2023-02-03

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• Why Is Everyone So Boring?

  • HN comments

Horseshit

• Parents pay at least one monthly bill for 40 percent of millennials

• Mostly Skeptical Thoughts On The Chatbot Propaganda Apocalypse

• State Farm says 105 Kia, Hyundai models ‘ineligible’ for new insurance in LA

• Effective Altruism Has a Toxic Culture of Sexual Harassment and Abuse

  • HN comments

Rank Propaganda / Thought Policing / World Disordering

• Russia's Role in the Far-Right Truck Convoy

  The findings reveal that the Russian state media outlet RT covered the Freedom Convoy far more than any other international media outlet, suggesting strong interest in the far-right Canadian protest movement on the part of the Russian state. State-affiliated proxy websites and content on the messaging platform Telegram provide further evidence of Russia’s strategic interest in the Freedom Convoy. Based on these findings, it is reasonable to infer that there was Russian involvement in the 2022 truck convoy, though the scope and impact remain to be determined.

Musk

• RIP to the Best Bots on Twitter

• Twitter to share ad revenue with creators

Trump / War against the Right / Jan6

• Top Jan. 6 investigator says FBI, other agencies could have done more to repel Capitol mob had they acted on intel

• Write a Positive Poem About Trump? ChatGPT Gets Ensnared in Culture Wars

  • ChatGPT Writes Poem Praising Hunter Biden, Refuses Marjorie Taylor-Greene

Pestilence / Pox / COVID / VaxCult

• Merck Covid Drug Linked to New Virus Mutations, Study Says

• Breaking Down the Video About Pfizer Purportedly Exploring 'Mutating' Covid-19

• 'The Scandal Would Be Enormous': Pfizer Director Worried About Vax-Induced Menstrual Irregularities

• More Data Back Guillain-Barré Risk with Janssen Covid Shot

• The Cochrane Review on Masks is Damning

• Bird flu outbreak is spilling over into mammals. What does that mean for humans?

Culture War / Tribal / Re segregation

• How UN manipulates the Gender Development Index to hide uncomfortable truth

• Today’s blacklisted Americans: Catholic students kicked out of Air & Space museum for wearing pro-life hats.

Edumacationalizing / Acedemia Nuts

• Medical Schools Bail on Academic Merit

• Florida athletes may soon be required to submit menstrual history to schools

Media / ShowBiz / Advertising

• The Nitpicks of Power, Part III: That Númenórean Charge

  this is such a stupid way to rig a ship that I am pulling the whole boat over and we’re going to talk about how sails work.

TechSuck

• (2012) Improving the Beginner’s PID – Introduction « Project Blog

• Weird things I learned while writing an x86 emulator | Hacker News

• Until further notice, think twice before using Google to download software | Hacker News

• AMD CEO Says It's Limiting Supply of CPUs and GPUs to Maintain High Prices

Crypto con games

• NFT market shows signs of recovery as January trading volumes hit 7-month high

Economicon / Business / Finance

• Shell reports highest profits in 115 years

• Apple sales drop 5% in largest quarterly revenue decline since 2016

• Amazon reports its first unprofitable year since 2014

• SEC Considers Easing Climate-Disclosure Rules After Investor Pushback

• overtime eligibility: Companies save billions of dollars by giving employees fake “manager” titles

• Astonishingly strong US jobs report sends stocks sinking

  • HN comments

• The U.S. added 517,000 jobs in January, much better than 187,000 expected

  • HN comments

• U.S. employers added 517,000 jobs in January

• U.S. credit card debt jumps 18.5% and hits a record $930.6B

Shortages

• The Fertilizer Shortage Will Persist in 2023

  • HN comment

Gubmint / Poilitcks / Law Making

• National Archives was blocked from revealing Biden classified docs find: Comer

• A trillion-dollar platinum coin could defuse the debt-ceiling standoff

Law Breaking / Police / Internal Security

• FBI Seeks Information on Ion Hack That Disrupted Derivatives

External Security / Militaria / Diplomania

• Chinese surveillance balloon spotted over U.S., Pentagon says

  • There's a Chinese spy balloon drifting over Montana.

  • Suspected Chinese spy balloon found over northern U.S.

  • More background given on intelligence-gathering balloon seen over Montana | News | kulr8.com

  • Chinese Spy Balloon Spotted over Montana

  • Blinken Postpones China Trip Amid Spy Balloon Allegations Over Montana | ZeroHedge

  the Chinese foreign ministry said the balloon was for monitoring the 'weather' and veered off course and entered into US airspace due to force majeure.

  • US secretary of state postpones China visit after spy balloon flies over Montana

  • China confirms balloon is theirs, as spokesperson claims it is civilian research airship | Fox News

• Why would China use a spy balloon when it has satellites?

• French historian Emmanuel Todd: World War III has already begun

• Iran responsible for Charlie Hebdo cyber attacks

World

• Bird flu 'spills over' to otters and foxes in UK

• Australia approves medical magic mushrooms and ecstasy

• In Haiti, gangs take control as democracy withers

Russia Bad / Ukraine War

• Olympic boycott could render the Games ‘pointless’ if Russian athletes compete

Health / Medicine

• Drug-resistant germ found in eye drops infects 55 in 12 states; 1 dead

• Ultra-processed foods may contribute to cognitive decline

• To Prevent Cancer, More Women Should Consider Removing Fallopian Tubes: Experts

Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda

• Won’t somebody please think of the insects?