2022-07-25

Cool

• Standard Ebooks

  • HN comments

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• Second module docks at China’s space station

• Ask HN: Is the world suffering from shallow knowledge? | Hacker News

• Why are McDonald’s Self Service Kiosks so hackable?

  • HN comments

• Alt text helps the visually impaired experience the James Webb Telescope images

• ESA - Mars Express peers into Mars' 'Grand Canyon'

Horseshit

• Ask HN: Why are there so few “artificial sunlight”/“artificial window” products?

• The big idea: should we be using data to make life’s big decisions?

celebrity gossip

• How Should Martha Stewart Keep Coyotes Away From Her Pretty Birds? - The Truth About Guns

  • Pity. Peacocks are just necessary for the proper patrician atmosphere. Stately, graceful decorations, the intermittent horrible screams of damned souls; a vital finishing touch to the estate.

Rank Propaganda / Thought Policing / World Disordering

• The political right and left are equally susceptible to conspiracy theories

• We're All Sri Lankan Farmers Now - The Corbett Report

• Why falling birthrates might be a bigger deal than dominants narratives imply | Hacker News

• ‘Effective Altruism’ Is Neither

Gun control / Mass shooting

• Bad firearms marketing has given the U.S. a national nightmare

Musk

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

• Elon Musk reportedly had an affair with Google co-founder Sergey Brin’s wife

• Elon Musk 'Begged Forgiveness' After Allegedly Banging Sergei Brin's Wife: Report | ZeroHedge

• Musk dropped to knee and begged forgiveness for affair with Sergey Brin's wife

• Sergey Brin Ordered Sale of Musk Investments After Affair

• Elon Musk denies reported affair with wife of Google co-founder

• Does Elon Musk Have a Strategy?

• Twitter’s earnings falter as it fights with Elon Musk

Jan6

• Tulsi Gabbard Exposes DoJ Hypocrisy Over Bannon Contempt Conviction | ZeroHedge

• Pennsylvania Man Awaiting Sentencing Over January 6th Commits Suicide.

Abortion

• Termination of Pregnancy Has Always Been Part of Women’s Health

• In Show Of Pro-Abortion Brutality, Gov. Gretchen Whitmer Just Slashed Care For Pregnant Women From Michigan’s Budget.

Pestilence / Pox / COVID / VaxCult

• Duration of Shedding of Culturable Virus in SARS-CoV-2 Omicron

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

  • HN comments

• (Jan 2022) The French Connection: from the Wuhan Lab to Moderna.

• Monkeypox may have undergone 'Accelerated Evolution' Scientists

• Australian Medical Community Has Started a Sudden Adult Death Syndrome (SADS) Registry.

• SARS-CoV-2 reinfections associated with lower risk of death than first infection

• 2 Years of Covid-19 on Gov.uk

• The WHO Doesn’t Deserve the Nobel Peace Prize | City Journal

• Biden’s symptoms ‘continue to improve significantly,’ says White House physician.

• Anti-vax dating site left all its user data exposed

• China Seals Off Apple's iPhone Maker Foxconn, Cnooc in Shenzhen to Battle Covid

Edumacationalizing / Acedemia Nuts

• College financial aid is a sham based on what colleges think families will pay

Media / ShowBiz / Advertising

• One America News gets dumped by Verizon, the only major carrier it had left

• Sunset of the Social Network

• Documents Show How Roblox Planned to Bend to Chinese Censorship

• Ask HN: Why has the quality of discourse on HN gone downhill?

• Post-Covid, Elvis Presley's Graceland Bonds Default

• Creators on Facebook can now earn money through videos that use licensed music

TechSuck

• Round a direction vector to an 8-way compass

• Intel bags deal to make chip for MediaTek, that other Android processor designer

• Upgrading probably the world's oldest running Linux install • The Register

Crypto con games

• Blockchain Bros Should Beware India’s Crypto Crackdown

• Death of a Crypto Company

• Chipotle giving away cryptocurrency in “Buy the Dip” Avocado Day game

• Martin Shkreli just released a crypto for drug discovery

Economicon / Business / Finance

• Housing shortages are making homeownership unaffordable across the U.S.

• Homes Are Taking Longer to Sell

• Economist says home prices are primed for a 2008-style crash

• The Global Housing Market Is Broken, and It’s Dividing Entire Countries

  • HN comments

• There Are Signs Inflation May Have Peaked, but Can It Come Down Fast Enough?

• Porsches Postponed by Buggy Software Cost VW’s CEO His Job

• How the Path to Home Ownership Runs Through Mexico

• The Upper Middle Class Is Getting Squeezed

• An Economy of Overfed Middlemen

• Globalization Is Just Getting Started

• Average new car transaction price hits a record $48,043

• Inflation is crushing rural America and may even drive people to the cities

• Dispirited homebuyers show Fed’s fight against inflation is beginning to succeed

• Fed's united front on interest rates may soon be tested

Shortages

• Global shortage of fibre optic cable threatens digital growth

  • Price, lead times and scarcity of fiber optics may derail projects

• London Paid a Record Price to Dodge a Blackout

• In Detroit, the chip shortage has left the city eerily short of cars

Gubmint / Poilitcks / Law Making

• AOC And Ilhan Omar's 'Fake Handcuffs' Stunt Was Coordinated With Soros-Funded Dark Money Group | ZeroHedge

• Battle Stations!’: MSNBC Analyst Says If Republicans Win They’ll Cancel Elections, Impeach Biden Weekly

• Two Texas megadonors have turbocharged the state's far-right shift

• Delusional Biden Admin Front-Runs Recessionary GDP Print... By Redefining Recession | ZeroHedge

  • How Do Economists Determine Whether the Economy Is in a Recession?

