2022-06-10

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• Tesla Autopilot safety faces bigger questions as US upgrades crash probe

• Wreck of historic royal ship discovered off the English coast

• NASA assembles a UFO research team to study ‘unidentified aerial phenomena’

  • NASA to commission independent UFO study

• Kind-hearted man saves kitten on road — then gets ambushed by rest of the litter

• Accessibility Is Excluding the Neurodivergent

• The Spread of Millet from East Asia to Central Europe

celebrity gossip

• Larry Ellison's Hawaiian billionaire playground pushes out locals

• Billionaires' Twitter-Spat Moves On After Gates Downplays Shorting Tesla's Stock

Rank Propaganda / Thought Policing / World Disordering

• Is American democracy still doomed?

• Laughter is a fascist hate crime

• Liberals' latest 'censor the internet' bill sparks Canadian YouTuber backlash

• Wickr, Amazon’s encrypted chat app, has a child sex abuse problem

Jan6

• WATCH: January 6 Committee Plays Deceptively Edited Video of Capitol Riot

• Rubio: Jan. 6 hearing is Dem ‘free documentary’ sponsored by mainstream media | The Hill

• Watch: Tucker Carlson Sounds Off On "Insulting" Show Trial & Real Dangers Leading To Actual 'Insurrection'

Musk

• Mollusk's 180 on Tesla Job Cuts Damaged His Credibility

• Twitter called Musk’s bluff about bots | Hacker News

• YouTube accused of failing to tackle fake Elon Musk livestream scams

• Within mere seconds of each other, dozens of accounts tweeted appreciation for Biden and Democrats in Congress for passing a $1.9 trillion spending bill.

• Elon Musk's Twitter deal is backed by a secretive, little-known Dubai-based firm

Abortion

• Google misdirects one in 10 searches for abortion to ‘pregnancy crisis centers’

Pestilence / Pox / COVID / VaxCult

• Tesla Shanghai workers can leave the factory for first time in weeks

• U.S. drops Covid testing requirement for international travelers

• US will end Covid-19 testing requirement for air travelers entering the country

• Doctors trying to determine why many young people are suddenly dying | Daily Mail Online

• Prion-Like Domains in Spike Protein of SARS-CoV-2 Enable Change in ACE2 Affinity

• WHO: Covid origins unclear but lab leak theory needs study

• Covid and smell loss: answers begin to emerge

• Twitter Quietly Removes Warning Added To A CDC Study On Child Vaccines

• Some monkeypox patients also have sexually transmitted diseases, CDC says

Culture War / Tribal / Re segregation

• What you might be getting wrong about the Health at Every Size approach

Edumacationalizing / Acedemia Nuts

• Mandatory Student Spyware Is Creating a Perfect Storm of Human Rights Abuses

Media / ShowBiz / Advertising

• The Washington Post Fires Reporter Felicia Sonmez

  • Felicia Sonmez terminated by The Washington Post after Twitter dispute

• Facebook fails again to detect hate speech in ads

• Wired finally issued a correction after being called out

• Nintendo's big piracy case is a sad story

• Meta sued for social media addiction caused by its algorithm

  • HN comments

• Anime: Japanese animation has taken the West by storm

• hy Did the Star Wars Hotel Flop? Disney Is Desperate To Find Out

TechSuck

• New ultra-stealthy Linux backdoor isn’t your everyday malware discovery | Ars Technica

  So far, there’s no evidence of infections in the wild, only malware samples found online. It’s unlikely this malware is widely active at the moment, but with stealth this robust, how can we be sure?

• The Billionaires Behind a Push to Reinvigorate U.S. Chip-Making

• 20 Years of SIP - a Retrospective - jdrosen.net

  • HN comments

• Dish Feuds with SpaceX over Starlink Dishes Being Used on Moving Boats, Cars

Crypto con games

• Ethereum had successful dress rehearsal to move to proof-of-stake

• Do Kwon Sent $80M a Month to Himself

  • HN comments

• Do Kwon Deliberately Raised Terra Interest from 3.6% to 20% a Week Before Launch

• Billion-Dollar Crypto Gaming Startup Promised Riches and Delivered Disaster

Economicon / Business / Finance

• UK Exports Billions of Litres of Petrol to US Despite Local Record Pump Prices

• US initial jobless claims 229K vs. 210K expected

• Stitch Fix is laying off 15% of its salaried workers, or about 330 people

• Buy now, pay later firms were in trouble. Apple added more things to worry about

• Gorillas Startup Dream of Food Delivery and Office Raves Falters

• 'I'm Drowning:' Amazon Contractors Are Paying the Price for the Labor Shortage

• May Inflation Report

  • U.S. inflation reached a new four-decade high of 8.6% in May

  • US Consumer Prices Reaccelerate In May, Highest Since 1981

  • Inflation rises at fastest pace since 1981, pushed up by record gas prices

  • US Inflation Quickens to 40-Year High

• Wind turbine makers selling at a loss and in a 'self-destructive loop'

• The Yield Curve as a Leading Indicator

• Sonder, once valued at nearly $2B, lays off a fifth of office employees

Shortages

• Sriracha lovers burned as maker halts production due to pepper shortage

Gubmint / Poilitcks / Law Making

• Biden Glitched so Badly During His Interview That Jimmy Kimmel Had to Cut to a Commercial.

• ‘Be The F*cking President’: Dems Hammer Biden For Blundering From One Crisis To Another.

• US Govt to require electric vehicle charging stations every 50 miles on highways

Law Breaking / Police / Internal Security

• FCC Proposes Record $34,000 Fine for Unauthorized Transmissions During Wildfire

• How the FBI uses laws to spy on foreign terrorists to spy on you

• FBI 'Purging' Employees With Conservative Views: Rep. Jordan

External Security / Militaria / Diplomania

• U.S. and China likely to trade blows at Asian security meeting

• Why Chinese warplanes are 'playing chicken' with US allies

World

• Thailand becomes the first country in Asia to decriminalise marijuana

• China's Pacific island-hopping reveals new front line of geopolitics

• ‘It’s a war on the people’: El Salvador’s mass arrests send thousands to despair

• UK healthcare staff call in sick to avoid using car as cost of fuel soars

• It’s the end: the CJEU confirms that UK citizens have lost EU citizenship

Health / Medicine

• The great vegan diet ‘con’

Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda

• Climate Crisis Food Charts

• 3M Antwerp PFAS Calamity

• Cocktail of chemical pollutants linked to falling sperm quality in research

• Space debris threatens modern life

• Climate change: Ukraine war prompts fossil fuel 'gold rush' – report

• Carbon Dioxide Levels Now Higher Than Ever in Human History

Ukraine War

• Elon Musk’s space satellites changed the war on the ground

• Russia, China, warn US its cyber support of Ukraine has consequences

• Hungary: Impossible for Europe to ban Russian gas anytime soon. Putin agrees

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• Ukraine Safe-Passage Grain-Talks Fail, Expect Still Higher Food Prices Globally

• Ukraine Belatedly Admits 'Heavy Casualty Rate' In Appeal For More Weapons From West

• Vladimir Putin, in speech, hints at further territorial expansion for Russia