2023-09-14

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• “UAP Pose a Threat to US Airspace Safety” NASA Releases Independent UAP Report

Horseshit

• Farm dams can be converted into renewable energy storage systems, says study | Hacker News

• How to responsibly get rid of the stuff you’ve decluttered

Rank Propaganda / Thought Policing / World Disordering

• Digital Censorship: 10 Blocks podcast

  when you look at some of the people who were involved in, for example, de-platforming Trump, even though the Twitter executives themselves with their terms of service couldn’t find a reason for doing it, the strongest advocates were the former government people, the former FBI people.

  • The New Censorship

• On Missouri v. Biden and "The New Abnormal": Interview With Dr. Aaron Kheriaty

• California quietly disavows medical misinformation law before courts can strike it down.

Musk

• Elon Musk Is Dangerous to Society

• SpaceX projected 20M Starlink users by 2022–it ended up with 1M

• Elon Musk vs. Anti-Defamation League

• 'Weaponized Govt Agencies' "Don't Wish Good Things For Me" - Musk Blames Biden Admin For Ukraine-Starlink Block | ZeroHedge

  Musk explains that "at the time [the attack] happened, the region around Crimea was turned off... and the reason it was turned off was because the United States has sanctions against Russia, which includes Crimea, and we are not allowed to turn on connectivity to a sanctioned country without explicit permission - which we did not have from the US government."

• Elon Musk Told Bari Weiss That Twitter Would Cater to China for Tesla’s Sake

Pestilence / Pox / COVID / VaxCult

• CIA bribed its own team to reject lab-leak theory, whistleblower claims

  • HN comments

• Covid may have permanently damaged people's immunity

• As a Doctor, Mother and Head of CDC I Recommend You Get the Latest Covid Booster

• After initial stumbles, Moderna gets clean win for mRNA flu shot

Culture War / Tribal / Re segregation

• Black Facebook and Google employees speak out on big tech racism

• A big problem is brewing and no one seems to see it

Edumacationalizing / Acedemia Nuts

• US postdocs on strike: how will demands for higher wages be met?

Media / ShowBiz / Advertising

• Marvel Visual Effects Workers Vote to Unionize

TechSuck

• Unity to Godot importer has me a little excited

  • Unity’s new “per-install” pricing enrages the game development community

  • HN comments

    readers of "Unity Can Get Fucked", "The Death of Unity", and "This Is a Disaster" don't need a new article to tell them that game devs are mad at Unity right now.

• (2020) Parsing the Infamous Japanese Postal CSV

• Apple users bash new iPhone 15: ‘Innovation died with Steve Jobs’

• Python for OpenSCAD –- Finally

Crypto con games

• SEC Settles with Stoner Cats NFT, Noting Unregistered Securities Offering

• FTX Approved to Sell More Than $3B of Users’ Crypto

Economicon / Business / Finance

• Google is cutting hundreds of jobs in its recruiting organization

• The Economy's Safety Net Is Finally Gone

• The Fed Is Losing Money And You’re Going To Foot The Bill.

• U.S. Inflation Accelerated in August as Gasoline Prices Jumped.

• Arm Announces Pricing of Initial Public Offering

  • ARM: The biggest IPO of the year is for patent licensing

Gubmint / Poilitcks / Law Making

• Federal judge blocks suspension of right to carry firearms in public ordered by New Mexico governor.

  • Federal judge blocks New Mexico health order banning guns

• What Mitt Romney Saw in the Senate

• Dem Candidate Claims It’s A ‘Sex Crime’ To Talk About The Fact That She’s A Porn Star

• White House sends letter to news execs urging outlets to 'ramp up' scrutiny of GOP's Biden impeachment inquiry 'based on lies' | CNN Business

  “It’s time for the media to ramp up its scrutiny of House Republicans for opening an impeachment inquiry based on lies,” Ian Sams, a spokesperson for the White House Counsel’s Office, wrote in the letter, which was first obtained by CNN. The letter, which said an impeachment inquiry with no supporting evidence should “set off alarm bells for news organizations,” was sent to executives helming the nation’s largest news organizations, including CNN, The New York Times, Fox News, the Associated Press, CBS News, and others, a White House official familiar with the matter said.

