2022-09-23

Cool

• This image contains its own MD5 checksum — and it's kind of a big deal

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• Earthquake in Mexico triggers tsunami in Death Valley

  • Mexico earthquake creates 'desert tsunami' 1500 miles away in Death Valley

• One out of every four crashes in Boston last year involved Uber or Lyft driver

• Soyuz rocket rolls out for launch of Russian-American crew to space station

• ‘We don’t have to feel like prey’: the female joggers running with guns

• Good Coffee Is Now Bad - by Jason Diamond - The Melt

• Alien-Hunting Astronomer Says There May Be a Second Interstellar Object on Earth

  a fast-moving meteor that burst into a fireball hundreds of miles off the coast of Portugal on March 9, 2017, is an “additional interstellar object candidate”

Horseshit

• Don't shower during a thunderstorm. Here's why

  Since lightning can travel through plumbing, "it is best to avoid all water during a thunderstorm. Do not shower, bathe, wash dishes, or wash your hands," the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention noted. "The risk of lightning traveling through plumbing might be less with plastic pipes than with metal pipes. However, it is best to avoid any contact with plumbing and running water during a lightning storm to reduce your risk of being struck," the CDC added.

• The fake sex chats fuelled by an elaborate scam

• Magnus Carlsen Finally Speaks on Chess Cheating Scandal, Sows Even More Chaos

  • HN comments

• At 4.4 Miles, Wyoming Team Sets New Rifle Shot World Record.

  It did, however, take 69 attempts

• The sum of all knowledge and the sorry state of the web | Hacker News

• Why did the Queen receive media coverage while the future of Earth doesn't?

  • The sermons about planetary doom have been a daily staple for the last 50 years. "Thou shall have no God before me"

celebrity gossip

• Richard Nixon exposed to radiation on Moscow trip in 1959, documents reveal

  • Soviets Exposed Vice President Nixon to Radiation During Famous 1959 Trip

• Tech Founders: America’s False Idols

• Mark Zuckerberg takes up MMA training: ‘This nerd is a silent killer’

Rank Propaganda / Thought Policing / World Disordering

• PayPal shuts account of parents’ group that campaigned to keep schools open

  • HN comments

  • PayPal closes account of UK's Free Speech Union without explanation

• The For-Profit D.C. Firm Staging America’s ‘Grassroots’ Movements

• Florida to Supreme Court: Let us regulate social networks as common carriers

  • HN comments

• The New Sport of Misrepresenting AI Criticism

• Where Online Hate Speech Can Bring the Police to Your Door

• U.S. politicians tweet much more misinformation than those in the UK and Germany

Musk

• SpaceX wants to put Starlink internet on rural school buses

• Ex-Twitter staffer reveals as whistleblower who testified to the Jan 6 committee

• Starlink broadband speeds slow as subscriber numbers grow

Trump / War against the Right / Jan6

• Trump Could Be Back on Facebook as Soon as January

• DOJ Claims Trump Did Not Declassify Documents. Oh, Really? – PJ Media

Pestilence / Pox / COVID / VaxCult

• Japan to reopen to independent travelers and lift daily arrival cap, Prime Minister Kishida says, marking a major policy shift after nearly two and a half years of strict COVID-19 restrictions

  • Japan to Restore Visa-Free Travel from Oct. 11

• Trudeau agrees to lift pandemic border measures, source says

• Covid raises risk of long-term brain injury, large U.S. study finds

• NYC is roaring back from the worst of the pandemic. Why isn’t San Francisco?

• Covid-tracking program lacked bare minimum cyber protections.

Culture War / Tribal / Re segregation

• Discord offers $20k for gender-affirming procedures to its employees

Edumacationalizing / Acedemia Nuts

• Brown agrees to $1.5M settlement in class action Covid tuition refund lawsuit

Media / ShowBiz / Advertising

• The ‘surveillance advertising’ industry makes online news possible

• 1 in 4 subscribers are planning to leave Netflix this year

• Meta's quiet firing is making a lot of noise

• Meta's head of health unaware of research on how content affects users

TechSuck

• We Need New Motherboards Before GPUs Collapse Under Their Own Gravity

  • HN comments

• Ask HN: Ads triggered by WhatsApp “end to end encrypted” messages | Hacker News

• Friday Facts #370 - The journey to Nintendo Switch | Factorio

• Signal TLS Proxy | Hacker News

• Rest in Peace, Optane

Crypto con games

• ‘Mining’ crypto is among the most pointless activities humans have devised

Economicon / Business / Finance

• FedEx to Raise Shipping Rates by 6.9% as It Combats Slowdown

• The party is over: How Meta and Google are using recession fears to clean house

• Palantir CEO says this deadly tidal wave of risks will wipe out some companies

• Tone-Deaf Fortune Mag Headline: ‘Why You Should Be Happy About Inflation’ | Newsbusters

• SEC Set to Let Wall Street Keep Payment-for-Order-Flow Deals

• Amazon walking back raises due to compensation bug

• Amazon Routinely Hired Dangerous Trucking Companies, with Deadly Consequences

• Where Have All The Ships Gone?

