2023-09-17

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• It’s the Breakfast of Champions No More: Cereal Is in Long-Term Decline

• Thinking in a foreign language improves decision-making

  • HN comments

Space / UFO / Boomy Zoomers

• Fireball over Iceland

  • HN comments

Horseshit

• Can pickleball cure what's ailing Santa Monica's Third Street Promenade?

• Paper checks are dead. Cash is dying. Who still uses them?

• How the feminist consensus that overthrew Spain’s soccer chief was forged

celebrity gossip

• Everyone's teeth are a little too perfect

Rank Propaganda / Thought Policing / World Disordering

• Populism fact of the day

  Populism at the country level is at an all-time high, with more than 25% of nations currently governed by populists.

Musk

• Under Musk, Twitter is handing over more data to investigators

Trump / War against the Right / Jan6

• Trump Weighing Female VP

• How The Unhinged Left will Elect Trump in 2024

• Megyn Kelly Asks Trump a Few Hard Questions.

Religion / Tribal / Culture War and Re-Segregation

• "Feedback" is too harsh. The new word is "feedforward".

Edumacationalizing / Acedemia Nuts

• With few conservatives, academia won't develop a theory of progressivism

Entertainment / ShowBiz / Advertising

• Hollywood pays a steep price for never figuring out the streaming model

TechSuck / Geek Bait

• Running one’s own root Certificate Authority in 2023 | Wejn.org

  • Running one’s own root Certificate Authority in 2023 | Hacker News

• GitHub - nasa-jpl/open-source-rover: A build-it-yourself, 6-wheel rover based on the rovers on Mars!

Crypto con games

• Sam Bankman-Fried’s Elite Parents Enabled His Crypto Empire

Economicon / Business / Finance

• Ford, GM announce 100s of temporary layoffs with no compensation due to strike

• What Happens When Wall Street Buys Most of the Homes on Your Block?

• TSMC tells vendors to delay chip equipment deliveries, sources say

Gubmint / Poilitcks / Law Making

• Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton acquitted in impeachment trial

• BOOMERANG: Texas House members call for speaker’s resignation after Senate acquits Paxton

• White House Gives Biden’s Stance On Pardoning Son If He’s Convicted Of Crimes.

World

• Colombia sets new records for coca crops and cocaine production

Russia Bad / Ukraine War

• NATO Chief: NATO Expansion Caused Russian Invasion

Health / Medicine

• Life-changing cystic fibrosis treatment wins US$3M Breakthrough Prize | Hacker News

  The pricing is more like $25-30K/month. It's taken twice a day, in pill form.

Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda

• A thousand drones bring climate-change light show to New York’s skyline

• California sues 5 major oil co's for campaign of deception about climate change

• Close to 2k Environmental Activists Killed over Last Decade

• Inside the Trillion-Dollar Climate Solutions Industry