2023-04-30

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• Whistleblowers are the conscience of society, yet suffer gravely | Hacker News

• My Lifetime Reading Plan - by Ted Gioia - The Honest Broker

• Basics of Space Flight: Orbital Mechanics

Horseshit

• U.S. Teen Girls Experiencing Increased Sadness and Violence

  • HN comments

• San Francisco is a postcard from a driverless car future. Here’s what it’s like

• AI-generated deepfakes are moving fast. Policymakers can't keep up

• Why menstrual leave could be bad for women

• Why teens are suddenly obsessed with chess

celebrity gossip

• Elizabeth Holmes delays start of prison sentence

• Epstein's Private Calendar Reveals Prominent Names, Including CIA Chief

Obit

• The original 'Marlboro Man' has died at 90. Bob Norris himself never smoked

Rank Propaganda / Thought Policing / World Disordering

• (Apr 7) Matt Taibbi's Integrity Sand Pit

• Of course deplatforming works

• AOC Is Wrong - Deplatforming Never Works | ZeroHedge

Musk

• The Subtle Strategy Behind Elon Musk’s Price Cuts at Tesla

• How to frame your post criticising Elon Musk for adding Encryption to TwitterDMs

• Jack Dorsey criticizes Elon Musk’s leadership at Twitter: ‘It all went south’

• Are Blue Checks Uncool Now?

Trump / War against the Right / Jan6

• He blew the whistle on Trump’s Truth Social. Now he works at Starbucks

• Tucker Carlson and the Right

Pestilence / Pox / COVID / VaxCult

• CDC to stop tracking Covid levels in communities.

Culture War / Tribal / Re segregation

• Penn State tells students to celebrate their identities separately with ‘Affinity Graduations.’

Edumacationalizing / Acedemia Nuts

• In Defense of Merit in Science

• Research Finds No Gender Bias in Academic Science

Media / ShowBiz / Advertising

• The future of streaming services looks an awful lot like the 1950s, except for one small difference.

TechSuck

• Microsoft quietly supported legislation to make it easier to fix devices

  • HN comments

• 30 years ago, one decision altered the course of our connected world

  But 30 years ago this week, that all changed. On April 30, 1993, something called the World Wide Web launched into the public domain.

  • 30th anniversary of licensing the Web for general use and at no cost

• Coroutines in Sparc Assembly

• The Wolfram ChatGPT Plugin Kit

Crypto con games

• Bitcoin’s Monthly Streak Brings $100k into View If History Is Right

Economicon / Business / Finance

• First Republic makes last ditch bid to find rescue deal

• Munger Warns Banks Stuck with Commercial Property Debt

  • Charlie Munger: US banks are ‘full of’ bad commercial property loans

Gubmint / Poilitcks / Law Making

• FAA overruled engineers, let Boeing Max keep flying

• Defaulting on the national debt is much closer than anyone realizes

External Security / Militaria / Diplomania

• US Army grounds its aircraft after recent mid-air collisions

World

• Public invited to swear their allegiance as king is crowned

• British public support for monarchy at historic low, poll reveals

Health / Medicine

• How much of the obesity epidemic comes from the energy expenditure side?

Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda

• ‘Statistically impossible’ heat extremes are here

• The last known female Swinhoe's softshell turtle has died

• How did climate doomsters get the Great Barrier Reef so wrong?

• Why allergy season is so bad this year

• AI programs consume large volumes of scarce water