• As America raises rates, the rest of the world bears the pain

• UPS's hiring process takes only 25 minutes

• SpinLaunch Raises $71M – SpaceNews

• Bond sell-off worst since 1949, investor sentiment plummets, Bank of America

• Ford’s Latest Supply-Chain Snarl: Not Enough Blue Oval Badges

• Oil plunges below $80 to eight-month low as recession fears mount

• Goldman Sachs warns of more trouble for US stocks

• Bond yields soar as markets weigh threat of a recession

Shortages

• Global Food Supply Crises May Worsen Due To Poor US Harvest | ZeroHedge

  The Agriculture Department announced on Sept. 12, that it had lowered its nationwide corn production estimates to 13.9 billion bushels. This is 3 percent lower than its projections in August, about 8 percent lower than the total amount harvested last year. Projections for soybean production estimates in September were down 3 percent from August, down slightly from 2021.

Gubmint / Poilitcks / Law Making

• DOT to map out nation's time zones after report shows no official map exists

• Majority favor maximum age limits for elected officials

Law Breaking / Police / Internal Security

• IRS Court Order for Records on Taxpayers Who Failed to Pay Taxes on Crypto

• Alleged 17 year old Rockstar, Uber hacker has been arrested by UK police

External Security / Militaria / Diplomania

• The National Guard – Difficulties Keeping Soldiers and Recruiting New Ones

• 'Fat Leonard,' Fugitive in Navy Bribery Case, Caught in Venezuela

• Go back to Clinton era scandals and re-examine them: Scientists at America’s top nuclear lab were recruited by China

• Why the Obvious Geopolitics of the Taiwan Policy Act of 2022 Matter

• U.S. aircraft carrier arrives in South Korea as warning to North

• Pentagon gives Raytheon $1-Billion for hypersonic cruise missile by 2027

World

• Catholics outnumber Protestants in Northern Ireland for first time

• Lebanese banks to remain shut indefinitely after economic crises

• British pound plunges, bonds sink after government announces tax cuts

  • UK government dishes out extensive tax cuts as country braces for recession

• Hong Kong Man Arrested for “Sedition” While Mourning Queen.

• EU unveils new emergency powers over the European economy

  “This instrument is the opposite of a planned economy,” the Internal Market Commissioner Thierry Breton said — presumably because the plan looks very much like the first step to a planned economy.

Russia Bad / Ukraine War

• Russian elite: New (Ukraine) regions can be defended with nuclear weapons

• Ukraine war: Russians flee to border after military call-up

• A survey of documents produced by Russia’s surveillance state

• U.S. has sent private warnings to Russia against using a nuclear weapon

• Putin is personally giving orders to his generals on the battlefield

• ‘It’s a 100% mobilisation’: day one of Russia’s drive to build its army

• Noam Chomsky: The War in Ukraine Has Entered a New Phase

• List of 305,925 names comprising Putin's draft leaked

• Google Sees Russia Coordinating with Hackers in Cyberattacks Tied to Ukraine War

• ‘They Are Watching’: Inside Russia’s Vast Surveillance State

• Russians are protesting and fleeing as Putin orders a draft for Ukraine

• U.N. experts find that war crimes have been committed in Ukraine

  • Russian troops raped and tortured children in Ukraine, U.N. panel says

• Was the 2014 Euromaidan revolution a “coup” by the U.S. and Ukrainian Nazis: No

• Putin Bets It All in Ukraine

Health / Medicine

• The Disaster of Superstition in Nutrition

  • HN comments

• The heartbreak and cost of losing a baby in America

Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda

• We're not even close to ready for the population growth we're getting

• Hunga Tonga eruption put over 50B kilograms of water into the stratosphere

• ‘Once-in-a-lifetime’ Tonga blast could warm the Earth temporarily

• The Next Step on Climate Action: Parking Reform

• Does green hydrogen cause brain damage?

• Charging cars at home at night is not the way to go: study

  • HN comments

• Going Green for White Supremacy: Preserving the Frontier - Capital Research Center

• Many of the most nutritious foods are also the most sustainable

• EU saw 53,000 excess deaths in July amid record heatwave: report

  • HN comments

• Climate Protester Sets Himself On Fire Before Roger Federer's Last Match