2022-07-15

Worthy

• Logistics, How Did They Do It: The Problem

• Highlights from the memoirs of Vannevar Bush

etc

• Human composting is now legal in Oregon

• Why elephants so rarely get cancer

• Why Wasn't the Steam Engine Invented Earlier? Part II

  • HN comments

• Empire Burlesque - What comes after the American Century?

• Elephant rescued with CPR as man jumps up and down on her chest.

• The pecking order of the world’s population is soon to change

• How a Doctor Killed the Baroque Era - by Ted Gioia

  • HN comments

Horseshit

• Is Monogamy Morally Wrong?

• Smart thermostats inadvertently strain electric power grids

  • HN comments

• Raspberries for Cauliflower? The Bizarre World of Online Grocery Substitutions

• Microsoft is a Linux and open source company these days

• Airbnb’s new mechanism to report listings violating HOA or city guidelines

• New York City Is a Lot Safer Than Small-Town America

• Jim Thorpe reinstated as sole winner of 1912 Olympic gold medals

• Nobody wants to be in the office on Fridays

celebrity gossip

• Bill Gates pledges to donate ‘virtually all’ of $113bn fortune to his foundation

Obit

• Ivana Trump, ex-wife of former President Trump, dies at age 73

  • Here are the classy ways leftists responded to the passing of Trump's ex-wife | Not the Bee

Rank Propaganda / Thought Policing / World Disordering

• The Supreme Court Has Ushered in a New Era of Religion at School

• The War Economy - by Noah Smith - Noahpinion

  this doesn’t mean we shouldn’t reorganize our economy around a generational struggle against climate change. We absolutely should, especially because this would also deliver us cheap abundant energy. But we’re simply not going to do it, at least not until it’s too late. That’s the problem with political economy — it’s a delicate dance between technocratic objectives and popular buy-in. (Of course we still do need to fight climate change, which is very real and extremely scary. But this will have to be accomplished through means other than a Green New Deal. I’ll write more about what the Plan B will be, but this post will give you the basic idea — basically it’ll be more like guerrilla warfare than a big push.)

Jan6

• Secret Service Deleted Jan 6 Text Messages After Officials Requested Them

• Inspector General: Secret Service Deleted Text Messages Around January 6

Abortion

• Senate bill to guarantee freedom to travel across states for abortions blocked

• Texas Sues Biden Administration over Access to Emergency Medical Abortions

• Mother of 10-Year-Old Ohio Girl Says Rape Accusations Against Alleged Assailant Are a ‘Lie’ – RedState

• House passes bill to protect interstate travel for abortions

Musk

• Musk boasted of 0 'self-driving' Tesla crashes while data shows 8

• Judge in Twitter vs. Musk made rare ruling: ordering a deal to close

• Elon Musk's 76-year-old dad had a child with step-daughter

• Tesla is to protect life on Earth, SpaceX to extend life beyond

• Like Father Like Son: Elon Musk’s Dad Has Secret Second Kid with Stepdaughter

Pestilence / Pox / COVID / VaxCult

• Elected official conducted 'brute force attack' on Alberta vaccine records site

• The radical plan for vaccine equity

• People With Long COVID Are Traveling Overseas For Expensive ‘Bloodwashing’ Treatments.

  • Long Covid patients travel abroad for expensive and experimental “blood washing”

• The Pandemic Fueled a Superbug Surge. Can Medicine Recover?

• A new dominant Omicron strain in the U.S. is driving up Cases – and Reinfections

• Omicron-Specific Covid Boosters Are Coming

• Researchers at Boston hospitals may have found a biomarker for long Covid

• One coronavirus infection wards off another – but only if it’s a similar variant

• More than 260,000 Troops Not Fully Vaccinated, Many Face Discharge.

• Chinese Zero Covid was always a lie

Culture War / Tribal / Re segregation

• The Other Cancel Culture

Edumacationalizing / Acedemia Nuts

• College misled them on job prospects and loaded them up with debt

• Elite Colleges’ Quiet Fight to Favor Alumni Children

Media / ShowBiz / Advertising

• Elliott Management has acquired a stake of over 9% in Pinterest

• Facebook to allow up to five profiles tied to one account

• ‘Our entire industry is dying’: In esports media, layoff season is in full swing

  • HN comments

• Wordle board game to launch in October

TechSuck

• SpaceX and Dish’s Super-Shady War for the World

• FCC chair proposes new US broadband standard of 100Mbps down, 20Mbps up

Crypto con games

• NFT marketplace OpenSea lays off 20 percent of its staff

  • NFT Marketplace OpenSea to Lay Off 20% of Employees

• Celsius Bankruptcy Filing Shows Long Reach of FTX's Sam Bankman-Fried

• Bitcoin requires immense amounts of energy. Here’s why there’s a cypto backlash

• Bankrupt crypto firm Celsius’s biggest creditor linked to FTX's Sam BankmanFried

• Celsius acknowledges $1.2B hole in balance sheet

  • HN comments

• Circle discloses full breakdown of $55.7B USDC reserves

  • HN comments

• Crypto Collapse: Celsius, Voyager, 3AC CryptoDickButt

• Coinbase May Drop from Ranks of Top Crypto Exchanges as Volume Falls

• Cryptocurrency flowing into “mixers” hits an all-time high

• Why Bitcoin Will Fail

• You’ve Been Served via NFT: British Court Gives OK to Sue on Blockchain

• Biggest Cryptominers in the U.S. Use as Much Power as Houston, Findings Show

• Black Wealth Could Be on the Rise with Progressive Cryptocurrency Investors

Economicon / Business / Finance

• America’s freight railroads are incredibly chaotic

• US venture capitalists have never had so much spare cash

• A truly massive interest rate hike is now on the table

• What We Can Learn from Past U.S. Recessions

• Amazon Has Been Slashing Private-Label Selection Amid Weak Sales

• Lean Out: Employees Are Accepting Lower Pay in Order to Work Remotely

• JPMorgan Chase earnings fell 28% after building reserves for bad loans

• Wholesale inflation surges 11.3% in June, accelerating more than expected.

