2023-08-04

Cool

• Royal Mail to Issue “Terry Pratchett’s Discworld” Stamps

etc

• LK-99 Is the Superconductor of the Summer

  • LK-99 Negative Replication Attempts

  • great summary: The academic history of LK99

  • Successful room temperature ambient-pressure magnetic levitation of LK-99

  • HN comments

  • Andrew McCalip demonstrates synthesis of LK99 | Hacker News

  • Superconductor claims spark investor frenzy, but scientists are skeptical

  • LK-99 Superconductor Stock Frenzy Fizzles in Korea Amid Growing Doubts

  • What’s going on with the reports of a room-temperature superconductor?

  • LK-99 is an online sensation – but replication efforts fall short

• The World’s Largest Landowners

  • HN comments

• A monumental UFO scandal is looming

  Either the U.S. government has mounted an extraordinary, decades-long coverup of UFO retrieval and reverse-engineering activities, or elements of the defense and intelligence establishment are engaging in a staggeringly brazen psychological disinformation campaign.

Horseshit

• Every single’ Amazon team is working on generative AI, says CEO

• Three-quarters of Republicans think economy is priority over climate – poll

  • HN comments

• Why ChatGPT Is Getting Dumber at Basic Math

celebrity gossip

• Taylor Swift Is Helping Truck Drivers Buy First Homes with $100k Bonuses

Obit

• James Larkin, Backpage Publisher and Free Speech Warrior, Has Died

Rank Propaganda / Thought Policing / World Disordering

• Biden White House asked Facebook to tweak algorithm to push mainstream over conservative news: memo

• Biden Admin Pressured FB To Suppress Daily Wire Content, Push Users To Legacy Outlets: Newly Released Docs

• Biden's White House Pushed FaceBook to Rig Its Algorithm To Suppress Conservative News Sites, and Boost Liberal Ones

• Jim Jordan Launches Investigation Into Biden-Facebook Censorship Scheme, CCDH | ZeroHedge

• Do you avoid the news? You’re in growing company

  • HN comments

• How social media can help spread conspiracy theories

Musk

• The first Tesla ‘range inflation’ lawsuit has been filed

• Elon Musk tweets, Twitter bots boosted FTX-listed crypto: researchers

Trump / War against the Right / Jan6

• Trump Pleads Not Guilty to J6 Charges.

• Trump stumbles over his name and age at arraignment

• "Everything Appears To Be A Cover Up": Capitol Police Chief Challenged J6 Narrative In Never-Aired Tucker Carlson Interview | ZeroHedge

• Worries that lawfare isn't working? Popehat: People Are Lying To You About The Trump Indictment

• Will the public get to watch Donald Trump on trial?

Culture War / Tribal / Re segregation

• Conservative activist behind US affirmative action cases sues VC fund

• Inside the online world of people who think they can change their race

• Everyone Is Beautiful and No One Is Horny | Hacker News

Edumacationalizing / Acedemia Nuts

• ‘I’m not wanted’: Florida universities hit by brain drain as academics flee

Media / ShowBiz / Advertising

• Former Fox News Reporter Ordered by Judge to Reveal Anonymous Source

• Even people who bought Meta’s Ray-Ban smart glasses don’t want to use them

• Discord lays off 4% of staff

• Threads Has Lost More Than 80% of Its Daily Active Users

• Comcast, Centurylink Fail to Derail Utah Community-Owned Gigabit Fiber Network

TechSuck

• IPv6 Is A Disaster (but we can fix it)

  Basically Kasper Dupont seems to be the only person on the internet with any sort of widespread interest in allowing IPv6 to actually work. Props to you Kasper.

  • IPv6 was a disaster when it was introduced. Now, 20+ years afterwards, it hasn't improved. The arrow of entropy doesn't point the right way here. I think we took a major mis-step not using some geographical addressing scheme. So many problems never even appear with that simplification. "But my privacy!" arguments would be great if there was any privacy gains to be shown from arbitrary addresses; but as we can see with IPv4 it merely provides an opportunity for the commercialization of location services.

• I have yet to see them positively mentioned: Nvidia Has Practically Stopped Production of Its 40-Series GPUs

Crypto con games

• Hipster Couple Admits to Biggest Crypto Heist in History

  • Tech Entrepreneur Admits to Being Hacker in $4.5 Billion Bitcoin Heist - WSJ

• People lining up in Argentina to have their iris scanned for Worldcoin

Economicon / Business / Finance

• CoreWeave raises $2.3B in debt collateralized by Nvidia chips

• Qualcomm chip sales down 25 percent, plans layoffs

• No $44k model, starts at $60k now: General Motors drops entry-level Blazer EV as deliveries begin | Ars Technica

• Google is offering an on-campus hotel ‘special’ to lure workers back to office

• Alphabet dumps more than 90% of its stake in Robinhood

• Customers report missing deposits from Wells Fargo bank accounts

Gubmint / Poilitcks / Law Making

• IRS vows to digitize all taxpayer documents by 2025

• Dianne Feinstein, 90, cedes power of attorney to daughter — but still serves in Congress.

• Biden Administration Cancels 6 Million Barrel Order to Refill Strategic Petroleum Reserve.

• NBA players association says Orlando Magic donation to DeSantis super PAC doesn’t signal player support.

• Democrats and Republicans aren’t divided by gender, they’re divided by marriage | Washington Examiner

  But if Republicans are winning married men by 20 points, married women by 14 points, and unmarried men by 7 points, then who is keeping Democrats competitive? Single women are single-handedly saving the Democratic Party. By a 37-point margin (68% to 31%), single women overwhelmingly pulled the lever for Democrats.

• Text messages given to FBI: Chinese wanted Biden family name to help acquire U.S. energy assets | Just The News

• Devon Archer Tells Tucker About "Icarus Moment" When Biden Influence Peddling Went Too Far | ZeroHedge

Law Breaking / Police / Internal Security

• Jewish School Narrowly Avoids School Shooting: Here's How They Saved Lives – RedState

• Retailers Strike Back! 7-Eleven Workers Beat Brazen Mega-Shoplifter With A Stick | ZeroHedge

• Federal Judge Rules Against ATF Brace Rule.

External Security / Militaria / Diplomania

• Two US Navy sailors charged with providing sensitive military information to China

World

• South Africa: far-left leader calls for genocide of White citizens again

• New Zealand’s military ‘not in a fit state’, government says

• Which Are the Real Racist States? :: Gatestone Institute

  In Turkey, the Civil Servants Law of 1926 has made it virtually impossible for Christians and Jews to work as civil servants at state institutions.

Russia Bad / Ukraine War

• Ukrainian drone disables Russian warship near Russia's Novorossiysk port

Health / Medicine

• If you have first-hand knowledge of the FDA’s torpor, get in touch | Hacker News

Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda

• Winter temperatures above 95F in South America leaves Scientists in disbelief

• Arizona’s extreme heat is killing honeybees and melting their homes

• Antarctica’s heatwaves are a warning to humanity

• Telecom giants dial up the heat on suppliers: It's not you, it's your CO2

• Virus-carrying tropical mosquitos found in Finland as climate heats

• How extreme heat is making your gas more expensive

• Mass-Produced Clothing Causes Serious Air, Water Pollution Worldwide

• Bark beetles are eating through Germany’s Harz forest