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• Why plastic doesn't dry in the dishwasher

• NASA repairs issue with Voyager 1 space probe - UPI.com

  • NASA has solved the mystery of Voyager 1’s strange data transmissions.

• The Dictatorship of the Articulate – Florent Crivello

  • HN comments

Horseshit

• Be good-argument-driven, not data-driven | Hacker News

• Thousands of Xcel customers locked out of thermostats during ‘energy emergency.’

Rank Propaganda / Thought Policing / World Disordering

• Cloudflare locks comments on new tweet announcing freedom of speech ideology

  • Cloudflare's abuse policies & approach

  Just as the telephone company doesn't terminate your line if you say awful, racist, bigoted things, we have concluded in consultation with politicians, policy makers, and experts that turning off security services because we think what you publish is despicable is the wrong policy. To be clear, just because we did it in a limited set of cases before doesn’t mean we were right when we did. Or that we will ever do it again.

• WATCH: Joe Biden feeds his audience blatant disinformation about AR-15s, but Twitter doesn’t seem to mind for some reason – twitchy.com

• Sharing on Social Media Makes Us Overconfident in Our Knowledge

• Hackers target politicians with fake news website

Musk

• Twitter starts testing ability to edit tweets

  • Farewell Typos Twitter Unveils an Edit Button

• Norway Tesla Owners Go On Hunger Strike

• Elon Musk’s Biggest Boondoggle

Trump / War against the Right / Jan6

• DOJ 'Likely' To Wait Past Midterms To Reveal Any Trump Charges

• Allegations of political bias, widespread misconduct prompt FBI agents to call for Wray resignation - Washington Times

• How the Picture of Top Secret Folders at Mar-a-Lago Came About

• Truth Social: content moderation issue keeps Trump app off Android phones

• Bill Barr - All-In With the Mar-a-Lago Raid | FrontpageMag

  I don’t think the FBI would push a decision that it’s best to go in and search and obtain those documents after being jerked around for a year and a half. The decision would be made at the Department of Justice, by subordinates of the AG, and ultimately signed off on by the AG. The FBI would be told to go and execute it. I think the idea that the FBI is the problem here is misplaced.”

• How the DOJ have built a case against Trump for obstruction

• Apparently Staged Mar-a-Lago Photo Doesn’t Help FBI/DOJ Credibility And Doesn’t Reveal Anything We Didn’t Already Know

• Biden’s White House Colluded With Big Tech To Gag Covid Dissenters Like Alex Berenson.

• Trump Needs a Lesson on the Constitution – PJ Media

  this idea of an election redo has one problem: the Constitution doesn’t provide any mechanism for a do-over. The details are laid out in great detail in Article II Section 1 of the Constitution as amended by Amendment 12.

  • IP thread

• White House: Trump Supporters Are an 'Extreme Threat to Our Democracy' – PJ Media

Pestilence / Pox / COVID / VaxCult

• FDA Authorizes Moderna, Pfizer-BioNTech Bivalent Covid-19 Vaccines Booster Dose

• Why Many Americans Turned on Anthony Fauci.

• A 471-day Covid-19 case reveals how the coronavirus mutates

• Operation Nasal Vaccine–Lightning speed needed to counter Covid-19

• California approves bill to punish doctors who spread false information

  • HN comments

• Long Covid is responsible for about a third of unfilled jobs in the U.S.

• Unvaccinated cadets ordered off Coast Guard Academy campus.

• Can You Trust That At-Home Covid Test Result? What 5 Tests in 24 Hours Taught Me

Edumacationalizing / Acedemia Nuts

• The pandemic erased two decades of progress in math and reading

Media / ShowBiz / Advertising

• Disney Explores Membership Program Like Amazon Prime to Offer Discounts, Perks

• Mark Zuckerberg’s Biggest Bet

• Ask HN: Why is Reddit deleting NSFW Stable Diffussion subreddits?

