2023-08-16

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• Wright's Book of Poultry (1911) | Hacker News

• LK-99 isn’t a superconductor – how science sleuths solved the mystery

  • HN comments

• Asteroid ZTm0038 with a >3% impact probability | Hacker News

• Non technical The ancient technology keeping space missions alive - BBC Future

Horseshit

• Can we please just go back to using smaller wheels and tires?

  Glaring examples of this trend are the Rolls-Royce Spectre, which rides on 23-inch wheels, or the just-revealed Cadillac Escalade IQ, which will use 24-inch wheels—formerly the preserve of the "donk."

• Eggo’s ‘Brunch in a Jar’ marries booze with brunch - nj.com

celebrity gossip

• Michael Oher accused of $15M 'shakedown' of Tuohy family

• Chan Zuckerberg Initiative Lays Off Dozens

Rank Propaganda / Thought Policing / World Disordering

• Marion County atty withdraws search warrant against Kansas paper, returns items

• Soros To End 'Most EU Operations' In 'Radical Shift' | ZeroHedge

• Vice blocked news stories that could offend Saudi Arabia, insiders say

• Teens much more likely to believe online conspiracies than adults – study

  • Young People Tell Us They Need Help Identifying Misinformation

• State Department turns over some records about Global Disinformation Index - Liberty Unyielding

• Maui wildfires spark conspiracy theories about space-lasers, Oprah land grabs, and suspicious trees.

  • Why Is There Such A Frenzy To Buy Up The Properties That Were Just Burned Down During The Fires In Hawaii? | ZeroHedge

  “I’m already thinking of ways for the state to acquire that land so that we can put it into workforce housing, to put it back into families, or make it open spaces in perpetuity as a memorial to the people who were lost,” Green commented amid the ruins.

  • Lahaina Fire Victims Being Pressured to Sell Land, Governor Warns - The Messenger

  “I’ve reached out to the attorney general to explore options to do a moratorium on any sales of properties that have been damaged or destroyed,” said Gov. Green “I will try to allow no one from outside our state to buy any land until we get through this crisis and decide what Lahaina should be in the future,” he said.

  • HN comments

  • Hawaii governor says state is looking to 'acquire land' destroyed in fires

  • HN comments

  • both those stories got flagged down fast on HN, with votes and comments, while the "alfalfa" story was front page. postmillenial; ok they dont like that source; but the local paper shouldn't be bounced automatically on source. or submitter. ... i hesitate to say "flamebait"

  • Now I know something is hinky here: Maui truthers are so dumb they’re using a Falcon 9 photo as wildfire evidence

Musk

• X shuts down $100M promoted accounts ad business

• Environmental Users Migrating Away from Elon Musk’s X Platform

• Elon Musk keeps getting creepier - The Verge

  • The Coward's Octagon - Ed Zitron's Where's Your Ed At

  Elon Musk has spent his entire life bullying and threatening people, and has never once been shown the consequences of his actions. Musk has spent the best part of a year destroying one of the world’s most crucial information sources, empowering fascists, and creating a hostile world for people of color on what used to be the world’s town square.

• Twitter's response to US Government search warrant (turned over deleted DMs) | Hacker News

Trump / War against the Right / Jan6

• “Oh Georgia, No Peace I Find”: The Fourth Indictment of Donald Trump and the Criminalization of Election Controversies – JONATHAN TURLEY

• What is RICO, the law at the heart of Trump's Georgia criminal case?

• Mark Meadows Files To Remove Georgia State Prosecution To Federal Court

Culture War / Tribal / Re segregation

• Michael Oher is every bit as broken as the media members selling his Blind Side lie

• Target Pride backlash adds to sales woes, culture wars rage in corporate America

Edumacationalizing / Acedemia Nuts

• Biden Announces $39 Billion Student Loans Will Be "Automatically Discharged" Soon | ZeroHedge

Media / ShowBiz / Advertising

• Netflix finally streams video games

• Hip hop historians who are racing to preserve its story | Hacker News

• Nintendo Is Trying to Patent Some Broad Tears of the Kingdom Mechanics

  • HN comments

  If Nintendo were to hold a patent on this bullshit and thusly prevent it from being implemented in any other game, they'd do the gamers a favour.

• Firm regrets taking Facebook moderation work

  • CEO regrets her firm took on Facebook moderation work after staff ‘traumatised’

TechSuck

• How Is LLaMa.cpp Possible? | Hacker News

  • Talks of memory bandwidth; but neglects latency, which is even more important.

• Raspberry Pi 3, rfkill, and real root causing - Julio Merino (jmmv.dev)

• With some tech savvy, you can disconnect your robot vacuum from the cloud

  • Vacuum Robot Overview

• Brand-new Linux release, which I'm calling the Debian Linux Release (1993) | Hacker News

Crypto con games

• Coinbase wins approval to offer crypto futures in the US

Economicon / Business / Finance

• Despite recession fears, the U.S. economy is doing just fine

• The Socialist Utopia is proceeding nicely: New data: global wealth rises, inequality falls

• US Economy ‘On the Right Track,’ Yellen Says on 1-Year Anniversary of Inflation Reduction Act.

• Fitch warns it may be forced to downgrade dozens of banks, including JPMorgan Chase.

• The “New Normal” Mortgage Rate Range.

  Currently rates are at 7.26% for 30-year mortgages.

Gubmint / Poilitcks / Law Making

• Bring on the Counterrevolution

  The urgent task for the political Right today is to comprehend the dynamics of revolution and counterrevolution and to create a strategy for dislodging the New Left ideology of 1968, which has solidified control over the most fundamental structures of American society. The challenge must be met not solely in the realm of policy debate but on the deepest political and philosophical grounds.

• It’s democracy in the dark without Nashville shooter manifesto’s release.

• LOL! Karine Jean-Pierre tweets then deletes and the reason why is HILARIOUS – Twitchy

• Biden Budget Deficits Look Like Those Normally Seen In Recessions.

• Emails Show Hunter Biden Hired Specialists to Quietly Airbrush Wikipedia

  Wikipedia maintains a semi-transparent system to show the edit history of any article on the website. The history shows that shortly after Hunter’s request, several anonymous Wikipedia accounts began a series of edits to his page, adding changes requested by Hunter and deleting embarrassing lines.

• Katherine Feinstein alleges Sen. Dianne Feinstein is victim of elder abuse in filings.

Law Breaking / Police / Internal Security

• DC dealt more harshly with pro-life protesters than Black Lives Matter, federal court rules | Just The News

External Security / Militaria / Diplomania

• Pioneering study links cancer among military personnel to ‘forever chemicals’

• Janet Yellen inadvertently ate hallucinogenic mushrooms in China

World

• China Busy Hiding Reports Of Flood Damage And Death

• Engineer slapped with suspension after bridge collapsed hours after opening

• China launches first geosynchronous orbit radar satellite

Russia Bad / Ukraine War

• After Ruble Crash, Russia Hikes Interest Rates at Emergency Meeting

• Russia's ruble has tumbled. What does it mean for the wartime economy?

• Russia Thwarts Another Ground Force Attack Of 'Saboteurs' From Ukraine | ZeroHedge

Health / Medicine

• Chinese drugmakers develop copycat versions of ‘miracle’ weight-loss drug

Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda

• Energy Jobs Have Increased in Nearly Every County in America

• Rising methane may indicate Earth's climate in 'termination-level transition'

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

• How do we save water: Stop growing alfalfa in Imperial County

  • HN comments

• Is This The Most Asinine Sentence Ever Written About ‘Climate Change’? – Issues & Insights

  “A government duty to protect citizens from climate change”?