2022-07-06

Worthy

• Various Tribes | Science | AAAS

• The Word of the Year Is: Sophistry - by Ted Gioia

etc

• How to see the Webb telescope's first images

• I help people decide if they want to have kids. Here's my advice

• CAPSTONE: NASA Spacecraft Sent to Unexplored Orbit for Moon Outpost Goes Silent

• Octopus Intelligence and the Puzzle of Sociality

• When a company’s leadership becomes less politically diverse, the stock suffers

• Stunned by UFOs, ‘exasperated’ fighter pilots get little help from Pentagon | The Hill

  More recently, one of Graves’s former student pilots, along with a senior officer, observed one of the objects. As Graves’s former student told him, “They’re still out here. … [The object] looked exactly like what you said, [a] cube in a sphere. They’re still here.” From instructor to student, the UFOs now transcend at least one “generation” of fighter pilots.

Horseshit

• Shtetl-Optimized » Blog Archive » We Are the God of the Gaps (a little poem)

• Did the early medieval era ever take place?

  • HN comments

• New cars will stop drivers from speeding under European laws

  • HN comments

• Strengthening collaboration among European space startups

• Europe wants a high-speed rail network to replace airplanes

• Maybe AI Isn’t as Scary as We Thought

celebrity gossip

• Michael Moore vows to give up ‘privileges’ of US citizenship in July 4 rant.

Obit

• OPEC Secretary General Mohammad Barkindo dies at age 63

Rank Propaganda / Thought Policing / World Disordering

• Cory Doctorow: The Swerve – Locus Online

  • HN comments

• UK could force messaging apps to scan for child sexual abuse images

• The Benefits of World Hunger | United Nations

  For those of us at the high end of the social ladder, ending hunger globally would be a disaster. If there were no hunger in the world, who would plow the fields? Who would harvest our vegetables? Who would work in the rendering plants? Who would clean our toilets? We would have to produce our own food and clean our own toilets. No wonder people at the high end are not rushing to solve the hunger problem. For many of us, hunger is not a problem, but an asset.

• Have you noticed a difference in how Twitter tackles deadnaming Elliott Page as opposed to, say, death threats on SCOTUS Justices? – twitchy.com

• Lies, Damned Lies, and Fact Checks - by Paul D. Thacker

Abortion

• Post-Roe America and the Importance of Encryption

Gun control / Mass shooting

• Guns aren't a debate. They're a battle over what kind of America we want

• Death Toll Rises To 7 After Cross-Dressing 4th Of July Shooting Suspect Taken Into Custody | ZeroHedge

• Highland Park Killer, Captured, Sent Signals For Years.

• Google removes images of Highland Park gunman Bobby Crimo a day after massacre

• U.S. Mass Shootings on Rise No Matter How You Define Them – The Marshall Project

Musk

• Elon Musk’s brother buys Intel’s fireworks-replacing drone biz

• Elon Musk's Boring Company will let you pay for a ride with Dogecoin

Pestilence / Pox / COVID / VaxCult

• Covid-19 was 3rd leading cause of death in United States in both 2020 and 2021

• Pfizer: In Anticipation of a New Wave of Covid-19

• Covid was the leading cause of death in Americans aged 45-54 in 2021

• Rising Covid cases in China spark further lockdowns

• Deaths with unknown causes now Alberta's top killer

• Bioethics’ goal isn’t to ensure informed consent, but to veto informed consent

• China Covid app restricts residents after banking protests

• Covid-19 reinfections may increase the likelihood of new health problems

• Did Covid vaccine mandates work? What the data say

• CDC: Omicron Subvariants BA.4, BA.5 Responsible for 70% of New Coronavirus Cases

• What Does the National Guard Do with 40k Unvaccinated Soldiers? No One Knows

Culture War / Tribal / Re segregation

• But what is a "woman"? Do nations with greater gender equality have better women’s football teams?

