2023-04-02

Worthy

• Propaganda for the Smart - by John Raptis

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• The Agony of Putting Your Life on Hold to Care for Your Parents

Horseshit

• If That Was the Vegas Shooter's Motive, What Were Local Police/FBI Doing All This Time?

• Programmers, beware: ChatGPT has ruined your magic trick

  • HN comment

• 31% of American adults are online almost constantly

Obit

• ‘Godfather of Genetic Engineering’ Paul Berg Dies at 96

Rank Propaganda / Thought Policing / World Disordering

• 4chan to international politics: a bug-eating conspiracy theory goes mainstream

Musk

• Twitter locks out The Post over story on 5k scrubbed tweets

• Analysis of Twitter algorithm reveals it down-ranks tweets about Ukraine

  • Major media has yet to cope with "user_is_democrat" and "user_is_republican"

• Elon Musk Revives Old Banking Dream in Pursuing $250B Twitter Valuation

• New York Times loses Twitter ‘verified’ tick as Musk’s changes take effect

Trump / War against the Right / Jan6

• Trump Supporter Found Guilty, Faces Ten Years In Prison For 2016 Anti-Hillary Meme

• Trump and Stormy Daniels cash in on merchandise after indictment

• Comey’s “Good Day”: How Political Prosecutions Became “Ethical Leadership” in the Pursuit of Trump – JONATHAN TURLEY

  One can debate whether Trump may have committed this misdemeanor. That is a good-faith debate. What is not debatable is that the window for such a prosecution closed years ago.

  Unless this indictment reveals a previously undisclosed crime, the use of the long-debated bootstrapped offense would defy the rule of law. Nobody is above the law, but nobody is below its protections … including Donald Trump.

Pestilence / Pox / COVID / VaxCult

• Low vaccination rates put United States at high risk of new mpox outbreaks.

Culture War / Tribal / Re segregation

• The Hogwarts Legacy Boycott That Wasn’t

Edumacationalizing / Acedemia Nuts

• Yale to offer single-gender dorms after Muslim students voiced concerns.

Media / ShowBiz / Advertising

• "saw the film" Dungeons and Dragons embarks on an epic quest to finally make money | Hacker News

• How Good Smile, a Major Toy Company, Kept 4chan Online | WIRED

TechSuck

• Another reply to Josef Průša

  • The state of open-source in 3D printing in 2023 | Hacker News

• iAPX432 : Gordon Moore, Risk and Intel’s Super-CISC failure

Crypto con games

• U.S. Government Sold $216M of Seized Silk Road Bitcoin This Month

• Amazon’s Upcoming NFT Marketplace: Beeple and Pudgy Penguins on Board

Economicon / Business / Finance

• 'Most U.S. banks are near insolvency, and hundreds insolvent,' Roubini says

• This is on of the worst times to buy a car in decades. 3 charts explain why

• Silicon Valley Bank's risk model flashed red. So its executives changed it

• In Surprise, OPEC Plus Announces Cut in Oil Production

Gubmint / Poilitcks / Law Making

• Rupert Murdoch took direct role in Fox News 2020 election call, filings reveal

• Alabama Tax Tribunal Says Out-of-State Workers Owe Income Taxes

Law Breaking / Police / Internal Security

• Texas man uses Apple AirTag to track and kill truck thief

• DOJ and EPA Charge Norfolk Southern for East Palestine Derailment

World

• UK Treasury trying to find a Head of Cyber Security for £55k | Hacker News

• Work-from-home is the new normal in Canada

• Northern Korea Nuclear Complex on High Activity

• Saudi Arabia to Invite Syria to Summit

Russia Bad / Ukraine War

• Full hotels, busy ski resorts: Why Ukraine’s tourism sector is having a busy war

• The US has trained more than 7k Ukrainian fighters in the last year

Health / Medicine

• Thinking hard makes the brain tired | Hacker News

Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda

• Common Fertilizer Compound Can Release Uranium into Groundwater

  Karrie Weber and her team at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln have experimentally confirmed that nitrate, a compound found in both fertilizers and animal waste, can facilitate the movement of naturally occurring uranium from underground to groundwater.

• Sounds emitted by plants under stress are airborne and informative | Hacker News