2023-04-04

Cool

• Photographer Captures Ultra-Rare Red Ring of Light Over Italy | PetaPixel

etc

• Collision May Have Formed the Moon in Mere Hours, Simulations Reveal

Horseshit

• Are Ancient Phallic Objects What They Look Like?

• The Surprising Benefits of Sitting on the Floor Every Day

celebrity gossip

• Leonardo DiCaprio testifies in Fugees’ lobbying trial that financier Jho Low tried to funnel $30M to Obama.

Obit

• Klaus Teuber, inventor of Settlers Of Catan, has died

Rank Propaganda / Thought Policing / World Disordering

• Why Renee DiResta Leads The Censorship Industry

Musk

• Twitter’s open-source code has references to “Government Requested” influence

• Musk loses in court, has to delete tweet threatening workers who join union

Media / ShowBiz / Advertising

• UK: TikTok fined £12.7M for misusing children's data

TechSuck

• HN Jobs:

  • Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2023)

  • Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (April 2023)

  • Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (April 2023)

• Western Digital’s Network Breached, Multiple Services Taken Down

  • ‘Ongoing’ data breach forces Western Digital to shut down My Cloud service

• The microcode and hardware in the 8086 processor that perform string operations

  The 8086's string instructions are an example of the complex instructions in the 8086 that reduced the "semantic gap" between assembly code and high-level languages and minimized code size. While these instructions are powerful, their complexity spreads through the chip, requiring additional hardware features described above. These instructions also caused a great deal of complications for interrupt handling, including prefix-handling bugs that weren't fixed until later processors.

Crypto con games

• Twitter’s new dog icon is sending dogecoin – sigh – to the moon

• Dogecoin Surges 30% After Token's Symbol Replaces Blue Bird as Twitter Logo

Economicon / Business / Finance

• Private bankruptcy filings are blowing past their COVID-era peaks as credit stress builds for small businesses.

• Did social media cause the banking panic?

• Virgin Orbit Files for Bankruptcy

Gubmint / Poilitcks / Law Making

• Move Over, Pierre Delecto: It Looks as If AOC Has a Burner Account, and It’s a Doozy

• What Caused the Tennessee Legislature to Devolve Into Mayhem Last Night.

External Security / Militaria / Diplomania

• "Don't Talk About Nord Stream": WaPo Report Further Demolishes Official Narrative | ZeroHedge

World

• Finland becomes 31st member of NATO