2022-08-23

Worthy

• Perfluorocubane Is (As You Would Expect) Weird

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• Congress implies UFOs have non-human origins

• A Brief History Of Drywall Or: How Drywall Came To Dominate The World Of Construction | Hackaday

• Floating Human Foot at Yellowstone Is Grim Reminder of Hot Spring Dangers.

• Ask HN: Should a 'no side projects' policy be taken seriously?

• On Corpspeak - by Andre Cooper - Good Reason

• (UK) The gathering crisis - Charlie's Diary

  • HN comments

  The more time moves forward, the closer we are inching to a one-world government. Or is democracy too dangerous to be left in the hands of the people.

• On Eating (With) the Rich

  this hike changed my perspective. It taught me that my peers desire to ascend and have a say in the world and that people who shop 5000€ handbags in the streets of Cannes aren't really the problem. Instead, the problems accumulate among those who can afford to buy entire peninsulas that take two hours to encircle. Those who dominate and corrupt nation-states and those that live a lifestyle not even conceivable by mere mortals like me. Those that wage wars and finance their godlike island utopias on the backs of the people below them.

• NASA's Artemis I launch is a make-or-break moment

Horseshit

• Gmail will call the cops on you based on the content of your emails

  • Google refuses to reinstate account after man took medical images of son’s groin

  • HN comments

  • Google’s Scans of Private Photos Led to False Accusations of Child Abuse

• A 12-Year-Old Died on an E-Bike. Is the Manufacturer to Blame?

• The End of the Manual Transmission Is Near. Here’s Why.

• Why the former head of WeWork is being rewarded for failure

• Unambitious Gen Z is about to get a rude wake-up call

• New York City is forcing some cars to slow down

  In a six-month trial, New York City has equipped 50 municipal vehicles with "intelligent speed assistance" — software that can make a car obey the speed limit. Why it matters: While you probably haven't heard of intelligent speed assistance — ISA — you're about to: In July, the European Union mandated its use in new models of vehicles; in 2024, it'll be compulsory in all new cars sold there.

  • And in July, they reported that these would be advisory systems, unable to actually interfere with the control of the vehicle. Not that anyone believed it.

• America’s Fire Sale: Get Some Free Speech While You Can

• How I Overcame Anxiety - Richard Hanania's Newsletter

  As someone who was not good with women, or people more generally, the message that men could improve themselves socially was very appealing. Upon reading Strauss’ book, I bought Mystery’s DVD series. I found that PUA shortcuts generally didn’t work, but that the advice they gave for improving one’s “inner game” was generally helpful. As I set out on my own journey of self-improvement, I came to the radical position that “inner game” was pretty much the entire game. The specific tricks and lines taught by PUAs were generally useless, but the advice to become focused on self-improvement and the mental modules they provided were extremely valuable.

celebrity gossip

• Bob Dylan’s legal team sues lawyers behind sexual abuse lawsuit

Rank Propaganda / Thought Policing / World Disordering

• Cloudflare Pressured to Drop Kiwi Farms After Latest Doxing Effort

  • Keffals: “I’m being forced to leave the continent because of Kiwi Farms” | Hacker News

• YIKES! World Economic Forum Claims ‘Solid, Rational Reasons’ for Microchipping Children | Newsbusters

• The Making of New York City’s Bizarre Nuclear War PSA

• Facebook fails to tackle election disinformation ads ahead of Brazilian election

• “10% error rate is okay“ – Leaked EU Commission document regarding Chat Control | Hacker News

• Ask HN: What's an apolitical News Source? | Hacker News

• New breed of video sites thrive on misinformation and hate

• YouTube joins Facebook in banning Andrew Tate | Hacker News

• (Aug 11 2022) WEF's "Global Intelligence Collecting AI" to Erase Ideas from the Internet

• The Worst and the Stupidest? › American Greatness

• Narcissists Seem Drawn to Conspiracy Theories

Musk

• New whistleblower allegations could factor into Twitter vs. Musk trial

  • "Mudge": Ex-Twitter exec blows the whistle, alleging reckless cybersecurity policies

  • HN comments

  • Former security chief claims Twitter buried ‘egregious deficiencies’

  • Twitter’s former security chief says company lied about bots and safety

  • Twitter’s former security chief accuses it of ‘egregious deficiencies.’

