2022-09-08

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• A nightmare of abuse alleged at Wyoming ‘troubled teen’ ranches

• Korean nuclear fusion reactor achieves 100M°C for 30 seconds | Hacker News

• NASA Teams Continue to Review Options for Next Attempt

• Social mobility across generations may be substantially overstated, study shows

• China’s Moon Missions Shadow NASA Artemis’s Pace

• Blind bisexual goose named Thomas who spent six years in a love triangle with two swans and helped raise 68 babies dies at the ripe old age of 40

Horseshit

• Han Solo Blaster Sells At Auction for More than $1 Million.

• UN sees life expectancy, education and income fall

• Money Can’t Buy Class. Or Can It?

• Riding in a peloton is the most energy efficient locomotion, finds new research

  • HN comments

• Purring Is a Love Language No Human Can Speak

celebrity gossip

• Elizabeth Holmes wants a new trial because prosecution witness feels remorseful

Obit

• Anne Garrels, Fearless NPR Correspondent, Dies at 71

• Former CNN anchor Bernard Shaw dead at 82

Queen Elizabeth

• Queen Elizabeth II has passed away

• Queen Elizabeth II has died

• Queen Elizabeth II – 1926-2022

• Queen Elizabeth II, Longest-Reigning British Monarch, Dies

• The Queen died peacefully at Balmoral this afternoon

• Queen Elizabeth II Dies

• Queen Elizabeth II has died

  • HN comments

• Queen Elizabeth II Dead At 96

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  • Queen Elizabeth II "Under Medical Supervision," Family Gathers

  • Queen under medical supervision at Balmoral

  • (2017) 'London Bridge is down': the secret plan for the days after the Queen’s death

  • Britain’s plan for when Queen Elizabeth II dies

Rank Propaganda / Thought Policing / World Disordering

• Twitter is making Birdwatch, its crowd-sourced fact checks, much more prominent

• Watch: Tucker Carlson Warns "Elites Are Making Things Worse On Purpose" | ZeroHedge

• Polling finds that many Americans misremember history and culture

• Hateful tweets multiply in extreme temperatures, US analysis finds

• Ask HN: Is grooming and drug distribution to minors being normalized online? | Hacker News

• Damning Documents Reveal Mark Zuckerberg Gave Fauci His Personal Phone Number.

• Project Veritas triumphs despite federal repression - American Thinker

• Biden admin ordered to turn over 'misinformation' emails sent to tech companies

Kiwifarms

• Kiwi Farms has been scrubbed from the Internet Archive

Musk

• Does Elon Musk Know How Mergers Work?

• Musk cited possible “World War III” as reason to break Twitter deal, text shows

• Why Disney didn’t buy Twitter

• Judge Slams Musk for Not Handing over Texts in Twitter Fight

Trump / War against the Right / Jan6

• A conspiracy of Data: Qanon, social media, and information visualization

• Leaked Oath Keepers’ list includes hundreds of cops, dozens of elected officials

• Has The Trump Raid Made Bill Barr Forget All About Deep-State Deceit?

• Steve Bannon Surrenders in NY Court in Wall Donor Case

• Federal Judge Rules Oath Keepers Leader Can’t Fire Attorneys Three Weeks Before Trial

Pestilence / Pox / COVID / VaxCult

• CDC Gave Facebook Misinformation About COVID-19 Vaccines, Emails Show | ZeroHedge

• China’s ‘Zero Covid’ Bind: No Easy Way Out Despite the Cost

• Anger at plans to roll back Covid vaccines for under-11s in England

• China and India approve nasal Covid vaccines

Culture War / Tribal / Re segregation

• I decided to call out the 'toxic culture' of CS

• How Diversity Destroyed Affirmative Action: Once race-conscious admissions stopped being about equity and reparation, the only argument for it was the enrichment of white students. That was never going to hold up.

• The safe space that became a viral nightmare

Edumacationalizing / Acedemia Nuts

• Universities to require DEI statements from academic job candidates

Media / ShowBiz / Advertising

• Facebook engineers admit they don't know what they do with your data

• Facebook button is disappearing from websites as consumers demand better privacy

• Rumble Sets New Monthly Active User Record in August Citing Growth Among ‘Gen Z’

• Gulf states demand Netflix pull content deemed offensive

• Streaming TV is having an existential crisis, and viewers can tell

TechSuck

• Globalstar SEC filing, Apple to use 85% of its satellite network capacity

  • HN comments

• Apple has delivered several new mewling abominations which are being spammed to HN by multiple people.

  • Apple ditches physical SIM cards from all US iPhone 14 models

• Tim Cook says ‘buy your mom an iPhone’ if you want to end green bubbles

  • HN comments

• The Services iPhone

• Why Does This Horrifying Woman Keep Appearing in AI-Generated Images?

