2022-07-18

Worthy

• Political Activism: What's the Point? - by Michael Huemer

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• (May 2022) The Great Dumbening - by Jeff Maurer - I Might Be Wrong

  As many people have pointed out: This trend is clearly not liberal. Liberalism values things like free speech, individual rights, and due process. This new movement sees free speech as a fig leaf for white supremacy, focuses on group outcomes at the expense of individual rights, and replaces due process with Twitter Justice, the only form of justice that makes trial by monkey seem rational and fair. This movement is liberal the way that Blue Velvet is a kid’s movie.

  I think the bottom line is that this movement is not defined by finding solutions to problems; it’s defined by performative flailing against perceived enemies. Every issue I listed above is a crusade against someone or something on the lefty enemies list, be it greedy developers, evil corporations, or the omnipresent “white supremacy”. The fact that the impacts of this movement’s actions would often hurt the disadvantaged doesn’t seem to phase its believers. And I think that’s telling: They don’t look beyond the glorious fight against their evil enemies, because the glorious fight is the end goal.

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• How Urban Legend Destroyed the Ball Pit - by Meghan Boilard

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• Ask HN: Is having a personal blog/brand worth it for you?

• Crimes against Transhumanity - Charlie's Diary

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Horseshit

• One roommate is 85, the other is 27. Such arrangements are growing

• Tesla to Integrate Valve’s Steam

• Florida Has Made Blasting Music in the Car a Ticketable Offense

• 'I want your Instagram account': a deadly campaign over coveted handles

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• The Super Spikes Era Has Brought a Boom in Four-Minute Miles

• Psychics and Tarot Readers Are Under Siege by Instagram Scammers

• (2019) 40% of Americans believe the Earth was created within the last 10k years

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• Three-quarters of UK adults can’t read a map

• The Changing Landscape of Eating Roadkill

Obit

• SF author Eric Flint has died

  • Baen Books tweet

Rank Propaganda / Thought Policing / World Disordering

• The European Commission’s disinformation fail

• How the Media Polarized Us

• Broken and distrusting: why Americans are pulling away from the daily news

• all their data seems to end at 2019: Republican Counties: Higher Death Rates Than Democratic Counties

• AP stylebook new guidance avoids “assault rifle” as it “convey little meaning”

• The Hypocrisy of Elites - by Erik Torenberg

Jan6

• What Is Adam Schiff Hiding? | ZeroHedge

Gun control / Mass shooting

• Texas shooting: Uvalde report finds 'systemic failures' by authorities

• Nearly 400 officers were in Uvalde before the gunman was killed, a new report finds

• 376 Cops: New Report Shows Absurd Scale of Police Mistakes at Uvalde Shooting

• Bodycam Video, Report Exposes "Systemic, Egregious" Law Enforcement Failures In Uvalde School Mass Shooting | ZeroHedge

• Texas House investigative committee releases Uvalde school shooting report

• Uvalde gunman gave multiple hints of school shooting, report says | The Texas Tribune

• BREAKING: Good Guy With Gun Takes out Shooter in Indiana Mall Shooting – RedState

  • Greenwood Park Mall shooting: 3 people killed and 2 injured in Indiana - CNN

  • Mass Shooter At Indiana Mall Killed By Armed "Good Samaritan" Civilian

Musk

• ‘Love me tender’: how Musk wooed Twitter, only to leave it at the altar

• Judge in Musk vs. Twitter Trial May Be Musk's Worst Nightmare

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• Elon Musk has reason to worry about the judge set to rule on Twitter lawsuit

• Twitter's global agenda, with or without Musk

• Elon Wants to Fight the Bots

• Elon Musk asks court to delay Twitter trial start to February 2023

Abortion

• Australian Woman Asked About Abortion by US Border Official

• What I learned trying to classify abortion access across the rich world

  How should this change be contextualized? Well, previously abortion was available on-demand in Florida for 24 weeks, equivalent to the most permissive countries like the Netherlands, Singapore, or some parts of Canada. It’s now more restricted but is still broader than countries that restrict abortion earlier than the 15th week, like France, Germany, Spain, Belgium, Ireland, Greece, Austria, Portugal, or Italy. (Although Florida has fewer exceptions than most of these places after the on-demand period.)

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• The Indy Star Star Got Something Very Wrong in 10-Year-Old Rape Victim Story, Report Shows – PJ Media

Pestilence / Pox / COVID / VaxCult

• Trump aide claims Covid 'came out of the box ready to infect' | Daily Mail Online

• Dr. Birx Praises Herself While Revealing Ignorance, Treachery, and Deceit ⋆ Brownstone Institute

• A Thousand Times Greater Than the Chernobyl Nuclear Disaster, by Ron Unz - The Unz Review

  The absolutely unmentionable subtext of the current discussion is the obvious possibility that the Covid virus was created in an American lab and then deliberately deployed against China and Iran just as the Iranian government had claimed at the time, eventually leaking back and devastating America and the rest of the West.

• Alarm in Beijing after announcement zero-Covid policy may last five years

• Trends in menstrual bleeding changes after SARS-CoV-2 vaccination

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• US COVID Cases Climb as Regulator Approves New Vaccine

• BA.5 doesn’t care that you just had Covid-19

• When Will the BA.5 Wave End?

• Vaccine protection against COVID-19 short-lived, booster shots important, new study says.

• Stunning official Canadian data show vaccines now RAISE the risk of death from Covid

• Military Deaths Need Closer Examination - by Chris Bray

• Watch: As Mask Mandate Looms, LA Hospital Officials Mock COVID "Media Hype" | ZeroHedge

• Association Between Menstrual Cycle Length and Covid-19 Vaccination

• The World Economy Is Imperiled by a Force Hiding in Plain Sight: Covid

• In survey, COVID-19 vaccine recipients report changes in menstrual bleeding.

