2022-08-18

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• We Are Going: Artemis I on Launch Pad

• Learn to sew your own outdoor gear | Hacker News

• Sudden increase in number of mid-air diversions to Hawaii

Horseshit

• Housing is at the root of many of the rich world’s problems (2020) | Hacker News

• Airbnb is launching 'anti-party tools' to stop parties in the US and Canada

• How lipstick and underwear can predict the economy

• Boy, six, dies in India after throat cut by glass-coated kite string

celebrity gossip

• Why does the WeWork guy get to fail up?

Rank Propaganda / Thought Policing / World Disordering

• (Jun 2021) I will not lie to please your masters – Grenouille Bouillie

• ‘own nothing and be happy’ sparked a misinformation campaign targetting WEF

• Difference between American public and private opinions

  • HN comments

• The Powerful Leftwing Journalists' Union and the Conflicts of Interest News Junkies Don't Hear About | RealClearInvestigations

• Conservatives' War on BlackRock

  • HN comments

• We should have defended JK Rowling when we had the chance

• I fear the Atlantic's definition of "Free Speech": Free Speech Can’t Survive as an Abstraction

Musk

• Don't trust 'self-interested' billionaires like Elon Musk to improve transport

• What Happened to Hyperloop?

• Elon Musk Featured at Kevin McCarthy’s GOP Retreat in Wyoming

Trump / War against the Right / Jan6

• 10 Republicans Voted to Impeach Trump After Capitol Riot, but Only 2 Will Remain in Congress

• Former Trump Lawyer Giuliani Testifies in Georgia

• Pence Calls on Republicans to Stop Assailing the F.B.I. After Trump Search

• Producers Confirm Liz Cheney Will Not Be Back For Season 2 Of January 6 Hearings.

• Will Donald Trump run again?

  • HN comment

• Read Letter From NY Attorney General Letitia James Threatening Church Hosting Trump-Friendly Event: Pastor Paul Doyle: “It feels like she’s trying to intimidate me.”

  The Office of the Attorney General has a duty to protect New Yorkers from extremist and racially motivated violence. We stand ready to investigate any violation of the laws above and, if necessary, to enforce them to the fullest extent available. You are therefore instructed to take all necessary steps to ensure that the event complies fully with the requirements ofNew York’s civil rights laws and all other applicable state and federal statutes

• BOMBSHELL: Outing of Trump Raid 'Leaker' Shatters FBI Document Excuse, Now All Eyes Are on Affidavit Hearing – PJ Media

• Records Suggest A Bureaucrat Hack's Gripe Spurred Trump Raid

• The left is making it impossible for Trump to find a lawyer - American Thinker

• After landslide primary defeat, Liz Cheney announces new anti-Trump group, says she's 'thinking about' WH bid

• 'A Clear And Powerful Public Interest': Judge Urged To Unseal FBI Mar-A-Lago Raid Affidavit | ZeroHedge

Pestilence / Pox / COVID / VaxCult

• Most people with Omicron didn't even realise they had Covid-19, study finds

• ‘Like Wildfire’: Covid Cases Skyrocket on Marshall Islands

• Japan Covid deaths up sevenfold over month amid latest virus wave

• ‘We cannot live with 15k deaths a week’: WHO warns on rise in Covid fatalities

• What's behind the FDA's controversial strategy for evaluating new Covid Boosters

• Covid-19 Vaccines Candidates in Clinical Trials

• Is Oxygen the Answer to Long Covid?

• After criticism over Covid, the CDC chief plans to make the agency more nimble

• Repurposed drugs don’t work for Covid19 (again)

• New antibody neutralizes all known SARS-CoV-2 variants in lab tests

  • HN comments

• In an effort to address Covid missteps, CDC plans an 'ambitious' overhaul

• A Deeper Dive Into the CDC Reversal  ⋆ Brownstone Institute

• The Chinese city of Xiamen is conducting Covid tests on fish

• Researchers discover 'weak spot' across major Covid-19 variants

• Rasmussen on Covid-19:‘This origins discussion is the worst thing about Twitter’

• Increased dementia risk 2 years after Covid infection

• Monkeypox case reported in man whose risk factor was nonsexual outdoor contact

• Sex between men, not skin contact, is fueling monkeypox, new research suggests

• The role of vaccination and public awareness in forecasts of monkeypox

• Talking about Monkeypox? – Then you should be talking about Sex

• Doctor Warns of Suspicious Pattern Behind Monkeypox Outbreak

Culture War / Tribal / Re segregation

• Black Girls Code founder Kimberly Bryant has been fired by her board

Edumacationalizing / Acedemia Nuts

• California law ensures a later start time for middle and high school students

Media / ShowBiz / Advertising

• Who's Javier Olivan? Meet Facebook, Now Meta's, New Sheryl Sandberg

• Netflix’s Ad-Supported Plan Will Block Downloads of Media

• How social media platforms put profits before people

• Lord of the Rings and Hobbit rights snapped up by Embracer in game buying spree

