2023-09-20

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• The Toronto Zoo wants you to stop showing the gorillas your cellphone

• New study reveals insights into domestication and diversity of peppers

• 1977 Ohio steel mill shutdowns: The day that destroyed the working class and sowed the seeds of Trump

• Archaeologists discover world’s oldest wooden structure

Horseshit

• Ohio abortion law meant weeks of 'anguish,' 'agony' for couple

• (1992) secretions

Musk

• SpaceX seeks to throw out Justice Department hiring practices case.

• Elon Musk and your digital soul

Trump / War against the Right / Jan6

• Ray Epps Charged With Misdemeanor In Long-Delayed Wrist-Slap

  • Ray Epps Charged with a Single Misdemeanor for Ringleading January 6th Breach, For Which He Has Worked Out a Plea Deal; Media Pretends This Disproves “Conspiracy Theories” That He’s a Fed, Rather Than Confirming Them

  • On The Darkest Day In American History, Ray Epps Was Just a Little Rascal!

• BREAKING: Biden’s DOJ secures conviction against journalist over reporting on January 6.

Religion / Tribal / Culture War and Re-Segregation

• City, state libraries reported closed due to bomb threats over choice of books

• Former Olympian Shares Heartbreaking Reality Of Fertility: There’s A Time Limit To Becoming A Mom

• The Erasure of Jews from American Life

Edumacationalizing / Acedemia Nuts

• (2014) More on the alleged correlation between “future tense” and “future-oriented behavior” | Languages Of The World

• Americans Are Losing Faith in the Value of College. Whose Fault Is That?

Entertainment / ShowBiz / Advertising

• Google Says Digital Ad Budgets Are Shifting to Amazon

• George R.R. Martin and other authors sue OpenAI for copyright infringement

TechSuck / Geek Bait

• Nibble Stew: Circles do not exist

  • HN comments

• People used to call Emacs too complicated: Built-in port forwarding in Visual Studio Code 1.82

• Add extra stuff to a “standard” encoding? Sure, why not

  • HN comments

Space / UFO / Boomy Zoomers

• Parker Solar Probe Sails Directly Through Sun's Intense Plasma Burst

• NASA names the UFO boss it had tried to keep secret

• SpaceX breaks another booster reuse record, but did anyone see it?

Crypto con games

• FTX sues SBF's parents, alleges they funneled millions to 'pet causes'

Economicon / Business / Finance

• Instacart shares jump 43% in grocery delivery business’s Nasdaq debut

• Americans now need to spend 43% of their income to afford a home

• ‘Less than half’ fresh produce sold globally makes any profit

  • HN comments

Gubmint / Poilitcks / Law Making

• U.S. House GOP pulls key vote to advance stopgap government funding bill

• Nothing To See Here: Hacktivist Media Two-Steps From No Evidence of Biden Wrongdoing To No ‘Direct’ Evidence.

• Democratic Primary: The Cake Is Baked. Deal With It.

• With flurry of FAA approvals, drones are about to fly much farther over US skies

• "Shouldn't they be losing their security clearances?"

Law Breaking / Police / Internal Security

• A Kansas City mom was shot in the chest by car thieves. Now, she is suing Hyundai

• Ex-congressman convicted of insider trading before T-Mobile merger with Sprint

World

• Afghanistan is open for tourism. What is it like to vacation under the Taliban?

• What does international law say about targeted killings?

• British journalist held by police at Luton airport for five hours without arrest

  • HN comments

• French police arrest reporter over leaked secrets

Russia Bad / Ukraine War

• Evidence Suggests Ukrainian Missile Caused Market Tragedy

Health / Medicine

• Quarter of low-income older Americans have no medical insurance.

• High Blood Pressure Is the World’s Biggest Killer

• Artificial sweeteners face more bad press – but is it unfair?

Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda

• Ponds release more greenhouse gas than they store

• Thomas Midgley Jr., the most environmentally disastrous person of all time

• American Climate Corps