• Fauci to retire by the end of Biden’s term

Culture War / Tribal / Re segregation

• Leftist Woke Culture Policing Dog Names - The Lid

• Tech companies need to do more to protect LGBTQ users online, GLAAD report says

Edumacationalizing / Acedemia Nuts

• How to Fix the Bias Against Free Speech on Campus

• Thread: NYC schools projecting enrollment losses of 30k students this Fall

• Federal Judge Temporarily Blocks Enforcement of L.g.b.t.q. Protections

Media / ShowBiz / Advertising

• Ask HN: Has YouTube peaked?

• Tell HN: Internet Archive is facing a Big 4 Publishers lawsuit

TechSuck

• Running WordPerfect for Unix on Modern Linux

• SIM Cards Are Going Away. Why That’s a Good Thing

• Speaker firmware upgrade goes wrong: Latest Soundboks firmware cuts the performance of their speakers by half | Hacker News

• SATAn: Air-Gap Exfiltration Attack via Radio Signals from SATA Cables

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  We transmitted the data with a bit rate of 1 bit/sec, which is shown to be the minimal time to generate a signal which is strong enough for modulation. The BER for PC-1 is presented in Table VI. As can be seen, the BER of 1% - 5% is maintained between 0 - 90 cm. With a greater distance of 120 cm, the BER is significantly higher and reaches 15%. With PC-2 and PC-3, the bit error rates (BER) are less than 5% only in short proximity up to 30 cm, and hence the attack is relevant only for short ranges in these computers.

Crypto con games

• Russia is banning crypto payments

• Police Shut Down the AEX Crypto Exchange

  • Announcement on Suspension of Platform Services

• OpenSea layoffs: NFT platform to cut workforce by 20% over 'crypto winter'

• Dutch central bank fines Binance in blow to exchange’s European push

• Cryptocurrency “market caps” and notional value

• Crypto miners aren't honest about power use – time for a crackdown

• Spot Bitcoin ETF approval hinges on big ask

Economicon / Business / Finance

• Niall Ferguson: Nobody Knows How Long Inflation Will Last. That’s Life

• The World Economy Is Imperiled by a Force Hiding in Plain Sight

• Electric Car Sales Climb Sharply Despite Shortages

• Wheat is trading below where it was when the Ukraine war started

• Carvana Sought to Disrupt Auto Sales. It Delivered Undriveable Cars.

• Carvana pressured to cut costs amid waning used-car demand

• Pioneering Economist Says Our Obsession with Growth Must End

• Wall Street titans share views on globalization, pandemic and American dream

• Half a trillion dollars wiped from once high-flying fintechs

• UK supermarket scraps 'best before' dates on fruit and veg to cut food waste

• The speedy downfall of rapid delivery startups

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• Microsoft president sees 'new era' of stagnating labor pool

• Apple Plans to Slow Hiring and Spending for Some Teams Next Year

Shortages

• ‘Things are going to break’: Texas power plants are running nonstop

Gubmint / Poilitcks / Law Making

• Chicago’s decision to tie property taxes to inflation may result in mammoth bill

• As a 76-year-old let me say: Joe Biden is too old to run again: Robert Reich

• Glenn Greenwald explains media shift against Biden: ‘Democrats are petrified’ he’s going to run again.

• The Wreck of Bidenomics

  here’s a third big reason Bidenomics failed, and it’s that substantial parts of the program didn’t actually address the needs of the nation as much as I thought they would. As the British say, key elements of Bidenomics turned out not to be “fit for purpose”.

Hunter

• Hunter And Joe Biden Had Pattern Of Post-Travel Meetings

Law Breaking / Police / Internal Security

• People Aren’t Stopping for Washington State Police

• Police: Charlotte comedy club empties before man fires gun

• $150m in jewelry stolen from armored truck in California

• Homeland Security records show 'shocking' use of phone data, ACLU says

External Security / Militaria / Diplomania

• First Woman Blue Angels Jet Demonstration Pilot Selected

• Pentagon finalizing deal worth $30B with Lockheed for 375 F35’s

World

• Filipinos are buying books to preserve the truth about the Marcos regime

• German Government Lied About Nuclear

• Russia's Gazprom declares force majeure on some gas supplies to Europe

  • Gazprom Declares Force Majeure, Will Halt Gas Flows To Germany Indefinitely

• China Is Pariah for Global Investors as Xi’s Policies Backfire

• Why Are People Across China Refusing to Pay Their Mortgages? What to Know So Far.

• China once saw Europe as a counter to US power. Now ties are at an abysmal low

Health / Medicine

• Taking the Magic Out of Magic Mushrooms

Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda

• Research finds Atlantic plankton all but wiped out in catastrophic loss of life

• Nights are warming faster than days as Earth heats up

• Hammersmith Bridge wrapped in foil during heatwave

• Britain has declared a national emergency because of the heat

• Heatwave across Europe: Warnings of 'heat apocalypse' in France

• The terrifying truth: Britain’s a hothouse, but one day 40C will seem cool

• Humanity faces ‘collective suicide’ over climate crisis, warns UN chief

• Germany Breaks Solar Record as Heat Wave Sears Western Europe

• Iceland’s forest cover has increased sixfold since 1990

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• RAF Cranwell 'halts flights' as tarmac melts in UK heatwave

• India is reinventing its energy strategy–and the climate may depend on it

• Britain on course for hottest day on record

Ukraine War

• Brittney Griner turned her back on America and sold out to Putin. Now she wants to come home.

• Putin's next (and final) gamble to break Ukraine's resistance

• Ukraine's President Fires Spy Chief After 'Russian Infiltration'