2022-09-27

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• Can You Ever Be Too Smart for Your Own Good? Effects of Cognitive Ability

• The Pathologies of the Attention Economy

• NASA's DART mission successfully collides with asteroid Dimorphos

  • NASA’s Dart Mission Crashes into an Asteroid to Defend the Earth

  • Dart goes silent after hitting an asteroid

• New light on the use of Theobroma cacao by Late Classic Maya

• Billionaires get too much credit for philanthropy

• Santa Cruz is a Housing Nightmare

Horseshit

• The U.S. Is Running Short of Land for Housing

  • HN comments

• Patrick Collison: We Know Shockingly Little About What Makes Humanity Prosper

• Some Uber drivers are worried they're being used as drug mules

celebrity gossip

• Edward Snowden’s New Russian Citizenship Proves Again He Is a Traitor

• Apple and Oprah splitting up, contract will switch to a project-by-project basis

Rank Propaganda / Thought Policing / World Disordering

• A Technical Guide to Burning Down a Troll Farm

• The Problem with Polling Might Be Unfixable

• Removing Coordinated Inauthentic Behavior from China and Russia

  • Russian campaign spent $100k on anti-Ukraine propaganda, Meta says

Musk

• Twitter whistleblower has likely sparked FTC probe – and Elon Musk could get hit

• Musk texted Larry Ellison into the wee hours just before pausing Twitter buy

• Twitter to interview Elon Musk, known doge and meme dandy

Trump / War against the Right / Jan6

• FBI’s Matt Gaetz Operation

  On Friday, 18 months after he was accused of being a pedophile and child sex trafficker, the Washington Post published another anonymously sourced report. “Career prosecutors recommend no charges for Matt Gaetz,” said the article, published quietly on a Friday. Not only was he never convicted of any of the crimes he was alleged to have committed, he wasn’t even charged. And, if you believe the anonymously sourced claims, he isn’t going to be.

• Serious questions surround FBI raid on pro-life advocate.

• Remembering Hate Speech: Victor Davis Hanson | ZeroHedge

• Trump's 'big lie' spawned a new generation of social media influencers

• Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes’ path: From Yale to jail

Pestilence / Pox / COVID / VaxCult

• Long Covid Has Forced a Reckoning for One of Medicine’s Most Neglected Diseases

• Historical reasons for resistance to recognizing airborne transmission in COVID

• Canada to remove all Covid travel restrictions from Oct. 1

• Scientists traced a new coronavirus lineage to one office – through sewage

• Detection of mRNA COVID-19 Vaccines in Human Breast Milk

• Lingering cardiac involvement in previously well people after mild Covid-19

• CDC drops universal masking at nursing homes, hospitals.

• Women said Covid shots affect periods. A new study shows they’re right

• Does “Monkeypox” Give Monkeys a Bad Name?

Edumacationalizing / Acedemia Nuts

• The First Lawsuit Is Filed Against Student-Loan Forgiveness

• Biden’s Student Loan Plan Has Issues

Media / ShowBiz / Advertising

• How Twitch lost the battle for its soul

• CNN Slammed Into A Brick Wall Named Joe Rogan And Promptly Imploded

• Anime: Japanese animation has taken the West by storm

TechSuck

• Outdated vs. Complete

  • HN commants

• Show HN: Get conversational practice in over 20 languages by talking to an AI

  • HN comments

• Not as famous as they should be: Pioneers that shaped computing as I know it | datagubbe.se

• Don Libes retires from maintaining Expect - patches are queuing up

Crypto con games

• FTX Wins Auction for Bankrupt Crypto Broker Voyager Digital’s Assets

• Celsius plans to turn debt into a new cryptocurrency

• Celsius CEO resigns in the middle of bankruptcy proceedings

• Crypto exchange FTX is replacing its U.S. president

• Fed's Powell urges broader regulation for stablecoins

Economicon / Business / Finance

• Nikola recalls all the electric trucks it has built so far

• Amazon is desperate for shoppers as consumer spending declines

• Lumber Prices Fall Back to Around Their Pre-Covid Levels

• US House prices fell nationwide in July, down 0.6 percent from previous month

• GM delays return-to-office mandate after employee backlash

• Cathie Wood’s new fund gives investors access to the VC market for just $500

Gubmint / Poilitcks / Law Making

• Klobuchar, Cruz strike deal to advance Journalism antitrust bill

• Heavily-armed black rights groups march through Austin demanding that Biden 'close the border' | Daily Mail Online

• Eye-Opening Poll Shows GOP Far Ahead in Battleground States.

