2022-08-12

Worthy

• Logistics, How Did They Do It, Part III: On the Move

etc

• Hubble Sees Supergiant Star Betelgeuse Slowly Recovering After Blowing Its Top

  • Supergiant Betelgeuse had a never-before-seen eruption

• Thinking hard makes the brain tired

• Beachgoer killed after umbrella impales her in the chest in South Carolina

Horseshit

• Meta chatbot says boss Mark Zuckerberg is ‘too creepy and manipulative’

• Venetians fear ‘museum relic’ status as population drops below 50k

• The Number of ‘Lonely, Single Men’ Is on the Rise Thanks to Higher Standards

• The Economic Inefficiency of Gift Giving: Why You Shouldn’t Buy Presents

celebrity gossip

• Actress Anne Heche ‘not expected to survive’ car crash

• Author Salman Rushdie attacked on lecture stage in New York

  • HN comments

  • Salman Rushdie attacked onstage at New York event

  • Novelist Salman Rushdie stabbed in neck on stage – police

Rank Propaganda / Thought Policing / World Disordering

• Twitter's approach to combating misinformation for 2022 US midterm elections

  • HN thread

• Popper was right about the link between certainty and extremism

• Nobody Can Agree on Whether the U.S. Is in a Recession

• The Art of Effective Trolling

• When their side does it; its just "news": ‘pink slime’ journalism exploits our faith in local news

• Influencers are whitewashing Syria’s regime, with help from sponsors

Musk

• Four short sellers on the specific agonies of betting against Elon Musk

• Starlink Successfully Hacked Using $25 Modchip

  • HN comments

• (PDF) Starlink Welcomes Security Researchers (Bring on the Bugs)

• Elon Musk’s attempt to drag out the Twitter trial could backfire

Pestilence / Pox / COVID / VaxCult

• Kim was ‘seriously ill’ in N Korea COVID-19 surge

• Social distancing no longer recommended by CDC

• CDC Says People Don’t Need to Quarantine After Covid Exposure

• CDC drops quarantine, distancing recommendations for Covid

• CDC Drops Quarantine Recommendation After Covid-19 Exposure

• CDC recommendations no longer differentiate based on vaccination status

• The CDC says forget all that stuff we told you about COVID; we give up.

• CDC Revises Covid-19 Guidelines in Sweeping Overhaul

• CDC Eases Covid Guidelines, Noting Virus Is ‘Here to Stay’

• Denmark outlaws the COVID vaccines for children.

• Don’t Blame Monkeys for Monkeypox, W.H.O. Says After Attacks

Culture War / Tribal / Re segregation

• The Unintended Consequences of MeToo: Evidence from Research Collaborations

  The results suggest that the social movement is associated with increased cost of collaboration that disadvantaged the career opportunities of women.

• Twitter fails to remove 85% of Islamophobic posts, new study finds

• Poll: Distrust of Asian Americans is rising

• Dating opportunities for heterosexual men are diminishing

• Tavistock gender clinic ‘to be sued by 1k families’

Edumacationalizing / Acedemia Nuts

• The unclear future for gifted-and-talented education

  • HN comments

Media / ShowBiz / Advertising

• The Game of Thrones Prequel Will Explore Internalized Misogyny and the Patriarchy

• NY Times Is Targeted by Activist Investor Pushing for Subscriber-Only Bundles

• TikTok has arisen; Facebook usage has dropped; Instagram, Snapchat have grown

• Meta injecting code into websites to track its users, research says

• Number of teens using Facebook crashes as YouTube becomes platform of choice

• Teens have abandoned Facebook, Pew study says

• Amazon studio plans lighthearted show of Ring surveillance footage

  Ring Nation will feature "neighbors saving neighbors, marriage proposals, military reunions and silly animals," Deadline writes. But Ring Nation might be aiming even higher, according to Ring founder Jamie Siminoff—to something approaching a salve for our deeply divided nation.

TechSuck

• DOE digs up molten salt nuclear reactor tech, taps Los Alamos to lead way back

• Desktop CPU Sales Lowest in 30 Years, AMD Gains Market Share Anyway

• Arrest of suspected developer of Tornado Cash | Hacker News

Crypto con games

• BlackRock launches a private trust to give clients exposure to spot bitcoin

  • BlackRock Bitcoin private trust – Institutional – BlackRock

  • HN comments

• Ethereum Soars To 2-Month High As Critical Test Passed, Merge Set For Sept 15

• Crypto collapse: Coinbase’s billion-dollar bloodbath, Hodlnaut goes down

• Regulators Weigh Asking Hedge Funds to Report Crypto Exposure

• Tornado Cash Dev Arrested

  • Netherlands Arrests Suspected Tornado Cash Developer

  • Arrest of suspected developer of Tornado Cash

  • HN comments

• UN trade body calls for halting cryptocurrency rise in developing countries

• As crypto crashed, Coinbase stopped some notifications

Economicon / Business / Finance

• New York is roaring back from the worst of the pandemic.Why isn’t San Francisco?

