2022-08-05

Cool

• Stewart Platform Head Massager – David McDaid Electronics

• Reverse-engineering a 1960s hybrid flip flop module with X-ray CT scans

etc

• A handful of states are driving nearly all U.S. electric car adoption

• Watch Live as SpaceX Attempts Its First Direct Launch to the Moon

• Traffic Fatalities Reach 16 Year High

  • HN comments

• What is the cost of a cashless society?

  • HN comments

Horseshit

• The final frontier? Just a slice of Spanish sausage

  • The controversial tweet, with a photo of a sausage slice

  • A sausage slice masking as a star tricks the internet

  • French Scientist's Photo of ‘Distant Star’ Was Chorizo

  • HN comments

• Effective Illegalism – SLIME MOLD TIME MOLD

• When an article says “Some scientists think”, then remember this

  When an article says "some scientists think" then remember this: I, a scientist, once thought I could fit a whole orange in my mouth. I could, it turns out, get it in there, but I hadn't given sufficient thought to the reverse operation.

• Bringing back the golden days of Bell Labs | Hacker News

• The nightmare of targeted individuals in the age of paranoia (2017) | Hacker News

• Absurdity Bias, Neom Edition - by Scott Alexander

• Why the Old Elite Spend So Much Time at Work

• I was at Woodstock ’99 and it destroyed my innocence

  • HN comments

• Automower sings Happy Birthday to the Mars Curiosity Rover | Husqvarna US

  • Users with 405X, 415X or 435X AWD will be notified about the update through the Husqvarna Automower® Connect app.
  • note - your Automower® must have the latest firmware installed in order to join in on the celebration.
  • Accept the firmware update, connect to the Smart Connection in the Smart Home section of Automower® Connect app, and your Automower® will sing at 12pm, 3pm and 6pm (local time) on August 5th.

celebrity gossip

• Marc Andreessen says he’s for new housing, but records tell a different story

  • HN comments

Rank Propaganda / Thought Policing / World Disordering

• Ask HN: Thoughts on Privacy Implications WRT Alex Jones' Phone Data? | Hacker News

• Alex Jones ordered to pay Sandy Hook parents more than $4M

  • Alex Jones must pay $4m in damages for Sandy Hook hoax claims

  • HN comments

• UN Deletes Article Titled ‘The Benefits of World Hunger.’ Was It Real or Satire?

• Silicon Valley Is Privatizing Our Future

• When Domestic Unity Is Built on Foreign Enemies

Gun control / Mass shooting

• Houston Bans 'Ghost Guns' From Buyback Events After Man Found Opportunity To Print Money | ZeroHedge

Musk

• Elon Musk's tech allies miffed about Twitter subpoenas

• Musk Says Twitter Committed Fraud in Dispute over Fake Accounts

• Burns Twitter’s lawyers deployed to deny Elon Musk’s claims

• Elon Musk Says Inflation Is ‘Past Peak’ as Parts Costs Trend Down

• Twitter says Musk’s spam analysis used tool that called his own account a bot

Pestilence / Pox / COVID / VaxCult

• What is BA.4.6? The CDC is tracking a new Covid ‘variant of concern’

• Think You've Never Had Covid-19? Think Again

• A reinfection red flag (re: Covid-19)

• Brown University’s Silence on Post-Vaccine Myocarditis

• The Myth — and Grift — of Long COVID

• Covid Vaccines Are Killing One in Every 800 Over-60s and Should Be Withdrawn Immediately, Says Leading Vaccine Scientist – The Daily Sceptic

• Quadruple-Vaxxed German Health Minister Tests Positive For COVID

• Larry Brilliant Says Covid Rapid Tests Are Bad for Public Health

• Biden administration declares the monkeypox outbreak a public health emergency

  • White House declares monkeypox a public health emergency

• Fauci and other health ‘experts’ are messing up monkeypox just as they did COVID, Ebola and AIDS.

• California Announces Fifth Case Of Pediatric Monkeypox In US

• Ask HN: How concerned should individuals be about monkeypox and what can we do?

Culture War / Tribal / Re segregation

• People in the United States strongly associate vegetarianism with whiteness

• 'Social contagion' isn't driving teens to transition: study

• Apple retaliated against women who complained about misconduct

  • HN comments

Media / ShowBiz / Advertising

• What Is Going on with Warner Bros. Discovery and HBO Max?

• TikTok Is Reportedly an 'Essential' App for Some Samsung Installs

  • HN comments

• We're improving search results when you use quotes

  • HN comments

• Inside Hollywood's Visual Effects Crisis | Defector

TechSuck

• Gitlab U-turns on deleting dormant projects after backlash

  • HN comments

• Intel’s ARC graphics cards on the brink? About resigning board partners, annoyed system integrators and skeptical retailers. | igor'sLAB

• Windows HEVC video codec from Microsoft costs $0.99 | Hacker News

• Firefox will no longer be a supported browser – service.mbna.ca | Hacker News

• Intel Optane, RIP - by Dr. Ian Cutress - More Than Moore

• The Robocalls Problem Is So Bad That the FCC Did Something

• DreamWorks Animation to Release MoonRay as Open Source

Crypto con games

• Bitcoin mining in the crypto crash: the mining companies’ creative accounting

  But then, for an example of the forward thinking skills of crypto guys, we remind you that Michael Novogratz of Galaxy Digital — one of the big lenders to miners — got a Terra-Luna tattoo in January 2022.

