2022-07-13

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• James Webb Space Telescope team quietly releases a picture of Jupiter

• Book Review: The Man From The Future - by Scott Alexander

• Working parents are having a rough summer. Some co-workers don’t want to hear

• 'Magic mirror': Hidden image revealed in reflection of centuries-old artifact at Cincinnati Art Museum - CNN Style

  The discovery makes the museum one of only a handful of institutions in the world to own a magic mirror, according to Sung. The curator is only aware of three others in possession of rare Buddhist-themed ones, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.

Horseshit

• BMW is now charging $18 per month for heated seats in some countries

• Dystopian doorbells: how the_ door buzzer turned into mass surveillance network

• Gen Z hates working from home

• A Bored Chinese Housewife Spent Years Falsifying Russian History on Wikipedia

celebrity gossip

• Apple ends Johny Ive cooperation

• Gates Foundation Announces Aim to Increase Annual Payout by 50%

Rank Propaganda / Thought Policing / World Disordering

• Land acknowledgements are performative bullsh*t

• The Secret of Jason Stanley's Fascist Spectrum

• In a Post-Roe World, the Future of Digital Privacy Looks Even Grimmer

• SCOTUS judges 'doxxed' after overturning Roe vs. Wade

Jan6

• Jan. 6 Committee Lays Out Donald Trump's Plot to Steal Election

• Congress Has Roger Stone’s Encrypted Chats with Proud Boys and Oath Keepers

Gun control / Mass shooting

• 1997 Was the Dawn of the Modern School Shooting

• The awful Uvalde surveillance video.

• Now Uvalde mayor attacks the MEDIA: Slams 'chicken' leak of school shooting video | Daily Mail Online

• Uvalde Mayor Calls Media 'Chicken'

• New Uvalde Footage Shows How Police Responded To Mass Shooting

Musk

• Twitter Sues Musk After He Tries Backing Out of $44B Deal

• Twitter Officially Sues Musk To Force Deal Completion

• Twitter takes Elon Musk to court

• Twitter Sues Elon Musk over Attempt to Walk Away from $44B Deal

• Twitter sues Elon Musk to hold him to $44B merger

• Twitter Lawyers Say They Can Prevail over Musk in Just Four Days

• Musk's politics trigger strong reactions from Tesla customer

  Driving a Tesla has long been a way for consumers to signal values on the environment and sustainability.

• Twitter Sues Elon Musk

  • HN comments

• 15 Revelations in Twitter’s Suit Against Elon Musk

• Twitter unlikely to prevail against Elon Musk

• Twitter shares rise about 6% after Hindenburg Research takes long position

• Why Elon Musk Can’t Back Out of Buying Twitter, According to Twitter

Uber

• Uber paid academics up to $100k for research for positive media coverage

Pestilence / Pox / COVID / VaxCult

• Shanghai Covid Outbreak Grows as First Sub-Variant Case Detected

• Researchers face wait for patient level data from Pfizer and Moderna trials

• Masks for COVID: Updating the evidence · fast.ai

• Oregon spent $2.4M on a Covid-19 vaccine app few are using

• Fauci Admits Vaccines Don't Protect "Overly Well" Against COVID Infection

• Emails Confirm Why CDC Changed Definitions Of Vaccine, Vaccinated

  “The definition of vaccine we have posted is problematic and people are using it to claim the COVID-19 vaccine is not a vaccine based on our own definition,” Alycia Downs, a CDC official, wrote in an email on Aug. 25, 2021, to a colleague.

• BA.5: The ‘worst variant’ is here

• Charter not violated in denying transplant to patient who refused Covid vaccine

Culture War / Tribal / Re segregation

• Glaad: Social media networks fail to protect LGBTQ users

Edumacationalizing / Acedemia Nuts

• The Quiet Fight to Keep Legacy Admissions

• Questions for Pure Environmentalists

Media / ShowBiz / Advertising

• News engagement plummets as Americans tune out

  Cable viewership across the three major cable news networks — CNN, Fox News and MSNBC — is, on average, down 19% in prime time for the first half of this year compared to the first half of 2021.

  • HN comments

• Why Netflix’s Loss of Licensed Titles Could Spark a Content Crisis

• Hollywood won't budge for Chinese censors anymore. Here's what changed

• Netflix Partners with Microsoft to Launch Advertising-Supported Plan

  • Netflix names Microsoft as partner for new consumer subscription plan

TechSuck

• Native Python support for units?

