2022-07-21

Cool

• Man walks on the moon: 21 July 1969

etc

• High property taxes are good

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• 4 Myths about construction

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• The world is awful, the world is much better, the world can be much better

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• Ancient DNA from Southern China Suggests Native Americans' Asian Roots

• Mysterious pink glow in sky over town revealed to be from cannabis facility

• Several shark sightings in Cape Cod and Long Island prompt beach closures

• 'Canyon of fire' solar storm will slam into Earth today or tomorrow

• Jews and the Jewish Birthrate – Can a demographic disaster be halted?

• USPS: Half of Initial 50k New Mail Truck Order Will Be EVs

Horseshit

• (UK) Apply for a lump sum payment to leave or retire from farming

• Cities Aren’t Built for Kids: But they could be

• Is CERN Causing Collective Delusions by Creating Portals to Alternate Dimensions

• If Neptune’s orbit moves 0.1%, it could destabilize the solar system.

• The Crypto Revolution Wants to Reimagine Books

• Notes on Our Tasteless Era

Obit

• Comics writer Alan Grant has passed away at 73

• Robert F. Curl Jr., Nobel Prize Winner in Chemistry (Buckyballs), Dies at 88

Rank Propaganda / Thought Policing / World Disordering

• Half of Americans anticipate a U.S. civil war soon

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• Covid-19, 5G conspiracies and infrastructural futures

• Overconfidence bolsters anti-scientific views

• Democracy Dies in the 21st Century

• The Crumbling Foundations of the Fourth Estate | RealClearPolitics

  The board said it had commissioned two “independent reviews” of the contested coverage (about submissions from The New York Times and The Washington Post on Russian interference in the U.S. election and its connections to the Trump campaign), which “converged in their conclusions: that no passages or headlines, contentions or assertions in any of the winning submissions were discredited by facts that emerged subsequent to the conferral of the prizes. The 2018 Pulitzer Prizes in National Reporting stand.”

Jan6

• Trump Incited the Terrorism of January 6, Investigations Further Show

• Analysis: Trump's infamous obsession with TV helped define Jan. 6 too

• House Select Committee hearing to include "damning video evidence" of Trump

• Trump as tyrant and Cheney’s cliffhangers: key moments from the January 6 hearings

• Will Trump Be Prosecuted Over Role in January 6 Attack?

• US Secret Service Turns Over Records to January 6 Committee

• Primetime Jan. 6 hearing to detail 'minute-by-minute' account of Trump's inaction during riot

• Prosecution rests its case in Steve Bannon trial after calling 2 witnesses

• Government rests its case against Steve Bannon

• Bannon prosecutors object that defense tried to turn trial into a 'political circus'

Musk

• Elon Musk sped up the future

• Elon Musk’s Neuralink brain computer startup is beat again

Abortion

• How realistic are anonymous abortions?

Pestilence / Pox / COVID / VaxCult

• Vaccine-Induced Immune Response to Omicron Wanes Substantially over Time

• The Google Weather Frog no longer wears a mask

• Masking only at the start and end of every flight will do a lot to keep you safe

• Estimated 264 million people in China are under lockdowns because of Covid.

• President Biden Has Coronavirus

  • US President Joe Biden Tests Positive for Covid

  • Joe Biden Has Covid

  • "Twice-Boosted" President Biden Tested Positive For COVID-19

  • Biden tests positive for Covid-19 and is experiencing mild symptoms

  • Nolte: One Year Ago Today, Joe Biden Said Vaccinated Cannot Get COVID

  • Remarks by President Biden in a CNN Town Hall with Don Lemon | The White House

• On Scapegoating the Unvaccinated: Analysis of Propaganda During the Pandemic

• America Was in an Early-Death Crisis Long Before Covid

Culture War / Tribal / Re segregation

• Minneapolis theater CANCELS sold-out Dave Chappelle show last minute after Antifa threat | Daily Mail Online

  • Dave Chappelle’s show in Minneapolis canceled by venue after backlash

• Quidditch Is Changing Its Name to Distance Itself from JK Rowling Comments

Edumacationalizing / Acedemia Nuts

• The Jackhammer Parents Are Here and They’re Destroying School

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Media / ShowBiz / Advertising

• Netflix loses 970k subscribers, says ads and new fees are key to recovery

• Mark Zuckerberg to face deposition over Cambridge Analytica scandal

• TikTok is fastest growing news source for UK adults, Ofcom finds

• Facebook launches feeds tab that shows newest post first

  • Facebook Changes Users' Feeds to Look More Like TikTok

  • As Facebook Becomes TikTok, a New Feeds Tab Ditches the Algorithm

TechSuck

• The Rise and Peak of Japanese Semiconductors - by Jon Y

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• Atlassian reveals critical flaws in almost everything it makes and touches

• China’s SMIC Is Shipping 7nm Foundry ASICs - by Dylan Patel

  To be abundantly clear, China’s SMIC is shipping a foundry process with commercially available chips in the open market which are more advanced than any American or European company.

