2022-07-11

Cool

• Burn Pictures On A CD-R, No Special Drive Needed

etc

• A mysterious cult that predates Stonehenge

  • HN comments

• First James Webb Telescope photo to be unveiled by Biden

  • Biden to Unveil First Full-Color Images from Webb Telescope

• Unification Church confirms mother of Abe suspect is member

• What We Know About the ‘Homemade’ Gun That Killed Shinzo Abe

• Juul Nears Its Last Gasp – After It Hooked a Generation on Vaping

Horseshit

• U.K. considering abandoning metric system

• US Crosses the Electric-Car Tipping Point for Mass Adoption

• Ice cream in China doesn't melt, even under a flame, sparking controversy

• Working in the software industry, circa 1989 – Jim Grey

• 11 Pieces of Pet Tech That Prove God Has Abandoned Us

celebrity gossip

• Richard Branson won the space tourism battle, but his company lost the war

Rank Propaganda / Thought Policing / World Disordering

• A Popular Uprising Against the Elites Has Gone Globa

• Automated hate speech detection in underground hacking and extremist forums

• Monticello Visitors Shocked After Discovering Tour of Jefferson's Home Has a Woke New Spin

Gun control / Mass shooting

• After Another Mass Shooting, Questions Loom About the Role of Parents

Supreme Court

• The US Supreme Court poses a real threat to Americans’ democracy

• ShutDownDC Offers Bounties For More Harassment Of Justices.

Abortion

• Biden says he’s weighing calls for public health emergency on abortion

• Rage Against the Machine rails against Roe v. Wade decision in return to the stage

Uber

• Democracy depends on curbing mercenary tech giants

• Emmanuel Macron aided Uber lobbying drive in France, leak reveals

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

• Uber told staff to use ‘kill switch’ during raids to stop police seeing data

  • HN comments

• Uber leaks reveal how it spread ‘fucking illegal’ ride-sharing globally

• The Uber whistleblower: I’m exposing a system that sold people a lie

Jan6

• Ex-Trump Aide Bannon Offers to Testify in US Probe of January 6 Riot

  • Trump ally Bannon reverses course, says he's willing to testify before panel

• Trump Associates' Ties To Extremists Probed By Jan. 6 Panel

• What the January 6 committee will present this week and what we've learned so far

• The Jan. 6 committee will focus on extremist groups in its next hearing

• NYT reporter says this is how Trump has likely been consuming the Jan. 6 hearings

• Jan. 6 hearing to focus on Trump’s ‘siren call’ to violent extremists

• THEY ALL LIED AND WE HAVE PROOF! Highly Sensitive DOJ Jan 6. Documents Leaked to The Gateway Pundit - FBI Confidential Human Source INFILTRATED Proud Boys, Ran FBI Operation on J-6, Reported They Were INNOCENT! -- See Texts and Documents IN FULL!!

  • PART II: Here Are the Proud Boys and Trump Supporters Who Had Their Lives Destroyed Because Chris Wray and FBI Lied About Documented Report by Embedded Operative on Jan. 6

• (PDF) FBI Leak of Proud Boy Infiltration

Musk

• Twitter Assembles Legal Team to Sue Musk over Dropped Takeover

• Musk wants out. For real this time

• API rate limits at the core of Elon Musk’s decision to ditch Twitter

• Actual reporting: API rate limits at core of Musk’s decision to ditch Twitter • The Register

• Where a wounded Twitter goes from here

• Elon Musk Responds To Twitter Lawsuit Threat

• Musk makes meme on Twitter legal threat after scrapping $44B deal

• Laughing Elon Musk got serious about ending Twitter deal

• The biggest losers from Elon Musk's Twitter chaos

• Matt Levine: The Price of Not Buying Twitter - Bloomberg

• Elon Musk mocks Twitter's court threat

Pestilence / Pox / COVID / VaxCult

• Covid: China's Shanghai says new Omicron subvariant found

• Study: Association between mask mandates and Covid infections in North Dakota

  • HN comments

• China’s Covid health apps govern life but are ripe for abuse

• ECDC and EMA update on additional mRNA booster doses

• Senate Majority Leader Schumer has a mild case of Covid-19

• Natural Immunity 97% Effective Against Severe COVID-19 After 14 Months: Study

• (PDF) Covid Booster Dose Less Than 20% Effective @ 9 Mo.s According to New Study

• SARS-CoV-2 mutations confer resistance to Paxlovid

• Macau shuts down casinos following Covid outbreak

Culture War / Tribal / Re segregation

• What Happened to Jordan Peterson?

