2022-06-15

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• Our Powerful, Shiny New Space Telescope Got Its First Upsetting Ding

• Price Shocks in Formative Years Scar Consumption for Life

• China Says It May Have Detected Signals from Alien Civilizations

  • China Says Telescope Maybe Picked Up Signals from Alien Civilization

  • Has China’s FAST telescope detected alien intelligence?

• Black Death Plague Began in Central Asia, Study Shows

Horseshit

• Japan makes 'online insults' punishable by one year in prison

• Minority Report Tried to Warn Us About Technology

• 3D-printed guns are appearing on British streets – the police are taking notice

celebrity gossip

• Alexei Navalny reportedly moved to high-security prison in Russia

• Yahoo Appoints Actress Jessica Alba to Board of Directors

• Offshore leak exposes financial secrets of Ghislaine Maxwell's family

Rank Propaganda / Thought Policing / World Disordering

• Watch: Biden Advisor Says Social Media Should Silence Anyone Who Criticises Green Energy "Transition"

• Gen Z and the end of work as we know it

• Digital News Report: Depressing stories turning more people off

• Court Limits Ban on Speech for “Substantial Emotional Distress”

• Rolling Stone Busted for Trashing a Movie It Didn't Watch – PJ Media

Jan6

• The plot thickens on a GOP congressman’s pre-Jan. 6 tour

Musk

• Twitter insiders expect Elon Musk to use 'firehose' to renegotiate Twitter deal

• Data likely show Teslas on Autopilot crash more than rivals

• Elon Musk Slams Twitter's "Bias Against Half The Country" & Alleged Inaction On Death Threats To Conservative User

• Musk says he’s leaning toward voting for Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis for president.

• Data likely shows Teslas on Autopilot crash more than rivals

• Musk to address Twitter employees for first time this week

• Elon Musk Says He Voted for a Republican for the First Time

• NHTSA’s data on driver assistance crashes shows Tesla is an outlier

• Automated tech factored in 392 car crashes in 11 months, regulators report

Gun control / Mass shooting

• Google Says It Bans Gun Ads. It Makes Money from Them

• Buffalo Supermarket Suspect Charged with Federal Hate Crimes

• Police arrest third suspect in Tennessee mass shooting

Pestilence / Pox / COVID / VaxCult

• Universal Health Care Could Have Saved More Than 330k U.S. Lives During Covid

• Monkeypox to get a new name, says WHO

• Pfizer Reports Additional Data from Epic-SR Study of Paxlovid

• China uses Covid health code to restrict movement of financial scandal victims

• Zero-Covid China Kept Me from My Wife for 662 Days

• Monkeypox outbreak spurs WHO to consider declaring international emergency | Ars Technica

• UK Health Agency: 99% Of Monkeypox Cases Are Gay Men

• Beijing Now Warning of ‘Explosive’ COVID Outbreak: Chinese officials are bitterly clinging to failed zero-covid policies as millions are tested.

• Covid vaccine for kids: FDA panel likely to recommend Pfizer, Moderna

Culture War / Tribal / Re segregation

• Police officer jailed for 20 weeks for WhatsApp memes

• Racism Drives Environmental Inequality

Edumacationalizing / Acedemia Nuts

• How Many Languages Could a Child Speak?

Media / ShowBiz / Advertising

• Netflix, once the great disruptor, reconsiders ideas that made it unique

• Mundane chores are all the rage in gaming

TechSuck

• Internet Explorer 11 has retired and is officially out of support

  • Internet Explorer 'dies' tomorrow after 27 years

  • RIP Internet Explorer

  • Internet Explorer, the love-to-hate-it web browser, has died at 26

  • The death of Internet Explorer: Good riddance to bad rubbish

• HPE ordered to pay Oracle $30m for Solaris IP infringement

• Why Rural Internet Is Still Terrible, Despite Billions in Federal Spending

Crypto con games

• The Bitcoin price touches its linear regression line today

• Coinbase grapples with internal crisis as 1,100 employees laid off

  • Coinbase lays off around 1,100 employees | Hacker News

  • Coinbase mocks crypto pessimists in NBA Finals ad, lays off 1,100 next day

• A crypto winter or a meltdown? Recession fears and layoffs hit crypto currencies

• The biggest corporate holder of Bitcoin is facing a reckoning

• The Latecomer’s Guide to Crypto Crashing: a map of where we are and what’s ahead

• The Bitcoin Crash Is Taking El Salvador's Big Bet with It

• Terra Luna crash: CTO of Tether welcomes fair regulation of stablecoin market

• Bill Gates says NFTs are ‘100 percent based on greater fool theory’

• ‘The Music Has Stopped’: Crypto Firms Quake as Prices Fall

• Tether Condemns False Rumours About Its Commercial Paper Holdings

• There's a new plan to regulate cryptocurrencies. Here's what you need to know

• Cryptocurrencies Have Broken Almost All of Their Major Promises

  • HN comments

• 3AC, one of the largest crypto investment firms appears to have solvency issues

