2023-01-19

Worthy

• in Audio contexts: Understanding Impedance (2003)

  • HN comment

  • from the HN thread, RF contexts: Lessons In Electric Circuits -- Volume II (AC) - Chapter 14

etc

• What not to write on your security clearance form (1988) | Hacker News

Horseshit

• Someone stole my car and now I own hundreds of vinyl records | Hacker News

• Microsoft hosted Sting concert in Davos before announcing layoffs

• Plant-based meat is turning out to be a flop

  • HN comments

• Online pharmacies selling abortion pills send fingerprints to Google Analytics | Hacker News

celebrity gossip

• Alec Baldwin Will Be Charged with Involuntary Manslaughter in ‘Rust’ Killing

Rank Propaganda / Thought Policing / World Disordering

• Why A Shocking Number Of Crazy-Sounding Right-Wing Conspiracy Theories Turned Out To Be True

• Why the Media is Honest and Good

• ‘APPLE HAS BEGUN SCANNING YOUR LOCAL IMAGE FILES WITHOUT CONSENT.’

• Mutiny erupts among WEF staff over role of ‘Mr Davos’

Musk

• $100k for a bird statue: the results of the Twitter office auction are in

• Elon Musk made ‘split-second’ decision on Tesla tweet, lawyer says

• Twitter might be replaced, but not by Mastodon or other imitators

Culture War / Tribal / Re segregation

• Amazon is terminating its Amazon Smile program

• Facebook, Instagram will lift ban on bare breasts — but only for trans, non-binary

Edumacationalizing / Acedemia Nuts

• At Least 16 Virginia Schools Allegedly Withheld Merit Awards From Students.

Media / ShowBiz / Advertising

• Sludge content is consuming TikTok. Why aren't we talking about it?

• HBO’s The Last Of Us breaks the curse of bad video game adaptations

• Stephen Colbert to Produce 'Chronicles of Amber' TV Series Adaptation - Variety

TechSuck

• Apple reportedly shelved its plans to release AR glasses any time soon

Crypto con games

• New FTX Chief Says Crypto Exchange Could Restart

• SEC Charges SBF

Economicon / Business / Finance

• What Even is a "Mild" Recession? - by kyla scanlon

• The US Consumer Has Cracked: Discover Plunges After "Shocking" Charge-Off Forecast | ZeroHedge

Gubmint / Poilitcks / Law Making

• The Unclassified Docs Biden’s Lawyers Were Searching May Be The Key To The Real Scandal

• Hunter Biden Lived In Classified Doc House While Raking In Millions Through Chinese Intelligence Ties | ZeroHedge

• Supreme Court Poised to Reconsider Key Tenets of Online Speech

• George Santos lied about his mom in World Trade Center on 9/11, she wasn't in US

• US hits debt ceiling, prompting Treasury to take extraordinary measures

Law Breaking / Police / Internal Security

• Part 2: Just How Big Was the Operation Led by the LGBTQ Couple Who Abused Their Adopted Sons?

• Authorities don't know who is shooting free-roaming horses in the Utah desert

• Nationwide FAA weather reporting outage

  • HN comments

  • boojahideen, Yee-Hawdists. Vanilla ISIS. Banana Republicans. Meal Team 6. Walmartyrs. gravy seals.

World

• Why Australia’s Taipan helicopter purchase was a debacle from the start

Russia Bad / Ukraine War

• Ukraine Reclassifies U.S. Tanks as “Recreational Vehicles” to Skirt Restrictions.

• The World Economy No Longer Needs Russia

Health / Medicine

• A person-to-person transmission landscape of the gut and oral microbiomes

  • We share our microbiomes with each other, our pets; and the sum total of the life in the everyday environment that surrounds us. We chase "antibacterials" and cleanliness, and even sometimes and in some places "sterility", and rarely achieve any of it. Perhaps we'd be better off to understand the "macro biome" and how we're grooming it with a more intentional and holistic approach.

Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda

• Chile sinks controversial Cu|Fe mining project over environmental concerns

• Want to solve climate change? This California farm kingdom holds the key

• How to be a more environmentally friendly coffee drinker

• Covid closure of a national park shows negative impact of recreation on wildlife

• "Does the milk taste salty to you?" Are cows at sea the future of farming?

• Al Gore, Lunatic | The Pipeline