2023-02-04

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• Passion of the Christ Sequel

Horseshit

• Nazi treasure reportedly hidden in Netherlands, hunt launched after map revelation - Travel tips | Budget travel, resources, inspiration and more

• I bought a CO2 monitor and it broke me

  • HN comments

Musk

• Tesla Model Y gains full access to $7,500 EV tax credit with new $80k limit

• Elon Musk found not liable in fraud trial over take-private tweets

  • Musk found not guilty of fraud over Tesla tweet

Trump / War against the Right / Jan6

• ChatGPT’s creators can’t figure out why it won’t talk about Trump

Pestilence / Pox / COVID / VaxCult

• Covid: Germany ends obligatory masks for public transit

• U.S. plans to stop buying Covid shots for the public this fall

• H5N1 Bird Flu Is Causing Alarm. Here’s Why We Must Act

  • An even deadlier pandemic may soon be here

  • Ask HN: Should we be concerned about the current H5N1 outbreak?

• A public health success story: How the mpox crisis was controlled within 6 months.

Culture War / Tribal / Re segregation

• Why diversity hasn’t changed policing

Media / ShowBiz / Advertising

• ChatGPT: The Slickest Con Artist of All Time

  Technology of this sort is designed to be a con—if the ancient Romans had invented ChatGPT, it would have told them that it’s cool to conquer barbarians and sacrifice slaughtered bulls to the god Jupiter. Tech like this—truly made in the image of its human creator—can only feeds back what it learns from us. So we shouldn’t be surprised if ChatGPT soaks up all the crap on the Internet, and compresses it into slick-talking crap of a few sentences.

  • HN comments

TechSuck

• 980 Pro 2TB is bad: Update on Samsung SSD Reliability

  • HN comments

• Semiconductor world in for a rough ride as chip bubble bursts

Crypto con games

• There’s a wild theory that the price of Bitcoin is being propped up

Economicon / Business / Finance

• U.S. employers added 517,000 jobs last month. It's a surprisingly strong number

• What Was Behind Today's "Wow, Wow, Wow" Jobs Report | ZeroHedge

  Bloomberg chief economist Anna Wong put it: "The January jobs report showed extremely robust growth, higher than the highest estimate in the Bloomberg survey. If it seems too good to be true, that’s because it is too good to be true — the gain is mostly due to seasonal factors and revisions to past data. The Fed likely won’t place too much weight on this report in formulating policy."

• Apple sales in biggest fall since 2019

• Brace for ‘tinderbox-timebomb’ market crash worse than 1929

• Japan startup selling $550k Star Wars-inspired hoverbike to list on Nasdaq

• Booming Job Gains Keep the Fed on Track to Push Rates Higher

• Markets to central bankers: we don't believe you

• The Pandemic Used-Car Boom Is Coming to an Abrupt End

Gubmint / Poilitcks / Law Making

• Hunter Biden: More Depraved Than You Knew | Power Line

• Internal Biden admin memo shows it was serious about banning gas stoves before public uproar

Law Breaking / Police / Internal Security

• $500M Ponzi scheme preyed on Mormons

External Security / Militaria / Diplomania

• Chinese spy balloon changes course, floating over central United States-Pentagon

• Spy balloons: what are they and why are they still being used?

• Pentagon Briefing On Chinese Spy Balloon: ‘Does Not Pose A Risk To People On The Ground.’

  • "Shoot it down!" IP thread

• On the military potential of balloons

• Chinese balloon called 'dry run' for EMP attack

• Pentagon expects suspected Chinese spy balloon to stay over US ‘for a few days’

• Suspected Chinese Spy Balloon Might Be Headed To East Coast | ZeroHedge

• Dry run: Balloons called top ‘delivery platform’ for nuclear EMP attack

• BREAKING: Explosion Reported in Skies Over Montana.

  • IP thread

• There's another Chinese spy balloon over Latin America but the US government is refusing to say where.

• US has ‘absolute legal right’ to shoot down Chinese spy balloon, say national security experts | Fox News

• Pentagon Confirms Second Chinese Spy Balloon, Here’s Where It Is.

• When a weather balloon went rogue almost 25 years ago, fighter jets fired on it

• Suspected Chinese Spy Balloon Spotted Over North Carolina; US Might Shoot It Down Over Atlantic

• Biden admin was first aware the Chinese spy balloon entered U.S. airspace one week ago on 1/28

  • IP thread

Health / Medicine

• Scientist who edited babies’ genes says he acted ‘too quickly’

• The War for Iron | Science | AAAS

Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda

• Fungi Are Adapting to Warmer Temperatures

• New Hampshire wind chill reached 108 degrees below zero

• How climate change threatens to close ski resorts

• Appliance makers know how to make a cleaner natural gas stove burner

• Western water crisis looms as California complicates critical water deal

• Climate study using AI finds critical warming limits closer than thought