2022-06-24

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• Florida nabs largest Python ever found in state

  Weighing in at 215lbs (98kg) and nearly 18ft long (5m), the female Burmese python was caught after researchers used a male "scout" to find her.

• Unexpected solar weather is accelerating satellites' orbital decay | Hacker News

• This Vast Farm Salvage Yard in the Middle of Nowhere Saves Farmers with Hard-to-Find Parts

• Five planets are lining up in the sky in June and will peak tonight

Horseshit

• The Use of 3D-Printed Guns by Extremists and Terrorists

• Egregores, pt. 1 - by Darryl Cooper

• The Jovian Duck: LaMDA and the Mirror Test

• A 9k passenger cruise will make its maiden voyage to the scrapyard

celebrity gossip

• North Dakota Attorney General's Office looks at Bill Gates-related farmland sale

• John McAfee's corpse still in Spanish morgue a year after his death

Rank Propaganda / Thought Policing / World Disordering

• Who gets fired over social media posts? We studied hundreds of cases to find out

Abortion

• (PDF) Supreme Court ruling

  Held: The Constitution does not confer a right to abortion; Roe and Casey are overruled; and the authority to regulate abortion is returned to the people and their elected representatives.

• SUPREME COURT ENDS CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHT TO ABORTION

• Supreme Court overturns Roe vs. Wade; states can ban abortion

• Supreme Court Overturns Roe vs. Wade

• Roe vs. Wade Overturned

• Supreme Court Overturns Roe vs. Wade

  • HN comments

• Supreme Court reverses landmark Roe vs. Wade ruling

• Supreme Court overturns Roe vs. Wade, ending 50 years of federal abortion rights

• Supreme Court overturns Roe v. Wade

• Obama Statement on the Draft Supreme Court Decision to Overturn Roe vs. Wade

• Supreme Court Overturns Roe V. Wade; Missouri Makes Abortion Illegal Within The Hour

• DHS Communicates Specific Threats Facing Pro-Life Orgs, Churches As They Brace For "Night Of Rage" | ZeroHedge

• We’re Not Going Back to the Time Before Roe. We’re Going Somewhere Worse

• Overturning Roe vs. Wade could affect IVF

• Shtetl-Optimized » Blog Archive » Because I couldn’t not post

  As far as I can tell, the only hope at this point of averting a cold Civil War is if, against all odds, there’s a Democratic landslide in Congress, sufficient to get the right to abortion enshrined into federal law. Given the ways both the House and the Senate are stacked against Democrats, I don’t expect that anytime soon

• Tech companies respond to U.S. Supreme Court abortion decision

• Blood on their hands: world’s medics condemn US overturn of abortion rights

• Disney will provide employees ‘comprehensive access’ for reproductive care

Jan6

• (Satire) EXCLUSIVE: Pelosi Readies New Articles of Impeachment Against Trump, Says ‘Third Time’s The Charm’ * – Issues & Insights

• Justice Department searches home of former Trump official Jeffrey Clark | Just The News

Gun control / Mass shooting

• U.S. Supreme Court expands gun rights, strikes down New York law

• How often do bystanders stop attacks?

• In Shocking Decision, Supreme Court Agrees With Laws of 43 States.

• Uvalde police failure reinforces the need for the Second Amendment.

• Guns and Judicial Protection of Constitutional Rights That Put Lives at Risk

Musk

• Tesla is still battling spying suspicions in China

• Here’s Where Things Are At With Elon Musk’s Twitter Purchase

Pestilence / Pox / COVID / VaxCult

• Things we've learned about how the pandemic disrupted learning

• At The Military Olympics, October 2019, Wuhan, China, Athletes Caught COVID | ZeroHedge

  • This was the major fact behind China's accusations that COVID is a US bioweapon

• How Hiring the wrong medical “expert” derailed US pandemic response

• U.S. moves to increase monkeypox testing amid growing outbreak.

• BA.4/BA.5 will soon be dominant in the US. Here’s what that means

• FDA Authorizes Covid-19 Vaccines for Children Down to 6 Months of Age

• Monkeypox in Africa: the science the world ignored

• Essential Terms of the Authority Crisis - by Matt Shapiro

• What happened to the lab-leak hypothesis?

  • HN comments

Culture War / Tribal / Re segregation

• How White Boys Become “Geniuses”

  positive reinforcement accumulates over time, and helps to explain why today women comprise only 6.6 percent of Fortune 500 CEOs—of which only one is a woman of color. This is a record high. To “unstall” the gender revolution, perhaps we need to go back to middle school.

• USA Today demoted me for a tweet — because its woke newsrooms are out of touch with readers.

