2022-06-17

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• The Board of Directors Announces the Dissolution of the San Antonio Symphony

• Do we need a better understanding of 'progress'?

  • HN comments

Horseshit

• Dog turns on touch-activated stove and starts house fire

• A Warhol, a wild back story, and the price of authenticity

• Walking on Hot Coals: A Company Event Goes Wrong Archive link

  In the latest case of the stunt going wrong, 25 employees of a Swiss ad agency were injured Tuesday evening while walking over hot coals in Zurich, officials said. Ten ambulances, two emergency medical teams and police officers from multiple agencies were deployed to help, according to the Zurich police. Thirteen people were briefly hospitalized.

• We warned Google that people might believe AI was sentient. Now it's happening

• We are destined to be consumers - by WTHeck - What The Heck

celebrity gossip

• Assange can be extradited, says UK home secretary

  • Priti Patel Approves Julian Assange’s Extradition to US

  • Julian Assange's Extradition To US Formally Approved By UK Government

• The teen who tracks jets agreed to stop monitoring Mark Cuban's flights

Rank Propaganda / Thought Policing / World Disordering

• Doctors on TikTok: The Dark Side of Medical Influencers

• AI Has an Invisible Misinformation Problem

Jan6

• What NBC Did During Jan. 6 Hearing Shows Just How Much Dems Have Lost Americans – RedState

Gun control / Mass shooting

• Worthy: Against Active Shooter Drills

  • HN comments

Abortion

• White House Consults with Law Professors in Anticipation of Dobbs Ruling.

Musk

• SpaceX employee letter: Musk’s behavior is “frequent source of embarrassment”

• SpaceX staff condemn Musk's behavior in open letter

• What Elon Musk just told Twitter employees

• "leaked open letter" ack SpaceX workers call Elon Musk an ‘embarrassment’ in leaked open letter

• Musk tells Twitter staff that “exceptional” employees can work remotely

• Elon Musk sued for $258B over alleged Dogecoin pyramid scheme

• SpaceX Said to Fire Employees Involved in Letter Rebuking Elon Musk

  • HN comments

• Elon Musk hints at layoffs in first meeting with Twitter employees

• Leaked Internal Slack Messages Show Twitter Employees Reaction to Elon Musk

• SpaceX fires employees who wrote open letter complaining about Elon Musk

• Elon Musk's SpaceX fires at least five for letter criticizing him-sources

• Twitter Employees Freak Out At Elon Musk Saying "All Lives Matter"

• Boring Company will build a 34-mile tunnel network underneath Las Vegas

• Some Twitter workers have "Musk Derangement Syndrome," employee says

Pestilence / Pox / COVID / VaxCult

• FDA authorizes Covid-19 vaccines for children under 5 years old

• A glucose meter could soon say whether you have SARS-CoV-2 antibodies

• What causes Long Covid? Here are the three leading theories

• San Diego IDs 2 monkeypox cases; WHO warns int’l outbreak ‘poses real risk.’

• Don't read this if you're vaccinated

• Learn from Covid: Gates’s pandemic prescription

• Althouse: "A sex party organizer in New York asked invitees to check themselves for lesions before showing up"

• Covid-19: Omicron infection is poor booster to immunity, study finds

• WHO Will Rename Monkeypox as Scientists Claim It’s ‘Discriminatory’ and ‘Stigmatizing.’

• Pfizer Stops Enrollment In COVID-Pill Trial After Latest Lousy Results

Culture War / Tribal / Re segregation

• Numbers show racist Great Replacement conspiracy theory found audience in Canada

• As a black man who refuses to be a victim, I have a very different definition of who the white supremacists are

• Opinion: Americans are facing a Rainbow Scare – and it may get worse

• America's belief in a God hits new low

Media / ShowBiz / Advertising

• USA TODAY removed stories from website after audit of reporter’s work

• Facebook owner Meta makes antitrust commitments over online advertising

TechSuck

• Drones can avoid midair collisions by listening for other aircraft

  • Ah, that's why there's the wild little chips with 8 mic inputs and direction finding etc onchip.

• Internet Archive opens Vancouver headquarters, meeting space for the tech world

• Why am I no longer qualified to be a Brex customer? | Hacker News

Crypto con games

• Celsius Is Crashing, and Crypto Investors Are Spooked

• Bitcoin: Will El Salvador's big crypto gamble pay off?

