2023-01-28

etc

• Kevin Mitnick Hacked California Law in 1983 - Schneier on Security

  • HN comments

  FREE KEVIN

  PUT KEVIN BACK

• Toroidal propellers: A noise-killing game changer in air and water

Horseshit

• There's no whiskey in mini bottles of Fireball, so customers are suing for fraud

• "I had my nostrils and ears removed, and my whole body, including my eyes, tattooed to look like a Black Alien (racist much?), and now the Normies act like I'm some kind of weirdo!"

• AP again clarifies tweet advising that writing 'the French' is 'dehumanizing'

• Six doctors swallowed Lego heads (2022) | Hacker News

• The search for extraterrestrial life as we don't know it

celebrity gossip

• Hollywood Braces For Backlash After Notorious Reporter Nikki Finke's Secret Files Are Exposed

Rank Propaganda / Thought Policing / World Disordering

• Actions Of FBI, CIA Leave Us In Our Own Truman Show | ZeroHedge

• BBC Modi Documentary Removal | Hacker News

Musk

• “Ghosted.” Twitter Advertisers Pull Back Spending After Laid-Off Reps Disappear

• Elon Musk Faces SEC Probe for Role in Tesla Self-Driving Claims

• Elon Musk directly ordered staff to suspend a left-wing activist's account

Pestilence / Pox / COVID / VaxCult

• Pfizer Responds to Covid Gain of Function Research Claims

  In the ongoing development of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine, Pfizer has not conducted gain of function or directed evolution research. Working with collaborators, we have conducted research where the original SARS-CoV-2 virus has been used to express the spike protein from new variants of concern. This work is undertaken once a new variant of concern has been identified by public health authorities.

• YouTube censors and punishes Project Veritas over undercover Pfizer video

• Evidence Is Mounting That Covid Is Bad for the Brain

Culture War / Tribal / Re segregation

• Colorado Court Rules Against Masterpiece Cakeshop's Jack Phillips - AGAIN - For Refusing To Make a 'Gender Transition' Cake | MRCTV

Edumacationalizing / Acedemia Nuts

• Manatee county teachers close class libraries, fearing prosecution under FL law

  • HN comments

• Woman, 29, enrolled in high school and pretended to be a teenager – The Seattle Times

Media / ShowBiz / Advertising

• Magic the Gathering players lament the loss of 30-year history | Hacker News

• Big Tech was moving cautiously on AI. Then came ChatGPT

TechSuck

• Complete Internal List of Yandex Ranking Factors - Web Marketing School

  • Summarized in a twitter thread

Crypto con games

• DOJ Claims Sam Bankman-Fried Tried to Influence Witness Testimony

• Big Crypto’s struggles with basic accounting and economics

• Most criminal cryptocurrency is funneled through just 5 exchanges

Economicon / Business / Finance

• Intel's 'historic collapse' erases $8B from market value

• toy company Hasbro has laid off 15% of its staff after announcing declining sales and profitability in the last quarter.

• Smartphone shipments plunge to a low not seen since 2013

• The Week CNBC Started to Panic

Gubmint / Poilitcks / Law Making

• Contrary to my expectations, I find that politicians tend to overestimate how many of those they govern are struggling financially.

• 'Fact-Checkers' Won't Track Hunter Biden's Aid to Other Dissolute Bidens

• MSNBC’s Chris Hayes: Biden Economic Recovery Most Remarkable in U.S. History

Law Breaking / Police / Internal Security

• Memphis police release graphic video of Tyre Nichols’s beating

  • HN comments

• ATF warns gun dealers on “potential civil unrest.”

• Tyre Nichols Protests Break Out Across US | ZeroHedge

External Security / Militaria / Diplomania

• Air Mobility Command Boss Predicts War with China in 2025 in Dire Memo

  • U.S. general warns troops that war with China is possible in two years

• The WHO is urging countries to start stockpiling for ‘nuclear emergencies’

World

• BBC Arabic radio goes off air after 85 years of broadcasting

Russia Bad / Ukraine War

• Ukraine's fight against corruption isn't new. It's still trying

• Ukraine Government issues blacklist of ‘Russian propagandists’

• How tanks from Germany, US and UK could change the Ukraine war

• Russian hackers launch cyberattack on Germany in Leopard retaliation

Health / Medicine

• Nobody Has My Condition but Me | Hacker News

• Smoking is associated with lower cognitive function in older adults

• Alzheimer's Association Hides New Partnership With Lobbying Group for Assisted Suicide

Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda

• San Diego zoo clones Endangered Przewalski's horse from 42-year-old DNA