Bahamas Is at a Centuries-Long Low

• The Bees Are Doing Fine. Why Do Activists Say They Aren't?

• The Climate Crisis Is Worse Than You Can Imagine. Here’s What Happens If You Try

Ukraine War

• Germany doesn't want to be 'too successful' at replacing Russian natural gas

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• The 75-year-old lesson for pushing back against Putin

• IAEA Team Finds Chernobyl Radiation At 'Normal' Prewar Levels After Fears Of Catastrophic Leak

• Shipping movement continues in the Black Sea despite Ukraine war, sanctions

• What if Putin's true goals are different?

  Countries can become rich only if they become less sovereign, that is more globally integrated. To be rich requires to trade, develop technology jointly with others, send people abroad to learn new skills, consult with and even hire foreigners.