2022-07-27

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• For Centuries, English Bakers' Biggest Customers Were Horses - Gastro Obscura

• Powerful 7.1 earthquake strikes Philippines; at least 4 dead

• Debris from Chinese booster rocket could fall to Earth early next week

  • Chinese booster tumbles back to Earth: Non-zero chance of hitting populated area

• Young Americans are sticking close to their hometowns

Horseshit

• Teens Drink Water from Soaked Flavored Condoms to Get High

• Damien Hirst to burn thousands of his paintings to show art as ‘currency’

• Saudi Arabia plans 100-mile-long mirrored skyscraper megacity

• Playing video games has no effect on wellbeing, study finds

• New York’s E-Bikes Keep Catching Fire, and It’s Getting Worse

• Interesting: Listerine Royalties

celebrity gossip

• Mystery of Australia's 'Somerton Man' solved after 70 years, researcher says - BBC News

  • Somerton Man identified as Melbourne electrical engineer, researcher says - ABC News

Obit

• James Lovelock, creator of Gaia hypothesis, dies on 103rd birthday

Rank Propaganda / Thought Policing / World Disordering

• Have beliefs in conspiracy theories increased over time? It seems not

• Disney says Hulu will accept political issue ads

  • Hulu’s “unwritten policy” on political ads sparks backlash

• "We're Very Angry": Fire-Stricken Liberals Freak After CA 'Militia Group' Provides Disaster Aid | ZeroHedge

  "The last thing I'm going to do is take a free tri-tip sandwich from a right-wing extremist group," said one resident, who asked not to be named because she feared provoking "armed and dangerous" people. "We're very angry that they would choose to come in at a time of real gravity to try to turn this into a political move," said the woman, who works remotely and accused the group of "trying to recruit people in a disaster."

  • California militia helping Oak Fire evacuees creates furor in Mariposa

• We Don't Do That Here | Hacker News

Jan6

• Jan. 6 Committee Hiding Evidence That Absolves Trump.

• ‘I’m an Insurrectionist’: Cassidy Hutchinson’s Texts Nuke Her J6 Committee Testimony.

• EXCLUSIVE: Private Chats Show Cassidy Hutchinson's Flip-Flop

• “A gift to prosecutors”: Emails expose Trump aides admitting plot to send “fake” electors

• Capitol riots: Prosecutors probe Trump role in election challenge

Musk

• Starlink's current problem is capacity | Jeff Geerling

• Twitter shareholders to vote on Musk merger a few weeks before court trial

Abortion

• Oklahoma Threatens Librarians: ‘Don’t Use the Word Abortion’

Pestilence / Pox / COVID / VaxCult

• The unvaccinated are staying contagiousfor ashorter period than the vaccinated?

  • New England Journal of Medicine: Unvaccinated COVID Patients Are Contagious for LESS Time Than those Vaxed or Boosted.

• How long is Covid infectious? What scientists know so far

• Studies link Covid-19 to wildlife sales at Chinese market

• Studies show Covid likely came from Wuhan market, not lab

• Scientists hone argument that coronavirus came from Wuhan market

• New studies bolster theory coronavirus emerged from the wild

• Huanan Seafood Market in Wuhan was early epicenter of the Covid-19 pandemic | Hacker News

• The government must fight homophobic stigmas surrounding monkeypox, Fauci says

• As Monkeypox Spread in New York, 300k Vaccine Doses Sat in Denmark

• Everything You Need to Know About Monkeypox

• The WHO gets hysterical about Monkeypox

• Doctors say search for monkeypox cases needs to look beyond men who have sex with men

• As more people report Covid rebounds after Paxlovid, experts insist cases are rare.

• Meta might let anti-vax posts back onto Facebook and Instagram

• Anti-Vax Dating Site Unjected Suffers Data Breach

• Biden Tests Negative For COVID, Plans To Give Rose Garden Speech

  • Biden 'feeling great' and back to work after testing negative for Covid-19

• Long Covid symptoms may include hair loss and ejaculation difficulties

• UK scientists take ‘promising’ step towards single Covid and cold vaccine

Culture War / Tribal / Re segregation

• We play by economic rules set by men. What could a feminist economics look like?

