2023-03-15

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• Highly Maneuverable UFOs Defy Physics, Says Pentagon Study

• Chinese rocket stage crashes to Earth over Texas

  No debris from the rocket fall has been found on the ground to date

Horseshit

• At Long Last, a Donkey Family Tree

• ‘Catch Me If You Can’ conman Frank Abagnale Jr. lied about his lifetime of lies, sources claim.

• The mold cult - by Tyler Berbert - Boiling Down

  Let’s roll up our sleeves and root out the sociopaths so we can keep letting people believe what they want. With all due respect, that’s a crock of shit that we don’t have time for; false beliefs are killing people and ruining lives every day. “Community masking doesn’t help with COVID.” “Silicon Valley Bank failed because it’s too woke.” Call these out wherever you find them. Hate the false belief, not the believer.

• America Needs More Giant Banks

Musk

• Musk brought internet to Brazil’s Amazon. Criminals love it

Trump / War against the Right / Jan6

• Today’s blacklisted American: Eventbrite routinely blacklists conservative events.

• Trump's Truth Social Trims Staff As SPAC Deal Plagued With 'Endless SEC Investigations'

Pestilence / Pox / COVID / VaxCult

• Do Covid-19 vaccine mandates still make sense?

• Bird Flu, Mpox, Marburg – Why Do So Many Viruses Seem to Be Emerging?

Culture War / Tribal / Re segregation

• Powerlifters Sound Alarm on Male Takeover after Trans Court Ruling.

Edumacationalizing / Acedemia Nuts

• Woke colleges are literally driving students mad.

Media / ShowBiz / Advertising

• Reddit has been down for more than an hour

  • HN comments

• T-Mobile is buying Ryan Reynolds’ Mint Mobile for up to $1.35B

• The Political Biases of GPT-4

TechSuck

• Do better coders swear more, or does C just do that to good programmers?

• You can now run a GPT-3-level AI model on your laptop, phone, and Raspberry Pi

• Was there a tech-hiring bubble? Job postings data suggest so | Hacker News

• Elixir: Docker now charges open source orgs $300

  • Docker is deleting Open Source organisations - what you need to know

  • HN comments

• Reverse-engineering the multiplication algorithm in the Intel 8086 processor

Economicon / Business / Finance

• Credit Suisse Default Swaps Are 18 Times UBS, 9 Times Deutsche Bank

• Credit Suisse shares slide 24% after Saudi backer rules out further assistance

• Credit Suisse Sparks Global De-Risking After Top Investor Bails | ZeroHedge

• Credit Suisse sheds nearly 25%, key backer says no more money

  • HN comments

• Treasury Reviewing US Financial Sector Exposure to Credit Suisse

• Silicon Valley Bank Fallout Nudges Credit Suisse Closer to Edge

• Yes, the Latest Bank Bailout Is a Bailout, and You Are Paying for It

• Banking in very uncertain times | Hacker News

• Why Gas Bills Are Going Crazy–With No End in Sight

• First Republic Bank cut to Junk by S&P, stock plummets

• 2023’s Housing Correction Could Be the Largest Since Post-WWII

• Speculators build $16B bearish bet on Europe's banks

• Economy Shows Signs of Cooling as Bank Troubles Spread

• Pound falls vs. dollar, rises vs. euro on bank woes

Gubmint / Poilitcks / Law Making

• US to impose inflation fines on first set of drugs, lowering costs

• Don't Call It a 'Bailout': No One Is Buying the White House Spin on Silicon Valley Bank

• How Silicon Valley Bank Avoided Oversight

• Silicon Valley Bank and Joe Biden’s $19 Trillion Monday.

World

• The Party Is Ending for French Retirees

• Germany Will Move Forward with Marijuana Legalization

Russia Bad / Ukraine War

• US drone: Russian jet forces down MQ-9 Reaper over Black Sea

  “Several times before the collision, the Su-27s dumped fuel on and flew in front of the MQ-9 in a reckless, environmentally unsound and unprofessional manner,” the U.S. release said

• Ukraine short of skilled troops and munitions as losses, pessimism grow

• Russia’s allies are a motley–and shrinking–crew

• Ukraine is building up its forces for an offensive

Health / Medicine

• Finding a Pharmacy Outside the U.S.

Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda

• Widespread Power Outages Reported As Feet of Snow Fall in the Northeast.

• EPA sets limits on some “forever chemicals” as low as they can go

• All the ways the most common bit of climate misinformation is wrong

• What if climate change meant not doom – but abundance?