2023-03-18

Worthy

• Eloi and Morlocks at the South Pole: The Beer Can

etc

• (Mar 9) Pentagon UFO chief says alien mothership in our solar system possible

• The Blue Soup Saga Is One Beefy Mystery

Horseshit

• Balaji bets $1M that USD will suffer hyperinflation within 90 days

• Situationships Are the Future of Dating. That’s Not a Bad Thing

celebrity gossip

• The Disappearing of Julian Assange: The Archibalds

• Why Dove Soap tried to cross sword with Brendan Fraser

Obit

• Lance Reddick, 'The Wire' and 'John Wick' star, dies at 60

Rank Propaganda / Thought Policing / World Disordering

• Silicon Valley Bank went broke, but not because it was woke

• Negativity drives online news consumption | Hacker News

Musk

• Twitter will open source all code used to recommend tweets on March 31st

  • HN comments

Trump / War against the Right / Jan6

• Trump’s Attorney: Trump Will Surrender To Authorities If He Is Criminally Charged.

  • IP thread

• Donald Trump Braces for Potential Charges in N.Y. Hush-Money Case

• Trump says he expects to be arrested Tuesday as DA eyes charges

• "Take Our Nation Back": Trump Calls For Protests As 'Imminent' Arrest Expected | ZeroHedge

Pestilence / Pox / COVID / VaxCult

• W.H.O. Accuses China of Withholding Data on Pandemic’s Origins

• The flu vaccine is too deadly to be used and should be pulled from the market

Culture War / Tribal / Re segregation

• PSFU and Mastercard Foundation Host Women’s Day Katale Empowering Women

• For Long-Term Health and Happiness, Marriage Still Matters

Edumacationalizing / Acedemia Nuts

• My Struggle Session at Stanford Law School

Media / ShowBiz / Advertising

• How the first chatbot predicted the dangers of AI more than 50 years ago

• Meta employees grill Mark Zuckerberg at all-hands meeting following layoffs

  • HN comments

TechSuck

• SETI@home is in hibernation | Hacker News

Crypto con games

• FTX inner circle helped itself to $3.2B, liquidators say

Economicon / Business / Finance

• How First Republic became such a hot mess

• Accounts to buy bonds from the government jumped 5x

• Big Banks Trust First Republic with Their Money

• Bank of America said to buy Signature Bank

• LME finds bags of stones instead of nickel in metal warehouse

  • London Metal Exchange finds 'irregularities' in several nickel bags at warehouse

• SVB said it was too small to need regulation. Now it’s ‘too big to fail’

• UBS said to be in talks to take over embattled lender Credit Suisse

• First Republic Plans to Raise Cash by Selling Shares Privately

• Thousands of Options on Failed Banks in Limbo as Expiration Hits

• Credit Suisse faces crunch weekend as lifeline offers limited reprieve

• 99% of borrowers have a mortgage rate lower than 6%

• Rippling Raises $500M in Emergency Funds After SVB Fails

• Google not honouring medical leave during layoffs

• We're Drowning in Subscriptions as Retailers Join Too

• You Should Be Outraged About Silicon Valley Bank

• 'We Never Thought a Bank So Successful Could Collapse So Fast'

• UBS and regulators rush to seal Credit Suisse takeover deal

• Nearly 200 banks at risk for same fate as SVB: study

Gubmint / Poilitcks / Law Making

• Hunter Biden Countersues Over Laptop Files . . . That May or Might Not Be His – JONATHAN TURLEY

• (Oct 2022) Report on the Biden Laptop - Marco Polo

• U.S. regulators are setting a dangerous precedent on Silicon Valley Bank

Law Breaking / Police / Internal Security

• TSA confirms plans to mandate mug shots for domestic air travel

World

• Community’s 25yrs without a newborn shows scale of Japan’s population crisis

• B.C. man shocked to discover health file described him as a 'redneck hick'

• Brazil looks to regulate monetized content on Internet

• Burundi officials detect polio outbreak linked to vaccine.

Russia Bad / Ukraine War

• Russian mercenaries were looking for a few good men on Pornhub

  Pornhub reportedly hosted Wagner ads seeking people with "special skills" to join the ranks of the pro-Kremlin private military group, which had previously been recruiting Russian prisoners. The ads have been removed, a Pornhub spokesperson told Newsweek, adding that the website does not allow any politically related advertisements.

• Historian Timothy Snyder on the Ukraine War: Empire or Integration

• Russia's Secret Document for Destabilizing Moldova

Health / Medicine

• At least 67 people got botulism after trying to paralyze their stomachs

• Global Cystic Fibrosis Therapeutics Market to Reach $46.8B by 2030

Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda

• Big Oil Plans to Artificially Freeze the Melting Arctic to Drill More Oil

• Dumping 1M gallons of radioactive water in Hudson is ‘best option,’