2022-07-29

Worthy

• Collections: Logistics, How Did They Do It, Part II: Foraging – A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry

etc

• Chinese rocket stage re-entry: CZ-5B R/B (ID 53240) | The Aerospace Corporation

  Predicted Reentry Window 31 Jul 2022 00:24 UTC ± 16 hours

• Space junk potentially found in NSW Snowy Mountains paddocks - ABC News

• 'Double-digit deaths' expected in Kentucky floods that have already killed 8, governor says

  • At Least 8 Dead Amid "Historic" Kentucky Flooding

• Miami considering plan to move homeless people to camp on island in Biscayne Bay

• Seven megatrends that will shape the next 20 years

  • HN comments

• Holes on the Ocean Floor, origin unknown. Scientists asking public for thoughts

  • HN comments

• PG&E Reports Profits Declined 10%, Which Means They'll Just Raise Bills Again

• The Seven Deadly Sins of Consumer Technology

• Oldest DNA from domesticated American horse lends credence to shipwreck folklore

Horseshit

• Your computer is tormented by a wicked god

• Nursing homes use lawsuits to demand friends and family pay off medical debts

• Technology has made your car 'a candy store of distraction'

• ‘Rescind the Doctrine’ protest greets pope in Canada

• Nationwide Veterinarian Shortage Has Bay Area Pet Owners Scrambling

• Applying the hacker / engineering mindset to Spirituality | Hacker News

• The dopamine switch between atheist, believer and fanatic

• Razer apologizes for packaging typo that nobody noticed until the apology | PC Gamer

• “No Sex for You”: Life in the metaverse will be tacky, prudish, and dull

• Americans have spent over $300m on lottery tickets in the past 2 days

  • HN comments

• Heavily pushed the past day or so; natural I think because of the creepy factor: Necrobotics: Dead Spiders Reincarnated as Robot Grippers

• Mandatory speed limiters added to new cars in Europe

celebrity gossip

• Why thousands of Dutch threw eggs at Jeff Bezos obscene yacht

Rank Propaganda / Thought Policing / World Disordering

• The free speech elephant in the Alex Jones courtroom

• Democratic Elites Don’t Understand the Class Culture Gap

  • HN comments

• What Keeps a Crowd from Becoming a Mob?

• How "Tactical" Infiltrated Everyday Life

  This process starts with all of us, as leaders of brands, leaders in media or as individual consumers, asking one important question: Are certain words and images simple marketing hooks or more potentially concerning calls to action? We've already witnessed an uptick in the number of armed militias and an increase in deaths due to gun violence. As such, in a nation that becomes more divided (and on edge) with every passing day, taking time to apply a more critical eye to this matter feels more important than ever.

  • HN comments

• The New Study on Serotonin and Depression Isn’t About Antidepressants

• ‘Fake news’ poses corrosive existential threat to democracy – Study

  Online ‘fake news’ is an existential threat to democracy - not because most people believe bogus content, but because of the corrosive effect it has on trust among citizens and their faith in democratic institutions representing them, according to a new study.

  The study notes that before Internet use became widespread, citizens had a relatively limited range of information sources such as newspapers and TV stations - creating greater information overlap, more ‘shared experiences’ and, in turn, less reason to worry about the beliefs of others. Widespread internet access changed this situation, as citizens were confronted with vastly increasing sources of information, fewer shared experiences and the awareness that others might share fewer fundamental beliefs with them.

  • HN comments

• How Jon Stewart Made Tucker Carlson

• Joe v. Times - IntegrityTalk

Recession

• Wikipedia’s definition for “recession” has changed and the page is now locked

• (Jul 25) Biden tries to persuade Americans that the U.S. is not in a recession

• Biden Administration Rejects Recession Label for Economy

• The economy may look like it's in recession, but we still don't know for sure

• Biden says nation is 'on the right path' despite latest GDP report

• Is This a Recession? Wrong Question.

• Yes, we're probably in a recession, and that's fine

• Team Biden’s refusal to admit we’re in a recession is just another reason Americans don’t trust our institutions.

• Wikipedia is currently in an edit war over the definition of recession

  • HN comments

• Wikipedia suspends edits to its 'recession' page

• Wikipedia accused of changing the definition of a recession

• Team Biden’s refusal to admit we’re in a recession is just another reason Americans don’t trust our institutions.

• Wikipedia changes the definition of recession and then locks the page

• Wikipedia Suspends Editing of Recession Page

Musk

• Musk Has an Original Idea to End Divisions in America

• Twitter is raising prices.

