2023-09-18

Cool

• Astronomy Photographer of the Year 2023 winners

etc

• Death toll from Maui wildfires drops to 97, with 31 missing

• Two-parent households should be a policy goal

Horseshit

• "cultured meat" Insiders reveal problems at Upside Foods | Hacker News

• Cadillac Lyriq Velocity Package Adds 74 lb-ft Torque Over-the-Air for $1,200

• The present looks nothing like the Jetsons

Musk

• What do we do with the Twitter-shaped hole in the internet?

• Twitter Worth Only Third of Elon Musk's Purchase: Fidelity

• FAA confirms: No Starship/Superheavy launch license until Interior approves.

• Turkish President invites Elon Musk to build his next Tesla factory in Turkey

Pestilence / Pox / COVID / VaxCult

• FDA Refuses To Change Anti-Ivermectin Statements After Court Ruling

• WHO chief pushes China for 'full access' to solve Covid's origins

Religion / Tribal / Culture War and Re-Segregation

• Colorado peak linked to 1864 atrocity has been renamed Mount Blue Sky

Entertainment / ShowBiz / Advertising

• The DOJ's Antitrust Lawsuit Against Google Is a Loser for Consumers

TechSuck / Geek Bait

• 38TB of data accidentally exposed by Microsoft AI researchers | Hacker News

• Queueing Theory: An introduction for software development | Hacker News

Crypto con games

• Binance Founder CZ Says SBF’s “Bad-Mouthing” Him to Authorities Was “Not Smart”

Economicon / Business / Finance

• The world is struggling to make enough diesel.

Gubmint / Poilitcks / Law Making

• Kim Davis ordered to pay $100,000 to same-sex couple she denied marriage license : NPR

• Why Is Booz Allen Renting Us Back Our Own National Parks?

  • HN comments

• Was 9/11 The Beginning Of The End Of The American Empire?

• Kamala Harris Says Government Must Enforce ‘Equal Outcomes.’

• Rumors Are Flying That Fetterman Has Been Replaced With a Double – but They’re Missing the Biggest Oddity.

• Hunter Biden files lawsuit against IRS.

External Security / Militaria / Diplomania

• The bizarre secret behind China's spy balloon - CBS News

  Gen. Mark Milley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, tells "CBS News Sunday Morning" the balloon wasn't spying. "The intelligence community, their assessment – and it's a high-confidence assessment – [is] that there was no intelligence collection by that balloon," he said. So, why was it over the United States? There are various theories, with at least one leading theory that it was blown off-track.

• To Build Ships That Break Ice, U.S. Must Relearn to Cut Steel

• US military asks for help to find missing F-35 fighter jet after ‘mishap’

  • US Military Asks for Help Locating Missing F-35 Fighter Jet | Hacker News

• Days After Biden Approves $6 Billion Ransom Deal, Iran Takes Another Westerner Hostage.

• Caitlin Johnstone on X: "Barack Obama Belongs In A Fucking Cage"

  the fact that the 44th president of the United States can just come out and pretend to support a nation he personally helped destroy without being called out and excoriated by the mass media shows that we live in a world which is dominated by lies and propaganda.

World

• Conflicts of interest rattle Norway’s political class

Health / Medicine

• On Earthing, the Holistic Medicine Trend that's Consumed my Every Waking Thought

Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda

• Replanting Logged Forests with Diverse Seedlings Accelerates Restoration