• Music industry avoids legal battle with new streaming royalty deal

TechSuck

• HN Jobs:

  • Ask HN: Who is hiring? (September 2022)

  • Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (September 2022)

  • Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (September 2022)

• Arm sues Qualcomm, aiming to unwind Qualcomm's $1.4 bln Nuvia purchase

• Crypto Dev Enters Wrong Command, Destroys Entire Company | Hacker News

• US Government Bans Export of Nvidia A100 and H100 GPUs to China and Russia

  • HN comments

• Nokia Circular: introducing our revolutionary new subscription service

• GitHub is depreciating the Trending tab

Crypto con games

• Crypto.com Mistakenly Transfers $7M to Woman Owed $70 Refund

• The Verdict from El Salvador’s Bitcoin Experiment: It Failed

Economicon / Business / Finance

• Bed Bath and Beyond Missed the Memes

• Pope Francis instructs Vatican entities to move all funds Vatican bank by Sep 30

• Ask HN: Anyone having issues with job applicant fraud?

• Oil tanker, moving again in hours: Another ship stuck in Suez Canal – Affinity V

• Etsy strike organizers are forming the Indie Sellers Guild to help merchants

• The Other Electric Vehicle: E-Bikes Gain Ground for Americans

• The Great Resignation forced U.S. companies to order a record number of robots

• Fintech: Klarna’s losses triple after aggressive U.S. expansion and mass layoffs

• Inflation to kill growth prospects for smartphone sales

• 'Brutal' housing prices hit America's Zoom towns

• Amazon took all U.S. solar rooftops offline last year after flurry of fires

Shortages

• Just Days After Phasing Out New Gas Cars, California Says "Avoid Charging EVs" Amid Grid Emergency

• California ends level-1 energy emergency

• California Declares Grid Emergency

Gubmint / Poilitcks / Law Making

• DoJ Bans Officials From All "Partisan Political Events" Amid Allegations Of Bias

  The Justice Department announced on Wednesday that it would wait until after the midterm elections to reveal whether they're going to bring any charges against former President Donald Trump for removing documents from the White House.

• Peter Thiel Rebuffs Mitch McConnell

• Pelosis sell NVDA a month before govt restricts their trade to China and Russia

• Baked Alaskan: 60% of voters cast ballots for Republicans. A Democrat won.

• Wide shot of Biden’s crowd in Pa. yesterday might explain why the WH didn’t want any wide shots of the crowd.

• DeSantis sues Biden administration over Canadian drug importation program

Student Loans

• Worthy: Grand Theft Education - by Zvi Mowshowitz

• Student Debt Has Contributed to ‘Delayed’ Adulthood

Law Breaking / Police / Internal Security

• Tech tool offers police ‘mass surveillance on a budget

• Two Mexican Drug Cartels Came to Dominate America’s Fentanyl Supply

External Security / Militaria / Diplomania

• Crude in U.S. emergency reserve falls to lowest since Dec. 1984

• U.S. Forces Ordered to Stop Using Gender Pronouns to Improve ‘Lethality’: Pacific Air Force base bans references to gender, age, and race.

• Armies are re-learning how to fight in cities

  • HN comments

World

• Yen Falls to Fresh 24-Year Low as US-Japan Policy Gap Weighs

• Floppy disks in Japan: Minister declares war on old-fashioned technology

• Poland Seeks Nazi Wartime Damages over $1.3T in Losses

Russia Bad / Ukraine War

• Western Allies Led By UK's Johnson Sabotaged Tentative Ukraine-Russia Peace Deal... In April

• Russia To Hold 'Limited' Ukraine Annexation Vote, Including For Region Of Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Plant

• US war-gamed with Ukraine ahead of counteroffensive, encouraged limited mission

• Chairman of Russian oil producer Lukoil dies after falling from hospital window

  • Russian oil executive dies in fall from Moscow hospital window

• A virtual army of impish cartoon pooches is waging war on Russia

Health / Medicine

• The U.S. diet is deadly. Here are 7 ideas to get Americans eating healthier

• CDC estimated a 1 yr decline in life expectancy in 2020. Not so – try five days (2021)

• Teva Is Facing Adderall Supply Disruptions as Demand for ADHD Drug Soars

Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda

• As Colorado River Dries, the U.S. Teeters on the Brink of Larger Water Crisis

• 92-Year-Old Clint Eastwood: Plant-Based Diet Is Critical for the Planet

• California legislature has just voted to save Diablo Canyon nuclear plant

• A substantial stratospheric cooling event is now being observed

• A ban on single-use bags in grocery stores had an unintended effect

  • An update on New Jersey's paper bag ban

  • HN comments

• Does turning the air conditioning off when you're not home save energy?

• Where We'll End Up Living as the Planet Burns