• Twitter investigating authenticity of 5.4M accounts for sale

• Delaware judge rules that Twitter's case against Elon Musk to go to trial Oct 17

• Twitter warns of 'record highs' in account data requests

Jan6

• Jan 6 texts missing for Trump DHS head, deputy

• Jan. 6 hearings a dud, most see riot as one-time event.

• The propaganda campaign is working on some. From the HN thread on "Tactical"; this comparison of Jan6 and BLM:

  Do you feel there's a difference between Jan6 and any of the BLM riots

  Yes, I feel there's a very significant difference between an attempt to overthrow the Republic and establish monarchy with deliberate and explicit murderous intent, and protest gatherings that became violent after police began firing weapons into previously peaceful crowds.

Pestilence / Pox / COVID / VaxCult

• San Francisco declares state of emergency over monkeypox

• Is Monkeypox an STD? That’s the Wrong Question.

• Testing is crucial to getting monkeypox under control, but there's a 'shocking' lack of demand

• New York City Health Department Begs WHO to Rename Monkeypox Because It Stigmatizes Gay People.

• Covid-19 vaccines and all-cause mortality – long-term differential analysis

  We could not observe a mortality-reducing effect of vaccination in Dutch municipalities after vaccination and booster campaigns. We did find a 4-sigma-significant mortality-enhancing effect during the two periods of high unexplained excess mortality.

• Covid Compatibility and Risk Negotiation in Online Dating During the Pandemic

• Prognosis and persistence of smell and taste dysfunction in patients w Covid-19

• I think I have long COVID. What does that mean?

• Opinion: Covid-19 almost certainly did not come from a lab leak

Culture War / Tribal / Re segregation

• Nashvillians Are Weaponizing Metro Codes Against ‘Undesirable’ Neighbors

  Taking a deep dive on a trend that disproportionately affects Black and low-income Nashvillians

Edumacationalizing / Acedemia Nuts

• Military Veterans and Their Spouses Can Teach Public School in FL With No Degree

• Suburban parents are fighting book bans because of the threat of censorship

Media / ShowBiz / Advertising

• Zuckerberg Promises to Double Amount of Content You Didn’t Ask for on Facebook

• Journalism Should Be More Than a Rich Kids’ Hobby

• Instagram Rolling Back Changes

  • Instagram rolls back some product changes after user backlash

  • Instagram reverses TikTok feed revamp

• With U.S. on brink of recession, Twitch streamers tighten their belts

• TikTok and the Fall of the Social-Media Giants

  • HN comments

• Stalkers, Fan Threats, Police Raids: The Hidden Price of Twitch Fame

• I paid for it! That makes it mine, doesn’t it? Er, no • The Register

• Rumor: Google Stadia May Be Getting Shut Down

  • HN comments

• How much did YouTube pay for 10M views?

• Google Play Store takes aim at annoying game ads, copycat apps, and misinformation

TechSuck

• Intel Kills Optane Memory Business

  • Intel to Wind Down Optane Memory Business

  • Why Intel killed its Optane memory business

  • HN comments

• Fixing the Broken Open Source Funding Model with Sustainable License

• Is the Kalman filter just a low-pass filter?

  • HN comments

• mjg59 | UEFI rootkits and UEFI secure boot

• Amazon Drive is closing on January 31, 2023

Crypto con games

• El Salvador’s Bitcoin Bet Is Working, Finance Minister Says

• Coinbase is in deep trouble – and so is the SEC

  • HN comments

• Nirvana Finance - one of those bullshit blockchain "stablecoins" - just got wiped out.

• Binance and FTX, Big Crypto Exchanges, Get Bigger

• Regulators order crypto firm Voyager to stop saying accounts are FDIC insured

• KuCoin announces “Anti-FUD Fund” to track down and sue critics

• Crypto Collapse Has Flooded the Market with Rolex and Patek

Economicon / Business / Finance

• Amazon says cloud-computing revenue rose 33%

  • Amazon jumps on revenue beat and rosy guidance for third quarter

• Apple Reports Third Quarter Results

  • HN comments

  • Apple beats on revenue and profit, expects growth to accelerate

• Intel falls as it reports an unprofitable second quarter

  • Intel Posts Sharp Drop in Sales, Issues Muted Outlook

  • Intel Reports First Net Loss in over 30 Years

• JetBlue agrees to buy Spirit Airlines for $3.8B

• People with new jobs are making way more money

• Beyond Meat stock falls after conclusion of McDonald’s McPlant test

• Tell HN: Food is too expensive now

• 2 Reasons the US is in a major housing shortage, construction can't get done

• Shrinkflation, Disqualiflation, and Depression and more

• Here We Go Again: Record Container Ship Traffic Jam As Backlog Continues To Build

