2023-04-17

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• Newsletter #75: The Toxic Reality of a Post-Familial Society

Horseshit

• Swatting as a Service - Schneier on Security

• 12-year-olds can't buy cigarettes – but they can work in tobacco fields

• Even Influencers Are Scared of the Internet

celebrity gossip

• Original Wilhelm Scream studio recording found

  • Freesound - "S38-01 Man eaten by alligator; screams Wilhelm screams.wav" by craigsmith

Rank Propaganda / Thought Policing / World Disordering

• US tech giants warn India’s fact-checking rule will infringe on press freedom

• Effectiveness of Deplatforming an Extremist Forum to Stop Hate and Harassment

Musk

• Elon Musk claims the US Government had 'full access' to your private Twitter DMs | Daily Mail Online

• No launch today: SpaceX attempts test flight of its Starship; most powerful rocket ever

• Is Twitter Finally Dying?

Pestilence / Pox / COVID / VaxCult

• Covid Exposure Apps Are Headed for a Mass Extinction Event

Edumacationalizing / Acedemia Nuts

• Sold a Story: How Teaching Kids to Read Went So Wrong | Hacker News

Media / ShowBiz / Advertising

• Sega to acquire Angry Birds maker Rovio for $776M

• Conservative social media platform Parler acquired and then immediately shut down by new owner.

• We don’t know enough about the Pornhub acquisition | Hacker News

• Is your phone REALLY listening to you? Tech expert explains why some online ads seem a little bit too coincidental.

TechSuck

• The basics of decoupling capacitors - lcamtuf’s thing

• Maintaining this site fucking sucks | Hacker News

• Microsoft deleted the public support forums for SwiftKey | Hacker News

• Build and deploy 5G network with open-source software and off-the-shelf hardware | Hacker News

• iSIM vs. eSIM vs. SIM: The constantly shrinking ways carriers ID your phone

Economicon / Business / Finance

• US savers get savvy ditching and switching banks

• Walmart sells Bonobos at a steep loss

Gubmint / Poilitcks / Law Making

• Biden bets big on bringing factories back to US, building on some Trump ideas

• Fiscal crisis nears as McCarthy takes debt ceiling plan to Wall Street

• VW, Rivian, Nissan, BMW lose access to U.S. EV tax credits

External Security / Militaria / Diplomania

• Shot-down Chinese spy balloon may have had 'synthetic aperture radar'

World

• Lula Says Brazil, China Can Change World Governance Together

  • HN comments

Russia Bad / Ukraine War

• Seymour Hersh claims Ukraine is using American funds to buy fuel from Russia

• Ukraine says it is finding more Chinese components in Russian weapons

Health / Medicine

• One death and almost 100 cases of rare fungal infection linked to paper mill

Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda

• "There can be no peace with those who deny Allah" The 'ninjas' fighting climate change denial on Twitter