2022-08-10

Worthy

• A Cyclic Theory Of Subcultures - by Scott Alexander

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• Scientists Are Investigating Gigantic Energy ‘Jets’ That Shoot Up to Space

• World is losing ‘magical’ tradition of human-animal mutualism, study warns

• “Autistic people can't acknowledge when they are wrong” | the scapegoat dev

  • HN comments

• Why aren't smart people happier? - by Adam Mastroianni

  • HN comments

  Superior human cognitive ability is a merely an instrument of male territorial aggression which was subject to a fisherian runaway sexual selection process beginning around australopithecus and terminating with the advent of civilization.

• Hydroponics: Growing an Appreciation for Plants | Hacker News

Horseshit

• The Polygraph Test That Saved My Marriage

• It took just one weekend for Meta's new AI Chatbot to become racist

• Soy-Based Asphalt Soon to Be Commercially Available

• Seriously, What Are You Supposed to Do with Old Clothes?

• eBay’s rules for refurbished tech terrify right-to-repair activists

  Prospective members of the ‘eBay Refurbished’ program must first sign an MNDA (mutual non-disclosure agreement).

• Gen Z question saving money for a future that looks so bleak

celebrity gossip

• Anne Heche is in a coma after fiery crash

Rank Propaganda / Thought Policing / World Disordering

• Anti-disinformation 'Elves' offer a bulwark against Russian propaganda

• Most Trolls Have Subclinical Sadism

Musk

• Elon Musk sells Tesla shares worth $6.9bn as Twitter trial looms

  • Musk sells Tesla shares worth $6.9B

  • Elon Musk sells $6.9B worth of Tesla stock

  • HN comments

  Used to respect this guy a lot. Now hate him with same passion. Fcking market manipulating egoistic narcissist asshole.

• Why did the world’s richest man spend the past five years trying to sell tunnels

• Elon Musk promises part three of his 'master plan' to save mankind is 'coming'

Jan6

• Two-Dozen GOP Lawmakers May Force Capitol Police To Release Unseen J6 Footage

Abortion

• Twitter paid to join a political group fighting against abortion

• Your State Sucks

  100% of profits from orders to forced-birth Republican hellholes will be donated to the National Network of Abortion Funds.

• Facebook Gave Police Teenager's DMs in Abortion Prosecution | Hacker News

  A Nebraska teenager is facing criminal charges alleging she aborted a fetus in violation of state law, after authorities obtained her Facebook messages using a search warrant.

• Teen’s jailing shows how Facebook will help anti-abortion states

• Facebook gives data to Nebraska police prosecuting teenager for abortion

  • HN comments

• Facebook turned over chat messages of mother and daughter charged over abortion

• Correcting the Record on Meta’s Involvement in Nebraska Case

  • HN comments

Pestilence / Pox / COVID / VaxCult

• Australia’s expensive CovidSafe app finally gets decommissioned

  • In its lifetime, $21M COVIDSafe app detected just 2 confirmed cases

• Masked, Vaccinated Students Didn’t Catch Covid in Classrooms

• Cannabis use associated with lower Covid severity among hospitalized patients

• Biden administration to move forward with plan to stretch monkeypox vaccine doses

  • FDA Authorizes Plan to Stretch Limited Monkeypox Vaccine Doses

• It's OK To Warn Sexually Active Gay and Bisexual Men They're at Greater Risk of Monkeypox

• Covid Sewage Surveillance Labs Join the Hunt for Monkeypox

Culture War / Tribal / Re segregation

• Men from ethnic minorities earn 10 per cent less than their white counterparts

• Homosexuality is still illegal in many Commonwealth countries

• TikTok bombards young men with misogynistic videos

  • HN comments

• 'You're guilty for enjoying your sexuality': Says actress fighting shame culture

Edumacationalizing / Acedemia Nuts

• Ohio Supreme Court rules that Oberlin College doesn’t have to pay bakery $36 million judgment while appeals play out - cleveland.com

Media / ShowBiz / Advertising

• DOJ Poised to Sue Google over Ad Market as Soon as September

• Will Europe Force a Facebook Blackout?

