2023-09-19

Worthy

• Electrospaces.net: Some new snippets from the Snowden documents

  United States National Security Agency (NSA) participates in Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) community protocol standardization meetings with the explicit goal of sabotaging protocol security to enhance NSA surveillance capabilities." "Discussions with insiders confirmed what is claimed in as of yet unpublished classified documents from the Snowden archive and other sources."

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  • Snowden leak: Cavium networking hardware may contain NSA backdoor | Hacker News

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• Historical maps probably helped cause World War I

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• United is the latest airline to confirm finding fake parts in plane engines, as supplier scandal grows.

Space / UFO / Boomy Zoomers

• Varda Space puts off orbital factory reentry pending Air Force and FAA approval

• The Guardian takes a sudden interest in aliens - The Post

• Rocket Lab suffers anomaly during launch, Earth-observation satellite lost

Horseshit

• Danish artist told to repay museum €67,000 after turning in blank canvasses

• EV batteries more reliable than predicted

Rank Propaganda / Thought Policing / World Disordering

• Facebook is blocking Canadians’ posts about the assassination of a Sikh leader

Musk

• Musk Wanted to Spy on Drivers to Defend Tesla from Lawsuits | Hacker News

• Elon Musk says X will charge users ‘a small monthly payment’ to use its service

Religion / Tribal / Culture War and Re-Segregation

• Across US religious groups, many see decline of marriage negatively

Edumacationalizing / Acedemia Nuts

• Student-Loan Restart Threatens to Pull $100B Out of Consumers’ Pockets

• The Retraction Watch Database Becomes Open

• Recent Developments Concerning the Gravitational Potential of the Milky Way

  • New estimates came out light. They still fail to account for the Perverse. Perversity has mass; yet is very hard to observe en masse.

Entertainment / ShowBiz / Advertising

• Unity founder says fcked-up company prepares to backpedal

• YouTube halts Russell Brand channel revenues after sexual assault allegations

  • YouTube Demonetizes Russell Brand’s Channel Amid Sexual Abuse Allegations

  • Russell Brand blocked from making money on YouTube

• Bill Willingham Says Fables Is Released to the Public Domain, DC Comics Says Not

• Microsoft would acquire Nintendo if the time comes

• Internet Archive Kicks Off Its Appeal over Publishers Attempt to Kill the Site

• Google quietly raised ad prices to boost search revenue

TechSuck / Geek Bait

• NSA Backdoor Key from Lotus-Notes (2002) | Hacker News

• Amazon devices unit morale wanes amid cuts, weak development pipeline

• 64-Bit Bank Balances ‘Ought to be Enough for Anybody’? | TigerBeetle

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Crypto con games

• FTX Bankruptcy Estate Sues SBF's Parents to Claw Back ‘Misappropriated Funds"

  • FTX: 'King of Crypto' parents sued over missing millions

Economicon / Business / Finance

• U.S. National Debt Tops $33T for First Time

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• Striking unions impacting the economy at a level not seen in decades.

• Instacart Sets Its IPO Price at $30 a Share. The Stock Starts Trading Soon

  • Instacart opens on Nasdaq at $42 in IPO

• How many years of income does it take to buy a S.F. home now?

• Amazon adding 250k workers for the holidays and bumping average pay

• Airbnb Is Different Now

Gubmint / Poilitcks / Law Making

• Who is Seth Rich? Who Murdered Him? And What’s The Deep State Hiding? - American Thinker

• U.S. officials with dementia may pose national security threat, Pentagon-funded study finds.

• Hunter Biden’s texts, emails contradict lawyer’s claim that he ‘did not share’ money from businesses with dad.

• Senate Dress Code No Longer Applies to Senators—Like John Fetterman—Just to Everyone Else.

Law Breaking / Police / Internal Security

• The Clorox Company admits cyberattack causing 'widescale disruption'

• MGM losing up to $8.4M a day due to cyberattack, analyist says

External Security / Militaria / Diplomania

• Marine Corps orders safety stand-down of all aircraft after F-35 disappearance

• Debris field found in search for missing F-35 in South Carolina, officials say.

  • debris of the crashed F-35 has been found

• FBI chief: China has bigger hacking program than all the competition combined

• You aren’t wrong: Our military officers seem to be getting stoopider

World

• Trudeau says intelligence shows India is behind slaying of Sikh leader in Canada

  • India expels Canadian diplomat in tit-for-tat move as spat deepens

• Libya flood: Derna mayor's house burnt down in protests

• Recession-hit Germany is facing a flurry of global headwinds, Goldman Sachs says

• BT confirms it's switching off 3G in UK from Jan next year

Russia Bad / Ukraine War

• Biden at the UN urges the world to stand firm in support of Ukraine's fight

Health / Medicine

• Tests find many popular omega 3 supplements are rancid

• You Won’t Lose Weight on Ozempic Forever

• The real reason(s) food allergies are on the rise - The Washington Post

  So why have our immune systems suddenly gone haywire? One theory notes that we (mostly) eradicated hookworms by the 1980s in the United States. And roundworms. And tapeworms. All the classic parasites are mostly kaput. Without those actual threats, our immune system downshifts to tackle the biggest possible threat on the horizon. Which, these days, might be cashew butter or Camembert.

• Is the End of Aids in Sight?

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Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda

• The World’s Population May Peak in Your Lifetime. What Happens Next?

• Evidence Mounts on Toxic Pollution from Tires

• Summer of severe heat predicted for Australia

• Speakers of languages without a future tense care more about the environment

• Better Tech Could Save Lives in a World of Bigger, Faster Fires

  • we live in a world of fewer, smaller fires:

  • (2020) Forest Fires Aren’t at Historic Highs in the United States. Not Even Close - Foundation for Economic Education

  • Data Release: Combined Wildfire Datasets for the United States and Certain Territories, 1878-2019 | U.S. Geological Survey