2022-06-14

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• Canadian National train collides with hot air balloon - Railway Track and Structures

  • Engineer concerned about balloon before crash with train - Trains

• Lead poisoning probably did not cause the downfall of the Roman Empire

  • HN comments

• New Jefferson Biography Clarifies Confusions About Most Misrepresented Founder

• Jack Daniel's and Coca-Cola Are Teaming Up to Bring the Classic Cocktail to Cans

• A Chewing Gum Heir Fell into a Sticky Situation with Weed

• France signs Artemis Accords, joining moon effort – Space

• Happy the Elephant Isn’t Legally a Person, Top New York Court Rules

Horseshit

• A $1M lottery’s winning numbers: 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19

• The trouble with private jets is that there aren’t enough

• Teens admit £125k Gloucestershire chewing gum theft

• Is LaMDA a Philosophical Zombie?

Rank Propaganda / Thought Policing / World Disordering

• Sunday News Shows Spent Zero Minutes Covering Attempted Murder of Brett Kavanaugh

• Gina McCarthy tells Big Tech to stifle debate global-warming policy responses

• Fact-Checking the Fact-Checkers

• Leaked internal messages show Twitter employees debating whether to ban us

• The Need for World Government

Jan6

• Members of Jan. 6 committee claim there’s enough evidence to indict Trump.

• Capitol Police Chief Debunks J6 Committee Conspiracy Theory

Musk

• SpaceX’s Starship launch plan gets an environmental OK from the feds

• SpaceX's Starship rocket project can continue in South Texas, FAA review finds

• If you want to launch Starship from Texas, here's some homework FAA tells SpaceX

• Not From the Onion: Space X and the FAA - Marginal REVOLUTION

• Elon to attend all hands meeting at Twitter, speaking to staff for first time

Abortion

• Have you heard about the 41 pro-life organizations and churches that have been vandalized in the last 40 days?

Pestilence / Pox / COVID / VaxCult

• HHS secretary Becerra tests positive for COVID-19 again.

• The Normalization of “Working Through Covid”

• (PDF) Non-Covid Excess Deaths, 2020-21

• Canada to announce end to vaccine mandates for domestic travel, outbound flights

• China Flips Out After WHO Says Lab-Leak Theory Needs Further Study

• T cells protect against Covid-19 in absence of antibody response

• Henan: China Covid app restricts residents after banking protests

• UK health privacy watchdog still in talks over who is accessing Covid data store

• UK at start of new Covid wave driven by BA.4 and BA.5, data suggests

Culture War / Tribal / Re segregation

• Pixar movie 'Lightyear,' with same-sex couple, will not play in 14 countries

• Meltdowns Have Brought Progressive Advocacy Groups to a Standstill

• Most Americans oppose trans athletes in female sports, poll finds

Edumacationalizing / Acedemia Nuts

• Some UK primary school pupils unable to say their names, teachers report

• Struggling to recruit postdocs, calls for academic structural changes intensify

• Michigan is poised to become 14th state to mandate personal finance education

TechSuck

• Adobe releases open source toolkit to counter visual misinformation

  Adobe’s new open source tools include a JavaScript SDK for building ways to display the content credentials in browsers, a command line utility and a Rust SDK for creating desktop apps, mobile apps and other experiences to create, view and verify embedded content credentials.

• The size of CUDA dlls for deep-learning has gone out of control

Crypto con games

• Binance unpauses Bitcoin withdrawals

• Celsius Feels Impact of Market Volatility, Tether Reserves Hold Strong

• The Great Celsius Implosion: What Went Wrong And How Much More Will Bitcoin Drop

• Bitcoin tumbles after crypto lender Celsius blocks all redemptions

  • Bitcoin Price Plunges as Crypto Lender Celsius Halts Withdrawals

• YouTube accused of not tackling Musk Bitcoin scam streams

• Crypto Is Crashing. It Deserves To

• American Express crypto card rewards

• Bitcoin falls 12.1% to $23,366; Ether dropped 13.62% to $1,237.72

• Crypto.com Plans to Cut Off 5% of Its Employees

• Celsius Appears insolvent, and it's taking the whole crypto market with it | Hacker News

