2022-07-01

Worthy

• Total Generalship: Commanding Pre-Modern Armies, Part IIIc: Morale and Cohesion

etc

• Links For June - by Scott Alexander - Astral Codex Ten

• US travel chaos unlikely to improve as Fourth of July looms, experts say

• In Defence of Garlic in a Jar: How Food Snobs Almost Ruined My Love of Cooking

  • HN comments

• NOAA Tornado Damage Assessment Toolkit

• Ten-Year Anniversary of Minitel’s End Reminds of the Limits of Industrial Policy

• Only 2 companies made bids to build NASA's spacesuits

• How Europe became the epicenter for this summer’s travel chaos

• How to See James Webb’s First Images?

• Giant Sunspot Has Doubled in Size and Is Pointed Right at Earth

• Why are nuclear power construction costs so high? Part III – the nuclear navy

Horseshit

• The Perils of Audience Capture - by Gurwinder - The Prism

• Google Maps Is Wrongly Telling People I-80 Closed; Reroutes People to Colorado

• Individuals who experience a recession when young tend to vote left-wing

• Just keep your returns: Stores weigh paying you not to bring back unwanted items

Obit

• Minecraft content creator Technoblade has died

  • HN comments

  • Technoblade: Minecraft YouTuber dies from cancer aged 23

• Sonny Barger, counterculture force and face of the Hells Angels, dies

Rank Propaganda / Thought Policing / World Disordering

• The World Can’t Wean Itself Off Chinese Lithium

• Chinese posed as Texans on social media to attack rare earths rivals

• The US Supreme Court just made yet another devastating decision for humanity

• This is the age of the fact checker « Samizdata

• Homeland Security sends warning letter due bad tweet language | Hacker News

  "Burn every fucking government building down right the fuck now"

Jan6

• Revisiting Trump's long history of trying to influence witnesses

Abortion

• After Roe vs. Wade ruling, startups must take a stance on abortion

• Next post-Roe battlefield: Online abortion information

• On a post-Roe vs. Wade internet, unvetted abortion support is going viral

Gun control / Mass shooting

• Police Are Harassing Mom Who Pulled Kids from Uvalde School Shooting

• I’m a New York City Liberal, and I Want a Gun

• Leak of California gun owners’ private data far wider than originally reported

  • HN comments

• New York poised to limit concealed carry guns after SCOTUS ruling

Musk

• FCC approves SpaceX Starlink service to vehicles, boats, planes

  • SpaceX Wins Permission Connect Planes, Boats to Starlink Internet Service

• Tesla's run of record deliveries may be reaching the end of the road

• What do Starlink’s latest Ookla results mean for its RDOF winnings? | Hacker News

• We Should Stay Far Far Away from This: Robinhood Said After Musk Tweeted: Stonks

• Elon Musk Takes Unusually Long Twitter Break

• Tesla hit by new lawsuit alleging racial abuse

• Elon’s One-Lane Vegas Tesla Tunnels Expanding into Full Boondoggle

Pestilence / Pox / COVID / VaxCult

• Covid 6/30/22: Vaccine Update Update - by Zvi Mowshowitz

  This week’s news is that the FDA advisory committee voted overwhelmingly to update the vaccine for Omicron, after a delay of only six months, which means they’ll get to deciding which way it should be updated Real Soon Now and then they can tell the pharma companies what requirements they want to place on that. There’s some chance the update will happen at a time that isn’t never, and even a tiny chance the update might not be hopelessly behind the virus when it happens. You never know.

• U.S. tells pharmas to make Covid boosters targeting BA.4 and BA.5

• Official: FDA Will Not Require Clinical Trials for Redesigned Covid Boosters

• The BA.5 story: The takeover by this Omicron sub-variant is not pretty

• Briefing: Biden- Harris Administrations Monkeypox Outbreak Response June-28-2022

• Monkeypox and Smallpox Vaccine Guidance (CDC)

• Biden administration ramps up Monkeypox Vaccination

• AstraZeneca: Vaccine death payout of £120k 'inadequate' – fiancée

• Bay Area can't seem to move past COVID surge: 'It's like a slow burn'

• Windblown “alien things” caused Covid outbreak, North Korea says

• FDA recommends changing composition of Covid-19 vaccines for use this fall

Edumacationalizing / Acedemia Nuts

• Harvard Must Fall

Media / ShowBiz / Advertising

• Meta warns employees of ‘serious times’ in internal memo

  • Mark Zuckerberg told Meta staff he's upping performance goals

  • Mark Zuckerberg: We’re ‘turning up the heat’ at Meta so employees will quit

  • HN comments

• YouTube removes criticism of dangerous fractal wood burning, leaves lethal tips

  • HN comments

• “The joy of sharing has been driven from me“ | Hacker News

• Heavy meta - Hit Points by Nathan Brown

  Niantic looked at the lightning it had somehow bottled and thought, right, better get some more bottles. That is rarely how this stuff works.

