2023-01-02

Cool

• Inside the 8086 Processor's Instruction Prefetch Circuitry

  • HN comments

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• (2019) Micro-naps for plants: Flicking the lights on and off can save energy without hurting indoor plants - Explore Magazine

• Lead and violence: all the evidence

• How the marijuana ‘green rush’ fell apart

• Airport worker ingested by jet engine

Horseshit

• F1 drivers banned from making ‘political statements’ without permission

• Why Not Mars | Hacker News

• Kale phone, crack phone - by Henry - Aliveness Studies

• Bezos, Gates, Zuck, Behind every “self-made” millionaire is a father with money | Hacker News

• ARMA3, still: War-themed video game fuels wave of misinformation

Rank Propaganda / Thought Policing / World Disordering

• The Media Very Rarely Lies - by Scott Alexander

Trump / War against the Right / Jan6

• Fauxcahontas is arranging the welcoming ceremony: As His Life of Fantasy Comes into Focus, George Santos Goes to Washington

  • George Santos story broken by local newspaper months ago | Hacker News

• The incredible weirdness of the Ray Epps saga - American Thinker

  • (July 2022) Fact Check-Ray Epps’ wife held a position at Dominion Enterprises, not Dominion Voting Systems | Reuters

• ‘They Knew I Did Nothing Wrong’: Jan. 6 Committee Withdraws Subpoena of Trump.

Pestilence / Pox / COVID / VaxCult

• Monkeypox, We Hardly Knew Ye!

• Confirmed Covid-19 deaths per million vs. GDP per capita, Jan 1, 2023

• Are Vaccines Fueling New Covid Variants?

Edumacationalizing / Acedemia Nuts

• Grade inflation: What goes up must come down

  • HN comments

TechSuck

• HN Jobs:

  • Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2023)

  • Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (January 2023)

  • Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (January 2023)

• AMD GPU shipments at 13-year low. Nvidia also suffering severely

• Blog series on building an air sensor with Arduino | Hacker News

Economicon / Business / Finance

• Inequality might be going down now

Gubmint / Poilitcks / Law Making

• The EVs that qualify for the new $7,500 tax credit

Law Breaking / Police / Internal Security

• Allegedly there is an investigation, but at this point it’s hard to believe

• 'Radicalized' Times Square Attacker Was On FBI Watchlist

External Security / Militaria / Diplomania

• NASA boss sounds alarm on Chinese moon ambitions

World

• Canada bans most foreigners from buying homes

• Why China’s Economy Faces a Perilous Road to Recovery

Health / Medicine

• Teen Births Have Declined Sharply over Last 3 Decades

• The end of malaria? A new vaccine from the team that cracked Covid

Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda

• Home Insulation Makes Little Difference To Energy Consumption–New Study - Watts Up With That?

• Swedish wolf hunt will be ‘disastrous’ for species

• Earth's wildlife running out of places to live