2022-09-28

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• DART’s Final Images Prior to Impact

• Taken under fascism, Spain’s ‘stolen babies’ are learning the truth

  • HN comments

• Farmers Jump Off Hemp Bandwagon Amid Lack Of Profit And Underwhelming Performance | ZeroHedge

• Dogs can smell when we're stressed, study suggests

Horseshit

• The Cure for Burnout Is Not Self-Care

• Why Are Sex Workers Forced to Wear a Financial Scarlet Letter?

• Chips are the new oil. There are no reserves

• Voice assistants could ‘hinder children’s social and cognitive development’

• Experts agree: Dairy cattle's welfare worse than beef cattle

celebrity gossip

• Snowden: Taibbi: The Washington Post Dabbles In Orwell | ZeroHedge

• eBay harassment mastermind says he previously worked for Joe Biden, Bill Gates

Rank Propaganda / Thought Policing / World Disordering

• PayPal Backs Down

  • PayPal backs down in fight against free speech

• A single Texas ruling could change the web forever

• US Government building AI tech to unmask anonymous writers

  • HN comments

Musk

• Elon Musk wants to beat censors in Iran. What about India and China?

• No, Elon Musk's Starlink Probably Won’t Fix Iranian Internet Censorship

• Elon Musk's own data scientists couldn't find many bots on Twitter

  • Twitter says Elon Musk’s own data scientists did not back up bots claims

Trump / War against the Right / Jan6

• Obama: Republicans embracing rhetoric on immigration that is ‘dangerous’

  • HN comments

• The Atlantic: Three Conversations with Donald Trump

Pestilence / Pox / COVID / VaxCult

• Israeli Investigators Find COVID-19 Vaccines Cause Side Effects: Leaked Video | ZeroHedge

• Covid-19 vaccination and temporary increase in menstrual cycle length

  • HN comments

• Did paywall newspapers stop providing free informative articles about Covid?

• Neuropsychiatric Effects of Covid-19 and Other Severe Respiratory Infections

• Covid Still Kills, but the Demographics of Its Victims Are Shifting

• Unusual Ebola strain kills 23 in Uganda; no vaccines, treatments available

Culture War / Tribal / Re segregation

• "All Ages" Drag Show In Tennessee Canceled After Protesters Arrive | ZeroHedge

• White, Male, and Angry

• What Western feminists can learn from Iran

Edumacationalizing / Acedemia Nuts

• Sabine Hossenfelder: Backreaction: I’ve said it all before but here we go again

  everyone can see that nothing useful is coming out of particle physics, it’s just a sink of money. Lots of money. And soon enough governments are going to realize that particle physics is a good place to save money that they need for more urgent things. It would be in particle physicists’ own interest to listen to what I have to say.

  • HN comments

• What Trump Gets Right about Harvard

Media / ShowBiz / Advertising

• Tumblr adds new filters and hints at looser moderation rules

• The Washington Post has a Bezos problem

• Fast Company’s Apple News access hijacked to send an obscene push notification

TechSuck

• FCC advances plan to require blocking of spam texts from bogus numbers

• Intel says Moore’s Law is still alive and well. Nvidia says it’s ended

• Apple Has Reportedly Rejected TSMC's Chip Price Hike of 6%

• OpenAI will remove its waitlist for DALL-E, giving anyone immediate access

Crypto con games

• ‘Napoleon Dynamite’ Cast Reunites for Animated Blockchain Pilot ‘Cyko KO’

• SEC Fines Tether’s Former Auditor $1.5M for ‘Improper Professional Conduct’

• NFT Trading Volumes Collapse 97% from 2022 Peak

Economicon / Business / Finance

• Wall Street to Pay $1.8B in Fines over Traders’ Use of Banned Messaging Apps

  • US fines 16 Wall Street firms $1.8B for talking deals trades on personal apps

• The dollar is surging. This is who gets helped and hurt by its newfound strength

• Lyft freezes all US hiring amid stock slump, economic downturn

• Fed is resolute bringing down high inflation, but as gently as possible

• Apple Ditches iPhone Production Increase After Demand Falters

• Remote working may be a win-win for employers, employees and – even the economy

• Stock market losses wipe out $9T from Americans’ wealth

• 87% of companies that went public last year are trading below their IPO prices

• A much different world: Investors in stocks, bonds and real estate won’t like it

• Cities push to convert deserted office buildings into housing

• U.S. mortgage interest rates jump to 6.52%, highest since mid-2008

• DocuSign to cut workforce by 9% as part of restructuring plan

• 7 ways a recession could be good for you financially

Gubmint / Poilitcks / Law Making

• All 50 states get green light to build EV charging stations

• US expected to publish Privacy Shield executive order next week

• Ohio’s unemployment benefits computer system on hold company officials indicted

• Biden's student loan forgiveness plan will cost $400 billion, budget office says : NPR

• How the Supreme Court Is Destroying the EPA

• Althouse: Biden dances 30,000 feet above the hurricane.

