2022-07-10

Cool

• Show HN: Ants Sandbox - an ants simulator | Hacker News

etc

• Explosion Rocks Oklahoma Natural Gas Plant  | ZeroHedge

• [Online art viewing can improve well-being: Effects are similar to those of visits to physical art galleries or even nature experiences

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ScienceDaily](https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2022/07/220708095642.htm)

Horseshit

• How much money to be considered financially comfortable in 12 major U.S. cities

celebrity gossip

• The Dangerous Populist Science of Yuval Noah Harari ❧ Current Affairs

Rank Propaganda / Thought Policing / World Disordering

• With Rising Book Bans, Librarians Have Come Under Attack

• Growing ‘culture of extremism’ among UK and European police forces, report warns

Gun control / Mass shooting

• Uvalde Mayor Disputes Report That Says Officer Had Early Chance To Shoot Gunman | ZeroHedge

Jan6

• Former Federal 'Informant' Warned Of Antifa, BLM Infiltrators At Capitol On Jan. 6 | ZeroHedge

Abortion

• Retired and suspended from consulting position: US Army general suspended for mocking Jill Biden’s support of abortion rights

  The US army has suspended a retired three-star general from a lucrative consultant’s role after a social media post appearing under his name taunted first lady Jill Biden’s support of abortion rights.

• Morton's flooded with fake reservations after defending anti-abortion justice

• Group offers up to $250 for SCOTUS justices sightings after Kavanaugh protest

• Washington Post Late to the Party on Fact-Checking Poorly Sourced '10-Year-Old Rape Victim' Abortion Tale BUT Proves Us Right – PJ Media

• Demonstrators at White House Protest Overturn of Roe v. Wade

• Outrage Erupts as White House Calls Abortion Rights Activists ‘Out of Step’

Musk

• Twitter says it removes over 1M spam accounts each day

• Trump Bashes Elon Musk as ‘Bullshit Artist’ at Alaska Rally

• Elon Musk may have to complete $44bn Twitter takeover, legal experts say

Pestilence / Pox / COVID / VaxCult

• Risk of getting Covid outside: New variants may have changed the answer

• I'm starting to think there may be a really easy way to avoid getting monkeypox | Not the Bee

• The pandemic has eroded Americans’ trust in experts and elected leaders

Edumacationalizing / Acedemia Nuts

• The American Political Science Review Goes Woke - by Chris

• UK school Latin course overhauled to reflect diversity of Roman world

Media / ShowBiz / Advertising

• TikTok ‘frog army’ stunt could have grave consequences, experts warn

• As TikTok grows, so does suspicion

• Skyrim together: mod to play online

  • HN comments

TechSuck

• Congratulations: We Now Have Opinions on Your Open Source Contributions | Armin Ronacher's Thoughts and Writings

  • HN comments

• Ask HN: How would you bootstrap a telco?

• Help me identify possible tracking device found in my car | Hacker News

• Why the world needs a non-profit search engine

  • HN comments

Crypto con games

• Crypto collapse: 3AC, Voyager, Celsius, and other DeFi casualties

• Taibbi: The Financial Bubble Era Comes Full Circle | ZeroHedge

• North Korean operatives are trying to infiltrate US crypto firms

• Voyager Digital had said accounts were FDIC insured, but they weren’t

Economicon / Business / Finance

• Cargo bike sales soar as UK petrol prices surge

• California Truckers in Gig-Work Legal Limbo, Risking Supply Chains

• Denver luxury apartment serves all tenants 30-day notice to vacate

• Redfin seeing San Francisco Bay Area housing market slowing fastest in the U.S.

• Was the Paycheck Protection Program Effective?

• Is the Smart Grid All Hot Air? - Austin Vernon's Blog

• Wages climbed 5%, a still-rapid pace as Fed awaits slowdown

• World’s Most Aggressive Central Bank Raises Key Rate to 200%

Uber

• Data leak reveals how European politicians helped Uber

• The Uber Files

• Uber broke laws, duped police and built secret lobbying operation, leak reveals

  • HN comments

• ‘Hit the kill switch’: Uber used covert tech to thwart government raids

Gubmint / Poilitcks / Law Making

• What Croydon, a ‘Live Free or Die’ Town, Learned About Democracy

• Rep. Eric Swalwell’s attempt to convince everybody Dems are the ‘party of freedom’ doesn’t survive reality checks – twitchy.com

• The (Fairly Serious) Case for Jon Stewart in 2024

  • HN comments

Hunter

• 4channers have an offline backup of Hunter Biden's phone

Law Breaking / Police / Internal Security

• 'icy' first meeting held by new San Francisco District Attorney Jenkins

World

• Footage of Sri Lanka's President fleeing on military ship from Colombo harbor

• Mexico leader to end daylight saving time

• Canada’s Federal Police Have Been Using Malware to Snoop on Communication

• Shinzo Abe's Murder Suspect Claims Motive Of His Attack | ZeroHedge

  • The Crime That Killed Shinzo Abe - SNA Japan

    • HN comments

Health / Medicine

• A British man's overdose on Vitamin D

Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda

• “EVs aren't the only answer”: Toyota scientist on the future of cars

  • HN comments

• Western Architecture Is Making India's Heatwaves Worse

• MIT scientists may have discovered how to fully reverse climate change

• Yosemite wildfire threatens grove of iconic sequoia trees

• New Yorkers in high rises finding ants aren’t just other people’s problems

• Arctic temperatures are increasing four times faster than global warming

• Green Dogma Behind Fall of Sri Lanka

Ukraine War

• There is no sign of a Russian ‘pause’ for one Ukrainian town under fire.

• Satellites spot construction of Russian anti-satellite laser facility: report

• 15 killed and 24 trapped after Russian missile hits apartment building, Ukraine says