2023-04-10

celebrity gossip

• Dalai Lama apologizes after video asking child to ‘suck’ his tongue

Rank Propaganda / Thought Policing / World Disordering

• Why Do Mainstream Democrats Hate Matt Taibbi? | naked capitalism

• Gun deaths among children are soaring

Musk

• Musk admits NPR isn’t state-affiliated

• Twitter brands BBC a ‘government funded media’ organization

• Twitter Reverses NPR Label, Tweaks to ‘Government Funded Media’

• Scott Galloway locked out of Twitter for criticising Elon Musk

• Elon Musk Painted over the ‘W’ on the Twitter HQ Sign, Which Now Reads Titter

Pestilence / Pox / COVID / VaxCult

• The biggest defenders of science did the most damage to it.

• The School That Couldn’t Quit Covid

TechSuck

• The LLama Effect: Leak Sparked a Series of Open Source Alternatives to ChatGPT | Hacker News

• Apple’s 40% Plunge in PC Shipments Is Steepest Among Major Computer Makers

• cohost! - "Hell Never Ends On x86: The Hyperspace Story, Continued, Sort Of"

  To reiterate, because I need to know you understand: HP wrote an email/calendar client completely from scratch that runs inside your system's BIOS.

  Was this worth it? Worth inventing completely new forms of software, worth injecting code into the fucking thermal management layer that overrides parts of the Windows boot sequence and risks corrupting main RAM and rendering the machine unusable, all for a fucking 15 second speedup? Of course not. But it's the only lever they could pull, and it's better than getting fired because your position, and your business, and the company you work for, have been redundant for a decade.

  • HN comments

• RePalm | Hacker News

Crypto con games

• FTX stored private keys to crypto assets in plaintext, without access controls

  • HN comments

Economicon / Business / Finance

• "chip shortage" TSMC Sales Miss for Second Straight Quarter on Tepid Demand

  • HN comments

• Food delivery drivers say they aren't being tipped enough to make a living

Gubmint / Poilitcks / Law Making

• Democrats' assault on democracy focuses on whose 'voices are being channeled' not on the law

Law Breaking / Police / Internal Security

• San Jose police union director fired over attempted opioid import charges

• Bank Mass-Shooting Leaves 5 Dead, 6 Injured In Downtown Louisville

External Security / Militaria / Diplomania

• CIA appears to have wiretapped South Korea’s National Security Office,leak shows

• Intelligence leak has US officials bracing for impact at home and abroad

World

• Europe must resist pressure to become ‘America’s followers,’ says Macron

• Sam Altman Visits Prime Minister Fumio Kishida

Russia Bad / Ukraine War

• Russia is ready for ceasefire but not defeat, says ambassador to UK.

Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda

• The Kissimmee River has been brought back to life, and wildlife is thriving

  • HN comments

• “Sustainable Development’s” $4 Trillion Price Tag.

• Heat pump disappointment for climate-minded Massachusetts state senator | Hacker News

  Of course it's extremely important to switch people to electrified heating systems, regardless of their efficiency.

• Occidental Plans to Suck Carbon from the Air–So It Can Keep Pumping Oil

• Miami and New Orleans face greater sea-level threat than already feared