• More than 300 bookstores have opened in the past couple of years

• Black Venture Capitalists Confront Silicon Valley’s Quiet Racism

• What is a Woman, Anyway? - by Michael Shermer - Skeptic

Edumacationalizing / Acedemia Nuts

• Educators no longer need a college degree to begin teaching in AZ public schools

• People from elite backgrounds increasingly dominate academia, data shows

  • HN comments

Media / ShowBiz / Advertising

• As TikTok grows, so does suspicion

  • HN comments

• VFX Artists Are Refusing to Work with Marvel Due to Unrealistic Deadlines

• The Atlantic Archive: 165 Years of Journalism

TechSuck

• Experian, you have some explaining to do | Hacker News

  • (2018) ‘Identity theft’? It’s daylight robbery by the banks

• GPU price crash in China, GeForce and Radeon cards now sold for 20% under MSRP

Crypto con games

• Binance served crypto traders in Iran despite U.S. sanctions

  • HN comments

• Molly White, the Mass. software engineer going after the crypto industry

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

• (Apr 2022) A $3B Silk Road Seizure Will Erase Ross Ulbricht’s Debt

• Three Arrows Founders’ Whereabouts Are Unknown, Foiling Liquidators

Economicon / Business / Finance

• Car Repos Are Exploding. That’s a Bad Omen

• Hybrid Work Is Doomed

• Surging supply and softening demand weigh on chipmakers

  • HN comments

• The euro and the dollar are a penny away from parity for first time in 20 years

Shortages

• Ercot asks Texans to conserve power Monday, fearing limited reserves

  • Electric Reliability Council of Texas: possible rolling blackouts from 2pm – 8pm

• Abbott Plant, at Heart of America’s Baby Formula Shortage, Reopens.

Gubmint / Poilitcks / Law Making

• Wisconsin Supreme Court declares absentee ballot drop boxes are illegal

• Knives Out: WaPo, NYT Go For Biden Blood In Scathing Moment Of Honesty | ZeroHedge

• Biden's Education Department Will Limit Loan Interest Capitalization

• Most Democrats want someone other than Biden to run for president in 2024

Hunter

• 4chan users claim to have hacked Hunter Biden’s iCloud account | Washington Examiner

  Other records show Hunter Biden's Apple ID account, which is used to sign in to all Apple services, has been associated with 46 different devices since 2011, including over 20 iPhones, eight Mac computers, nine iPads, and three Apple TVs, Dimitrelos said.

• 4Chan Users Claim to Have Cracked Backup of Hunter Biden's iPhone and Are Leaking Info – RedState

  • IP thread

• Sen. Ron Johnson: The FBI Had Hunter Biden's Computer Since Dec. 2019 - They Havent "Done Squat With It" (VIDEO)

• (June 2022) Hunter Biden's search history reveals his obsession with porn | Daily Mail Online

• Hunter Biden's iCloud Account Cracked, Holds Data from 46 Different Devices He Interacted With: Report

• Archived 4chan hunter discussion

  • Another

  • Some content

• You'll Never Believe the Contacts on Hunter's iPhone – PJ Media

• Who is Pedo Peter?

• 4Chan Dump Reveals Hunter's Concerning Conversations About Russia and China Connections – RedState

External Security / Militaria / Diplomania

• Fighter jet blows off USS Truman during bad weather | Washington Examiner

• Adaptability needs to be the rediscovered strength of market economies

• Letter: NATO should be ready to suspend Turkey’s membership

• We must disengage Russia from the International Space Station partnership

World

• China crushes mass protest by bank depositors demanding their life savings back

• Constitutional revision inches closer in Japan, but actual change still far off

• A cyber-attack on a steel maker in Iran

• Exit, pursued by a bear - by Viscosity Redux

  • HN comments

• Large Chinese Bank Protest Put Down with Violence

Health / Medicine

• Almost a quarter of Americans over the age of 18 are now medicated for one or more of these conditions.

• Thoughts on the potato diet

  You may want to plan a response for when the cashier asks just what the hell you’re doing. I recommend something confusing and ominous like “in-laws” or “raccoon trouble”.

  • HN comments

• Is Society Finally Ready for Male Birth Control?

• Adding salt to food at table can cut years off your life, study finds

Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda

• Scientists design contraceptives to limit grey squirrels in the UK

• NPR Spreads Misinformation About Climate Change and Models.

• Salt Lake City Confronts a Future Without a Lake

Ukraine War

• Russian Gas Flows to Europe

• Russia’s Giant Submarine, Carrying Nuclear Powered Nuclear Torpedos

• Putin’s New Weapon of Mass Disruption: Kazakh Oil

• ‘We have a new Hitler in Russia’