2023-01-22

Horseshit

• Reverse Dominance Hierarchies - Rob Henderson's Newsletter

  The Enduring Appeal of Marxism: Armed with this knowledge that hunter-gatherer communities tend to be egalitarian, it makes sense why communism has had enduring appeal across different cultures. And why this system has been attempted so many times in different locations despite its failures and resulting mass murders.

• Robot taxis? Hyperloops? A top technologist wages war on tech's hype machine

Musk

• Is Elon Musk’s Twitter in too much trouble to cover its debts?

Culture War / Tribal / Re segregation

• The Making of an Incel

Media / ShowBiz / Advertising

• Far-Right Superstars Are Failing on Rumble. Who’s Winning?

• Vice, a Beleaguered Avatar of New Media, Hangs a ‘For Sale’ Sign

TechSuck

• How did Sam Altman fail upward so well? | Hacker News

  • Is Sam Altman unloading OpenAI at just the right time?

• Microsoft has laid off entire teams behind Virtual, Mixed Reality, and HoloLens

• Rumors of GTA online exploits allowing remote code execution on gamer PCs

• Is Apple checking images we view in the Finder? – The Eclectic Light Company

  Apple automatically being sent identifiers of images that a user has simply ‘browsed in the Finder’ without that user’s consent or awareness. I should make it clear that this hasn’t been demonstrated: as far as I’m aware the only evidence provided is that a Mac on which images were being ‘browsed in the Finder’ tried to make an outgoing connection from mediaanalysisd to an Apple server at that time, as revealed by the software firewall Little Snitch.

• Your TV is spying on you — here’s how you can stop it.

• Wolfenstein 3D with a CGA Renderer | Hacker News

Crypto con games

• Binance says banking partner will stop processing SWIFT transfers under $100K

Economicon / Business / Finance

• Capital One axes 1k tech roles

  • HN comments

• GM is investing almost $1B in new V8 engines

Gubmint / Poilitcks / Law Making

• Ron Klain to step down as Biden’s chief of staff: Report

• Nancy Pelosi reportedly summons priests to exorcise home of evil spirits.

• FBI May Search More Locations ‘Tied to Biden’ For Classified Docs

• Tax refund may be smaller this year. Here's why

• Supreme Court allows Reddit mods to anonymously defend Section 230

  • HN comments

• What the spread of universal basic-income schemes says about Americas safety net

• US Supreme Court takes on the internet

• The fiscal arsonists - by Noah Smith - Noahpinion

  realize that if the Congressional Republicans weren’t playing pointless games with the debt ceiling, economics reporters at major national newspapers wouldn’t have any reason to be listening to the MMT people in the first place. Fiscal arsonism on Twitter is sadly to be expected, but fiscal arsonism in the halls of the legislature of the world’s most financially important superpower is absolutely inexcusable.

Law Breaking / Police / Internal Security

• San Francisco Falls into the Abyss | Hacker News

• What Happened with the Substation Attack in North Carolina?

  • Obviously must be White Supremacist Militias: HN comments

  • Another North Carolina power substation was damaged by gunfire : NPR

• Police Arrest 6 After Fiery Atlanta Riots, Mayor Confirms Antifa Used Explosives | ZeroHedge

• On Sat night at least 10 dead in Monterey Park, Calif., shooting

External Security / Militaria / Diplomania

• Why are South Koreans losing faith in America's nuclear umbrella?

World

• The Cap of Smoke and Mirrors - by Sergey Vakulenko

• Europe Needs Freight Trains to Cross Russia from China

Russia Bad / Ukraine War

• Apart from Leopard tanks, Ukraine is getting lots of weapons

• Some liberated Ukrainian regions have mixed loyalties

Health / Medicine

• The FDA Failed – Banning Fruity Flavors Did Not Stop Vaping.

Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda

• The great gas stove debate has been reignited

• How much it will cost you to go green