2022-08-19

Worthy

• How NEPA works - by Brian Potter - Construction Physics

etc

• More than one asteroid could have spelled doom for the dinosaurs

• Iowa State Fair’s Big Boar Contest has only 2 entries amid soaring inflation, heat | Successful Farming

• Highlights from the Comments on Subcultures

• NASA Identifies Candidate Regions for Landing Next Americans on Moon

• Why I am not an effective altruist - by Erik Hoel

Horseshit

• What a $21K San Francisco Trash Can Looks Like After a Month

• I Went Viral in the Bad Way | Hacker News

• Europe is seriously considering a major investment in space-based solar power

• "Entering my thirties still single, I think about this a lot." The Secretary Problem | Hacker News

• Americans Are Breaking Up with Their Work Friends

celebrity gossip

• CEO (Dan Price) Known for $70K Pay Resigned Just Before NYT Expose Published

  • Dan Price, CEO who cut his pay so workers made at least $70k, resigns

• Billionaire Peter Thiel refused consent for sprawling lodge in New Zealand

  • HN comments

• Gina Lollobrigida, 95, to run for Senate in Italy's elections - CNN

• Note to Readers - Glenn Greenwald

Rank Propaganda / Thought Policing / World Disordering

• Michael Jordan: “Republicans Buy Sneakers Too” | Hacker News

• I Went to a “Dangerous Alt-Right Rally” | The Blog of Josh C. Simmons

• Privacy fallacy: there is difference between state and commercial surveillance

• How Social Justice Became a New Religion

• Can social media recommendation systems promote extremist content? Probably yes

• (Audio) Chuck Klosterman on fandom culture and how it has affected politics

• If we don’t defend free speech, we live in tyranny: Salman Rushdie shows us that | Margaret Atwood | The Guardian

• EXCLUSIVE: MASSIVE Democrat 'Bot Farms' Revealed Influencing Elections, War, And Racial Tension — 51,343,790,000 Social Media Impressions Since 2019 — They're Gearing Up for November & 2024

• Patriotism is a good thing. - Economic Insights

• Andrew Tate banned from Facebook and Instagram - BBC News

  Andrew Tate's videos - promoting misogyny and targeting women - have come to prominence this summer with many teens commenting on just how much he's appearing on their social media feeds.

Musk

• Doubts cast over Elon Musk's Twitter bot claims

Trump / War against the Right / Jan6

• Trump CFO Allen Weisselberg Pleads Guilty To Tax Scheme, Will Testify Against Trump Org

• DEEP STATE ALERT: Former Head of CIA Thinks Republicans Are More Dangerous Than ISIS and al-Qaeda – PJ Media

• Old case over audio tapes in Bill Clinton's sock drawer could impact Mar-a-Lago search dispute | Just The News

• Confirmed: 'At Least' TWENTY FBI Agents & ATF Operatives Were Embedded at Capitol on January 6, Legal Docs Show

• Judge Rules That SOME Documents Supporting Trump Mar-a-Lago FBI Raid Will Be Released.

• DOJ Argues That Its Warrant Cannot Be Unsealed Because Its Contents Are Too Sensitive While It Continues Leaking the Supposed Contents of This Warrant to All of Its Media Pals

  Judge Reinhart says "I am not prepared to find that the affidavit should be fully sealed" and asks the government for proposed redactions to the Mar-a-Lago affidavit by next week, adding this will be a careful process.

• Jonathan Turley has some thoughts on the DOJ’s ‘selectively leaked’ info about the FBI raid on Trump’s home – twitchy.com

• Harriet Hageman Accused of Lying About Liz Cheney Concession, Then She Released the Voicemail – RedState

• Grassley to FBI Director Wray: Whistleblower Info Shows ‘Deeply Rooted Political Infection’ in FBI.

• Why all those Trump documents exist in the form of physical paper

• Feds Swear Trump Investigation Was in ‘EARLY STAGES’ When FBI Stormed Mar-a-Lago. Oh, Really?

• ‘Civil War’ Porn

• Majority see FBI as Biden’s ‘personal Gestapo’ after Trump raid.

