2023-08-10

Worthy

The Perseid meteor shower peaks this weekend and it's even better this year
Nissan Titan Pickup Killed, Ends Production Next Year.
A superconductor claim blew up online. Science has punctured it | Hacker News
- LK-99 Isn’t a Room Temperature Superconductor After All
- Beijing Superconductor Levitation Video Author Admits Fraud, Takes It Down
First stage of Chinese rocket crashes in Chinese city – Behind The Black – Robert Zimmerman
What studies say about UFO conspiracies

The most banal conspiracy theory seems to be real. The US Government admits it has more evidence of the UFO phenomenon. This is not to say it shows they are aliens, but that there are further videos of somethingthe public has not seen. That’s not even a conspiracy, it is just true.

Congressman Tim Burchett (R-Tenn) said "We couldn't fight them off if we wanted to. That's why I don't think they're a threat to us, or they would already have been." Hurting their credibility is the fact that all three of these people seem to believe the demonstrably false claim that the 2020 election was stolen. It’s always funny to imagine that the “Deep State” let Trump win in 2016, but intervened to stop him in 2020 when Trump was already president of the US.

I Have To Admit I Still Don't Fully Understand Why You Can't Change Your Race
Radical feminists “working with the right”
The issue of “radical feminists working with the right” continues to flare up, and there is a new development under discussion. For purposes of this post, I want to distinguish between two phenomena:
- Radical feminists working across the aisle to accomplish shared legal and/or legislative objectives.
- Women bringing in right wing male militia groups to protect them from other (antifa) male violence.
None of that has anything to do with intentionally bringing in male right-wing militia groups to protect women at free-speech rallies, which I would never support. This is a women’s movement, after all.

Verizon is shutting down the videoconferencing app it bought for $400M
Temptations of an open-source Chrome extension developer | Hacker News
CNET is deleting old articles to try to improve its Google Search ranking
- HN comments
Disney Raises Prices for Streaming Services by as Much as 27%
Maybe Facebook's Ruthless Ascent Didn't Make the World More Depressed
Tim Ballard’s story in ‘The Sound of Freedom’ seems too good to be true, Robert Gehrke writes

Court records paint a starkly different narrative from the one in the film and that Ballard has repeatedly told publicly.

I should note here that I am leaning on reporting initially done by veteran local journalist Lynn Packer and laid out more recently by an unlikely source, the Red Pilled America podcast. But all of the information is available in the court records and I have verified it myself.

much of Ballard’s origin story is flatly, provably false, and the people who have donated tens of millions of dollars to Ballard’s organizations deserve to know how much of what he has told them is true and how much has been concocted to fuel his celebrity status and ego.
Amazon removes books ‘generated by AI’ for sale under author’s name.
Neil Gaiman to continue 'Good Omens' story even if not renewed for Season 3

jwz: Mastodon's Mastodon'ts

how it should work is, I own the replies to my post. Just like how it works on my blog. On my blog, I get to moderate according to my whim and don't owe anyone access to my platform.
Linux Foundation decreased Linux spending to 3.2% in 2022
The Future of the Vim Project | Hacker News

after the Neovim launch a lot of the Vim features were just Bram chasing after Neovim features.
MS Teams channels cannot contain MS-DOS device names | Hacker News

FBI shoot and kill Utah man accused of making threats against Biden

Robertson was charged under seal Tuesday with three felony counts, including making threats against the president, court documents show. “The time is right for a presidential assassination or two. First Joe then Kamala!!!” authorities say Robertson wrote in a September 2022 Facebook post included in the filings. No attorney was immediately listed for Robertson in court documents.
An FBI agent wrote in the complaint filed Tuesday seeking a warrant for Robertson’s arrest that the suspect’s post presented a “knowing and willful true threat to kill or cause injury to President Biden.”
The Jury's Verdict in Andy Ngo's Case Against Antifa Sends Shockwaves
Uvalde School Shooter's Cousin Arrested For 'Terroristic Threats' | ZeroHedge
What We Lose to Shoplifting
- Retailers say organized theft cuts profits, but internal issues may be to blame