2022-10-05

Cool

• Internet Archive Seeks Material for Library of Amateur Radio and Communications | Hacker News

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• “Spending money is not an assertion of freedom. It’s the key to enslavement”

Horseshit

• The Full Chess Cheating Report of Hans Neiman

• America's Christian majority could end by 2070

• Free Markets Don’t Buy Peace

• ‘Nobody can spell avocado ’ – shopping lists as works of art

Rank Propaganda / Thought Policing / World Disordering

• 90% of US adults say the United States is experiencing a mental health crisis

Musk

• Tesla Shares Give Up Gains on Renewed Prospect of Musk Buying Twitter

• Elon Musk to buy Twitter at the original price

• Twitter shares halted amid reports Elon Musk to go ahead with $44B buyout

• Musk's Friends, Cheerleaders Suddenly Quiet on About-Face

• Exhibit S: the Musk Parties intend to proceed to closing of the transaction

  • HN comments

• U.S. paying millions to send Starlink to Ukraine, contrary to SpaceX claims

• Twitter employees are reacting to today’s Elon Musk news

• Icahn, Others Clean Up on Musk's Twitter About-Face

• Banks financing Musk's Twitter deal face hefty losses

• Elon Musk’s plans for Twitter may take inspiration from Chinese super apps

• Elon Musk, Twitter have yet to reach deal to end court battle -sources

• Decoding Elon Musk’s Legal Surrender

• SpaceX exploring mission to boost Hubble

Trump / War against the Right / Jan6

• Docs: Biden Admin's Targeting Of Pro-Life Dad Just Got Crazier

• Documents: USPS Has Been Spying On Gun Rights Supporters and Conservatives

• Is Trump trying to start a civil war? Archive link

  Posts on Twitter that mentioned “civil war” had soared nearly 3,000 percent in just a few hours as Mr. Trump’s supporters blasted the action as a provocation. Similar spikes followed, including on Facebook, Reddit, Telegram, Parler, Gab and Truth Social, Mr. Trump’s social media platform. Mentions of the phrase more than doubled on radio programs and podcasts, as measured by Critical Mention, a media-tracking firm.

  Posts mentioning “civil war” jumped again a few weeks later, after President Biden branded Mr. Trump and “MAGA Republicans” a threat to “the very foundations of our republic” in a speech on democracy in Philadelphia.

  After President Biden delivered his speech on democracy, Brian Gibby, a freelance data entry specialist in Charlotte, N.C., wrote in a Substack post that he believed “the Second Civil War began” with the president’s remarks.

  Asked by The New York Times to explain his views, Mr. Gibby said he believed Mr. Biden was “escalating a hot conflict in America.” He worries something will happen around the November elections that will be “akin to Jan. 6, but much more violent,” where armed protest groups from both sides of the political spectrum come to blows.

Pestilence / Pox / COVID / VaxCult

• Masks saw more than 90% of deaf people struggle to communicate during pandemic.

• Pandemic stress may have had a lasting impact on our personalities

• CDC Says We Probably Can’t Get Rid of Monkeypox Now.

• How polio came back to New York for the first time in decades, silently spread and left a patient paralyzed.

Culture War / Tribal / Re segregation

• I was asked to agree to a “White people are racist” contract at work

Edumacationalizing / Acedemia Nuts

• NYU Chemistry Professor Fired After Students Said His Class Was Too Hard

• Former Northeastern University Staffer Is Charged With Staging Campus Explosion

  • Northeastern University employee staged bomb incident, faces federal charges, FBI says

  • Ex employee charged with staging fake explosion at Boston’s Northeastern University.

Media / ShowBiz / Advertising

• The deception of “buying” digital movies

  • HN comments

• Instagram to increase ad load as Meta fights revenue decline

  • HN comments

TechSuck

• Rewritten OpenGL drivers make AMD’s GPUs “up to 72%” faster in some pro apps

Economicon / Business / Finance

• Facebook to purge thousands of workers as part of ‘quiet layoffs’

• US House Prices: 7 Years in Purgatory

• UBS credit default swaps hit decade high after Credit Suisse blow out

• Inflation is at a 40 year high. What can history teach us? | Hacker News

• Amazon makes first venture fund bets with $150M for underrepresented founders

• Over 50% of CEOs say they’re considering cutting jobs over the next 6 months

Shortages

• Here’s why the US is facing a butter shortage ahead of holidays.

Gubmint / Poilitcks / Law Making

• U.S. National Debt Tops $31T for First Time

• Election Software Executive Arrested Due to Potentially Storing Data in China

• Arrest made in breach of L.A. County election worker data

• A tiny elections company became a conspiracy theory target

Law Breaking / Police / Internal Security

• Seattle woman gets probation for Capital One hack

• Woman handcuffed in police car parked on train tracks survives locomotive impact

• Violent crime in urban areas is rising dramatically

External Security / Militaria / Diplomania

• White House launches last ditch effort to dissuade OPEC from cutting production

World

• Rightwing thinktanks run this government. But first, they had to capture the BBC

• The Chinese Government’s Growing Surveillance State

• OPEC and Russia Agree to Cut Oil Production by 2M Barrels a Day

Russia Bad / Ukraine War

• Russia’s strategy failed, not the tank

• Russia’s frontline in Ukraine ‘collapses’ as Kyiv hammers Putin’s forces into humiliating retreat: Zelensky’s troops sweep ’10 miles in four hours’ and liberate dozens of occupied towns – as NATO warns Kremlin ‘will test NUKES on the border to save face.’

• Nuclear Annihilation Is a Threat Again

• Ukraine’s New Offensive Is Fueled by Captured Russian Weapons

Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda

• Media Lying About Climate and Hurricanes

• What Does Sustainable Living Look Like? Maybe Like Uruguay

• A Changing Monsoon Is Putting a Quarter of Humanity in Peril

• New Climate Maps Show a Transformed United States