• How in God's name are the Democrats still losing — even after Jan. 6 hearings and Roe? | Salon.com

• He Built a Home to Survive a Civil War. Tragedy Found Him Anyway. - The New York Times

  The whole experience convinced Mr. Morgan that he was the target of a corrupt power structure. Lauding the “patriots” of QAnon in Facebook posts, he mounted a quixotic primary campaign against Senator Mitch McConnell, whom he condemned as a “deep-state traitor.” When the primary was over, Mr. Morgan was done with Kentucky.

  Someone had been watching, marking the house’s entry points and taking detailed notes on the family’s movements. Early on the morning of Feb. 22, prosecutors say, the watcher, Shannon V. Gilday, a 23-year-old former soldier who lived in the Cincinnati suburbs, climbed up to a second-floor balcony and began his attack.

• Althouse: "This isn’t simply about being fair to Kamala Harris or elevating her like some other vice presidents have been elevated..."

• Hulu blocks ads on abortion, guns, and climate change – and Dems aren’t happy

• Don’t Run Joe. Second Terms Suck.

External Security / Militaria / Diplomania

• Feds’ case against Huawei tracked ‘unprofitable’ deals near US military bases

• CIA Director Admits US Lied About Iran Nuclear Program - THE INTEL DROP

• Chinese-made equipment on US cell towers could breach US nuclear arsenal

World

• France orders air-conditioned shops to save energy by shutting doors

• Sri Lanka Introduces Fuel Rationing Via QR Code

• Nations Aim to Secure Supply Chains by Turning Offshoring into ‘Friend-Shoring’

• Putin Turns The Screws: Gazprom Unexpectedly Halts Another Nord Stream Turbine Cutting Flows In Half; European Gas Prices Soar

Health / Medicine

• Napping regularly linked to higher risks for high blood pressure and stroke

  • Napping regularly linked to high blood pressure and stroke, study finds

  • Association of Nap Frequency with Hypertension or Ischemic Stroke

• Adenovirus: Likely cause of mystery child hepatitis outbreak found

  Scientists have ruled out any connection with coronavirus or Covid vaccines.

  • University of Glasgow - University news - Hepatitis cases in children linked to adeno-associated virus AAV2

  • HN comments

• Derek Lowe: Faked Beta-Amyloid Data. What Does It Mean? | Science | AAAS

  I’ve noticed a lot of takes along the lines of “OMG, because of this fraud we’ve been wasting our time on Alzheimer’s research since 2006”. That’s not really the case, as I’ll explain. But don’t get your hopes up: from one point of view, the main inaccuracy in that statement is that we’ve been actually been wasting our time in Alzheimer’s research for even longer than that. So that's not very comforting, either.

  • HN comments

• Why some young people are facing resistance from doctors to get sterilized

Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda

• Berating climate sceptics isn’t enough. Disruptive protest the only way forward

• Explainer: What is behind the heat waves affecting the United States?

• The audacious PR plot that seeded doubt about climate change

  • HN comments

• New York Times writes that cannibalism ‘has a time and a place,’ and that time is now, thanks to climate change.

• Toxic road dust: a literature review

• Whose idea was carbon footprinting? - by Tom Greenwood

  In my book, Sustainable Web Design, I tell the story of how the junk food industry addressed the growing problem of litter in the 1970’s. As companies such as Coca-Cola increasingly promoted products sold in disposable packaging, towns and cities became cursed by litter on their streets. In one of the greatest public relations successes of modern history, these companies banded together to launch a campaign to convince the public that the litter on the streets was not the fault of the companies whose logos were printed on it, but of the ordinary people who had dropped it. They founded a puppet environmental organisation called Keep America Beautiful and coined the term “Litter bug” to demonise the disgraceful citizens littering the streets. Pressure was deflected away from the corporations who created these new disposable products, onto the people who we could see dropping litter in front of us.

• Litter and circles of internalization

• Congo to Auction Land to Oil Companies: ‘Our Priority Is Not to Save the Planet’

• Extreme heat exposure worsens child malnutrition

• Japan regulators approve release of Fukushima water into sea

• Disney VIP world tour will produce 6.2 tonnes of carbon for each guest

Ukraine War

• GOAT KYIV - Deep Socks

  Were 40 Russian soldiers hurt after “after a Ukrainian goat set off a boobytrap they were laying around a hospital in Zaporizhzhia with its “chaotic movements?” The quote comes from an article on the Daily Telegraph’s website,, written by one “Verity Bowman,” posted on June 24th, 2022, with the headline: ‘Goat of Kyiv’ triggers Russian boobytrap and injures 40 soldiers.”

• Timothy Snyder’s argument that Russia is losing

• US Cyber Command spots another 20 malware strains targeting Ukraine