2022-07-09

Cool

• Reverse-engineering the Apollo spacecraft's FM radio

Worthy

• jsomers.net | I should have loved biology

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• Population by Age and Sex for China, India, and United States: 2020 and 2060

• Craft-produced firearm used to assassinate Shinzo Abe - Armament Research Services (ARES)

  The fact that former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe was killed by a craft-produced firearm in a country with firearms restrictions as stringent as Japan’s highlights the enduring fact that determined individuals remain able to produce a lethal firearm under almost any legal and cultural conditions. Nonetheless, the crude nature of the weapon used in this case also highlights the potential limitations of firearms. In the broader scheme of modern craft-produced firearms, the example employed in the assassination of Shinzo Abe sits at the lower end of the spectrum of capability.

  • The DIY gun used to kill Abe was simple to make; could have been made in 1/2 day

Horseshit

• United States Life Expectancy Has Fallen Behind China

• Artist Behind Banana Taped to Wall Can’t Escape Copyright Suit

• Einstein-Bohr debate settled once and for all | Hacker News

• A DoorDash glitch caused a free food, booze spree

• Cask of scotch whisky bought for record £16m in private sale

• Nobody Likes Self-Checkout

celebrity gossip

• Amber Heard’s lawyers call for retrial with claims of ‘improper juror service’

• Jordan Peterson is Fascinating and Dangerous.

Rank Propaganda / Thought Policing / World Disordering

• They were that dangerous pre-Roe, then: The danger of license plate readers in post-Roe America

• Pro-China Agents Posed as Activists to Protest US Rare Earth Metal Mines

• Will No One Defend the American Republic?

  the United States is careening towards a right-wing dictatorship that is highly likely to be either deranged or unstable or both over the medium term, thus threatening a chaotic collapse of the global economic system that might kill billions (especially in concert with climate change).

• Historical language records show surge of cognitive distortion in recent decades

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• Aggressive behavior of anti-vaxxers: their toxic replies in English and Japanese

• Adam Tooze, Crisis Historian, Has Some Bad News for Us - The Atlantic

• Ukraine crisis reveals the folly of organic farming

• Journalist Alex Berenson reinstated to Twitter after suing platform

Abortion

• Pregnant woman says her fetus should count as a passenger in HOV lanes

  • Pregnant woman given HOV ticket argues fetus is passenger, post-Roe

Gun control / Mass shooting

• Gun applicants required to list social media accounts

• It Looks Like HighlandPark Shooter Tried Repeatedly to Create Own Wikipedia Page

• Highland Park gunman's family was in turmoil for years leading up to parade shooting

Musk

• Elon Musk terminating Twitter deal

• Elon Musk notifies Twitter he is terminating deal

• Twitter is ready for a legal battle to force Elon Musk to buy the company

• Elon Musk Twitter takeover deal in ‘serious jeopardy’

• Bring On The Lawsuits: Elon Musk Terminates Deal To Buy Twitter

• Elon Musk Trying to Back Out of Twitter Deal

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  Musk's misguided approach to free speech, which says anything that is not explicitly illegal is allowed, would have made Twitter an open forum for spreading lies and hate.

• Elon Musk can’t just walk away from his Twitter deal by paying a $1B

• Twitter board plans to sue Musk in Delaware court for backing out from deal

  • HN comments

• Twitter says it’s going to sue Elon Musk for trying to back out of the deal

• Why did Elon Musk get cold feet on Twitter?

• Twitter’s board says it will see Elon Musk in court

• Matt Levine: Elon’s Out - Bloomberg

  Musk will make this fight as unpleasant as possible; already the attorney general of Texas has opened an investigation of Twitter’s bot numbers in order to harass Twitter and capitalize on Musk’s popularity with Republican voters. I have suggested in the past that Twitter’s best weapon in this dispute would be banning Musk from Twitter, because he is such an addict, but in fact he recently stayed off Twitter voluntarily for nine days, which I assume he did just to prove to Twitter the company that he can survive without Twitter the product. It is all going to be pretty awful and stupid.

• Elon Musk has been expressing buyer’s remorse over Twitter for months

• What Are Spam Bots and Why They’re an Issue in Elon Musk’s Twitter Deal

• Elon Musk Trolled His Way Into Buying Twitter. Now He Wants Out.

