2022-08-04

Worthy

• Slightly Against Underpopulation Worries

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• Solar storm expected to hit Earth, but likely ‘weak,’ forecasters say.

• The Language You Speak Influences Where Your Attention Goes

• Evaluating Information: Find the Signal in the Noise

• 2 Die in Harlem Fire as Warnings Mount About Scooter Battery Hazards

• On Being Rich-ish: Lessons I learned becoming suddenly middle-class

• Working a Shitty Job Is Linked to Mental Decline When You're Old, Study Says

• Blue Origin launches 6 people on company’s 6th space tourism mission.

Horseshit

• The gruesome fates of futurists hoping for immortality using cryonics

• Ask HN: What's up with these DoorDash dark patterns?

• How the U.S. gave away a breakthrough battery technology to China

• Forget Disruption. Tech Needs to Fetishize Stability

• My Own Dimes Square Fascist Humiliation Ritual

  Filming this movie was genuinely the most bizarre and evil thing I have ever experienced. But I’m not hurt by it. If anything, it vindicated what I had written about Actors in the first place. After this ritual humiliation, I feel more hardened and lucid. I feel confident in the power of my writing to expose these brownshirt mediocrities and reveal their true ugliness in ways that other leftist writers have struggled to do.

celebrity gossip

• Bruce Willis’ Stoic Roles Masked His Silent Decline

Rank Propaganda / Thought Policing / World Disordering

• Damaging Alex Jones texts mistakenly sent to Sandy Hook family’s lawyers

• Globalization has brought equity! There is No Such Thing as Development Economics

• UN Declares War on Conspiracy Theories the World Is Not Manipulated by Elite

Gun control / Mass shooting

• Parade shooting suspect pleads not guilty to 117 charges

• Termination hearing for Uvalde school police chief delayed

Musk

• What Twitter’s Subpoenas to Elon Musk’s Inner Circle Could Yield

• Starlink trials 250GB data caps in France

Jan6

• Defense Department and Army Failed to Preserve Jan. 6 Text Messages

Musk

• Tesla is the latest company to be drawn into the Elon Musk-Twitter legal mess

• Elon Musk's Twitter countersuit due by Friday as acrimony grows

Abortion

• Microsoft’s $3M anti-abortion donations under fire from activists, shareholders

  • HN comments

Pestilence / Pox / COVID / VaxCult

• Crosstalk between Covid-19 and Prostate Cancer

• Why the Chair of the Lancet’s COVID-19 Commission Thinks The US Government Is Preventing a Real Investigation Into the Pandemic  ❧ Current Affairs

  Through his investigations as the head of the COVID-19 commission, Prof. Sachs has come to the conclusion that there is extremely dangerous biotechnology research being kept from public view, that the United States was supporting much of this research, and that it is very possible that SARS-CoV-2, the virus responsible for COVID-19, originated through dangerous virus research gone awry.

  Well, more than that: I appointed him—this was Peter Daszak—I appointed him to chair the task force of the pandemic commission that I was running for the Lancet. And he headed a task force on the origins. I thought, naively at the beginning, “Well, here’s a guy who is so connected, he would know.” And then I realized he was not telling me the truth. And it took me some months, but the more I saw it, the more I resented it. And so I told him, “Look, you have to leave.” And then the other scientists in that task force attacked me for being anti-scientific.

• The Origins of Covid-19 Are More Complicated Than Once Thought

• China’s Covid Zero Could Last for Years Because It Works for Xi.

• Don't Look Now, But China Just Locked Down A Million Wuhan Residents Again

• Covid-19: Unprecedented levels of chronic absence in schools

• A Stranger Filmed Her on the Train. TikTok Users Decided She Had Monkeypox

• The monkeypox situation keeps getting worse

  Right now, rich country cases seem to mostly be in gay men with vigorous social lives who, I assume, are on the younger side.

  A realistic late-May assessment of the situation carried the implication that public health types should have urged gay men to hold off on a summer of fun until vaccine supplies were ample. Indeed, given the very recent context of mandatory non-pharmaceutical interventions to curb SARS-CoV-2, you might have seen some suggestions that we ought to ban certain kinds of big parties. It’s a little strange that people who were relatively gung-ho about shutting down schools and bars and restaurants might shy away from that solution. But the gay angle raises the specter of discrimination and stigmatization, so instead many officials opted for obfuscation and a lack of clarity.

  The most egregious failure here was really by the Trump administration, which was in office at the time JYNNEOS was licensed and should have immediately mobilized to put it into the field.

• How many times are we going to make this kind of mistake?

  The government is now distributing about 1.1 million doses, less than a third of the 3.5 million that health officials now estimate are needed to fight the outbreak. It does not expect the next delivery, of half a million doses, until October. Most of the other 5.5 million doses the United States has ordered are not scheduled to be delivered until next year, according to the federal health agency.

