2023-02-07

Cool

• The United States Frequency Allocation Chart

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• Why A Massive Polar Vortex Spotted Around The Sun's North Pole Has Scientists Stumped

• What Peter Thiel and the 'Pudding Guy' Revealed

• Honest guide to Vanlife in Japan after a year | Hacker News

• Rights abuses often ‘tipping point’ for extremist recruitment, UN study finds

Horseshit

• Master of his Domain?

• Fake meat fad hits the chopping block

• Electric vehicles can now power your home for three days

• After Callous Layoffs, Workers Are Done with the Full-Time Work | Hacker News

• You're probably a eugenicist - Dissentient

Rank Propaganda / Thought Policing / World Disordering

• Fabian Society - Wikipedia

Musk

• Elon Musk says his workload has reached 120 hours per week

• Elon Musk confides working morning, day and night is taking a toll on his health.

• Twitter ending free access to its APIs should be a ‘wake-up call’

• Twitter suspends senator's account for hunting photo

Pestilence / Pox / COVID / VaxCult

• Political leaning shapes physician and layperson belief about Covid-19 treatment

• California Quietly Ditches COVID-19 Mandate For School Children

• Surely Right

  As in many cases, vaccines ran afoul of the ability of folks to increase their petty empires. They became a way for the goodthinking folks to exercise control and dominion over the ignorant. And exactly as predicted by culturally competent medicine or any cursory study of human nature, these high-handed methodolotrous actions will not induce much compliance, but will instead polarize the medicine and risk one of the greatest medical achievements of all time – childhood vaccinations.

  • Covid-19 vaccine policy mandates and restrictions may cause more harm than good

• The pandemic is still upending the economy in surprising ways

• Masks Make 'Little or No Difference' on Covid-19, Flu Rates: New Study

Culture War / Tribal / Re segregation

• The Failed Rehabilitation of “White Supremacy Culture”

• Ooops

• Racial Income Gaps – Systemic Racism or Bad Statistics?

Edumacationalizing / Acedemia Nuts

• Is Your Child Being Forced to Sit Through ‘Silent Lunch’ at School?

Media / ShowBiz / Advertising

• Google unveils Bard, its ChatGPT rival

  • Sundar Pichai: An important next step on our AI journey

  • HN comments

• The Mastodon Bump Is Now a Slump

• How to Spend Your Money so Your Neighbors Know You’re Rich

TechSuck

• Judge tosses Joy-Con drift class action because of Switch’s pop-up EULA

• Closing the NASA Loop

  • So can NASA use MIT licensed, "author not responsible" software? or are they required to make demands beyond the existence of the software itself?

• MIT License does not protect against SLAPP suits in the UK | Hacker News

• HP bricking printers remotely if the client's credit card expires | Hacker News

• Summary of the tokenizers

  • HN comments

• The New Bing with ChatGPT

• Getty Images Is Suing Stable Diffusion for a Staggering $1.8T

Crypto con games

• Zero cryptocurrency advertisements purchased for 2023 Super Bowl

• Binance briefly halts US dollar transfers

• Yes, Crypto Is All a Scam

  • HN comments

Economicon / Business / Finance

• Discover Card Outage

• Bed Bath and Beyond Trying to Sell $1B in Equity to Avoid Bankruptcy

• Fed Loan Officers Paints Dire Picture: Loan Standards Approaching Record Tightness As Loan Demand Plummets | ZeroHedge

• After you think you bought a car, dealerships can 'yo-yo' you and take it back

• Boeing to slash about 2k white-collar jobs in finance and HR

• Ahead Of "Tsunami Of Returns", Excess Inventory Continues To Hang Around | ZeroHedge

Shortages

• What to Know About the Egg Shortage and Misinformation - The New York Times

Gubmint / Poilitcks / Law Making

• Opinion | Can Anything Be Done to Assuage Rural Rage? - silk-news.com

  In terms of resources, major federal programs disproportionately benefit rural areas, in part because such areas have a disproportionate number of seniors receiving Social Security and Medicare. But even means-tested programs — programs that Republicans often disparage as “welfare” — tilt rural. Notably, at this point rural Americans are more likely than urban Americans to be on Medicaid and receive food stamps.

  ... maybe, just maybe, reducing the heartland’s economic desperation will also help reverse its political radicalization.

• In Search of a Right Populist Agenda: Merely opposing the Left’s hegemonic power is not enough.

• The Age of Decline.

Law Breaking / Police / Internal Security

• Neo-Nazi Couple Arrested For Alleged Plot To 'Completely Destroy' Baltimore

• LEO: "did you hear a shot?" SS: "did you want us to have heard one?" Confidential document reveals key human role in ShotSpotter gunshot tech

External Security / Militaria / Diplomania

• Biden and the Chinese Spy Balloon: Why did he wait so long to order the airspace intruder shot down?

  • IP thread

• U-2 Spy Planes Snooped on Chinese Surveillance Balloon

• Top Republican claims Trump’s Defense Secretary James Mattis may have KNOWN that Chinese spy balloons flew over the U.S. but opted not to tell the president because he was ‘too provocative and aggressive.’

• China accuses US of indiscriminate use of force over balloon.

• Moment-by-Moment Fighter Jet Audio of the Shoot Down of China’s Spy Balloon

• NORAD Pleads Incompetence Over Failure To Spot Trump-Era Chinese Spy Balloons | ZeroHedge

  On Monday, NORAD commander Gen. Glen VanHereck told reporters that spy balloons entered US airspace three times during the Trump administration, but "that we did not detect those threats," calling it a "domain awareness gap." "Every day as a NORAD commander, it’s my responsibility to detect threats to North America. I will tell you that we did not detect those threats," VanHereck said. "And that’s a domain awareness gap that we have to figure out, but I don’t want to go into further detail."

  • Exclusive: US intel assessment documents Chinese spy balloon incident under Trump | CNN Politics

• Defense Department's Statement on Biden's Bodacious Balloon Boondoggle is Baloney | Frontpage Mag

• Pentagon Won’t Name Official Who Divulged Misleading Info About Chinese Spy Balloons During Trump Admin

• The Cuban missile crisis cover-up, by Peter Kornbluh (Le Monde diplomatique - English edition, February 2023)

• Sigh:

  These balloons are normally very controllable. If they were really interested in some sort of thing to spy on, they would have stayed there and circled or something.

  They did! This one circled missile bases in Montana for a week!

World

• 7.8 magnitude quake rocks Turkey and Syria, kills more than 2,800

• Taliban Bureaucrats Hate Working Online All Day, ‘Miss the Days of Jihad’

• France moves to block access to pornography sites for minors

Russia Bad / Ukraine War

• Paris mayor: No Russian team at 2024 Games if war continues

• Joe Biden Offered Vladimir Putin 20 Percent of Ukraine to End War: Report

Health / Medicine

• US woman has walked around with untreated TB for over a year, now faces jail

  • HN comments

• The U.K.’S Government-Run Healthcare Service Is in Crisis

• Cystic Fibrosis Patients Had Early Deaths; with New Drugs the Prognosis Changed

• Half of America will be obese within 10 years, study says

Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda

• Dozens of giant turbines at Scots windfarms powered by diesel generators

• Hogs Are Running Wild in the U.S.

• Rise in air pollution correlates to creation of impressionist painting, study says.

• Data Centers on Wheels: Emissions from Computing Onboard Autonomous Vehicles

• Taxing the Weight of EV Batteries Would Be a Real Green Solution

• ClimaX: Pre-trained model for spatio-temporal weather and climate prediction