2023-06-02

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• Car rental service delivers your car via remote control

• In 1970, Alvin Toffler Predicted the Rise of Future Shock—But the Exact Opposite Happened

Horseshit

• Parachute use to prevent death and major trauma when jumping from aircraft | Hacker News

• Automatic emergency braking should become mandatory, feds say | Hacker News

• Ditching a Phone Case Is the Latest Symbol of Stealth Wealth

• Japan's most famous avant-garde artist banned us from her studio

• America’s Dysfunction Has Two Main Causes

• Uncool and nowhere to scroll: The internet has become hostile for millennials

• ChatGPT took their jobs. Now they walk dogs and fix air conditioners

celebrity gossip

• Bill Gates’ fanciful memory | Ken Segall

Rank Propaganda / Thought Policing / World Disordering

• Mock them till they cry - Don Surber

  “A tweet stemming from a parody account impersonating U.S. Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is being taken seriously by users online.”

Trump / War against the Right / Jan6

• J6 Footage Shows Camera Rolling as Pelosi Made Her ‘Insurrection’ Exit.

Pestilence / Pox / COVID / VaxCult

• Australian garlic variety may limit internal spread of Covid and influenza A

• Global plan for dealing with next pandemic just got weaker, critics say

• Twitter’s own lawyers believed the company could not successfully defend its Covid vaccine censorship policies in court.

• The explosive legacy of the hand sanitizer boom | Hacker News

Culture War / Tribal / Re segregation

• PetSmart is now selling Pride merch so I guess we know why pets were getting monkeypox | Not the Bee

• it was the targeting of trans kids by the left - for sex changes - that created this entire backlash.

Edumacationalizing / Acedemia Nuts

• The Newest College Admissions Ploy: Paying to Make Your Teen “Peer-Reviewed”

Media / ShowBiz / Advertising

• Fidelity cuts Reddit valuation by 41%

• Amazon Is in Talks to Offer Free Mobile Service to US Prime Members

  • HN comments

TechSuck

• Usenet over NNCP | www.complete.org

  • HN comments

• Yhe horrors on Unicode It’s not wrong that "".length == 7

  • HN comments

Economicon / Business / Finance

• UK House Prices Fall at Fastest Pace in 14 Years

• Apple Customers Say It’s Hard to Get Money Out of Goldman Sachs Savings Accounts

• Payrolls Soar By 339K, Blowing Away Highest Estimate, Even As People Employed Tumble By 310K Sending Unemployment Rate Higher.

  • The U.S. added 339,000 jobs last month

Gubmint / Poilitcks / Law Making

• Biden Speech Hailing NATO Strength Overshadowed By Serious Fall On Stage

• Senate passes bipartisan debt ceiling bill, sends to Biden’s desk | Fox News

• Conservative Americans are building a parallel economy

• FBI To Finally Hand Over Biden Corruption Docs Under Threat Of Contempt | ZeroHedge

Law Breaking / Police / Internal Security

• Man Guilty to Federal Charges Scheming to Obtain $1.2M in Covid-19 Loans

• Memphis Environmental Court Takes Homes Without Due Process

External Security / Militaria / Diplomania

• (2010) CIA planned using women's rights in Afghanistan as way of increasing war support | Hacker News

Health / Medicine

• Are Sperm Counts Really Declining?

Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda

• For Sale: A Promise to Remove Invisible Gas

• Earth’s exceeded seven out of eight safe and just ecosystem boundaries