2023-02-02

Worthy

• Some insects I found inside dried Turkish figs from Trader Joe's

  • These figs are still Vegan and Halal, tho: HN comments

• The Rise of the Alt-Right Hippie - by roach - UNREALITY

  Could they speak today, the hippie lefty of yesteryear and the right-wing populist of the present era would have much to discuss. They might compare Vietnam with Ukraine, and the Red Scare with Russiagate. They might both long for the non-violent activism of Martin Luther King Jr and consider the case for science denial with similar vigour. They might form a curious alliance, one inexplicable to modern pundits, because while movements die – ideas endure.

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• Astronomers find 12 new moons of Jupiter

Horseshit

• Do we live in a society without a counterculture? | Hacker News

• Connecticut Parents Arrested for Letting Kids Walk to Dunkin' Donuts

  • HN comments

• The Crack-Up

Rank Propaganda / Thought Policing / World Disordering

• How the Supreme Court ruling on Section 230 could end Reddit as we know it

• WHOA: #GoogleLeaks tells #TwitterFiles to hold its beer with bombshell-filled thread – twitchy.com

Musk

• Twitter will start charging developers for API access

• Twitter opens public appeals for suspended accounts

Pestilence / Pox / COVID / VaxCult

• Why are excess deaths still so high?

• Could a popular Covid-19 antiviral supercharge the pandemic?

Edumacationalizing / Acedemia Nuts

• Most Education is Wasteful and Immoral - by Ives Parr

Media / ShowBiz / Advertising

• Bay 12 Games has made $7M from the Steam release of Dwarf Fortress

• ChatGPT sets record for fastest-growing user base in history

Crypto con games

• Why America Should Ban Crypto – Charlie Munger

Economicon / Business / Finance

• Facebook-parent Meta announces $40B stock buyback

  • Meta shares rocket 25%, on pace for the best day in a decade

• The last gasp of the meme-stock era

Gubmint / Poilitcks / Law Making

• The common ground between the Biden administration, a cartel, China, George Soros, and a recently indicted FBI agent.

• Hunter Biden finally admits infamous laptop is his as he pleads for criminal probe

  • Hunter Biden Admits Infamous Laptop Belongs To Him, Calls For Criminal Probe Into Attempts To 'Weaponize' Contents | ZeroHedge

• Meet the Dark Money Group Helping Democrats Undermine Republican Investigations

• Ask HN: How are you handling Section 174 changes for bootstrapped companies? | Hacker News

  all R&E expenses must now be amortized over 5 years (instead of taking them as a regular full deduction in the year in which they are incurred), and on top of that all "software development" is now an R&E expense.

Law Breaking / Police / Internal Security

• For police PR flacks, quack lives matter | Hacker News

External Security / Militaria / Diplomania

• The Military’s White Democrat Problem

  These presentations send a clear message: the likelihood of serving in the military is declining because the difficulty of getting a “full-time job in your community” is also going down. In other words, the recruitment crisis has an economic cause and requires an economic solution.

  In fact, the political problem exists almost exclusively among white Democrats and it is almost exclusively a function of this group’s increasingly negative attitudes toward the country and toward the military.

• “Threats to the dollar” are just scare stories

• US secures deal on Philippines bases to complete arc around China

World

• In Lebanon, parents are abandoning their children in orphanages

• British Gas admits agents break into struggling customers' homes

Russia Bad / Ukraine War

• Anonymous Releases 128GB Data Showing Russia's Illegal Surveillance of Citizens

• Splitting the atomic scientists: how the Ukraine war ruined physics

• Analysis: Ukraine's new weapon will force a Russian shift

Health / Medicine

• Study finds maskwearing likely makes little or no difference in flu transmission

• Eye Drops Linked to Infections and One Death, CDC Says

Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda

• New York investors snapping up Colorado River water rights