• U.S. oil giants Exxon, Chevron post blowout earnings, ramp up buybacks

• Bank of America Memo: “We Hope” Conditions for American Workers Will Get Worse

Gubmint / Poilitcks / Law Making

• Naomi Biden, president's granddaughter, to be married on White House lawn

• A Manchin Miracle Brings Biden’s Climate Agenda Back from the Dead

  • What's in the Manchin Inflation Reduction Act

• FTC Chair Lina Khan Upends Antitrust Standards by Suing Meta

• Democrats revive the fight for net neutrality

  • HN comments

• U.S. Prohibits Receivers of CHIPS Subsidies From Building New Fabs in China | Tom's Hardware

  • Biden bragged on SK's investment yesterday, this provision will probably not please them...

  • Ill-Advised Semiconductor Subsidies Pass.

  • Congress sneaks NASA moon-to-Mars funding into CHIPS+ act

• FTC’s Lina Khan Overruled Staff to Sue Meta over Virtual-Reality Deal

• Watch: White House Resorts To 'Economy Doing Great Because It's Not Famine' Defense | ZeroHedge

• Six States Could Overturn the 2024 Election

• The GOP went to war against Google over spam – and may win

• Why Andrew Yang’s New Third Party Is Bound to Fail

Trump

• (PDF) Trump's 282 Page Notice to Sue CNN

Hunter

• Hunter Biden scandal may lead right back to Joe

• FBI's False Labeling Of Biden Laptop As Disinfo Is Really Bad

• GOP Sen. Chuck Grassley alleges widespread effort in FBI, Justice Dept to downplay negative information about Hunter Biden - CBS News

Law Breaking / Police / Internal Security

• US Justice Department investigating data breach of federal court system

• Australian Federal Police to share coding of AN0M app

• Fentanyl deaths soaring in Texas, officials arent taking key steps to stop them

• Washington DC at 'tipping point' as migrants arrive from border

  • DC Mayor Bowser requests National Guard help as migrants arrive

• Denver’s progressive prosecutor accused of ‘systemic discrimination.’

• Drone Contraband Deliveries Are Rampant at US Prisons

• DOJ Reportedly Opens Criminal Inquiry into Alzheimer's Drug Research

• Russian National Charged with Conspiring to Act as Illegal Agents of the Russia

  According to the indictment, Ionov’s relationship with U.S. Political Group 1 continued until at least March 2022. Specifically, in the wake of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, U.S. Political Group 1 repeatedly hosted Ionov via video conference to discuss the war, during which Ionov falsely stated that anyone who supported Ukraine also supported Nazism and white supremacy. In a report to the FSB, Ionov explained that he had enlisted U.S. Political Group 1 to support Russia in the “information war unleashed” by the West.

External Security / Militaria / Diplomania

• Lived in Hawaii for years, US alleges they were Russian spies

• Pelosi Leading Delegation To Asia, Taiwan Stop Not Clear

World

• U.K. seizes a British blogger's assets for pro-Russian propaganda Archive link

• Russia and China behind ‘high-risk’ mid-Atlantic tanker transfer hub

• Asia’s richest woman loses half her $24bn fortune in China property crisis

• 'Titanic' staffing crisis: At least 14 Ontario hospitals closed for long weekend

• Hanover bans hot showers in public buildings in reaction to Russian gas crisis

• Russia: We’re not leaving the Space Station until our own is ready

Health / Medicine

• Food and drinks are getting sweeter. Even if it’s not sugar, it’s bad for health

  • HN comments

• Gulf Coast tests confirm deadly tropical soil bacterium now endemic to US

• Study casts more doubt on use of high-dose Vitamin D pills

Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda

• US power companies spending millions to protect profits and fight clean energy

• Climate change will increase storm surge flooding in NYC, Miami and D.C

• Data centers, fiber optic cables at risk from rising sea levels

• Humanity can’t equivocate any longer. This is a climate emergency

• UK heatwave: Weather forecasters report unprecedented trolling - BBC News

• (PDF) The Official U.S. Temperature Record Remains Fatally Flawed

• People across various sectors are leaving their jobs to fight climate change

• Genetically engineered rice needs less fertilizer, makes more food

Ukraine War

• Prepare Ukraine for Victory in a Long War

• Footage appears to show Russian captors castrating a Ukrainian prisoner of war

• The rouble is soaring and Putin is stronger than ever – sanctions have backfired

• Russia is plundering gold in Sudan to boost Putin's war effort in Ukraine