• Triathlon first UK sport to create 'open' category for transgender athletes

Edumacationalizing / Acedemia Nuts

• Washington State School Board Director to Teach Sexual ‘Pleasure’ Class to 9-Year-Olds at Sex Shop

Media / ShowBiz / Advertising

• Leaked Videos Show Disney Is the Biggest Ad Tech Giant You've Never Heard Of

• Twitter is struggling with India’s tightening rules for online speech

• YouTube flags horror video as “for kids,” won’t let creator change rating

  • HN comments

• Apps and advertisers are coming for your lock screen

TechSuck

• It’s 1997 and you want to build a website | Hacker News

• Advice needed for backing up and hosting large amount of files | Hacker News

• Is Apple Failing at Modems? | Digits to Dollars

Crypto con games

• Trading Dries Up on India Crypto Exchanges as New Tax Kicks In

• Crypto’s Last Man Standing

• Canadian Pension Funds Are Losing Big at the Crypto Casino

• Six indicted in cryptocurrency and NFT fraud schemes that made $130M

• Crypto lender Voyager Digital files for bankruptcy

• New board at Celsius seem to be bankruptcy attorneys

Economicon / Business / Finance

• Venture Capitalists Say the Era of Recklessly Burning Cash Is Over

• Banks Get Burned by Risky Debt, Imperiling Buyout Activity

• A Real Mean Reversion - by SoldAtTheTop - Paper Economy

• Toyota used up all its EV tax credits on hybrids

• Atlanta Fed GDP tracker shows the U.S. economy is likely in a recession

• Red States Are Winning the Post-Pandemic Economy

• Stores weigh paying you not to bring back unwanted items

• Is Housing Next to Fall? - by Eric Soda - Spilled Coffee

• A Rude Awakening Is Ahead for Young Employees

• Amazon takes stake in Grubhub, adds food delivery perks to Prime

• Buy Now Pay Later Joins the List of Subprime Losers

• Rising Interest Rates Will Crush the Federal Budget

• American Factories Are Making Stuff Again as CEOs Take Production Out of China

• Citi Warns Oil May Collapse to $65 by the Year-End on Recession

• Hybrid Work Is Doomed

Shortages

• A billion pounds of California almonds stranded at ports amid drought

• World hunger rising as U.N. agencies warn of “looming catastrophe”

Gubmint / Poilitcks / Law Making

• Biden Mulls Minuscule $10 Billion Rollback Of Trump-Era China Tariffs

• Mitch McConnell says labor shortage will end when people run out stimulus money

• FDA suspends Juul ban as company appeals

• Why Republicans want to redefine 'legislature' in the US Constitution

• Biden: path to student loan forgiveness for public servants & interest limit

• Reining In the Fourth Branch of Government | RealClearPolitics

Law Breaking / Police / Internal Security

• Ohio police officers brutally shot fleeing Black man dozens of times

• The Exoneration Hustle: Are radical prosecutors freeing guilty murderers?

• FBI Child ID App

  An important note: The FBI is not collecting or storing any photos or information that you enter in the app. All data resides solely on your mobile device unless you need to send it to authorities. Please read your mobile provider’s terms of service for information about the security of applications stored on your device.

  • HN comments

• San Diego Loses 22% Of Its Police Force Due To Vax Mandates

External Security / Militaria / Diplomania

• Chinese university sanctioned by US declares success of hypersonic test flight

• The US Government seeks to halt ASML from selling any more tools to China

World

• Huge blow for Boris Johnson as two senior UK government ministers resign

  • UK's Boris Johnson on the brink as ministers quit

  • Boris Johnson is finished.

  • Boris Johnson could face new confidence vote within days

• Russia Demands Israel Cease Its 'Air Aggression' Against Syria

• Boeing disappointed after China's top three airlines buy 300 Airbus planes

• In Sri Lanka, Instagram has become a shop front for goods including live seafood

• Dutch Farmers Bring Tank To Fertilizer Protest; Cops Shoot Tractor

• Arabs believe economy is weak under democracy

• EU antitrust agency raids several online food and grocery delivery firms

• Mob-style killings shock Netherlands into fighting descent into ‘narco state’

Health / Medicine

• Potentially deadly superbug found in British supermarket pork

• Vitamin D overdose is a growing danger, experts say

• Maolac creates breast milk-like superfood from cow colostrum

Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda

• Snow at one of world’s highest observatories melting earlier than ever before

• Outdoor Tennis Could Be Sports’ First Big Climate Change Casualty

• Italy declares state of emergency in drought-hit northern regions

• CO2 emissions during pandemic shows it’s possible to reach Paris Agreement goals

• Nuclear Power Gets New Push in U.S., Winning Converts

• Scientists Now Claim Their Model Shows Rocket Launches Damage Ozone Layer.

• EU parliament supports 'green' label for gas, nuclear investments

• A functional definition to distinguish ponds from lakes and wetlands

• Methane much more sensitive to global heating than previously thought – study

Ukraine War

• Putin’s Lies Have Kremlin TV Flailing and Fighting On-Air

• Russia Says It Destroyed Two US-Supplied HIMARS Rocket Systems In Ukraine

• Russian cosmonauts spread anti-Ukraine propaganda from space station