• Another consequence of supply shortage: mass production mishaps

  • HN comments

• Five Chinese state-owned companies to delist from NYSE

• Meditation App Calm Lays Off 20% of Staff

Shortages

• Propane Council Advises Preparation as Extreme Weather Could Impact Grain Drying

• There is a shortage of Dijon mustard in France

  • HN comments

Gubmint / Poilitcks / Law Making

• IRS Audits Poorest Families at Five Times the Rate for Everyone Else

• Google gets the green light to flood US Gmail inboxes with political spam

  • Federal watchdog approves Google program to let campaigns skip spam filters

• "Be Willing To Use Deadly Force": IRS Sparks Uproar Over Job Posting

• Ask HN: Do you trust digital voting for the election of the President?

• On the disincentives in the new healthcare law

• Democratic Operatives Control Voter Rolls In 31 States, Report Shows.

Trump

• Attorney General Merrick Garland set to make statement, days after FBI raid on Trump home

• Watch Live (Eventually): AG Merrick Garland Makes Statement Following Trump Raid | ZeroHedge

  35 min wait for: 1. doj will unseal the warrant and property receipt barring an objection from trump 2. garland personally approved the raid 3. stop being mean to the FBI

• Attorney General Merrick Garland Asks Court to Release Trump Search Warrant

• BREAKING: Biden Gestapo Chief Merrick Garland says he personally authorized FBI raid on president’s rival Trump, says you can totally trust the government

• Ruhle Demands You Stop Calling The FBI Mar-a-Lago Raid a Raid! | Newsbusters

• FBI search of Trump's Mar-a-Lago related to nuclear documents, sources say

  • HN comments

• FBI Was Looking For Classified Nuclear Secrets During Mar-a-Lago Raid: Leak | ZeroHedge

  One former Justice Department official, who in the past oversaw investigations of leaks of classified information, said the type of top-secret information described by the people familiar with the probe would probably cause authorities to try to move as quickly as possible to recover sensitive documents that could cause grave harm to U.S. security. -Washington Post

• FBI sought nuclear documents in search of Trump's home -Washington Post

• FBI were looking for ‘classified nuclear documents’ during search of Trumps home

• Why Did the DOJ and FBI Execute the Raid on Trump–The Story Behind the Documents

• BANNON: Merrick Garland is a lawless scumbag who just wet himself in front of the nation | The Post Millennial

• FBI raid boosted MAGA voting fury.

• So FBI, why no raid of Hunter Biden’s house?!

• The FBI’s Bad Apples: Trump-Russia Collusion Hoax - Capital Research Center

• FBI Informant ‘Really Close’ to Trump; 6-8 People Knew About Mar-a-Lago Safe.

• Ex-CIA chief endorses executing leakers of nuclear secrets after Trump raid bombshell | Washington Examiner

• FBI Removed 'Eleven Sets' Of Classified Docs In Raid; Allies Insist Trump Declassified | ZeroHedge

Law Breaking / Police / Internal Security

• An armed man tried to breach security at an FBI office in Cincinnati

• Why sentencing people to life in prison makes no kind of sense

External Security / Militaria / Diplomania

• US Military ‘Furiously’ Rewriting Nuclear Deterrence to Address Russia and China

World

• South Korea’s president pardons Samsung leader Jay Y. Lee

• ‘Disturbing’: Experts troubled by Canada’s euthanasia laws

• Indians forced to buy national flag in return for food rations, says opposition

• China withdraws promise not to send troops to Taiwan if it takes control

Russia Bad / Ukraine War

• Experts suspect the West has given Ukraine far more missiles than we know about

• Report: Eight explosions at Russian air base in Belarus just across the border from Ukraine.

• Why isn’t Russia blocking GPS in Ukraine?

• Russians Fleeing Crimea.

Health / Medicine

• J&J to end global sales of talc-based baby powder

• Hospital and Drugmaker Move to Build Vast Database of New Yorkers’ DNA

• Zoonotic langyavirus discovered in China says CDC

• Glutamate buildup may be key factor in mental exhaustion

  • HN comments

• Rise in popularity of anal sex has led to health problems for women

  • HN comment

Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda

• The Arctic has warmed nearly four times faster than the globe since 1979

• Arctic melting four times faster than rest of the planet, study says

• Why Greens Can’t Keep Angry Farmers Down on the Farm, in the Netherlands or Globally.

• How much will the climate bill lower global temperatures?

• In pictures: Heatwaves, drought and wildfires across Europe

• Saving the Giant Sequoia from Wildfires

• Photos are shedding new light on how fireflies interact with the world

• New UW study shows how Covid lockdowns affected Northwest birds

• 1100 scientists and professionals sign declaration: “no climate emergency”