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• Gen Z have 86% less purchasing power compared to baby boomers in their twenties

  • HN comments

• Dodge will discontinue its Challenger and Charger muscle cars next year

  • HN comments

• Germany: 1 Dead, 9 injured after BMW self driving test car veers into traffic

• Against commonly held views, cynical individuals do worse on cognitive ability

• NASA’s UFO Study Isn’t Looking for Space Aliens

• Africa’s Cold Rush and the Promise of Refrigeration

Horseshit

• My Daughter’s Boundaries Are Preventing Us from Having a Relationship

• DEA published a list of emoji code for drugs

• The AI Art Apocalypse

• Child influencers are becoming more common but who is looking after their rights

• No song, movie or show can escape the digital age’s revisionist urges

• Lawyers could have chips implanted in their brain in bid to cut legal costs

• We won't be the first civilization to collapse – but we may well be the last

• American Airlines agrees to purchase Boom Supersonic Overture aircraft

  • HN comments

• “Period pain isn’t normal”: People test a period pain simulator

celebrity gossip

• Anne Heche Was Working on Sex Trafficking Film Before Death

• Investors slam WeWork founder Adam Neumann’s ‘disgusting’ comeback

Rank Propaganda / Thought Policing / World Disordering

• The White House and Twitter Censorship

• Bing is censoring search results for Alex Berenson’s Substack

• Rules for Weird Ideas

  • HN comments

• Google Search Is Quietly Damaging Democracy

• Zoltan Pozsar: We are witnessing the birth of a new world monetary order

• Principled or Partisan? Cancel Culture Framings and Support for Free Speech

• WEF's "Global Intelligence Collecting AI" to Erase Ideas from the Internet

Jan6

• Jan 6 Pipe Bomber's Mechanical Timer Detonates Fedsurrection Lie - Revolver News

Musk

• What the Tesla founder’s Twitter feed reveals about the man behind the handle

• Judge Rules Twitter to Turn over Documents to Elon Musk Revealing Fake Accounts

  • HN comments

  • Judge orders Twitter to give Elon Musk former executive's documents | Reuters

  Twitter was ordered to collect, review and produce documents from former General Manager of Consumer Product Kayvon Beykpour, according to the order from Chancellor Kathaleen McCormick of the Delaware Court of Chancery. McCormick said in her order on Monday that she was denying Musk’s request for access to 21 other people with control over relevant information.

  • Musk wins one, loses 21 others as judge denies access to many Twitter records

Abortion

• Google Maps accused of leading users to fake abortion clinics

Pestilence / Pox / COVID / VaxCult

• Statement from Pfizer Chairman and CEO Bourla on Testing Positive for Covid-19

• Moderna throwing away 30M Covid shots because no one will take them

• Rate of SARS-CoV-2 Reinfection During an Omicron Wave in Iceland

• Apple Sets Return-to-Office Deadline of Sept. 5 After Covid Delays

• What Parents, Teachers / Students should know about CDC's new Covid Guidelines

• First Bivalent Covid-19 Booster Vaccine Approved by UK Medicines Regulator

• Impact of Lifting School Masking Requirements on Incidence of Covid-19

• Huanan Seafood Wholesale Market in Wuhan was the early epicenter of COVID-19

• Covid made things Taste Weird, now ‘Paxlovid Mouth’ – What causes Dysgeusia?

• What Is ‘Paxlovid Mouth’ and How Do You Get Rid of It?

• As DC Plans to Ban 40% of Black Teens From School, Mayor Rejects DC COVID-19 Vaccine Numbers.

• First lady Dr. Jill Biden tests positive for Covid-19

• What do we know about Covid’s impact on the brain?

• The New Polio Outbreak Is Bad. But Why Hasn't It Become a Disaster (Yet)?

  The Salk vaccine, generally known as the inactivated polio vaccine (IPV), developed first and used exclusively in the US since 2000, is incredibly effective (99%+) at preventing paralytic poliomyelitis but does not convey mucosal immunity, and therefore does little to reduce transmission of the poliovirus.

