2022-07-03

Worthy

• The Singularity - TERRY BISSON of the UNIVERSE

• So What Is The American Dream?

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• Massive cricket-processing facility comes online in London, Ontario

• Cities Cancel Fourth of July Fireworks Due to Supply Chain Disruptions and Staffing Shortages

• Severe drought leads to banning of fireworks

• Thousands converge to mostly peaceful but illegal gatherings in remote forests

• American Airlines scheduling glitch allows pilots to drop thousands of flights

• Mystery Surrounds Intensifying 'Earthquake Swarm' Shaking South Carolina | ZeroHedge

• Among the Landlords

• Powering the lunar base, version 2 – Casey Handmer's blog

• Aphelion 2022: Earth will be farthest from the sun on July 4 | Space

Horseshit

• Ask HN: I’m 41 and still unmarried. What should I do? | Hacker News

• She’s 2½. She took an IQ test and became Mensa’s youngest member

• Royal Navy promoted sailor despite joining neo-Nazi group

• What happened when the rich stopped intermarrying

  • HN comments

• Delivery drivers fired after cut-price GPS app sent them on ‘impossible’ routes

• It's Quite Hard to Lose a Duolingo Streak

• SF couple gets $1,500 fine for parking in their driveway despite doing so for nearly 40 years.

Rank Propaganda / Thought Policing / World Disordering

• Ideology Has Poisoned the West

• Does Hungary Offer a Glimpse of Our Authoritarian Future?

• Combining interventions to reduce the spread of viral misinformation

• Putting sensor-packed Chinese cars on Western roads could be a privacy issue

• Jordan Peterson Suspended from Twitter

Gun control / Mass shooting

• The Uvalde schools police chief resigns from city council

  • Uvalde Schools Police Chief Resigns From City Council

• The Second Amendment Isn’t Only Guns: Virginia’s Switch Blade Ban Died Today.

• New York gun bill requires 3 years of social media account vetting

  • HN comments

Supreme court

• Spurred by the Supreme Court, a Nation Divides Along a Red-Blue Axis

• Democrats Argue That Clarence Thomas Should Only Have 3/5 of a Vote

• High court marshal seeks enforcement of anti-picketing laws

Abortion

• A 10-year-old rape victim in Brazil sought an abortion. A judge urged: Stay preg

• Texts, web searches about abortion have been used to prosecute women

Musk

• SpaceX launches first C-band television broadcast satellite into space for SES.

• Tesla Shipments Drop

• Tesla Q2 deliveries hit by China shutdowns; says June was best month ever

Pestilence / Pox / COVID / VaxCult

• Where’s the herd immunity? Our research shows why Covid is still wreaking havoc

• Coronavirus threat in California worsens due to BA.4, BA.5

• Swedish birth rate data: what does it show us?

• Wrist-worn trackers can detect Covid before symptoms, study finds

• FDA will not require clinical trial data to authorize redesigned Covid boosters

• Monkeypox symptoms in patients attending London clinics differ from previous outbreaks.

Culture War / Tribal / Re segregation

• “urgency is a white supremacy value”

Media / ShowBiz / Advertising

• Notch will sell you insurance in case your Instagram gets hacked

• Mark Zuckerberg Led Facebook’s War to Crush Google Plus

• Mickey Mouse could soon leave Disney as 95-year copyright expiry nears

• Meta's hints at “self-selection” as layoffs ramp up

TechSuck

• The Windows malloc() Implementation Is A Trash Fire

  Everything is broken and I am too tired to do anything but contribute another obscene hack on top of this pile of cards we have built modern civilization on.

• 3-D Printing Grows Beyond Its Novelty Roots

• EVGA's 3090 Ti now comes with a free 1600W power supply.

Crypto con games

• Most Wanted: Ruja Ignatova (Onecoin creator)

• Missing Cryptoqueen: Is Dr Ruja Ignatova the Biggest Bitcoin Holder?

• New York says Bitcoin mining operation in Finger Lakes violates climate law

• Bitcoin Fueled the Freedom Convoy and Defied Government Crackdown

• Bill to grant crypto firms access to Federal Reserve alarms experts

• Dutch university wins big after Bitcoin ransom returned

Economicon / Business / Finance

• JPMorgan Sees ‘Stratospheric’ $380 Oil on Worst-Case Russian Cut

• Home Sellers Are Slashing Prices in Sudden Halt to Pandemic Boom

• Monthly car payments have crossed a record $700

• 50-Year Mortgages That Children Can Inherit

Gubmint / Poilitcks / Law Making

• Minnesota lawmakers voted to legalize THC edibles. Some did it accidentally

• Several NYC Election Sites Had 'No Republican Ballots' During Last Week's Primary

• ‘ECONOMICALLY ILLITERATE:’ Bezos and others bash Biden for blaming gas stations for high gas prices, Chinese state media applauds the president

• Gavin Newsom goes on the air against Ron DeSantis as political rivalry grows

Law Breaking / Police / Internal Security

• Glamorous heiress, 45, charged with having sex with 14-year-old boy four times in one day.

External Security / Militaria / Diplomania

• “The Internationalists” and making war illegal « The Story's Story

• Milley: China Wants Capability to Take Taiwan by 2027

  • China attack not imminent, but US watching closely, says Gen Milley

World

• China's new regulations requiring Printers to design and develop in China

• Small banks in China are running into trouble. Savers could lose everything

Health / Medicine

• Documents reveal McKinsey's role increasing opioid sales until 2019

  • HN comments

• Hundreds sickened in 26 states after eating Daily Harvest lentil crumbles.

Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda

• Utah’s Great Salt Lake disappearing; could turn the region into toxic dust bowl

• How the climate crisis is forever changing our national parks

• ‘Where there’s bodies, there’s treasure’: A hunt as Lake Mead shrinks

• The green revolution sweeping Sweden

• The world is burning. We need a renewables revolution

• GitHub - Lkruitwagen/global-fossil-fuel-supply-chain: The global fossil fuel supply chain, mapped at the asset-level.

Ukraine War

• Ukraine Successfully Hitting Russian Command Posts With New Rocket System: Pentagon

• U.S. sending Ukraine two surface-to-air missile systems -Pentagon

• The Truth About the Evolution of Russian Military Doctrine

• Ukraine has exposed Russia as a not-so-great power

  • HN comments

• Russian warships pass between Japan's westernmost islands

• Russia blames Ukraine after missile strikes kill at least 3 people and damage apartment buildings in border city Belgorod

• Russia says its forces now have full control of east Ukraine region

• Ukraine war: Russia claims capture of eastern city Lysychansk

• How Well Are European Sanctions Against Russia Working?