2022-08-03

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• Earth Sets New Record for Shortest Day

  • From the added momentum from various historical figures whirling in their graves.

• Building on reclaimed land - by Connor Tabarrok

• Kids’ Sports Can Take a Toll on Families

• What’s the Strangest Thing You Ever Found in a Book?

Horseshit

• Nuclear sky hotel not impossible

• How Thieves Are Stealing Hyundais and Kias With Just a USB Cable

  • "RFID keys" were a big deal in "Gone in 60 seconds", now the lack of them is news? Many 20 year old American cars can be started as easily.

• The Pickleball Troll | Hacker News

• Mysterious Metallic Orb Falls on Mexico, May Contain ‘Valuable Information,’ Meteorologist Says

celebrity gossip

• Is Scott Galloway the Howard Stern of the Business World?

• UCF Student Negotiated with Mark Cuban to Stop Tweeting Jet's Whereabouts

• Jeff Bezos' Unfinished Yacht Towed Away

• Paul Pelosi pleads not guilty to DUI charges months after crashing Porsche in California.

Obit

• Vin Scully Has Died

Rank Propaganda / Thought Policing / World Disordering

• Wikipedia: The “Recession” Affair

Gun control / Mass shooting

• 3D-printed ghost guns won’t be accepted at next Houston buyback event

Jan6

• Surprise: The case of the missing Jan. 6 text messages now extends to the Pentagon.

Musk

• Twitter subpoenaed Musk's connection: Palihapitiya, Sacks, Calacanis, etc

• Elon Musk Subpoenas Goldman Sachs and JPMorgan in Twitter Takeover Fight

Abortion

• Georgia Officially Allows Fetuses to Be Claimed as Dependents on Tax Forms

• Abortion Is About More Than Abortion

• Kansans vote to uphold abortion rights in their state.

Pestilence / Pox / COVID / VaxCult

• Monkeypox Cases Continue To Spread Across the U.S. as Three States Declare Emergencies

• Pfizer Board Member Predicts Monkeypox Will Become A 'Public Health Failure'

• Countries Disagree over Severity of Monkeypox

• Monkeypox: 25K cases, a batch of new deaths, and 3 state emergencies

• Monkeypox virus isolation from semen collected in the early phase of infection

• Monkeypox: 25K cases, a batch of new deaths, and 3 state emergencies

• Evolution of SARS-CoV-2 Shedding in Exhaled Breath Aerosols

• Has the Covid pandemic caused an increase in shortsightedness in children

• Cranium co-creator, Seattle entrepreneur Richard Tait dies after Covid

  • HN comments

• Apple ends corporate Covid mask mandate

• Heart disease after Covid: what the data say

• mRNA Vaccines: Why Is the Biology of Retroposition Ignored?

Culture War / Tribal / Re segregation

• Black activists destroy offensive objects from the past on Emancipation Day

• Not all racism is created equal.

• NYPD must disclose facial recognition procedures deployed against BLM protesters

• Diversity officer guilty of racism: ‘you must have been oppressed’

Edumacationalizing / Acedemia Nuts

• Elite Universities Are Out of Touch. Blame the Campus

• Why Is America Fractured? Blame College, a New Book Argues

• PLOS ONE to retract more than 100 papers for manipulated peer review

• Kids Are Back in Classrooms and Laptops Are Still Spying on Them

• Preregistering research as a cure for scientific bias

Media / ShowBiz / Advertising

• Batgirl Won’t Fly: Warner Bros. Discovery Has No Plans to Release Nearly Finished $90 Million Film

  • Warner Bros. Shelves ‘Batgirl’ with No Plans to Release Theatrically or HBO Max

  • Irredeemable Batgirl movie unexpectedly cancelled despite being in final stages

• Stephen King testifies against merger of publishing giants

• Trump's purported free speech social media platform is hiding user posts

  • Truth Can’t Handle the Truth – Censorship on Truth Social

• Four out of five viewers between 18 and 25 put subtitles on

• Ask HN: Why has quality of YouTube reduced drastically?

• TikTok’s Poison Pill

  • HN comments

• US gamers are spending a lot less on video games now than they did in 2021

• (April 2022) Data privacy is not the issue with TikTok: Epistemic control is

• Facebook wants to be more like TikTok. That’s a bad idea

• Tinder steps back from metaverse dating plans as business falters

• Netflix Is Scrambling to Learn the Ad Business It Long Disdained

• The newsletter boom has died down but the format isn’t going away

• Visual effects artists speak out against Marvel

TechSuck

• Introducing multitasking to Arduino | Hacker News

• Vulkan update: version 1.2 conformance for Raspberry Pi 4

  • HN comments

• OpenCAPI to Fold into CXL – CXL Set to Become Dominant CPU Interconnect Standard

• The PUREST Water in the World - by Jon Y

• Dish drops another 210K wireless subs in 2Q

Crypto con games

• SEC charges 11 people over 'textbook' $300M crypto Ponzi scheme

• Pearson plans to sell its textbooks as NFTs

  • Pearson Says Blockchain Could Make It Money Every Time E-Books Change Hands

• Thousands of Solana wallets drained in multi-million dollar exploit

  • Solana and Slope Wallet Users Drained in Suspected Exploit

  • Solana, USDC Drained from Wallets in Attack – Decrypt

  • Potential widespread exploit of Solana L1 chain (via mobile client libraries)