  The live attenuated Oral Polio Vaccine, developed by Dr. Albert Sabin, is cheap, easy (taken as a few drops of liquid by mouth), and remarkably effective both at preventing infection in the gut as well as severe neurological disease, but has an Achilles heel: it can mutate back into a virulent form of polio!

• First Dog Infected With Monkeypox After "Sharing Bed" With Gay Couple

Culture War / Tribal / Re segregation

• Minneapolis teachers union contract calls for layoffs of white teachers first

• Apple becomes first tech giant to explicitly ban caste discrimination

  • HN comments

Edumacationalizing / Acedemia Nuts

• Why the masturbation paper indicts academia

• Math in American High Schools: The Delusion of Rigor

• Los Angeles Group Touts Snitch Line Where People Can Report Sick Kids, Indoor Eating At School.

Media / ShowBiz / Advertising

• At least 300 TikTok employees worked for Chinese state media: report

• Hacker Conference DEF Con Bans Pro-Trump Outlet OAN

  A DEF CON spokesperson told Motherboard that OAN staff “violated DEF CON’s privacy policy, repeatedly taking photo and video showing people’s faces without the consent of those individuals.”

• Ask HN: Did Facebook just stop fighting adblockers?

• The Case of the $5k Springsteen Tickets

• The TV bundle is back

• Fire Breaks Out at Nintendo Headquarters

• Why are people in their 30s giving up on music?

TechSuck

• US bans export of tech used in 3nm chip production on security grounds

• Intel turns to code translation to run old DirectX9 games on its newest GPUs

• Ask HN: In 2022, what is the proper way to get into machine/deep learning?

• V2X is finally dead as court refuses to stop FCC’s 5.9 GHz reallocation

  • Court upholds FCC’s decision on 5.9 GHz, Wi-Fi

• Requiring MFA on popular gem maintainers | Hacker News

Crypto con games

• EFF Statement on Tornado Cash

• Ethereum ICO whale address moves 145,000 ETH after 3 years of dormancy

• Acala’s Stablecoin Falls 99% After Hackers Issue 1.3B Tokens

• Bitcoin’s longest-serving Lead Maintainer calls it quits, names no successor

• The cryptocurrency casino king who bought the most expensive house in Victoria

• How Crypto Is Evolving the Future of Books and Publishing

• Three Arrows Founders Bought $50 Million Superyacht Called "Much Wow" Prior To Firm's Collapse

Economicon / Business / Finance

• American workforce continues to shrink, falls 400k since March after nearly hitting prepandemic levels.

• Grocery prices in July had largest price increase since 1979 — with one food staple rising by 38% on the year

• The "Big Short" Michael Burry Liquidates Entire Portfolio, Holds Just One Stock At End Of Q2 | ZeroHedge

  • Michael Burry's Hedge Fund Added One Stock and Dumped All the Rest

• HBO Cuts About 70 (Streaming) Staffers as Parent Looks to Trim Costs

• Carvana in hot water over title delays

• Netflix puts an entire Bay Area campus up for sublease amid turbulent year

• Apple Lays Off Recruiters as Part of Its Slowdown in Hiring

• "Worst I've Ever Seen": Cotton Prices Soar After Historic USDA Cut Amid Megadrought

• Home Building Dropped Sharply in July

• Homebuilders say U.S. is in a 'housing recession' as sentiment turns negative

• Meme Stonks Explode As Retail Mania Storms Back: BBBY Halted +75%; GME Soars

• Amazon Air Freight Workers Walk Out in Protest of Pay, Heat Exhaustion

Shortages

• Not just Tylenol: Calgary pharmacist says cold and flu meds are in short supply

Gubmint / Poilitcks / Law Making

• Biden to sign law on Tuesday cutting most current EV credits

• Los Angeles County DA George Gascon recall petition found ‘insufficient’ to qualify for ballot

  A petition to recall Gascon had nearly 200,000 signatures out of more than 715,000 invalidated

• Biden cancels $3.9B in student debt for 200k borrowers defrauded by ITT Tech

• CDC to regain control of US hospital data after Trump-era seizure, chaos

• Democratic Rep. Maloney says Biden not running for president again, thought she was ‘off the record.’

