2023-01-12

Worthy

• Reverse-engineering an airspeed/Mach indicator from 1977

etc

• Girl, nine, finds megalodon shark tooth on Maryland beach

• 'Oumuamua: An analysis of the debate regarding the first interstellar visitor | Hacker News

• Why did teenage suicides decline during America’s first Covid-19 lockdowns?

• International Space Station Operations, Soyuz Status Update

  • Russia to launch new Soyuz capsule to replace leaky spacecraft on space station

Horseshit

• We're Living Through the End of Civilization, and We Should Be Acting Like It

celebrity gossip

• Court documents: Barclays exec had 'profound friendship' with Jeffrey Epstein

Obit

• Legendary rock guitarist Jeff Beck dies aged 78

Rank Propaganda / Thought Policing / World Disordering

• 'Twitter Files' show today's censors continue to be terrible at their jobs | Fox News

• What the Twitter Files Reveal About Free Speech and Social Media

• World Economic Forum predicts a decade of 'polycrises'

Pestilence / Pox / COVID / VaxCult

• Biden EXTENDS Covid health emergency - even though he said pandemic was 'over'  | Daily Mail Online

• Deadline Passes For Pfizer To Submit Results Of Post-Vaccination Heart Inflammation Study To US Regulators | ZeroHedge

• FDA ‘disappointed’ and ‘angry’ that data about new booster wasn’t presented

• What Death Certificates Reveal about Non-Covid Excess Deaths

• Ivermectin's Effectiveness Proven Again; 72% Efficacy

Edumacationalizing / Acedemia Nuts

• This is of course the list that never existed to begin with, and then was just a right-wing fantasy, right? Stanford pulls 'harmful language' list

• How Stanford Failed the Academic Freedom Test: For America’s new clerisy, scientific debate is a danger to be suppressed.

Media / ShowBiz / Advertising

• CNET Is Quietly Publishing Entire Articles Generated by AI

• HBO Max Lifts Ad-Free Tier’s Monthly Price Nearly 7%

• John Fogerty Reclaims Creedence Clearwater Revival Catalog After 50-Year Fight

TechSuck

• How many AMD RX 7900 XTX's are defective?

  • HN comments

Crypto con games

• FTX Pre-Mortem Overview - SBF’s Substack Archive link

  I’ve been, regrettably, slow to respond to public misperceptions and material misstatements. It took me some time to piece together what I could–I don’t have access to much of the relevant data, much of which is for a company (Alameda) I wasn’t running at the time.

  I had been planning to give my first substantive account of what happened in testimony to the US House Financial Services Committee on December 13th. Unfortunately, the DOJ moved to arrest me the night before, preempting my testimony with an entirely different news cycle.

  • HN comments

  • Sam Bankman-Fried denies stealing user funds and claims FTX solvency in new post

• Blockchain.com lays off 28% of staff

• DCG’s check kiting comes home to roost

Economicon / Business / Finance

• Used-Car Prices Are Finally Dropping

• Conspiracy inflating food prices is real. It’s time to rethink supply management

• Flexport slashes 20% of global workforce over weak 2023 volume forecast

• Alphabet to cut staff of health sciences unit Verily by 15%

• Parler owner laid off 75% of staff and has only 20 employees left

• DirecTV lays off 100s of managers as cord-cutting accelerates

• Americans are piling up credit card debt – and it could prove very costly

• Inflation Slows to 6.5%

  • Annual Inflation Slowed to 6.5% in December

  • Inflation cooled in December, bolstering hopes US can avert recession

Gubmint / Poilitcks / Law Making

• Talking Points Have Gone Out On Biden's Document Scandal - Victory Girls Blog

• Biden classified documents: US intel materials related to Ukraine, Iran and UK found in Biden's private office, source tells CNN | CNN Politics

  • Classified files found at Biden's Delaware home

  • AG Garland appoints special counsel to investigate Biden classified documents | Fox News

  • Joe Biden Defends Storing Documents in Garage: It's 'Locked'

• A corrupt file led to the FAA ground stoppage – also found in backup system

  • HN comments

  • FAA NOTAM Statement | Federal Aviation Administration

External Security / Militaria / Diplomania

• With FBI Search, U.S. Escalates Global Fight over Chinese Police Outposts

World

• Canadian NOTAM Experiences Outage Hours After US NOTAM System

• The energy crisis and Europe’s astonishing luck

• Canadian Woman Dies After 7-Hour Wait in Emergency Room: 'The System Is Broken'

• Rishi Sunak facing major Tory rebellion over internet safety law

Russia Bad / Ukraine War

• Vital supplies dwindle as 'ecoactivists' blockade Russian guarded breakaway zone

Health / Medicine

• The road to prohibition - spiked

• Falling birth rate not due to less desire to have children

Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda

• Consumer Safety Commission Walks Back Gas-Stove Threat amid Backlash

  • The Creepy Cult Surrounding the Gas Stove Panic Gets Exposed.

  • AGA Statement on Int Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health Report

• Powell Says Fed Will Not Become a ‘Climate Policy Maker’

• Draft climate law threatens fines for datacenters that don't cut their carbon

• Cougars Are Heading East. We Should Welcome Them

• The Problem with Silent Spring Environmentalism