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• Ideology Makes People Illogical

• Lithium-ion batteries a growing fire hazard in NYC garbage trucks

Horseshit

• Loneliness Is an Epidemic in America, Writes the Surgeon General

• When Private Equity Firms Bankrupt Their Own Companies

• Those scary warnings of juice jacking in airports and hotels? They’re nonsense

• Prolific sperm donor with over 500 children must pay $110K if he donates again

• Student eats artwork of a banana duct-taped to wall because 'he was hungry'

Musk

• Jack Dorsey Criticizes Sale of Twitter to Elon Musk

• New POV Footage Shows Dodge Caravan’s Final Moments Before SpaceX Starship Explodes

• SpaceX's Starship didn't immediately respond to a self-destruct command

Pestilence / Pox / COVID / VaxCult

• Biological time rhythms in Covid-19 vaccine effectiveness in study of 1.5M

• Anthony Fauci Says Don't Blame Him for Covid Lockdowns and School Closures

Edumacationalizing / Acedemia Nuts

• Illinois High School Introduces Segregated Higher Math Classes Archive link

  MA0262: 2 Algebra: restricted to students who identify as Latinx, all genders.

  MA0515: AP Calculus AB: restricted to students who identify as Black, all genders

  MA0565: AP Calculus AB: restricted to students who identify as Latinx, all genders.

  MA0512: Precalculus: course is restricted to students who identify as Black male students.

  • HN comments

• Illinois State University set to hold segregated graduation ceremonies.

• AZ breaks ground on tiny homes for teachers amid worsening educator shortage

Media / ShowBiz / Advertising

• Minetest: An open source voxel game engine | Hacker News

  • NodeCore - ContentDB

  • MineClone2 - ContentDB

TechSuck

• HN Jobs:

  • Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2023)

  • Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (May 2023)

  • Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (May 2023)

• Comparing Vectorized Huffman and Range Decoding vs. RANS

• Patent Spat Leaves DJI Owing Textron $279M

Crypto con games

• FBI agents search home of FTX exec who gave millions to Republicans.

• Funds of every Trust Wallet browser extension could have been stolen | Hacker News

Economicon / Business / Finance

• Why Are Lithium Prices Collapsing? | Hacker News

• First Republic Bank Is Seized by Regulators and Sold to JPMorgan Chase

  • JPMorgan Chase Bank Assumes All the Deposits of First Republic Bank | Hacker News

  • Second Largest US Bank Failure In History: First Republic Bank Seized By FDIC, Sold To JPMorgan

  early on Monday morning, the US unveiled a hybrid solution - after all other attempts at a private rescue effort failed - one where the FDIC would seize the insolvent First Republic, the 14th largest US bank by assets, making it the second biggest bank failure in US history, and immediately sell the bulk of its assets and all of its deposits to JPMorgan after a sham but "highly competitive bidding process" had taken place over the weekend (one in which virtually nobody wanted to participate as nobody would buy FRC without explicit government backstops, which in the end is precisely what they ended up getting on FRC's IO and CRE loan portfolio) while keeping FRC's toxic Interest-only mortgages to Hamptons' billionaires.

  • FDIC Seizes First Republic Bank then sells it to JPMorgan Chase

  in 1994, Congress adopted a policy that bars a bank from buying another bank if the combined entity would hold more than 10% of the country’s deposits. JPMorgan bypassed this law to acquire First Republic. JPMorgan currently holds 16.1% of the total deposits in the United States.

  • JPMorgan lands as winner in U.S. regulator auction of First Republic

• 3 Failed Banks This Year Were Bigger Than 25 That Crumbled in 2008

Gubmint / Poilitcks / Law Making

• How Far Will Corporate Media Go To Cover For And Re-Elect Joe Biden?

• MNBC’s partisan support for Biden is ridiculous.

• Politico Aims at Gorsuch and Misses: Another ‘ethics’ hit on a conservative justice turns to dust when you dig into the specifics.

  One openly partisan website characterized this revelation as a “bribery scandal.” Given that the purchase price was $670,000 less than the sellers had sought, it’s unclear who’s supposed to have bribed whom.

• Daddy Dearest: Hunter Forced to Appear in Arkansas in Fight Over His Child’s Name and Support – JONATHAN TURLEY

• Biden Challengers Will Have To Beat Censorship Regime in 2024 | Opinion

  Biden's challengers will also be facing a hostile and censorious information regime that transcends Biden and the Democratic Party, under which dissent from Ruling Class orthodoxy will likely be given no hearing, and dissenters given few platforms—on grounds of protecting "health" and "public safety." Biden's opponents left and right may raise compelling points on any number of critical and contentious issues, but will Americans be permitted to see or hear them?

Law Breaking / Police / Internal Security

• More people are getting away with murder. Unsolved killings reach a record high

• Parts for stolen Hyundais and Kias are so scarce the cars are being totaled

External Security / Militaria / Diplomania

• U.S. EVACUATES HUNDREDS OF AMERICAN CIVILIANS FROM SUDAN

• Militarized Dolphins Protect Almost a Quarter of the US Nuclear Stockpile.

• Chinese military blimp caught on satellite images of remote desert base

World

• Sudan’s Descent into Chaos

• Vulnerable UK women forced into ‘sex for rent’ by cost of living crisis

Russia Bad / Ukraine War

• Death Toll Rises As Ukraine Ramps Up Attacks On Russian Border Towns

• Ukrainian drones strike Crimea oil depot, Russian official says

Health / Medicine

• Executive behind ChatGPT pushes for a new revolution: Psychedelics

Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda

• Radioactive deer still roam Long Island decades after US 'doomsday' experiment

• ‘Not just a problem of science’: how the environmental crisis is also cultural