2022-09-19

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• China's Yutu 2 rover still rolling after nearly 4 years on moon's far side

• Jeff Bezos’s Rocket Engine Nears Debut, Ending US Reliance on Russia.

Horseshit

• The case for monarchy

• ‘I Can't Believe It’: Magnus Carlsen Resigns After One Move in Chess Rematch

celebrity gossip

• Althouse: Why did the NYT send a reporter to some obscure part of France to interview R. Crumb?

Rank Propaganda / Thought Policing / World Disordering

• Russia Gave $300M to Political Parties and Officials Worldwide, U.S. Says

• The tyranny of the supertweeter - Omnibudsman

  Posting bias on Twitter means that discourse there will influence the communities where it is important in unpredictable ways. Twitter's leftward slant, for instance, doesn't necessarily mean that it will pull users left; it could just as easily provoke a reaction across the aisle. Though "defund the police" was never a popular slogan in mainstream electoral politics, it got a lot of play on Twitter, generating a reaction among conservative journalists and policy aides who spend an inordinate amount of time on the platform.

  • HN comments

• Institution Trust Is Eroding on Both Sides of the Pond; the Queen Was Not Exempt

Musk

• Musk admits he announced Hyperloop to get California’s high-speed rail canceled

Trump / War against the Right / Jan6

• Taibbi: The Justice Department Was Dangerous Before Trump. It's Out Of Control Now | ZeroHedge

• Here's What We Know About The Special Master Named To Review Seized Mar-a-Lago Documents | ZeroHedge

• Republicans in key battleground races refuse to say they will accept results

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• 60 percent of Americans will have an election denier on the ballot this fall

• Phony motion placed on Trump raid court docket | Just The News

  The Associated Press reported that the document "is a clear fabrication," and said a review of court records and interviews suggests that the filing came from a serial forger in a North Carolina federal prison.

• FBI labeled veteran-led disaster organization a 'terror' group over government criticism, whistleblower says

Pestilence / Pox / COVID / VaxCult

• Living with Our Pandemic Trade-Offs

• (PDF) Long Covid Associated with Functional Autoantibodies

• BBC Boasts It Got Vaccine Injured Support Group with 250k Members Removed

• Joe Biden says the Covid-19 pandemic is over. This is what the data tells us

• Covid is still killing hundreds a day, even as society begins to move on

• Chinese official warns against touching foreigners after monkeypox case

Culture War / Tribal / Re segregation

• Virginia has moved to restrict rights of trans students in its public schools

• Twilio CEO announces 11% in 'Anti-Racist' focused layoffs

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• Viral "Racism in Academia" Story Deleted When I Started Asking Questions

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• Affirmative Action as a Magic Bullet

  Why Republicans should run on opposition to race and sex preferences

  Race and sex preferences can be seen as a sort of Achilles heel for the left. Republicans have long ignored an issue that, if taken up, could see them act on their principles and satisfy their base, while also being on the right side of public opinion and making a major change in how the country is governed.

Media / ShowBiz / Advertising

• The $300B Google-Meta advertising duopoly is under attack

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• Google removed our website from search because it uses YouTube-dl

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• Tell HN: Tumblr now requires sign-in to simply browse blogs or read posts

• Rockstar Games confirms they were hacked by an outside party

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TechSuck

• Measuring CPU core-to-core latency

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Crypto con games

• UK financial watchdog issues warning against crypto exchange FTX

• Ethereum Plunges After SEC Chair Says ‘The Merge’ Could Make Crypto a Security

Economicon / Business / Finance

• Market downturn sparks longest US tech IPO drought in over 20 years

• I Canceled My Lucid Air Order & My Involvement In The Lucid Community - Lucid Insider Blog - Lucid Air & Lucid Motors News

Gubmint / Poilitcks / Law Making

• Biden Says ‘Pandemic Is Over’

  • Biden: 'The Pandemic Is Over'

  • Biden: 'The Pandemic Is Over'

  • Biden on ‘60 Minutes’: ‘The pandemic is over’ - POLITICO

  • Joe Biden Delivers a Mess of a 60 Minutes Interview, Leaves His Handlers Scrambling.

  • On 60 Minutes , President Biden Admits His Student-Loan Order Is Illegal

  “‘The pandemic is over. We still have a problem with COVID. We’re still doing a lot of work on it. But the pandemic is over,’ President Biden tells 60 Minutes in an interview in Detroit. Why does Biden’s statement matter so much? I’ll tell you: It matters because the memo that the Biden administration released to justify his order rested entirely upon there being an ongoing emergency, and because, as Biden has just confirmed, there is no ongoing emergency.

Law Breaking / Police / Internal Security

• Man Scraps Modified Diesel Truck After Gov't Determines It's Illegal Through Facebook Marketplace Listing | ZeroHedge

External Security / Militaria / Diplomania

• Biden says US forces would defend Taiwan if China invaded

  • Biden says U.S. forces would defend Taiwan in the event of a Chinese invasion

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  • Biden tells 60 Minutes U.S. troops would defend Taiwan, but White House says this is not official U.S. policy

  • Biden again says US forces would defend Taiwan

• Pentagon opens sweeping review of clandestine psychological operations

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  • The Pentagon has ordered a review of US psyops on social media

  • Pentagon orders review of psyops after takedown of fake social accounts

World

• The Weakness of Xi Jinping

  • HN comments

• Disturbing: UK arrests multiple protesters for speaking out against the monarch

• The Philippines: The Consequences of Reproductive Ignorance in Happyland

Russia Bad / Ukraine War

• Ukraine claims control of key Oskil river on front line

• Ukraine Finds Mass Graves in Izyum, Says Russia ‘Leaves Death Everywhere’

• Putin’s Energy War with Europe Seems to Falter

  • HN comments

• Russian cyber operations in Ukraine continue even as army loses ground

Health / Medicine

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

• Sugar and soft drinks should come with flourine, tap water shouldn't | Hacker News

• Nearly one tenth of the US population reports having depression

• Halted export scenarios from Russia and Ukraine raise CO2 and food insecurity

• A Rural Doctor Gave Her All. Then Her Heart Broke

Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda

• US climate goals are achievable – if we can get the permits

• Japan storm: Nine million people told to evacuate as super typhoon Nanmadol hits

• Environmentalists Pose a Bigger Obstacle to Climate Policy Than Denialists

• Scientists warn South Florida coastal cities will be affected by sea level rise

• Burning world’s fossil fuel reserves could emit 3.5tn tons of greenhouse gas

• Fossil fuel registry launched to help spot 'stranded assets'

• Changing Public Perception - AVC

  For nuclear, that means smaller, safer, and more “personal” nuclear power. There are pacemakers that have nuclear batteries in them. Why not put way more nuclear powered devices into our lives and show that the benefits massively outweigh the risks?

• Electric Vehicles Could Rescue the US Power Grid

• NGO retracts “waste colonialism” report blaming Asians for plastic pollution

• The East Coast Will not escape fire