2022-08-07

Cool

• Bizarre Floating Tanker Ship is Rare 'Superior Mirage' | PetaPixel

  • (Mar 2021) 'Floating Ship' Photographed in the Sky Off the U.K. Coast | PetaPixel

etc

• Are the Colors in Webb Telescope Images 'Fake'?

• Rich Friend Poor Friend - Rob Henderson's Newsletter

Horseshit

• Unsustainable and shambolic: Flight attendants speak out on summer travel chaos

  • Airlines cancel more than 1,500 US flights Friday

• Why So Many Cars Have Rats in Them Now

• Quiet quitting: why doing the bare minimum at work has gone global

• U.S. Drivers Seriously Starting to Sour on Autonomous Vehicles.

• Ketchup, mayo ice cream flavors being offered to London consumers

Rank Propaganda / Thought Policing / World Disordering

• Knowledge overconfidence is associated with anti-consensus views

  • HN comments

Gun control / Mass shooting

• (May 2022) California church shooter was motivated by hate for Taiwanese people

Musk

• Elon Musk challenges Twitter CEO to a ‘public debate’ about bots

  • Musk challenges Twitter CEO to public debate on bots

  • HN comments

Pestilence / Pox / COVID / VaxCult

• UN Warns Of 'Worrying And Dangerous' Conspiracy Theories

• Have monkeypox? CDC advises no sex, but says masturbation 6 feet apart or virtual sex reduce risk

• Experts worry monkeypox disinformation will harm LGBTQ+ community.

• New York Health Department says hundreds of people may be infected with polio virus

Culture War / Tribal / Re segregation

• Woke Medical Organizations Are Hazardous to Your Health

• Sensitivity Readers Are the New Literary Gatekeepers

  • HN comments

• Christian High School In Manhattan Hosted Mandatory Drag Show In Place Of Church Service | ZeroHedge

• Report: Naked 80-Year-Old Protests a Biological Male in Her YMCA Shower, Gets Banned for Bigotry

• Two prominent men died on the Titanic. Were they a couple?

• The government is burying the anti-Asian violent hate crime crisis

Edumacationalizing / Acedemia Nuts

• Texas Teacher Who Sexually Abused Middle School Boy Has Prison Sentence Delayed After Giving Birth.

• Schools Spent Millions on Faulty Covid Scanners

• North Carolina County 'Hardens' Schools With AR-15s For Resource Officers

  • AR-15s put in all Madison County schools to enhance security in case of shooter

• Sydney high school bans phones with dramatic results

• Umm, yes? Could learning algebra in my 60s make me smarter?

Media / ShowBiz / Advertising

• YouTube Automation Persuades People to Spend Thousands Creating Video Businesses

• TikTok overtake Facebook in influencer marketing spend this year, YouTube by 24

TechSuck

• Intel's legacy is eroding • The Register

• Intel expands Oregon Fab building; 18A Node now 2024 | Hacker News

  • HN comments

Crypto con games

• Nomad to crypto thieves: Please give us back 90%, keep 10% as a reward. Deal?

• Another court case fails to unlock the mystery of Bitcoin’s Satoshi Nakamoto

Economicon / Business / Finance

• 'Inflation is coming down – fast.'

• Weirdness Factors - Mauldin Economics

• Why companies are rescinding job offers

• Inside Trading: how prisoners in America got into stocks

• Beware the Contract Clause Loading US Workers with Debt

• Deep; they otter sponsor the guy: Philip Morris International $PM: Analysis, Valuation, and Pricing, Comprehensive, 2022

• The End of the Warehouse Bubble

Gubmint / Poilitcks / Law Making

• Talk of 'invasion' moves to the mainstream of GOP immigration message

• The (California) case for State Capacity as an EA cause area

• The Inflation Reduction Act is the largest climate investment in US history

  • You Know It's Bad When... Bernie Mocks Dems' "So-Called Inflation Reduction Act" | ZeroHedge

Law Breaking / Police / Internal Security

• FEMA warns emergency alert systems could be hacked to transmit fake messages

External Security / Militaria / Diplomania

• Biden Wants China Hawks To 'Put The Brakes' On Bill Gutting 40 Years Of Taiwan Policy

• After 246 Years, Marine Corps Gives 4 Stars to a Black Officer

• Russian Military Satellite Appears to Be Stalking a New U.S. Spy Satellite

World

• We visited a Taliban leader's compound to examine his vision for Afghanistan

• In first, Iron Dome's interception success rate reaches 95%

Taiwan

• Top Taiwan official leading missile production found dead in hotel room

  • Leading Taiwanese weapons developer died of heart attack, say Taiwanese police

Russia Bad / Ukraine War

• Most “Fact-Checking” Organizations Facebook Uses in Ukraine Funded by Washington

• War in Ukraine can't be ended by ignoring Moscow

• In the 'gray zone' outside Kherson, Ukraine's soldiers pay a terrible price

• Director General Grossi Alarmed by Shelling at Ukraine NPP

Health / Medicine

• The TB Vaccine Mysteriously Protects Against Lots of Things. Now We Know Why.

• CDC warns of diarrheal outbreaks linked to poopy splash pads

• Social isolation, loneliness cited for raising heart attack risk.

Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda

• A Clean Energy Future Is in the Hands of Congress

• The Big Business of Burying Carbon

• Why the international climate community isn't celebrating the US energy bill