2023-02-05

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• Watch: 14 dancing dogs form conga line for Guinness World Record - UPI.com

• As a US Navy fighter pilot, I witnessed unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAP)

  Objects demonstrating extreme capabilities routinely fly over our military facilities and training ranges. We don’t know what they are, and we are unable to mitigate their presence.

Obit

• Abraham Lempel (LZ77) has died

Musk

• Elon Musk Wants to Charge Businesses $1k per Month for Verified Check-Marks

• Tesla hikes price of Model Y after U.S. alters tax credit rule

• Advisory Firm Sues Elon Musk’s Twitter, Saying It Hasn’t Been Paid

• Tell HN: Tweets no longer seem to be properly indexed by Google

Trump / War against the Right / Jan6

• Theater Of The Absurd In J6 Courtrooms | ZeroHedge

• Trump and DeSantis Are Disowning a Big Republican Success Story

Pestilence / Pox / COVID / VaxCult

• Why did NIH study seemingly vanish? - by Tom Knighton

• Everything You Need to Know About the Lab Leak  ⋆ Brownstone Institute

• Who should worry about H5N1?

Culture War / Tribal / Re segregation

• Healing the blind is “ableism.”

• The French Are in Panic over Le Wokisme

Media / ShowBiz / Advertising

• Wikimedia update on fundraising and Tides, and Wikipedia blocked in Pakistan

  Some comments were made in the RfC about the unclear role of the Tides Foundation in managing the Knowledge Equity Fund. Over the next few months, we will be moving the remainder of the Equity Fund from Tides back into the Foundation. The Wikimedia Endowment has received its 501(c)(3) status from the US Internal Revenue Service, so we are in the process of setting up its financial systems and transitioning out of Tides.

• Is this Microsoft’s ChatGPT-powered Bing?

TechSuck

• The Market for Lemons - Infrequently Noted

  • HN comments

• Sussman Explains the End of SICP | Irreal

  • HN comments

Crypto con games

• Sam Bankman-Fried is not a child

• FTX Inquiry Expands as Prosecutors Reach Out to Former Executives

• New FTX Filing Pulls Back the Curtain on Sam Bankman-Fried’s Operation

Economicon / Business / Finance

• Look at how the 1% are doing, and tell me the system isn’t rigged

• Why did we get a monster jobs report if the economy is slowing?

Gubmint / Poilitcks / Law Making

• NSA wooing thousands of laid-off Big Tech workers for spy agency's hiring spree

External Security / Militaria / Diplomania

• US military shoots down Chinese spy balloon

• US downs Chinese balloon over ocean, moves to recover debris

• US MILITARY SHOOTS DOWN CHINESE SPY BALLOON OVER ATLANTIC OCEAN

  • IP thread

• U.S. military shoots down suspected Chinese surveillance balloon

  • HN comments

• U.S. Shoots Down Chinese Spy Balloon

• US Stealth Jet Shoots Down Chinese Spy Balloon Off Carolinas

• Biden praises Top Gun F-22 fighter jet pilot who shot down China spy balloon | Daily Mail Online

• US military shoots down Chinese balloon over coastal waters

• (Video) 'Give me a break': Ex-CIA official on US response to Chinese balloon | CNN

• The Chinese 'Spy Balloon' Story As Manufactured Crisis: An Alternative Reading | ZeroHedge

  The Pentagon itself said that “the payload wouldn’t offer much in the way of surveillance that China couldn’t collect through spy satellites” and that “the balloon posed no serious physical or intelligence threat”.

  Conclusion: however you see it, this story is absolutely shameful and a sad reflection of the insane times we live in, when rather than take the time to carefully consider facts, apply reason and common sense, we instead choose as a society to incite fear and hostility.

• (2010) Steve Blank Balloon Wars: Part 16 of the Secret History of Silicon Valley

• (2017) The Circumnavigators: Amateur radio balloons flying around the world

• A look at China’s history of spying in the US

• White House-Linked Venture Capital Fund Boasts China War Would Be Great Business

• You are now living through Cold War 2

World

• Around 70% of Haitians back international force to fight gangs, survey says | Reuters

• German Energy Reprieve Too Little, Too Late to Save Factory Jobs

• EU Agrees To $100 Russian Diesel Price Cap

Health / Medicine

• Scientific Highs and Lows of Cannabinoids