2023-07-08

Horseshit

• San Francisco's new venture capital hotspot: The Presidio

Rank Propaganda / Thought Policing / World Disordering

• Biden Administration Is ‘Irreparably Harmed’ by Free Speech Injunction

• An Online Campaign Against Intelligence Research | City Journal

Musk

• SpaceX Now Has A De Facto Monopoly on Rocket Launches.

• The Elon Musk private jet tracker was on Threads, but not anymore

Trump / War against the Right / Jan6

• Narrative Collapse: Tucker Carlson Says Capitol Police Chief Admitted 'Jan6 Crowd Was Filled With Feds' | ZeroHedge

• Missed America | Theological Variations | Issues | The Hedgehog Review

Culture War / Tribal / Re segregation

• White nationalist publisher’s data exposed in Amazon cloud leak

Media / ShowBiz / Advertising

• Threads isn’t for news and politics, says Instagram’s boss

  • Meta’s vision for Threads is more mega-mall than public square

  • I am drowning in mutes: The current Threads experience | Hacker News

• Scams upon scams: The data-driven advertising grift

  • HN comments

• Sound of Freedom Sends a Rolling Stone Writer Into Fits of Rage

  • "Why Do You Support Child Trafficking?" Rolling Stone Slammed Over Negative 'Sound Of Freedom' Review

TechSuck

• Packing a string of digits into an integer quickly – Daniel Lemire's blog

• Top suspect in 2015 Ashley Madison hack committed suicide in 2014 | Hacker News

• Windows Update Restored: Fix Windows update on Windows 95, 98, ME, 2000, and XP | Hacker News

• Meta commits to dedicate 3 engineer-years to implement GIL removal from Python

  • HN comments

• Reverse-engineering the 8086 processor's address and data pin circuits

Economicon / Business / Finance

• The threat of a UPS strike is testing the strength of the labor market

Gubmint / Poilitcks / Law Making

• Biden Whistleblower Gal Luft: 'I May Have To Live On The Run For the Rest of My Life'

• Cities are ending fares on transit. Here’s why

• Uh oh. The Atlantic calls for Biden to step aside.

• It’s Seven Grandkids, Mr. President

External Security / Militaria / Diplomania

• Raytheon asks retirees for help making new Stinger anti-air missiles

• China sends warships and fighter jets near Taiwan during Yellen's Beijing visit

World

• Once hailed for decriminalizing drugs, Portugal is now having doubts | Hacker News

• Australia found to have run crude and cruel debt scheme • The Register

Health / Medicine

• Studying links between the gut and mental health is personal for this scientist

Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda

• The New Climate Law Is Working. Clean Energy Investments Are Soaring

• Fast Fashion Emits 10% of Humanities' CO2