• Against Transgenderism

Edumacationalizing / Acedemia Nuts

• Why teachers quit

Media / ShowBiz / Advertising

• Facebook parent Meta raises price of its Quest 2 VR headset by $100

• Facebook is making radical changes to keep up with TikTok

• Meta cracks down on low performers, staffers feel like a 'witch hunt'

• Mark Zuckerberg ‘visibly frustrated’ over worker’s vacation question

• Facebook workers fear cuts after blunt warnings from Zuckerberg

• FTC Files to Block Meta’s Virtual Reality Deal

• Why has Google hired so many ex-CIA agents to run its most important operations

• Dynamic pricing – Bruce Springsteen tickets for $4k

• Florida power company controlled local news website

• Gaming time has no link with levels of wellbeing, study finds

• My Instagram Reel just went viral (1.3M views). Here's why that sucks.

• Instagram knows you don’t like its changes. It doesn’t care

• How a Prominent Composer Lost His Wikipedia Page—and Got Entangled in Kafkaesque Nightmare Trying to Get it Back

• Stranger Things is being edited retroactively by Netflix?

  • HN comments

TechSuck

• Laurence Tratt: What's the Most Portable Way to Include Binary Blobs in an Executable?

  • HN comments

• Signal: You Were the Chosen One | Hacker News

Crypto con games

• CEO sold worthless crypto tokens and used proceeds for Hawaii condo, DOJ says

• Crypto Breaks the Rules and That’s the Point

  • In praise of regulatory arbitrage

• US consumer watchdog to scrutinize crypto payments, Big Tech moves into finance

• Tether says it doesn’t hold any Chinese commercial paper, denies 85% exposure

Economicon / Business / Finance

• Why expensive gasoline is here to stay

• Investors Bet Fed Will Need to Cut Interest Rates Next Year to Bolster Economy

• Toyota RAV4 Prime hybrid SUV now selling for 48% over MSRP | Hacker News

• Alphabet’s profit slips again after CEO warns of economic headwinds

• Could the Great Lakes solve US shipping woes?

• World Economic Outlook Update July 2022 Gloomy and More Uncertain

• Public Pensions Face Worst Funding Decline Since Great Recession

• US home prices to plunge ‘substantially’ on ‘cratering’ demand.

• Top US regulator fires warning shot after Apple’s push into lending

  • Apple ‘buy now, pay later’ feature raises antitrust concerns, says US regulator

• Apple Card's Interest Rate Is Rising as Fed Battles Inflation

• Today The Fed Hikes 75bps: What Happens Next Has Wall Street Hopelessly Split

• Fear and loathing and layoffs: What you need to know about the economy this week

• McDonald’s and Chipotle say customers are trading down, visiting less often as inflation hits budgets.

• Pending home sales fell 20% in June versus a year earlier as mortgage rates soared.

• Vox Media cuts staff, slows down hiring as recession fears grow.

• Black Swan Hedge Funds Are Booming in Scary Times

• Federal Reserve to increase interest rates by 75 basis points (0.75%)

  • HN comments

• Fed hikes interest rates by 0.75 percentage point for second consecutive time

• Fed opts for 75-basis-point rate hike, flags weakening economic data

Gubmint / Poilitcks / Law Making

• Do the Democrats have a Biden problem? Approval ratings at a record low

• "I am Kamala Harris, my pronouns are she and her, and I am a woman sitting at the table wearing a blue suit." | Not the Bee

• Will Republicans Shut Out the Press in 2024?

• The Biden Proposed Policy to Reduce Student Debt Will Make the Problem Worse

  • Student loan servicers hold off billing notices, payment pause possiby extended

• Peter Thiel is on the verge of winning his secret war for the GOP.

