2023-08-12

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• Your Book Review: The Weirdest People in the World

• New finding boosts Panspermia theory that life on Earth originated in deep space

• A simple recipe briefly captured the world’s curiosity (LK-99 2 Weeks Later)

  • Blinded With Science

• Hip-hop turns 50, reinventing itself and swaths of the world along the way

Horseshit

• Eggs Need to Be Refrigerated

• Existential threats to humanity are soaring this year

• Why writing became an online contagion and how we can contain it

• San Franciscans Are Having Sex in Robotaxis, and Nobody Is Talking About It

• Microsoft finds vulnerabilities it says could be used to shut down power plants

• The Dangerous Promise of the Pro-Doping “Enhanced Games”

• AI will be at the center of the next financial crisis, SEC chair warns

• A tsunami of AI misinformation will shape next year’s knife-edge elections

celebrity gossip

• Jobs and Gates banned their kids from iPads and other devices they created

• 'The World Has Moved Too Far To The Left', Warns Sex Pistols' Johnny Rotten | ZeroHedge

Rank Propaganda / Thought Policing / World Disordering

• RFC 9446 Reflections on Ten Years Past the Snowden Revelations | Hacker News

• When Someone Tells You They're Lying, Believe Them — LessWrong

• "F-bomb This": The Biden Administration's Brutal Censorship Faceplant

• The Dangerous Global Trend Of Criminalizing Free Expression Online.

• Bill Gates has given $319M to media outlets to promote his global agenda

  • Bill Gates Should Stop Telling Africans What Kind of Agriculture Africans Need

Trump / War against the Right / Jan6

• Why Elon Musk Fought a Federal Search Warrant to Help Trump

Pestilence / Pox / COVID / VaxCult

• We Need Scientific Dissidents Now More Than Ever

• Never Forget: Leftists Showed Their True Authoritarian Colors During COVID | ZeroHedge

• Sen. Ron Johnson: Covid-19 Was "Preplanned By An Elite Group Of People," "Planned For Our Loss Of Freedom" | Video | RealClearPolitics

• What we know about the new Covid-19 variant ‘Eris’

Culture War / Tribal / Re segregation

• Why Does This Racist Keep Getting Silicon Valley Money?

Edumacationalizing / Acedemia Nuts

• We need scientific dissidents | Hacker News

• Harvard University Richest in World Encourages Students to Go on Food Stamps

Media / ShowBiz / Advertising

• Publishers, Internet Archive agree to streamline digital book-lending case

• Record Labels Hit Internet Archive with New $400M+ Copyright Lawsuit

• News Corp profits dive 75% as Rupert Murdoch-owned company hints at AI future

TechSuck

• Monitoring Raw X11 Communication or why Chromium opens 7 Xorg connections | Hereket

• 'Bulletproof' hosting site enabling ransomware seized, founder indicted

• Tracing the roots of the 8086 instruction set to the Datapoint 2200 minicomputer

Crypto con games

• FTX's Bankman-Fried headed for jail after judge revokes bail

• Judge to revoke bail for FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried over witness tampering | Hacker News

• FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried jailed

Economicon / Business / Finance

• Startups Are Dying, and Venture Investors Aren’t Saving Them

• The shrinking American home: As demand rises, builders go smaller

Gubmint / Poilitcks / Law Making

• Vivek Ramaswamy Channels Robert Heinlein, and Me.

• Congressman Dan Goldman Calls for Oversight Committee to Investigate Attacks on Democracy in Florida | Congressman Daniel Goldman

  Disturbingly, on August 9, 2023, Governor DeSantis suspended yet another democratically-elected State Attorney, Monique Worrell, from office in order to install a political ally. Under its current administration, Florida’s executive and legislative branches of government have engaged in a relentless assault on the fundamental rights and freedoms of Floridians. The Florida Governor has continued to force through this repressive agenda by extreme and lawless means and has taken further acts of political intimidation tactics against elected officials.

• NOAA completes upgrade to weather and climate supercomputer system

• From Scandal to Nothingburger | RealClearPolitics

• In major escalation, Delaware federal prosecutor named special counsel to investigate Biden family | Just The News

  Weiss is the federal prosecutor who brought charges against President Biden's son in Delaware. Last month, he announced a probation-only plea agreement for Hunter Biden, which was rejected by a judge.

  Added House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan: "David Weiss can’t be trusted, and this is just a new way to whitewash the Biden family’s corruption. Weiss has already signed off on a sweetheart plea deal that was so awful and unfair that a federal judge rejected it."

  • Apparent Bid to Protect Weiss From Being Investigated Over His Attempt to Defraud the Court

  • Garland Appoints Special Counsel To Cover Up Biden's Crimes | Babylon Bee

• CNN Gets a Shock When They Venture out of Their Bubble and Talk to the American People

• “Illusion of Influence”: The Media Moves the Goalpost Again on Biden Corruption Coverage – JONATHAN TURLEY

Law Breaking / Police / Internal Security

• Microsoft finds vulnerabilities it says could be used to shut down power plants

  • HN comment

World

• Police failed to solve a single burglary in half of English and Welsh neighborhoods over the last three years, data reveal amid warnings of ‘no consequences’ for committing crime

Russia Bad / Ukraine War

• Majority of Americans oppose more US aid for Ukraine war

• Bellingcat: ‘Prigozhin will either be dead or there will be a second coup’

Health / Medicine

• Can Field Sobriety Tests Identify Drivers Under the Influence of Cannabis?

• Extracellular communication between brain cells through transfer of mRNA

• Is science getting closer to the brain center for male libido?

  For the mice used in this study, the normal refractory period is five days. But directly stimulating the POA with Substance P prompted male mice that had just ejaculated to immediately repeat their sexual mating routine.

  • five days?! What kind of mice are these? My observations suggest that time is more usually around 10 seconds.

Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda

• Laws designed to protect the environment were weaponized against it

• Could artificially dimming the sun prevent ice melt?