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• Three Month Heterochronic Parabiosis Has a Deleterious Effect on the Lifespan of Young Animals, Without a Positive Effect for Old Animals | Rejuvenation Research

  Our previous study showed that an exchange of blood between heterochronic parabionts for 3 months did not rejuvenate the immune system of the old partners. Moreover, the young immune system became more aged and began to function according to the “old” principle.

• Census: White and youth population losses contributed most to growth slowdown

• Avi Loeb, still "planning": An Interstellar Object May Have Struck Earth. Scientists Plan to Search The Ocean.

• With New Study, NASA Seeks the Science Behind UFOs

• The Microwave Economy - David Perell

• The Puzzle of Electrum Coins

Horseshit

• Airline Passenger Fined Over $1,800 Over a Couple of McMuffins in His Luggage.

• Invasion News Fits on Front Page More When an Enemy Does the Invading

• I sold the rights to my songs to buy a farm and revolutionise food production

• John Lanchester · Fraudpocalypse · LRB 4 August 2022

• Audiophiles are in an uproar after it turned out their precious vinyl was pressed from high-quality digital recordings rather than lower-fidelity analog master tapes.

• What ever happened to the transhumanists?

  • HN comments

• It Was a Mistake to Let Kids onto Social Media Sites. Here’s What to Do Now

• The economic consequences of major tax cuts for the rich

• Cat lovers can try cat-food inspired dishes at Fancy Feast's Italian pop-up - CNN

  The experience is limited to a total of 16 guests, who will each enjoy a complimentary tasting menu free of charge.

celebrity gossip

• Actress Anne Heche critically injured in Los Angeles crash

Obit

• Obituary: Gary Schroen, the CIA Spy Sent to Get Osama Bin Laden

Rank Propaganda / Thought Policing / World Disordering

• James Lindsay Permanently Banned from Twitter

  • Twitter must now suspend itself’: Babylon Bee CEO Seth Dillon busts Twitter for hateful conduct regarding James Lindsay’s suspension

• Alex Jones must pay $50m in punitive damages for Sandy Hook hoax claim

  • HN comments

• Amazon bought iRobot to see inside your home

• 'You'll Own Nothing'—and Like It. Or Will You? | The Pipeline

• Viktor Orbán turns Texas conference into transatlantic far-right love-in

Abortion

• A Dangerous Place to Be Pregnant Is Getting Even Scarier

• Jury rules that pharmacist didn't discriminate when he denied morning-after pill

  • HN comments

• Indiana passes near-total abortion ban, the first state to do so post-Roe

Jan6

• Doug Mastriano challenges Jan. 6 panel’s ‘deceptive editing’ in balking at deposition.

• Jonathan Turley Takes Apart Liz Cheney Claim J6 Committee Has ‘Much More’ to Come.

Musk

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

• California DMV accuses Tesla of falsely advertising Autopilot and FSD features

  • California DMV says Tesla's marketing deceptive for Autopilot, Full Self-Driving

• Tesla’s Cybertruck is going to be more expensive than originally planned

• Twitter Obliterates Elon Musk's Excuses for Killing Buyout Deal

• Twitter confirms zero-day used to expose data of 5.4M accounts

  • HN comments

  • An incident impacting some accounts and private information on Twitter

Pestilence / Pox / COVID / VaxCult

• Biden Still Testing Positive While His Doc Hides…What Gives?

• CDC Claims Link Between Heart Inflammation And COVID-19 Vaccines Wasn't Known For Most Of 2021 | ZeroHedge

• How many Animal Species have caught Covid? – First global Tracker has Answers

• Covid face masks devastating bird populations around the world

• The Covid couples struggling with post-lockdown life

• Long Covid symptoms affect one in eight, study suggests

• President Biden has tested negative for Covid, per the White House physician

• Loss of Smell from Covid-19, Cognitive Problems Linked

• Health Authorities Issue New Advice for Avoiding Monkeypox - WSJ

  CDC says sexually active people should limit their number of sex partners, after finding the disease is concentrated in men who have had sex with several men

  In addition to advising people to limit their number of sex partners, the CDC recommended wearing latex, polyurethane or nitrile gloves, and changing or cleaning clothes, bedding, towels and sex toys after sex. The new evidence on who is developing monkeypox comes after cases increased to more than known 7,000 in the U.S., prompting the federal government to declare a public-health emergency on Thursday.

• How Colleges are preparing for a new public health threat – Monkeypox

• Monkeypox – The Myths, Misconceptions – and Facts – about how you catch it

• There's Monkeypox In Wastewater. Here's Why Experts Aren't That Concerned.

• After repeating early COVID mistakes, US now has the world’s biggest monkeypox outbreak

Culture War / Tribal / Re segregation

• Shaun King Threatens Reporters: 'I Know Where You Live'

• Seven years of sex abuse: How Mormon officials let it happen

• US library defunded after refusing to censor authors

  • HN comments

• 'Prey': 'Predator' prequel has Hollywood's first all-Native American cast

• How the Elites Use Identity Politics to Wage Class War

• The violent, misogynistic world of TikTok’s new star, Andrew Tate

Edumacationalizing / Acedemia Nuts

• Federal Court Upholds First Amendment for Student's Off-Campus Social Media Post

• Drag Queen Story Hour UK: How the far right is targeting drag queen readings - CNN

• Déjà Vu: Another Democrat Thinks Parents Shouldn’t Have a Say in Their Children’s Education: Texas gubernatorial candidate Beto O’Rourke, who has taken thousands from teachers’ unions, says parents shouldn’t question teachers.