• Pelosi: Biden-Manchin climate bill will appease ‘angry’ Earth: ‘Mother Earth gets angry from time to time, & this legislation will help us address all of that.’

Trump

• The War Between Trump and His Generals

• Online threats against law enforcement surged after Trump search, says FBI

• Why Merrick Garland Is Losing the People

• In the raid by the FBI of Mar-a-Lago, they stole my three Passports

• Megyn Kelly: "No Way" FBI Search Of Mar-a-Lago Is About Anything Other Than January 6 | Video | RealClearPolitics

• DOJ Opposes Release Of Underlying Affidavit For FBI Mar-A-Lago Raid

• Trump Accused of Lying Over FBI-Seized Passports, Then He Dropped the Receipts – RedState

• Donald J. Trump: Why I’m Suing Big Tech

• Trump now claims FBI agents seized three of his passports during the Mar-a-Lago

• Armed Trump supporters outside Phoenix FBI office

• Trump-allied lawyers pursued voting machine data in multiple states

• ‘But Her Emails’? A Defense of ‘Whataboutism’

• DOJ Admits FBI Over-Collected Trump Docs, Will Give Back Passports and Privileged Docs in the ‘Next Two Weeks.’

• Merrick Garland looks set to indict Trump — despite his glaring conflict of interest

• USC 793e in the Time of Shadow Brokers and Donald Trump

  Since he was elected President, Mar-a-Lago became a ripe spying target, resulting in at least one prosecution. And two of the people he is most likely to have granted access to those files, John Solomon and Kash Patel, each pose known security concerns. Trump has done the analog equivalent of what Pho did: bring the crown jewels to a location already targeted by foreign intelligence services and store them in a way that can be easily back-doored. Like Pho, it doesn’t matter what Trump’s motivation for doing so was. Having done it, he made it ridiculously easy for malicious actors to simply come and take the files.

External Security / Militaria / Diplomania

• CIA accused of illegally spying on Americans visiting Assange in embassy

• U.S. Approves Nearly All Tech Exports to China, Data Shows

World

• China rations electricity to factories as heatwave sees power demand surge

• Philippines orders fraud probe after paying MacBook prices for Celeron laptops

  • HN comments

• Germany Denies WSJ Report Of Climate-Change Flip-Flop Over Nuclear Plants

  • Germany to Keep Last Three Nuclear-Power Plants Running

  • German Economy Ministry issues forceful denial of WSJ report on nuclear phaseout

Russia Bad / Ukraine War

• Robot Dog with RPG Strapped to Its Back Demoed at Russian Arms Fair

• Putin critic Alexei Navalny says he's in solitary confinement

• Ask HN: Why won't the media say who is bombing the Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant?

• Reckon Russian spies lurking in your inbox? Check for these IOCs, Microsoft says

• Moscow admits sabotage caused blast at military depot in Crimea this morning.

Health / Medicine

• Do Seed Oils Make You Sick?

• Early Trump triumph: FDA Finalizes Rule Enabling Access to Over-the-Counter Hearing Aids

  • FDA Clears Path for Hearing Aids to Be Sold over the Counter

• Methamphetamine use propels drug overdoses in rural America, study finds.

Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda

• Deadline looms for western states to cut Colorado River use

• Climate change is increasing the risk of a California megaflood

• Solar is happening. Nuclear is (mostly) not

• Global food insecurity due to climate disruption from nuclear war soot injection

• EPA Ag Adviser Tells Ethanol Industry Audience Biofuels Will Continue to Grow

• Much of the US Will Be an ‘Extreme Heat Belt’ by the 2050s

• The West's historic drought is threatening hydropower at Hoover Dam

  • HN comments

• Oder river: mystery of mass die-off of fish lingers as no toxic substances found

• England must reduce meat intake to avoid climate breakdown, says food tsar

• New water cuts coming for Southwest as Colorado River falls into Tier 2 shortage

  • Bureau of Reclamation demands water cuts as Colorado River hits dire lows – WaPo

• Every Dollar Spent on This Climate Technology Is a Waste