2022-08-08

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• NASA develops ingenious solution to fix its troubled ‘Lucy’ asteroid explorer | Engadget

• A Caiman Was Caught Swimming in Colorado’s Sloan Lake

• Ask HN: What's the next big thing that few people are talking about?

Horseshit

• Digital nomad left the U.S. for Bangkok and lives on $8K a month

  • HN comments

  you’d have to eat at expensive foreigner restaurants every day to spend $1,600/mo for food. I lived there for five years and could do it for well under $4k/mo.

• Meta's AI chatbot has some election-denying, antisemitic bugs to work

• More than 1 in 5 US adults don’t want children.

• How We Can Encode Human Rights in the Blockchain

• Horror stories of cryonics: The gruesome fates of frozen bodies

• Nearly 500 US flights canceled and nearly 2k delayed on Monday

Rank Propaganda / Thought Policing / World Disordering

• Why our ‘right to own’ is important in a subscription-based world

• (Nov 2021) How Dangerous Is Peter Thiel?

• Effective altruism went from a niche movement to a billion-dollar force

Musk

• Musk says Twitter deal should go ahead if it provides proof of real accounts

• Tesla to begin charging for basic connectivity services after eight years

• What Is Elon Musk?

• Elon Musk Is Convinced He's the Future. We Need to Look Beyond Him

• Musk wants public debate with Twitter CEO instead of that upcoming court trial

Pestilence / Pox / COVID / VaxCult

• After Covid

• Deaths with unknown causes now Alberta's top killer

• Knox County, TN: KCS won’t report COVID-19 cases or send exposure notifications for upcoming school year.

• Covid Sewage Surveillance Labs Join the Hunt for Monkeypox

Culture War / Tribal / Re segregation

• Medical profession discards merit in order to alter its demographics

• Six Months of Safety - by Lucy Harwath - RadicalVoid_

  If you are unaware of the breadth of issues trans people are dealing with right now, this might sound like an overreaction. I am not telling you to move. But I am saying to provide yourself with the least you can do to maximize your options for your safety which runs out in six months, if you’re not already in danger. All the more so if you have kids involved, like in our case. I’m not telling you to not stay and fight the system if that’s what is within you and your ability. I am saying, do the one thing that offers you the most protection and safety in case all else fails and all hope is lost.

Edumacationalizing / Acedemia Nuts

• Banning phones in school has dramatic results

• The Ends of Education

  Gammons—the Tory party membership, whose support Sunak is canvassing—are predominantly white males aged over 60 living in the South East of England, authoritarian by inclination and well-off but poorly educated. Authoritarian followers are very conformist: submissive towards those they perceive as powerful, need rigid guidelines for conduct, and distrust and despise nuance and complexity. Art, by its very nature, can't be conformist. So they hate it and have no use for it, and it's easy to rally them against "liberal arts" long-hairs.

  • HN comments

Media / ShowBiz / Advertising

• I Didn’t Want It to Be True, but the Medium Is the Message

• Why we don't sell ads – WhatsApp Blog

• It’s Time for Big-Name Artists to Join Music’s New Labor Movement

• Axios to sell itself to Cox Enterprises for a reported $525M

  • News Site Axios agrees to sell to Cox Enterprises for $525M

  • Axios Sells for $525M

TechSuck

• Beware of Discarding Used SRAMs: Information Is Stored Permanently

• EVGA Slashes $1,000 Off GeForce RTX 3090 Ti GPUs, Starting at $1,149 | Tom's Hardware

• The iRobot Deal Would Give Amazon Maps Inside Millions of Homes

  • Amazon’s Roomba deal is about mapping your home

  • HN comments

• NIST’s Post-Quantum Cryptography Standards - Schneier on Security

• Rumors, delays, and early testing suggest Intel’s Arc GPUs are on shaky ground

• TSMC killed 450mm wafers for fear of Intel, Samsung

• Intel Unveils Arc Pro GPU Products

Crypto con games

• Tiffany's sells out custom Cryptopunk 'NFTiff' pendants for $50k each

• Solana crypto store opening in New York

• The Crypto Market Crashed. They’re Still Buying Bitcoin

• Crypto exchange Hodlnaut halts deposits and withdrawals

• Twitch’s Gambling Boom Is Luring Gamers Into Crypto Casinos

• U.S. Treasury Sanctions Widely Used Crypto Mixer Tornado Cash

  • OFAC Sanctions on Tornado Cash

  • U.S. Treasury Sanctions Notorious Virtual Currency Mixer Tornado Cash

  • HN comments

  • Treasury sanction of privacy tools places sweeping restrictions on all Americans

• Voyager Digital Is Cleared to Return $270M to Customers

Economicon / Business / Finance

• Toyota offers to buy back its recalled bZ4X electric SUVs

• Credit-card debt is soaring

• Lumber futures down 62% amid ‘Great Reset.’ Here’s when DIYers can expect deals

• Why Your House Was So Expensive

• Looming change in worker classification rules will cost small businesses big bucks.

