2023-04-24

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• "Aurora over North Carolina" The Geomagnetic Storm Continues | Hacker News

Horseshit

• No graft, boondoggles, or other kinky pinky hanky panky in the acquisition of that land at all. I'm sure. Microsoft to buy Foxconn-occupied land in Wisconsin

• Bilingualism affords no general cognitive advantages: Study

  • HN comments

• The Grandmaster Plan to Turn Hordes of Kids into Chess Fanatics

celebrity gossip

• New Mexico still charging ‘Rust’ armorer in death of Halyna Hutchins after dropping charges against man who pulled the trigger, Alec Baldwin.

• Fox News Parts Ways with Tucker Carlson

• Don Lemon says he has been fired from CNN

Rank Propaganda / Thought Policing / World Disordering

• TikTok Ban Divides Young and Old, Democrats and Republicans, WSJ Poll Finds

Musk

• Twitter claims dead celebs are subscribing to Blue from beyond the grave

• Twitter gives fake Disney account verified status

• Elon Musk's Dad Says His Son's Whole Career Was Funded by That Emerald Mine

Trump / War against the Right / Jan6

• The Central Absurd Inconsistency of the Ray Epps Conundrum Described in Two Sentences

Pestilence / Pox / COVID / VaxCult

• Chicago Employees Fired For Not Getting COVID-19 Vaccine Must Be Reinstated: Judge

• End of data sharing could make Covid harder to control, high-risk patients warn

TechSuck

• deleting system32\curl.exe | daniel.haxx.se

  people who deleted or replaced the curl executable noticed that they cannot upgrade because the Windows update procedure detects that the Windows install has been tampered with and it refuses to continue. I do not know how to restore this to a state that Windows update is happy with.

  You need to contact Microsoft for support and help with Windows related issues. The curl.exe you have in System32 is only provided indirectly by the curl project and we cannot fix this problem for you. We in fact fixed the problem in the source code already back in December 2022.

  • HN comments

• How did places like Bell Labs know how to ask the right questions?

Economicon / Business / Finance

• Lego breaks ground on first US manufacturing facility | Hacker News

• Red Hat informs employees of upcoming layoffs

• Twitter fueled run on Silicon Valley Bank, new paper finds

• Walt Disney Co to begin second wave of layoffs, cutting several thousand jobs

Gubmint / Poilitcks / Law Making

• Progressives Organize Fresh Nationwide Push for Changes at the Supreme Court - The New York Times

World

• China Says Chatbots Must Toe the Party Line

• European Parliament calls for ban on facial recognition

• Crisis over unsold vanilla in Madagascar

Russia Bad / Ukraine War

• New Ukraine positions near Kherson could signal spring offensive – report