• I made a Google sheet of local elections and it's been removed from Google Drive | Hacker News

Crypto con games

• The amateur investors ruined by the crypto crash

• Three Arrows Capital Blew Up and Set Off a Crypto Contagion

• Celsius: how one of crypto’s biggest lenders ground to a halt

• The Lightning Network: Turning Bitcoin into Money | Hacker News

• The biggest Bitcoin fund is on sale

Economicon / Business / Finance

• Canary In The Car Mine: Repos From Auto Loans That Originated In 2020 And 2021 Are Skyrocketing | ZeroHedge

• There’s No US Recession Until an Obscure Panel of ‘Eggheads’ Says It Is So

• Google slowing hiring to “technical and critical roles” only

  • Google to Slow Hiring for Rest of This Year

• Tesla laying off 229 Autopilot workers, shuttering San Mateo office

• Rivian to address layoffs at Friday meeting, Tesla to cut 229 jobs

• Container Rates Slump As "Bullwhip Effect" Enters Terminal Phase

• Cathie Wood: ‘We believe the Fed has been making a mistake’

• Truckers plan LA/Long Beach work stoppage Wednesday to protest AB5

  • HN comments

• JPMorgan Gold Desk Ripped Off Market for Years, Jurors Told

• Inflation rose 9.1% in June, even more than expected

  • HN comments

  • US Inflation Quickens to 9.1%, Amping Up Fed Pressure to Go Big

  • U.S. Inflation Hits New Four-Decade High of 9.1%

• US Consumer Prices Soared In June, Americans' Real Wages Fall For 15th Straight Month

• Bank of America says U.S. will fall into ‘mild recession’ this year

• ‘Golden era’ of cheap food over as two in five Britons buy less to eat

• Rising prices: why the global drive to keep food cheap is unsustainable

• Energy prices up 41% over past 12 months

• Campbell's Soup to See Third Wave of Price Increases

Shortages

• "Staffing shortages" London's Heathrow Airport Caps Daily Passengers At 100,000 | ZeroHedge

Gubmint / Poilitcks / Law Making

• FTC committed to enforcing law against illegal use, sharing of sensitive data

  • HN comments

• No, Ron DeSantis Isn’t Worse than Trump.

Hunter

• Ron Johnson Details 'Enormous Coverup' Going on by Admin Over Hunter Biden – RedState

Law Breaking / Police / Internal Security

• Starbucks closes 16 stores LA, Seattle, others: 'challenging incidents'

  • Starbucks Closing 16 Stores In "Crime Ridden Cities" Is It Union Busting? - The Lid

• Amazon Admits Giving Police Ring Footage Without Consent

  • HN comments

External Security / Militaria / Diplomania

• US Navy Super-hornet blown overboard

• NYC releases PSA for residents in the event of a nuclear attack

• US Touts Killing Of Previously Unknown "Leader Of ISIS" As Biden's Mideast Trip Kicks Off

• John Bolton admits to planning attempted foreign coups

  • John Bolton says he helped plan foreign coups

World

• Sri Lanka is having a textbook currency crisis, triggered by policy mistakes

  • HN comments

Health / Medicine

• Results of the Potato Diet Community Trial

• France to cut nitrites in food after agency confirms cancer risk

• NYC releases PSA for residents in the event of a nuclear attack

• One in every 30 kids in US has autism – a 50% jump from 2017

• Why did Lentil Crumbles make people sick?

  The tara theory is gaining traction and is supported by the fact that a smoothie from a different company Revive SuperFoods, which also contains tara, is allegedly causing similar severe illnesses.

• Two pig heart transplants succeed in brain-dead recipients

Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda

• Study on how much less older members of Parliament care about climate change

• CDC finds toxic weedkiller in 87 percent of children tested

Ukraine War

• How Europe Became So Dependent on Putin for Its Gas

• Iran to send hundreds of drones to Russia for use in Ukraine

• The World Braces For Europe's July 22 "Doomsday"

• Two exhausted armies battling for eastern Ukraine. Can there be a decisive blow?

• A nerdy group of misfits’: the US company behind Ukraine’s ‘kamikaze’ drones

• Ukraine Strike on Russian Air-Defense Unit Shows Impact of New Weapons from West

• The fiscal angle to the Ukraine war is undercovered

  The fiscal strains are showing more broadly. Naftogaz, the state-owned energy company, on Tuesday asked holders of $1.5bn of its bonds to accept a delay in payments as it seeks to preserve cash for purchasing gas. It would amount to the first default by a Ukrainian state entity since the war began.