  • Embracer enters into agreement to acquire The Lord of the Rings, The Hobbit IP

  • HN comments

• People Are Dunking on Mark Zuckerberg's New Metaverse Selfie

• Americans Spent More Time Streaming Than Watching Cable TV in July–A First

• Oracle begins auditing TikTok's algorithms

TechSuck

• Browsers Are Back in the Antitrust Hot Seat

Crypto con games

• Crypto broker Genesis slashes 20% of workforce and announces CEO exit

• Quebec Pension Fund Writes Off $200M CAD Celsius Crypto Investment

• Colombia Explores Creating a CBDC to Combat Tax Evasion

• Crypto.com laid off 260 employees – then quietly let go of hundreds more

• Tornado Cash and Collateral Damage

Economicon / Business / Finance

• Amazon to charge sellers a $0.35 fee per item orderd using Fulfillment by Amazon

• Apple reportedly lays off 100 contract recruiters

• Minutes of the Federal Open Market Committee July 26-27, 2022

  • FOMC Minutes: Anticipation For "Rate Increases" But Risk Fed Could Tighten "More Than Necessary"; Financial Conditions Already "Tightened Notably" | ZeroHedge

• Target's Profit Sinks as Retailer Unloads Unwanted Inventory

• Can the Visa-Mastercard duopoly be broken?

  • HN comments

• Rugpull: After Stratospheric Gamma Squeeze, Ryan Cohen Files To Sell Stake In Bed, Bath & Beyond | ZeroHedge

• Meme Stonks, Doge Coins, and Elon Musk Joke Investments Are Mooning Again

• Sky-high inflation is here to stay — so brace for the Fed to stick to its guns on tightening, renowned economist says.

• US student makes $110m profit trading meme stock Bed Bath and Beyond

  • In Surreal Story, 20-Year-Old Student Acquires 6% Of Bed Bath & Beyond, Makes $110 Million In 3 Weeks

  Surely such a concentrated, undiversified investment by a young "hedge fund" guru who doesn't even have an active Bloomberg account screams "fiduciary duty", and we can only applaud the "friends and family" who handed their $25 million to this young investing wizard, who were surely expecting a few percent returns here and there, instead of a 5x return in 3 weeks. Surely.

  "to amass its stake in this time period, FCM BBBY HOLDINGS, LLC would have had to be over 11% of the average daily volume!" That's not only a ton of conviction where to put in every last penny of your "friends and family" money but one hell of a rush too.

• Walmart cancels billions of dollars in orders to right-size inventory levels.

• Bad bosses like Mark Zuckerberg will face a backlash. Workers are fed up

Gubmint / Poilitcks / Law Making

• Liz Cheney's Net Worth Grew as Much as 600% During Her Time in Office

• Judge Blocks Texas Restrictions On Using P.O. Boxes For Voter Registration

• Inflation Reduction Act Requires IRS to Study Free Tax Filing Options

• Congress and Tax Fraud versus Covid Fraud

Law Breaking / Police / Internal Security

• Mike Pence: “Calls to defund the FBI are just as wrong as calls to defund the police.”

• AirTag leads to arrest of airline worker who stole $15,000 of items from luggage

• Border Patrol opens gate locked by Texas National Guard to allow illegal immigrants to enter.

• Former judges who sent kids to jail for kickbacks must pay more than 200M

External Security / Militaria / Diplomania

• US, allies send thousands of soldiers for Indo-Pacific military drills

• House passes bill that DoD software can’t have any CVEs

  • HN comments

• US and Taiwan agree to start talks on a trade and investment pact

• Air Force Tests Long-Range, Nuclear-Capable Missile Amid Global Tensions

• The Family That Mined The Pentagon’s Data for Profit

World

• Saudi Arabia sentenced a woman to 34 years in prison for tweeting

  • HN comments

• U.N. expert says minorities suffer slavery in Xinjiang

Russia Bad / Ukraine War

• China to Join Russia Military Exercises as U.S. Rivals Deepen Ties

• Is Putin Plotting to Unleash Hell on This Holiday?

• The Soviets Hunted Whales to the Brink of Extinction but Scientists Tracked Toll

• Suicide missions, abuse, physical threats: International Legion fight in Ukraine

• Road to war: US struggled to convince allies, and Zelensky, of risk of invasion

  • HN comments

• A European Powerhouse: Polish Military Aid to Ukraine

• Fighting Near Ukrainian Power Plant Raises Risk of an Atomic Accident

Health / Medicine

• FDA moves to make over-the-counter hearing aids available to millions

  • HN comments

  • A Hearing Aid Oligopoly Is Trying to Strangle Cheap Over-the-Counter Competitors

• US pharmacy chains ordered to pay $650m in Ohio opioids suit

• Benefits of the Danish transfat ban for coronary heart disease mortality

  • HN comments

Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda

• Proximity to fracking sites associated with risk of childhood cancer

• Report of the IPCC reveals that the growth model of capitalism is unsustainable

• If you can see me, weep: Drought-hit River Elbe reveals hunger stones from 1616

• Edible insects role in transmission of parasitic diseases to humans (2019)

  • HN comments

• Stay away from habitats of wild life, since animals now turn on human population due to climate change

• The century of climate migration: why we need to plan for the great upheaval

• An airborne blade exposed broader problems at PGE’s flagship wind farm

• Human-nature relations and human well-being through cultural ecosystem services

• Every Dollar Spent on This Climate Technology Is a Waste

• The World Has Passed ‘Peak Agricultural Land’

• Windmills projected to kill 20k golden eagles by 2050