2022-09-13

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• Bezos rocket crashes after liftoff, only experiments aboard

• Legal weed in CA: illegal grows, violence, worker exploitation and deaths

• Li-Ion Battery Warehouse Fire Put Out with Portland Cement

• The Strange Behavior of Sound Through Solids - Press Release | Institute for Advanced Study

• Human speech may have a universal transmission rate: 39 bits per second

Horseshit

• What Kind of Extraterrestrial Life Should We Be Searching For?

• AI trained on 4chan's most hateful board is just as toxic as you'd expect

• Earth Could Be Even More Habitable. We’d Just Need to Shift Jupiter’s Orbit.

• Johnson and Johnson and a New War on Consumer Protection

• Millennials want to live a ‘soft life,’ and it’s changing how they work

• Voxengo plugin developer says he’s broken into “some ‘backdoor’ in mathematics itself” that proves that the universe has a ‘creator’ | MusicRadar

  • GitHub - avaneev/prvhash: PRVHASH - Pseudo-Random-Value Hash. Hash functions, PRNG with unlimited period, randomness extractor. (Codename Gradilac/Градилак)

• The Cure for Burnout Is Not Self-Care

Rank Propaganda / Thought Policing / World Disordering

• UK targeted American civil rights leader in covert campaign

• New study finds: The climate getting warmer may be fuelling online hate speech

  • Temperature impacts on hate speech online: evidence from 4B tweets

• The Biden Administration Is Engaged in a Censorship Campaign

Musk

• SpaceX says FCC's rejection of $886M Starlink subsidy leaves many stranded

  • FCC Commissioner demands review of Starlink rural broadband subsidies

• Most Twitter shareholders vote in favor of sale to Musk, sources say

• Twitter shareholders approve Elon Musk's takeover ahead of court battle

• Tesla has access to all the batteries it needs for the first time

• Elon Musk’s 19,000 tweets reveal his complicated relationship with Twitter

• Twitter Shareholders Are Poised to Approve Elon Musk Takeover Deal

• Watch Live: Twitter's Whistleblower Goes To Congress To Testify About Data Security Risks

  • Twitter Whistleblower Testifies on Security Issues

  • Mudge Twitter Whistleblower Testimony

  • Twitter Whistle-Blower Cites ‘Ticking Bomb’ of US Security Risks

Trump / War against the Right / Jan6

• Trump Response to Stay Motion: Special Master Needed, Feds Trying “to skip the process and proceed straight to a preordained conclusion”.

• Lawyers Mock Feds' Claim That Trump Had 'Classified Docs' at Mar-a-Lago – PJ Media

• "This Is A Full-Blown Political Purge": Tucker Carlson Obtains DOJ Subpoenas Targeting Trump Allies | ZeroHedge

  This show has obtained a subpoena from Merrick Garland's DOJ issued in the past week and what it demands is both unlawful and without precedent in American history. The subpoena claims to be investigating, "any claim that the vice president and/or president of the Senate had the authority to reject or choose not to count presidential electors."

• Trump Shows Support for QAnon

Pestilence / Pox / COVID / VaxCult

• As masks are shed, routine visits to medical offices pose Covid risks for some

• Long Covid's link to suicide: scientists warn of hidden crisis

• Effectiveness of HEPA Filters at Removing Infectious SARS-CoV-2 from the Air

Culture War / Tribal / Re segregation

• This exchange between a museum curator and a writer for the Atlantic is nuts – HotAir

• How Blatant Anti-White Racism Won Acceptance in Elite America

Edumacationalizing / Acedemia Nuts

• Columbia Drops from No. 2 to No. 18 Ranking as School Admits to Misleading Data

Media / ShowBiz / Advertising

• Leaked Report from Instagram: 'Most Reels Users Have No Engagement Whatsoever'