• Cryptocurrency plunges as crypto “bank” Celsius suspends withdrawals

• Bitcoin stems heavy losses but pessimism reigns in crypto markets

• Crypto Companies Lay Off Hundreds as Market Crashes

• Bitcoin’s plunge spells trouble for the dot-com era entrepreneur who went all in

• MicroStrategy risks margin call on BTC

• Coinbase Announces 18% Layoffs

  • HN comments

  • Coinbase lays off 1100 employees

  • Coinbase to layoff 1100 or 18% of employees

  • Coinbase lays off 18% of workforce and prepare for recession and ‘crypto winter’

  • Coinbase to Cut 20% of Staff

• Cryptocurrency scam: Man swindled out of pension and life savings

  • HN comments

• Theoretical underpinnings for a stablecoin pegged to price of electricity

• What Bitcoin’s nosedive means for the environment

• Explained: Why is the crypto market crashing?

Economicon / Business / Finance

• How Did They Get Inflation So Wrong?

• How the Fed and the Biden Administration Got Inflation Wrong

• US Stocks Sell-Off Accelerates

• Elms is the first SPAC-born electric-vehicle maker to fail

• Carnage! | ZeroHedge

• Treasury Market Dares Fed to Step Up Rate Hikes or Risk Inflation Defeat

• Worst Housing Affordability“ since 1991 excluding Bubble

• Dow sinks sharply as Wall Street worries about drastic action from the Fed - CNN

• Housing Bubble Getting Ready to Pop

• Powell Facing Choice Between Elevated US Inflation and Recession

• America’s Inequality Problem Just Improved for the First Time in a Generation

• Inflation angst drags stocks down into bear market; bonds skid

• When will depositors start shopping for higher rates?

• Jamie Dimon Says JPMorgan Is Bracing for Economic ‘Hurricane’

• Dollar at two-decade high as risky assets sell off

• Big Stupid | No Mercy / No Malice

• Redfin Corp – Asking about 8% of our employees to leave Redfin today

• Compass to cut about 10% of workforce amid US housing slowdown

  • Compass to cut about 10% (450 employees) of workforce amid US housing slowdown

• Ford is telling dealers to stop selling the Mustang Mach-E over safety concerns

• Americans Are Building Vacation-Home Empires with Easy-Money Loans

• Property Values Fall Across US, Europe on Bite from Inflation

• Caterpillar to move corporate headquarters from Illinois to Texas

Shortages

• U.S. Midwest may have summer power shortages for years

• Baby formula shortage hits low-income women, moms of color hardest. Can we fix things?

• Electricity Costs Soar Across Much Of Illinois As Risk Of Brownouts Loom

• US quietly urges more use of Russia fertilizer to ease food crisis

• Get ready for the catastrophic DEF shortage.

Gubmint / Poilitcks / Law Making

• Biden Plan for EV Chargers on Highways Meets Skepticism in Rural West

• The Boudin recall crashed MUNI’s $400M bond. The same consulting firm led both

• FTC acts against private equity firm’s acquisition of veterinary clinics | Hacker News

Law Breaking / Police / Internal Security

• Sweeping reporting failures may compromise the FBI’s 2021 crime data

World

• Thailand legalises cannabis trade but still bans recreational use

• Declassified files reveal British interest in Falkland Islands oil

• There’s a run on Chinese banks and it’s being ignored by the world.

• Scotland starts renewed case for independence

• Taiwan Strait is an international waterway, Taipei says, in rebuff to China

• Ukraine moves to legalize medical cannabis

Health / Medicine

• Diet Coke probably isn't a cognitive performance enhancer

  • HN comments

• FDA Approves Alopecia Drug That Restores Hair Growth in Many Patients

  • FDA Approves First Systemic Treatment for Alopecia Areata

• Study: Falling sperm counts finds 'alarming' levels of chemicals in male urine

Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda

• Biden Says Feds to Cover 100% of New Mexico Wildfire Response Costs After Feds Incompetence Contributed To Blaze.

• Yellowstone officials assess damage after historic floods

• White House climate memo that should have changed the world

• Fertilizer prices are soaring: that’s a chance to promote more sustainable ways

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• The Evolving Political-Military Aims in the War in Ukraine After 100 Days

• Russia’s Oil Revenue Soars

• Russian attacks on farms, silos deliberately trying to destroy Ukrainian economy