2022-08-30

Worthy

• Bitch slapped: On the Wisdom of Noah Smith

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• Multiplicity Horror, the Intelligibility Urge, Categorization Imperative, & the Mosquito-in-Amber Effect

  If I’m to juggle all of these myriad personalities, I need to classify them too. The difference is that it’s just as good, or better, if there’s something limiting and pejorative in the categories I devise. The #girlboss. The litbro. The male feminist. The basic bitch. The himbo. The pickme girl. The helicopter parent. The thisbro, the thatbro, everybody, some kind of bro. Everyone must be a type, and this is the categorization imperative. Again, too many people, too many relationships, too many minds, too many souls out there. Who could keep track of them without some kind of useful acrostic to decompose them all into their most obvious and sortable features?

  • Solved: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geek_Code

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• French tax officials use AI to spot 20k undeclared pools

• Warning sign? NASA never finished fueling test before today’s SLS launch attempt

• Nebraska man paddles 38 miles in hollowed out pumpkin

celebrity gossip

• Joe Rogan has a werewolf - by Lulu Cheng Meservey - Flack

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Obit

• Kazuo Inamori, Founder of Kyocera and KDDI, Dies at Age 90

Rank Propaganda / Thought Policing / World Disordering

• Evaluating five years of pro-Western covert influence operations

  The Twitter dataset provided to Graphika and SIO covered 299,566 tweets by 146 accounts between March 2012 and February 2022. These accounts divide into two behaviorally distinct activity sets. The first was linked to an overt U.S. government messaging campaign called the Trans-Regional Web Initiative, which has been extensively documented in academic studies, media reports, and federal contracting records. These cond comprises a series of covert campaigns of unclear origin. These covert campaigns were also represented in the Meta dataset of 39 Facebook profiles, 16 pages, two groups, and 26 Instagram accounts active from 2017 to July 2022

• The Big (Censored) Theory | Hacker News

• Rights, Laws, and Google | Hacker News

• Republicans are increasingly sharing misinformation, research finds

• Cloudflare Tries to Ignore the World

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  • Cloudflare backs white nationalist website for terrorizing interracial couples

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Musk

• I guess I’m writing about Twitter again

• Musk Tries a New Way Out of Twitter

• Tesla violated labor laws because it required employees to wear company uniform

• The Twitter whistleblower just got a subpoena from Elon Musk

• Elon Musk Cites Shock Twitter Whistleblower Claims as New Reason to Back Out of Takeover Deal

• Starlink suffered a global outage overnight

• Tesla Sues to Sell Cars Directly to Consumers in Louisiana

• Elon Musk Says World Needs More Oil and Gas as Bridge to Renewables

• Twitter Drops After Musk Sends Another Termination Letter Citing Whistleblower As New Reason To Exit Deal

Trump / War against the Right / Jan6

• Redacted Mar-A-Lago Affidavit Confirms Biden’s DOJ Fished For A Crime To Pin On Trump.

• FBI special agent who opened Trump investigation reportedly escorted out of Bureau headquarters.

• Trump Demands a New Election

• Top agent exits FBI amid charge of political bias undermining Hunter Biden probe

• Whistleblower: Same FBI Boss Who Shut Down Hunter Dirt Also Pressured Agents to Juice Domestic Violent Extremism Stats

• Top agent exits FBI amid charge of political bias undermining Hunter Biden probe: Sources - Washington Times

  The Washington Times learned that Timothy Thibault, an assistant special agent in charge, was forced to leave his post. The information came from two former FBI officials familiar with the situation.

• Top FBI agent resigns amid claims he shielded Hunter Biden from probe: report

• (May 2022) Grassley Raises Concern about Apparent Political Bias by Senior FBI Public Integrity Official

  Assistant Special Agent in Charge (“ASAC”) at the Washington Field Office, Timothy Thibault, likely violated several federal regulations and Department guidelines designed to prevent political bias from infecting FBI matters, including the Attorney General Guidelines for Domestic FBI Operations and FBI social media policies. … ASAC Thibault has demonstrated a pattern of active public partisanship, such as using his official title for public partisan posts relating to his superiors and matters under the FBI’s purview, that is likely a violation of his ethical obligations as an FBI employee,” Grassley wrote in a letter today to Attorney General Merrick Garland and FBI Director Chris Wray.

• “White House Says Biden Not Briefed on ‘National Security’ Materials Seized from Mar-a-Lago.”

• Mar-a-Lago Raid: Feds Seized Privileged Trump Documents, New Court Filing Confirms.

• DOJ to file lengthy response to Trump's request for a special master to oversee Mar-a-Lago search review

• Analysis: Talk of street violence and 'semi-fascism' turns up midterm election heat

• Aspiring Proud Boy Who Stormed Capitol Is Sentenced to 55 Months in Prison

  • Latest J6 rioter gets nearly five years for “encountering.”

• Zuckerberg’s Admission Of FBI Meddling In 2020 Election Is Even Bigger Than It Seems

• Hunter Biden laptop ignored because of media ‘conspiracy’ to ‘get rid’ of Trump: Bill Maher.

