2023-02-06

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• Native tongue holds a special place in your brain,even if you speak 10 languages

• As a US Navy fighter pilot, I witnessed unidentified anomalous phenomena | Hacker News

• Officials urge evacuation near the Ohio train derailment, fearing an explosion

• Make a habit of having more fun

• Commemorate history, don't preserve old buildings

Horseshit

• BMW Owner Discovers Car’s Software Update Won’t Install When Parked on Incline

• Why Do People Believe Everything They Watch on TikTok?

Rank Propaganda / Thought Policing / World Disordering

• The Disinformation about the Disinformation

  The truth is that the majority of older people who spread disinformation on social media not only know full well what they are doing, but are also acting from their deepest beliefs and convictions.

  So we approach the politics, and the policy, of tackling disinformation on social media, not from the starting point of a searingly open holistic inquiry, as the Brazilians have done; but from the starting point of seeing no evil, hearing no evil, and speaking no evil about half of the damn problem. We create disinformation about the disinformation.

Musk

• Elon Musk; Twitter will provide free write-only API to ‘good’ content bots

Trump / War against the Right / Jan6

• Yglesias on Operation Warp Speed and the Republicans

Pestilence / Pox / COVID / VaxCult

• Early COVID-19 variants remain in deer populations.

• Extrapolating China's true Covid deaths from leading scientists' deaths

  Using the Times’ data, I estimate that, during Dec. 15 – Feb. 1, China had about 4.09 million covid deaths.

  • In China’s Covid Fog, Deaths of Scholars Offer a Clue

• How The "Unvaccinated" Got It Right | ZeroHedge

• Here’s what will happen when the COVID-19 public health emergency ends.

• Why India did not allow Pfizer’s Covid-19 vaccine

Culture War / Tribal / Re segregation

• Tell HN: DEI initiatives undermine the self esteem of PoC within a company

• AI Generated Seinfeld banned on Twitch for transphobic jokes

  • HN comments

• American universities are hiring based on devotion to diversity

• Do children's books have a fatphobia problem?

Edumacationalizing / Acedemia Nuts

• Ending the Covid emergency will complicate student-loan forgiveness

Media / ShowBiz / Advertising

• Sam Smith, Kim Petras Bring Satan, Cages and Whips to Grammys

• AMC Theatres to Price Movie Tickets Based on Seat Location

Crypto con games

• Washington Turns Hostile on Crypto

• Ineffective altruism: FTX and the future robot apocalypse

• Crypto exchange Binance will suspend U.S. dollar transfers

  • Binance to suspend US dollar bank transfers

  • HN comments

Economicon / Business / Finance

• Dell to layoff 6,650 employees as demand for PCs plummets

• The remote workers have left, but the housing havoc they created remains

• The Four Horsemen of the Tech Recession – Stratechery by Ben Thompson

  • HN comments

Gubmint / Poilitcks / Law Making

• Bank of America CEO: We’re preparing for possible US debt default

• The State of the Union February 2023

  The constitutional path back from our appalling post-constitutional shipwrecks will be challenging. But if we do nothing, the noble sacrifices, suffering, and struggles of our ancestors will have been in vain.

External Security / Militaria / Diplomania

• Why would the Chinese government be flying a large stratospheric balloon?

• Republicans Respond to Reports of Chinese Balloons During Trump Era

• Navy Warships, FBI Now Hunting for Wreckage of Chinese Spy Balloon Off SC

  • Naval Recovery Mission Underway To Find Chinese Spy Balloon Debris

• Rubio says China flew balloon over US to send ‘a message’: They think America is ‘in decline’.

• Why would a 21st century warplane shoot a balloon with a missile?

  • HN comments

• China Moves from Contrite to Confrontational over Balloon

• Chinese Spy Balloon Has Unexpected Maneuverability

• Tom Cotton: Biden Was ‘Paralyzed For Entire Week By A Balloon’ Because He’s Afraid Of ‘Chinese Communists.’

• The Termites Are In The Woodwork – The Laughing Wolf

  The military leadership that failed to detect or take action to prevent the unprecedented overflight should all suck-start their sidearms and apologize to their ancestors in person. The civil leadership that did the same should also go apologize to theirs in person as well.

• “Balloongate” is not the start of another Cold War

• This wasn't the first Chinese balloon over the U.S. Why were the others ignored?

• The short life of the new USS Little Rock: Design flaws, setbacks lead to decommissioning.

World

• Italy sounds alarm on large-scale computer hacking attack

• Watch: Thieves Drive Through Mall In Stolen Black Audi After Robbing Electronics Store | ZeroHedge

• Turkey and Syria: 2nd large earthquake strikes as death toll rises to over 1200

  • Major earthquake hits Turkey, Syria; hundreds dead, many trapped

  • Turkey earthquake is country's worst disaster in 84 years

• Brexit may end dreams of Scottish and Welsh independence

Health / Medicine

• Freak infection with an eradicated form of polio shows virus’ craftiness

• These young female athletes died by suicide.They all had head injuries in common

Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda

• Electric cars threaten environmental disaster – report

• New model considers full history of a fault’s earthquakes to forecast next one