2022-09-16

Cool

• The movie Hackers was released 27 years ago today

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• Wrecked semi shoots load of dildos and lube all over I-40

  Concerned about how this accident may affect the OKC metro’s dildo and lube supply, I reached out to our friends at Patricia’s to see if everything was okay, and if they planned on having a candlelight vigil at the OKC Cockring. They told me each location is fully stocked with a large supply of personal lubricants and sex toys, and the sales are buzzing.

• Lost moon may have spawned Saturn’s rings

• Experts say ‘fireball’ streaking across sky in Scotland, Northern Ireland likely space junk.

Horseshit

• Why Are Rich People So Obsessed with Proving US Cities Are Dystopian Hellholes?

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• CPSC Warns Consumers to Stop Using Male-to-Male Extension Cords Sold on Amazon

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Rank Propaganda / Thought Policing / World Disordering

• Biden urges accountability for social media platforms at anti-hate summit

  • Biden says haters won't have 'last word'; wants to end social media immunity

• The Authoritarian Personality and the Rising Far Right

• Service Continuation of Kiwi Farms

• A Tale of Two Donors

  Two New York Times stories, three weeks apart, paint a liberal as a hero for executing the same transaction for which the paper’s reporters had just villainized a conservative.

• Will the Metaverse Be 'The Most Dangerous Tool of Persuasion' Ever Created?

Musk

• Tesla Shifts Battery Strategy as It Seeks U.S. Tax Credits

• Peiter Zatko has told US lawmakers Twitter is “misleading the public”

Trump / War against the Right / Jan6

• "I Got Bad News For You": Mike Lindell Speaks Out After FBI Seizes Phone

  • Mike Lindell Is Suing the FBI and the Government for Violating His Rights. Pay Attention.

• DOJ Denied Access To Trump Raid Docs After Judge Appoints Special Master

• FBI Agents Accuse Biden of Pressuring FBI to Fabricate ‘Extremist’ and ‘White Supremacist’ Cases.

  • Biden accused of pressuring FBI to fabricate 'extremist' and 'White supremacist' cases - Washington Times

  “The demand for White supremacy” coming from FBI headquarters “vastly outstrips the supply of White supremacy,” said one agent, who spoke on the condition of anonymity. “We have more people assigned to investigate White supremacists than we can actually find.”

• Mary Trump on how her uncle keeps getting away with it

Pestilence / Pox / COVID / VaxCult

• Lancet report claiming Covid could have come from U.S. lab met with uproar

  • The Lancet Opens Pandora's Box, Suggests COVID Could Have Originated In US Labs

  • The Lancet Commission on lessons for the future from the Covid-19 pandemic

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• Bill Gates and partners used their clout to control global Covid response

• Science Magazine on Me/CFS and Long Covid

• Over $1 billion in COVID relief awarded to foreign applicants: inspector general report | Just The News

• NYPD cop can't be fired for refusing COVID vaccine: judge

• Anti-vax groups use carrot emojis to hide Facebook posts

• Imagining Covid is ‘like the flu’ is cutting thousands of lives short

• U.S. monkeypox cases drop, but minorities at greater risk.

Culture War / Tribal / Re segregation

• DoD Diversity chief quietly vanishes off social media when comments mocking ‘white folx’ surface.

• Facebook Bans Holocaust Film for Violating Race Policy

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• Daily Wire host says it is unscientific to cast a Black person as a mermaid

Edumacationalizing / Acedemia Nuts

• The 2022 Ig Nobel Prize Winners

  • The winners of the 2022 Ig Nobel Prizes

  ART HISTORY PRIZE: Peter de Smet and Nicholas Hellmuth, for their study “A Multidisciplinary Approach to Ritual Enema Scenes on Ancient Maya Pottery.”

  SAFETY ENGINEERING PRIZE: Magnus Gens, for developing a moose crash test dummy.

• Teacher charged with 24 sex crimes after posting TikToks of students, school says.

• My Students Can't Read Cursive

Media / ShowBiz / Advertising

• ‘GIFs are cringe’: how Giphy’s multimillion-dollar business fell out of fashion

TechSuck

• Stripe has decided to nuke my entire business

• BliKVM PCIe puts a computer in your computer | Hacker News

• Confirmed the MOS 7600/7601 Pong chip is a true microcontroller

  • HN comments

• Tell HN: npm is making 2FA mandatory for accounts with high impact packages

• The new “Intel Processor” will replace Pentium and Celeron CPU branding in 2023

• The First Intel 'Fab' - by Babbage - The Chip Letter

Crypto con games

• Ether’s New ‘Staking’ Model Could Draw SEC Attention

• Reasons to be cheerful: 'GPU mining is dead less than 24 hours after the merge'

• US Moving Toward Creation of a Digital Dollar

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• Celsius Network charts future, expecting customers to forget its past

• GPU Mining No Longer Profitable After Ethereum Merge | Hacker News

Economicon / Business / Finance

• Peter Thiel's fellowship program has birthed power players worth more than $220B

• Ex Amazon employees complain how 'frugal' their former employer was

• US Economy Is a Safer Bet Than ‘Dire’ Europe, Goldman Strategists Say

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• Mortgage rates top 6% for the first time since 2008

• FedEx issues ominous warning about the global economy, shares tumble.

  • FedEx warns of global recession, cutting forecast by half a billion dollars

  • FedEx Miss Is Worst Wall Street Analysts Have Seen in 20 Years

• Shopify lets staff decide cash-stock pay mix as shares dive

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• Britain and the US are poor societies with some rich people

• TikTok-Owner ByteDance Offers to Buy Investors’ Shares After Scrapping IPO Plan

Gubmint / Poilitcks / Law Making

• 'Just Kidding' - US Denies Plan To Refill SPR With Sub-$80 Oil

• Exec Order on Nation Security Risks by the Committee on Foreign Investment in US

Law Breaking / Police / Internal Security

• McDonald's CEO sounds the alarm over crime in Chicago

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• Illinois SAFE-T Act which will end cash bail explained

• US border forces are seizing Americans' phone data and storing it for 15 years | Hacker News

External Security / Militaria / Diplomania

• A Soviet plot to beam the U.S. Embassy with microwaves

World

• Sweden election: How an ex neo-Nazi movement became kingmakers

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• Queen's funeral: Heathrow cancels flights on Monday

• Denmark spy chief charged with leaking state secrets

• Pound hits new 37-year low as retail sales slide

• Germany seizes control of Rosneft oil refineries

Russia Bad / Ukraine War

• Putin concedes China has questions and concerns over Russian invasion of Ukraine

• Ukraine war: Inside the recaptured city of Izyum

• Russia Doing ‘The Dirty Dozen’ Recruiting Inmates to Fight in Ukraine

• 60-80% of Tweeters posting on Russia-Ukraine war are bots, 90% pro Ukraine

• Starlink, Maxar Satellites Might Be Destroyed by Russian Military

  • Kremlin threatening to destroy Starlink satellites

Health / Medicine

• Dangerously wrong oxygen readings in dark-skinned patients spur FDA scrutiny

Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda

• Nuclear Power Still Doesn’t Make Much Sense

• Collapse of Earth's Biosphere: A Case of Planetary Treason