Pestilence / Pox / COVID / VaxCult

• The U.S. may be losing the fight against monkeypox, scientists say

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• Army Cuts Off 60K Unvaccinated Guard and Reserve Soldiers

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

• L.A. County expands monkeypox vaccine access as cases rise — but many say it is not enough

• Uruguay suspends Covid vaccination for children under 13

• (Feb 2022) Intracellular Reverse Transcription of Covid-19 mRNA Vaccine BNT162b2 in Vitro

• A Repressive Political Act - by Douglas Farrow

Edumacationalizing / Acedemia Nuts

• Covid learning loss has been a global disaster

• Columbia becomes “unranked”, losing its No. 2 spot in the U.S. News rankings

• I am an astrophysicist. I am also a Christian. - Big Think

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Media / ShowBiz / Advertising

• Printed but fake: Amazon has a book piracy problem

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• Trust in news collapses to historic low

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• The Fediverse can be pretty toxic

• Comedian Refuses Woke Streamer's Demand To Censor Abortion Jokes; Buys Own Special Back For $1 Million | ZeroHedge

TechSuck

• Cruise’s Robot Car Outages Are Jamming Up San Francisco

• HN Moved from M5 to AWS | Hacker News

• NIST’s pleasant post-quantum surprise

• Steam Deck Review: A Game Console for the Quintessential Gamer

• Microsoft begins “Extinguish” phase of dealing with Open Source

  • HN comments

Crypto con games

• CryptoSnoos™: Official Reddit NFTs

• Can ‘chief vibes officers’ keep things positive amid the crypto collapse?

• Celsius called “Ponzi scheme” by ex-money manager

• Crypto-Assets and Decentralized Finance Through a Financial Stability Lens

Economicon / Business / Finance

• What’s Up with the Crazy Housing Market?

• America Faces a Housing Bust

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• The economy added 372,000 jobs in June, outpacing expectations

• Oracle considering 'thousands' of layoffs, could happen as soon as August

• M2 doesn’t have ‘important implications’ as inflation hit a 40-year high

• Boeing CEO ready to cancel 737 Max 10 unless Congress acts

• Americans still think they can make money flipping houses

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• House Price Declines: How Long for Real Prices to Recover?

• Is it socially responsible to offer Buy Now Pay Later plans? Many are defaulting

Gubmint / Poilitcks / Law Making

• Biden nowhere close to hitting refugee goals

• FCC orders carriers to stop delivering auto warranty robocalls

• "Let him eat cake": AOC responds to Kavanaugh's run-in with protesters while dining out

Law Breaking / Police / Internal Security

• Arizona makes it illegal for bystanders to record cops at close range

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• Police Swarm Steve Bannon's D.C. Home In Frightening 'Swatting' Attack: Report

• 4-year-old girl was killed in a shooting in Akron, Ohio

External Security / Militaria / Diplomania

• US State Department Offers $10 Million Reward for Info On Foreign Election Interference

World

• Rogers network outage across Canada hits banks, businesses and consumers

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  • A major internet outage in Canada disrupts ATMs and 911 services

• Shinzo Abe's Death Celebrated in China: 'Open Champagne'

• "Social Peace Is In Great Danger": Germany Is Quietly Shutting Down As Energy Crunch Paralyzes Economy

• Sir Lanka Protesters Storm President's House Amid Economic Meltdown

  • Home of Sri Lanka PM Ranil Wickremesinghe set on fire after he agreed to resign

  • Protesters in Sri Lanka have stormed the President's House and swimming pool

• Russian Navy Takes Delivery of World's Longest Submarine

Health / Medicine

• heard this before, why again now?: Guinea worm disease is close to being eradicated

• Childhood antibiotics as a risk factor for Crohn's disease

Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda

• UN: One Million Species at Risk of Extinction Due to Humans

• Amazon Rainforest: Highest deforestation rate in six years

• Dutch Ask If German Nuclear Plants May Stay Open Amid Gas Crisis

• Weedkiller ingredient tied to cancer found in 80% of US urine samples

• UK heatwave: Parents warned to keep children out of sun

Ukraine War

• Ukraine-Russia: Hidden tech war as Slovyansk battle looms

• Italians wait for rain where longest river runs dry

• Russia says it will ‘do everything necessary’ in fight over Space Station