2022-08-01

Cool

• Trippy Bicycle Uses Multiple Partial Wheels | Hackaday

etc

• Why the Myth of the Miserable Lottery Winner Just Won’t Die

• More Snowy Mountains space junk found amid visit from Australian Space Agency

Horseshit

• Friendships Between Rich and Poor Can Reduce Poverty, Vast Study Finds

  • The social connections that shape economic prospects

• The Prius is a conservative automobile

  • HN comments

• Last Conviction in Salem Witch Trials Is Cleared 329 Years Later

• Illegally placed concrete blocks have taken over public parking in Seattle

  • HN comments

• TikTok Diagnosis Videos Leave Teens Thinking They Have Rare Mental Disorders

• He’s Baseball’s Only Mud Supplier. It’s a Job He May Soon Lose

• Diablo Immortal player spends $100k, cant find anyone suitable to matchmake with

• A 105-mile-long city will snake through the Saudi desert. Is that a good idea?

celebrity gossip

• Celebrity Voice Acting Needs to Evolve or Die

Obit

• Nichelle Nichols, Uhura in ‘Star Trek,’ Dies at 89

  • Star Trek icon Nichelle Nichols dead at 89

  • Nichelle Nichols, trailblazing 'Star Trek' actress, dies at 89

• Samuel Sandoval, one of the last remaining Navajo Code Talkers, has died at 98

Rank Propaganda / Thought Policing / World Disordering

• Amazon’s plan to “neutralize” unions with ex-inmates and “vulnerable students”

• Facebook Posts Flagged as False for Rejecting Biden's Recession Wordplay

  • Senior Economist 'Fact Checked' By Facebook For Saying US Is In Recession | ZeroHedge

  • Atlanta Fed Public Data Is Being Removed

• Ask HN: What are some reasonable right-leaning news sources?

• More in US believe harassing health officials is justified

• Anti-vax Twitter accounts pushing food crisis misinformation, study finds

• How the World Really Works | The Pipeline

Gun control / Mass shooting

• The Fog of War in Uvalde

Abortion

• Think they were doing it before? Dozens of Brokers Are Selling Pregnancy Data Post-Roe

Musk

• Elon Musk confirms he already uploaded his brain to a cloud, he spoke to himself

• Are Elon Musk's Antics Starting To Cost Tesla New EV Business?

• Elon Musk’s Antics Turn Owners and Would-Be Buyers Against Tesla

Pestilence / Pox / COVID / VaxCult

• More studies than subjects? The Efficacy of Facemasks in the Prevention of Covid-19

  The initial review yielded 1732 studies, which were reviewed by three study team members. Sixty-one full text studies were found to meet entry criteria, and 13 studies yielded data that was used in the final analysis. In all, 243 subjects were infected with COVID-19, of whom 97 had been wearing masks and 146 had not. The probability of getting COVID-19 for mask wearers was 7% (97/1463, p=0.002), for non-mask wearers, probability was 52% (158/303, p=0.94).

• Clinical features and novel presentations of human monkeypox

  • HN comments

• Government That Shut Down Businesses, Parks, Schools, Beaches, And Churches For 2 Years Says There’s Nothing We Can Do To Stop A Disease Spread By Gay Sex.

Culture War / Tribal / Re segregation

• At Tour de France Femmes, It’s a Steep Climb to Equality

• “The Psychopathic Problem of the White Mind”

• Silence is a Luxury Product. Noise is For the Poor.

• Pet Project: BLM Activist Shaun King Used Donor Funds To Buy $40k Thoroughbred Show Dog

Edumacationalizing / Acedemia Nuts

• Faked Crystallography | Hacker News

• Ask HN: Why don’t schools reduce bullying by discouraging making friends? | Hacker News

Media / ShowBiz / Advertising

• CNN Journo Who Reported ‘Fiery But Mostly Peaceful Protests’ Gets Emmy Nomination

• Roblox bans children using free models with hidden malicious scripts

• Google CEO tells employees productivity and focus must improve

  • HN comments

• Google insists Stadia is “not shutting down”

• Visa ‘Intended to Help’ Pornhub Monetize Child Porn, Judge Preliminarily Finds

  • HN comments

  • Visa could be liable for helping monetize Pornhub videos of children, says court

• Max Headroom is getting rebooted

  • HN comments

• Meta adds an 18 and up tag in Horizon Worlds, opening the door to mature content

• Pirated books thrive on Amazon – and authors say web giant ignores fraud

TechSuck

• HN Jobs:

  • Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2022)

  • Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (August 2022)

  • Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (August 2022)

• Start charging them higher rent to use it, of course: Apple already sold everyone an iPhone. Now what?

