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• Early origins of the ubiquitous Black and Decker Workmate

Horseshit

• Global climate disasters are raising insurance rates

• ‘WarGames’ anticipated our current AI fears 40 years ago this summer

  • HN comments

• Johnson and Johnson sues researchers who linked talc to cancer | Hacker News

• “That Deep Romantic Chasm”: Libertarianism, Neoliberalism, & Computer Culture | Hacker News

• More of this shit: What AT&T and Verizon Knew About Toxic Lead Cables for Decades | Hacker News

• The $1B gamble to ensure AI doesn’t destroy humanity

• Ash HN: How can I make my idle CPU time useful to others? | Hacker News

Rank Propaganda / Thought Policing / World Disordering

• With the rise of AI, social media platforms face storm of misinformation in 2024

  • HN comments

Culture War / Tribal / Re segregation

• Southern California Ethic Enclaves 

Media / ShowBiz / Advertising

• You’re Not Imagining It: Social Media Is in Chaos

• HN's "reddit refugee" problem has got me spending less time there

TechSuck

• Undocumented 8086 instructions, explained by the microcode

  • HN comments

• Underwater ears everywhere

  • HN comments

Economicon / Business / Finance

• America fell out of love with ice cream

• Ford Slashes F-150 Lightning Truck Prices By Up To $10,000 As EV War Heats Up

Gubmint / Poilitcks / Law Making

• Senator Schumer Pushes Measure to Declassify UFO Records

• How Obama (and Trump and Biden) beat Europe

• The Manchurian Kennedy: who benefits from an RFK Jr. candidacy

• Third-party No Labels will not be a ‘spoiler’ in 2024 election, chair says.

Law Breaking / Police / Internal Security

• Two 'peacekeepers' shot in Chicago this weekend, including one on electronic monitoring: source - CWB Chicago

• Record migration sparks backlash in U.S., Europe

External Security / Militaria / Diplomania

• The Long, Destructive Shadow of Obama’s Russia Doctrine: A series of bad decisions during the Obama years prepared the ground for Vladimir Putin’s war.

Russia Bad / Ukraine War

• Ukraine claims responsibility for new attack on key Crimea bridge

• Russia Suspends Black Sea Grain Deal with Ukraine.

• Private Russian military co's are multiplying– and so are the Kremlin’s problems

• Zelensky, Pentagon Acknowledge Counteroffensive Had To Be "Paused" Amid Losses | ZeroHedge

Health / Medicine

• EGenesis plans to transplant pig hearts into babies next year

• I'm Not Trying to be Dramatic, But I'm in Hell

  I don’t know how it is that we’ve simultaneously spent so much time validating and honoring people who struggle with their mental health and at the same time made mental health as a topic so frivolous.

Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda

• New Research Sparks Concerns That Ocean Circulation Will Collapse

• The heat wave scorching the US is a self-perpetuating monster

• Brewing El Niño Suggests the Worst Heat Is yet to Come

• Energy industry uses whale activists to aid anti-wind farm strategy

• Luxury-focused carbon taxation improves fairness of climate policy