2023-08-14

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• Maui Hawaii wildfire Death toll rises to 93

• Perfectly preserved baby dinosaur discovered curled up inside its egg

• The difference Hawaii's sirens could have made against the Maui fires

• Whee! TR-3B: Does America have a reverse-engineered UFO? | Sandboxx

Horseshit

• America is nothing more than a self-help society

• "Eat the bugs" is right wing propaganda tho: Joseph Yoon, the chef who wants to change our diets one bug at a time

• Ford CEO Predicts 1k% Growth for In-Car Software Services

celebrity gossip

• Mark Zuckerberg says it’s ‘time to move on’ from the Elon Musk fight

  • Zuck/Musk cage match canceled; tech billionaires blame each other

Rank Propaganda / Thought Policing / World Disordering

• Police raid of a Kansas newsroom raises alarms about violations of press freedom

  • Small Kansas newspaper says co-owner, 98, collapsed and died after police raid

  • HN comments

Trump / War against the Right / Jan6

• What Really Happened On January 6 | ZeroHedge

• Is Anyone Surprised? Left-Wing Media Doesn't Like 'Rich Men North Of Richmond' | ZeroHedge

• Trump RICO Indictment Briefly Appears On Georgia Court Docket | ZeroHedge

Pestilence / Pox / COVID / VaxCult

• Ways Covid changed the restaurant industry

• New variant EG.5 is on the rise as Covid-19 cases and hospitalizations go up

Culture War / Tribal / Re segregation

• I'd love to drop some Christian mystic shot on them and see how enthused they are: The Dance of Śiva | Hacker News

Edumacationalizing / Acedemia Nuts

• Kentucky school system closes after first day: ‘transportation disaster’

  The largest school system in Kentucky closed schools through August 15 following what the superintendent called a “transportation disaster” that left some children on buses until just before 10 p.m. Wednesday, the first day of school.

Media / ShowBiz / Advertising

• People Selling Off Their Burning Man Tickets Like Mad This Year, Market Flooded With Extra Tickets

• 'Magic: The Gathering' Card Heist Rattles Board Game Convention

• Inside The Decline of Stack Exchange

• For Mark Zuckerberg's Threads, the real rival is still TikTok – not X

TechSuck

• (2017) The world in which IPv6 was a good design - apenwarr

  • HN comments

• (2020) IPv4, IPv6, and a sudden change in attitude · Tailscale

• D J Bernstein – The IPv6 mess

  • HN comments

• Bomb threat causes mass evacuation at DEF CON hacking convention

Crypto con games

• Silicon Valley's latest hype: Eyeball-scanning to confirm you're human

Economicon / Business / Finance

• Russia to pilot digital ruble with 13 banks next week

• The Elite's War on Remote Work Has Nothing to Do with Productivity

  • HN comments

• Oil and food prices are rising, and so are wages. Inflation isn't beaten yet

• Burry, famous for 'Big Short,' bought bearish options against S&P, Nasdaq 100

• Kodak Says It’s Committed to Making Film ‘As Long as There Is Demand’

Gubmint / Poilitcks / Law Making

• Louis DeJoy’s ambitious plans for America’s postal service

• Greenwald: It's Not Left Vs Right Anymore, "It's Anti-Establishment Versus Pro-Establishment" | ZeroHedge

• Biden's Favorite Super PAC Used Illegal Scheme to Conceal Its Donors, Experts Say

• “Shoeless Joe” and the Fixing of the Biden Scandal – JONATHAN TURLEY

• Biden's Response When Asked About Maui Death Toll Is Truly Cold – RedState

• Miami's Red Mirage - by Alex Perez - Pirate Wires

  Miami-Dade County is now red because it is mostly populated by Hispanics — Cubans, Venezuelans, etc. — that fled socialist regimes and other assorted dumps. This distaste for socialism and despotism has linked Miami Hispanics with the Republican Party, but the kinship between Miami conservatives and traditional American conservatives is overstated. Miami is more antisocialist than it is American.

Law Breaking / Police / Internal Security

• Tampa mayor finds big catch off Florida Keys: 70 pounds of cocaine.

External Security / Militaria / Diplomania

• Türkiye Quietly Renounces NATO Links, But Not NATO Benefits | ZeroHedge

• The Space Force Is Launching Its Own Swarm of Tiny Satellites

World

• Italy slaps 40% one-off windfall tax on its banks

• Argentina Devalues Peso, Hikes Rates After Libertarian Outsider's Shock Win In Presidential Primary | ZeroHedge

• China stocks hit after developer Country Garden suspends some bond trading

Russia Bad / Ukraine War

• Russian Ruble at Weakest Level Since Early Days of Ukraine War

Health / Medicine

• A Novel Method to Predict Autoimmune Disease Flares: Examining T-Cell Tolerance

Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda

• A Republican 2024 Climate Strategy: More Drilling, Less Clean Energy

• The Human Ecology of Overshoot: Why a Major Population Correction Is Inevitable

• Judge rules in favor of Montana youths in landmark climate decision