2022-08-15

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• Milwaukee Tool Raises the Bar with New USA Factory | Hacker News

• More Americans are trying to take their weapons on planes

• Declining quality of consumer-grade products – 2009 fridge compressor autopsy

  • HN comments

• The Last Oyster Tongers of Apalachicola

• Artemis I Moon Rocket Ready to Roll to the Launch Pad

• How American Spaceflight Entered Its Era of Compromise

Horseshit

• 6G: Scientists find terahertz radiation boosts brain cell growth in mice

  • HN comments

• Netflix effect: why Western women are heading to South Korea in search of love

• A novel attention-getting vocalization in zoo-housed western gorillas

Obit

• Anne Heche dead at 53; actress removed from life support after organs harvested

Rank Propaganda / Thought Policing / World Disordering

• Salman Rushdie and the Cult of Offense

  • HN comments

• (2012) Violence, the Fundamental Attribution Error, and Contempt for the Poor

• Claims about Chernobyl

• Whole Foods CEO says 'socialists are taking over' in the US

• Cable News Has a Much Bigger Effect on US Polarization Than Social Media

• Is Social Science Politically Biased?

• How Rad-Trad Catholics Weaponized the Rosary - The Atlantic

  The AR-15 is a sacred object among Christian nationalists. Now “radical-traditional” Catholics are bringing a sacrament of their own to the movement.

Gun control / Mass shooting

• The Supreme Court case that changed who can own firearms

• Common ground breakdown in Uvalde – Surfing Complexity

Musk

• Why has Elon Musk terminated his agreement to purchase Twitter?

• Elon Musk pitches goals in a magazine run by China’s internet censorship agency

  • Elon Musk writes column for CCP's online censor agency's magazine

Jan6

• Ray Epps Told FBI He Expected Bomb Attack Near The Capitol On January 6, Documents Show

Abortion

• Search Warrants for Abortion Data Leave Tech Companies Few Options

Pestilence / Pox / COVID / VaxCult

• A Deeper Dive Into the CDC Reversal  ⋆ Brownstone Institute

• Somatic symptom persistence of Covid in Netherlands: observational cohort study

• IKEA Shoppers Panic After Security Locks Down Store on Covid Risk

• Evidence of human-to-dog transmission of monkeypox virus

• Monkeypox: Lack of vaccines sparks pause in UK rollout

Culture War / Tribal / Re segregation

• Caste in California: Tech giants confront ancient Indian hierarchy

  • HN comments

Media / ShowBiz / Advertising

• Microsoft finally admits Xbox One sales were less than half of the PS4

• $23 Million YouTube Royalties Scam - Schneier on Security

TechSuck

• Open-source rival for OpenAI’s DALL-E runs on your graphics card | Hacker News

Crypto con games

• Climate-Friendly Ethereum Is One Merge Away

• Shame, suicide attempts, ‘financial death’ – the toll of a crypto firm’s failure

• Fact-checking SBF’s circle jerk | Financial Times

• The Crypto Geniuses Who Vaporized a Trillion Dollars

• Statement to Financial Stability Oversight Council: Regulating Digital Assets

Economicon / Business / Finance

• Wells Fargo Plans Major Retreat from Mortgage Business It Long Dominated

• Why employees want to work in vilified industries

  • HN comments

• Why the Market Is Bouncing

  • HN comments

• Americans Are Dipping Into Savings To Weather Bidenflation.

• If the Job Market Is So Good, Why Is Gig Work Thriving?

• I doesn't matter: either way Biden good Republicans bad, right? Did Inflation Go Up Or Down? - Economic Insights

• US Homebuilder Confidence Hits Worst Slump Since 2007 Collapse

• WeWork’s Adam Neumann Gets Backing from Andreesen Horowitz

  • A16Z Substantially Invests in New Adam Neumann Real Estate Startup

Gubmint / Poilitcks / Law Making

• The Semiconductor Boondoggle

• BLM to pause oil, gas leasing on 2.2 million acres in Colorado

• Statement by President Joe Biden on the Attack on Salman Rushdie​ - The White House

  Salman Rushdie—with his insight into humanity, with his unmatched sense for story, with his refusal to be intimidated or silenced—stands for essential, universal ideals. Truth. Courage. Resilience. The ability to share ideas without fear. These are the building blocks of any free and open society. And today, we reaffirm our commitment to those deeply American values in solidarity with Rushdie and all those who stand for freedom of expression.

Trump

• Former FBI Agent Says Mar-a-Lago Raid Was Government’s Attempt To 'Embarrass' Trump

• FBI search of Mar-a-Lago raises critical national security questions

  Administration sources familiar with the investigation tell ABC News the amount and the sensitivity of confidential, secret and top-secret documents allegedly discovered in the Mar-a-Lago search raise critical national security questions that must be urgently addressed. Those officials say law enforcement and security officials must now try to track the chain of custody of the material and try to determine if any of the material was compromised.

• ‘Beyond parody’: Guess who MSNBC’s Morning Joe brought in to vouch for the FBI’s integrity – twitchy.com

  However, many in the “truth to power” media know that somebody needs to defend the FBI, and MSNBC’s Morning Joe apparently figured there’s nobody better to vouch for the bureau’s integrity than fired former agent Peter Strzok

Law Breaking / Police / Internal Security

• Delaware Man Crashes Car Into US Capitol Barricade, Opens Fire And Kills Himself

  A man drove his car into a barricade at the US Capitol early Sunday morning and, as it burst into flame, he exited the vehicle and began "indiscriminately" shooting a handgun. As US Capitol police approached him, he fatally shot himself in the head.

External Security / Militaria / Diplomania

• Modern US Warmongering Is Scaring Henry Kissinger | ZeroHedge

World

• German Officials Warn Of Draconian Energy Regulations, "Extremists" Fueling "Mass Protests And Riots"

• Chinese tech giants share details of their prized algorithms with top regulator

  • China's internet regulator details algorithms used by local Big Tech players

Russia Bad / Ukraine War

• Russia-Ukraine Disinformation Tracking Center - NewsGuard

  Researchers, platforms, advertisers, government agencies, or other institutions interested in accessing the full list of domains can contact us

• UN alarm as Ukraine nuclear power plant shelled again

Health / Medicine

• Parasitological evaluation of edible insects and parasitic diseases to humans

Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda

• Boom Supersonic’s jet testing worries atmospheric scientists

• CBS pushes study blaming climate change for rising childhood obesity rates

• The Green War on Clean Energy

  • HN comments

• Doomsday Climate Predictions Meltdown: Arctic Sea Ice Extent Reaches 12-Year Mid-August High.

• Pushed hard for the last several days: Experts say California megaflood could be most expensive natural disaster ever

• Nuclear power is the climate superhero too nervous to wear its cape

• 1/3 of the food we eat is at risk because of climate endangered pollinators

• It’s Time to Invest in Climate Adaptation

• Earth had its 6th-hottest July and year to date on record