2023-02-16

Cool

• A fragment from the meteorite that impacted northern France has been found

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• Speech is violence? Not if we want a liberal, intellectual society

• Spy Balloons. U.F.O.s. What Else Is Up There?

Horseshit

• American drivers have a blinding headlight problem. It could last for years

Obit

• US actress and model Raquel Welch has died at the age of 82

  • Raquel Welch dead: 'Fantastic Voyage' actress and sex symbol was 82

Rank Propaganda / Thought Policing / World Disordering

• A hacking and disinformation team meddling in elections

  • HN comments

• Half of Americans now believe that news organizations deliberately mislead them

  • HN comments

Musk

• Staff, reportedly under threat of firing, break Twitter for Musk

• Elon Musk’s New Twitter Superpower Is Dangerous

• Tesla finally agrees to open its charging network to all EVs in US

• Tesla recalls 362,758 vehicles, says full self-driving beta may cause crashes

  • HN comments

• Twitter becomes first major social platform to allow weed ads.

Pestilence / Pox / COVID / VaxCult

• Intrepid 'virus hunter' Peter Daszak flies in style - U.S. Right to Know

• The Bird Flu Outbreak Has Taken an Ominous Turn

Edumacationalizing / Acedemia Nuts

• Teen Accepted to Stanford After Writing BlackLivesMatter 100 Times on Application.

Media / ShowBiz / Advertising

• Bing: “I will not harm you unless you harm me first”

  • HN comments

• From Bing to Sydney – Stratechery by Ben Thompson

  Again, I am totally aware that this sounds insane. But for the first time I feel a bit of empathy for Lemoine. No, I don’t think that Sydney is sentient, but for reasons that are hard to explain, I feel like I have crossed the Rubicon. My interaction today with Sydney was completely unlike any other interaction I have had with a computer, and this is with a primitive version of what might be possible going forward.

  • From Bing to Sydney

TechSuck

• Intel Publishes Fast AVX-512 Sorting Library, 10~17x Faster Sorts in NumPy | Hacker News

• GitHub Sponsors will stop accepting PayPal on February 23, 2023

• The dangers behind image resizing (2021) | Hacker News

Crypto con games

• FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried’s two bond guarantors unsealed, ties to Stanford

  • Bankman-Fried's Bail Guarantors Revealed | ZeroHedge

• SBF Lawyer Argues SBF Needed VPN To Watch Super Bowl in Palo Alto | Hacker News

Economicon / Business / Finance

• Warren Buffett’s company sells major stake in Taiwanese chip giant TSMC

• DigitalOcean axes about 11 percent of workforce

• The world’s biggest food company says prices will rise further this year

Gubmint / Poilitcks / Law Making

• Watch Live: Biden Delivers Remarks On Balloon, UFOs | ZeroHedge

External Security / Militaria / Diplomania

• Why the US might be finding more unidentified flying objects: The sudden discovery of more objects matches a change made to US radar capability.

• Black Hawk helicopter crashes in Alabama, killing 2

  • Shocking Footage Shows Moment Black Hawk Helicopter Crashes Near Alabama Highway | ZeroHedge

• Welcome to the UFO Wars

• U.S. Chargé d’Affaires in Kabul wins poster girl contest for everything wrong in Biden-world

• Ohio – A reminder that the threat to America is not external, but internal

World

• Automated data analysis for the prevention of criminal acts is unconstitutional | Hacker News

  This is such a German judgement. So the police are using big data to predict who will commit crimes, which is sort of dystopian. But what the court finds unconstitutional about it is that they're using computers.

Russia Bad / Ukraine War

• When Will Ukraine War End? Ammo Shortage Risks Prolonged Conflict - Bloomberg

• Ukraine says it shot down 6 Russian balloons that appeared over Kyiv

Health / Medicine

• Zantac’s maker kept quiet about cancer risks for 40 years

  • HN comments

• Red states join push to legalize magic mushrooms for therapy

• Aircraft noise exposure increases damage from myocardial infarction, finds study

Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda

• Before global warming, was the Earth cooling down or heating up?

• Study suggests watching nature documentaries on TV is good for the planet