2023-02-28

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• Where Has All the Chartreuse Gone? - by Jason Wilson

• We Have a Real UFO Problem. and It’s Not Balloons

• A Look at the Black Ghost Dodge Challenger and the Man Behind the Wheel | Dodge Garage

  The car is up for Auction At Dana Mecum’s 36th Original Spring Classic 2023 Reserve is $350k

Horseshit

• Future Fords Could Repossess Themselves and Drive Away If You Miss Payments

  • HN comments

• The vertical farming bubble is finally popping | Hacker News

• The widespread layoffs are more because of copycat behavior than cost-cutting | Hacker News

• Shtetl-Optimized » Blog Archive » Should GPT exist?

• 'I Worked on Google's AI. My Fears Are Coming True'

• VW wouldn’t help locate car with abducted child because GPS subscription expired

celebrity gossip

• Previously published under pseudonym: Sir Terry Pratchett: Short stories to be published after being found by fans

Rank Propaganda / Thought Policing / World Disordering

• CBDCs – the future of banking or an Orwellian Nightmare?

• How powerful are AR rifles?

• W.H.O. moves forward with plans to target “misinformation” and “disinformation”

Musk

• SpaceX unveils “V2 Mini” Starlink satellites with quadruple the capacity

• Elon Musk hires AI researchers to compete with ChatGPT

Trump / War against the Right / Jan6

• FBI arrests ‘sedition panda’ in Capitol riot case.

Pestilence / Pox / COVID / VaxCult

• Media: Do NOT Pounce Or Jump On The Covid Lab Leak News - Victory Girls Blog

• After 945 Days, Hong Kong Ends Longest Mask Mandate

• Myths told by Covid experts – and now debunked

• The Lab Leak Has Never Been A Conspiracy Theory.

  Biden has always taken the lab leak theory seriously.

  Trump, on the other hand, was flaky and weird around Covid-19. He would alternate between his racist “China virus” routine and insisting the virus was no big deal. Some factions of his administration were very seriously pursuing a lab leak theory while others were pursuing crank cures.

• Beyond the Pandemic Origins Debate

  We do not need to settle the question of the origins of SARS-CoV-2 to agree on next steps.

Culture War / Tribal / Re segregation

• The Trouble with the Rewrites to the James Bond Books

TechSuck

• absorptions: Using HDMI radio interference for high-speed data transfer

  • HN comments

• Did computers get dumped in a pond at Digital Equipment‘s Maynard Complex?

Crypto con games

• Sam Bankman-Fried’s donations may have been tens of millions more than we thought.

Economicon / Business / Finance

• Subprime Auto Lender And Used Car Retailer Collapses As Distress Cycle Finally Arrives | ZeroHedge

• Amazon Employees Will Be Able to Use Stock as Collateral for Home Loans

Shortages

• SOS for the U.S. Electric Grid

Gubmint / Poilitcks / Law Making

• SCOTUS Says Domestic Spying Is Too Secret to Be Challenged in Court

• Biden wants chipmakers to provide childcare if they want billions in free money

• Murdoch Acknowledges Fox News Hosts Endorsed Election Fraud Falsehoods

External Security / Militaria / Diplomania

• in 1962: "Did the CIA Betray Nelson Mandela?"

Russia Bad / Ukraine War

• A view from Crimea, the Russian-annexed territory Ukraine's hoping to seize back

Health / Medicine

• Stevia linked to heart attack and stroke

  • Anti-Cancer Properties of Stevia Rebaudiana; More Than a Sweetener

• Fertility Rate Roundup 1 - by Zvi Mowshowitz

• Deep Learning for Autism Diagnosis and Facial Analysis in Children

Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda

• Efforts to block sunlight get boost from prominent scientists

• The most dangerous substance known to man - Works in Progress

  Plutonium needs to be handled with care. You must avoid a critical mass. If you are machining or grinding plutonium as is required in reprocessing used nuclear fuel for solid-fuel reactors, you should avoid breathing the dust. But because it is a slowly decaying alpha emitter with very inefficient body uptake, it is one of the more easily handled toxic substances known to man. Our fear of plutonium is totally overblown.

  • HN comments

• Academics Call For WWII-Style Rationing Of Food And Fuel To Stop Climate Change | ZeroHedge

• Fossil fuels kill more people than Covid. Why blind to the harms of oil and gas?