2023-04-09

Cool

• JWST Captures Image of Rings Around Uranus

etc

• The Great American Solar Eclipse of 2024 is 1 year away

Horseshit

• What Really Happened When Google Ousted Timnit Gebru

• The Aliens Have Landed, and We Created Them

celebrity gossip

• Extropia's Children

Obit

• Benjamin B. Ferencz, Last Surviving Nuremberg Prosecutor, Dies at 103

• Rachel Pollack, trans activist and comic book writer, dies aged 77

Musk

• Substack CEO Chris Best: ‘None’ of Elon Musk’s Claims Are True

• Shots Fired: The Twitter-Substack War & Matt Taibbi's Not-So-Good-Friday | ZeroHedge

• Matt Taibbi claims Twitter files have been removed from Twitter

• Elon caved, the Substack tweet can now be liked, retweeted and commented on

Trump / War against the Right / Jan6

• Hecklers at Trump’s arraignment have a lesson for us all

  It’s more obvious than ever that no one is coming to save you. No candidate, no party, no movement. You need to save yourself.

Culture War / Tribal / Re segregation

• Tech Firm Lists ‘Whites’-Only Job, Blames Employee, Nukes Online Presence

• Predictions about the decline of Christianity in America may be premature

• LGBT Grooming Conspiracy Theory

• Chelsea Manning had to fight to transition in prison.She wants better for others

Media / ShowBiz / Advertising

• Mark Zuckerberg is spending most of his time on A.I., says Meta CTO

• Women now dominate the book business. Why not other creative industries?

TechSuck

• How Closed Source Intellectual Property Contributes to the Chip Shortage

  Luke informed me that the reason at the heart of the legacy chip shortage was that TSMC decommissioned and discarded their legacy lithography machines; today’s most legacy nodes have a ~250nm transistor size. TSMC was one of the last — if not the last — foundry maintaining these legacy ASML lithography machines and in early 2020 TSMC decided to decommission and throw out these machines central to many of the chips used in everyday components for products like cars, medical devices and school buses because it was unprofitable for them to maintain it. Stated another way, this part of the multi-year global microchip shortage — which according to yesterdays WSJ is still ongoing — the whole shortage started because TSMC decided to throw away their older ASML lithography machines at an inopportune time for the rest of the chip and component industry.

Crypto con games

• North Korean hackers stole billions from cryptocurrency firms

Economicon / Business / Finance

• Crash worse than 2008 crisis predicted for commercial real estate

• China Slowly Squeezes Global Carmakers Out of Its Massive Market

Gubmint / Poilitcks / Law Making

• The Only Way to Restore the Norms Is to Finish Them Off

• The Ruling That Threatens the Future of Libraries

Law Breaking / Police / Internal Security

• Ex-ABC Senior Producer Who Rolling Stone Covered For Indicted On Child Porn Charges

External Security / Militaria / Diplomania

• Pentagon, Justice Dept investigate as secret military documents appear online

  • HN

• US Air Force to divest a total of 310 aircraft in 2024 including 32 F-22A Raptor

World

• N. Korea claims another test of 'nuclear underwater drone'

• Chinese military rehearses encirclement of Taiwan

• Bukele Has Defeated El Salvador’s Gangs—for Now. How? And What Does It Mean for the Region? - Lawfare

Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda

• Plastics touching our food may be making us gain weight

• Atmospheric river brought torrential rains, flooding heavy snow to California

• ‘Headed off the charts’: world’s ocean surface temperature hits record high