TechSuck

• Lz_xor

  • HN comments

• This blog post is Tornado.cash, a national security threat

• Will Intel's AXG division survive Pat Gelsinger’s axe?

  • HN comments

• Gmail Dynamic Email (a.k.a. AMP for Email) | Hacker News

• Google Fiber plans 5-state growth spurt, biggest since 2015

Crypto con games

• Is writing an open source code illegal now?

• Tornado cash takedown and its repercussions

• Coinbase earnings: $1.1B loss, lower-than-expected revenue

  • Coinbase Posts Steep Second-Quarter Loss Amid Crypto Meltdown

  • Coinbase Reports 63 Percent Drop in Revenue Amid Industry Slump

• Sam Bankman-Fried’s crypto firms had deep ties to Voyager Digital

• Crypto Miner Pushback Suggests Ethereum Offshoots Are Coming

• Regulators Weigh Asking Hedge Funds to Report Crypto Exposure

• Celsius Network Files Chapter 11 Bankruptcy

• Hotbit suspends trading, deposit, withdrawal and funding

Economicon / Business / Finance

• US Gas Prices Fall Below $4 per Gallon; First Time Since March

  • HN comments

• Microsoft Reducing Business Expenses by Restricting Spending on Travel, Teams

• US inflation will likely stay high even as gas prices fall

• Ark Invest chief Cathie Wood thinks the US is in a recession

• Meta Makes Bond-Market Debut with $10B Jumbo Deal

• Ford Raises Prices of F-150 Lightning Electric Truck by Thousands of Dollars

  • HN comments

  • Ford’s New F-150 Lightning Truck to Get Price Hike

• Nvidia banks $1.32b inventory charge as PC market slows

• Silicon Valley's Push into Transportation Has Been a Miserable Failure

• Deliveroo to exit Netherlands, loss widens in first-half

• Builders Are Stuck with Too Many Houses as US Buyers Pull Back

• SoftBank Vision Fund posts a $21.6B quarterly loss

• Shrinking U.S. cattle herd signals more pain from high beef prices

• Food crisis: Inflation forcing change in eating habits.

• Inflation drops to 8.5% annual rate

  • HN comments

  • Inflation “only” 8.5% in July.

  The jump in the food index put the 12-month increase to 10.9%, the fastest pace since May 1979. Even with the monthly drop in the energy index, electricity prices rose 1.6% and were up 15.2% from a year ago. The energy index rose 32.9% from a year ago. . . . Shelter costs, which make up about one-third of the CPI weighting, continued to rise and are up 5.7% from a year ago.

• How big is the housing shortage?

Gubmint / Poilitcks / Law Making

• NIMBY No More: Gainesville, Florida, Moves to End Single-Family Zoning

• No electric vehicles on the market today qualify for the new EV tax credit

• Clean up orbit first, then we can think about space factories, says FCC

• Most Americans support using the popular vote to decide U.S. presidents

• Joe Biden Supporters Embrace ‘Dark Brandon’

• Why the IRS Needs $80B

• EXCLUSIVE: How The 2020 Election Was Stolen In Pennsylvania

Trump

• Deep State Burns Its Bridges to Get Trump—and Now It’s Fighting for Its Life.

  • IP comments

  • Much of the thread seems to think that this is more of a triumphal demonstration than a desperation move.

