2023-08-24

Cool

• South Pole Electrical Infrastructure

etc

• Rare spotless giraffe born in U.S. zoo

• Mysterious Neptune dark spot detected from Earth for the first time

Horseshit

• John Rawls Was Wrong to Think We Could Have a Just Capitalism

• Heavy drinking, handgun-carrying linked among rural youth

• This Car Has Wooden Performance

• Apparatus for facilitating the birth of a child by centrifugal force (1963) | Hacker News

celebrity gossip

• A Harvard Professor Became the World’s Leading Alien Hunter

• Metallica at Midlife: Less Alcohol, More Tofu and a Blockbuster Tour

Rank Propaganda / Thought Policing / World Disordering

• Amazon’s Tucker-Disappearing Act.

  after describing the book as “Sold Out,” Amazon didn’t order more copies from the publisher; on the contrary—and quite incredibly—it “emailed many preorder customers to ask if they wanted to cancel their orders,” and required them “to go on a desktop, not the app, and proactively confirm they still wanted the book or the order would automatically cancel.”

• Political polarization toned down through anonymous online chats

• Soros NGOs Demand Crackdown on Speech as Politicians Spread Hate Misinformation

Musk

• Briefly: X suspends DeSantis PAC’s account hours before debate.

• The False Promises of Tesla’s Full Self Driving

• DOJ Sues SpaceX for Discriminating Against Asylees and Refugees in Hiring

  • HN comments

  • I thought that SpaceX, due to the nature of their work (rockets) were specifically prohibited from hiring non-citizens? Edit: seems like the DOJ is claiming that that is not the case. Weird…so this is basically going to boil down to each side arguing their interpretation of a regulation. Can’t say this doesn’t smell just a little political.

  • SpaceX updated language:

    "To conform to U.S. Government export regulations, applicant must be a (i) U.S. citizen or national, (ii) U.S. lawful, permanent resident (aka green card holder), (iii) Refugee under 8 U.S.C. § 1157, or (iv) Asylee under 8 U.S.C. § 1158, or be eligible to obtain the required authorizations from the U.S. Department of State."

• X (Twitter) blocked links to a Democratic political tool for a week

Trump / War against the Right / Jan6

• Woman threatened to shoot Donald Trump, son Barron ‘straight in the face’: feds.

• 150 Million & Counting... Trump Triumphant, Ramaswamy Runner-Up, DeSantis Dud | ZeroHedge

• Mugshots: 9 co-defendants in Trump Georgia election interference case.

Pestilence / Pox / COVID / VaxCult

• Lockdowns and face masks ‘unequivocally’ cut spread of Covid, report finds

• Americans at high risk advised to wear masks as new Covid variant detected

  • HN comments

Media / ShowBiz / Advertising

• Burning Man is flooded thanks to tropical storm Hilary, attendees turned away.

TechSuck

• An excruciatingly detailed guide to SSH (but only the things I find useful)

• Innovation! Chrome plans to let you move the address bar to the bottom

Crypto con games

• Tornado Cash devs charged with laundering more than $1B

• Ex-OpenSea Executive Nate Chastain Gets 3 Months in Prison for Insider Trading

• FBI Finds 1,580 Bitcoin in Crypto Wallets Linked to North Korean Hackers\

Economicon / Business / Finance

• Nvidia reports 88% jump in revenue and tops estimates

  • Nvidia Announces Financial Results for Second Quarter Fiscal 2024

  • HN comments

• The median return of 2022's SPAC mergers: -82% | Hacker News

• Juul to Lay Off 30% of Staff

• GM announces closure of Arizona IT Innovation Center, resulting in 940 job cuts

• T-Mobile US to Lay Off 5k Employees

• Is safe the new sexy? CBDCs, trust and the evolution of money

• More than 200 ships are in a traffic jam outside the Panama Canal

Gubmint / Poilitcks / Law Making

• Doug Burgum is offering $20 to people donating $1 to his campaign. legal?

• To Tackle Highest Housing Costs, Hawaii's Gov Declares Yimby Martial Law

• “Elite” cyber unit at DoD hosted Biden’s pseudonym e-mail accounts.

• FEMA Officials Enjoy Luxury Hotels as Displaced Maui Residents Need Aid.

• Horror: Those Who Disobeyed Barricades Survived Maui Fires | ZeroHedge

  During a press conference, Maui Police Chief John Pelletier (formerly police chief in Las Vegas during the deadliest mass-shooting in US history) told reporters that officers never stopped residents from fleeing the area, however AP says that residents were turned away and discouraged from disobeying the barricade.

• Delaware prosecutor Alexander Mackler who worked with investigator probing Hunter Biden’s shady overseas dealings was so chummy with president he used his secret email address under the name ‘Robin Ware.’

External Security / Militaria / Diplomania

• Unconfirmed reports have suggested a Chinese nuclear submarine has crashed

World

• American Satirist C.J. Hopkins Sentenced in German Speech Case

Russia Bad / Ukraine War

• Prigozhin on Manifest of Plane That Crashed in Russia

• Prigozhin’s death would leave lasting mark on Russian army and elite

• Wagner boss Yevgeny Prigozhin’s jet appeared fine 30 seconds before crash amid rumors bomb was hidden in a wine crate.

Health / Medicine

• 1 in 5 women experienced mistreatment from medical staff in their last pregnancy

• Why there is only a Lyme vaccine for dogs

Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda

• Natural beekeepers are the radical dissenters of apiculture | Hacker News

• Fossil fuels being subsidised at rate of $13M a minute, says IMF

• New flame retardants found in breast milk years after similar chemicals banned

• Canadian wildfires fueled by climate change, study shows

• Climate change: Thousands of penguins die in Antarctic ice breakup

  up to 10,000 young birds estimated to have been killed. The sea-ice underneath the chicks melted and broke apart before they could develop the waterproof feathers needed to swim in the ocean. The birds most likely drowned or froze to death.

  ... or, just possibly, they could have walked 1.5km in 43 days and been just fine.

  • HN comments

  This is heartbreaking. News like this is why I'm devoting my career to fighting climate change.

• Edible insects market growing investment based on climate and security benefits

• Fireflies may disappear, scientists are trying to count how many are left