  These aren’t even just likely voters — they are registered voters — and many key pollsters think Republican voters don’t even want to answer polling surveys because the FBI might take their cellphones away.

• Congress again races to avoid shutdown as key vote at risk of failing

Law Breaking / Police / Internal Security

• California man accused of planning ‘Las Vegas-style’ mass shooting

• Is FBI using security clearances to muzzle critics? Whistleblower’s lawyer says yes.

• Dementia in Prison Is Turning into an Epidemic

• Best Buy, Home Depot Lock Up Goods to Fight Theft

• SEC Charges Oracle a Second Time for Violations of Foreign Corrupt Practices Act

  • HN comments

External Security / Militaria / Diplomania

• US Navy sends its most advanced surface warship to East Asia

• Congress Stuffs $12BN In Ukraine Aid Into Stopgap Funding Bill

• Beijing determines US hacked Chinese university, infrastructure and ~80 states

World

• Cuba Family Code: Country votes to legalise same-sex marriage

• UK lenders pause new mortgages amid market turmoil

  • HN comments

• Taliban Let Girls Coding School Reopen in Afghanistan

• Japan holds divisive state funeral for former PM Abe

• Solar Panels Piling Up in Warehouses in Energy-Starved Europe

• Crisis level risks loom in Asia as US Fed rate pressure forces yen, yuan to sink

• Renminbi falls against dollar despite new support measures

• The UK currency crisis: How was it allowed to happen?

• UK 30-Year Bond Yield Surges Above 5% for First Time Since 2002

• Norway oil safety regulator warns of threats from unidentified drones

• Growing Indifference to Relationships and Sex in Japan

• Free rail travel scheme begins in Spain to cut commuters’ costs

Russia Bad / Ukraine War

• Nord Stream 2 pipeline pressure collapses mysteriously overnight

  • Nord Stream AG operator says looking into decline in pressure in Nord Stream 1

  • Nord Stream pipelines may have been damaged by bombings

  • Three Nord Stream gas pipelines damaged in one day

  • Nord Stream pipelines supplying gas from Russia suffer 'unprecedented' damage

  • HN comments

  • Pressure leaks hit undersea Nord Stream pipelines

  • Operator cites damage to Nord Stream pipelines carrying Russian gas to E.U

  • Damage To Nord Stream Pipelines "Unprecedented;" May Have Been 'Sabotaged'

  • Gas leaks in Russian pipelines to Europe stoke sabotage fears

  • Blasts occurred near Nord Stream gas leaks, seismologist tells SVT

  • Leaking natural-gas from damaged Nord Stream pipelines is erupting like geysers

  • Nord Stream: Ukraine accuses Russia of pipeline terror attack - BBC News

  • Nord Stream Pipelines 1 and 2, Which Carry Russian Natural Gas to Germany, Leaking Into the North Sea; Sabotage Strongly Suspected

  • Sabotage suspected after unexplained leaks found on major Russian gas pipelines

• Russian Men Flee the Country

• Russia prepares to formally annex 15% of Ukraine

• Russia plans “massive cyberattacks” on critical infrastructure, Ukraine warns

• Putin says nuclear threat is no bluff

  • HN comments

• Chinese and Russian warships located near Alaska in Bering Sea

• Russia is spoofing mainstream media to smear Ukraine, Meta says

Health / Medicine

• Not sleeping enough may harm your immune system and trigger inflammation

Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda

• Wishful thinking hampers the clean-energy revolution

• Hurricane Ian strengthens again: could become storm not seen in our lifetime

• Once-Hot Fake Meat Sees Sales Slide on Price and Being Too ‘Woke’

  • Is lab-grown meat the next frontier in ethical eating? – CBC News

• What is ‘degrowth’ and how can it fight climate change?

• Ian reaches major hurricane status, will be a historic storm for Florida

• Global warming is changing the color of Earth’s water