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• Apparent meteorite strikes house in New Jersey.

• WiFall: Device-Free Fall Detection by Wireless Networks

Horseshit

• AI machines aren’t ‘hallucinating’. But their makers are

• U.S. Focuses on Invigorating ‘Chiplets’ to Stay Cutting-Edge in Tech

• Greed, eugenics, and gambles: Malcolm Harris on the deadly toll of SV capitalism

• said to be authored by Caroline Ellison of FTX cryptocurrency fun: Estimated IQ distribution of children given IQ of parents

  • HN comments

• Why longtermism is the world’s most dangerous secular credo | Hacker News

• Number of internally displaced people hits record due to war, climate change

• Banning AI saved humanity in ‘Dune.’ So why can’t this work for us?

• How Europe is leading the world in building guardrails around AI

• star wars - If only the Sith deal in absolutes, why does Obi-Wan say it that way? - Science Fiction & Fantasy Stack Exchange

  This is the same kind of spurious circular logic that a lot of right-wingers use when they say "Your intolerance of my intolerance shows that your message of tolerance is hypocritical!" to which the correct answer is "Well spotted, clever boy, now have a cookie and go away while the adults are talking."

celebrity gossip

• Jeffery Epstein Met with Reid Hoffman, Larry Summers and Woody Allen | Hacker News

Obit

• Heather Armstrong, ‘Queen of the Mommy Bloggers,’ Is Dead at 47

  • Mommy blogger Heather Armstrong, known as Dooce to fans, dead at 47

  • Heather Armstrong has died | Hacker News

Rank Propaganda / Thought Policing / World Disordering

• LONG The Censorship-Industrial Complex: Top 50 Organizations To Know | ZeroHedge

  In place of competition, the groups we’ve been tracking favor the concept of the “shared endeavor” (one British group has even started a “Shared Endeavour” program), in which key “stakeholders” hash out their disagreements in private, but present a unified front.

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• Deep State Convenes in D.C., Colludes to Rig 2024 Election – PJ Media

• The Dark Side of Defamation Law

Musk

• Twitter launches encrypted DMs behind a paywall

• Twitter’s Encrypted DMs Are Deeply Inferior to Signal and WhatsApp

• The Executive Keeping Tesla Rolling Isn’t Elon Musk

• Panasonic delays production of its next-generation Tesla batteries

Pestilence / Pox / COVID / VaxCult

• NIH restarts bat virus grant

  • HN comments

Media / ShowBiz / Advertising

• The streaming wars are over, and it’s time for media to figure out what’s next

• Disney Plus to Add Hulu Content in 'One-App' Experience Later in 2023 – Variety

TechSuck

• Why I'm done with Mouser Electronics

  • HN comments

• With "usage limits" and likely eventual commercial access: Google Earth 3D Models Now Available as Open Standard (GlTF) | Hacker News

• Geektools whois gateway has shut down after a 25-year run | Hacker News

• Protocol Wars | Hacker News

• ehartford/WizardLM-13B-Uncensored · Hugging Face

Crypto con games

• FTX Missed a Potentially Lucrative Opportunity

Economicon / Business / Finance

• The Home Buyer’s Quandary: Nobody’s Selling

• BOE Hikes By 25bps, Forecasts Higher Inflation And Warns Of More Tightening

• The Ugly Truth Behind “We Buy Ugly Houses”

• Workers Are Happier Than They’ve Been in Decades

• 52% of UK gig workers are earning below minimum wage

• Blackstone in talks with US regional banks over lending partnerships

• U.S. prosecutors look at short selling in bank shares – source

• Peloton is forced to recall 2M exercise bikes after seats fell off

• Big banks could face billions more in FDIC fees after bank collapses

  • FDIC to hit biggest US banks with $16B bill for SVB clean-up

• PacWest shares tumble 20% after regional bank says deposits fell 9.5% last week

• Inflation rate eases to 4.9% in April, less than expectations

• Robinhood to Offer 24-Hour Trading

• First Citizens BancShares records $9.8B gain from SVB purchase

Gubmint / Poilitcks / Law Making

• Bidens Used Web of Shell Companies to Conceal Foreign Cash, Bank Records Obtained by House GOP Reveal

• Biden Family Tried To Hide Over $10 Million In Foreign Payments: House GOP | ZeroHedge

• DOJ Strategically Timed Santos’ Political Arrest To Coincide With Press Conference Detailing Evidence Of Biden Corruption

  • Nets Ignore New Hunter Biden Revelations, Hype Santos Charges

• Former Biden admin disinformation chief sues Fox News for defamation

• Yellen Says Debt Default Would Hurt US International Leadership

• Prop. 12, on humane sale of pork in California, upheld by Supreme Court

  The Supreme Court on Thursday upheld California’s right to block the sale of pork in the state unless producers abide by more humane regulations on the treatment of pregnant sows. The decision touched on constitutional issues of interstate trade and splintered the justices outside of their usual liberal-conservative blocs.

Law Breaking / Police / Internal Security

• FBI Denies Request For Nashville Shooter’s Manifesto, Writings

• A retired FBI agent on how to protect yourself during a mass shooting

  police response also plays a central role — as it did in Uvalde, Texas. There, the shooter spent more than an hour inside Robb Elementary while police waited outside. How officers respond will always differ as long as agencies across the U.S. follow different training methods. (Recommended national standards do exist, but they are still just a suggestion.)

  FBI research shows that it is more often unarmed people who save lives and end shootings than armed ones. "So don't believe that you can't stop a shooter. You can," Schweit said. "It's done all the time."

• El Paso prepares to start busing migrants again

External Security / Militaria / Diplomania

• Sanctions Don’t Threaten the Dollar’s Dominance. They Support It.

• Is Chinese power about to peak?

World

• Most already do, it's just enabling access via software: India calls for all mobile phones to include FM radios

• German rail union's planned strike likely to impact freight, rail traffic

• Argentina Is Going Broke to Stall a Full-On Currency Collapse

• Turkish presidential candidate quits race after release of alleged sex tape

  • HN comments

Russia Bad / Ukraine War

• FBI takes down Russia's sophisticated 20-year-old malware network called “Snake”

• Britain has delivered long-range ‘Storm Shadow’ cruise missiles to Ukraine

• South Africa Supplied Arms to Russia – US Ambassador Reuben Brigety

Health / Medicine

• MSG Is Finally Getting Its Revenge

• Common disinfectant wipes expose people to dangerous chemicals, research reveals

• FDA Approves Over-the-Counter Sales of One Birth Control Pill. Now It’s Time To Approve All the Rest.

Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda

• Expensive energy may have killed more Europeans than Covid-19 last winter

• US Gulf states’ inactive, uncapped oil and gas wells a $30B liability

• Wind is main source of UK electricity for first time

• US support for nuclear power soars to highest level in a decade

• World ‘way off track’ from climate goal, Kerry says

• Impact of warmer seas on fish stocks leads to rise in pirate attacks

• American Petroleum Institute Claims The EPA Is Trying To Ban ICE Vehicles