2023-03-31

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• Plants emit ultrasonic sounds in rapid bursts when stressed, scientists say

Horseshit

• There's something off about LED bulbs | Hacker News

• MR Tries The Safe Uncertainty Fallacy - by Scott Alexander

  We designed our society for excellence at strangling innovation. Now we’ve encountered a problem that can only be solved by a plucky coalition of obstructionists, overactive regulators, anti-tech zealots, socialists, and people who hate everything new on general principle. It’s like one of those movies where Shaq stumbles into a situation where you can only save the world by playing basketball. Denying 21st century American society the chance to fulfill its telos would be more than an existential risk - it would be a travesty.

celebrity gossip

• Carl Sagan Documentary in the Works from National Geographic and Seth MacFarlane

Rank Propaganda / Thought Policing / World Disordering

• A Guide to Understanding the Hoax of the Century Magazine

Musk

• Why Elon Musk joined a call to stop A.I. development

Trump / War against the Right / Jan6

• Trump Indicted By Manhattan Grand Jury Over Porn Star Hush Payment

• Trump Indicted

• Trump indicted in hush money probe

• The Painful Lesson Donald Trump Could Learn from R. Kelly and Michael Avenatti

• Grand jury votes to indict Donald Trump

  • HN comments

Pestilence / Pox / COVID / VaxCult

• Healthy adults don’t need to keep getting COVID-19 boosters, says WHO.

• a newsletter for the Covid-free movement and all of those who continue to avoid infection

Edumacationalizing / Acedemia Nuts

• Americans Are Losing Faith in College Education

TechSuck

• Jumping the licensing shark

Crypto con games

• SBF pleads not guilty to bribe

Economicon / Business / Finance

• Ford hikes F-150 Lightning's price again to battle high costs

• Bank runs are a feature, not a bug

• Virgin Orbit: Sir Richard Branson's rocket company lays off 85% of staff

Shortages

• How and When the Chip Shortage Will End, in 4 Charts

Gubmint / Poilitcks / Law Making

• INSURRECTION!

• Two Decades Later, US Senate Votes To Abolish Iraq War Authorization | ZeroHedge

• Nearly 200 Dems join Republicans in blocking China from buying rural land.

Law Breaking / Police / Internal Security

• San Jose police union executive director charged with smuggling fentanyl into US

• Pelosi: "everyone has the right to a trial to prove innocence."

• Biden lays out tougher bank rules

World

• Finland Cleared to Join NATO

Russia Bad / Ukraine War

• Leaked IT contractor files detail Kremlin's stockpile of cyber-weapons

• The So Far Non-Existent Vulkan Leaks

• ‘Absurdity to a new level’ as Russia takes charge of UN security council

Health / Medicine

• Why are Americans dying so young?

Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda

• EVs Are the Yugo of the 21st Century