TechSuck

• HN jobs:

  • Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2022)

  • Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (July 2022)

  • Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (July 2022)

• Epic Games wants me to fill out 100 questions to use my OSS project

• Nvidia GPU Prices Plummet As Crypto Mining Craters | ZeroHedge

• FCC says it closed a loophole that many robocallers used to evade blocking

  • FCC Closes Robocall Loophole | Hacker News

• Wayland is not ready as a 1:1 compatible Xorg replacement just yet | Hacker News

• Open source body quits GitHub, urges you to do the same

  • HN comments

• Uzi Nissan (Nissan.com) died of Covid July 2020 and the website is now down | Hacker News

• mTCP 2022-07-01 (TCP/IP and programs for old DOS PCs) is available | Hacker News

Crypto con games

• CFTC Charges South African Bitcoin Pool Operator with $1.7B Fraud

• I think Bitcoin has room for one more bubble

• FBI adds 'Cryptoqueen' to Ten Most Wanted Fugitives List after alleged $4B fraud

• North Korea Used Crypto to Hack Its Way Through the Pandemic

• Facebook begins testing NFTs with select creators in the US

• BIS To Allow Member Banks To Hold 1% Of Their Reserves In Bitcoin

• SF Fed President Mary Daly on the crypto crash and more

• Shopify’s NFT plans aren’t slowing down for the crypto crash

Economicon / Business / Finance

• Do We Need a Recession?

• SPAC Led by Former Apple Executive Goes Bankrupt

• Some medical debt is being removed from US credit reports

• A controversial shipping law is swaying the price of gas | Hacker News

• Amazon Prices Falling Due to Excess Inventory

• Job cuts are rolling in as recession fears rise

• Meta slashes hiring plans, girds for 'fierce' headwinds

  • HN comments

• Powell: It's not yet clear if US economy will ever return to pre-pandemic status

• UK Household Incomes Are in the Longest-Ever Run of Declines

• Apple's guy in charge of stopping insider trading guilty of insider trading

• Disinflation Begins

  • HN thread

• We need to talk about Fed liabilities

• Americans never lost so much purchasing power in one year

• Tech layoffs keep stacking up

  • HN comments

• 56% of employee won’t even consider a workplace that doesn’t share their values

• Is It Better to Repair or Replace Your Aging Vehicle in This Car Market?

Shortages

• To avoid blackouts, California may tap fossil fuel plants

Gubmint / Poilitcks / Law Making

• DOJ fails to report on making federal websites accessible to disabled people

• EXCLUSIVE: FOIAs Reveal Progressive Money Fueling FBI, DOJ, Leftist Activist and Election Official Coordination – PJ Media

• SEC's New ESG Rule Hurts America's Small Farms & Ranches | ZeroHedge

• President Biden to Award Steve Jobs with Posthumous Medal of Freedom

• White House Tells Americans: 'Suck It Up' For The Sake Of The "Liberal World Order" | ZeroHedge

• U.S. Supreme Court throws out rulings upholding gun restrictions

• U.S. Supreme Court rejects American Axle case on patent eligibility

• A new Supreme Court case is the biggest threat to US democracy since January 6

  • Supreme Court to hear case on GOP ‘independent legislature’ theory

  • The Supreme Court could radically reshape elections for president and Congress

  • Supreme Court’s EPA Decision: Unconstitutional Violation of Separation of Powers

Law Breaking / Police / Internal Security

• Woman accused of killing cyclist captured in Costa Rica after 43 days on the run

External Security / Militaria / Diplomania

• Biden Announces Permanent US Base In Poland, America's First On NATO Eastern Flank

• US hypersonic missile fails in test- 2nd consecutive failed attempt

• How The Pentagon Uses a Secret Program to Wage Proxy Wars

World

• France bans veggie ′steaks,′ ′sausages′

• Germany’s move to legalise cannabis expected to create ‘domino effect’

  • HN comments

  • Germany seeks 'safety first' approach to legalizing cannabis

• Ruble has risen 42% against dollar this year, weakening Russia energy revenues

• Young Chinese Have Shunned Marriage. Now, They Want Singles’ Rights

• An Anatomy of Erasure: How a free and open Hong Kong became a police state

• Discontinuation of QuickBooks in India

• Dutch Farmers Livid Over EU's 'Green' Nitrogen Rule Block Border Between Holland And Germany

• Palestinians torture detained critics, rights group says

• A gruesome beheading by Islamists in India

Health / Medicine

• Modern city dwellers have lost about half their gut microbes

• McKinsey, Consiglieri of the Opioid Crisis

• Daily Harvest hit with lawsuits from people who say they had their gallbladders removed after consuming its product

• Some viruses make people smell extra-tasty to mosquitoes

Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda

• Global nuclear power capacity must double by 2050 to ensure energy security

  • Global nuclear power capacity needs to double by 2050 -IEA

• Chasing Utopian Energy: How I Wasted 20 Years of My Life.

• No Refrigerant Left Behind | Hacker News

Ukraine War

• Jokowi says Putin agrees to sea route for Ukraine wheat exports

• Russia Has Been Driven from Snake Island by Ukraine

• Russia’s Kremenchuk Claims versus the Evidence

• Russia’s war in Ukraine is disrupting studies of ancient life

• Russian strikes on buildings in Odesa region killed 20 people overnight, authorities say

• “We're watching Russia wither before our eyes,” former US defense chief says

• Ukraine Flooded Three Rivers to Help Save Kyiv