2023-09-03

Horseshit

• ‘Conserve food and water’: No way in or out of Burning Man after storm | Hacker News

  • Comedian Chris Rock says toilets at Burning Man can’t be cleaned or emptied

  • Burning Man descends into chaos as one person DIES at flooded festival after officials closed gates, 'trapping' 73,000 revelers in hypothermic conditions - and told them to conserve water and food | Daily Mail Online

  • No, There’s Not An Ebola Outbreak At Burning Man

  • IP thread

  • Burning Man flooding strands tens of thousands at Nevada site – 1 death

  • "6 mile hike" Burning Man Egress Challenges

  • Burning Man freezes! Revelers are catching hypothermia and fleeing to local bars for warmth as torrential rain and biting winds cause havoc at Nevada hippie festival

• Yes, There Are Rich Men North of Richmond

• McDonald's: you can sneer, but it's the glue that holds communities together

• Hackers Target Telescopes, Forcing Them to Pause Operations

• ‘I couldn’t control my mouse’: The injuries taking out elite gamers

• I watched society collapse at Stansted Airport | The Spectator

  ‘Haven’t got a clue, mate.’ And that, in a nutshell, is where we are as a country. Those supposedly in charge have zero authority and even less of a clue. Oh sure, they will often couch their cluelessness in obfuscation and kind speak, but that only makes those of us at the sharp end feel more despondent. We lose trust in our institutions, in authority and in hope itself.

Rank Propaganda / Thought Policing / World Disordering

• The endless battle to banish the most notorious stalker website

• Rage Against the Machine Used Capitalism to Sell Communism

Musk

• Tesla (TSLA) tumbles on price cuts, “appreciating asset” dream going away

Trump / War against the Right / Jan6

• Trump’s Truth Social facing a key funding deadline

Pestilence / Pox / COVID / VaxCult

• Dr. Fauci responds to study that says masks didn't work

• (PDF) "You are not a horse" Ruling against FDA

Culture War / Tribal / Re segregation

• Senator Admits “Kids Online Safety Act” Will Target Trans Content Online

Edumacationalizing / Acedemia Nuts

• The Coming Student-Loan-Repayment Fiasco

TechSuck

• PyPI is Tensorflow and noise.

  TensorFlow is not just one of the largest libraries on PyPI; it is four of the five largest libraries on PyPI, totaling 8.8TB all by itself. The other entry in the top five is LALSuite, a library for gravitational wave analysis, a relative lightweight at a mere 1.1TB.

• The boiling frog of digital freedom | Hacker News

• Baresip – An Open Source modular SIP User-Agent with audio and video support | Hacker News

• TL;DR: It's still a hard problem to generalize a solution for: The Raft Consensus Algorithm | Hacker News

Economicon / Business / Finance

• Return to office mandates are stronger as remote work is harder to find

Gubmint / Poilitcks / Law Making

• USPS preps pay workaround for 45,000 rural carriers impacted by payroll error | Federal News Network

  NRLCA said impacted carriers will receive 65% of their gross pay via money order this Friday. That figure is a rough estimate of a rural carrier’s average take-home pay. The union said impacted rural carriers will have to pay back their salary advance, but won’t be required to pay it back until after USPS has repaid them the correct amount.

• Washington's capital gains tax collects $850M, over 3x the estimates

Law Breaking / Police / Internal Security

• Gunman who killed TCU student Wes Smith says he would have shot others

External Security / Militaria / Diplomania

• Pentagon Extends Troop Deployment At US-Mexico Border Through September | ZeroHedge

  On Aug. 24, 2023, the secretary of defense approved an extension of up to 400 personnel providing support to Customs and Border Protection on the southwest border through Sept. 30, 2023,

• New phone sparks worry China has found a way around U.S. tech limits

World

• Canada’s Mass Graves Narrative That Sparked Church Burnings Crumbles Amid Dearth Of Evidence.

• Germany wants to boost the use of geothermal energy

Russia Bad / Ukraine War

• Threats, insults, and Kremlin 'robots': How Russian diplomacy died under Putin

Health / Medicine

• sounds squicky to me: Drug-delivery implant thwarts scar tissue by being a moving target

Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda

• How to protect against a lawless humanity? | Hacker News

  how to protect wildlife against lawless times. Poachers, Deforrestation, the assumption that government wants to protect this, given enough monetary incentive, may not hold, if times get bad enough.