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• On the Discovery of a Late Acheulean ‘Giant’ Handaxe

• Before there was Oppenheimer there was Vannevar Bush

• Hawaiian Electric says power lines were shut off hours before wildfire

Horseshit

• Opening of West Point time capsule reveals what cynics said it would: Nothing

  • Military Crowd Groans as 200-Year-Old 'Time Capsule' Found Empty on Live Stream

• She paid husband's hospital bill. A year after his death, they wanted more money

Rank Propaganda / Thought Policing / World Disordering

• Associated Press Coverage of Courts, Climate Bankrolled by Dozens of Left-Wing Foundations

• Meta pins 'Spamouflage' influence campaign on Chinese law enforcement

• China behind ‘largest ever’ digital influence operation

Musk

• Social media platform X down for thousands of users

Trump / War against the Right / Jan6

• Yes, Trump was Seeking Another Recount or Investigation in Georgia: A Response to the Washington Post – JONATHAN TURLEY

Culture War / Tribal / Re segregation

• The manosphere promises to fix young men’s lives. It’s making them miserable

• Wikipedia should focus on content creation – not social justice campaigns

• ‘Blatantly Illegal:’ NASCAR Bans White Applicants From ‘Diversity Internship.’

Edumacationalizing / Acedemia Nuts

• Neutrons prove ‘Bond villain’ did not cause Arecibo telescope collapse

Media / ShowBiz / Advertising

• I know of two serious Wikipedia scandals but I don't know which media to contact

TechSuck

• Meta HN: How much of a HN's typical front page do you understand? | Hacker News

• Stringzilla: Fastest string sort, search, split, and shuffle using SIMD

• Diving into Starlink's User Terminal Firmware

  During my 6-month internship at Quarkslab as part of my Master's degree program at the University of Trento, I carried out the analysis of Starlink by reverse-engineering its firmware and the various protocols it uses. At the end of the internship, I gained a good knowledge of how the device works internally and developed a set of tools that could help other researchers working on the same topic. These tools will be described and published along with this blog post.

  • HN comment

• A Pigeon is still faster than the Internet (Jeff Geerling)

Crypto con games

• Bitcoin trading volume is at its lowest in more than four years

Economicon / Business / Finance

• No factory? shocking Foxconn puts its empty buildings in Wisconsin up for sale

  • Foxconn's promise to invest $10B in Wisconsin is now a distant memory

• Americans Are Bailing on Their Home Insurance: Some homeowners who are skipping coverage say they can no longer afford rising premiums.

• Americans Pay a Price for Corporate Consolidation

Gubmint / Poilitcks / Law Making

• DOT issues largest-ever fine to American Airlines for tarmac delays

• Biden will observe 9/11 in Alaska instead of the traditional NYC, Virginia or Pennsylvania events

• John Kerry Implicated in Ukraine Scandal: Met with Hunter’s Business Partner at Burisma Before Ukrainian Prosecutor Fired - The Politics Brief

• Revealed: National Archive Has 5,400 Biden Pseudonym Documents From Time As Veep | ZeroHedge

• Joe Biden’s email aliases reveal truth behind aw-shucks facade.

Law Breaking / Police / Internal Security

• Watch: Big Government Raids Small-Town Amish Farm

External Security / Militaria / Diplomania

• Whistleblower alleges Booz Allen was overcharging U.S. taxpayers for losses

World

• Authorities Arrest 79 Suspected Arsonists for Igniting Wildfires in Greece: Greek Minister of Climate Crisis and Civil Protection Vassilis Kikilias: “Arsonist scum are setting fires that threaten forests, property and, most of all, human lives.”

• EU court rules that minorities in Bosnia are ‘akin to second-class citizens’

Russia Bad / Ukraine War

• After Yevgeny Prigozhin’s death, many ask how he survived for so long

Health / Medicine

• Killer Figure: Why Having an Apple Shape Can Be Deadly

Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda

• China’s Summer of Climate Destruction

• ‘Off-the-charts records’: has humanity finally broken the climate?

• Watch: Climate Commies Blocking Burning Man Taken Down Hard By Tribal Cops

• America Is Using Up Its Groundwater Like There’s No Tomorrow

• New study finds microplastics infiltrate all systems of body, alter behaviour | Hacker News