  • Twitter CEO paraga weighs in on whistleblower story sending this message

  • Twitter Whistleblower Reveals Company Hid "Extreme, Egregious, Deficiencies"; Musk Subpoenas Dorsey & Ex-Security Chief

  • India forced Twitter to put agent on payroll, whistleblower says

    • HN comments

  • Twitter CEO says damning claims about Twitter bots and security lapses are false

• Elon Musk Subpoenas Jack Dorsey

• Scientists are considering how the SpaceX Starship accelerate space exploration

• Elon Musk, John Carmack and Gatekeeping Engineering

Trump / War against the Right / Jan6

• New breed of video sites thrive on misinformation and hate

• New York Times Claims ‘Republicans of Color’ Are Distorting the American Dream

• More Than 300 Classified Documents Found at Mar-a-Lago

• Biden White House facilitated DOJ's criminal probe against Trump, scuttled privilege claims: memos | Just The News

  By May, (then-White House Deputy Counsel Jonathan) Su conveyed to the Archives that President Joe Biden would not object to waiving his predecessor's claims to executive privilege, a decision that opened the door for DOJ to get a grand jury to issue a subpoena compelling Trump to turn over any remaining materials he possessed from his presidency.

• Two 'Ringleaders' Convicted In Whitmer Kidnapping Case | ZeroHedge

Pestilence / Pox / COVID / VaxCult

• Fauci to step down in December after decades of public service

• Historical reasons for the resistance to recognizing Covid-19 is airborne

• Google’s Covid Outbreak Is Currently the Largest of Any Employer in Los Angeles

• The CDC (Finally) Admitted the Science on Natural Immunity. Why Did It Take so Long?

• Spate of polio outbreaks worldwide puts scientists on alert

Culture War / Tribal / Re segregation

• Black Girls Code files lawsuit against ousted founder for ‘hijacking’ website

• Former Louisville Officer to Plead Guilty to Breonna Taylor Cover-up

• 'It's not about the books': Boundary County library director resigns over intimidation and 'political atmosphere of extremism' | The Spokesman-Review

• Let’s NOT have a beer - Dewan’s Blog

Media / ShowBiz / Advertising

• Clip Studio Paint announces subscription plan, angering the artist community

• YouTube’s Fake Views Economy

• MoviePass will return on September 5th with plans starting at $10 per month

• An odd discovery on Spotify

  • HN comments

• NYT union floods management with coordinated emails

• CNN Staff Fears Right-Wing Billionaire Will Turn It Into a Dumpster Fire

TechSuck

• Amazon's acquisition of the Roomba is dangerous

• Stable Diffusion Public Release – Stability.ai | Hacker News

• Downtown Doug Brown » Solving my truck’s TPMS sensor problem with the help of an RTL-SDR dongle

  • HN comments

• Audible feedback on just how much your browsing feeds into Google | Hacker News

Crypto con games

• A republished fork of the banned on sanction order Tornado Cash repositories

  • HN comments

• Banks, crypto lobby clash with lawmakers over Fed digital dollar

  • HN comments

• As Crypto Slumps, Goldman Sachs Aims for a Wall Street Built on Blockchain

• Wall Street Giant DTCC Launches Private Blockchain to Settle Trades Quickly

Economicon / Business / Finance

• Cheap Homes? House Prices Are Being Slashed in Former Pandemic Boomtowns

  • Home prices plunging in ‘pandemic boomtowns’ as market slumps

• Ford cuts 3k jobs as it pivots to EVs, software

• IPO Market Faces Worst Year in Two Decades

• Tip-flation has some restaurants asking for up to 30% in tips

• How a 20-year-old student made $110mn riding the meme stock wave

• EV shipping is set to blow internal combustion engines out of the water

  • HN comments

• Record profits for grain firms amid food crisis prompt calls for windfall tax

• Apple WFH employees claim they’re productive but they might be wrong

• Stripe Valuation Slashed 64% by T. Rowe Price – Pymnts.com

• Why GDP is a useful number

• Local samples taken today are similarly dire: "I'm Shocked": US Crop Tour Reveals Drought-Stricken Cornfields | ZeroHedge

• (July 2022) Investors Bought a Quarter of US Homes Sold Last Year

• Why Is Rent Skyrocketing?