Media / ShowBiz / Advertising

• ‘The Sandman’ Is Coming to TV

• HBO Max will be replaced next year by a new service combined with Discovery Plus

• How Did Elevators Lose Their Music?

  • HN comments

• What Happens When Your Femtech Startup Can’t Use Social Media For Marketing?

• Ubisoft about to take away games you bought

• Netflix, Hulu and Disney sued by Houston, other Texas cities over unpaid fees

TechSuck

• NSA, NIST, and post-quantum crypto: Announcing my second lawsuit against the US

  • HN comments

  • Some interesting byplay in the dead parts of the HN thread: One of the prolific posters there has a apparently long standing beef with DJB (he won't say why); but someone else gets stomped by admins for asking him about it.

• Free software grows as a function of social utility

• Kanye West's Stem Player - An engineering disaster

  • HN comments

Crypto con games

• Coinbase’s Rapid Rise Left It Exposed in Crypto’s Collapse

• 'Baby Al Capone' Pulled Off a $24M Crypto Heist

• Instagram Is Expanding Its NFT Features to More Than 100 Countries

Economicon / Business / Finance

• What recession? Jobs numbers point to solid growth

  • July Jobs U.S. Added 528,000 New Jobs as Unemployment Rate Fell to 3.5%

• More Americans are working part-time, a sign for future jobs market instability

• Think 9% Inflation Is Bad? Try 90%

• Fed's Bowman: more 75 basis-point hikes should be on the table

Gubmint / Poilitcks / Law Making

• New York Times Publishes Op-Ed From 25-Year-Old Female “Economics Influencer” Absolving Biden of Blame for Economy and Instead Putting It Where It Belongs: On the “Bad Vibes” The Public Is Putting Out About the Economy, Man

• 3 dead, 1 in critical condition after lightning strike near White House

  • Washington Lightning Toll Rises to 3; Experts See Climate Warning

• State governments are reimagining American public housing

• It’s Hard to Win a Senate Race When You’ve Never Won an Election Before

• Bill Gates: We’re on the Verge of Remarkable Moment for Congress and the Country

• Are Democrats Really Settling for Joe Biden?

• In new ad, Dick Cheney slams Trump as a liar and a ‘coward’

• IRS to be larger than Pentagon, State Dept, FBI compbined

Law Breaking / Police / Internal Security

• Pentagon Denies National Guard Troops For DC After "Sanctuary City" Mayor Begs For Help

• Federal Prosecutor Sets Up Hotline for Reporting, Among Other Things, People “Espousing … Hate-Filled Views.”

• How a Democratic Congressional Staffer Faked Being an FBI Agent and Became a Fugitive

  The congressional staffer in question, Sterling Devion Carter, admitted in court to openly carrying a firearm illegally. Federal prosecutors dropped the law enforcement impersonation charge, and he narrowly avoided prison time.

External Security / Militaria / Diplomania

• Air Force must allow trolling on their social media pages after lawsuit

• On the Legality of the Strike that Killed Ayman al-Zawahiri

World

• Paraplegic shooting suspect can avoid trial and end his life, Spanish court says

• Israel Launches "Pre-emptive" Airstrikes On Gaza, Vowing To Wipe Out Islamic Jihad

  • Israel Gaza attack kills Palestinian militant commander, 5 year-old-girl

  • Iron Dome passes another Gaza war missile test

• Lightning strike on oil storage tank in Cuba causes massive fire

  • Major fire spreads at Cuban fuel storage facility

• Norway Considers Limiting Electricity Exports To Prevent Domestic Crunch

Taiwan

• How does China's natural sand export ban to Taiwan impact the world?

• Shipments to Pegatron's China factory disrupted after exec met Pelosi

• Taiwan Official Leading Missile Production Found Dead in Hotel

• From the one-China policy to the Taiwan Relations Act, here’s what you need to know

Russia Bad / Ukraine War

• Russian lab head supporting hypersonic missile program held for treason

• Zaporizhzhia: Russian rockets damaged part of nuclear plant, Ukraine says

• Ukraine military placing forces in hospitals and schools

• Ukraine SitRep – Casualties Leak – Ukraine Admits Russian Breakthrough – Southern Front Paralysis

• Mozart Group: the western ex-military training Ukrainian recruits

• Report on a three-week visit to St Petersburg, July 2022

Health / Medicine

• Byzantine corporate web shields nursing home abusers

• The Latest Study on Red Meat and Heart Disease: A Red Herring

  • HN comments

• Skin exposure to UVB light induces a skin-brain-gonad axis and sexual behavior

  • HN comments

• Microdosing with psilocybin mushrooms: a double-blind placebo-controlled study

  • HN comments

Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda

• Menace: Massive methane leaks speed up climate change

• On Growth and the Form of Limits

• It’s time to ban private jets – or at least tax them to the ground

• Rainwater everywhere on Earth unsafe to drink due to ‘forever chemicals’

• Seeing Wetiko - by Thomas Klaffke - Creative Destruction

  While being obvious to many indigenous cultures, it may take quite of a mind-shift for us others to see ourselves as one (or even just interdependent) with nature and our overall environment, and to see any damage or destruction of that environment as a form of cannibalism (or self-destruction). But framing the unsustainable destruction of the environment as cannibalism or even a cannibalic mind-virus - because ‘nature is within us, and we are within nature’ - really opens up new ways of thinking.

• Flash Floods Strand 1,000 People in Death Valley National Park

• Can 'green banks' bring clean energy to the masses? The US is betting $27B on it

• California's McKinney fire has destroyed nearly 90 homes and only 30% contained

• Nebraska and Colorado are sparring over water rights