2022-06-30

Cool

• Anchovies are reportedly raining from the sky across San Francisco

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• Highlights from the Comments on San Fransicko

• Broadband Access a ‘Matter of Life and Death’ During Pandemic

• Three easy ways to find hidden cameras in hotels and rental homes

• NASA scientists say images from the Webb telescope nearly brought them to tears

• Rocket Impact Site on Moon Seen by NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter

• More than half of flights at some Canadian airports getting cancelled, delayed

• Rare video games collection heist

• Airline cancellations are spiking as July Fourth looms

Horseshit

• New Yorkers getting bladder surgery to avoid potty breaks on drive to Hamptons

• Working from a Tropical Island Is the New Working from Home

celebrity gossip

• Ron Gilbert won’t post about Return to Monkey Island following online abuse

Obit

• Woody Williams, America's last World War II Medal of Honor recipient, dies | Fox News

• Xerox CEO John Visentin dies at 59

Rank Propaganda / Thought Policing / World Disordering

• 38% say they feel proud to be Americans; lowest Gallup ever recorded

• Belief in AI sentience is becoming a problem

  • HN comments

• Digital tech is turning the unbanked into the banked

Jan6

• Jan. 6 'Electronic Surveillance Unit' Was "Illegal", Says Rep. Gohmert; Attorney Suggests "Entrapment"

• Jan. 6 panel subpoenas former Trump White House counsel Pat Cipollone

Abortion

• Facebook labels Jane’s Revenge a terrorist group for attacks on pro-life centers

• The Planned Parenthood website shares your data with Google, others

• TikTok can’t stop users from doxxing the Supreme Court

  • HN comments

• The Supreme Court’s judicial activism will deepen cracks in America

• The Radicals in Green Hats at the Dobbs Protests

• Until demand drops, Amazon limiting Plan B purchases to 3 per week

Musk

• Elon Musk Got Twitter’s Data Dump, Next Comes the Hard Part

• Starlink tells customers that a Dish 5G plan would make Starlink “unusable”

• Sorry, Elon Musk, but you’ve got it all wrong about ESG and Tesla

• Elon Musk Indicates Twitter Will Have Layoffs in Town Hall with Employees

• Tesla is sending automated emails to employees who haven't 'badged in' enough

Pestilence / Pox / COVID / VaxCult

• Fauci reports Covid rebound, says his is “much worse” than initial illness

• Biden Admin To Deploy 1.6 Million Doses Of Monkeypox Vaccines In "Enhanced" Strategy

• Norway Was a Pandemic Success. Then It Spent Two Years Studying Its Failures

• Covid: One Big Sigh

• Pfizer Signs New $3.2B Covid Vaccine Deal With US Government

• Covid Tracking Apps Are Pivoting for Commercial Profit

Culture War / Tribal / Re segregation

• Jordan Peterson Is Fascinating and Dangerous

• Amazon bows to UAE pressure to restrict LGBT search results

  • HN comments

• 1955 Warrant in Emmett Till Case Found; Family Seeks Arrest

• Pagans in Uniform - Tablet Magazine

Edumacationalizing / Acedemia Nuts

• School Surveillance Will Never Protect Kids from Shootings

Media / ShowBiz / Advertising

• SXSW 2023 to be hosted by Sydney, branching outside the US for the first time

• Swedish Radio created fake pharmacy, reveals how Facebook stored sensitive data

  • HN comments

• Is Stranger Things even TV any more?

TechSuck

• Raspberry Pi Pico W: your $6 IoT platform

  • HN comments

• Atlassian is 20 years old and unprofitable | Hacker News

• Tell HN: I DDoSed myself using CloudFront and Lambda Edge and got a $4.5k bill | Hacker News

Crypto con games

• Pentagon finds concerning vulnerabilities on blockchain

• Crypto hedge fund Three Arrows Capital in default on $665M loan

  • Crypto hedge fund Three Arrows fails to meet lender margin calls

  • Three Arrows Capital falls into liquidation after crypto crash

  • Three Arrows Capital, a cyberpunk Icarus story

• Coinbase Providing "Geo Tracking Data" to ICE

• A $2T Free-Fall Rattles Crypto to the Core

• OpenSea Hit by Data Breach

• NFTs Have ‘Fallen Off the Cliff’ as Sales Sink to Lowest Levels in a Year

• Worthy: Why I’m Cryptophobic

  • HN comments

• Crypto lender Babel Finance wins debt repayment reprieve after withdrawal freeze

• Coinbase has been providing ICE with blockchain analytics tools

• Electricity used to mine Bitcoin plummets as crypto crisis widens

Economicon / Business / Finance

• Pokemon Go Creator Niantic Cancels Four Projects, Cuts 8% of Staff

• CEO Stock Sales Raise Questions About Insider Trading

• Fed Chair: we now understand better how little we understand on inflation

• How bad could the next Recession be?

