2022-06-19

Worthy

• The Importance of Truly Owning Our Devices

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• Cold Showers

  • HN comments

• Will Your “Smart” Devices and AI Apps Have a Legal Duty to Report on You?

• Americans are moving out of urban counties like never before

Horseshit

• The US has a long way to go before adopting a universal charger policy

celebrity gossip

• The UK's Decision to Extradite Assange Shows Why Freedom Lectures Are a Farce

• Australian government lobbying behind the scenes for Assange's freedom

Rank Propaganda / Thought Policing / World Disordering

• AutoAdmit is Now Banned... EJMR Will Be Next - by Chris

• Democracy in America is a rigged game

• Russia-backed network of Syria conspiracy theorists identified

• Peter Thiel helped build big tech. Now he wants to tear it all down

• Why Are Twitter Employees So Afraid Of Free Speech? It's About Market Saturation | ZeroHedge

Jan6

• The Coup Continues - by Dan Rather and Elliot Kirschner

Gun control / Mass shooting

• Why the Philippines Has Few Mass Shootings–Despite Easy Access to Guns

• SOURCE: Police never tried to open door to classrooms where Uvalde gunman had kids trapped

Pestilence / Pox / COVID / VaxCult

• How to have sex with monkeypox: Bizarre CDC guide revealed

• I survived 70 days confinement in the strictest Covid lockdown

• Pfizer's primary mRNA injections “temporarily” impair semen concentration

• WHO chief Tedros 'believes Covid did leak from Wuhan lab' in 2019

Culture War / Tribal / Re segregation

• Lightyear and the Fight over Queer Visibility

Edumacationalizing / Acedemia Nuts

• We asked teachers how their year went. They warned of an exodus to come

Media / ShowBiz / Advertising

• Sheryl Sandberg and the Crackling Hellfire of Corporate America

TechSuck

• AT&T, Verizon give FAA another year to fix airplane altimeters

  • FAA urges airlines to act as wireless carriers plan 5G signal boost

Crypto con games

• Bitcoin drops below $20k as crypto selloff quickens

• Bitcoin drops below $18,300 as sell-off accelerates

  • HN comments

• Another Big Crypto Player Just Blew Up

• Ethereum miners spent $15B on GPUs in the last two years

• Bitcoin’s nosedive through the $20k mark is a Minsky Moment for crypto

• Why does Tether lose $1B a day in market cap between 5pm and 9pm? | Hacker News

• Cascading Liquidations Send Bitcoin Below $18,000 As Daisy-Chained Margin Call Contagion Sparks Record Selling

• Bitcoin mining becomes unprofitable as BTC price falls to average cost of mining

  • HN comments

• Crypto industry braced for fallout after weekend meltdown

• All Ponzi schemes topple eventually

Economicon / Business / Finance

• The End of the Asset Economy

• Founders of recycling startups say the pandemic changed the investment game

• Thousands more flights canceled as transportation secretary meets with CEOs

• Amazon Launches Its "Invite-Only" Based Ordering Program | ZeroHedge

• ‘The Dirty Secret of Covid’: Scott Galloway on the Postpandemic Economic Turmoil Archive link

Gubmint / Poilitcks / Law Making

• Biden, 79, falls off his bike during ride near his Rehoboth Beach home as he and Jill spend their 45th wedding anniversary and Juneteenth weekend in Delaware

• Biden Downplays Plans To Meet With Crown Prince MbS, Saudis Immediately Contradict Him

• The Atlantic Gives Up On Biden | ZeroHedge

• Texas Republican Convention calls Biden illegitimate and rebukes Cornyn

• White House exploration of gas rebate cards complicated by chip shortages

External Security / Militaria / Diplomania

• seven: The Navy is firing a lot of officers and saying almost nothing about it.

• Leaked internal audio recordings show TikTok data repeatedly accessed by China

World

• Costa Rica chaos a warning that ransomware threat remains

• Explosion at Chinese space launch center revealed by satellite imagery.

Health / Medicine

• Comparing protocols for the treatment of human rabies: Milwaukee and Recife

Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda

• Heat wave in Europe sets records as wildfires break out

• Avian Influenza Also Felling Wild Mammals

• The Peecyclers. Their Idea to Help Farmers Is No. 1

Ukraine War

• Ukraine war could last for years, warns NATO chief