2022-07-20

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• 'No Risk To Power Grid' - US Govt Says After Explosion At Hoover Dam

• What the future holds for NASA's aging Voyager spacecraft

• The Home Computer Generation | Hacker News

• Hoover Dam Explosion Cause Determined to Be Blown Transformer

• What Happens When a Reservoir Goes Dry? — Practical Engineering

  • HN comments

• Amazon sues more than 11,000 Facebook groups that brokered fake online reviews

• Trinkets of Frivolous Utility

• Read NASA’s Internal Discussions of UFOs in Newly Released Documents

Horseshit

• Behold Your $20k Trash Cans Have Arrived in SF and Are Now at Your Disposal

• Paywalled, but "Sri Lanka and MMT" elevates it: Nutty macroeconomic theories will ruin your country's economy

  Because macroeconomics is still in its relative infancy, this can cause people to turn to wacky alternatives. Seductive peddlers of heterodox theories often claim that their paradigm offers the certitude and perfection that mainstream ideas lack. Leaders anxious for a quick and easy way out of an economic crisis will occasionally commit to one of these wacky alternatives out of wishful thinking, desperation, or simple gullibility. And their populaces suffer as a result.

• A brief history of nobody wants to work anymore | Hacker News

• Criticism Of Criticism Of Criticism - by Scott Alexander

• Love the Smell of Old Books? This Bookseller Would Like You to Leave

• Americans Who Can’t Afford Homes Are Moving to Europe Instead

Obit

• Dee Hock (Visa Founder and CEO Emeritus): In Memoriam

Rank Propaganda / Thought Policing / World Disordering

• We Could Use a Reinvigorated Skeptic Movement

• Profile of a GOP voter: Meddling Dems target hunters, country music lovers

• Blake Masters Is Peter Thiel’s Dream Candidate–and a Nightmare for Democracy

• Why does culture get less happy year after year?

• Media Confidence Ratings at Record Lows

Gun control / Mass shooting

• Errors in Associated Press article on how rarely active shooting cases are stopped by concealed carry permit holders.

• Eleven Fewer Dead People - Handwaving Freakoutery

  The local news agency WTHR approached several instructors who attempted to replicate the shot, and were able to come generally near to replicating it a range of twenty-five yards. Pistol ranges only go out to twenty five yards. Dicken put eight out of ten shots on target in fifteen seconds at almost double the maximum pistol range distance, completely unprepared, jacked full of adrenaline in a situation that would make most untrained shooters panic, facing an opponent with a rifle designed for that engagement range. This shot was heroic beyond imagination, and the gun community is tremendously impressed. As Douglas Jefferson of NAAGA said in a private channel, “That’s a B-8 drill at almost twice the distance and only 1.5 times the time.” It stresses the need for anyone who carries a firearm to train for the scenarios in which they envision using them, but it also highlights the more important point that even shooters without formalized training can save dozens of lives, as long as they happen to be carrying when something like this happens.

Jan6

• US Secret Service says it hasn't been able to recover missing text messages

• Steve Bannon’s trial for defying Jan. 6 committee to begin

Musk

• Neuralink co-founder Paul Merolla departs Musk-backed startup

• Twitter's lawsuit against Elon Musk will go to trial in October

• Twitter gets fast-tracked Elon Musk trial over $44B deal

Abortion

• Far-Left Phonies! AOC & Ilhan Omar Pretend to be Handcuffed as They're Taken Away from Supreme Court by Police | MRCTV

• Did AOC Pretend To Be Handcuffed While Police Escorted Her From Supreme Court?

• Democrats arrested at abortion rights protest

Pestilence / Pox / COVID / VaxCult

• Monkeypox Treatments are difficult to get despite the Nation's large Stockpile

• Monkeypox keeps Spreading – Here's what Authorities are doing to stop it

• 25-mil Kids missed Routine Vaccinations because of Covid

• WHO: Covid Triples Across Europe, Hospitalizations Double

• Anger in China after officials break into homes in hunt for Covid contacts

• Rich Chinese Worth $48B Are Struggling to Flee Covid Zero

• Bat Virus Studies Raise Questions About Laboratory Tinkering

• The Book of Our Time | FrontpageMag

• As Omicron rages on, scientists have no idea what comes next

• Adverse effects of Covid-19 vaccines and measures to prevent them

• Ask HN: Do you regret getting the Covid-19 vaccine?

• Monkeypox: The Outlook for 2022

• Endemic Covid-19 Looks Pretty Brutal

Culture War / Tribal / Re segregation

• Sesame Place to undergo bias training after calls of racism

• New York City ending gifted education could hurt Black and Hispanic children

• Bakke decision is the reason we started to talk about diversity

• John Cleese says wokeness has a 'disastrous' impact on comedy

• Professor: ‘Unbearable’ that white people dominate discussions about ‘climate anxiety.’

Edumacationalizing / Acedemia Nuts

• Is scientific writing becoming stupider and more emotional?

• Clear or mesh backpacks required for Dallas middle and high school students

Media / ShowBiz / Advertising

• Netflix loses almost a million subscribers

  • Netflix loses fewer subscribers than expected, cheaper ad tier coming early 2023

  • Netflix’s slump continues as company loses 1M users in second quarter

  • Netflix Says It Lost Nearly 1M Subscribers, and Breathes a Sigh of Relief

• ‘Stray’ – the videogame where you play as a cat – is breaking the internet

• Snapchat is finally coming to the web after more than a decade as a mobile app

• Fran Blanche: This Is Not Legal | Hacker News

  tl;dw: Fran is a YouTube creator (mostly electronics and space videos) and has been having ongoing issues with illegitimate copyright claims made against her YouTube videos, including NASA public domain content and the sound of wind(!). She even has the physical copy of one Apollo 12 scene which she telecine'd to digital, uploaded, and then an unclear party made a claim against that video which is currently successful.

