2022-09-20

Worthy

• Why did we wait so long for wind power? Part I

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• (Jun 2022) Oligopoly Everywhere - by Adam Mastroianni

  I’m worried that we seem to be suffering from a deficit of deviance. In addition to the decline of cults and third parties, signs of counterculture are hard to find. Teens are less likely to smoke, drink, fight, do drugs, or have sex today than they were 30 years ago. This isn’t all bad, but conformity and safety come at the cost of imagination and ambition. Unless you think all of the rules are perfect and all of the important ideas have been discovered, we need some amount of rule-breaking and free-thinking. Without it, the oligopoly closes in on us from all sides.

Horseshit

• No, a study did not find screen time causes early onset puberty.

• Customers are stealing shopping baskets instead of buying bags in New Jersey

  • HN comments

• Leading the whey: the synthetic milk startups shaking up the dairy industry

• The internet is already over - by Sam Kriss

  • HN comments

• Cognitive ability predicts economic extremism

• Could the Internet Archive go out like Napster?

celebrity gossip

• Beyond Meat COO arrested for biting man’s nose near Razorback Stadium

  • Beyond Meat COO Doug Ramsey arrested for allegedly biting man’s nose

• Shockingly, Brad Pitt turns out to be a fine sculptor

• Mark Zuckerberg lost $70bn net worth, now world's 20th richest person

Obit

• Berkeley's Hot Tub Guy who ran a free hot tub was found dead in the hot tub

Rank Propaganda / Thought Policing / World Disordering

• 'It's a slippery slope': How young men fall into online radicalization

• Kiwi Farms has been breached; assume passwords and emails have been leaked

• A landmark Supreme Court fight over social media now looks likely

  • HN comments

• Two Republican judges just let Texas seize control of Twitter and Facebook

• DHS Spends $700,000 In Taxpayer Money To Study "Extremism In Video Gaming" | ZeroHedge

• NY Times blames the collapse of the Women’s March on Russian trolls (not the co-chair’s fondness for Louis Farrakhan).

• You don’t want to be on Cloudflare’s naughty list | Ctrl blog

  • HN comments

Musk

• Jack Dorsey to be deposed in Twitter vs. Musk case

• Elon Musk Proposes Starlink Access in Iran as Protests Spread

  • Musk says Starlink will ask for exemption to US sanctions on Iran

Trump / War against the Right / Jan6

• The Justice Department Was Dangerous Before Trump. It's Out of Control Now

  “Who’s going to raise their hand against the most powerful government in the history of humankind, if doing so means that you might be searched, have armed agents raid your offices, and then be wrongly accused?”

  Defense lawyers describe a dramatic change in the attitude of federal prosecutors, who in the Trump years especially began giving off a vibe they describe as part activist, part menace, part secret society weirdness. “Cops go home and have barbecues, try to forget,” says one lawyer. “These people never turn off whatever they are now, and whatever that is is creepy. Like Hale-Bopp cultists, except they put people in jail.”

  the argument that the ex-president needs to be jailed posthaste is a little hard to take seriously when FBI sources are, once again, illegally leaking secrets about their investigative targets as they pursue Trump for… mishandling secrets.

  The latest incidents involve leaks of grand jury material, specifically subpoenas headed to perhaps 50 Trump-connected figures, conspicuously involving some of the last people willing to serve as Trump counsel, like Rudy Giuliani and Sydney Powell and Victoria Toensing and Boris Epshteyn. Many of these people have already been raided, had their phones seized, and even been the subject of FISA surveillance. Now, some of them found out the next subpoena was coming in the middle of the previous week, via phone calls from a Politico reporter who somehow knew grand jury details.

• MyPillow CEO's request to dismiss voting machine company's lawsuit denied

• Even if DOJ can convict Trump of something, it won’t disqualify him as President.

• Election “big lie” fueled a new generation of social media influencers

Pestilence / Pox / COVID / VaxCult

• No, President Biden, the pandemic is not over

• Not a Single US State Is Requiring Kids to Get Vaccinated to Attend Public School. Why?

• Uganda declares Ebola Virus Disease outbreak

Culture War / Tribal / Re segregation

• The American Media’s Racism Fantasy.

