2023-01-25

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• Public perceptions of local influence - Joshua Hochberg, Eitan Hersh, 2023

• James Webb Space Telescope experiences 2nd instrument glitch

Horseshit

• How artificial intelligence is helping us decode animal languages

• I paid $23K for my wolf suit — now I’m free of human relationships.

celebrity gossip

• Justin Roiland dropped from Rick and Morty after domestic abuse charges

• The Left Go Mad After Mark Hamill Indirectly Supports J.K. Rowling - Bounding Into Comics

Musk

• Elon Musk Never Jokes

• Musk's Twitter still violates FTC security pact, new whistleblower says

• Indian ban on BBC Modi film puts Musk’s Twitter ‘free speech’ to the test

• How I would fix Twitter if I were CEO

• Elon Musk Explores Raising Up to $3B to Help Pay Off Twitter Debt

Pestilence / Pox / COVID / VaxCult

• Twitter Has No Answers for DiedSuddenly

• US military members fired for refusing Covid vaccine must pay back $7k bonus | Daily Mail Online

• US proposes once-a-year Covid shots for most Americans

Culture War / Tribal / Re segregation

• A stranger planned to bomb my mosque. He became a member instead

• Big Tech Layoffs Are Hitting Diversity and Inclusion Jobs Hard

• UK menopause law change rejected as it ‘could discriminate against men’

Edumacationalizing / Acedemia Nuts

• Former Arlington teachers union president arrested in Fairfax County

  • Gant gifted herself $350,000 worth of bonuses and pay from 2020 to 2022. She also allegedly charged $70,000 on business debit cards

Media / ShowBiz / Advertising

• Justin Bieber sells rights to his music for $200M

• Jetnet Acquires ADS-B Exchange, a community-fed ADSB aggregator

  • HN comments

TechSuck

• LastPass breach gets worse | Hacker News

Crypto con games

• Crypto lending unit of Genesis files for U.S. bankruptcy

• Annotated: Sam Bankman-Fried's “FTX Pre-Mortem Overview”

Economicon / Business / Finance

• Walmart to Raise Starting Hourly Wages to $14 from $12

• Evidence that Adani Group has engaged in stock manipulation and accounting fraud

  • HN comments

• Washington Post eliminates nearly two dozen newsroom positions citing ‘economic climate.’

• NYSE says Tuesday’s trading glitch due to ‘manual error’

  NYSE has issued a statement on what happened: “The root cause was determined to be a manual error involving the Exchange’s Disaster Recovery configuration at system start of day.” That’s all they are saying. In plain words, it appears they tested a “disaster recovery configuration” that did not involve using the floor, and it did not reset.

  The announcement by the NYSE late Tuesday that some trades that occurred right at the open would be busted, but others would not, added to the confusion. Many are trying to figure out how much money they may have lost yesterday.

• Bank of Canada increases policy interest rate by 25 basis points

• Companies Cut Temp Workers in Warning Sign for Labor Market

Shortages

• Nuclear Power Plants Are Pushed to the Limit as Demand Surges

Gubmint / Poilitcks / Law Making

• The Trillion-Dollar Coin Might Be the Least Bad Option

• The FDA proposes new targets to limit lead in baby food

• Sen. Hawley’s Insider Trading Bill Returns To Congress Under New Title ‘PELOSI Act.’

• Senate GOP pours cold water on idea of impeaching Biden.

• Biden Document Discovery Doesn't Add Up | ZeroHedge

• National Artificial Intelligence Research Resource Task Force Final Report

• Such careful phrasing to avoid saying how many are currently serving an appointed vs elected term. Nearly 25% of Colorado’s state lawmakers landed seat by vacancy committee

  There will be 24 lawmakers this year who secured a statehouse seat through a vacancy appointment, including no fewer than nine legislators who will have been appointed in a 12-month span

Law Breaking / Police / Internal Security

• The DOJ sues Google, wants to break company up

  • DOJ sues Google over digital advertising dominance

• Alec Baldwin Didn’t Have to Talk to the Police. Neither Do You

External Security / Militaria / Diplomania

• Dept. of Defense official says troops need training about online misinformation

• Marines outwitted an AI security camera by hiding in a cardboard box

World

• Macron Is Courting His Waterloo over Pension Reform

• China to Speed Up Construction of Coal Power Plants This Year

Russia Bad / Ukraine War

• In reversal, US poised to approve Abrams tanks for Ukraine

  • The U.S. Plans to Send M1 Abrams Tanks to Ukraine, Officials Say

• Germany to send Leopard 2 tanks to Ukraine

• "Not An Offensive Threat": Biden Downplays US Tanks In Ukraine As Russia Warns Decision Is "Extremely Dangerous" | ZeroHedge

Health / Medicine

• 1min high-intensity exercise 3x a week improves fitness as much as 3x aerobics (2016)

• Antidepressants help bacteria resist antibiotics

Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda

• Bill Gates just invested in a startup trying to stop cows from farting

• How Are the Bees?

• EVs Are Essential Grid-Scale Storage