2023-03-04

Cool

• Garden of Earthly Delights in Ultra High Res

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• Avi Loeb, not terribly informative: (PDF) Physical Constraints on Unidentified Aerial Phenomena

Horseshit

• 70 years after death, Stalin’s polarizing legacy looms large

Obit

• Tom Sizemore Has Died

Pestilence / Pox / COVID / VaxCult

• I warned that second lockdown data was wrong – but I was ignored

• NYC police want shoppers to remove masks before entering stores

Edumacationalizing / Acedemia Nuts

• Why the Student Debt Pause Became a Political Trap

• LGBTQ slurs found at MIT done by students protesting school’s new pro-free speech efforts.

Media / ShowBiz / Advertising

• Roald Dahl ebooks remotely updated to censored versions after purchase | Hacker News

• The Vindication of Ask Jeeves

• Meta is cutting prices for its VR headsets

• Mark Zuckerberg Quietly Buries the Metaverse

TechSuck

• The SCO lawsuit, 20 years later | Hacker News

• Jack Dorsey has set a 10 btc bounty for Nostr based alternative to GitHub | Hacker News

• Is it finally time to remove the Python GIL?

Crypto con games

• Crypto market cap drops $51B as Silvergate crisis deepens

Economicon / Business / Finance

• Is the Entire Economy Gentrifying?

  • HN comments

• America chips away at the 40-hour workweek

• Americans Need to Be Richer Than Ever to Buy Their First Home

Gubmint / Poilitcks / Law Making

• Unsanctioned Russians shopped US land with Hunter Biden, dined with Joe

• Hunter Biden advised Joe's office on answering Burisma queries: emails

• The Dark Biden Rises: The Reinvention of Hunter in a New and Menacing Image – JONATHAN TURLEY

World

• Canadians Fear China Swayed Elections That Kept Trudeau in Power

• In Canadia: Drug Companies Can Legally Start Selling Cocaine, Heroin, and MDMA

• BBC raids show India's shrinking media freedom under Modi, some journalists say

• Taiwan’s plans to target fake news fan fears of threat to press freedom

Health / Medicine

• Woman with tuberculosis ordered to jail for refusing treatment

Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda

• There’s Something Odd About the Dogs Living at Chernobyl

• How to Talk to a Climate Skeptic: Responses to Common Arguments | Hacker News

• Plan to incinerate soil from Ohio train derailment is ‘horrifying’, says expert

• New images show Jack Daniel's whiskey fungus smothering town | Daily Mail Online

  • catch the picture of the dead pig: day or more of bloat, beside the road, and no vultures are attending it? its neither torn up not leaking anything? Clean hooves. I don't believe it.