• Bitcoin falls 7.03% to $20,969.32

• Small crypto funds are next to fall. Case study: Finblox

• Ethereum mining is going away, and miners are not happy

• Crypto Winter Is Here. The Weak Will Die, and the Strong Will Eat Their Bones

• Crypto lending company Babel Finance halts redemptions and withdrawals

  • HN comments

• Why cryptocurrencies have gone from the next hot thing to a full-on meltdown

• Battered Crypto Hedge Fund Three Arrows Capital Considers Asset Sales, Bailout

• Many Coins have fallen 90% or more

• Crypto Traders Turn Against Each Other in a Collapsing Market

• Tether Claims 'Coordinated' Conspiracy Is Trying to Take It Down

Economicon / Business / Finance

• The Fed may be tightening too much by design

• Cosmetics maker Revlon files for bankruptcy in US

  • Revlon files for bankruptcy facing high debt, supply chain pain

• Work, the Wasted Years

• 'Somebody forgot to tell the boat industry' about the bear market and recession

• Tech layoffs accelerate in June, with more than 7k losing their jobs so far

• 36% of high earners are living paycheck to paycheck

  • HN comments

• Amid Surging Inflation, Inventory-Swamped Retailers Push Big Discounts | ZeroHedge

• Fed plans to ‘reset’ the housing market–raising likelihood of falling homeprices

• Fintech Giant Klarna Slashes Fundraising Ambition

• Leaked Amazon memo warns the company is running out of people to hire

• Fed promises unconditional approach to taking down inflation

Shortages

• Abbott closes infant formula plant in Michigan again after flooding.

  • The Perfect Storm: Abbott Baby Formula Plant Halts Production After 9 Days Due To Flooding

• Oz: National electricity market suspended as NSW residents told to conserve power

Gubmint / Poilitcks / Law Making

• Nancy Pelosi reminds us that ‘we have the war in Iraq,’ is shocked to discover she has hands that can move around

• Clinton and DNC break pledge to stop lying about Trump ‘dossier.’

• Quarter of Federal Health Workers Failed To Check Email Amid Pandemic, Report Reveals

Law Breaking / Police / Internal Security

• The FBI knew RussiaGate was a lie — but hid that truth

• The 'craziest thing' about seizing Russian superyachts is US has to pay for them

• Man Who Allegedly Tried to Kill Supreme Court Justice Kavanaugh Indicted, Faces Life in Prison.

• Florida woman who found Ashley Biden's diary is under investigation for selling it | Daily Mail Online

  Harris allegedly showed the diary at a Republican fundraising event and sold it for $40,000 to right wing organization Project Veritas. a source close to the investigation told DailyMail.com that Harris is not being investigated for theft. 'The feds now aren't saying it was illegal to find the diary,' the source said. 'Nor are they saying Aimee stole anything. 'But it's her selling the property of another that could be considered a crime. And the fact Ashley is the president's daughter kicks it to a different legal level.'

  Harris and Kurlander flew to New York with the diary and met with Veritas operatives at a hotel on Manhattan's West Side, according to the Times. Veritas bought the rights to publish the diary for $40,000, wiring $20,000 each to Harris and Kurlander.

  But the organization's founder James O'Keefe decided not to publish, saying in an internal email it would be 'characterized as a cheap shot' – but then tried unsuccessfully to use it as leverage for an interview with Joe Biden. A copy of the diary was instead leaked by a Veritas staffer to right wing news site National File, which published excerpts on October 24, 2020, just days before the election. The site later uploaded the whole thing.

• FBI says fraud on LinkedIn a ‘significant threat’ to platform and consumers

External Security / Militaria / Diplomania

• Russian Botnet Disrupted in International Cyber Operation

• Americans warned of China possibly spying through smart coffee makers

World

• Europe, in Panic over Energy, Is Suddenly Cozying Up to Israel

• Fujian aircraft carrier: China's launches third and most advanced carrier

• Italy carries out its first assisted suicide

• Germany Launches €10B Bailout for Gazprom Germany

• Japan's top court says government not responsible for Fukushima damage

Health / Medicine

• Aspartame: Once More Unto the Breach

Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda

• The West experiences aspects of climate crisis scientists warned of for years

• Are carbon offsets bullshit? A renowned climate expert weighs in

• Ben and Jerry's plans on getting their cows to stop farting, burping

• Overall risk of heat-related mortality decreased in the United States 1975-2018, even though extreme heat events increased

• Why Carbon Credits for Forest Preservation May Be Worse Than Nothing

• Southwest drought persisted as Yellowstone flooded

• Would 1950s Living Standards Save Us?

• For hydrogen power to be a climate solution, leaks must be curbed

• On Lake Superior, a $1B eco-disaster is swallowing the coast

• EPA: 'Forever chemicals' pose risk even at low levels

  • HN comments

  • EPA Announces New Drinking Water Health Advisories for PFAS Chemicals

Ukraine War

• U.S. probing how American electronics wound up in Russian military gear

• Leaders pledge arms and EU path for Ukraine in Kyiv visit

• Putin lambasts the West and declares the end of 'the era of the unipolar world'