• Labor Shortages and the Immigration Shortfall

• CNN Poll: 75% of Democratic voters want someone other than Biden in 2024

• Senate passes major chip funding bill

  • Senate Approves $280B Bill to Boost U.S. Science, Chip Production

• Biden White House talking points redefining recession quickly embraced by media outlets.

Hunter

• US Actually Sold 6 Million Barrels From SPR To Hunter Biden-Tied China Firm | ZeroHedge

• Meet the FBI Analyst Behind The Decade’s Biggest Political Disinformation Campaigns

• Whistleblowers Detail FBI, DOJ Effort to Discredit Negative Info on Hunter Biden Starting Before 2020 Election

Law Breaking / Police / Internal Security

• Feds charge former GOP congressman Stephen Buyer with insider trading after he ‘used information from consulting business clients to bank at least $400,000 in illicit profits.’

• A Juror Explains Why a CIA Hacker Was Convicted

• The Cost of Saying No to the FBI

• (Jun 2022) New York City Is a Lot Safer Than Small-Town America

  • HN comments

• Police say people pretending to play violin for money a 'nationwide issue'

• Why do Fire Departments still exist?

  The disparity wasn’t always so vast. In 1980, fire departments in the United States attended almost 3 million fires. In 2020 that had halved to 1.4 million. The reason is simple, with the proliferation of smoke/fire alarms, reduction in smoking and the increase in fire safety for buildings and things like furniture. Similarly, in 1980 fire departments in the US attended 5 million calls for medical aid, but in 2020 attended 24 million. There are now so few fires that there is double the number of false alarms each year in the US than genuine fires. The number of firefighters, however, has skyrocketed – primarily to meet medical demand.

• $588M Sixth Street Bridge closed indefinitely due to illegal activity: LAPD.

• Google’s Nest Will Provide Data to Police Without a Warrant

  • HN comments

  • Google, like Amazon, will let police see your video without a warrant

• Charter told to pay $7.3b in damages after cable installer murders grandmother

External Security / Militaria / Diplomania

• China Targeted Federal Reserve

  • PRC tried to obtain internal info and build network of informants inside the Fed

• ByteDance Distributed Pro-China Messages to Americans, Former Employees Say

  • TikTok's Attempts to ‘Downplay the China Association’

• Biden Offers Russian Arms Dealer in Exchange for WNBA Star Brittney Griner

World

• European gas prices soar after Russia deepens supply cuts

• Europe agrees emergency gas curbs, Russia supply curbs are 'price terror'

• Putin’s new gas squeeze condemns Europe to recession and a hard winter of rationing.

• Gas prices soar as Russia cuts German supply

• Russia to quit the International Space Station after 2024 and build its own

• Chinese smartphone sales sink to levels not seen since 2012

• Boris Johnson tipped to become next secretary general of Nato

Health / Medicine

• How Delta-8 THC Works, and Why Experts Are Worried About It

  • HN comments

• Air pollution likely to be causing dementia, say UK science advisers

Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda

• Why tech workers are quitting companies like Google to fight climate change

• Scientists Build Case for 'Sixth Extinction' and Say It Could Kill Us

• First report of Sea star wasting disease raises concerns for Europe's starfish

• Cats Are an Alien Invasive Species, Poland Declares

• Trees Are Overrated

• Atlantic Ocean ‘pretty much dead’ says scientist as plankton wiped out

• Invasive species 'murder hornet' gets a new common name

• Feds hope new website can prevent deaths from worsening heat

• Tesla Looks to Open Its EV-Charging Network

• Climate disinformation leaves lasting mark as world heats

• Impacts of eco-anxiety, eco-depression, and eco-anger on wellbeing

• As Japan’s macaque population grows, clashes with humans becoming more frequent

• Power Company Lobbying: I want you to make his life a living hell seriously

• The Barbados Rebellion: An Island Nation’s Fight for Climate Justice

• Climate is now core to Rockefeller Foundation mission

• ESG should be boiled down to one simple measure: emissions