2023-07-28

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• Ask HN: Why nobody cares about David Grusch’s UFO revelations?

  • U.S. recovered non-human 'biologics' from UFO crash sites, former Intel official

  • The truth is out there. But this UFO ‘whistleblower’ likely doesn’t have it

  • Opinion | Aliens are among us — and they want to impeach Biden - The Washington Post

• Room temperature, ambient pressure superconductivity – this time for real? | Hacker News

Horseshit

• Mushroom Foraging Is So Popular in Minnesota, the State Plans a Crackdown

• Gen-Z Is Choosing Stuffed IKEA Monkeys Instead of Having Children

• Has Oppenheimer made Einstein into a bonafide sex symbol?

Rank Propaganda / Thought Policing / World Disordering

• Techdirt Has Been Deleted from Bing and DuckDuckGo

• Meta pressured by Biden White House to remove vaccine posts

• Facebook Bowed to White House Pressure, Removed Covid Posts - WSJ

  emails show Facebook executives discussing how they managed users’ posts about the origins of a pandemic that the administration was seeking to control. “Can someone quickly remind me why we were removing—rather than demoting/labeling—claims that Covid is man made,” asked Nick Clegg, the company’s president of global affairs, in a July 2021 email to colleagues.

  "We were under pressure from the administration and others to do more,” responded a Facebook vice president in charge of content policy, speaking of the Biden administration. “We shouldn’t have done it.”

Musk

• Tesla's Dieselgate

Trump / War against the Right / Jan6

• Trump, Maintenance Guy Charged With Trying To Delete Surveillance Footage At Mar-a-Lago | ZeroHedge

• J6 Celebrity Cop Appears Uninjured in New Video Despite Testimony He Was Going to "Die" on January 6

• Trump charged with additional counts in special counsel’s classified records probe.

  at what point does this sort of behavior entirely delegitimize the election and the government?

• Planning for a Wasteland Autocracy

Pestilence / Pox / COVID / VaxCult

• PPP fraud history's worst: $200B stolen and blown on fancy cars and beach houses

  • HN comments

• Covid Lab-Leak Theory: Why U.S. Scientists Suppressed Hypothesis | National Review

Culture War / Tribal / Re segregation

• Richard Dawkins: Why biological sex matters

Edumacationalizing / Acedemia Nuts

• Biden admin withholding key funding for schools with hunting, archery programs.

Media / ShowBiz / Advertising

• Arcade Cabinet: Environmental Discs of Tron Roadside Pickup! – The Arcade Blogger

  • HN comments

• Meta-backed research says chronological feeds won’t fix platform polarization

• Mark Zuckerberg: Threads users down by more than a half

TechSuck

• US iPhone market share jumps to 55% as Android shipments fall sharply

• Systemd 254 released, deprecating sysvinit scripts

Crypto con games

• Worldcoin Promised Them Free Crypto for an Eyeball Scan. Now They Feel Robbed

• Worldcoin isn’t as bad as it sounds: It’s worse | Hacker News

Economicon / Business / Finance

• US economy defies recession fears with strong second-quarter performance

  • The Fed’s favorite inflation measure cooled down even further in June

• Ocean shippers playing catch up to electric vehicle fire risk

• Why EVs Are ‘Piling Up’ at Dealerships, Despite Massive Taxpayer Subsidies.

• China looks to flood US market with cheap electric vehicles

Gubmint / Poilitcks / Law Making

• The fix was in for Hunter Biden — until a hero judge stepped up

• Mehdi Hasan suggests imagining if left had 'propaganda arm' - TheBlaze

• Testimony Reveals FBI Employees Who Warned Social Media Companies about Hack and Leak Operation Knew Hunter Biden Laptop Wasn’t Russian Disinformation.

• Whispering Aide Tells Sen. Dianne Feinstein to ‘Just Say Aye.’

• Jill Biden's ex-husband slams 'Biden crime family'

Law Breaking / Police / Internal Security

• Man shot, killed by truck owner after stealing vehicle on Southeast Side identified by medical examiner

External Security / Militaria / Diplomania

• This Has To Be One Of The Most Terrifying Carrier Landing Videos Ever

Health / Medicine

• Emerging Tick Bite-Associated Meat Allergy Potentially Affects Thousands

• New report from UNAIDS shows that AIDS can be ended by 2030

Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda

• "era of global boiling has arrived" says UN chief

• Airborne environmental DNA captures terrestrial vertebrate diversity in nature

• False claims that heatwave is bogus spread online

• WH Council of Economic Advisors report: impact of climate change on the economy

• Why it's so important to figure out when a vital Atlantic current might collapse

• Gun rights nutjob infiltrates renowned wildlife group

• In a first, scientists find genetic cause for ‘virgin birth’ in animals