2023-03-12

Horseshit

• Caricaturing Noam Chomsky - by Gary Marcus

  • HN comments

• Men paying to have their jaws broken in the name of ‘manliness’

Obit

• Traute Lafrenz, the last of the White Rose anti-Nazi resistance, dies aged 103

Musk

• New Research Illuminates Escalating Online Violence on Musk’s Twitter

• Murderous Mexican Drug Cartels Are Thriving on Elon Musk’s Twitter

Trump / War against the Right / Jan6

• Dear Conservatives, I Apologize

  The gatekeepers who lie to the public about the most consequential events of our time — and who thus damage our nation, distort our history, and deprive half of our citizenry of their right to speak, champion and choose, without being tarred as would-be violent traitors - deserve our disgust.

  I am sorry the nation was damaged by so much untruth issued by those with whom I identified at the time.

Culture War / Tribal / Re segregation

• ‘It stunned me that people had to live like this’: ​​Baldwin Lee​ on his rediscovered images of the deep south​ | Photography | The Guardian

• Robots performing Hindu rituals – some devotees fear they’ll replace worshippers

Crypto con games

• USDC 'Stablecoin' Breaks Peg As Circle Admits Billions Stuck With SVB

Economicon / Business / Finance

• SVB Losses Shake Swedish Pension System with Alecta’s Major Holding

• Google hired thousands of employees it didn't want or need just to make the company look bigger - and to make them unavailable to competitors.

• First Republic, other regional bank stocks sink after failure of SVB

• Yellen says government will help SVB depositors but rules out bailout

  • Wow. Lots of posters affected and unhappy that the rules apply to them like they do to everyone else: HN comments

• Cheap deposits have become a painful pandemic hangover for US banks

• The Grumpy Economist: Silicon Valley Bank Blinders

• SVB had NO head of 'risk assessment' for nine months before it collapsed

• Uninsured Silicon Valley Bank depositors seek fire sale of assets

• FDIC Auction for SVB Said to Be Underway, Final Bids Due Sunday

• Mortgage Lenders Are Selling Homebuyers a Lie

• Treasury Sec. Janet Yellen says US Government won’t bail out Silicon Valley Bank

Shortages

• Scientists warn of ‘phosphogeddon’ as critical fertiliser shortages loom

Gubmint / Poilitcks / Law Making

• Pence Delivers Truth to Power

Law Breaking / Police / Internal Security

• The Department of Homeland Security Just Turned 20: It’s Time to Abolish It.

World

• 3D analysis shows how Israeli troops fired into group of civilians

• All travelers to the UK will need pre-authorization by 2025

Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda

• Germany is letting a domestic squabble pollute Europe’s green ambitions

• Milk, cheese and ice cream without the cow has entered the marketplace

• ALASKA VOLCANO OBSERVATORY DAILY UPDATE Saturday, March 11, 2023, 20:33 UTC | USGS Hazard Notification System (HANS) for Volcanoes