2022-10-18

Cool

• Sound – Bartosz Ciechanowski

  • HN comments

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• UberEats Adds Weed Delivery to App in Toronto

• UFOs, Intelligence and Cassandra’s Curse

Horseshit

• More Proof That This Is the End of History

Musk

• Elon Musk’s business ties with China deserve more scrutiny

• Government to Musk: “Nice business you got here, shame if something happened to it.”

Trump / War against the Right / Jan6

• New study suggests Trump’s election conspiracy theories undermined GOP turnout

• The Trump Subpoena: Why the Jan 6 Committee’s Timing is both Terrible and Telling – JONATHAN TURLEY

• Trump Hotels Charged Secret Service Exorbitant Rates, House Inquiry Finds

• “9/11 is nothing compared to January 6"

Pestilence / Pox / COVID / VaxCult

• Boston University creates a new Covid strain that has an 80% kill rate — echoing dangerous experiments feared to have started pandemic

  • Boston University Creates COVID Strain With 80% Mortality In Mice

  • Covid researchers combine omicron spike with original virus, test strain on mice

  • Irresponsible Gain of Function Research

  • Researchers’ tests of lab-made version of Covid virus draw scrutiny

  • HN comments

• Life expectancy changes since Covid-19

Culture War / Tribal / Re segregation

• Half the World Has a Clitoris. Why Don’t Doctors Study It?

  • HN comments

Edumacationalizing / Acedemia Nuts

• (Aug 24 2022) Student Loans: Borrowers should plan to resume payments in January 2023

• I fear my children are overexposed to technology. Experts say I'm right to worry

Media / ShowBiz / Advertising

• ‘Big Short’ Investor Michael Burry Says Meta ‘Has a New Coke Problem’

• She-Hulk Finale: Star, Creators on Marvel Trolls, K.E.V.I.N. Robot - Variety

  • Having the finale be a sermon on how unenlightened the audience is seems to fit well with the rest of what has been said about it.

• Facebook owner Meta to sell Giphy after UK watchdog confirms ruling

TechSuck

• lead times for chip delivery shrank in September from an average of 27 weeks, to just 26 weeks and 3 days.

• GitHub Copilot investigation | Hacker News

• In-Person CCCongress 2022 in Hamubrg Canceled

• Crowdstrike Fails

Crypto con games

• Once Worth $2.9M, NFT of First Ever Tweet Is Now $132

Economicon / Business / Finance

• Dow climbs 600 points as strong bank earnings help to fuel relief rally

• TSMC downgraded as analysts warn of worst slump in a decade

• Stocks Can Always Get Cheaper

• The stock market crash is exposing Wall Street's biggest charlatans

• Visa, Mastercard Draw New Government Scrutiny over Debit-Card Routing

• FedEx is shutting down its robot delivery program

• Intel and the $1.5T chip industry meltdown

  • HN comments

• US Homebuilder Confidence Collapses In October, Future Sales Hope Hits Decade-Lows

Shortages

• Baby formula update: Still missing in action.

Gubmint / Poilitcks / Law Making

• Washington Needs to Tax Empty Homes. and Its Cities Should, Too

• Biden Thinks You’re An Idiot: It’s Pretty Obvious President Will Blame Coming Economic Ruin On GOP After Midterms

• The Neocons and the Woke Left Are Joining Hands and Leading Us to Woke War III

• Police cameras show confusion, anger over DeSantis’ voter fraud arrests

External Security / Militaria / Diplomania

• Biden Admin To Announce Another 15 Million Barrel SPR Release Before Midterms

• Retired U.S. generals, admirals take top jobs with Saudi crown prince

World

• German cybersecurity chief sacked following reports of Russia ties

Russia Bad / Ukraine War

• Waves of suicide drones strike Ukraine’s capital; 4 killed

• Russia Bombards Ukraine with Iranian ‘Kamikaze Drones’

• First Images Of Blown Up Nord Stream Reveals 50 Meter Missing Section Of Pipeline

  • Nord Stream blast 'blew away 50 metres of pipe'

• Killer drones vie for supremacy over Ukraine

• In Ukraine, trend lines point to escalation, not an endgame

• 'Massive blackouts' as 30% of Ukraine's power stations destroyed in a week

• What we know about the Russian spies in The Netherlands

Health / Medicine

• Hearing aids are now available over the counter at Walmart, Walgreens, CVS

Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda

• Nigeria flooding worsened by climate change kills more than 600, displaces 1.3M

• Greenwashing a police state: the truth behind Egypt’s Cop27 masquerade

• The Search Is on for Banana Ancestors

• (Sep 27 2022) The Millionaires Helping to Pay for Climate Protests