  • An attacker is currently draining 100s of Solana, $SOL, wallets and SPL tokens

  • HN comments

  • Solana wallets ‘drained’ in blow to crypto network

  • Crypto Takes a New Hit as Thousands of Solana Wallets Hacked

  • Hack Drains Millions of Dollars from Thousands of Solana Crypto Wallets

• Senate Plan Would Put Bitcoin, Ether Under Commodity Regulator’s Watch

• Central bank digital currency cast aside in Japan

• The SEC’s Cryptocurrency Confusion

• Robinhood Crypto Division Fined $30M

Economicon / Business / Finance

• Uber reports positive cash flow for the first time

• Robinhood Lays Off 23% of Staff

  • HN comments

  • Robinhood Fires A Quarter Of Employees Via Slack; Reports Dismal Earnings One Day Early

• Lollipops Hustle on Amazon Costs Family Candy Business Millions

• The Fees Making Your Bananas, and Everything Else, Cost More

• Nonprofit markups.org is exposing the most egregious new car prices

  • HN comments

• Postal workers go into debt when management claim they are overpaid

• We could see job elimination but low unemployment

• The passion economy: Future of work, or a privilege of the rich?

• Retailers Seeking More Warehouse Space to Stow Excess Inventory.

• SoftBank Emerges as a Big Loser of the Tech Downturn. Again

• Venture capital’s silent crash: when the tech boom met reality

• Y Combinator narrows current cohort size by 40%, citing downturn and funding

  • HN comments

• Yes, the U.S. economy is likely in recession

  • HN comments

• Dark Clouds Gather for Mining Giants

• Household debt tops $16 trillion for the first time, fueled by higher inflation and interest rates.

• The $300B meme stock that makes GameStop look like child’s play

• High property prices can damage the economy

• Equifax issued wrong credit scores for millions of consumers

Gubmint / Poilitcks / Law Making

• Republicans Don’t Believe New CNN CEO’s Promise to End Partisanship.

  • CNN President Asking GOP Lawmakers to Please Come Back, Give the Network Another Chance

• The IRS Is About to Go Beast Mode

• 2024 GOP hopefuls back Trump's plan to purge civil servants

• Political Chips – Stratechery by Ben Thompson

• Courts, not amendments, best route for constitutional reform

• After 3 Tries Veterans Toxic Exposure Bill the Pact Act Finally Passes US Senate

• Psychedelic drugs hurt few and could help many. California must decriminalize

Law Breaking / Police / Internal Security

• Seattle businesses take law into own hands to combat homelessness

• The rise of the keyword search warrant

• Former Owner of T-Mobile Store Guilty of $25M Scheme to Unlock Cellphones

  • HN comments

• CA sheriff orders raid on Indiana Batmobile garage, allegedly as favor for friend

External Security / Militaria / Diplomania

• Modified cropduster design wins SOCOM “Armed Overwatch” contract

• Nancy Pelosi, China and the Slow Decline of the U.S. Military

• U.S. official: Fatal strike on al-Qaida leader Ayman al-Zawahiri took months of planning

• al-Zawahiri Shredded By Blades Of Non-Explosive "Flying Ginsu" Missile

• Al Qaeda Leader Ayman al-Zawahiri Is Dead…for at Least the 4th Time.

Pelosi

• China Summons US Ambassador Overnight, Says Washington "Must Pay The Price"

• The PLA exercises around Taiwan island, the closest being only 9 nautical miles

• Pelosi heads to South Korea after whirlwind Taiwan trip

• Nancy Pelosi ties Chinese cyber-attacks to need for Taiwan visit

• Pelosi Departs Taiwan After Whirlwind Tour As China Declares "Median Line" No Longer Exists

• Pelosi Arrives In Seoul, But South Korea's President Won't Meet With Her

World

• British Police Arrest Man for Retweeting Post That Made Someone Anxious

• Liz Truss Wants a Pony: A Magic Internet Where No One Ever Says Any Bad Things

• China Slaps Export Ban on 100 Taiwan Brands Before Pelosi Visit

• China’s Property Crisis Threatens to Drag Down Steel Industry

• The Turkish school preserving culture of young Uighurs in exile

• A Third Nuclear Weapon Age Is Upon Us

• Europe car sales lowest since 1996 after 12-month decline

• A Global Shopping Tour: Where Will Germany Get Its Energy in the Future?

• Dutch government declares national water shortage

• China’s centralized economic system is headed for trouble

• Nuclear Power Plants Could Stay Open, Says Germany

• 'Nobody can control TSMC by force': Exec dismisses fears China could seize fabs

• Several people injured in blast at French military explosives producer.

Russia Bad / Ukraine War

• Ukrainian nuclear plant is “completely out of control”

• Battle to end the war: Ukraine's chance to get edge over Russia

Health / Medicine

• Salivary microbiome reveals a dysbiotic schizophrenia-associated microbiota

• What is ultra-processed food?

• Women may not live longer than men after all

  • Men have a high probability of outliving women

• Coming wave of opioid overdoses ‘will be worse than ever been before’

• Polio found in New York wastewater month before confirmed case emerged

Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda

• How not to solve the climate change problem

• Climate change potential to end humanity ‘dangerously underexplored’

• Climate endgame: exploring catastrophic climate change scenarios

• Worsening Drought Drives California Water Prices to All-Time High

• Lake Mead nears dead pool status as water levels hit another historic low

• Oh No – The Guardian is too Climate Alarmist even for Michael Mann.

• Ask HN: Working in tech for climate?

• The End of Snow Threatens to Upend 76M American Lives