2023-01-23

Worthy

• Medical history books | Locklin on science

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• Inside the Globus INK: a mechanical navigation computer for Soviet spaceflight

  • HN comments

Horseshit

• The Moral Authority of ChatGPT

• US Construction worker productivity has dropped 40% in the last 50 years | Hacker News

Rank Propaganda / Thought Policing / World Disordering

• Are we too worried about misinformation?

Musk

• Musk's Father: "I'm Really Afraid Something Might Happen To Elon" | ZeroHedge

Trump / War against the Right / Jan6

• Trump And Lawyers Hit With $938,000 Penalty For "Frivolous" Suit Against Clinton

• Lawmakers seek to bar Jan. 6 insurrectionists from holding public office

• Trump Reportedly Wants to Abandon Truth Social and Return to Twitter

Pestilence / Pox / COVID / VaxCult

• More than 666M doses of Covid-19 vaccine have been given in the USA

• Federal agencies withholding data behind pilot heart condition change

• WSJ Shreds Vaccine Makers, Biden Admin Over "Deceptive" Booster Campaign | ZeroHedge

• FDA proposes shift to annual Covid vaccine shots

• Researchers find hybrid immunity is the best protection against COVID-19.

Media / ShowBiz / Advertising

• 2020 digital ad campaign had little impact on US presidential race

TechSuck

• WiFi Routers Used to Produce 3D Images of Humans | Hacker News

• jwz: mozilla.org's 25th anniversary

Crypto con games

• Tornado Cash sanctions cut deep

Economicon / Business / Finance

• Laid-off Silicon Valley workers are panic-selling their startup shares

• Job Market’s 2.6M Missing People Unnerves Star Harvard Economist

• Food firms raising prices unnecessarily, Tesco says

• Things have never looked bleaker for first-time homebuyers

• Spotify to cut 6% of its workforce

Gubmint / Poilitcks / Law Making

• House GOP keeps up attacks on IRS with bill to abolish the agency

• Jeff Zients to replace Ron Klain as President Biden’s chief of staff

• the government has an overclassification problem.

• Iowa Bill Would Ban SNAP Recipients From Buying Meat

• Trump’s interior chief goes 4-0 in political show trials | Washington Examiner

  For a fourth time, former Trump-era Interior Secretary David Bernhardt has been cleared by the department's inspector general of ethics charges made by his political foes.

Law Breaking / Police / Internal Security

• Border officials are seeing a spike in egg-smugglers from Mexico

• How to Leak from the Supreme Court

World

• Lights out in Pakistan as energy-saving move backfires

  • Tens of millions without power in Pakistan as national grid fails

Russia Bad / Ukraine War

• Ukraine war: Hiding from Putin's call-up by living off-grid in a freezing forest

• In Breakthrough, Germany Won’t Block Poland From Giving Ukraine Tanks.

• Poland ups pressure to send German-made tanks to Ukraine

• A Brutal New Phase of Putin’s Terrible War in Ukraine

Health / Medicine

• World Health Organization: Billions Still Exposed to Toxic Trans Fat

• The FDA Wants to Interfere in the Practice of Medicine

Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda

• Heavy winter rain and snow won't be enough to pull the West out of megadrought

• ‘No chance’ of global heating below 1.5C but nuclear ‘promising’ Bill Gates says

• Big data's hidden cost: The carbon footprint of computational science

• Earth’s inner core seems to be slowing its spin

• The World’s Farms Are Hooked on Phosphorus