2023-06-28

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• Rubio Says He’s Heard Shocking ‘Firsthand’ Accounts of UFOs

  • US Congress doubles down on explosive claims of illegal UFO retrieval programs | Hacker News

• Every Flashing Element On Your Site Alienates And Enrages Users

  • HN comments

• What if you're already on top of things? | Oliver Burkeman

• Titanic tourist sub photos show wreckage being brought ashore - BBC News

Horseshit

• "Cobalt" is really what it says: GitHub CEO: AI and software development are now inextricably linked | TechCrunch

  “It’s just so natural. There’s really no reason to not use Copilot,” he said. “I think it’s becoming part of the standard toolset that every developer will be using. Ultimately, developers not using it will exist, the same way Cobalt developers still exist.”

• That's no pizza: A wall painting found in Pompeii is not Italy's iconic dish

  • Wiki: Trencher

• The myth about regulations stifling innovation may have doomed the Titan

Rank Propaganda / Thought Policing / World Disordering

• DHS outsourced censorship to third parties, then tried to cover it up: House Judiciary GOP report | Just The News

• Election Misinformation Update

Pestilence / Pox / COVID / VaxCult

• We Are Finally Entering A Phase Of COVID "Narrative Collapse", Says Oxford Epidemiologist | ZeroHedge

Media / ShowBiz / Advertising

• Pixel fucked: Inside Hollywood's VFX crisis | Hacker News

Crypto con games

• Sam Bankman-Fried fails to dismiss criminal charges related to FTX

  • HN comments

Economicon / Business / Finance

• Ford to lay off workers as it focuses on electric vehicles

  • HN comments

• Rent is falling in America for the first time in years

• Jobs in US energy grew 3.8% in 2022, led by work in clean energy

• Is it a ‘richcession’? Or a ‘rolling recession’? Or maybe no recession at all?

• How safe are America’s biggest banks? Imminent Fed stress tests may offer clues

Gubmint / Poilitcks / Law Making

• The media isn’t checking Hunter Biden’s white privilege

• Supreme Court: States Lack ‘Standing’ To Challenge Biden Slow Walk On Immigration Enforcement

• The human suffering in our cities is a symptom of deep cultural rot. Here's how I plan to fix it

  The first step is to stop incentivizing people to do the very things we don’t want them to do. If we want people to work, then stop paying them not to work. If we want people to be clean and sober, then stop handing out needles and crack pipes. Enabling destructive behavior is not compassionate.

• NYT quietly confirms the allegation that Merrick Garland lied to Congress about Hunter.

• White House blames technical glitch for removal of Jean-Pierre’s hostile exchange with reporter.

• Even cheat sheets couldn’t save Biden from a gaffe: President, 80, says Putin is clearly ‘losing the war in Iraq’ while clutching notes on the Wagner uprising

• Beavercreek, OH passes Airbnb regulations

World

• UK government looks at nationalising Thames Water as crisis deepens

Russia Bad / Ukraine War

• Russian ‘War Reporters’ Demanding More Blood Than the Kremlin Can Deliver

• Trend or aberration? Russia is launching foreign satellites again

Health / Medicine

• Drugmakers are abandoning cheap generics

  • HN comments

• How often do health insurers says no to patients? No one knows

Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda

• Half of US wetlands lost federal protection. Their fate is up to the states

  • HN comments

• Why are orcas suddenly ramming boats?

• Smoke from Canada's wildfires darkens Europe's skies

• Electrifying everything at the rate required to meet our climate goals

• We’re Building Things Based on a Climate We No Longer Live In