• Anti-Trump writer Sam Harris admits the media tried to swing election for Biden—and actually defends it

• Sam Harris Approves of Media Misinforming Voters to Stop Trump

• Sam Harris clarifies that clip where he says he wouldn’t have cared if Hunter Biden had children’s bodies in his basement

• More Boogaloo Bois Are Heading to Ukraine to Fight

  “Some right-wing extremists have viewed the war in Ukraine as an opportunity to gain critical combat experience which would otherwise be unavailable to them,” said Fisher-Birch, pointing out that war experience can also help boost their cachet within the movement at home. “Combat experience not only serves the purpose of increasing their own capabilities but passing those skill sets along to others in their movement.”

• FBI Unit Leading Mar-a-Lago Probe Earlier Ran Discredited Trump-Russia Investigation

• FBI Sought Documents Trump Hoarded for Years, Including about Russiagate

• Democrats switched party registration in Wyoming. It couldn’t save Cheney.

• But Trump tops himself by "getting behind" everyone's favorite mastoid Marxist Mensa candidate Alexandria "Titty Caca" Ocasio-Cortez.

• ‘Civil War Is Here’: MSNBC Host Says There’s ‘No Dealing’ With Conservatives | The Daily Caller

  “You have millions of people turning into a propaganda network every night,” Cross said. “As if that were not bad enough, that’s an extremist network itself, you have these fringe pop-up outlets from OANN to Newsmax. Then you have the social media component. The train has left the station. There is no dealing with the rhetoric. At this point, we need serious conversations around preparing for actual violence. People keep saying a Civil War is coming. I would say the Civil War is here.”

• Documentarian Discovers Some Unusual Shots in His Jan. 6 Footage That Blow up the Dem Narrative – RedState

Abortion

• Google Employee Union Petitions Search Engine To Suppress Results for Pro-Life Pregnancy Centers.

Pestilence / Pox / COVID / VaxCult

• Lockdown effects feared to be killing more people than Covid

• Long Covid: A Parallel Pandemic

• Neurological and psychiatric risk trajectories after SARS-CoV-2 infection

• Covid in China: Fish tested amid Xiamen outbreak

• Sick days double the normal winter rate in July, ABS data shows

• Antibody fragment discovered that neutralizes all major Covid-19 variants

• Anywhere but here–China now insists the pandemic didn’t start within its borders

• Livestock land use zoonotic coronavirus transmission risks from rhinolophid bats

• C19 Vaccines Are Dangerous

• COVID-19 Public Health Emergency likely to be extended.

• Fauci and Walensky Double Down on Failed Covid Response.

• Evolution of SARS-CoV-2 Shedding in Exhaled Breath Aerosols

Culture War / Tribal / Re segregation

• First 'swatting' and now 'doxing': online harassment of trans activist continues

• Home appraised with a Black owner: $472K. With a White owner: $750K

• Discrimination Is Now Legal at Ontario Universities

Edumacationalizing / Acedemia Nuts

• A Tool That Monitors How Long Kids Are in the Bathroom Is Now in 1K US Schools

• (2014) How Christian fundamentalist homeschooling damages children

Media / ShowBiz / Advertising

• More content by people, for people in Search

  • HN comments

TechSuck

• The growing image-processor unpleasantness

  • HN comments

• The story of the first “computer bug” is a pile of lies

  • HN comments

• Raspberry Pi Manufacturer RS Group Ends License After a Decade

• Erik Prince wants to sell you a “secure” smartphone that’s too good to be true

• Oracle adds significant feature to Solaris • The Register

  If a Solaris box experiences a system panic, the OS takes a snapshot of memory, compresses it, and sends it to Oracle. "Then our receiving server makes sure that nothing malicious is included in the snapshot of your memory, aka crash dump, by scanning it. All of this happens behind the scenes before our diagnosis starts," Big Red's trio explained.

