2023-06-29

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

• Pulsar timing yields evidence of cosmic gravitational wave background

  • The Cosmos Is Thrumming with Gravitational Waves

• Delta flight lands in Charlotte without front landing gear

  • HN comments

Horseshit

• Unfuckable Hate Nerds - Tablet Magazine

  • HN comments

  The anti-trans remarks at the end is a strong indicator this author has not exceed their incel views

• To save money on insurance, drivers agree to intrusive monitoring technology

  • HN comments

• Burnout and the quiet failures of the hacker community

  • Like: "I'm leaving your community because it didn't protect me from making what i now see are errors of too much tolerance for others"

  • HN comments

celebrity gossip

• Women Interviewing for Bill Gates’s Office Asked Sexually Explicit Questions

Rank Propaganda / Thought Policing / World Disordering

• Brussels unveils plans for a digital euro promising complete privacy

  • HN comments

• Meta oversight board orders firm to take down video by Cambodian leader

Musk

• Linda Yaccarino’s vision for Twitter 2.0 emerges

Trump / War against the Right / Jan6

• Rightwingers say ‘pink-haired liberals’ are killing New York pizza

Edumacationalizing / Acedemia Nuts

• (PDF) Supreme Court rules against affirmative action

  • Supreme Court Strikes Down Race-Based Admissions at Harvard and UNC

    • HN comments

  • Supreme Court restricts use of affirmative action for college admission

  • Supreme Court puts an end to affirmative action

  • US Supreme Court rules against affirmative action in Harvard and UNC cases

  • 'Color-Blind' Supreme Court Bars Consideration Of Race In College Admissions

  • SCOTUS rejects affirmative action, says schools can’t consider race in admission

  • Supreme Court ends affirmative action

  • Supreme Court ends affirmative action in college admissions

  • Supreme Court strikes down affirmative action in college admissions | Hacker News

Media / ShowBiz / Advertising

• ‘Indiana Jones And The Dial Of Destiny’ Box Office Projections Described As ‘Abysmal,’ Film Could Lose Upwards Of $250 Million.

• Valve bans games using AI generated graphics or text from Steam | Hacker News

TechSuck

• Fast machines, slow machines - Julio Merino (jmmv.dev)

  • HN comments

• CLI tools hidden in the Python standard library | Hacker News

Economicon / Business / Finance

• Maza is a financial startup targeting the lucrative illegal immigrant market.

Gubmint / Poilitcks / Law Making

• Is Tennessee Governor Bill Lee Waiving a Red Flag or a White One?

• The Left’s Campaign to Destroy the Supreme Court

Law Breaking / Police / Internal Security

• Berkeley man, 69, lit on fire by stranger, in critical condition

External Security / Militaria / Diplomania

• Chinese Balloon Used American Tech to Spy on Americans

• How Bad a Nuclear War Would Actually Be

World

• China unveils sweeping foreign policy law

• Fatal police shooting of teenager triggers protests and arrests across France

Health / Medicine

• Aspartame sweetener to be declared possible cancer risk by WHO, say reports

  • HN comments

• The truth about emulsifiers: are they destroying our gut health?

Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda

• Baseball-Sized Hail Smashing into Panels at 150 MPH Destroys Solar Farm

• People urged to stay indoors as smoke from Canadian wildfires