  • HN comments

• Unity is laying off hundreds of employees

• Fear of a recession could become a self-fulfilling prophecy

• Current Layoffs Trend

• A bankruptcy ‘innovation’ halted thousands of lawsuits from plaintiffs

  It involves splitting a company in two, dumping the legal liability into one of the entities, and then putting that new firm into bankruptcy. Companies love it. Plaintiffs’ attorneys hate it. Judges so far seem split on it.

• Unilever Sells Ben and Jerry's Ice-Cream Business in Israel

• Volt, Australia's first online-only bank, shuts down due to fund-raising woes

  • Australian bank collapses with thousands of customers told to withdraw funds

• Data shows just how much investors have been contributing to the housing boom

• America needs supply-side reform

• Technology Stocks Head for Historic Wipeout as US Economy Cools

• How a controversial shipping law is swaying the price of gas

• U.S. consumer spending, underlying inflation slow in May

Shortages

• Staffing crisis leads to shortage of nursing home beds in U.S.

Gubmint / Poilitcks / Law Making

• The Vanishing Moderate Democrat

• U.S. emergency oil reserve draws by 6.9 mln barrels to lowest since 1986.

• Giuliani's former Ukraine fixer gets 20 months

• FiveThirtyEight 2022 Election Forecast

• Bookies Say Biden Now THIRD Place In The Odds To Win 2024 Election.

• Kinzinger slams fellow Republican Boebert and warns of ‘Christian Taliban’

• Vermont US Sen. Patrick Leahy breaks hip, to have surgery

• Supreme Court to review state legislatures’ power in federal elections

• Supreme Court Strikes down EPA Clean Air rules

  • Supreme Court says EPA overstepped in regulating greenhouse-gas emissions

  • Supreme Court limits EPA’s right to regulate greenhouse gases nationally

  • HN comments

  • US Supreme Court says EPA can’t regulate carbon pollution under Clean Air Act

  • SCOTUS limits EPA's authority to regulate power plants' greenhouse gas emissions

Law Breaking / Police / Internal Security

• Cops in the US only solve about 1/2 of murders. It's the lowest rate ever.

• Indian mercenary hackers are targeting lawyers and litigants to help win cases

• Soldiers recover rifle from butterfly sanctuary after leaving it in a truck

  shared on Twitter by Marianna Wright, whose Twitter profile says she is the executive director of the National Butterfly Center, a butterfly conservatory. Wright tweeted on Monday that she came across a “running & unlocked” Texas National Guard vehicle.

  Wright told Military.com that the incident this week was far from the first time she’s encountered the Texas National Guard and that she has “constantly battled” them about “trespassing on her property and causing incidents.”

  • Name seemed familiar: (Feb 3 2022) A butterfly conservatory is shutting down due to right-wing harassment

• What Caused the Murder Spike?

External Security / Militaria / Diplomania

• Declassified documents highlight the U.S. role in Colombia's conflict

• Putin issues warning over Finland and Sweden's NATO bids

• Watch Live: Biden Holds Post-NATO Press Conference

• US plants Trojan horse programs in hundreds of Chinese information systems

• The Other Big Lessons That the U.S. Army Should Learn from Ukraine

World

• Canadian admits to hacking spree with Russian cyber-gang

• Indonesia: The most amazing development story on Earth?

• Israel to Hold New Elections After Parliament Dissolved

• Ferdinand Marcos Jr. sworn in as Philippines' new President

Health / Medicine

• NIH begins human trials of universal flu vaccine

• Flu vaccines reduce your risk of getting a heart attack or stroke

• Sleep duration matters for heart health, according to new recommendations

Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda

• Subverting Climate Science in the Classroom

• H&M showed bogus environmental scores for its clothing

• Nearly a quarter of Earth's seafloor now mapped

• Some Countries Are Having Second Thoughts About Electric Car Mandates

• Berlin prepares 'huge thermos' to help heat homes in winter

• Extreme heat, drought will permanently scar California and its social fabric

Ukraine War

• Security experts are bracing for cyberattacks if Russia gets desperate

• Russia Withdraws from Ukraine's Snake Island

• Ukraine drives Russian forces from Snake Island, a setback for Moscow.

• All Ukrainian children know to 'never leave breadcrumbs on the table'