2023-09-22

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• 52% of women ages of 7 to 21 want to be homeowners by 30 years old

  • and bullfrogs want wings so they don't bump they little butts when they hop.

• Airbnb reduced partying by 55% in two years

• How to Roman Republic, Part IV: The Senate

Horseshit

• What Big Tech Knows About Your Body

• What It’s Like to Be a 13-Year-Old Girl Today

• It's Cheaper to Live on a Boat Than Rent an Apartment in These U.S. Cities

• The Selling of America's Most Controversial Gun

• The Age of the Grift Shift

  The “grift shift”. In that article the term is used in reference to a whole bunch of VC firms who – after crypto/web3 had imploded – seamlessly rebranded themselves as “AI” firms. And if you’ve heard me speak in the last few months you know me often opening with jokingly referencing the same dynamic on Linkedin where the crypto influencers turned into Metaverse influencers and now have turned into “AI” influencers.

  • HN comments

• AI might be listening during your next health appointment

celebrity gossip

• What James Cameron Wants to Bring Up from the Titanic

Rank Propaganda / Thought Policing / World Disordering

• AEC struggles to get Twitter to remove posts that ‘incite violence’

Musk

• Elon Musk woos world leaders, courting controversy

• Bluesky saw record usage after Elon Musk announced plans to charge all X users

• Musk startup Neuralink seeks people for brain-implant trial

Trump / War against the Right / Jan6

• Leftist Mayor Calls 911 On Peaceful Petitioners - Describes Them As "Far Right Wing" | ZeroHedge

• compilation of all of the 2020 election challenges and what became of them

Religion / Tribal / Culture War and Re-Segregation

• Amid layoffs, BU Center for Antiracism accused of mismanagement of funds

  • Like other ‘antiracist’ activists, Ibram X. Kendi proves he’s only in it for himself.

Edumacationalizing / Acedemia Nuts

• Genomics Has a Spreadsheet Problem

Entertainment / ShowBiz / Advertising

• Project Veritas Suspends All Operations Amid Devastating Layoffs and Fundraising Struggles.

  • Project Veritas Is Dead. Cause Of Death? Pushing Out James O’Keefe

• I Failed Two Captcha Tests This Week. Am I Still Human?

• Ballistic BMW Blocks Both Bullets And Booms | Hackaday

• Amazon to Bring Commercials into Prime Video Starting 2024

  • Amazon Prime Video content to start including ads next year

• Valve is a wonderful upstream contributor to Linux and the open-source community | Hacker News

• Ask HN: Sites like HN on other topics? | Hacker News

• The triumphs and failures of accessible gaming hardware

• Microsoft’s revamped $69B deal for Activision on the cusp going through

• Unity announces its backtracked pricing model

TechSuck / Geek Bait

• Philips Hue will soon force users to create an account | Hacker News

• MGM Seeks Contractors to Repair Infra in 3 Weeks | Hacker News

  Hourly Rate: $100.00 per on 1099

  • MGM Resorts computers back up after 10 days

• Google Mourns Veteran Engineer Luiz Barroso Who Invented the Modern Data Center

• An ode to the neo-grotesque web | Redowan's Reflections

• "Google Photos" clone: Immich is the killer app that will kick-start the self-hosting revolution

• Turning an old car into a powerful generator | Hacker News

• Apple fucked us on right to repair (again) | Hacker News

Space / UFO / Boomy Zoomers

• House Speaker introduces bill to extend commercial spaceflight regulatory learning period.

Crypto con games

• Bitcoin’s 87% Drop in 2021 Was Caused by Alameda typo, says ex-employee

Economicon / Business / Finance

• Teamsters want Senate investigation into Yellow’s bankruptcy - FreightWaves

• Two key Fed officials express support for keeping interest rates high

Gubmint / Poilitcks / Law Making

• Biden Administration Will Establish a Federal Office of Gun Control.

• Judge Denies Request, Orders Hunter Biden To Appear In Court | ZeroHedge

• Two more IRS officials say David Weiss stymied and ‘not the deciding person’ on Hunter Biden tax crimes

• Biden repeats same story word-for-word and minutes apart, raising fresh concerns about age, fitness for office

• Voters: Biden’s America becoming a ‘police state.’

• Kamala Says Young People Aren’t Buying Homes Due to ‘Climate Anxiety,’ Doesn’t Mention 7% Interest Rate.

• New Jersey Sen. Robert Menendez and wife indicted on federal bribery charges - CBS News

Law Breaking / Police / Internal Security

• Menendez federal grand jury probe eyes gold bar gift – NBC New York

• U.S. Cities Have a Staggering Problem of Kia and Hyundai Thefts

• 'Power, influence, notoriety': The Gen-Z hackers who struck MGM, Caesars

External Security / Militaria / Diplomania

• Okinawa governor tells U.N. that U.S. military base threatens peace

• ‘Not sure where the airplane is’: 911 call details events before F-35 crash

World

• Canada has Indian diplomats' communications in bombshell murder probe: sources

• Singapore is now the world’s freest economy, displacing Hong Kong after 53 years

• India agrees to reserve a third of parliament seats for women from 2029

Russia Bad / Ukraine War

• Ukraine Situation Rumors Swirl of New Attacks on Black Sea Fleet

Health / Medicine

• New study looks again at how alcohol influences attraction

• Obesity is becoming more common in a growing number of states, CDC data show

• Suppressing negative thoughts may be good for mental health after all

• Elite Athletes and Extreme Treatments–Scientists Think More People Could Benefit

Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda

• U.S. Unveils the American Climate Corps, a Program with Echoes of the New Deal

• UN chief urges world not to yield to 'naked greed' of fossil fuel interests