  The new rules will result in changing the status of countless “independent contractors” to employees. The DOL’s new rules will throw away the multiple requirements that have long been used to determine whether a freelancer is truly independent or should be classified as an employee and replace these requirements with a more simplified “ABC Test.”

• Nvidia Plunges After Preannouncing Terrible Q2 Results, Slashes Guidance, Blames "Macroeconomic Headwinds"

• Cost of living: People turning back to cash as prices rise

Gubmint / Poilitcks / Law Making

• We dug our way into this hole; we'll dig our way out: Senate Passes Inflation Reduction Act

  • What Is in the Inflation Reduction Act?

  • Bernie Rails Against Inflation Reduction Act, Votes For It Anyway.

  • The tax provisions of the new climate and taxes bill

  the electric vehicle tax credits do not currently apply to any electric vehicle whatsoever, nor will they obviously apply to any electric vehicle to be produced in the near future.

• 'I was told if I dug a hole deep enough I'd reach China': Pelosi explains 'connection' to Beijing | Daily Mail Online

• FCC decides to expand its power in space – Behind The Black – Robert Zimmerman

  begin a policy review aimed at expanding its involvement and regulation of “space missions like satellite refueling, inspecting and repairing in-orbit spacecraft, capturing and removing debris, and transforming materials through manufacturing while in space.”

  • As satellites and space junk proliferate, U.S. to revise rules

• In any other national capital, the catastrophic military disasters of the last two decades would have forced regime change.

• U.S. House lawmakers look to jump-start self-driving legislative push

• Every Senate Democrat votes against defining pregnancy as unique to biological females.

• Big Tech Is Spending Lots of Money to Make Antitrust Reform Seem Scary

• The FBI And DOJ Criminalizing Opposition To The Regime Is How The Republic Ends.

• Et. Tu? CNN Takes Aim At Hunter Biden, Airs Roger Waters Calling Joe 'War Criminal' | ZeroHedge

Law Breaking / Police / Internal Security

• New Jersey Man Gets 5 Years in Prison in GoFundMe Fraud Case

• Metro Atlanta couple charged with using adopted kids to make child porn

  • they’re liberal activists

External Security / Militaria / Diplomania

• The U.S. Military Would Freak: Does China Have Its Own X-37B Space Plane?

World

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

• Mexico: A development puzzle - by Noah Smith - Noahpinion

• An Attack on Albanian Government Suggests New Iranian Aggression

_ Ceasefire Holds In Gaza After 44 Killed In 3-Day Israeli Bombardment

Taiwan

• China announces new military exercises near Taiwan

• China Extends Taiwan Drills Past Sunday Deadline, Says Training Under "Real War Conditions"

Russia Bad / Ukraine War

• How Russia’s troll army spread on YouTube and Instagram

• Is Poland’s smooth reception of Ukrainian refugees heading for trouble?

• Russians threaten to blow up nuclear power plant in event of Ukrainian advance

  • Russian forces threaten to blow up Europe’s largest nuclear reactor

• Roger Waters' tour calls President Biden a 'war criminal'

  Waters then asked why the US does not “encourage” Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky “to negotiate, obviating the need for this horrific, horrendous war that’s killing we don’t know how many Russians.”

Health / Medicine

• Exercise Was the Perfect Coping Mechanism, Until It Wasn’t

Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda

• Carbon offsetting is just another form of greenwashing

  • HN comments

• We need a better concept of collective morality to deal with climate change

• Shipping’s dirty secret: how ‘scrubbers’ clean the air but contaminating the sea

• It’s the Wrong Kind of Coral – Watts Up With That?

• Plant-based ‘beef’ reduces CO2 but threatens ag jobs

• Over half of known human pathogenic diseases can be aggravated by climate change