• Shopify cancels fall internships, pauses recruiting for further roles

• How the Fed ended the last great American inflation – and how much it hurt

• Satellites give clues about the coming global harvest

Shortages

• A coming copper shortage could derail the energy transition, report finds

  • Can Reengineered Aluminum Help Fill the Demand for Copper?

  • Copper shortage keep green energy, tech ventures grounded

• Baby-Formula Shortage Deepens, Defying Replenishment Efforts

Gubmint / Poilitcks / Law Making

• The Democrats need to wake up and stop pandering to their extremes

  • HN comments

• US House Passes Crew Mandate Called ‘Gut Punch’ to Offshore Wind

• Leave campaign emails in spam, FEC commenters demand

• Manchin Pulls Plug on Climate and Taxes

Hunter

• We Now Know Who 'Pedo Peter' on Hunter Biden's iPad Is, and I Have Serious Questions – PJ Media

  Breitbart News has learned that Pedo Peter is the name assigned to his 17-year-old niece, Natalie Biden—the daughter of his late brother Beau, and of Hallie Biden, Beau’s widow, with whom Hunter had a romantic relationship after Beau’s passing.

• Manchin Shuts Down Latest Plans For New Tax Hikes, Climate Spending | ZeroHedge

Law Breaking / Police / Internal Security

• DOJ expected to file antitrust lawsuit against Google in weeks

• Amazon finally admits giving cops Ring doorbell data without user consent

• Jury Finds Former CIA Programmer Guilty of Leaking CIA Hacking Materials | Hacker News

External Security / Militaria / Diplomania

• Drunken scooter incidents lead to restrictions for Army unit in Germany

• Mexico's President urges Biden to normalize migrant workforce during visit

• Biden Fist Bumps 'Killer' Crown Prince, Avoids All Press Contact In Saudi Arabia

• Biden says the U.S. will work to improve Palestinians' lives

World

• Man acquitted of bombing 1985 Air India plane shot dead in Canada

• The Guardian view on ambulance waiting times: signs of a collapsing NHS

• Germany's Energy Catastrophe

  • HN comments

• Looming Natural Gas Shortages Has the EU Scrambling for Solutions

  • HN comments

  • 2018 Trump draws laughter by warning of dependence on Russian energy

• China's economy contracts in Q2, global risks darken outlook

• A Frozen Document in China Unleashes a Furor over Privacy

• Four Hong Kong men arrested while trying to flee to Taiwan

• Deutsche Bank Now Modeling German Households Chopping Wood To Keep Warm This Winter

  the punchline is when DB contemplates possible "substitution for gas" by other energy sources - the bank lists hard coal and lignite in the power sector, as for private households, it predicts that "wood will be used for heating purposes where possible," while industries will switch to oil derivatives, all of which contributes to lower gas demand.

• What Energy Crisis? Swedish Reactors Cut Output as Prices Plunge

• Dmitry Rogozin has been dismissed as director general of Roscosmos

  • HN comments

• Saudis double importing of Russian fuel as they prepare to join BRICS

• German soldier found guilty of planning terror attacks posing as a refugee

Health / Medicine

• Lentils from Hell: Daily Harvest Victims Say They Have Expensive Medical Bills

• Alcohol is never good for people under 40, global study finds

• Why Does Everyone Have IBS?

• Study: Even 2 to 3 beers a week may cause brain changes, cognitive decline

• It costs $20,000 to give birth in the US, study finds.

• People with low BMI aren't more active, they are just less hungry, 'run hotter'

Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda

• Fake filet, wood credit cards: Inside Europe's largest climate tech VC fund

• Polar bears are interbreeding with grizzlies–and it may be their only hope

• Can Bristlecone Pines Survive Climate Change?

• How the World’s Richest People Are Driving Global Warming

• The Startups Predicting Climate Risk for Bond Investors

• The metaverse will solve climate change

• In a Twist, Old Coal Plants Help Deliver Renewable Power

• US support for environmental policies fading as political gap remains huge

• London braces for first-ever extreme heat red warning

  • National emergency declared after UK's first red extreme heat warning

• Headline from Marginal Revolution, vexed aint they: Why so few excess deaths from the heat waves in India and Pakistan?

Ukraine War

• Ukraine's new US rockets are causing fresh problems for Russia

• Shorten the war. Send 60 HIMARS to Ukraine

• Western allies puzzled by Hungary’s mild reaction to Russian hacking

• NASA, Russian space agency sign deal to share space station flights – Roscosmos

• List Of Destroyed Russian Ammo Depots With Visual Confirmation