• Backers turn up at Mar-a-Lago to show support for Donald Trump after FBI raid

• Cries of "civil war" reach fever pitch after FBI search of Mar-a-Lago

• Historical significance of FBI search of Trump's Mar-a-Lago home

• FBI took boxes and documents in Trump search, sources say

• F.B.I. Search of Trump’s Home Is Separate From Jan. 6 Investigation

• Trump Facing Major Criminal Investigations as He Considers 2024 Presidential Run

• "Led?" Donald Trump nominated the FBI Director who led the Mar-A-Lago search: 'He will make us all proud'

• FBI raid on Trump’s residence takes US into uncharted territory

• The Republican response to the Mar-a-Lago raid should scare you

• Former prosecutor on why FBI search of Trump's Mar-a-Lago is "high-stakes"

• GOP leaders attacked Democrats after the FBI search at Mar-a-Lago, with some saying Biden must be investigated

• The GOP’s Response to the FBI Searching Trump’s Home: Destroy Faith in Rule of Law

• F.B.I. Search Signals Major Escalation in Trump Presidency Investigations

• As FBI Raids Trump's Mar-a-Lago, Public Citizen Calls Again for Trump to Be Prosecuted for Jan. 6

• Republicans Promise Retaliation Against Justice Department Over Trump Raid

• Eric Trump Runs to Sean Hannity to Whine About FBI Raid on Mar-a-Lago

• Court orders IRS to release Trump tax records

• Could F.B.I. Inquiry Result in Barring Trump From Office? What to Know

• Donald Trump Won’t Be Disqualified From Office For Taking Classified Documents

• Can Donald Trump Run for President Again If He Broke This Law?

• Pelosi on FBI's Mar-a-Lago Raid: 'No Person Is Above the Law'

• A Federal Judge Would Never, Ever Show Political Bias In Authorizing a Raid on a President

• Judge who signed off the FBI raid on Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago mansion donated $2,000 to Barack Obama’s campaign and represented Jeffrey Epstein’s Lolita Express pilots, his scheduler and ‘Yugoslavian sex slave.’

• The Raid: Difference Between Trump and Clinton

• Judge Who Signed Mar-A-Lago Search Warrant Exposed As Associate of Jeffrey Epstein

• (22 Jun 2022) Same Judge, Trump vs Clinton case: Notice of Recusal

• The Guardian Accuses Republicans Of 'Weaponising' Trump-Raid

• Taibbi: Welcome To The Third World | ZeroHedge

  The top story today in the New York Times, bylined by its top White House reporter, speculates this is about “delayed returning” of “15 boxes of material requested by officials with the National Archives.” If that’s true, and it’s not tied to January 6th or some other far more serious offense, then the Justice Department just committed institutional suicide and moved the country many steps closer to once far-out eventualities like national revolt or martial law. This is true no matter what you think of Trump. Despite the early reports of “cheers” in the West Wing, the mood in center-left media has already drifted markedly from the overnight celebration. The Times story today added a line missing from most early reports: “The search, however, does not mean prosecutors have determined that Mr. Trump committed a crime.” There are whispers throughout the business that editors are striking down certain jubilant language, and we can even see this playing out on cable, where the most craven of the networks’ on-air ex-spooks are crab-crawling backward from last night’s buzz-words

• Trump's 2024 GOP rivals rally behind him after FBI search - POLITICO

• (Feb 2022) Press Statements in Response to Media Queries About Presidential Records.

• Something’s Happening Here: Feds Seize Cell Phone Of Trump Ally House Rep Scott Perry Day After Mar-a-Lago Raid

  • Trump ally Rep. Scott Perry (R-PA) says the FBI seized his cellphone one day after Mar-a-Lago raid

  • FBI Confiscates Cell Phone Of Republican Congressman | The Daily Wire

• Speaking of Bad Plots – According To Hoyt

  You see, from THAT point of view, raiding Trump’s house (“compound” my ass) is a win win for them. Either they find secret stuff they can use to do their big Stalinist show trial and finally imprison him — yes, they really believe this, because he’s a “bad man” so of course he must have recorded himself twirling his mustache and talking about his love affair with Putin — OR they piss us off so much that we erupt into civil war and then they can put us down easily, because frankly there’s only a couple thousand of us, and we’re all racist rednecks and over 70. So it will be trivially easy, right?