• (PDF) Facebook’s ‘Cunningham Memo’ Released by House Antitrust Committee

• Facebook puts news on the back burner as it continues to push video and creators

• Rise of subscription sleepers

• Meta and the security industry collaborate to secure the internet

• Xbox Owners Will Be Able to Connect to Discord Voice Chats from Their Consoles

• Mastercard halts service for Fanza, the biggest adults-only media site in Japan

• DALL·E Now Available in Beta

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TechSuck

• Apple to pay $50m settlement for rotten butterfly keyboards

• BMW Wants to Charge for Heated Seats. These Grey Market Hackers Will Fix That

• Popular vehicle GPS tracker gives hackers admin privileges over SMS

  • China-Made GPS Tracker Is Found to Be Risk for Vehicle Hacking

  • Chinese-made GPS tracker highly vulnerable and used in 169 nations

• Build Your Own X

  • HN comments

• Bluetooth remains an 'unusually painful' technology after two decades

  • HN comments

• TeamViewer installs suspicious font only useful for web fingerprinting | Ctrl blog

  • HN comments

• Intel Arc A380 is plagued with software flaws, poor framerate

  Gaming with Intel’s Arc A380, even with the latest driver, is like living in the middle of a minefield – mind you, playing while drunk. There is no other way to describe the past working days with the Arc A380. You don’t even know where to start. In its current state, it is completely incomprehensible how a large and reputable company like Intel can sell such a product to even a single customer.

Crypto con games

• Gemini lays off second round of employees in less than two months

• Untrustworthy founders and a $50M yacht: New Three Arrows Capital bankruptcy

• Coinbase says it has no exposure to collapsed crypto firms Celsius, 3AC, Voyager

• FTX in Talks to Raise Funds After Buying Spree

• Minecraft bans integration with NFTs and Blockchains

Economicon / Business / Finance

• Clogged California ports face new labor risk from trucking

• Why Housing Is So Expensive – Particularly in Blue States: Failure to Build

• Generation moonshot: why young investors are not ready to give up on risk

• 'CEOs, Not Working People, Are Causing Inflation': Report Shows Soaring Exec Pay

• Inflation is providing cover for price fixing: Economists

• China is no longer the top holder of US debt

• 75% of middle-class households say their income is behind the cost of living

• Toys R Us looking to make brick and mortar retail comeback

• How the end of free returns will change the way we shop

• Global chip shortage is not over and the slowdown is ‘going to bite,’ IDC says

• ‘A bigger paycheck? I’d rather watch the sunset ’: is this the end of ambition?

• U.S. stocks rise with bonds on hope rout has bottomed

• Robinhood Was Behind Phantom Surge in Berkshire Hathaway Trade Volume

• Condo owners in South Beach face millions of dollars in special assessments

• Mortgage demand drops to a 22-year low as higher interest rates and inflation

• Google pausing hiring for two weeks

• Loans Could Burn Startup Workers in Downturn

Gubmint / Poilitcks / Law Making

• UFOs are becoming a much bigger priority for Congress

• House Passes Same-Sex Marriage Bill Amid Fears of Court Reversal

  • House passes same-sex marriage bill, with 47 Repubs and every Dem voting Yes

  • House passes bill to codify marriage equality with large bipartisan support

  • HN comments

• Senate Votes 64-34 to Advance Chips Bill

  • Let’s rebuild the US microchip industry – not give it a $50bn-plus check

• House panel set to advance privacy bill, striking a long-awaited grand bargain

• Western democracies have a talent problem

• Biden economic adviser: Of course we're disincentivizing oil and gas production! – HotAir

• Statehood or independence? Puerto Rico’s status at forefront of political debate

Hunter

• Most say Biden profited off Hunter’s deals — will get away with it.

Law Breaking / Police / Internal Security

• SEC Issues More Than $17M Award to a Whistleblower

  • HN comments

• Mystery solved: DOJ secretly thwarted release of Russia documents declassified by Trump | Just The News

• Twitter Worker Accused of Spying for Saudi Arabia Heads to Trial

External Security / Militaria / Diplomania

• Putin and the UFO Sightings

• Army cuts force size amid unprecedented battle for recruits

  • HN comments

• How the New Hypersonic Weapons Tracking Constellation Will Work

World

• Russia allegedly days away from turning Nordstream 1 back on

• Russia’s Gazprom sends force majeure letter to European clients

• Hunt for wild monkey in Japan after 10 attacks in a fortnight

• Sizewell C nuclear power plant granted development consent by UK government

• EU must cut gas use by 15% this winter, Commission says

• EU asks member states to start rationing gas

• China Spent 72% More on Russian Oil in June; Moscow Remains Top Chinese Supplier

Health / Medicine

• “No convincing evidence” that depression is caused by low serotonin levels

  • HN comments

• When Are Expired Drugs Truly Expired?

Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda

• Data centers are melting in U.K. heat wave

• Blistering heat bakes the Plains with highs up to 115 degrees

• The increasing frequency of fatal wet-bulb temperatures

  • Wet Bulb Temperature Soon to Become Leading Cause of Death (2016)

• Why an end to economic growth is inevitable

• ‘Bees are highly intelligent’: the insect IQ tests causing a buzz

• Global extinction threat may be much higher than previously thought

• Europe heat wave 2022: Extreme event shows new global warming era

• Cleaner air is now adding to global warming

Ukraine War

• Russia Released a Ukrainian App for Hacking Russia That Was Malware

• Ukraine Defense Chief Wants Advanced Weapons Testing Against Russians

• Russia shoots down their own advanced jet just weeks after delivery - Sandboxx

• The Road to Stalemate in the Russia-Ukraine War