2023-08-23

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• Ultrasound can briefly induce a hibernation-like state in animals

• Space debris cleanup target in orbit just got struck by space debris

• The Brights Zoo in Tennessee to hold naming vote for new giraffe - who was born without spots!

• Chandrayaan-3 hours away from historic moon landing for India

  • Chandrayaan-3 Landed on Moon

  • Chandrayaan-3 has landed on the moon

• Claim: Astronaut who drilled hole in ISS 'broke up w crew member, wanted home'

• Maui residents who disobeyed barricades survived fires

  Those who disobeyed the barricaded road closures during the Maui fires survived the disaster, while many of those who heeded orders to turn around perished in their cars and homes with no way out, The Associated Press reported.

  • In deadly Maui fires, many had no warning and no way out. Those who dodged barricades survived | AP News

• Escape from Lahaina: 7 hours in water, clinging to a wall

• Everyone Involved Was Following The Law

  Both of these lanes permit simultaneous right turns during the light’s green phase, at the same time as the crosswalk parallel to 4th has a walk signal. The father and his daughter were legally in the crosswalk when the driver attempted to turn right from the middle lane and hit them. This is an appallingly dangerous design that should never have been approved. If you are a driver turning right, it is all too easy to fail to see a person in the crosswalk. This is all the more true if you are in the middle lane and a vehicle is also in the rightmost lane, obscuring your view of anyone who might be crossing on foot.

Horseshit

• Japanese scientists hoping for a message from alien life imminently

• McNealy's bittersweet memo bids good-bye to Sun (2010) | Hacker News

• Development Delays Linked to Babies with Excessive Screen Time, Study Finds

• 3D printers printing without consent is a cautionary tale on cloud reliance

• I built a printer into a shoe so I can print wherever I go

• Why Are Sex Toy Vibration Patterns So Terrible?

Rank Propaganda / Thought Policing / World Disordering

• YouTube does not polarize, yet further results in this direction

  We find that while the [YouTube] algorithm pulls users away from political extremes, this pull is asymmetric, with users being pulled away from Far Right content stronger than from Far Left. Furthermore, we show that the recommendations made by the algorithm skew left even when the user does not have a watch history.

• 'Choke Point 2.0': Bank regulators cut porn industry off from banks, states pass age limits to porn | Just The News

• Jordan Peterson loses court battle over 'degrading' and 'unprofessional' tweets, will be forced into remedial coaching

  • Ontario court rules against Jordan Peterson, upholds social media training order

• Russia amplifies campaign to undermine support for Ukraine with Hawaii's tragedy

  A deep, deep dive into the symbiotic relationship between right-wing influencers, Russian state media, and the shared disinformation ecosystem in which they live.

Musk

• Musk’s Erratic Behavior May Be Caused by Escalating Drug Use, Associates Say

Trump / War against the Right / Jan6

• EXCLUSIVE: Leftist CNN Cameraman Jayden X Plotted J6 Riot On Antifa Discord Servers, Met Up With Ray Epps Before Going To Capitol, Jayden X's Brother Says - National File

• Why should be believe anything on Social Media?

Pestilence / Pox / COVID / VaxCult

• Mask Mandates, Contact Tracing Re-Implemented at Colleges, Offices

• Left or right arm: Choosing where to get Covid vaccine matters, study suggests

• Biden admin buys more Covid ‘safety’ supplies in ramp up for new variants.

• Covid Infections have doubled in US in past month amid rise two mutant variants

• The Right is busy dragging out "Mask's don't work" and "lockdowns weren't effective at slowing spread" arguments; the Left is planning for elections during lockdowns and enforcing employee discipline as "work from home" becomes the new normal.

• Top Epidemiologist suggests CDC skewed science to support mask narrative

Culture War / Tribal / Re segregation

• Has the Queen song “Fat Bottomed Girls” been cancelled?

• How can we have a proper debate when we no longer speak the same language?

  A certain type of activist has a level of paranoid hypersensitivity that almost literally warps their hearing. You can say ,“I disagree with you for the following reasons.” But all they actually hear is “Hate hate hate!” So instead of putting a counter-argument (which I would be interested to hear), they resort to censorship. All too often it goes further, and they boil over in virulent abuse: “Transphobe! TERF!”

