2023-03-07

Horseshit

• Conspiracy theories have a new best friend

Rank Propaganda / Thought Policing / World Disordering

• Banks Increasingly Back Political Scheme To Track Gun Purchases by Credit Card: Politicians lean on the financial industry to target activities they don’t like.

Musk

• A single engineer brought down Twitter

• Elon Musk Mocks Twitter Employee with Disability That He Laid Off

Trump / War against the Right / Jan6

• Thousands of pro-Trump bots are attacking DeSantis, Haley

• Jan. 6 footage shows Capitol cops escorting QAnon Shaman to Senate floor.

• "They Lied To Us All": Tucker Exposes January 6 Fraud And Kangaroo-Court Cover-Up | ZeroHedge

Pestilence / Pox / COVID / VaxCult

• Collapse of the COVID Truth Regime

Edumacationalizing / Acedemia Nuts

• The notion of truth in science and medicine, it matters and we must defend it

• Nothing Beyond the Current Moment – Chicago Boyz

  One of the reasons they have such a strong “orientation toward the present” is that the past has been rewritten for a lot of them.

Media / ShowBiz / Advertising

• Why Nostr Matters

Nostr is basically a distributed note storage system, where notes are just text blobs and the notes happen to have public keys and signatures associated with them as a proof of authorship. Nostr clients subscribe to any number of relays (servers) that they want and then can publish notes and query for notes associated with other public keys (users.) Servers are all independent of each other and have no concept of being in sync / consensus / etc.

• Retail, search and Amazon’s $40B ‘advertising’ business

  • HN comments

• Discord, or the Death of Lore

  • HN comments

• The LLaMA is out of the bag. Should we expect a tidal wave of disinformation?

Economicon / Business / Finance

• Maybe treating housing as an investment was a mistake

  • HN comments

• Stripe Faces $3.5B Tax Bill as Employees' Shares Expire

• Autonomous tech boom darling Embark goes belly-up, lays off hundreds

  • HN comments

• Atlassian Cuts 500 Positions

Law Breaking / Police / Internal Security

• FBI Tried to Sic Agents on Innocent After Bank of America Volunteers Gun Records

External Security / Militaria / Diplomania

• Taiwan is a vital island that is under serious threat

World

• Dutch authorities want to use private commercial DNA databases for cold cases

Health / Medicine

• More than half of the world will be overweight or obese by 2035

• Why are so many Americans crowdfunding their healthcare?

• Mailed asthma, cancer, erectile drugs are siezed the most, despite opioid claims

• Fake sugars sneak into foods and disrupt metabolic health

Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda

• With global warming of just 1.2°C, why has the weather gotten so extreme?

• Meat, dairy and rice production will bust 1.5C climate target, shows study

• How the Media Got the Vinyl Chloride Risk All Wrong