2023-06-07

Cool

• Guy Built An Airsoft Phalanx CIWS In His Garage | The Drive

etc

• US urged to reveal UFO evidence after claim that it has intact alien vehicles | Hacker News

• 10 years after Snowden's first leak, what have we learned?

Horseshit

• Senators send letter questioning Mark Zuckerberg over Meta’s LLaMA leak

• Octopuses, crabs and lobsters to be recognised as sentient beings under UK law | Hacker News

• Richard Dawkins on God, vaccines and his poetic spirit

• 'No kids to feed, but lots of money'

• FBI says artificial intelligence being used for 'sextortion' and harassment

celebrity gossip

• Martha Stewart says America will go down the drain people don’t return to office

Obit

• Astrud Gilberto, ‘The Girl From Ipanema’ Singer, Dead at 83

Rank Propaganda / Thought Policing / World Disordering

• Twitter Files Extra: How the World’s “No-Kidding Decision Makers” Got Organized.

• A New Science for Describing Unhealthy Online Environments

Trump / War against the Right / Jan6

• “These academics studied falsehoods spread by Trump. Now the GOP wants answers.”

• Russiagate Prober Durham Neglected DNC Hack Claim, Despite Evidence of Sham

• How Progressives Wrecked the Rule of Law.

Pestilence / Pox / COVID / VaxCult

• Did lockdowns work? The verdict on Covid restrictions

• The traffic accidents study exposes the lamentable state of Covid-19 science

• J&J’s Covid vaccine is dead in the US; FDA revokes authorization

• Secondary Bacterial Pneumonia Drove Many COVID-19 Deaths.

• China abandoned ‘zero Covid.’ But some don’t want to leave it behind

Edumacationalizing / Acedemia Nuts

• The highest-paying degree in America is in a field with only 100k jobs

• A Student Loan Pause Has Made Borrowers Worse Off

• Beware the Man of Many Studies - Cremieux Recueil

  • HN comments

Media / ShowBiz / Advertising

• MS to pay $20M settlement for illegally collecting children’s personal data

TechSuck

• “csinc”, the AArch64 instruction you didn’t know you wanted | Hacker News

Crypto con games

• Traders pull $800M out of Binance after SEC lawsuit

• The SEC is asking for an emergency order to freeze Binance US's financial assets - worldwide.

• Sam Altman-Fried says that OpenAI isn't planning on an IPO any time soon because - I'm paraphrasing here - the entire company is an elaborate scam.

Economicon / Business / Finance

• Big Banks Could Face 20% Boost to Capital Requirements

Russia Bad / Ukraine War

• US had Intel of Ukrainian plan to attack Nord Stream project – Washington Post

Health / Medicine

• Hello kitty, goodbye kittens? Gene therapy spays cats without surgery

• Detection of a Single Sick Individual Using Wastewater Surveillance

Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda

• The first 'virgin birth' in crocodiles has been discovered

• ‘Absolute scandal’: UAE state oil firm able to read Cop28 climate summit emails

• New climate bomb: today's greenhouse gas levels to raise sea levels by 60 metres

• Wildfire smoke and haze in the Eastern United States should peak this week