• UK cybersecurity chiefs back plan to scan phones for child abuse images

• Tavis Ormandy ports WordPerfect for UNIX to Linux • The Register

Crypto con games

• Minecraft says no to NFTs and the blockchain

  • Minecraft creator rejects NFTs, talking about scenario of ‘haves and have-nots’

  • Minecraft owner bans in-game NFTs to discourage profiteering

• Tesla dumped 75% of its Bitcoin holdings

  • Tesla sells most of its Bitcoin holdings

  • Tesla Has Sold 75% of Its Bitcoin, Despite Elon Musk's Crypto Enthusiasm

• Former employees say issues plagued Celsius years ahead of bankruptcy

• Blockchain.com Cuts 25% Workforce Amid Crypto Bear Market

• Former Coinbase Manager Arrested by Feds for Insider Trading

• Bitcoin Can Become Untraceable

Economicon / Business / Finance

• Ford Plans Up to 8k Job Cuts to Help Fund EV Investment

  • Ford increases its battery supply to meet its electric-vehicle goals

  • Ford secures battery supplies for 600k EVs a year from 2023

• VCs are scared when they should be greedy

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• Microsoft Cuts Many Open Job Listings in Weakening Economy

• According to Atlanta Fed we're already in a recession

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• Google and GitHub are freezing hiring effective immediately

  • Google pauses hiring for two weeks

• European Central Bank rises rates by 0.5%

• Amazon to buy primary health care provider One Medical for roughly $3.9B

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

• Trucker protest over gig worker law shuts down operations at California port

• Paul Krugman: I Was Wrong About Inflation

  • David Brooks: I Was Wrong About Capitalism

• U.S. weekly jobless claims hit fresh 8-month high

• Microsoft Cuts Job Openings as Big Tech Worries About U.S. Economy

Gubmint / Poilitcks / Law Making

• Group of senators cuts deal to change election laws in response to Jan 6 attack

• Biden stops short of declaring climate emergency, takes steps on wind power

• WATCH: Joe Biden Says He Has Cancer – PJ Media

  • Joe Biden says he 'has' cancer thanks to oil industry — but WH points to skin cancer years ago

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

• Congress' push to regulate Big Tech is fizzling out

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• AOC denies faking being handcuffed during her arrest, calling her hand positioning 'best practice' while detained

Hunter

• Feds Eye Criminal Charges For Hunter Biden As Probe Reaches 'Critical Stage'

• Justice Department and liberal media are AWOL on Hunter Biden’s laptop | Washington Examiner

• The Top Nightmare Fuel From the Hunter Biden iCloud ‘Leak.’

Law Breaking / Police / Internal Security

• FBI and Cyber Command Are in ‘Combat Tempo’ Ahead of Midterm Elections

• Uber Pays Millions Resolving DOJ Lawsuit for Overcharging Disabled People

External Security / Militaria / Diplomania

• Lightning strike leaves 1 soldier dead, 9 injured during a training exercise

World

• "We Decided To Stop Paying": China's Mortgage Payment Boycott Spreads As Property Suppliers Refuse To Pay Their Bills

• Strengthening Ties With Iran, Putin Meets With Supreme Leader In Tehran

• Saudi Arabia Nears Its Oil Pumping Limit

• Key Russian gas pipeline resumes supply to Europe

  • Russia Resumes Nord Stream Natural Gas Deliveries To Europe

• HSBC installs Communist party committee in Chinese investment bank | Financial Times

• Taiwan's ex-defense chief calls for sweeping military reforms

• Germany scrambles for energy with no faith in Russian gas

Health / Medicine

• Transformational therapy cures haemophilia B

• Kelp is on the way: Why we should all be eating seaweed

• First Polio case in almost 10 years confirmed in New York state

Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda

• Alarm as fastest growing US cities risk becoming unlivable from climate crisis

• Record heat can bake your Steam Deck and Switch, devicemakers warn

• ESG Funds Are Quietly Buying Oil Stocks

• Heatwave forced Google and Oracle to shut down computers

• California’s fire season is so eerily quiet that it resembles a ‘normal summer’

• How we will fight climate change - by Noah Smith

  It is now time to conclude that the “scare people into making a big push” strategy that climate activists and leftists have been using over the last few years has decisively, utterly failed. People ought to be scared. They ought to support a big push. But this is simply a thing that is not going to happen in the time frame we need it to happen.

  So abolishing capitalism would be very bad for the climate, because despite all the Green New Dealers’ claims, it would effectively end up as a form of degrowth. It is just as heavy an ask, and thus massively raises the threshold of urgency that’s required to motivate the American people to take action.

  This requires a very different kind of rhetoric than degrowth, anticapitalism, or doomerism. It is not the language of sacrifice — it’s the language of abundance. It’s not some fantasy of socialist utopia — it’s cheap good stuff you can buy right now. It’s not a dire, angry, hectoring leftism that demands sacrifice under threat of destruction — it’s a positive, can-do individualist progressivism that’s in keeping with the way America has improved itself in the past. Beating climate change is part of the Abundance Agenda.

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• How safe is nuclear energy?

• Oil sector’s ‘staggering’ $3bn-a-day profits for last 50 years

• "US Not Prepared": Extreme Heat Event Risks Damaging US' Rail Network With Buckling Tracks

• Pace of Atmospheric CO₂ Accumulation Falls to Great Recession Levels

• Beloved monarch butterflies now listed as endangered

Ukraine War

• Nearly 2M Ukrainian refugees have been sent to Russia

• Dark Activity and Ship-to-Ship Transfers to Launder Ukrainian Grain

• Russia to hold voting to annex more of Ukraine by Sept 15th

• US M142 HIMARS Strike on Russian Warehouse

• Pro-Russia hack campaigns are running rampant in Ukraine

• An evil Russian perspective on the war in Ukraine

• Russia’s Excuse for Losing: Ukraine’s Mutant Bio-Lab Supersoldiers.

• Greenpeace Says IAEA Downplayed Damage at Chernobyl by Russian Troops

• ‘We’re Losing’ but Moscow Will Never Admit It, Russian Soldier Says.

• Russia Plans 'Annexation Votes' For Captured Ukraine Territories By Mid-September: Report