2022-07-14

Worthy

• (April 2022) Heresy

etc

• Smart thermostat swarms are straining the US energy grid

• Arrests Made in South Africa Tavern Deaths

• Newton Minow on the First Telecommunications Satellite | Features | Roger Ebert

• This Is Why You Can't Eat Just Any Leaf - Urbo

  Why are there more than a thousand species of plants with edible leaves and I’ve only tried six of them?

• Con-Fusion | Lorenzo Venneri

• Van Gogh self-portrait discovered behind earlier painting

• It's Not Working - Kunstler

  New building codes forbid his company from replacing the kind of batteries I have, which are standard “sealed cell” lead-acid batteries. Some bullshit about off-gassing flammable fumes. Now the government requires lithium batteries, which would cost me sixteen-thousand dollars ($16-K) more to replace than new lead-acid batteries.

• Delta flies a plane with 1k stranded bags and no passengers from Heathrow Air

Horseshit

• What Do Female Incels Want?

• Constant Scam Attempts Are Impacting Our Mental Health

• All History Is Revisionist History

  • HN comments

• There is no objective history of video games

• Astrophysicist Paul Sutter explains the world’s seeming lack of trust in science

• People are falling off buildings in search of the perfect Instagram shot

• Brewery serves up refreshing take on hurricane preparedness - UPI.com

celebrity gossip

• Bill gives $20bn to his charity

Rank Propaganda / Thought Policing / World Disordering

• What do I think about network states?

• Why Are Elon Musk and Marc Andreesen Obsessed with Birth Rates?

• The Supreme Court’s Role in the Degradation of U.S. Democracy

• Johnstone: Three Illuminating Quotes About The War In Ukraine | ZeroHedge

• Control the Metal, Control the World - by Ryan McEntush

• GAR2022 – UN warns about societal collapse

Gun control / Mass shooting

• Officers involved in the Uvalde massacre may never face consequences because of a web of rules and competing interests

• Whoopi Goldberg Rages Over Uvalde Police Video—but Spits at the Media

Jan6

• Jan. 6 committee says DOJ will decide if alleged Trump call to witness broke the law

• Donald Trump Is Even More Unhinged Than We Thought

• NYT: ‘It’s just been hell’ for Ray Epps over the past 10 months thanks to right-wing media figures

• Leaked DOJ Docs: FBI Informant Says Proud Boys Did Not Plan to Enter Capitol, Were There to Protect Trump Supporters.

Musk

• Elon Musk fans can’t handle the truth

• The lawyerly fun of Twitter's complaint against Elon Musk

• Three takeaways from Twitter's suit against Elon Musk

• Musk claps back at MSNBC after anchor slams him over Hunter Biden meme

• Twitter Still Wants Musk’s Money

• Twitter’s Lawsuit Against Elon Musk Looks Like a Loser.

• Twitter experiences longest global outage in years

  • Twitter suffers global outage at delicate moment for the company

• Has Elon Musk Already Ruined Twitter?

• Elon Musk Is a ‘Nightmare Client’

• Twitter stock price target boosted 53% as skepticism has ‘flipped’ on Musk

• In Newly Disclosed Letter, SEC Presses For Answers From Elon Musk On Twitter 13D Disclosures

• SEC scrutinises Musk ‘cannot move forward’ tweet over Twitter takeover bid

Abortion

• ‘Have you recently had an abortion?’ Australian transiting through US questioned

• They "Should Never Know Peace Again": Harvard Instructor Calls For People To "Accost" Justices In Public

• Illegal Alien Arrested in Rape of 10-Year-Old Abortion Patient, but Questions Remain – PJ Media

  • Jesse Watters Suggested 10-Year-Old Rape Victim’s Abortion Was a ‘Hoax’ Before Arrest

  • Man arrested for rape of 10-year-old forced to travel to Indiana for an abortion

  • More Fallout for Democrats From 10-Year-Old Rape Victim Story – PJ Media

• ‘Frustrated’ young women are trying to get sterilized after overturning of Roe.

Pestilence / Pox / COVID / VaxCult

• Are the Russian Covid-vaccine results accurate?

• FDA Authorizes Emergency Use of Novavax Covid-19 Vaccine, Adjuvanted

  • Novavax Covid-19 vaccine wins FDA authorization

  • FDA gives emergency use authorization to Novavax's Covid-19 vaccine

• Incidence and risk factors of myocarditis following Covid-19 vaccination

• How Worried Should You Be About Omicron BA.5?

• The Feds Pile Up Vaccine 'Adverse Event' Reports as They Decry Scaremongering Elsewhere | RealClearInvestigations

• Macron's Minority Government Defeated on Vaccine Passports

Edumacationalizing / Acedemia Nuts

• Tennessee gov: School voucher program to start immediately.