Edumacationalizing / Acedemia Nuts

• Critical Periods For Language: Much More Than You Wanted To Know

Media / ShowBiz / Advertising

• Netflix plans to give away DVDs as service shuts down

• Amazon Sues Online Stores Selling Pirated DVDs

• How ‘Rich Men North of Richmond’ Reached the Top of the Charts

  • HN comments

• Burning Man is shut down because – get this – flooding

TechSuck

• Microsoft is bringing Python to Excel | Hacker News

• Foundational Models for State-of-the-Art Speech and Text Translation

• Western Digital issues firmware update for dying SanDisk SSDs

• City-Wide IMSI-Catcher Detection - SeaGlass

Crypto con games

• FTX’s Sam Bankman-Fried ‘subsisting on bread and water’ in jail: lawyer

• Sex Workers Took Refuge in Crypto. Now It’s Failing Them

• Tornado Cash Founders Charged With Money Laundering And Sanctions Violations

Economicon / Business / Finance

• 500,000 jobs could disappear in dramatic revision of US government data: report.

• Hackers can use credit bureaus to dox nearly anyone in America | Hacker News

• Ex-Head Of JPMorgan's Precious Metals Desk Sentenced To Prison For Manipulation

• Mortgage demand drops to a 28-year low as interest rates soar to 7.31%

• The higher Nvidia goes now, the worse the crash soon. Wall St gains with focus on Nvidia's high-stakes results

• Dick’s Sporting Goods, Macy’s Flash Warning Signs on U.S. Consumer Spending.

• UPS Workers Overwhelmingly Approve "Richest National Contract"

Gubmint / Poilitcks / Law Making

• 'Children Were Incinerated To Ash': Livid Hawaiians Slam Biden For Cracking Jokes, Lying About Wife

• Very Special Counsel David Weiss, the Man Merrick Garland Assigned to "Prosecute" Hunter Biden, Worked With Beau Biden For Years

• Austin Vernon on the IRA

• A State Official Refused to Release Water for West Maui Fires | Hacker News

• The Progressive Benefactor Who Makes U.S. Barriers to Foreign Cash Look Like Swiss Cheese.

• Mainstream Media Propaganda at Work - by John A. Lucas

• Hunter Biden’s Foreign Dealings Spell More Trouble Ahead: Justice Department opens prospect of pursuing lobbying violations as it presses on with criminal tax probe, while Republicans push to implicate President Biden in his son’s activities.

  • when the establishment wanted Biden in the White House it broke the rules to protect him and his son. Now that it wants to get rid of him, it’s turning the pressure up. None of this has anything to do with justice. -- Glen Reynolds

• Nikki Goeser at Press Conference at the Tennessee State Legislature’s Special Session on Gun Control.

• WaPo: Opinion | Why the Hunter Biden saga deserves a serious investigation - The Washington Post

Law Breaking / Police / Internal Security

• Retail theft: Walmart, Home Depot, Target detail 'unacceptable amount' of crime

• Judge rules three of Andy Ngo’s Antifa attackers must pay him $100,000 each.

External Security / Militaria / Diplomania

• USS Zumwalt Arrives in Mississippi for Hypersonic Weapon Installation.

World

• (2017) Medically assisted deaths could save millions in health care spending: Report | CBC News

• Cash payments above €3000 to be outlawed in Netherlands

  • HN comments

• Xi’s Age of Stagnation: The Great Walling-Off of China

Russia Bad / Ukraine War

• Wagner boss Prigozhin killed in plane crash in Russia

  • Ten killed in private jet crash – Wagner leader Prigozhin 'on passenger list'

  • Wagner's Prigozhin Presumed Dead After His Business Jet With 10 People On Board 'Crashes'

  • Plane Carrying Wagner Owner Prigozhin Crashes in Russia, All Aboard Killed

  • Wagner Group leader Yevgeny Prigozhin dies

  • Wagner chief Prigozhin listed as passenger on plane that crashed, no survivors

• Prigozhin will either be dead or there will be a second coup

• Russian Wagner chief Prigozhin listed on board plane that crashed in Moscow

Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda

• Tropical lakes are carbon super sinks, even more than forests, study shows

• The sudden demise of Indian vultures killed thousands of people

• The underappreciated benefits of wild bees

• The Impossible Fight to Stop Canada’s Wildfires