2023-03-17

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• Pinker on Alignment and Intelligence as a "Magical Potion"

Horseshit

• Hip-Hop at Fifty: An Elegy

• A growing number of scientists are convinced the future influences the past.

• The Misalignment Museum | Hacker News

  Lesswrongers are a conservative group with some radically authoritarian ideas

• Tell HN: I just quit my cushy six-figure job at my early 40s | Hacker News

  We are in the middle of a terrifying recession, there is a huge pile of bodies like my own out there with all the recent layoffs, with people a way more competent than me but, at this very moment, none of this matter. I need to do something meaningful, otherwise I'm dead while I'm still breathing.

celebrity gossip

• Peter Thiel said he had $50M in personal account at SVB when it collapsed

Rank Propaganda / Thought Policing / World Disordering

• Twitter Files 19 – Stanford, the Virality Project, and Censorship

  Though the Virality Project reviewed content on a mass scale for Twitter, Google/YouTube, Facebook/Instagram, Medium, TikTok, and Pinterest, it knowingly targeted true material and legitimate political opinion, while often being factually wrong itself.

Trump / War against the Right / Jan6

• YouTube Restores Trump's Channel

Pestilence / Pox / COVID / VaxCult

• The Private Group Where Parents Give Ivermectin to Kids with Autism

• The Strongest Evidence yet That an Animal Started the Pandemic

• New Data Links Pandemic’s Origins to Raccoon Dogs at Wuhan Market

• New Covid origins data suggests pandemic linked to raccoon dogs at Wuhan market

• Are some immune to Covid? Science is trying to unravel immunity to the virus

• 2020: “15 Days to Slow the Spread.”

Culture War / Tribal / Re segregation

• Dear Wokesters, You Named Yourselves - Abe Greenwald, Commentary Magazine

• The collapse of SVB hit women and minority-owned startups hardest

Edumacationalizing / Acedemia Nuts

• Many Gen Zers don’t believe they need a college degree for a successful career

• Covid raises question: How should promising but dangerous science be regulated?

• One AI Tutor Per Child: Personalized learning is finally here

  • HN comments

Media / ShowBiz / Advertising

• Google raises price of YouTube TV to $73 a month, blaming content costs

• Pornhub owner sold to Canadian private equity firm Ethical Capital Partners

• GPT-4 Might Just Be a Bloated, Pointless Mess

• Amazon shuts newspaper and magazine subscriptions for Kindle and print

  • HN comments

• Meta's metaverse is on the back burner

• FABRICE: TextSynth Server

  • HN comments

• AI-imager Midjourney v5 stuns with photorealistic images–and 5-fingered hands

• Facebook and Instagram’s paid verification launches in the US

TechSuck

• Intel’s record-winning 56-core rig sucks as much power as a tumble dryer

• Google warns users about remotely exploitable flaws in popular Samsung phones

  • Google: Turn off VoLTE, Wi-Fi calling: severe Exynos modem vulnerabilities | Hacker News

• We apologize. We did a terrible job announcing the end of Docker Free Teams | Hacker News

• Microsoft announces Copilot: the AI-powered future of Office documents

Economicon / Business / Finance

• Wall Street, U.S. officials rushing to stabilize First Republic Bank

• Wall Street banks to deposit $30B into First Republic

• Big Banks Agree To Historic $30 Billion Unsecured Deposit Injection In First Republic Bank | ZeroHedge

• Deposit-Based Bailout Is "Bad Policy" - Regional Banks Continue Slump After Ackman Warns Of "False Sense Of Confidence" | ZeroHedge

• Fire the Fed

  From 2006-2021, the Fed received over 3,500 merger applications from banks, and didn’t deny a single one. This record includes Silicon Valley Bank in 2021 buying Boston Private Bank and Trust, which the Fed board unanimously justified by noting that SVB would not “pose significant risk to the financial system in the event of financial distress."

• MAJOR FUCKUP: Treasury Secretary Yellen says not all uninsured deposits will be protected

• Federal Reserve Board - Federal Reserve announces July launch for the FedNow Service

  • Long-awaited Fed digital payment system to launch in July

• Big changes in the S&P 500 Friday highlight the power of index providers

• Micron to hire 9k at a Syracuse campus amid shortage of skilled workers

• SVB Financial Group Files for Chapter 11 Bankruptcy

• Google nixes paying out remainder of maternity and medical leave for laid-offs

• In Silicon Valley, a boom era feels like it’s ending

Gubmint / Poilitcks / Law Making

• Newsom Pushed White House to Bail Out SVB, Despite Conflict of Interest

• Working Americans again foot bailout bill.

• Chinese Communist Party-Linked Company Funneled Over $1 Million To Biden Family Members, House Republicans Say.

• The Fed smothers capitalism in an attempt to save it

• Venture investors, U.S. lawmakers join forces to fight TikTok

• Biden faces political risks from banking turmoil

• Small Businesses Face Big Tax Bills from Research-Deduction Change

• So, not Russian disinfo? Hunter Biden’s legal team basically just confirmed that it was his laptop

• Remarks by President Biden on Efforts to Reduce Gun Violence | The White House

  Congressional Republicans should pass my budget instead of calling for cuts to these services or defunding the police or abolishing the FBI, as we hear from our MAGA Republican friends.

• Unlimited deposit insurance: A radical idea that’s gaining steam in Congress

Law Breaking / Police / Internal Security

• FCC Acts on In-State Calling Rates for Incarcerated People

• Most People Arrested in DC Don't Get Charged, Data Reveal

• FBI Is Investigating TikTok for Spying on US Journalists

• ‘It’s Like a Graveyard’: Record Numbers of Migrants Are Dying at the U.S. Border

External Security / Militaria / Diplomania

• Silicon Valley and Capitol Hill Build an Anti-China Alliance

• US, Russia on the hunt for downed drone

World

• Macron Pushes French Pension Bill Through Without Full Vote

• Tons of uranium missing from Libyan site, IAEA tells member states

  • UN nuclear watchdog: 2.5 tons of uranium missing in Libya

• China Unexpectedly Cuts Reserve Ratio For Banks, Injecting $73BN To Stimulate Economy

  • China cuts banks' reserve ratio for first time in 2023 to aid recovery

• China’s Xi to meet Putin as Beijing seeks bolder global role

• Erdogan Announces Turkey To Approve Finland's NATO Bid, But Sweden Left Behind

  • President Erdogan endorses Finland’s NATO bid

Russia Bad / Ukraine War

• Wagner’s convicts tell of horrors of Ukraine war and loyalty to their leader

• ICC issues arrest warrant against Putin over war crimes

  • International Criminal Court issues arrest warrant for Putin over war crimes

  • ICC judges issue arrest warrants against Vladimir Putin and Maria Lvova-Belova

  • War crimes court seeks Putin arrest over deportation of Ukraine's children

Health / Medicine

• More Now sickened, 4 lose eyeballs in outbreak linked to eyedrops

• Give babies peanut butter to cut allergy by 77%, study says

  • HN comments

• U.S. maternal death rate grew 38% in 2021, CDC data shows.

Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda

• Burning Man Fights the Feds to Save Its New Home in the Old West

• San Francisco Bay Area to phase out natural gas heating appliances

  • Bay Area will end sales of gas furnaces and water heaters.

• Xcel Energy cleaning up radioactive leak at Monticello nuclear generating plant

• The Controversial Claim Rocking the Weather World