Law Breaking / Police / Internal Security

• Video Shows Denver Cops Wound 6 Bystanders In Addition to the Bad Guy…Out of 6 Rounds Fired.

External Security / Militaria / Diplomania

• Former Navy Engineer, Wife Plead Guilty in Submarine Espionage Case, Again - WSJ

  Mr. Toebbe began corresponding with someone he believed to be a representative of the foreign government but was actually an undercover FBI agent, according to federal prosecutors.

• China Brings Home 162 Nuclear Scientists (Read: Spies) From New Mexico.

World

• In Dramatic Escalation, European Nat Gas Prices Soar After Gazprom Warns Ukraine Flows At Risk

• What Britain’s Kamikaze Self-Destruction Teaches the World

• Spending cuts 'could finish NHS', former Bank of England deputy governor

• China prepares to tweak Yuan fixing process to slow its fall

• Germany to keep 2 of its 3 nuclear plants running into April

• UK hedge funds made a fortune shorting the pound–they may be under investigation

• Bank of England begins emergency bond purchase programme to restore stability

  • Bank of England to Buy Bonds “on whatever scale is necessary”

  • Bank of England steps in to calm markets

Russia Bad / Ukraine War

• CIA Warned Germany Of Possible Nord Stream Pipeline Attack

• Polish MEP Thanks USA for Sabotaging the Nord Stream Pipeline

  • HN comments

  • U.S. Blew Up Russian Gas Pipelines, Says Former Polish Defense Minister

• 'Forever Unusable': 15 Things We Know About The Mysterious “Explosions” That Severely Damaged The Nord Stream 1 And 2 Pipelines | ZeroHedge

• Suspected: Explosions damaged undersea pipelines that carry Russian gas

  • "Suspected" ... Odd which things are known immediately beyond any debate, and which can never be proved.

• Whodunnit? - Facts Related to The Sabotage Attack On The Nord Stream Pipelines

  During the war in Ukraine Russia has not stopped to deliver gas to Europe as contractually agreed. Instead European countries, Poland, Ukraine and Germany have blocked overland and sub sea pipelines that brought gas to Germany.

• (Nov 2015) Explosive-Laden Drone Found Near Nord Stream Pipeline | Pipeline Technology Journal

• The most likely nuclear scenario

• Meta dismantles Russian network spoofing Western news sites

  • Grotesque Russian disinfo campaign mimicks Western news websites to sow dissent

• Ruble has rallied 40% since the war in Ukraine. That could be bad news for Putin

• Russia Declares Victory in Sham Ukraine ‘Referendums’

• Apple removes Russia’s largest social network from the App Store

• EU Considers Ban on Shipping Russian Oil as Part of Price Cap

• Why the capture of a Russian T-90M tank matters

• Russians are terrified and have nowhere to turn

• US Embassy warns Americans to leave Russia

  • US embassy in Russia tells Americans to leave the country

  • Security Alert for U.S. Citizens in Russia

• Leaked documents expose Ukrainian attempts to destabilize Russia

• Putin’s Mobilization Hits Russia’s Economy in Its Weak Spots.

Health / Medicine

• Becoming a father shrinks your cerebrum

• Hearing aids will be available over the counter in October.

Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda

• 2.5 Million Floridians Ordered To Evacuate Ahead Of Major Hurricane | ZeroHedge

• Ian just shy of a Category 5 hurricane as it nears Florida.

• Hurricane Ian Strengthens To Powerful Category 4 As Florida Landfall Imminent

• NOAA official to Don Lemon: No, “climate change” is not responsible for Hurricane Ian.

• As a meteorologist, Hurricane Ian is the nightmare storm I worry about most

• Why storms are exploding into major hurricanes

• “Black clouds” of mosquitos in Pakistan

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

• California can't save every burned town

  • HN comments

• Half of world’s bird species in decline as destruction of avian life intensifies

• Official: Gas leaks around 1/3 of Denmark's CO2 emissions