2022-07-24

Worthy

• The Rise and Fall of the Manufactured Home - Part II

etc

• A chess robot in Moscow has broken the finger of its human opponent

  • HN comments

  • Chess robot grabs and breaks finger of seven-year-old opponent

  • Chess robot breaks seven-year-old boy's finger during Moscow Open

• How did the Dominican Republic become so much richer than Haiti?

  • HN comments

• Tonga Volcano Blasted Out Pressure Waves Close to the Theoretical Limit

• Volcano erupts on western Japanese island of Kyushu, no reports of damage

Horseshit

• The Impact of Posing with Cats on Female Perceptions of Male Dateability

  • HN comments

• SF Chronicle: Chesa Boudin wasn’t the problem, Walgreens caused the drug crisis

• Enormous speaker system shut down at Montgomery Co. park | wusa9.com

• Why British youth are turning off alcohol

• DNA bio-weapon that can target a single person

• Arizona Mom Fights Abusive Prosecution by Department of Child Safety

  • HN comments

Rank Propaganda / Thought Policing / World Disordering

• Peter Thiel on the dangers of progress

  • (repeat from yesterday) The Enigma of Peter Thiel

• Culture wars on Wiki articles on Intelligence

• Twitter to Ban Use of ‘Groomers’ After Pressure From Liberal Outrage Mongers

• Hip waders: Proletarian Revolution in the Global North Is Impossible

Musk

• Elon Musk’s Friendship with Sergey Brin Ruptured by Alleged Affair Archive link

  Elon Musk engaged in a brief affair last fall with the wife of Sergey Brin, prompting the Google co-founder to file for divorce earlier this year and ending the tech billionaires’ long friendship, according to people familiar with the matter

  Mr. Brin filed for divorce from Nicole Shanahan in January of this year, citing “irreconcilable differences,” according to records filed in Santa Clara County Superior Court. The divorce filing was made several weeks after Mr. Brin learned of the brief affair, those people said. At the time of the alleged liaison in early December, Mr. Brin and his wife were separated but still living together, according to a person close to Ms. Shanahan. In the divorce filing, Mr. Brin cited Dec. 15, 2021, as the date of the couple’s separation.

  At a party earlier this year, Mr. Musk dropped to one knee in front of Mr. Brin and apologized profusely for the transgression, begging for forgiveness, according to people with knowledge of the incident. Mr. Brin acknowledged the apology, but still isn’t speaking regularly to Mr. Musk, those people said.

Jan6

• (Jul 13) A Trump Backer's Downfall as the Target of a Jan. 6 Conspiracy Theory

• True Confessions: Liz Cheney Declared Trump Family and Aides Have Now Publicly “Confessed” – JONATHAN TURLEY

Gun control / Mass shooting

• Are the parents criminally responsible for their son’s mass shooting?

Pestilence / Pox / COVID / VaxCult

• Fauci Now Claims To Have 'Open Mind' About COVID Lab-Leak Theory | ZeroHedge

• Monkeypox is being driven overwhelmingly by sex between men, major study finds: Of the 528 confirmed cases reviewed, 95% are believed to have transmitted during sex between men, according to a new paper in the New England Journal of Medicine.

• (May 2022) How well do the COVID vaccines work? (and why has this been so confusing?) – You Can Know Things

  • (Jun 2022) Ninety five percent. NINETY FIVE PERCENT! – You Can Know Things

• My two weeks of monkeypox hell

• Prior Omicron infection protects against BA.4 and BA.5 variants

Edumacationalizing / Acedemia Nuts

• Patanjali Kambhampati: My 'lived experience' tells me that diversity, inclusion and equity is antithetical to human liberty | National Post

• Behavioral science: No evidence for nudging after adjusting for publication bias

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  • Aww, somebody ran over the Dogma again. "We knows it works evidence be damned!" making a strong showing.

Media / ShowBiz / Advertising

• Deaths from TikTok, Snapchat challenges highlight dangerous side of social media

• “Stranger Things” creators admits editing past seasons without viewers noticing

• Amazon sales of Deep Learning with Python are counterfeit | Hacker News

TechSuck

• Pardon my derisive hooting: 20 years of Atlassian, 20 lessons learned

• After public outcry, Google will reinstate Play Store app permissions list

• T-Mobile to pay $350 mln in settlement over hacking

Crypto con games

• Stop saying “They shouldn't have invested more than they could afford to lose” | Hacker News

• They Thought ‘Crypto Banks’ Were Safe, and Then Came the Crash

Economicon / Business / Finance

• More invested in nuclear fusion in last 12 months than past decade | Hacker News

• Ford's answer to EV supply chain hell: Cheaper batteries

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  Automotive giant Ford is shoring up its battery supply chain — partly by importing lower-cost, iron-based batteries popular in China — as it sprints to increase electric vehicle production.

• UK Satellite Operator OneWeb Said Near Merger with Eutelsat

• When a Woman’s Retirement Account Becomes the Family Emergency Fund

Shortages

• 'Intense Heat And Dry Conditions' Threatening US Crops, Herds

Gubmint / Poilitcks / Law Making

• California governor signs gun bill modeled after Texas abortion law

• RNC is promoting Trump and his business, raising fresh concerns about neutrality

External Security / Militaria / Diplomania

• Walter Reed military hospital copies troops’ tattoos onto their prosthetics

World

• Canada Reduces Fertilizer Use to meet emissions cap despite protests from farms

• China Has a Problem with Data Leaks. One Reason Is Its Surveillance State

Health / Medicine

• People dying in Canada's emergency rooms from previously avoidable deaths

• Male ‘biological clock’ can affect chances of birth more than was thought

  • HN comments

• Health effects of the use of non-sugar sweeteners: a review and meta-analysis

  • HN comments

• Two decades of Alzheimer’s research was based on deliberate fraud

  • HN comments

Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda

• A genetic modification boosts grain yields, shortens the growth duration of rice | Hacker News

• The Upside-Down Logic of Electric SUVs

• The Controversial Plan to Unleash the Mississippi River

Ukraine War

• Biden Approves 16th Weapons Transfer To Ukraine - Total Security Aid Now Over $8BN

• Russia Informs Turkey It Had "Nothing To Do" With Odessa Port Attack

• Ukraine war: Kyiv's forces moving towards occupied Kherson – Zelensky

• The Russian Economy Is Imploding

• Russian Navy's massive submarine could set the stage for a new oceanic Cold war

• Ukraine Says Damage Not Significant, Preparing to Restart Grain Exports

• Russian Official Admits to Missile Strike on Odesa

• Russia Belatedly Admits Strike On Odessa Port - Says Warship With US Missiles "Destroyed"