• Pumping the total value locked on Solana by pretending to be many people

• Every U.S. Crypto Exchange (and Binance) Is Being Investigated by the SEC | Hacker News

• Israeli researchers discovered the first consensus-level attack on Ethereum

  • HN comments

• Hacked crypto startup Nomad offers a 10% bounty for return of funds

  • Crypto Bridge Nomad Offers 10% Bounty After $190M Hack

• Indie devs outraged by unlicensed game sales on GameStop’s NFT market

Economicon / Business / Finance

• Equifax software bug messed up credit score calculations for weeks

  • Equifax issued wrong credit scores for millions

• CFPB Is Investigating Goldman Sachs’s Credit-Card Practices

• SoundCloud is firing 20 percent of its global workforce

• Oracle insiders describe the 'complete chaos' from layoffs

• Executive Assistants Are Pricier Than Ever

• Some employees are outsourcing their jobs to other people

• Amazon acquires Roomba robot vacuum makers iRobot for $1.7B

  • Amazon to acquire maker of Roomba vacuum for roughly $1.7B

  • HN comments

• Employers added more than 528,000 jobs in July, more than double expectations

  • US employers add 528,000 jobs; unemployment falls to 3.5%

  • Wall Street Reacts To Today's "Phenomenally Strong" Jobs Report

  • Something Snaps In The Job Market: Multiple Jobholders Hit All Time High As Unexplained 1.8 Million Jobs Gap Emerges | ZeroHedge

  • US adds 528,000 jobs, almost back to pre-pandemic levels

• Italy, Intel close to $5B deal for chip factory

Gubmint / Poilitcks / Law Making

• New York Times: It's Not Fair to Send the Illegal Aliens Demanded by East Coast Elites to the East Coast

• Senator Grassley to lead GOP effort demanding Google remove Gmail spam filtering

Law Breaking / Police / Internal Security

• “Huge flaw” threatens US emergency alert system, DHS researcher warns

• ATF agent James Burk haughtily tells Columbus, OH cops, "I'm a federal f*cking agent!", refuses to comply, and it goes downhill quickly from there.

• The Evasive Mr. Wray › American Greatness

External Security / Militaria / Diplomania

• The Air Force’s use of AR to train U.S. pilots to fight China, Russia

• A look at the missile that killed al-Qaida leader Ayman al-Zawahri

• Why No One Cared That Al Qaeda Honcho Zawahiri Got Droned

  • Al Qaeda’s Zawahiri Would Have Made a Great American Pundit

Taiwan

• White House Orders US Carrier Strike Group To Stay Near Taiwan Longer Than Planned, Says China 'Overreacting'

• Military drills drum home China's relentless message in the Taiwan Strait

• China's military drills around Taiwan show how it is closing the gap with the US

• PLA says US carrier retreats as Beijing continues Taiwan drills

• Apple warns Taiwanese suppliers to label “China” on badges

  • HN comments

• China Sanctions Pelosi, Halts US Talks Including Military Ties, As Jets Breach Taiwan Median Line

• China suspends cooperation with US on some issues, sanctions Pelosi over Taiwan

World

• The UK economy is weak and rigged

• Spain bans offices, bars and shops from setting AC below 80 degrees

• Bank of England governor defends rate hike ahead of looming UK recession

• The Bank of England predicts a lengthy recession at the end of the year

• Low water levels mean Rhine is days from being shut for cargo

Russia Bad / Ukraine War

• Russia Accused of Using Ukraine Nuclear Plant as Artillery Base

• Why The West Is Easing Its Sanctions On Russia

Health / Medicine

• NY Samples Show Polio Virus in Different County as State Warns Community Spread

  • Polio virus found in another New York county, officials say.

• High-dose Vitamin B6 supplementation reduces anxiety

• Did we all believe a myth about depression?

  • HN comments

• Persistent Low Wages Linked to Faster Memory Decline in Later Life

Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda

• Using grape harvest dates to estimate summer temperature over 650 years

  • (2018) CP - The longest homogeneous series of grape harvest dates, Beaune 1354–2018, and its significance for the understanding of past and present climate

  To correct for the above-mentioned inadequacies we constructed a new 664-year-long almost homogenous and nearly uninterrupted series of GHDs, focussing the archival study on the Beaune vine-growing area (available on the Euro-Climhist data platform; https://echdb.unibe.ch/, last access: 15 July 2019). Thereby, we used different kinds of archival information.

• Coral makes comeback on Great Barrier Reef

  • HN comments

• ‘Never seen anything like it’: The volcano blast that altered the atmosphere

• Wildfires destroy forest carbon offsets in 100-year reserve, study says

• Why is a wet country like Scotland facing water scarcity?

• Global heating means almost every sea turtle in Florida now born female

• Plant-Based Burgers Aren’t Denting Our Beef Addiction

• Source of River Thames dries out ‘for first time’ during drought

• Why Dutch Farmers Revolt « Lawrence Person's BattleSwarm Blog