  • HN comments

• Intel Signs $30B Partnership with Brookfield to Finance Chip-Factory Expansion

Shortages

• The World’s Cotton Supply Keeps Shrinking, Hit by Drought, Heat

  • HN comments

Gubmint / Poilitcks / Law Making

• Biden takes two-week break as vacation time outstrips Trump, Obama, Bush

• Newsom vetoes bill proposing safe drug injection sites in California

• FCC visits Denver to tout free internet subsidy that 80% of eligible Coloradans are ignoring.

• Mayor Eric Adams whacks ‘silly’ NY Times as questions grow on how he funds party lifestyle.

• Watch: Biden Energy 'Transition' Czar Tells Poor People To Buy Solar Panels | ZeroHedge

  If you are low income, you can get your home entirely weatherized through the expansion from the bipartisan infrastructure laws, a significant expansion — you don’t have to pay for anything,” she claimed, adding, “”If you want heat pumps, insulation, new windows, that is covered.”

• (PDF) San Francisco Homeless Count and Survey – 2022 Comprehensive Report

• San Francisco’s $20k designer trash can struggles to contain trash

Law Breaking / Police / Internal Security

• Hyundai supplier accused of child labor violations by U.S. authorities

• FBI's History of Corruption

• (Aug 12 2022) Lack of trust in FBI stems from handling of congressional baseball shooting, GOP says | Washington Examiner

• Investment Guru Paul Pelosi Avoids Jail In DUI Case | ZeroHedge

External Security / Militaria / Diplomania

• Military drone swarms and how to combat them

  • HN comments

World

• How messed up was Germany's energy policy?

  • HN comments

• Colombia might decriminalize cocaine

• Chinese city dims lights as record heatwave hits energy supplies

• Argentina prosecutor seeks 12-year jail sentence for VP Kirchner

• Hungary's weather chief sacked over wrong forecast

• Chinese censors change ending of latest 'Minions' movie

• U.N. Faces Record Humanitarian Aid Shortfall – But Not for Ukrainians

• 'Tomato Flu' – Outbreak in India

  • Tomato Fever (Tomato Flu)

• ‘We were all wrong’: how Germany got hooked on Russian energy

• UK economy shrank record 11% in 2020, worst since 1709

• Why Dutch farmers are protesting over emissions cuts

• Suketu Mehta: ‘As goes India, so goes democracy’

Russia Bad / Ukraine War

• Russian FSB Identifies Alleged Dugina Assassin | ZeroHedge

• Ukraine’s Effort to Train Pilots for U.S. Jets

• The U.S. Embassy urges U.S. citizens to depart Ukraine now

  Department of State has information that Russia is stepping up efforts to launch strikes against Ukraine’s civilian infrastructure and government facilities in the coming days.

• Kaspersky Employees Asked to Resign Because They Wanted to Leave Russia

• Ukrainian military shares details of counter-offensive in south of Ukraine

• Ukraine conflict: How are drones being used?

• Russian paratrooper’s bombshell diary exposes chaos in Ukraine.

Health / Medicine

• People with Autism have similar speech patterns across languages

• Using a computer may be a somewhat better form of being sedentary

• Collapse of emergency healthcare in England may be costing 500 lives every week

  • HN comments

Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda

• Evidence of methane hydrate destabilization in last interglacial warming

• Electric cars have a big tire conundrum

• Trees Are Spreading North in Alaska. That’s Not Good

• Paleoclimatologist uncovers ancient climate loop behind last global warming

• Proving the ‘shifting baselines’ theory: how humans consistently misperceive nature

• Study first to link weed killer Roundup to convulsions in animals

• Nearly all marine species face extinction if greenhouse emissions don’t drop

• Water managers debate what happens next on the Colorado River

• Earth’s water cycle is being bent to breaking point

• Epaulette sharks able to walk on land evolving to better survive climate crisis