Media / ShowBiz / Advertising

• “Return to Monkey Island” is out today | Hacker News

• YouTube’s ‘dislike’ and ‘not interested’ buttons barely work, study finds

• Telegram Has a Serious Doxing Problem

TechSuck

• Internet Society recommends development of Solar-System-scale routing framework

• Document Foundation starts charging €8.99 for 'free' LibreOffice

  • HN comments

• Upcoming price and tax changes for apps and in-app purchases

  • HN comments

• I Tried Removing Python's GIL Back in 1996

• It's time to halt starting any new projects in C/C++ | Hacker News

• Janet Jackson had the power to crash laptop computers, follow-up - The Old New Thing

• LastPass confirms hackers had access to internal systems for several days

Crypto con games

• Tether Is Working to Be More Transparent. But It Is Falling Short

• U.S. Treasury Seeks Comment on Crypto’s Illicit Finance Risks

• Cryptoverse: After Merge, ether heads for a $20B Shanghai splurge

• SEC Claims All of Ethereum Falls Under US Jurisdiction

  • HN comments

• Luxury cars seized from 23-year-old 'Crypto King' as investors recoup millions

• The lawless world of crypto scams

Economicon / Business / Finance

• Home Robo-Flipper Opendoor "In Danger Zone" After Losing Money On 42% Of All Transactions

  • Home-Flipper Opendoor Hit with Losses in Echo of Zillow Collapse

• Walmart, Target and Kohl’s Among Retailers Cutting Back on Orders – Footwear News

  • Walmart and other retailers are canceling billions of dollars in orders - RetailWire

• The Fed may raise rates less than expected in November as housing in recession

• Big Ocean Shipping Lines Turn to Planes as Supply-Chain Snarls Deepen

• To Solve the Housing Crisis, We Have to Increase the Housing Supply

• Why Ford will have to eat an extra $1B in supplier costs this quarter

• How to Survive the Next Market Crash

• More US Employers Are Trapping Workers in a New Form of Indentured Servitude | Hacker News

• US Wealth dropped $6 Trillion in Q2

Shortages

• Shortage of 50-Cent Chips Holds Up $50k Cars, TSMC Chief Says

• Food Supply Stays Tight as Disappointing U.S. Harvest Adds to Global Challenges

Gubmint / Poilitcks / Law Making

• FAA rejects proposal to halve flight-time requirement

• DeSantis’ Office Issues Blistering Response To Democrat Sheriff Who Launched Probe Into Flights | The Daily Wire

• Apple’s Quietly Funding an "Astroturf Lobbying Group"

• Scholars ask Congress to scrap winner-take-all system

Hunter

• Corporate Media Enable Biden Family Corruption By Refusing To Ask Tough Questions About Hunter

External Security / Militaria / Diplomania

• The Full $16Bn List of What Biden Has Sent Ukraine

• How Washington came to see China as an existential threat

• Physics Body Concedes Mistakes in Study of Missile Defense

• US vs. China: How Can America Win?

• U.S. Navy Wants Its Carrier Air Wing 60% Uncrewed

World

• Powerful Earthquake Shakes Central Mexico, Tsunami Warning Issued

• China could blockade Taiwan to avoid direct conflict

• Argentina to Hike Interest Rates to 75% as Inflation Nears 100%

  • HN comments

• Sweden Shocks Markets With A Record 100bps Rate Hike, As It Rushes To Hit Its Terminal Rate

• Majority Of Hungarian Gas Stations To Run Dry Next Week

• EU Seeks Sweeping New Crisis Powers To Secure Critical Supply Chains

• Trudeau slammed as 'embarrassment' for singing Bohemian Rhapsody days before Queen's funeral  | Daily Mail Online

• Poland opens new sea waterway to cut dependence from Russia

• "surprise" German producer prices post surprise record jump in August (+45.8%)

• Sweden’s Far Right Is Rising

Russia Bad / Ukraine War

• Russian bonds are back on the market for a week as sanctions temporarily lifted

• The Russian army uses chips from dishwashers and refrigerators to fix equipment

• Nearly 90 Percent of the World Isn't Following Us on Ukraine

• Swiss Imports of Russian Gold Rise to Most Since April 2020

• Russia triggers plan to formally annex occupied Ukrainian regions

• Russian Oil Flows Dive, Hurting Putin's War Chest

• Putin To Give Major Speech On Ukraine Referendums, Possible National War Mobilization

Health / Medicine

• NIH Collaboration Seeks to Understand Health Disparities at the County Level

• Another Case of a Sick Canadian Offered Death Instead of Treatment

• Most adults should be screened for anxiety US panel recommends

• Is There Too Much ‘Mental Health’ Awareness in the United States? – NYT

Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda

• Brussels enjoys a car-free Sunday

• Inflation kills off hopes for return of plant-based meat boom

• Europes energy crisis: the de-industrialization started

• Patagonia Founder “Going to Hell.”

• Surprising ways hemp helps the planet

• UN secretary general calls for tax on fossil fuel companies