2023-07-01

Cool

• Saturn’s rings steal the show in new image from Webb telescope | Ars Technica

Worthy

• The complex history of the Intel i960 RISC processor

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• Mars helicopter Ingenuity phones home, breaking 63-day silence

• Necessary Illusions: Thought Control in Democratic Societies | Hacker News

• Does ketchup go in the fridge? Heinz settles the debate

Horseshit

• "AI will or wont kill us all" The Second System Problem

• Maximum Canada: Canada has a nation-building population strategy. Does America?

Musk

• Twitter now requires an account to view tweets

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  • tanked? HN comments

  • Twitter isn’t letting users view the site without logging in

• Twitter temporarily restricts tweets users can see, Elon Musk announces

• Amid San Francisco’s Woes, Elon Musk Plays Critic

Culture War / Tribal / Re segregation

• Share of 40-year-olds in US who have never married reaches new high

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Media / ShowBiz / Advertising

• How Reddit crushed the biggest protest in its history

• The Reddit app-pocalyse is here: Apollo, Sync, and BaconReader go dark

• YouTube is testing a more aggressive approach against ad blockers | Hacker News

TechSuck

• Someone dropped the source code for Far Cry 1 on archive.org | Hacker News

Economicon / Business / Finance

• Is the US getting too expensive? Many Americans worry about economy, inflation

• For the first time ever, euro paper money in circulation is shrinking

Gubmint / Poilitcks / Law Making

• US Supreme Court rules website designer can refuse to serve same-sex couples

• Will there be an Article V constitutional convention courtesy of the far right?

• Biden Announces New Actions to Provide Debt Relief and Support for Student Loans

• Biden’s “Normal”: The President’s Constitutional Takes are Becoming More Unhinged from History – JONATHAN TURLEY

• The RNC’s debate plans have a major, largely unnoticed problem

• Comer says overseas payments to Biden family could exceed $40M

Law Breaking / Police / Internal Security

• FBI finally tracks “swatting” incidents as attacks increase nationwide

  • HN comments

External Security / Militaria / Diplomania

• To Make More Stingers, US Needs to Revive Production Technology from Scratch

World

• Brazil's Jair Bolsonaro is barred from office until 2030

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• French Police Say "We're At War With Vermin" As Nationwide Riots Spread Like Cancer

Russia Bad / Ukraine War

• Deciphering Vladimir Putin's many appearances since mutiny

Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda

• Virus-like transposons cross the species barrier, study shows

• Pothole damage from electric cars is double that of petrol