2022-06-23

Worthy

• The Evolution of THC Vape Cartridges

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• Airplane catches fire after landing gear collapses at Miami

• Wind Turbine Snaps in Half in Northeast Colorado

• Five major planets to line up in rare planetary conjunction

• Unexpected solar weather is causing satellites to plummet from orbit

• The Left-NIMBY Meltdown

Horseshit

• Amazon uses kid’s dead grandma in morbid demo of Alexa audio deepfake

Rank Propaganda / Thought Policing / World Disordering

• ‘Disney Adults’ Became the Most Hated Group on the Internet

• Cross-partisan conversations about politics have scant power to narrow divisions

Jan6

• Judge delays Proud Boys trial in fallout from House Jan. 6 hearings

Gun control / Mass shooting

• Uvalde school police chief on leave after mass shooting

• Weeks later, the narrative of the Uvalde massacre keeps changing

• Records show police in Uvalde were equipped to storm shooter | The Texas Tribune

• Supreme Court Strikes Down New York Law on Concealed Weapons

• Biden "Deeply Disappointed" In SCOTUS Ruling On Open Carry | ZeroHedge

• US Supreme Court expands gun rights

• Supreme Court overturns New York law on carrying concealed weapons

Musk

• Elon Musk says new Tesla factories are “losing billions of dollars”

• Elon Musk’s cult of personality seems to be wearing off

Pestilence / Pox / COVID / VaxCult

• Moderna says new Covid-19 variant shot will be ready by August

• Ireland's Covid Response, Part 3: The Mismanaged Vaccines

• Covid Tracking Apps Are Pivoting for Commercial Profit

• Danish national board of health admits vaccinating kids for Covid was a mistake

• New coronavirus escapes antibodies from vaccination and prior Omicron infection

Culture War / Tribal / Re segregation

• Liberal policies have killed black communities: Clarence Thomas

• I Got Thrown Off Etsy and PayPal for Expressing My Belief in Biological Reality

• Replacement Theory and The Future of America’s Identity Crisis

Edumacationalizing / Acedemia Nuts

• Our new working paper: trading social status for genetics in marriage markets

Media / ShowBiz / Advertising

• Zuckerberg envisions 1B people in the metaverse spending hundreds of dollars

• New Tolkien book: The Fall of Númenor to be published | Hacker News

• Schroedinger's streaming service just died

  When the digital music industry was getting started, they invented a new form of quantum indeterminacy. When a customer paid $0.99 for an Itunes track, they were engaged in a license. When that transaction was recorded on the artist's royalty statement, it was a sale. Like Schroedinger's alive/dead cat, digital music was in superposition, caught in a zone between a sale and a license.

• New Minecraft update lets Microsoft revoke multiplayer – even on private servers

• Canada to Compel YouTube, TikTok and Streamers to Boost Domestic Content

• Will Cable TV Be Invaded by Commercials? (1981)

• Meta Made Millions from Ads That Spread Disinformation

TechSuck

• Copilot just sells code other people wrote | Hacker News

• Samsung reportedly holding 50M unsold phones at distributors

• DigitalOcean Restricts SMTP

Crypto con games

• CBDCs, Not Crypto, Will Be Cornerstone of Future Monetary System, BIS Says

• Coinbase Rival Cuts Bitcoin Trading Fees to Zero. A Price War Could Be Next

• I begin to think these folks are pessimists: Crypto collapse latest: the contagion spreads

• Crypto company Voyager Digital warns of $655 M loan default, shares plummet

• Crypto Billionaire Sam Bankman-Fried Doles Out Credit Lines to Stem Contagion

• The Merge is approaching – Ethereum

• The tale of a whale who took Solend’s money

• Tether to launch stablecoin tied to pound as UK aims to become crypto hub

Economicon / Business / Finance

• The World’s Bubbliest Housing Markets Are Flashing Warning Signs

• JPMorgan Fires Hundreds Of Mortgage Bankers As Housing Market Breaks

• Inflation Surge Earns Monetarism Another Look

• A recession could kill the work from home revolution

• Are Large Corporate Profit Margins Causing Inflation?

• Food and Beverage Industry Takes Hit as Consumers Save Money.

• Yes, a recession looks inevitable. But will it be that bad?

• Nature-Seeking Home Buyers Are Answering the Call of the Wild–and Paying Premium

Gubmint / Poilitcks / Law Making

• FDA removes all Juul products from US market

  • FDA reportedly preparing to force Juul products off the US market

  • FDA to order Juul e-cigarettes off U.S. market

  • HN comments

  • Juul, e-cig maker, watches its US market share get vaporized

• Biden wants a gas tax holiday. Here's why Congress isn't on board

  • Why a Gas Tax Holiday Is a Bad Idea

    Given all the externalities associated with driving (climate change, congestion, accidents), the existing gasoline tax is below the optimal Pigovian level. Reducing it would move the tax system in a less efficient direction, That is, it would encourage people to drive more, exacerbating the negative externalities.

• Ah, Carceral Liberalism - Freddie deBoer

• Biden Economic Adviser Asserts That More Government Spending Will Solve Inflation Crisis

• What We Lose When We Lose Competitive Congressional Districts

Law Breaking / Police / Internal Security

• Homeland Security Asks All Federal Employees To Consider Volunteering At The Border | ZeroHedge

World

• New South Wales Government to ban use and posession of encrypted devices

• Red Flags for Forced Labor Found in China’s Car Battery Supply Chain

• NATO Chief Calls For Sweden And Finland To Join 'As Soon As Possible'

Health / Medicine

• Britain Declares National Incident After Poliovirus Found in London

  • Vaccine-derived poliovirus type 2 detected in London, UK

  • HN comments

• As weed gets more potent, teens are getting sick

• The surprising science of breast milk

Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda

• Loss of nature is pushing nations toward sovereign credit downgrades

• Rice gene edited with CRISPR could help tackle climate change

• Heavily pushed over the past few days for some reason Mites that mate on our faces at night face extinction threat

• Feds warn cuts needed to shore up Lake Mead, Colorado River

• Rare ‘triple’ La Niña climate event looks likely – what does the future hold?

• Doomism or Reality? Divided over Its Message, the Climate Movement Seeks Balance

• Methane Feedback Loop Beyond Humans' Ability to Control May Have Begun–NOAA

• Shedding Our Fossil Fuel Suit

Ukraine War

• Beijing’s Propaganda Support for Russian Biological Warfare Disinformation

• ‘Kamikaze’ Drones Strike Russian Oil Refinery, Looks Like Model Sold on Alibaba

• RSF: Noted Ukrainian Photographer Was Executed by Russian Troops