Media / ShowBiz / Advertising

• Netflix with Ads Is Coming

• The Ex-CIA Agents Deciding the Facebook's Content Policy

TechSuck

• Texas is now too hot for Bitcoin mining

• Lessons from History: The 1990s Semiconductor Cycle(s)

Crypto con games

• NY judge freezes assets of Three Arrows Capital as crypto founders remain hidden

• Celsius informs state regulators that it’s filing for bankruptcy ‘imminently,’

• Crypto Crash Drags Lender Celsius Network into Bankruptcy

• Hope for depositors dwindles as crypto lender Celsius files for bankruptcy

• The Explicit Choice by the SEC Not to Regulate Crypto

• ECB Says Bitcoin Ban “Probable” Due to Climate Concerns

• “Today is a hard day for OpenSea, as we’re letting go of ~20% of our team.”

Economicon / Business / Finance

• SF-based Peloton rival Tonal lays off more than a third of its workforce

• Bank of Canada hikes rate to 2.5%

• Free Pizza Didn’t Get Employees Back to the Office, but Air Conditioning Will

• Manhattan rents cross $5k threshold for first time

  • HN comments

• "a mild recession" - The Reformed Broker

• Uber sued by 550 women over sexual assault claims

• The Housing Shortage Isn’t Just a Coastal Crisis Anymore

• U.S. Electric Car Sales Climb Sharply Despite Shortages

• Renters in Greater Boston are offering above asking price to get a lease

• Stripe Cuts Internal Valuation by 28%

• Oil prices tumble more than $4 ahead of potential large U.S. rate hike

• Producer price index June 2022: Gain 11.3% on surge in energy costs

• Producer prices jump over 11% in June, more than expected | Seeking Alpha

• U.S. Producer Price Index Jumps More Than Expected In June.

Shortages

• Wheat alternatives to combat the food crisis

• Baby-Formula Shortage Deepens, Defying Replenishment Efforts - WSJ

Gubmint / Poilitcks / Law Making

• Poll: Just 18% of Americans say Biden should run for reelection – a new low

• The Semiconductor Problem

• Cataloguing Biden’s Ineptitude On Inflation – Issues & Insights

• AOC Freaks out Over Being Trolled in Public Days After Defending Harassment of Justice Kavanaugh – RedState

  it’s totally cool for protesters to harass a Supreme Court justice in public, causing him to have to escape out the backdoor of a restaurant. That’s just democracy in action, and AOC is all for that. In fact, she’s so for it that she’ll make fun of anyone who complains about it. But if a comedian makes jokes about her on the Capitol steps, she wants law enforcement to arrest the guy while she becomes enraged at the fact that that type of public protest is even allowed.

  • Ocasio-Cortez Says She Was Going To Physically Assault Comedian Who Commented On Her Body | The Daily Caller

• The media bail on Biden

Law Breaking / Police / Internal Security

• Tenderloin drug crackdown: Here’s what D.A. Brooke Jenkins plans to do

• Former CIA Employee Convicted of Leak

  • Ex-CIA coder behind WikiLeaks ‘Vault 7’ cache found guilty of espionage

• Tech CEO charged for 1992 Murder

  • DNA evidence links tech company CEO to 1992 killing of roommate’s girlfriend

• What’s Going on in Those Police Fentanyl Exposure Videos?

• NYC, Chicago Waste Millions on Gunshot Detection Technology, Report Says

• Host at leftist Portland radio station arrested for trafficking and rape of Canadian child | The Post Millennial

External Security / Militaria / Diplomania

• US Warns China It Will Defend Philippines In The South China Sea | ZeroHedge

• Senate must back creation of ‘Space National Guard’ to end a needless division

World

• China On Verge Of Violent Debt Jubilee As "Disgruntled" Homebuyers Refuse To Pay Their Mortgages

Health / Medicine

• FDA Warns Four Companies for Selling Tainted Honey-based Products with Hidden Active Drug Ingredients | FDA

Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda

• Nearly $2tn of damage inflicted on other countries by US emissions

• The Chemistry of Refrigerants

• Why Dutch farmers are beholden to unreachable nitrogen emission goals

• Saskatchewan, Ontario to roll out mini-nuclear reactors

  • HN comments

• In ominous sign for global warming, feedback loop accelerating methane emissions

• NRC issues final EIS on New Mexico used fuel facility

• Tyre extinguishers: Who are the they and why are they deflating SUV tyres?

Ukraine War

• Lego closes Russia business indefinitely, lays off 90 staff

• Russian “hacktivists” are causing trouble far beyond Ukraine

• Lithuania To Allow Rail Transit Of Russian Goods After EU Reaches Compromise On Kaliningrad

• Ukraine’s new rockets are wreaking havoc on Russia’s army