2023-01-09

Worthy

• How to Bounded Distrust | Don't Worry About the Vase

  Alas, the media often misleads. It implies and insinuates that which is not. It abuses the language. It selectively omits. It is highly motivated by partisanship and ideology and its own interests. It does not do or understand the research. It is terrible at interpreting science. It confuses cause and effect. It purports to use technically accurate data to show, even prove, conclusions known to be false, in ways that are designed to mislead and obviously in bad faith.

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• Deere to Allow Farmers to Repair Their Own Equipment

  • HN comments

• The Creative Underclass is Still Raging - Freddie deBoer

Horseshit

• mitsubishi's 'nomadpro canter' truck is the ideal mobile workspace for digital nomads

• The Dystopia We Fear Is Keeping Us from the Abundance Utopia We Deserve

• The Extreme Shortage of High IQ Workers

• Limited Run Games fires community manager over their Twitter account - Niche Gamer

  • Limited Run Games canceled an employee to appease the woke mob – it’s not going well for them.

• ChatGPT is enabling script kiddies to write functional malware

celebrity gossip

• John Carmack: I loaned money to anyone that asked me

Rank Propaganda / Thought Policing / World Disordering

• “We Don’t Do This”: Adam Schiff and the Underbelly of American Censorship – JONATHAN TURLEY

• Blogger flagged me - The New Neo

• WSJ: The White House Covid Censorship Machine - WSJ

  • HN comments

• Biden admin explicitly asked Twitter to silence Robert F. Kennedy Jr

• Russian trolls on Twitter had little influence on 2016 voters

Musk

• Poll: Has Musk Influenced Your Decision on Buying a Tesla?

• The Cult of Musk is creaking

• Looking to Ditch Twitter? Morse Code Is Back

Trump / War against the Right / Jan6

• How the Capitol Riot’s Digital Record Will Transform Law Enforcement

Pestilence / Pox / COVID / VaxCult

• The Dire Aftermath of China’s Untenable “Zero Covid” Policy

• CDC Finally Releases VAERS Safety Monitoring Analyses For COVID Vaccines | ZeroHedge

• The XBB.1.5 variant shows the coronavirus is not done with us

• Will rural China survive the Covid wave?

• EU has had similar excess mortality in 2022 as 2021 and 2020

• Chinese state media admit ‘different views’ on zero-Covid

Media / ShowBiz / Advertising

• Dungeons and Dragons’ new license tightens its grip on competition

  • HN comments

• (Jul 2021) 'Terminator' 1 & 2 Save Their Reveals For the Right Time

TechSuck

• Sourcehut will blacklist the Go module mirror | Hacker News

• Identity Thieves Bypassed Experian Security to View Credit Reports | Hacker News

Crypto con games

• Shorting Tether | Hacker News

• U.S. Subpoenas Hedge Funds in Probe of Crypto Exchange Binance

• Crypto Billionaires' Subsequent Deaths Spark Wild Theories Among The Community | ZeroHedge

Economicon / Business / Finance

• $7 a dozen? Why California eggs are so expensive – and increasingly hard to find

• The Inside Game - The Last Bear Standing

• 10 Best Side Hustles in 2023 to Make Some Extra Money - Bloomberg

  Coming in at number one is “family assistant,” which usually involves some combination of cooking, cleaning, childcare, running errands, coordinating schedules and handling other household administrative tasks. Though many family assistants live with their employers and work full-time, part-time positions are available.

• Goldman Sachs to start cutting 1000s of jobs midweek

Shortages

• GitHub - beyarkay/eskom-calendar: Get your loadshedding schedule in your calendar and never be left in the dark! Open-source, up-to-date, and developer friendly.

  Many loadshedding apps don't actually tell you when your lights are off, or if they do, it's difficult to find or only shows you the very next power outage. eskom-calendar shows you all the times your lights will be off, right in your digital calendar.

Gubmint / Poilitcks / Law Making

• Biden’s chief of staff faces fierce backlash for claiming high inflation is no longer a problem.

• Kevin McCarthy 'agreed to cut aid to Ukraine' to secure US speaker role

• Kevin McCarthy's fast start: Big Tech is a top target for GOP majority

Law Breaking / Police / Internal Security

• Drug dealing with impunity. Why is it allowed?

External Security / Militaria / Diplomania

• Using Up America’s Oil Reserve Was Easy. Refilling It Won’t Be

World

• Bolsonaro supporters storm Brazil Congress, presidential palace

  • Bolsonaro supporters storm Brazilian Congress

    Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva says perpetrators will be found and punished after supporters of Brazilian far-right ex-President Jair Bolsonaro stormed Congress. The dramatic scenes come a week after the left-wing veteran's inauguration.

  • Jair Bolsonaro supporters storm Brazil’s presidential palace and Supreme Court

  • Bolsonaro supporters storm Brazil's government offices in January 6-style attack

  • Bolsonaro Supporters Storm Brazil National Congress, Breach Presidential Palace, Top Court: Live Feed | ZeroHedge

  • Jan 6th in Brazil. Pro-Bolsonaro Rioters Breach Congress, Presidential Palace

  • Bolsonaro supporters storm Brazilian Congress

  • Bolsonaro supporters invade Brazil presidential palace, Congress, Supreme Court

  • Brazil Live Updates: Bolsonaro Supporters Storm Capital Buildings

  • Pro-Bolsonaro protesters storm Brazil’s Congress, Supreme Court, presidential palace.

  • The violent attack on Brazil's government was months in the making

• Portugal’s digital nomad bubble poised to pop

• Sweden: Turkey wants what we cannot give for NATO membership

• As Peru’s Unrest Chases Away Visitors, Many in Tourism Fear for Their Livelihood

• How France’s prized nuclear sector stalled in Europe’s hour of need

Health / Medicine

• 3k young children accidentally ate weed edibles in 2021, study finds

  • HN comments

• (Oct 2022) Deconstructing Evidence-Based Medicine... From the Inside Out

• Ehlers-Danlos syndrome affects millions. Why isn't the medical profession paying more attention? | CNN

• Cooking on gas could be behind kids' asthma symptoms

  • HN comments

Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda

• Single-use cutlery and plates to be banned in England

• On flooded island of homeless people, climate change has never been more real

• Reintroducing bison on tallgrass prairie doubles plant diversity

• Great Lakes water levels continue to drop: Lake Superior lost 1T gallons

• US Safety Agency to Consider Ban on Gas Stoves Amid Health Fears

• Ask HN: Is it wrong for Canadians to enjoy a mild winter due to climate change?

• Earth’s Ozone Layer Recovering as Damaging Airborne Chemicals Decline

• This firm is working to control the climate. Should the world let it?

• Reduced pollution caused farmers to use more sulfur fertilizer