2023-03-08

etc

• Cold weather nearly wrecked our 2,500-mile electric car adventure

• VW says sorry for child carjacking fiasco, makes safety service free

Horseshit

• Zero energy ready homes are coming | Hacker News

• Effective Altruism’s obsession with AI safety helps bury bad behavior

  • HN comments

• The Emancipatory Visions of a Sex Magician | Hacker News

Musk

• EU tells Elon Musk to hire more staff to moderate Twitter

• Elon Musk publicly mocks Twitter worker with disability

• Musk apologizes after mocking laid-off Twitter employee with disability

• Musk suspends “overzealous” rightsholders for “weaponizing” DMCA on Twitter

• Feds Investigating Tesla for Making Cars with Steering Wheels That Fall Off

Trump / War against the Right / Jan6

• Schumer Demands Murdoch Pull Fox's Tucker Carlson Off-Air "Because Our Democracy Depends On It" | ZeroHedge

Pestilence / Pox / COVID / VaxCult

• Covid pill is first to cut short positive-test time after infection

• Nate Silver blasts ‘crazy’ COVID lockdowns that closed churches, kept museums open.

• (PDF) Nicholas Wade Testimony to the House Select Subcommittee on Coronavirus Pandemic

Edumacationalizing / Acedemia Nuts

• College Should Be More Like Prison

Media / ShowBiz / Advertising

• Semafor’s China Problem.

• Killer dolls, cocaine bears and dinosaurs: how the B-movie became big business

TechSuck

• A low latency guitar effects processor suitable for running on a Raspberry Pi

  • HN comments

• Hm. Perhaps this should slide down to "crypto con" now. seems like its headed that way. Nostrica 2023: nostr’s first un-conference in Costa Rica

Economicon / Business / Finance

• Used-Car Prices Reaccelerate With Biggest February Gain Since 2009

• Fed's Powell opens the door to higher and possibly faster rate hikes

  • Powell Sees Higher Peak for Interest Rates, Says Fed Prepared to Speed Up

• Meta to lay off thousands more just weeks after cutting 11,000 jobs: report.

• What's your plan for 5 years of 5% interest rates?

• The US housing market is short 6.5M homes

• Credit Card Nation: How we went from record savings to record debt in just 2 yrs

Gubmint / Poilitcks / Law Making

• Congress rolls out new bill allowing nationwide TikTok ban

• Privatizing Fascism: How Team Biden is getting more and more corporations to do its bidding.

• The decline of net neutrality activism | Hacker News

World

• France comes to a standstill as workers protest plan to increase retirement age

  • HN comments

• New government plan opens up possibility of 80.5-hour work week in Korea

Russia Bad / Ukraine War

• ‘Only Russia’ could be behind Nord Stream leaks, says former German Intel chief

• Nord Stream pipelines sabotaged by pro-Ukrainian group

• Zelensky warns of ‘open road’ through Ukraine’s east if Russia captures Bakhmut

Health / Medicine

• Hospital’s water purification system stripped out chlorine, killing 3 patients

• Major retailers are trying to change how America consumes health care

• Trouble With Erythritol | Science | AAAS

  another widely used non-nutritional sweetener (erythritol) appears to be associated with cardiovascular problems. ... the authors demonstrate a surprising but extremely plausible explanation for these findings: erythritol, in both in vitro and in vivo assays, enhances platelet aggregation.

  • HN comments

Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda

• How Californians Are Weaponizing Environmental Law to Eliminate Housing