2022-09-05

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• Mystery as private plane crashes into Baltic Sea

• 10 dead and 15 injured in mass stabbing, suspects still at large | 980 CJME

• Could a Giant Fireproof Blanket Be the Solution for Stubborn EV Battery Fires?

• 1989 NASA Airstream

Horseshit

• Midjourney-Generated Artwork Wins First Place at State Fair, Enraging Artists

• Celibacy has surprising evolutionary advantages, according to new research

• (Aug 2010) Nano-nonsense: 25 years of charlatanry

  • HN comments

• Why We Can't Wear White After Labor Day

• Why weed companies can't make any money

Rank Propaganda / Thought Policing / World Disordering

• Scientists establish link between religious fundamentalism and brain damage

• Most of what liberals have labeled ‘disinformation’ here in the U.S. has turned out to be true.

Kiwifarms

• HCaptcha Drops KiwiFarms

• Is Kiwi Farms That Bad?

• Evidence of Kiwi Farms owner-posted doxxing & targeted harassment campaign

• Cloudflare blocks online forum citing 'imminent threats to human life

• Suicide-by-Kiwi-Farms

  Keffals kept Kiwi Farms trending on Twitter for days while also promoting a GoFundMe that raised over $100,000, which she says she’ll use as her legal fund to sue the police for her mistreatment. That’s in addition to the donations #DropKiwifarms asks for its mission. The media was quick to take up the story. According to Clara, she’s “[…] not backing down. I know that the work I do is incredibly valuable, and thousands of trans people told me that I have people almost every day saying they came out to their families because of me.”

• Kiwifarms no longer available anywhere on internet as DDoS-Guard ends service

  • HN comments

Musk

• Musk's 'PayPal mafia' friend can't quash Twitter subpoena after urination tweets

• Elon Musk loses race to sew implant into the brain

Trump / War against the Right / Jan6

• Why Did the FBI Raid Mar-a-Lago?

• Biden Laid the Trap. Trump Walked into It

• A Second Constitutional Convention? Some Republicans Want to Force One

• Biden “on a war footing” to dehumanize “roughly half the population who voted against him”

• "Defund the Police" and "All Cops are Bastards" were Republican slogans, yasee... Lofgren says Trump’s FBI criticism ‘potentially’ incitement | The Hill

  "I think it’s meant to turn people against law enforcement officers,” she continued. “And we’ve seen that sometimes that rhetoric reaches people who are prepared to act on it.”

• Watch: MSNBC Declares All Republicans "Evil" And A "Threat To Democracy"; Pundit Says "We Are At War" | ZeroHedge

• Biden Doubles Down: Tweets "MAGA Proposals Are A Threat To The Very Soul Of This Country" | ZeroHedge

Pestilence / Pox / COVID / VaxCult

• Covid isn’t even seasonal, at least not yet

• Shtetl-Optimized » Blog Archive » What I’ve learned from having COVID

  • HN comments

• Covid app can detect virus from people’s voice

• Look Who’s Rushing Covid Vaccines Now - WSJ

  Democrats and the public-health clerisy denounced President Trump for rushing Covid vaccines. They’ve been curiously quiet about the Food and Drug Administration’s gunshot approval last week of revamped booster shots with no trials showing they are safe or effective.

• Exclusive: Proof that Israel found serious safety problems with the COVID vaccines then deliberately covered it up

• Polio Is Back in the US and UK. Here’s How That Happened

• (May 2022) Things the US establishment got wrong about wuhan-coof part 2

Edumacationalizing / Acedemia Nuts

• Nobel Prize winner Gregg Semenza retracts four papers – Retraction Watch

Media / ShowBiz / Advertising

• Judge Dismisses Suit over Naked Baby Image on Nirvana Album Cover

• Amazon Blocks Negative Reviews of Its Woke Lord of the Rings Series

  • Amazon’s putting a three-day pause on reviews for The Rings of Power.

TechSuck

• After self-hosting my email for twenty-three years I have thrown in the towel

  • HN comments

• “Writing an app is like coding for LaserDisc” – Terence Eden’s Blog

  • HN comments

Crypto con games

• Islamic State Turns to NFTs to Spread Terror Message

Economicon / Business / Finance

• US Mortgage Lenders Are Starting to Go Bankrupt

• Quiet quitting, real quitting, unionizing: what else are American workers up to?

• American workers need lots and lots of robots

• Signet Sees "Steep Decline" In Sales Of Jewelry Priced Under $500

• Sellers are slashing home prices in America’s 97 biggest housing markets

• Quiet quitting, real quitting, unionizing – what else are workers up to?

• All poverty is energy poverty

  • HN comments

• From Fist-Bump To Fisted: Oil Surges After OPEC+ Agrees On 100Kb/d Production Cut

Shortages

• Rolling blackouts possible Monday: record-high temps expected in Bay Area cities

Gubmint / Poilitcks / Law Making

• Semper Sigh: Biden’s Use of the Marines Violated Long-Standing Federal Policies and Regulations – JONATHAN TURLEY

  what is interesting is the relative silence of many in the media on the use of these Marines as virtual nutcracker props for a political speech. The media overwhelmingly condemned President Trump for his picture in front of St. John’s Church after the clearing of Lafayette Park in 2020. While the media falsely claimed that the park was cleared for the photo ed, many criticized the photo with military and law enforcement officials as inappropriate. Later, Gen. Mark A. Milley, apologized for being in the photo, declaring “My presence in that moment and in that environment created a perception of the military involved in domestic politics.”

• Computer Hacker, voting rights activist bought stolen election machine on eBay

• Biden to request $11.7 bln in Ukraine aid, $22.4 bln for Covid relief

• Think Biden's student loan write-offs are unfair? Just take a look at the fine print

External Security / Militaria / Diplomania

• WarWilding: A new word to describe effects of using nature as a weapon

World

• Chile Voters Reject New, Left-Leaning Constitution

• British pound sinks to lowest level since 1985

• Liz Truss named Britain's Conservative leader, new PM

  • Liz Truss wins Tory leadership race to become Britain’s next PM

• CERN drafts plans to idle accelerators due to Europe’s energy crunch

• Russian Gas Cut-Off Scuppers German Plan to Bolster Reserves

• Gas prices soar and pound and euro fall as Russia shuts Nord Stream pipeline

• How Many Drinks a Week Are Safe? Canada Considers a Much Lower Limit

Russia Bad / Ukraine War

• Ukraine nuclear plant: what happens if it releases a radioactive plume?

• Russia halts gas supplies to Europe until western sanctions lifted

• Was Gazprom drowning in gas this summer?

• Russia Privately Warns of Deep and Prolonged Economic Damage

Health / Medicine

• The Benefits of Breakfast Cereal Consumption

• 'Serious errors' in research linking deaths to red meat

Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda

• Hawaii shuts down its last coal-fired power plant in bid to fight climate change

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

• We need to move water from Midwest west. Let's get on with it.

  • HN comments

• Las Vegas isn’t betting on Mother Nature to solve its water problems

• Heatwaves kill more Americans than hurricanes, tornadoes and floods

• Why being an effective environmentalist can often feel like being a bad one

• More than 80M people are under flood watches today, from Alabama to Maine

• The energy historian who says rapid decarbonization is a fantasy