Edumacationalizing / Acedemia Nuts

• Advice for Academic Refugees

• Biden's New Title IX Rules Will Eviscerate Due Process on Campus

• FTC to crack down on companies that illegally surveil children learning online

  • HN comments

• Universities silent on moving tampons out of men’s bathrooms during nationwide shortage.

Media / ShowBiz / Advertising

• Netflix Cuts 300 Employees in New Round of Layoffs

• Netflix Is Adding Ads

• TikTok owner ByteDance sees $1B in player spend on its games

• Meta Pulls Support for Tool Used to Keep Misinformation in Check

TechSuck

• GitHub - NVlabs/instant-ngp: Instant neural graphics primitives: lightning fast NeRF and more

• Intel's graphics card misadventures is a slow motion freeway pile-up

  I'm really hoping it is drivers, because the disparity between the 3DMark and gaming numbers are so stark as to be baffling. It's like Intel purely designed the GPU to perform in 3DMark and is now struggling to match that with actual game engines that developers actually use.

• Tell HN: Brother printers now locking out non-OEM paraphernalia | Hacker News

Crypto con games

• Cryptocurrency Exchange CoinFlex Halts Withdrawals

• eBay Acquires Leading NFT Marketplace, KnownOrigin

• Senator posts cryptocurrency bill on GitHub, chaos ensues

• As a Crypto Winter Descends, Celebrities Quietly Delete Their NFT Profiles

• Crypto Miners Are Dumping Tons of GPUs, So Maybe You Can Finally Get One

• Tell HN: Coinbase now requires physical address of recipient in crypto transfers

• Panic of 1907/2022

• U.S. crypto firm Harmony hit by $100M heist

• Crypto firm Bitpanda lays off around 20% of its people

Economicon / Business / Finance

• U.S. tech companies yank job offers, leaving college grads scrambling

• Toyota Scales Back June Production, Ford Drops German Factory.

• Night Moves: Is the Overnight Drift the Grandmother of All Market Anomalies by Victor Haghani, Vladimir V Ragulin, Richard Dewey :: SSRN

• S&P 500 May Have Another 24% to Fall, 150 Years of Market History Shows

• Is Opendoor the Amazon of Buying Homes or Just Another Carvana?

• Bolt to buy back shares from the laid-off employees that took out risky loans

• Why Stocks, Crypto, and Home Values Are All Plunging at Once

• Zendesk sold for $10B and going private

  • Zendesk to Be Acquired by Investor Group For $10.2B

• Can the Fed pull off a controlled slowdown of the housing market?

• How to Start Investing in a Bear Market

• Toyota recalls its first mainstream electric car because the wheels can fall off

• Small truckers are going out of business at record rate - FreightWaves

Gubmint / Poilitcks / Law Making

• Desperate for Housing, Austin Seeks Relief in Rezoning

• Biden Given 'Cheat Sheet' That Instructs Him How To 'Say Hello' And 'Sit Down' | ZeroHedge

  • 'YOU take YOUR seat’: specific cheat sheet reminds President Biden how to act

• WHOA: Bloomberg News Fact-Checks Absurd Inflation Narrative by Biden Administration | Newsbusters

Law Breaking / Police / Internal Security

• Ken Griffin Moving Citadel from Chicago to Miami Following Crime Complaints

• FBI Agents Raid String of Southern Churches Accused of ‘Cult’ Activity Near Military Bases

External Security / Militaria / Diplomania

• Taliban begs US to unfreeze Afghan govt. assets to help respond to earthquake

World

• Sri Lankan prime minister says that the nation's economy has collapsed

• Shireen Abu Aqleh killed by ‘seemingly well-aimed’ Israeli bullet, UN says

Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda

• Dutch join Germany, Austria, in reverting to coal

• Nuclear Power Is Poised for a Comeback. The Problem Is Building the Reactors

• The World Is Failing in Both Energy Affordability and Climate Goals

• Rare ‘triple’ La Niña climate event looks likely

• Cement formed with biogenic limestone promises carbon-neutral concrete

Ukraine War

• Map of Russian private jet flights before and after the invasion of Ukraine

• ‘The impossible’: Ukraine’s secret, deadly rescue missions

• Grain Stuck In Ukraine: The Fragmented Nature Of Modern-Day Railways | Hackaday

• Russia continues to earn more than $100M per day from gas exports to Europe

• The EU Is Buying More South African Coal Than Ever

• Pacifism is the wrong response to the war in Ukraine

• As Ukraine dreams of joining the EU, its ex-communist neighbors have lessons

• Russia’s Stolen Planes Will Soon Become Worthless Thanks to Bootleg Parts

• Ukraine withdraws from Severodonetsk, official says