2022-07-31

Worthy

• The Malicious Enemies Case for Liberty

• The Worst Dam Idea In The World - by Mike Sowden

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• Some pits on the moon are always 63 degrees, opening up habitation possibilities

• Mega Millions ticket wins $1.34B lottery jackpot

  A ticket sold in Illinois is the sole winner of the $1.34 billion Mega Millions jackpot, the second-largest lottery prize in the game’s 20-year history, according to results posted Saturday.

• 25-ton Chinese rocket debris crashes to Earth over Indian Ocean.

  • NASA criticises China after space rocket makes uncontrolled return to Earth

• US regulators will certify first small nuclear reactor design | Hacker News

• August to offer skygazers wide array of highly-anticipated astronomy events

• 2022 Amish Population Profile

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• Astralcodexten Links for July

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• Mystery Surrounds Man's Death After Exiting Cargo Plane Without Parachute 4,000 Feet Above North Carolina | ZeroHedge

  • Co-pilot died after plunging from a small cargo plane mid-flight, report says

Horseshit

• Two brothers selling shares in themselves

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• Proclaim debt amnesty throughout the land? Biblical solution to present problem

• What ‘The Jetsons’ predicted right – and wrong – about the future

• Study finds Wikipedia influences judicial behavior | Hacker News

• Can artificial intelligence help us talk to the animals?

Rank Propaganda / Thought Policing / World Disordering

• Why are we living in an age of anger – is it because of the 50-year rage cycle?

• Yet Another Alex Jones Company Has Filed for Bankruptcy

Abortion

• Is Pro-Life Now Hate Speech? – JONATHAN TURLEY

Pestilence / Pox / COVID / VaxCult

• President Biden test positive for Corona again

  • President Joe Biden tests positive for Covid-19 again

  • Biden's Covid Is Back. Is Paxlovid to Blame?

• Is Covid prematurely aging our immune systems?

• Covid-19 linked to Chinese market wildlife sales, alternative scenarios unlikely

• Three myths about Covid-19 – and the biggest challenge that lies ahead

• Millions of Americans have long Covid. Many of them are no longer working

• New Media Rule: Don’t Say Gay

  Earlier this week, New York City health commissioner Ashwin Vasan called on the World Health Organization to rename the monkeypox virus due to "a growing concern for the potentially stigmatizing effects that the messaging around the ‘monkeypox' virus can have on vulnerable communities."

• Monkeypox vaccines only available to Utahns who have been in close contact | KUTV

  Vaccines are only being given to Utahns at the highest risk of exposure, meaning people who have been in close contact with someone who's had monkeypox.

  "Monkeypox is not known to spread easily among humans; transmission generally does not occur through casual contact," according to the department's statement. "Human-to-human transmission occurs primarily through direct contact with body fluids, including monkeypox lesions. Transmission might also occur through prolonged, close face-to-face contact."

• New York City Declares Monkeypox Public Health Emergency

• Scott Gottlieb on Monkeypox response failure

• The mystery virus that protects against monkeypox

Culture War / Tribal / Re segregation

• Is LEGO Sexist - Brick Ranker

Edumacationalizing / Acedemia Nuts

• Covid taught 1 million parents there are alternatives to failing public schools.

• Faked Crystallography | Science | AAAS

  One final note: the "authors" of all these current 992 papers are from Chinese medical institutions, most of them appearing only once.

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Media / ShowBiz / Advertising

• Court Rejects Google's Attempt to Dismiss Rumble's Antitrust Lawsuit

• Apple’s privacy changes create windfall for its own advertising business

• Meta, US hospitals sued for using healthcare data to target ads

• 25 YRs Ago a Stellar SCI-FI Show Saved a Broken Franchise and Changed TV History

TechSuck

• Arachne in PrusaSlicer

• Famous HNers and their sites

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Crypto con games

• Tether's Holepunch takes on big brother

• What I'm Frustrated by in Crypto

Economicon / Business / Finance

• Why Your House Was So Expensive

• Intel Cuts Fab Buildout by $4B to Pay Billions in Dividends

  This action shows Pat Gelsinger is very similar to the prior Intel CEO who was a career Chief Financial Officer at multiple publicly traded companies. It’s a disgrace that Intel has decided to cut fab buildouts while begging the US government for subsidies through the chips act and committing to growing their dividend.

  Backing off on the sensationalism, we believe Intel will likely be underutilized in 2023 due to a weak macroeconomy and fierce competition. In that environment, it makes sense for Intel to cut the capacity buildout. It’s the correct move. If Intel admitted that, it would make sense.

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• Emerging markets hit by record streak of withdrawals by foreign investors

• Homebuilders are boosting incentives as they suddenly struggle to sell homes

• SPAM goes on lockdown due to inflation in NYC

• Apple’s Slowdown

• Who are the economic ‘referees’ that decide if the US is in a recession?

• VCs Squandered Billions on Scooter Startups

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Shortages

• Food Banks Across America Report Record Demand And Record Shortages

Gubmint / Poilitcks / Law Making

• Senate Passes $280B Industrial Policy Bill to Counter China

• Cyber Insurance Price Hike Hits Local Gov’t Hard

• The Political Environment Might Be Improving for Democrats

• Congress Looks Set to Finally Pass Historic Climate Legislation

• Conservatism has become more reasonable

Hunter

• Marginal Revolution Open thread on Hunter Biden

Law Breaking / Police / Internal Security

• Deafening Silence On Dobbs Leak Undermines Supreme Court As An Institution | ZeroHedge

• Secret Service may disable iMessages to avoid repeat of Jan. 6 controversy

External Security / Militaria / Diplomania

• China Launches Live-Fire Drills Off Taiwan With US Carrier Group Nearby, As Pelosi's Plane En Route To Asia | ZeroHedge

  • Pelosi confirms trip to Asia, but makes no mention of Taiwan

  • Pelosi Confirms Start Of Asia Trip, Makes No Mention Of Taiwan As Chinese Anger Grows | ZeroHedge

• F-35 Fleet Is Grounded by US Air Force over Ejection-Seat Worries

Russia Bad / Ukraine War

• Tor is fighting and beating Russian censorship | Hacker News

• Ask HN: Perspectives for Ukrainian programmer coming to US as a war refugee? | Hacker News

• Hacktivist group Anonymous is using six top techniques to ‘embarrass’ Russia

• Ukrainian drone strike hits Russia’s Black Sea HQ.

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

Health / Medicine

• Chicago Tells Lollapalooza Attendees to ‘Test Your Drugs’ for Fentanyl

• Lyons Magnus Recalls 53 Beverage Products Due to the Potential Contamination

• Competing paradigms of obesity: energy balance versus carbohydrate-insulin

Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda

• ‘Soon it will be unrecognisable’: total climate meltdown cannot be stopped

• The Consciousness of Bees

• Evacuation warning as blaze explodes to more than 30,000 acres

• Billionaire-funded group quietly taking farmland out of production in rural US

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• Stuck Between Climate Doom and Denial