2023-04-08

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• New photo reveals extent of Centaur V anomaly explosion | Ars Technica

Horseshit

• Royal Mail wins worst April Fools' joke 2023 • The Register

• America Is Back in the Factory Business

• Online pornography messes up the minds of minors

Obit

• Farewell to Craig Breedlove, America’s King of Speed

Musk

• Twitter disables links to Substack because Substack launched Notes

  • HN

  • The Craziest Friday Ever - by Matt Taibbi - Racket News

  I’m staying at Substack. You’ve all been great to me, as has the management of this company. Beginning early next week I’ll be using the new Substack Notes feature (to which you’ll all have access) instead of Twitter, a decision that apparently will come with a price as far as any future Twitter Files reports are concerned. It was absolutely worth it and I’ll always be grateful to those who gave me the chance to work on that story, but man is this a crazy planet.

• Twitter is now marking Substack links as unsafe

• Substack’s Twitter account has been suspended | Hacker News

• Substack Responds to ‘Abrupt’ Twitter Sharing Restrictions

• Tesla cuts prices on all models, 3rd cut this year

• Putin’s Twitter account resurfaces as Russia comes in from the cold

• Starlink was down because of expired certificate

Culture War / Tribal / Re segregation

• Former NCAA Swimmer Riley Gaines Assaulted By Trans Activists At San Fran University Speech

• A website you can share with Christians to get them on board with regulating AI

• George Floyd riots rewritten as “2020 fires.”

Media / ShowBiz / Advertising

• Substack's Crowdfunding Complication

TechSuck

• Ask Wirecutter: Can you recommend a not-smart TV for me? | Hacker News

• Reverse-engineering the division microcode in the Intel 8086 processor

Crypto con games

• Shaquille O’Neal is on the run from FTX lawsuit process servers

• Binance.US Struggles to Find Bank to Take Its Customers' Cash

Economicon / Business / Finance

• U.S. Bank Deposits Fall for Tenth Straight Week as Worries Continue

• Federal Housing Administration greenlights 40-year mortgages

• Walmart Sues Capital One to End Its Credit-Card Partnership

• Samsung to cut chip production after posting lowest profit in 14 years

• A Growing Lack of Confidence in the Fed Equals a Lack of Confidence in US Banks

• Banks Are Closing Customer Accounts, with Little Explanation

• The Fed could easily drive Black unemployment much higher than the overall jobless rate | CNN Business

• US Bank Lending Slumps by Most on Record in Final Weeks of March

• New York Finance Regulator Says Signature Bank's Closure Not Related to Crypto

• Amazon tells employees it isn’t falling behind on AI

Gubmint / Poilitcks / Law Making

• Liberal Outrage After Abortion Pill Blocked Nationwide By Order From Texas Judge | ZeroHedge

Law Breaking / Police / Internal Security

• NYPD officers brag about milking overtime in accidental recording

• Ex-S.F. fire commissioner with fractured skull after metal pipe attack

• Man Sentenced to 40 Years in Billion-Dollar Biofuel Tax Fraud Scheme

• Avoid using free public phone charging stations, FBI Denver warns

External Security / Militaria / Diplomania

• Pentagon Investigates More Social-Media Posts of Secret US Docs

  • Over 100 More Classified Docs Appear Online: US Secrets 'From Ukraine To Middle East To China' | ZeroHedge

• Bill Clinton Says He Regrets Persuading Ukraine to Give up Nuclear Weapons.

• US sends guided-missile submarine to Middle East as Iran-backed attacks escalate

World

• Taiwan at the cross-straits of peace and war

  • China military rehearses ‘encircling’ Taiwan after US Speaker visit

• One Tourist Killed, Seven Wounded in Tel Aviv Terror Attack, Assailant Shot Dead

• Iran installs cameras in public places to identify, penalise unveiled women

Russia Bad / Ukraine War

• Ukraine War Plans Leaked on Minecraft Discord Before Telegram and Twitter

Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda

• What’s Polluting the Air? Not Even the EPA Can Say

• Waves of squirrels once roamed America. No one knows why

• Global warming is 'juicing home runs' in MLB, Dartmouth study finds