2023-03-16

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• (Mar 12) Fireball Spotted over Northeastern USA | Hacker News

• Virgin Orbit pausing all Ops – furloughs reported

• When did NYC start building slowly?

Horseshit

• Woman claims she married herself, then wants divorce 24 hours later.

• Tell HN: Chase shadow banned and closed my bank accounts | Hacker News

• There’s a Run on Silicon Valley Bank Swag

• Why the Mental Health of Liberal Girls Sank First and Fastest | The Free Press

• Mount Rainier to stop taking cash at entrance, campgrounds

• French bulldogs are taking over America

Musk

• Twitter Is Basically Circuit City Now. Prepare for HR Nightmares

Pestilence / Pox / COVID / VaxCult

• SARS-CoV-2 mRNA vaccines decouple anti-viral immunity from humoral autoimmunity

Culture War / Tribal / Re segregation

• UN Secretary-General: ‘For Well Over a Millennium, Islam’s Message of Peace Has Inspired People.’

• Child rapist awarded $2.5 million settlement for trans surgery after Idaho prison withheld 'care' | The Post Millennial | thepostmillennial.com

• National Academies: We can’t define “race,” so stop using it in science

• The disabled villain: why sensitivity reading can’t kill off this ugly trope

Edumacationalizing / Acedemia Nuts

• More Students Are Turning Away from College and Toward Apprenticeships

Media / ShowBiz / Advertising

• Baidu Plunges After Recorded Demo of AI Chatbot Disappoints

• Review: The D&D movie is a blast – and a surprisingly faithful adaptation

• YouTube TV raising prices by 12%

TechSuck

• Anyone else witnessing a panic inside NLP orgs of big tech companies? | Hacker News

• Google discontinues Google Glass for enterprise | Hacker News

Crypto con games

• Warn HN: I've never seen the HN community so delusional about a major tech area | Hacker News

• EA Leaders Were Repeatedly Warned About Sam Bankman-Fried Before FTX Collapsed

• FTX transferred $2.2B to Bankman-Fried via related entities, new managers say

Economicon / Business / Finance

• Credit Suisse, Authorities Weigh Spinoff, Backstop

• Not Now, Credit Suisse

• Swiss Government Holds Talks on Options to Stabilize Credit Suisse

• Switzerland's central bank says it will backstop Credit Suisse if necessary

• Swiss National Bank Issues Statement: "Will Provide Liquidity If Necessary" | ZeroHedge

• SNB to provide Credit Suisse with liquidity if needed; £75B wiped off FTSE 100

• Credit Suisse Puts on a Brave Face

• First Republic Bank weighing options including sale

• JPMorgan, Morgan Stanley and Others in Talks to Bolster First Republic Bank

• First Republic Is Said to Be Exploring a Potential Sale

• First Republic Poised to Get $30B in Deposits in Rescue

• JPMorgan Says Fed’s Loans Will Provide $2T of Liquidity

• SVB and the Fed

• Barney Frank Talks More About the Surprise Shuttering of Signature Bank

• Oil tumbles to lowest level since December 2021

• I Was an SVB Client. I Blame the Venture Capitalists

• Robinhood backs down over bearish Signature Bank bets

• Shards of Silicon Valley Bank Are for Sale, but No One Is Buying Yet

• How deep is the rot in America’s banking industry?

• What’s Wrong with the Banks

• Triplebyte Acquired by Karat

Gubmint / Poilitcks / Law Making

• After Silicon Valley Bank, scrap the bank deposit insurance limit

• Biden Is Effectively Nationalizing The Deposit Base Of The Entire U.S. Financial System.

  They guaranteed the deposits, all of them, at Silicon Valley Bank. And what that really means, and they won’t say it, and I’ll come back to that, what that really means is that they have guaranteed the entire deposit base of the U.S. financial system, the entire deposit base. Why? Because you can’t guarantee all the deposits in Silicon Valley Bank and then the next day say to the depositors, say at First Republic, sorry, yours aren’t guaranteed. Of course, they are.

• Hallie is unmasked as the mystery third Biden family member to receive China cash: Top Republican reveals Beau’s widow and Hunter’s ex got $35,000 in 2017 from $3M deal made by Hunter’s associate

• Yellen Admits that CCP-Linked Silicon Valley Bank Depositors Will Be Bailed Out by U.S. Banks

External Security / Militaria / Diplomania

• USAF has released the MQ-9 camera footage of the Russian Su-27 interception

World

• France’s President Macron overrides parliament to pass retirement age bill

• Farmers' protest party win shock Dutch vote victory

  • HN comments

Russia Bad / Ukraine War

• Who Blew Up Nord Stream? Investigators Focus on 6 Mysterious Passengers on Yacht

• Poland will send fighter jets to Ukraine, the first NATO country to do so

Health / Medicine

• The Rogue Theory That Gravity Causes IBS

Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda

• Europe Is Bracing for (Another) Devastating Drought

• Brazilian researchers find 'terrifying' plastic rocks on remote island

  • HN comments

• Environmental laws are used to support oil drilling and single-family zoning

• How Big of a Climate Betrayal Is the Willow Oil Project?

• California town races for survival after levees fail