2022-09-17

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• The Strange Case of Charles Manson and the CIA's LSD Research - Coffee or Die Magazine

• A solar flare knocked out radio in Africa and the Middle East Friday

• Why Do All These 20-Somethings Have Closed Captions Turned On?

• China announces triple Moon mining mission to hunt mysterious new energy source

  • China Discovers Crystal on the Moon, Nuclear Fusion Fuel for Limitless Energy

• Perseverance rover finds organic matter ‘treasure’ on Mars

Horseshit

• Inside the World of Leg Lengthening Surgery

• America is a rich death trap

  • HN comments

• Punishment, Puppies, and Science: Bringing Dog Training to Heel

  Fraser-Celin rethought her approach after hearing about an animal trainer who taught a grizzly bear to cooperate with medical treatment using only positive reinforcement. If that hulking animal could learn with treats and praise, she thought, why were dog trainers using prong and shock collars? “That was the catalyst into my advocacy,” said Fraser-Celin, who studied African wild dogs for her Ph.D. and now works as a remote community liaison for the Winnipeg Humane Society and advocates independently for positive reinforcement training on Instagram.

• Anyone can use this AI art generator – that’s the risk

• Billionaire Politicians May Be the Future

celebrity gossip

• “I think I was good though I could have been better” – Terry Pratchett biography

Rank Propaganda / Thought Policing / World Disordering

• Appeals court clears the way for a Texas social media law

  • Texas court upholds law banning tech companies from censoring viewpoints

  • 5th Circuit Rules Internet Companies Have No Right to Moderate

  • HN comments

  • U.S. appeals court rejects big tech's right to regulate online speech

  • ‘The Most Angrily Incoherent First Amendment Decision’

  • Fifth Circuit Upholds Texas Social Media Law

• How the Netherlands facilitate the most hated websites in the world

  • HN comments

• How Journalists Botched Their Coverage of DropKiwiFarms

• Note to Google & Blogger: Immediately Un-Ban No Pasarán's Posts on the Nazis' (Hostile) Attitude Towards the Christian Religion!

Musk

• Elon Musk accuses Twitter of fraud and says 'he has the full right' to end deal

• Musk filing claims “conspiracy among Twitter executives” to deceive public

• Tesla now requires Powerwall for every solar roof project

Trump / War against the Right / Jan6

• DOJ and Trump's lawyers are called to New York for a preliminary conference by special master | Daily Mail Online

• Information has always been power

• Nice Democracy You’ve Got Here. Shame If Something Happened to It. Donald Trump

  Over time, it has become clear that the FBI finding reams of top-secret documents at his club is not, in fact, a boon to Trump. Even with the presidential-records investigation slowed down by a sympathetic judge, the probe has exacted costs both political and monetary, including a $3 million prepayment to a lawyer aware of Trump’s tendency to stiff people who provide services. Nearly every Trump adviser you’ve ever heard of, plus a few you haven’t, has been subpoenaed by the Justice Department in an investigation into election subversion, and the House committee looking into the same matter will return to public hearings later this month. The New York attorney general just rejected a settlement offer in an investigation into Trump’s business.

Pestilence / Pox / COVID / VaxCult

• Trudeau government considering end to Covid-19 vaccination mandate at border

• Covid knocked 500k workers out of the labor force, a new study says

• Excess mortality in the EU hits 16%, highest 2022 value so far

• Two Years On, Covid Origins Still a ‘Mystery’.

Edumacationalizing / Acedemia Nuts

• College was necessary for me. Will my own child need it like I did?

• Pandemic Learning Loss Is a National Crisis

• Watch: This is a REAL trans teacher in Canada who teaches high school shop, and if you say anything about it you're a bigot | Not the Bee

• State troopers rescue Tomi Lahren after organized riot breaks out at UNM-Albuquerque.

• Attractive female students get better grades

Media / ShowBiz / Advertising

• Social network Parler restructures, focuses on ‘uncancellable economy’

• Why Craigslist still looks the same after 25 years

  • HN comments

TechSuck

• The end of Ethereum mining could be a bonanza for GPU shoppers

• EVGA will not carry new Nvidia GPUs

  • HN comments

  • GeForce GPUs are 80% of EVGA’s revenue–but it’s cutting ties with Nvidia anyway

Crypto con games

• Vitalik Buterin’s philosophical essays: they’re not good

• Bankman-Fried survived the slump and still expanded

• ECB chooses AMZN and 4 other firms to prototype digital euro app

• Climbing Interest Rates Fuel Stablecoin War as Binance Makes Move on Rivals

• BitConnect Promoter Gets 38 Months in $2.4B Ponzi Scam

Economicon / Business / Finance

• More Self-Checkout Is Coming, No Matter How Much You Hate It

• Netflix's striking memo about layoffs that blames 'misalignment and indecisions'

• History Shows No Example of Hiking US Rates Too Fast, Summers Says

• To fix inflation, Fed must go big – odds against painful recession look long

• Quiet Quitting Is a Fake Trend

  • HN comments

• Meta shares plunged 14% this week, falling close to their pandemic low

• The Inflation Debate That Should Be Happening

• FTC to crack down on companies taking advantage of gig workers

• European Central Bank to go large with 75 bps move on Thursday

• Facebook janitors laid off as Silicon Valley service-worker cuts continue

• Imports To Los Angeles, America’s Largest Port, Plunged 17% In August.

• The dollar is mighty. What could make it fall

Shortages

• U.S. drug shortages put people with life-threatening illness at risk.

Gubmint / Poilitcks / Law Making

• Not inside trading just 100% winning rate

• For SOME reason NBC News deleted this ‘trash’ analogy intended as slam on Gov. DeSantis for sending migrants to MV – twitchy.com

• Yes, Biden Is Hiding His Plan To Rig The 2022 Midterm Elections.

• Should the Government Block the Adobe-Figma Merger?

Law Breaking / Police / Internal Security

• Massachusetts Gov. Activates National Guard, Sends Martha's Vineyard Illegal Immigrants To Military Base

• The Injustice of Under-Policing in America

External Security / Militaria / Diplomania

• Test scores drop, disqualification rates rise at Army recruiting shops

World

• Explainer: Does China need more Russian gas via the Power-of-Siberia 2 pipeline?

• The absurdity of Europe burning wood for energy

  • HN comments

• Wolfenstein 3D available In Germany after 30 years

• The UK needs better housing policy

• Trussonomics

• Haiti is no longer a viable nation-state

Russia Bad / Ukraine War

• Russian official says civilian satellites may be “legitimate” military target

• The War Between Democracy and Nihilism

Health / Medicine

• Why Do So Many Kids Need Glasses Now?

• 'Sharing' Economy Continues To Spread: Americans With STDs Jump 26% To Seven-Decade Highs

• Being a victim of rape costs an average of $3,500 in medical bills

Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda

• Report: Fossil fuel industry funds research to weaken climate change messaging.

• Criticism intensifies after big oil admits ‘gaslighting’ public over green aims