• Biden administration will declare monkeypox outbreak a public health emergency

Culture War / Tribal / Re segregation

• A TikTok rival promised millions to Black creators. Now some are deep in debt

• Google adds a tag to identify Asian-owned businesses in Search and Maps

• Just the social facts, ma'am: Too bad to be true

• Apple fought alleged sex-abuse victims to enforce ‘code of silence’

  • Women calling out Apple’s handling of misconduct claims

Edumacationalizing / Acedemia Nuts

• Signs Parents Won't Be Sending Their Kids Back to School This Fall

• Yale pairs speech-protective policies with a culture of intolerance

• Free online textbooks work

  • HN comments

• As a PhD student with a chronic disease, low stipends make academia untenable

• Parent discovers unpublished 4-H policy bunking by gender identity at overnight camps – The North State Journal

  “Mr. Yoder informed me that there was no plan to announce this policy,” Brinson said. “Furthermore, he said, they were not allowed to publish this policy due to the federal funds that they received.”

Media / ShowBiz / Advertising

• Top Meta execs flee California under Zuckerberg’s remote work policy

• Walls close in on Zuckerberg as executives desert Meta

• How prestige outlets like The Guardian get away with copypasta

  • HN comments

• TikTok to overtake Facebook in influencer marketing spend this year

• The online ad market is in decline and it's dragging down tech giants with it

• Podcast Guests Are Paying Up to $50k to Appear on Popular Shows

• The Case for Bodice Rippers

• Visa suspends card payments for ad purchases on Pornhub and MindGeek

TechSuck

• Linux may soon lose support for the DECnet protocol

• Hackable $20 Modem Combines LTE and Pi Zero W2 Power

• Roaming goes down the drain as AT&T disconnects European travellers

• Gitlab plans to delete dormant projects in free accounts

  • HN comments

• Every single time I open your software, I'm asked to download an update

• SpaceX and Viasat fight over whether Starlink can meet FCC speed obligations

• GlobalFoundries joins Google’s open source silicon initiative

  • HN comments

• MEMEX - Botspam Apocalypse

  • HN comments

• GitHub no longer showing commit comments in PRs

• AMD follows Intel in warning that the PC market is falling apart

• Why you should start paying attention to CXL now

Crypto con games

• Avowed Bitcoin creator Craig Wright is not happy with £1 win in UK libel lawsuit

• Michael Saylor Bet Billions on Bitcoin and Lost

• Texas Bitcoin Miner Made Millions More in Power Credits Than Selling Bitcoin

• BlackRock Teams Up with Coinbase in Crypto Market Expansion

• New crypto oversight legislation arrives as industry shakes

• Mark Zuckerberg is minting an NFT of his Little League baseball card

Economicon / Business / Finance

• How landlords are evading taxes and fueling the housing crisis

• Americans’ household debt surpasses $16T for first time

• Walmart lays off corporate employees after slashing forecast

• U.S. Gas Prices Have Fallen for 50 Straight Days

• Warehouse Space Is All Of A Sudden In High Demand As A Looming "Reverse Bullwhip" Inventory Glut Looms | ZeroHedge

• Amazon Shrinks Workforce by 100k

• Oil profits raise questions about tax, green investment

• How to Be Happy in a Recession

• Johnson and Johnson Employs Bankruptcy Strategy to Cap Litigation Payouts

Shortages

• Parents continue desperate search for baby formula as crisis continues.

Gubmint / Poilitcks / Law Making

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

• US Rep. Jackie Walorski, three others killed in crash

  • Indiana Rep. Jackie Walorski killed in car crash

• US Labor Shortages and the Immigration Shortfall

• Flush With $80B in Funding, the IRS Will Go "Beast Mode" on the Middle Class

• Electric Car Drivers: You Might Be Unhappy over Privacy-Jolting Mileage Taxes

• Watch: Biden Energy Advisor Claims It's "Just Factually Not True" That Gas Prices Were Rising Before Ukraine Invasion

• The Press Is Already Working Overtime to Elect Trump Again

Hunter

• Smoking Gun: Newly Discovered Emails Confirm Joe Biden Obstructed Justice For His Son’s Foreign Business Deal - Just Facts Daily

• The Political and Media Elite Prepare To Drop Hunter Biden in a ‘Controlled Demolition.’

Law Breaking / Police / Internal Security

• FBI Whistleblower LEAKS Bureau’s ‘Domestic Terrorism Symbols Guide’ on ‘Militia Violent Extremists’ Citing Ashli Babbitt as MVE Martyr | Project Veritas

• Let’s hear it for the kidnapped Alabama girl who chewed out of her restraints and led cops back to her kidnapper and the decomposing bodies in his home .

