2023-03-23

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• Acceleration of Oumuamua from radiolytically produced H2 in H2O ice

  • A surprisingly simple explanation for 'Oumuamua's weird orbit

  • Scientists Solve the Mystery Behind the Oumuamua 'Alien Spacecraft' Comet

• (2017) Poor Human Olfaction Is a Nineteenth Century Myth

• An aperiodic monotile exists! | The Aperiodical

• When did New York start building slowly?

  • HN comments

• Round formation with steep, smooth sides found on seafloor off California

Horseshit

• Explosives replace malware as the scariest thing a USB stick may hide | Hacker News

• Tamagotchi kids: could the future of parenthood be having virtual children?

Rank Propaganda / Thought Policing / World Disordering

• Jim Jordan Issues Information Requests to Universities Researching Disinformation — ProPublica

  The letters are the latest effort by a House subcommittee set up in January to investigate how the federal government, working with social media companies, has allegedly been “weaponized” to silence conservative and right-wing voices. So far, the committee’s investigations have amplified a variety of dubious, outright false and highly misleading Republican grievances with law enforcement, many of them espoused by former President Donald Trump. Committee members have cited supposed abuses that include the FBI’s search of Mar-a-Lago, its investigations of Jan. 6 rioters and the Biden administration’s purported use of executive powers to shut down conservative viewpoints on social media.

  • HN comments

• The U.S. Government Is Building A Vast Surveillance And Speech Suppression Web Around Every American.

Pestilence / Pox / COVID / VaxCult

• The Times Switches to CDC Covid Data, Ending Daily Collection

• Strongest Evidence Yet That Media Outlets Fail in the SARS-CoV-2 Origin Question

Culture War / Tribal / Re segregation

• Sex Worker-Led Payment Platform Shuts Down After Being Cut Off by Processor

Edumacationalizing / Acedemia Nuts

• California bill would require high schools to hand out free condoms

Media / ShowBiz / Advertising

• Valve announces Counter-Strike 2

• Google and Microsoft’s chatbots are already citing one another's misinformation

• Ask HN: Is it possible to have a user responsible for the content they share? | Hacker News

• Moviemaking and Gamemaking Are Converging

  • HN comments

TechSuck

• F-150 Lightning Recall Due to SK Cells

Crypto con games

• SEC charges crypto entrepreneur Justin Sun and his companies for fraud

  • HN comments

• Lindsay Lohan and Jake Paul hit with SEC charges over crypto scheme

• Did the Government Start a Financial Crisis in an Attempt to Destroy Crypto?

• Coinbase tumbles after SEC warns of securities violations

• Do Kwon reportedly arrested in Montenegro

Economicon / Business / Finance

• Fed increases rates by 25 bps but signals hikes are near an end

• Bank of England says it warned US regulators over SVB risks before its collapse

• It Wasn’t Just Credit Suisse. Switzerland Itself Needed Rescuing

• How the last-ditch effort to save Silicon Valley Bank failed | Hacker News

• Toshiba accepts takeover offer in bid to go private

• Accenture would cut 19,000 jobs

• Don't save the banks - Don Surber

  The collapse of two big Democrat-run banks in Democrat-run states has the Democrat-run Federal Reserve and the Democrat-run Treasury Department telling us we are in a crisis. Democrats tell us the government must save the banks. Democrats want to save the banks by targeting community and regional banks in Republican-run states, not the big banks that failed. Sure, that will work just dandy.

• Hindenburg Research Outs Block Inc as Fraud

  Our 2-year investigation has concluded that Block (formerly known as Square Inc.) has systematically taken advantage of the demographics it claims to be helping. The “magic” behind Block’s business has not been disruptive innovation, but rather the company’s willingness to facilitate fraud against consumers and the government, avoid regulation, dress up predatory loans and fees as revolutionary technology, and mislead investors with inflated metrics.

  • Jack Dorsey’s Block Falls After Hindenburg Says It’s Short the Stock

  • Block shares plunge 19% after Hindenburg says Dorsey’s company facilitates fraud

• Ford says EV unit losing billions, should be seen as startup

• Foot Locker to close more than 400 stores

• FDIC Unexpectedly Delays Bid Deadline For Silicon Valley Private Bank

• BoE Hikes Rates 25bps As Expected, Re-Opens Door For Further Hikes

Gubmint / Poilitcks / Law Making

• Hunter Biden used FBI mole to tip him off to China probes: tipster

• Whaddayaknow? Joe Signed Off on Hunter/Burisma Statement - The Lid

• Arlington ends single-family-only zoning

• Democrats Vow To Arrest As Many Political Opponents As It Takes To Defeat Fascism

External Security / Militaria / Diplomania

• UFO-believing Pentagon bosses missed spy craft for years

World

• Counting Nigerian ballots through volunteer online OCR: The drama in trying to convert election PDFs to Spreadsheets - Mark Essien

  • HN comments

• The Reason South Koreans Aren't Having Babies

• Chinese millennials aren’t getting married, and the government is worried

Health / Medicine

• Tattoos Do Odd Things to the Immune System

• Long-term wastewater-based surveillance and pandemic impacts on drug use trends

• Parents rave about unexpected beauty item that stops mosquitoes biting

• BMA announces dates for 96-hour walkout by junior doctors in England

Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda

• Deindustrialisation and the post-socialist mortality crisis

• Crypto Is Mostly Over. Its Carbon Emissions Are Not

• EPA’s PFBS Toxicity Assessment Did Not Uphold Commitment to Scientific Integrity

• The Malthusians Are Back Over-Population Worriers are joining an ugly tradition