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

Pestilence / Pox / COVID / VaxCult

• Republicans and Blacks most hesitant to get Covid vaccine, PSU analysis finds

• Unvaxxed Coast Guard Cadets Given 24 Hours To Leave Campus

• Jill Biden Tests Negative for Coronavirus After Rebound Case

• DEEP DIVE: The Covid "Fudge Factor" - by Maxim Lott

• Exhaustive study of German mortality data finds excess deaths tightly correlated with mass vaccination

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• FDA warns of risk of monkeypox infection from fecal transplant treatments.

• The Mystery Inside Smallpox / Monkeypox Vaccines

Culture War / Tribal / Re segregation

• Maternal Instinct Is a Myth That Men Created

• Watch: Antifa Shows Up To 'Family Friendly' Drag Show With AR-15s | ZeroHedge

  • Armed guards protect all-ages drag event in Texas from far-right protesters - LGBTQ Nation

• Marjorie Taylor Greene doubles down on fighting transgender surgeries for minors.

Media / ShowBiz / Advertising

• VidAngel – Automatically skip unacceptable scenes on Netflix and Prime

• Facebook shuts down its game streaming app after struggling to challenge Twitch

• Five Tech giants own over half the global ad market

• Twitter’s child porn problem ruined its plans for an OnlyFans competitor

• Truth Social Android App Not Approved on Google Play Store

TechSuck

• The PC & Internet Revolution in Rural America | The Changelog

• An iPhone 14 satellite link could depend on Apple cutting a deal with carriers

Crypto con games

• OpenSea turns into NFT ghost-town after volume plunges 99% in 90 days

  • NFT trading volume on OpenSea down 99% since May

Economicon / Business / Finance

• Fed Plans 2023 Launch of Long-Anticipated Faster Payments System

• Ask HN: Why hasn't the ACH system been more abused? | Hacker News

• eBay locking accounts of users who sell over $600 till they submit SSN for IRS

• Ask HN: Should I inform investors that my startup employer is a scam? | Hacker News

• US shares fall on threat of interest rate rises

• The rise of 'stealerships' and the shady economics of car buying

• Negative Power Prices? Blame the US Grid for Stranding Renewable Energy

• Ask HN: How do you get side gigs?

• How can we discuss the energy crisis when journalists are so ignorant?

Gubmint / Poilitcks / Law Making

• Charlie Crist picks running-mate who tweeted how Cubans ‘mourn’ the death of dictator Fidel Castro

• Biden to give primetime address on the ‘battle for the soul of the nation’

  Biden will deliver a primetime address on Thursday about “the continued battle for the soul of the nation”, the White House has said. Calling the speech a major address, the White House said Biden would discuss how America’s standing in the world and its own democracy are at stake.

  • Biden to speak about 'the continued battle for the soul of the nation' on Thursday

  • Biden to speak about 'Soul of the Nation' in Philadelphia speech - POLITICO

  • IP thread

• What’s good for beer should be good for bourbon. Make home distilling legal.

• Sweeping Children’s Online Safety Bill Is Passed in California

Student Loans

• Ask HN: Was there always going to be student loan forgiveness?

• Biden Vows to Crack Down on Colleges Making Student Debt Crisis Worse

• Tuition costs are out of control. Canceling student debt won't fix that - CNN

Law Breaking / Police / Internal Security

• NY mother and daughter scammed $850K in credit card con to fund lavish lifestyle

External Security / Militaria / Diplomania

• White House calls violence in Iraq ‘disturbing’ but says embassy not being evacuated.

• Several Killed As Baghdad's Green Zone Unravels, White House Denies Embassy Evacuation Reports | ZeroHedge

• Pentagon Stockpiles "Uncomfortably Low" Amid Ukraine Transfers, Officials Admit

World

• Pakistan pleads for international help – parts of country resemble a small ocean

  • 33% of Pakistan Land Currently Underwater

• Reports from Cuba: After milk and beef, bread disappears from the Cuban table.

• How to Nationalize the Internet in Canada

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• Loan woes: China's troubled property market hits banks

• Secret deals ending Britain's control in Gulf revealed

• Gazprom To Slash NatGas Deliveries To France's Top Utility As Squeeze Worsens

  • Analysis: France braces for uncertain winter as nuclear power shortage looms

• Goldman Sachs: If energy prices stay elevated, UK inflation will top 22 percent

Russia Bad / Ukraine War

• Heavily Armed Russian Navy Ships Sailing Between Britain and Ireland

• The Telegram-powered news outlet waging guerilla war on Russia

• Germany Raids Companies That Exported ‘Dual-Use’ Chemicals to Russia

Health / Medicine

• Marijuana use is outpacing cigarette use for the first time on record

Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda

• Greenland ice loss will raise sea levels by nearly one foot by 2100

• Floods,droughts,storms to cost Canadian economy $139B in next 30 years – report

• Germany’s Ultra-Cheap Train Ticket Saved 1.8M Tons of CO2

• Glacials in Greenland defrosting have past the point of no return

• Dead fish pile up as algal bloom consumes SF Bay

• New Zealand's plan to prepare for inevitable climate change impacts

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• Vegetation around playgrounds can reduce traffic derived air pollution