• Donald Trump to be deposed Wednesday morning in New York Attorney General’s probe of his business

• FBI agents scoured Melania’s wardrobe, spent hours in Trump’s private office

• Garland vowed to depoliticize Justice. Then the FBI searched Mar-a-Lago.

• Hillary Clinton Flaunts Her Democrat Privilege, Peddles ‘But Her Emails’ Swag the Day After Mar-a-Lago Raid.

  • Hillary Clinton Fundraises With 'But Her Emails' Merchandise After FBI's Trump Raid

  “That was fast—I’m told hats are now sold out. We’ll re-stock ASAP,” Clinton said.

  • Oooo that hurts the "they had no warning, the just used an instant printing company" narrative a bit doesn't it?

• White House Claims Biden Was Not Briefed on Trump Raid | National Review

  “What I can tell you definitively and for sure, he was not aware of this,” Jean-Pierre said of Biden. “Nobody at the White House was. Nobody was given a heads up and we did not know about what happened yesterday.” Asked if the president is concerned about the potential for politically fueled violence in the wake of the raid, she said: “We would ask Americans to remain peaceful at this time.”

• FBI ‘Scoured’ Melania’s Wardrobe at Mar-A-Lago Looking for… Classified Shoes?

• If Merrick Garland doesn’t give a solid, fast reason for raiding Trump’s home, he’s probably just re-elected him.

  • IP threas

• Trump Refuses To Answer NY AG's Questions At Deposition | ZeroHedge

• 2:00PM Water Cooler 8/9/2022 | naked capitalism

• Eric Trump reveals what REALLY happened in the FBI raid | Daily Mail Online

  Eric Trump tells DailyMail.com what REALLY happened in FBI raid: President's son says 30 agents REFUSED to hand over warrant, kicked lawyer off property, rifled through clothes - and how Mar-a-Lago staff refused to turn off security cameras

• Trump lawyer who was at Mar-a-Lago for FBI search describes the scene - CBS News

  U.S. officials confirm the search of Trump's home was approved by the highest levels of the Justice Department. Attorney General Merrick Garland is not expected to make any public statements about the investigation or the search, however. Halligan said the search warrant was sealed, and because she had not been party to this aspect of Trump's legal portfolio until Monday, did not know what kinds of documents the FBI might be looking for nor what kinds of documents the former president keeps with him at Mar-a-Lago.

• NeverTrump Smugly Repeats the Coordinated Message of the Day: Trump Has the Warrant, He Should Release It. Except... Does He Have the Warrant?

Law Breaking / Police / Internal Security

• Former Twitter Employee Convicted of Spying for Saudi Arabia

• Grand jury declines to indict woman in Emmett Till lynching

External Security / Militaria / Diplomania

• U.S. charges Iranian national of plot to assassinate John Bolton

World

• Corruption is sending shock waves through China’s chipmaking industry

• Pakistan Moving Towards Martial Law because of US interference in its politics

• Britain plans for organised blackouts in January

• Google’s 144 Tbps undersea cable lands in South Africa

Taiwan

• China Would Re-Educate Taiwan in Event of Reunification, Ambassador Says

• China's State Council releases policy paper on peaceful Taiwan reunification

Russia Bad / Ukraine War

• Explosions Rock Russian Air Base in Crimea

• Ukraine Claims Responsibility for Massive Blasts at Russian Base in Crimea Despite Kremlin’s Story

• Russian troops have wired energy units of nuclear power plant with explosives

• Ukraine sitrep: Russia wires Europe's largest nuke plant to explode

• Iran Has Begun Training Russia to Use Its Advanced Drones

Health / Medicine

• A Vaccine for Lyme Disease Is in Its Final Clinical Trial

• Langya: New virus infects 35 people in eastern China

• Urgent polio boosters for London children.

Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda

• Scientists issue plan for rewilding the American West

• Loire Valley: Intense European heatwave parches France's 'garden'

• The Forest Service is overstating its wildfire prevention progress