  The correspondence comes one day after McCarthy announced that he had directed three House committees to begin an impeachment inquiry into Biden. House Republicans, most of whom have denied that disgraced former President Donald Trump committed any wrongdoing, have long sought to baselessly portray Biden as a corrupt, crime-ridden politician engaged in sinister activities.

• Soon after: Fact-checking McCarthy's claims while launching Biden impeachment inquiry | CNN Politics

  • “Bank records show that nearly $20 million in payments were directed to the Biden family members and associates through various shell companies,” McCarthy said. ... This is true about Joe Biden’s family and associates, but there is no public evidence to date that the president personally received any money.

  • the underlying allegation that the Biden family was given a bribe is totally unproven; the informant was merely reporting something he said he had been told by a Ukrainian businessman... The informant claimed that the CEO of Burisma – the Ukrainian energy company where Hunter Biden was on the board – had claimed in 2016 that he made two $5 million payments to “the Bidens.”

  • even though Joe Biden was on these calls and at these dinners, ... Republicans have not presented any evidence that Joe Biden himself benefited financially from his appearances at the dinners or on the calls.

  • “The Treasury Department alone has more than 150 transactions involving the Biden family and other business associates that were flagged as suspicious activity by US banks,” McCarthy said. ... The existence of these suspicious activity reports don’t prove wrongdoing on their own.

  • There is no public evidence that Joe Biden abused his government powers to help his family.

  • “The President did lie to the American people about his own knowledge of his family’s foreign business dealings,” McCarthy said... Joe Biden’s unequivocal denials of any business-related contact with his son have been undercut over time.

• Opinion | President Biden should not run for reelection in 2024 - The Washington Post

• The deep state tells Biden to retire

• Nancy Pelosi concedes Biden may drop out of 2024 race — then laughs and refuses to say if Kamala Harris is the best running mate

• "File The F*cking Motion": McCarthy Melts Down After Gaetz Threatens Removal | ZeroHedge

• Five Facts That Compel the Biden Impeachment Inquiry – JONATHAN TURLEY

• FBI official can’t recall, refuses to answer questions over Hunter Biden whistleblower cover-up claims.

• Hunter Biden Sues Former Trump WH Aide Who Published Laptop Contents | ZeroHedge

  According to a Wednesday night filing, Hunter Biden's legal team is suing Garrett Ziegler, who operates the website Marco Polo. "The lawsuit details how Ziegler and unnamed defendants allegedly obtained sensitive materials by hacking into encrypted data on Hunter Biden's devices and uploading them to Ziegler's website, where it remains public. In the lawsuit, Hunter Biden's lawyers assert that the defendants had refused requests to "cease their unlawful activity" and return private data belonging to the president's son.

  Earlier this year, Hunter Biden sued a Delaware-based computer repairman, John Paul Mac Issac, with whom Hunter abandoned his now-infamous laptop -

• Hunter Biden Indicted On Federal Firearms Charge

• California lawmakers pass speed camera bill

Law Breaking / Police / Internal Security

• Video shows SPD cop laughing, joking about pedestrian killed by officer earlier

External Security / Militaria / Diplomania

• F-117 stealth fighter documents leaked on 'War Thunder' forum

World

• Most of Libya's 20k flood deaths were avoidable

Russia Bad / Ukraine War

• Russian Submarine, Landing Ship Struck in Attack on Sevastopol

Health / Medicine

• Why Has a Useless Cold Medication Been Allowed on Shelves for Years?

Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda

• Conditions on Earth may be moving outside the safe operating space for humanity

  • Earth ‘well outside safe operating space for humanity’, scientists find

• A grim report about climate change in Ontario was kept quiet for 8 months

• Greta’s school strikes led a third of Swiss citizens to change their habits

• Deforestation in the Amazon rainforest continues to plunge

• Al Gore and Lila Preston question everything in their firm’s new climate report

• Utah officials sued over failure to save Great Salt Lake

• Energy prices in Texas will soar if Bitcoin mining continues