• China Is Twitter’s Fastest Growing Overseas Ad Market Despite Being Banned

• For media publishers, Twitter still dominates on social

• Meta Announces Discord-Like ‘Community Chats’ on Messenger

• Factorio is coming to Nintendo Switch

TechSuck

• Google canceled its next Pixelbook and shut down the team building it

• Intel says one of its 13th Gen CPUs will hit 6GHz out of the box | Hacker News

• I Won My Three Year AI Progress Bet In Three Months

• Adobe Photoshop: Counterfeit deterrence system | Hacker News

Crypto con games

• Ubisoft is pretending it was never that interested in NFTs

Economicon / Business / Finance

• Wall St jobs are hot again as tech and crypto sectors lay off staff

• Peloton Chairman John Foley to Exit in Management Shake-Up

• Goldman Sachs set to cut jobs this month

  • Goldman's Credit-Card Losses Are Soaring - "Well Above Subprime Lenders" | ZeroHedge

• What the high-profile layoffs at Snap, Netflix, and other companies could mean

• CPI(Consumer Price Index) August 2022 – 8.3%

  • Inflation rose 0.1% in August even with sharp drop in gas prices

  • US annual inflation eased last month but remains stubbornly high

  • Consumer prices rise 8.3% over last year in August

  • US inflation slows to 8.3% in August but prices still rising

• Nationwide Rail Strike Looms As White House Seeks To Avert Supply Chain Chaos

• The clock is ticking on the next big threat to the US economy

• The economics behind 'quiet quitting' – and what we should call it instead

• Patreon Lays off 17% of Staff

Gubmint / Poilitcks / Law Making

• Dear Mr. President: Seriously, please stop with these science “moonshots”

  • In a nod to JFK, Biden pushing ‘moonshot’ to fight cancer.

  • Biden touts his 'cancer moonshot' at JFK/UMass Red Line Stop

• Stock Trades Reported by Nearly a Fifth of Congress Show Possible Conflicts

• US sees ‘unprecedented decline’ in child poverty

• Rifles, Tasers and Jails: How Cities and States Spent Billions of Covid Relief

• ‘Exclusionary zoning’ is opportunity hoarding by upper middle class

• Biden administration preparing to bring hammer down on Chinese chipmakers

Law Breaking / Police / Internal Security

• there is no justice to be had in our "justice" system. I am no longer willing to participate in a system that I consider to be a total farce.

• Woman sues after DNA from rape kit used to arrest her

External Security / Militaria / Diplomania

• Swarm of 40 Drones over Fort Irwin an Ominous Sign of What’s to Come

• Let’s Stop Being Cavalier About Civilian Control of the Military

World

• Anti-royal protesters are being arrested in the U.K. as 'Not My King' tag grows

  • Civil liberties groups criticise police over arrests of anti-monarchy protesters

  • Arrests of protesters prompt free-speech concerns

  • Why are people now getting arrested for being republicans

  • Man with blank sheet of paper threatened with arrest if he wrote ‘not my King’

• Thailand Woman jailed for 43 years for criticising monarchy

• Armenia Requests Russian Military Assistance As Fighting Breaks Out With Azerbaijan

• Spying scandal clouds Greece’s political future

• Germany Can Probably Make It Through the Winter with Some Demand Curtailment

• China’s ponzi-like property market is eroding faith in the state

Russia Bad / Ukraine War

• Losses in Ukraine Prompt Something New on Russian TV: Debate

• Scenes From A Russian Rout.

  • IP thread

• Ukraine captures one of Russia's most advanced electronics warfare pods

• Ukrainian Successes Raise Russian Collapse to Realm of Possibility

• Maps: Ukraine’s Swift Counteroffensive

• Ukraine reclaims more territory, reports capturing many POWs

• What are Vladimir Putin's options after Russian military setback in Ukraine?

Health / Medicine

• The Relationship Between Plant-Based Diet and Risk of Digestive System Cancers

• Plastic might be making us obese

  • HN comments

• Prenatal cannabis exposure associated with mental disorders in children

  • HN comments

• A common virus is surging–and it can cause a polio-like disease in kids

Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda

• Climate change: Six tipping points ‘likely’ to be crossed

  • HN comments

• Cephalopods are people too! Researchers in Japan see hope in method to breed hard-to-farm squid

• The Dirty Carbon Secret Behind Solid State Memory Drives

• Is bin-opening in cockatoos leading to an innovation arms race with humans?

  • HN comments

• Europe’s Drought Might Force Acceptance of Gene-Edited Crops

• Forget the Bible, Listen to the IPCC.