2023-05-02

Cool

• Laser scanning microscope from DVD pickup heads

etc

• Satellite data reveal nearly 20k previously unknown deep-sea mountains | Hacker News

• Change My Mind: Density Increases Local But Decreases Global Prices

  • HN comments

• Rocket Carrying Astronaut's Cremated Remains Blows Up at Launch

Horseshit

• Ask HN: If you fear AI now, were you likely afraid of the Y2K bug & vice versa?

  Owh my gawd lawdy je'sus, the compututors be teach'en dem'selves - be teach'en dem'selves!

• Geoffrey Hinton leaves Google and warns of danger ahead | Hacker News

• My week with Dyson’s absurd wearable air purifier

  • $949, 1.5lb noise canceling headphones with air purifying mask.

Obit

• Canadian folk music icon Gordon Lightfoot dead at 84

Rank Propaganda / Thought Policing / World Disordering

• Tucker Carlson Goes Full Rogue, Muses About Building 7 Collapse.

• Google Promised to Defund Climate Lies, but the Ads Keep Coming

Musk

• Environmental groups sue FAA for SpaceX launch that exploded in April

• Environmentalists sue FAA over SpaceX Starship launch license for Texas

Trump / War against the Right / Jan6

• Conservative Supreme Court justice hit pieces: We are being lectured on ethics by scoundrels.

• With Each of These Hits, Tucker Grows In Stature – “Leak” To Media Matters Actually Makes Him Look Great

Pestilence / Pox / COVID / VaxCult

• U.S. to end Covid-19 vaccine requirement for international travelers next week

• White House ends Covid vaccine mandate for federal employees, foreign travelers

• On friendship with self-righteous cowards

• Why viral reservoirs are a prime suspect for long Covid sleuths

• Genetic Evidence Ties Covid’s Origin to Raccoon Dogs

Culture War / Tribal / Re segregation

• Anti-Woke as Autism: Kate Upton is still high status, despite “fat studies”

Edumacationalizing / Acedemia Nuts

• Protecting Free Speech Is the Wrong Strategy

• Students at a California college are told to stay indoors

Media / ShowBiz / Advertising

• Vice Is Said to Be Headed for Bankruptcy

• Hollywood Writers Go on Strike, Halting Production

• Writers Guild of America goes on strike

• Meta workers have lost faith in Mark Zuckerberg

• Unique Versions of “Guardians of the Galaxy 3” for Various Types of Cinemas

TechSuck

• Microsoft’s mice, keyboards, and webcams are being discontinued

Crypto con games

• Coinbase steps out of the U.S. with an international exchange

• Bitcoin Climbs as US Bank Failure Bolsters Crypto Narrative

Economicon / Business / Finance

• JPMorgan Got a Deal on First Republic

• First Republic stock investors face 'wipe out,' analyst says

• PacWest falls 30% as regional banks stocks slide to new lows

• PacWest, Western Alliance Lead Regional Bank Stock Rout

• Half of America’s banks are already insolvent

• First Republic rescue fails to arrest slide in US regional bank shares

• (PDF) Review of Federal Reserve’s Supervision and Regulation of Silicon Valley Bank

• IBM to pause hiring in plan to replace 7,800 jobs with AI News

• Morgan Stanley to cut 3,000 jobs in second quarter

• Why America will soon see a wave of bank mergers | Hacker News

• Balaji: I just burned a million to tell you they're printing trillions

Gubmint / Poilitcks / Law Making

• U.S. Could Run Out of Cash by June 1, Yellen Warns

• F.D.I.C. Proposes Broadening Bank Insurance for Businesses

  • US Bank Agency Suggests Higher Deposit Insurance for Business Accounts

• In Court, Hunter Biden Cries Poor to Reduce Child Support Payments

• Biden "Punishes Responsibility" As New Mortgage Equity Program Begins | ZeroHedge

• Two-thirds of Americans think the country is more divided than usual

• Can the Capitol hold a much bigger House? Yes, here’s how it would look

• Huge Development Means IRS Whistleblower Can Soon Explode Biden Family Scandals.

Law Breaking / Police / Internal Security

• Why More Americans Are Using Fake License Plates and Getting Away with It

• Where Did All the Biden Illegal Immigrants Go? Hard-Up Sanctuary Cities Are Only Part of the Answer | RealClearInvestigations

• Illegal Alien Accused Of Murdering 5 Neighbors In Texas Was Deported 5 Times: Report.

• NYPD urges citizens to buy AirTags to fight surge in car thefts

• Dark web vendors arrested in major marketplace seizure

  • Global operation takes down dark web drug marketplace

  • International police just made a huge dark web bust

External Security / Militaria / Diplomania

• U.S. military is tracking another mysterious balloon

• Humility & Hard Questions Win Wars - CDR Salamander

• America's Bad Bet on India

World

• Australia to ban non-prescription vapes in biggest smoking reforms in a decade

• Facial Recognition Powers ‘Automated Apartheid’ in Israel, Report Says

• Indian airline Go First files for insolvency, sues Pratt and Whitney for $977M

Russia Bad / Ukraine War

• Ukrainian farmer comes up with novel way to demine his fields

• Russia's APT28 targets Ukraine government with bogus Windows updates

• Oliver Stone: ‘Putin is a great leader for his country’

Health / Medicine

• A bacterial culprit for rheumatoid arthritis?

• Drug shortages growing in U.S., as experts see no clear path to resolving them.

• Surgeon general declares loneliness epidemic, poses risks as deadly as smoking

Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda

• Clumps of seaweed from a giant blob are washing up on Florida beaches

• A New Hydropower Boom Uses Pumped Storage, Not Giant Dams

• Twenty Endangered California Condors Die Amid Avian Flu Outbreak

• Many Bird Species Are Having Fewer Chicks as the World Warms