• Open source biz sick of FOSS community exploitation overhauls software rights

Crypto con games

• Eth.link domain sold for $852k in unique situation

• Crypto lender Celsius looked a lot like a Ponzi, says state regulator

• US Tornado Cash smackdown puts the onus on crypto bros to act lawfully

• Bitcoin trading volumes were 95% less than what was reported: Report

• Ethereum Is The Most Likely Base-Layer For Global CDBCs

• As Crypto Reels, Polygon Deploys Cash Hoard in Hiring Binge

• Crypto Doesn't Need More Guidance, SEC Chair Gensler Says

• Stack banks $2.7M to teach teens, parents about crypto

• Here's how much energy crypto mining gobbles up in the US

  • (PDF) White House Report: Climate and Energy Implications of Crypto-Assets

• Coinbase employees and Ethereum backers sue U.S. Treasury over Tornado Cash

Economicon / Business / Finance

• Netflix Hunts for Cost Cuts, from Cloud Computing to Corporate Swag

• Exchanging cash for real assets? Americans Snap Up Teslas, Bentleys, Lamborghinis as the Luxury-Auto Market Booms

• US Consumers See Home Prices Falling for First Time Since 2020

• T-Mobile sells Sprint fiber assets to Cogent for $1

• Software job openings continue plummeting for 23 weeks in row

• Economist: “Housing affordability crisis could stick around for another 2 years”

• Amazon’s CEO still isn’t accepting the historic Staten Island union victory

• Economists are flocking to Silicon Valley

  • HN comments

• Mortgage Rates Hit 5.89%, Highest Level Since 2008

• Pinochet's economic policy is vastly overrated

• Fed Chair Powell vows to raise rates to fight inflation ‘until the job is done’

  • Goldman Changes Fed Hike View, Now Expects 75bps In Sept After Fed Mouthpiece Report

• Rolls Royce Ends Boom Supersonic Partnership

Shortages

• A Text Alert May Have Saved California from Power Blackouts

• Water is in short supply. Markets should pay attention

• Gavin Newsom’s Dirty Energy Secret

• California Blackouts Have Begun. Thank ‘Green Energy’

• Europe’s energy crisis hits science

  • HN comments

• Are you realizing what is happening yet?

Gubmint / Poilitcks / Law Making

• IRS will look into setting up a free e-filing system | Hacker News

• Mr. Biden, Tear Down This Highway

• EXPOSED: South Carolina Democrat candidate for Senator expresses disdain for whites in undercover exposé - Rebel News

  Project Veritas has released a new video exposing South Carolina state representative and U.S. Senate candidate Krystle Matthews telling a journalist how it’s necessary to treat white people “like sh*t.”

• Snap’s political data slip-up

• A hacker bought a voting machine on eBay. Michigan officials are investigating

Law Breaking / Police / Internal Security

• Police arrest Clark County official in reporter murder

  • Politician's DNA found at scene of Las Vegas journalist's murder

• 4 people killed, 3 others injured after man goes on shooting spree across Memphis – FOX13 News Memphis

  • It Happens Again: Suspect in Memphis Shooting Rampage Was Released From Prison Early.

  • Memphis Mayor Blasts Facebook-Streaming Mass-Killer's Early-Release: "4 Of Our Fellow Citizens Would Still Be Alive"

• San Francisco Decriminalizes Psychedelics

External Security / Militaria / Diplomania

• Pentagon suspends F-35 deliveries after discovering materials from China

• Best Practices of Civil-Military Relations

• US approves $2.6bn in aid for Ukraine and allies

• Blinken In Surprise Visit To Kyiv Unveils $2BN More Aid Amid 'Successful' Counteroffensive

• US Tells Israel Nuclear Deal With Iran Is Off The Table For Now

World

• EU plans Russian gas price cap despite Putin threat

• Bank of Canada increases policy interest rate by 75 basis points, continues QT

• ECB raises rates by 75 basis points

  • ECB lifts rates by unprecedented 75 bps to fight inflation

• Almost all new jobs created in Canada during the pandemic were in public sector

• Liz Truss ditches fracking ban; vows ‘never again’ on exorbitant energy bills

• Downing Street hints fracking ban could be lifted after Liz Truss becomes new Prime Minister.

• China Evergrande crisis deepens as lender seizes headquarters

• Half of Japan's LDP lawmakers had ties with Unification Church

• China’s ‘Lost Decade’ Is Even Worse Than You Think.

• Questions remain after death of second Canada stabbing suspect, who police say may be responsible for 10 fatalities

Russia Bad / Ukraine War

• North Korean ammo will stretch Russia's supply, but with clear limits, drawbacks

• Ukrainian forces aim to retake Kherson by year's end as gains made in south

• Ukrainian Counteroffensive In Kharkiv? « Lawrence Person's BattleSwarm Blog

Health / Medicine

• Some Canadian Health Care Patients Say They're Being Encouraged to Just Die

• The quiet cost of family caregiving

  • HN comments

• New malaria vaccine is world-changing, say scientists

• We’ve been told devastating lies about mental health

Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda

• Impact of floods and droughts increasing worldwide

• Hackers over 60: how has climate change impacted you over the past forty years?

• UNESCO site Moenjodaro badly damaged by flooding

• Dutch city of Haarlem may be world’s first to ban most meat ads

• Are Hawaii’s beach showers in violation of the Clean Water Act?

  • HN comments

• California first to make electric cars mandatory. Now ask owners not to charge

• U.S. regulators allow ethanol plants to pollute more than oil refineries

• Climate change: Europe's warm summer shatters records

• An area of the Amazon equivalent to 10 iPhones is lost to illegal forestry daily

• EVs aren't straining the electric grid – and they just might save it

• Europe Is Sacrificing Its Ancient Forests for Energy

• ‘This is the future’: rural Virginia pivots from coal to green jobs

• Companies Are Buying Large Numbers of Carbon Offsets That Don’t Cut Emissions