  • Three Arrows Capital crypto hedge fund may be insolvent

  • Su Zhu Says 3AC Is “Committed to Working This Out” as Wipeout Rumors Rage

• 'Staked Ether' Becomes Focus of Crypto Stress, from Celsius to Three Arrows

• Bitcoin losses are piling up for companies that added crypto to balance sheet

• Jack Dorsey and Jay-Z Announce the Bitcoin Academy in Brooklyn, New York

• I Was Laid Off by Coinbase. I'm Frustrated but Not Surprised

• Bitcoin Price Careens Toward $20k as Cryptocurrency Rout Deepens

• ‘The Music Has Stopped’: Crypto Firms Quake as Prices Fall

Economicon / Business / Finance

• Federal Reserve hikes rate by 75 basis points

  • Fed Hikes Rates 75 Basis Points, Intensifying Inflation Fight

  • The Federal Reserve Raises Interest Rates by 0.75 of a Percentage Point

  • Federal Reserve raises raises by 0.75%

  • HN comments

  • Fed Raises Rates by 0.75 Percentage Point, Largest Increase Since 1994

• Real estate firms Compass and Redfin announce layoffs as housing market slows

  • Redfin and Compass lay off a combined 900 as mortgage interest rates climb

• Bank runs in China raise fears of contagion

• Amazon builds property empire, quietly buying land across the US

  • HN comments

• Powell Facing Choice Between Elevated US Inflation and Recession

• What people don’t get about this inflation spike

• EV-Truck Startup Electric Last Mile Files Chapter 7 Bankruptcy

• 30-year mortgage rate surges to 6.28%, up from 5.5% just a week ago

• Ford Recalls Nearly 49,000 Mustang Mach-E Cars, Stops Deliveries

• U.S. Solar Industry Sees Worst Quarter Since 2020

• Soybean Prices Hit Record as Inflation Stays Hot

• ECB meets to discuss bond rout as markets anticipate Fed rate rise

• Ukraine's war & sanctions on Russia account for more than 1/3 of US inflation

• US set for recession next year, economists predict

• Wall Street’s favorite recession indicator is flashing red

• All of Joe Biden's stock market gains have evaporated.

• Ask HN: Fed Rate Hike today – 50, 75 or 100 BPS?

• Here’s everything the Fed is expected to announce, including the biggest rate hike in 28 years.

• Wholesale Prices Rise Almost 11%, Setting Records.

• What workers want: raises that beat inflation

  • HN comments

• Housing prices will have to soften if rates go higher

• Money moves to make when you’re worried about a recession

• Wealthsimple to layoff 13% of staff amid ‘market volatility’

• "Crash Landing Risk" Builds As Fed Is "Backed In A Corner They Can't Get Out Of" | ZeroHedge

• Biggest rate hike in years expected as Fed tackles inflation

• Millionaires are raising cash on fears that the Fed can’t tame inflation

• The good news and the bad news of Fed rate hikes. What it means for you

Gubmint / Poilitcks / Law Making

• Nancy Pelosi Appears On RuPaul’s Drag Race: “Drag Is What America Is All About.”

• GOP commission refuses to certify NM primary results

  • GOP commission refuses to certify New Mexico primary vote

• Biden ally floats 21% surtax on oil prices to blunt inflation.

• Massachusetts Court Throws Out Gig Worker Ballot Measure

• Janet Yellen Is Struggling at the Treasury Job She Never Wanted

• Biden: Oil companies well above normal refinery profit margin are not acceptable

  • Biden Sends Threat-Letters To Big Oil: Help Ease "Putin Price Hike" Or Face Our Tools

• Sen Feinstein: Why I changed my mind about Cali’s Diablo Canyon nuclear plant

• Senator Warren proposes sweeping ban on location and health data sales

Law Breaking / Police / Internal Security

• US Marshal Charged for Using Cop Phone Location Tool to Track People He Knew

• A ‘Trojan Horse’ in the Los Angeles D.A.’S Office

• ‘Dangerous’: Top FBI Official Had Close Relationship With Dozens of Journos, Accepted Tickets to White House Correspondents’ Dinner.

External Security / Militaria / Diplomania

• Elusive Plane Puzzled European Air Defenses, Then Its Crew Vanished

• Does the Tank Have a Future?

• Biden To Announce Nearly $1BN More In Arms For Ukraine, Including Anti-Ship Missiles

• Fact Sheet on WMD Threat Reduction Efforts with Ukraine and Russia

World

• Swiss airspace re-opens after ‘technical malfunction’

  • Technical woes at air traffic control close Swiss airspace

• 40% of single Japanese men in their 20s have never been on a date, survey says

• Sri Lanka on verge of 'humanitarian emergency', with hundreds going to Australia

Health / Medicine

• Tobacco companies forced to reduce nicotine in cigarettes until non-addictive

• A single prophylactic 200mg dose of Doxycyline prevents Lyme disease

Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda

• Air pollution takes 2 years off your life, more than smoking or alcohol

• New data reveals extraordinary global heating in the Arctic

• Vaccination-hesitancy and global warming: challenges with similar solutions

• A sighting reveals extinction and climate change in a single image

• Wind and solar power are 'bailing out' Texas

• Air quality worsens as drought forces California growers to burn abandoned crops

  • HN comments

• Big water cutbacks ordered amid Colorado River shortage

  • HN comments

• The SEC War on Greenwashing Has Begun

• Satellite Detects Largest Release of Methane in the World

• Rising sea levels threaten 200k England properties

• Nuclear Is Back on the Table for a Green Future

• Over a third of US population urged to stay indoors amid record-breaking heat

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• War in Ukraine reaches pivotal moment that could determine long-term outcome

• Russia made nearly $100B from fuel exports in war’s first 100 days

• Pope Francis praises ‘brave’ Ukraine, but war possibly ‘provoked’

• Russia Is Taking over Ukraine’s Internet

• Egyptian billionaire Sawiris: Putin is another Hitler in the making

• A Ragtag Band of Hackers Is Waging Cyberwar on Putin’s Supply Lines

• Biden to send another $1B in military aid to Ukraine