• US govt warns Americans of escalating SMS phishing attacks

• Not Intel, but South Korea, Is Where Chips Money Should Go

• Linus releases the 5.19 kernel from an M1 MacBook | Hacker News

• Why the Term "Open Source" is Important · Danb Blog

  • HN comments

Crypto con games

• The Disastrous Record of Celebrity Crypto Endorsements

• A publicly traded Bitcoin whale's glaring (paper) loss

• SEC Charges Eleven Individuals in $300M Crypto Pyramid Scheme

Economicon / Business / Finance

• Why the American Dream is more attainable in some cities than others

• Minimum-wage earners in 91% of counties unable to afford a one-bedroom rental

• Amazon Cut Its Staff by Almost 100k in the June Quarter

• Inflation Is Everywhere—Even in TV Commercials.

• Home prices cooled at a record pace in June, according to housing data firm.

• Why It’s So Hard to Find an Affordable Apartment in New York

• The space economy grew at fastest rate in years to $469B in 2021

• US authorities threaten Alibaba with NYSE delisting

• Landlords call for end to LA's eviction moratorium

• Oracle starts job cuts in U.S.

Shortages

• The looming copper crunch and why recycling can’t fix it

  • HN comments

Gubmint / Poilitcks / Law Making

• U.S. cities and towns are paying remote workers up to $20k to move there

• Immigration reform is essential for the industrial and idea economy

• THE COLUMN: America's 'Transitioning'—but to What? | The Pipeline

• The Chips Act Is Popular, Bipartisan, and a Bad Idea

• Chipmakers warned: US CHIPS Act funds are not for 'stock buybacks'

• Raise taxes on investment? - Econlib

• ‘A Terrible Decision’: Newly Elected County Delegates in Arkansas Disqualified by Established Republicans.

• On ‘Yellowstone’ and in Montana, the Same Question: Who Owns the West?

Law Breaking / Police / Internal Security

• Man with Loaded Assault Rifle Arrested Outside Iranian Writer’s Home

• Did Manuel Ramírez spend years in prison for murdering a man who is still alive?

  • HN comments

• Prominent San Francisco CEO Hamid Moghadam robbed at gunpoint, calls for changes

• Lessons from Ruby Ridge - American Thinker

  For those too young to remember, it was thirty years ago this month that the DOJ entrapped Randy Weaver for his Christian beliefs, issued a death warrant, killed his dog, son, and wife, and shot Weaver and his friend.

External Security / Militaria / Diplomania

• Nuclear Experts Question Effects of Chinese Cell Towers on Missile Silos

• War on Terrorism is officially over, as far as your ribbon rack is concerned

• Nancy Pelosi is expected to visit Taiwan

  • Pelosi expected to visit Taiwan, Taiwanese and US officials say.

  • 'US Military Moving Assets', Markets Stall On Reports Pelosi To Visit Taiwan Tuesday

  • Nancy Pelosi to Visit Taiwan Despite Warnings from China

World

• China tries to buy a strategic Solomon Islands port

• How the German Economic Machine Broke Down

• Germany Has Three Months to Save Itself from a Winter Gas Crisis

• Military testimonies highlight the bureaucratic power over Palestinians

Russia Bad / Ukraine War

• Drone explosion hits Russia’s Black Sea Fleet headquarters

• Lebanon Seizes Ship Loaded With Stolen Ukrainian Grain.

Health / Medicine

• At last, an easier way to prepare for a colonoscopy

• Cognitive decline linked to ultraprocessed food, study finds

Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda

• Wine from Norwegian fjords thanks to global warming

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

• Climate scientist says total climate breakdown is now inevitable

• Time for Army Corps of Engineers to investigate moving water West?

  • HN comments

• California not counting methane leaks from idle wells

• Upper Colorado River leaders push back against federal ask for conservation

• U.S. Will Plant One Billion Trees to Combat Climate Change

• Net-zero commitments could limit warming to below 2 °C

  • HN comments

• the Earth Just Rotated So Fast That It Was the Shortest Day in History