  Enter the ACT Service. Instead of waiting for that upload, it will store the dump file locally – if there's enough space to do so

Crypto con games

• Crypto can't fix carbon offsets but crypto fans are trying anyway

• Celsius bankruptcy hearing: court approves setting more customer funds on fire

• Sudden crypto drop sends Bitcoin to three-week low

• Why Fox Is Investing Millions in NFTs and Blockchain Technology

• “The Merge,” the biggest change in Ethereum history

• A DAO Sounds Like a Kibbutz

Economicon / Business / Finance

• FedNow FAQ | Hacker News

• Layoffs Are in the Works at Half of Companies, PwC Survey Shows

• Blood, Bath And Bankrupt? BBBY Hires Restructuring Advisor

  • Ryan Cohen Dumps Entire BBBY Stake, Makes $68 Million As Apes Crushed | ZeroHedge

  • BBBY stock is crashing after Ryan Cohen Sells Entire Position

• 'Quiet quitting,' and how it may be a misnomer for setting boundaries at work

• GM Resumes Dividend, Hikes Buyback Authorization To $5 Billion

• Wayfair is cutting 5% of its global workforce

  • Wayfair cutting about 870 jobs after pandemic buying subsides

• US Mortgage Lenders Are Starting to Go Broke

• Europe's efforts to shield households from soaring energy costs

Shortages

• The Formula Shortage Isn’t Likely to End Anytime Soon.

• Potato Shortage Now Resulting in Rationing and Price Hikes.

• Balls: The UK Energy Crisis: An MMT Analysis

  An MMT analysis shows that we need gas demand suppression, or we need to transfer that gas demand suppression overseas by strengthening Sterling and pray markets continue to sell and supply to the highest bidder when the crunch comes.

Gubmint / Poilitcks / Law Making

• Like it or not, the government is governing

• Biden’s Climate Law Is Ending 40 Years of Hands-off Government

Law Breaking / Police / Internal Security

• Amazon Complains FTC Is Harassing Top Executives, Bezos During Investigation

• 'Kids for Cash' Judges Ordered to Pay over $200M

• Man arrested following threats to the FBI on social media

External Security / Militaria / Diplomania

• What-If DC War Game Maps Toll of a Future US-China War over Taiwan

• By the numbers: Keeping track of the single largest arms transfer in US history

• Army's New 'Tactical Bra'

• Russia, Ukraine, and Urban Warfare

World

• Kilimanjaro gets high-speed internet so climbers can tweet or Instagram ascent

• Jimmy Lai and 47 democracy activists charged under National Security Law to face trial with no jury.

• 'New normal' across the Taiwan Strait as China threat looms ever closer

Russia Bad / Ukraine War

• Russia’s New Lysenkoism

• Video Shows Russian Military Vehicles Inside Building at Ukraine Nuclear Plant

• Russia plans to take nuclear plant off grid – Ukraine

• Retired generals and ex-officials urge US to increase arms supplies to Ukraine

• Ask HN: Is anyone else terrified about a nuclear catastrophe from Ukraine? | Hacker News

Health / Medicine

• Local Governments Are Practically Giving Failed Rural Hospitals Away

• Why Were Medieval Monks So Susceptible to Intestinal Worms? | Hacker News

• For many neurodiverse people, 'The Sims' has been a lifelong comfort

• The global burden of cancer attributable to risk factors

• NFI whats new about this: An Old Medicine Grows New Hair for Pennies a Day, Doctors Say

• Smoking and other risk factors cause almost half of cancer deaths, study finds

• Group wiped out $6.7B in medical debt, and its just getting started

Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda

• Simple mix of soap and solvent could help destroy ‘forever chemicals’

  • HN comments

• The World’s Roads Aren’t Ready for a Hotter Climate

• The World Has Passed ‘Peak Agricultural Land’

  • HN comments

• Jordan Peterson: Peddlers of Environmental Doom Have Shown Their True Totalitarian Colors.

• Rare golden algae may have caused fish deaths in Oder River, says minister

• ‘Dirty ol’ coal’ is making a comeback and consumption is expected to return

• For 110 years, climate change has been in the news

• The Science Was Just as “Settled” 110 Years Ago as It Is Today… Except for the Bits in the Middle.

• Bees Increasingly Stressed by Climate Change Over the Past 100 Years – Study

• Increased wheat price spikes, larger economic inequality with 2°C global warming

• Which animals can best withstand climate change?