2022-06-20

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• Mass frog burial baffles experts at iron age site near Cambridge

• A Visit to The Self-Reliance Festival in Tennessee

• The artificial intelligence hype is getting out of hand

• Contra Wirecutter on the IKEA air purifier

  • HN comments

Horseshit

• Google Insider Claims Company's “Sentient” AI Has Hired an Attorney

  • HN comments

• The Organization of Your Bookshelves Tells Its Own Story

• Getting to Gnome Mode - by Venkatesh Rao

Rank Propaganda / Thought Policing / World Disordering

• “Terminated” - Susie Bright’s Journal

  • HN comments

Musk

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

• SpaceX launches three Falcon 9 rockets in 36 hours

  • HN comments

• Reddit: Why do we need a revised Code of Practice on Disinformation?

• Elon Musk still buying dogecoin despite cryptocurrency crash

Pestilence / Pox / COVID / VaxCult

• Covid and Race – death rate now highest for white Americans

• National security adviser Jake Sullivan tests positive for Covid.

Culture War / Tribal / Re segregation

• Swim federation restricts transgender participation in women's competition

  • FINA votes to restrict transgender women from elite swimming competition

• The World's Most Taboo Legal Case - TK News by Matt Taibbi

• My puberty was chemically delayed. I was their guinea pig

• “Grandmother of Juneteenth” reflects on her journey to secure a national holiday

• Unintended Consequences of Giving Black Marijuana Entrepreneurs a Head Start

Edumacationalizing / Acedemia Nuts

• School’s Out for Summer and Many Teachers Are Calling It Quits

Media / ShowBiz / Advertising

• A “lost,” “too-scary” episode of Sesame Street has been uploaded

• Why does science news suck so much? | Hacker News

• Telegram is 'not a secure platform,' NATO-backed strategic comms chief warns

TechSuck

• Google Says It’s Time for Longtime Small-Business Users to Pay Up

• Improving Cell Reception by Making Signals Noisier

Crypto con games

• History Is Not on the Side of Crypto's Grave-Dancers

• Bitcoin could easily recover, says Anthony Scaramucci

• Crypto Market Starting to See Even Old-Timers ‘Panic Selling’

• A Note to the Celsius Community

  • HN comments

• Crypto billionaire says Fed is driving current downturn

Economicon / Business / Finance

• The Federal Reserve passes the buck on inflation

• The Fed Hasn’t Fixed Its Worst Blunder Since the 1970s

• The Lords of Money Pose Threats to Markets

• Why did inflation spiral out of control: a retrospective

  • HN comments

• Ways Consumers Can Deal With–and Even Benefit From–Rising Inflation

• 'The Poster Child' of the Tech Meltdown

• China congestion easing after projected cargo boom fails to materialise

• Already strained supply chain at risk in ongoing port labor talks

• Unfinished and unwanted 9k-passenger cruise ship to be scrapped

Gubmint / Poilitcks / Law Making

• 'Democracy Is At Stake' - Hillary Bails On 2024 Election Bid, Backs Biden Against Trump

• The Democrats’ New Spokesman in the Culture Wars

• Texas Republicans Approve Platform Declaring Biden’s Election Illegitimate

External Security / Militaria / Diplomania

• The Return of Industrial Warfare – Royal United Services Institute

World

• Russia's ruble is the strongest currency in the world this year

• In "Stunning Blow", Macron Loses Absolute Majority As Far Right, Left Surge

  • Macron's alliance loses absolute majority in French parliamentary elections

• Germany Plans Coal U-Turn, Gas Funding to Offset Russian Cut

  • Germany plans to fire up coal plants as Russia throttles gas supplies

  • EU warns against fossil fuel ‘backsliding’ as coal replaces Russian gas

  • Europe may need to return to coal as Russia reduces gas flows

Health / Medicine

• The Truth About Dentistry | Hacker News

• The E.U. has prohibited some tattoo pigments

Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda

• Why Investors Are Toning Down Climate Demands

• Fossil-fuel price spikes are causing pain but little climate payoff

  • High fossil fuel prices are good for the planet–here’s how to keep it that way

• This Year’s Extreme Weather Is Just Getting Started

Ukraine War

• Ukraine war: Russia becomes China's biggest oil supplier

• Did Europe's Latest (& Little Noticed) Anti-Russia Move Just Push The World Closer To WW3? | ZeroHedge

• Russia says eastern attack is going well, strikes Ukraine with missiles

• Hummus On The Front: Volunteers Feeding Ukraine’s Vegan Troops

• Mysterious Companies Unite Billions of Dollars in Assets Connected to Putin