  • Officials: Kidnapped girl chewed restraints to escape, leads investigators to bodies

• DeSantis Suspends 'Soros-Backed' State Attorney For 'Violating Oath'

External Security / Militaria / Diplomania

• Terrorist Ayman Al-Zawahiri Killed in the Home of a New York Times Contributor

  • I Lived a ‘Frat Party’ Life in the House Where Al Qaeda Chief Was Killed, U.S. Aid Worker Says

• Are US threat assessments outpacing military realities?

• Nobody wants the current world order

• 20% of USAF B-2 force now deployed Down Under

• U.S. Senate approves Finland and Sweden for membership into NATO

  • Viral Josh Hawley Speech Rejecting Sweden, Finland's NATO Bids Met With Charges Of "Traitor" | ZeroHedge

Pelosi / Taiwan

• As Taiwan Warns Chinese "Maritime & Aerial Blockade" Ensuing, Pelosi Says Real Issue Is 'I'm A Woman' | ZeroHedge

• Pelosi angers China but Taiwan, not the US, may pay the higher price

• Does Nancy Pelosi’s trade suggest a shake-up in the semiconductor industry?

• Counterargument: Experts doubt China is gearing up to invade Taiwan

• China set to begin effective Taiwan blockade hours after Nancy Pelosi visit

• China fires missiles near Taiwan in drills after Pelosi visit

• Pelosi Blanks Media Questions as China Lights up the Taiwan Strait with Barrage of Missiles

• Japan says five Chinese ballistic missiles landed inside EEZ near Okinawa

• Ballistic Missiles Soar Over Taiwan, "Hundreds" Of PLA Fighters Breach Airspace, As 5-Day Drills Commence

• China's missiles 'imitating North Korea' – Taiwan

• Pelosi’s Taiwan Visit: The Substance and the Aftermath

World

• China to begin series of unprecedented live-fire drills off Taiwan coast

• U.K. to pull paper bank notes, transition to polymer from October 1

• To Stop Inflation Protests, Panama Fixes Prices Of Groceries, Medicine

• UK Considers Divisive Home Loan Revolution to Rival Thatcher

• Bank of England on brink of biggest rate hike since 1995

• Bank of England warns the UK will fall into recession this year

• Treason Act charge after Windsor Castle crossbow incident

• UK Parliament closes TikTok account after China data warning

• ‘Science superpower’ plan risks making UK bureaucracy superpower, says peer

• Spain bans setting the AC below 27 degrees Celsius

  • HN comments

• Japan Once Led the World in Microchips. Now, It’s Racing to Catch Up

• Peru’s former presidential secretary surrenders after four months in hiding

Russia Bad / Ukraine War

• Russia Says US "Directly Involved" In Ukraine War

• Russia Is Building ‘Ghost Bridges’ with Radar Reflectors in Ukraine

• German Artillery Donated To Ukraine Is Already Failing After Just Weeks Of Use

• Amnesty International: Ukrainian fighting tactics endanger civilians

  • Ukraine Violates War Laws, Endangers Civilians: Amnesty International

• WNBA star Brittney Griner sentenced to nine years in prison by Russian court

Health / Medicine

• Deaths, many wasted organs are blamed on transplant system errors

• NY county with polio has pitiful 60% vaccination rate; 1,000s may be infected

• When are expired drugs truly expired?

Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda

• Methane Leaks Speed Up Climate Change

• Tonga's volcano sent tons of water vapor into the atmosphere, may warm earth

• What happens if the world gets too hot for animals to survive?

• The Hollow Promise of Small Nuclear Reactors

• Cheetah poised to make a comeback in India after its extinction in the country

• As reflective satellites fill skies, UArizona making sure astronomers can adapt

• Climate Endgame: Exploring catastrophic climatechange scenarios

  • HN comments

• Surprise – the Australian Great Barrier Reef has “Bounced Back” from Climate Change.

• Nutrition solution can help heat-stressed cows as US warms

• Heat Map Shows Clear Trend in Global Temperature Change

• "How bad will this be for the planet?" Quaise Energy is working to create geothermal wells | Hacker News

  I have absolutely zero knowledge which would qualify me to talk about this topic. But based on what I know about our world and its ecosystems, I just can't imagine that drilling holes into earth and extracting it's heat can be a good idea when done in large scales.

• Mysterious deep-sea Arctic shark found in the Caribbean

• First photos of cougars killing donkeys in Death Valley–impacts for ecosystem

• Revealed: How climate breakdown is supercharging toll of extreme weather

• Wind and solar power are 'bailing out' Texas

• Reduced Sulfur Emissions Could Cause Climate Shock