2023-09-28

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• Lithium-ion battery fires are a growing public safety concern

• How Washington DC Got Its Metro - by Brian Potter

• Places claiming to be centenarian hotspots may just have bad data

• How 'strike culture' took hold in the US in 2023

Horseshit

• Jony Ive and OpenAI’s Altman reportedly collaborating on mysterious AI device

• A journey into the shaken baby syndrome/abusive head trauma controversy | Hacker News

• If Gold Surges 140k-Fold, Then Asteroid Mining Works

• Why Is Target Closing Stores? - by Jeff Asher

  Data casts doubt on the company's implication that it's due to rising crime.

  Those stores may not be closing in spite of lower levels of crime but rather because of them. Crime isn’t good — obviously — but shopliftings at a store imply something about that store’s performance. That the stores that are closing have lower crime levels may suggest that they are seeing fewer customers than the other stores. The number of crimes isn’t just a measure of criminal activity, it’s also a measure of customers.

• What It's Like to Own the Cars That Became a Viral Sensation to Steal

celebrity gossip

• “Hillary Clinton was at the State Department yesterday for the unveiling of her official portrait as Secretary of State. She was ungracious as usual.”

Obit

• Harry Potter actor Sir Michael Gambon dies aged 82

  • Michael Gambon, who played Dumbledore in 'Harry Potter,' dies at 82

Rank Propaganda / Thought Policing / World Disordering

• ‘Ghost’ Guns Found at East Harlem Day Care Site

Musk

• Elon Musk fires X ‘election integrity’ team

• Twitter Fires Election Integrity Team Ahead of 2024 Elections

• X will be profitable in 2024

• Tesla factory in Grünheide: Apparently a conspicuous number of accidents at work

• Musk ditches X’s election integrity team ahead of key votes around world

Trump / War against the Right / Jan6

• The US Attorney who prosecuted the J6 Lectern Guy was arrested for stabbing another driver and lectern guy has thoughts

  • Jan. 6 Lawyer Accused of Stabbing Man Gets Better Bail Than Capitol Rioters

• Trump Rages At "Deranged" NY Judge's 'Corporate Death Penalty' Decision

• Real estate insiders bewildered by judge’s $18M valuation of Trump’s Mar-a-Lago: ‘Would list at $300M.’

Pestilence / Pox / COVID / VaxCult

• "A CIA Front Organization": Revisiting EcoHealth COVID-19 Claims After Fauci 'Influence' Campaign Bombshell

• Fauci Diverted US Government Away From Lab Leak Theory Of COVID’s Origin, Sources Say

• 18M Americans say they have long Covid

• So Post-Pandemic, What’s My Age Again?

• Scientists ‘shocked’ and ‘alarmed’ at what’s in the mRNA shots

Religion / Tribal / Culture War and Re-Segregation

• Washington National Cathedral replaces traditional stained glass with BLM windows, because of course

• Rich white people are overwhelmingly blocking wind farms

• What a caste discrimination ban means for Americans

Edumacationalizing / Acedemia Nuts

• Discussing sex is no longer allowed at Anthropology conferences

Entertainment / ShowBiz / Advertising

• Valve releases Counter-Strike 2 | Hacker News

• Ray-Ban Meta Smart Glasses

  • HN comments

• Reddit Removes Ability to Shun Targeted Ads Based on Your Upvotes

• Is the Daily Illuminator the longest running blog on the internet?

  • HN comments

• The Oldest Living Torrent Is 20 Years Old | Hackaday

TechSuck / Geek Bait

• Rasperry Pi 5 Specs and Images Leaked from Element14?

  • HN comments

  • Introducing: Raspberry Pi 5! - Raspberry Pi

    • HN comments

  • First Impressions with the Raspberry Pi 5

  • Testing PCIe on the Raspberry Pi 5 | Jeff Geerling

  • Answering some questions about the Raspberry Pi 5

• Why does trying to break into the NT 3.1 kernel reboot my 486DX4 machine? | Hacker News

• Seagate drives are reaching 800 percent failure rates.

• Windows Ends Installation Path for Free Windows 7/8 Upgrade

• Wifi without internet on a Southwest flight - james vaughan

  • HN comments

Space / UFO / Boomy Zoomers

• SpaceX wins first Pentagon contract for Starshield

• Top Chinese Scientist Claims India Moon Landing Nowhere Near South Pole

Crypto con games

• The FTX trial is bigger than Sam Bankman-Fried

Economicon / Business / Finance

• Giant Batteries Helped the U.S. Power Grid Eke Through Summer

• Amazon's new CEO Andy Jassy “is being forced to clean up Jeff Bezos' mess”

• The Best Thing About Amazon Was Never Going to Last

• FTC Chair Lina Khan's lawsuit isn't about breaking up Amazon, for now

• Leased solar systems are failing across America

  • HN comments

• Epic Games is laying off 16% of its staff

  • Epic Games is eliminating 16% of its workforce and selling Bandcamp

• eBay Issues Statement Responding to U.S. Department of Justice Lawsuit

• You Will Never Guess What Happened To "The Strong US Consumer" After Today's Huge GDP Revisions | ZeroHedge

  Current-dollar measures of GDP and related components are revised from the first quarter of 2013 through the first quarter of 2023. GDI and selected income components are revised from the first quarter of 1979 through the first quarter of 2023.

Gubmint / Poilitcks / Law Making

• Stand Strong, Bob Menendez

  This egregious rush to judgment is enough to make us miss the days when Democrats reflexively distrusted law enforcement. Schumer and other senators should treat Menendez with the same presumption of innocence that they themselves would wish to be afforded if their own house was raided and revealed to hold several kilos gold bullion of undetermined origin.

• State pension funds are being manipulated for a left-wing agenda.

• Senate unanimously passes formal dress code after backlash

• 100s Of Pages Of Newly Released Memos Spark Fresh Corruption Charges Ahead Of 1st Biden Impeachment Inquiry Hearing

  • Bombshell: Ways and Means Releases New Documents Revealing Hunter Biden Selling Access to White House, Investigators Blocked from Pursuing Evidence Related to President Biden - House Committee on Ways and Means

• Y Combinator's Garry Tan Declares War on San Francisco Politics

• Gifts, Gadgets and Greece: Inside a Huawei Lobbying Campaign

• Republican candidate debate: What the Heck Was Fox News Thinking?

Law Breaking / Police / Internal Security

• All Philly liquor stores are closed today after at least 18 were broken into overnight

• Manhunt underway for 'dangerous' convicted felon suspected of killing tech CEO

  • Tech CEO found dead with signs of blunt force trauma

  • Baltimore CEO, 26, was killed by a repeat offender

• Security researcher warns of chilling effect after feds search phone at airport

• German Navy completes successful sea trials of 100-kW laser weapon

• 23-year-old arrested for gun possession. It led the FBI to a global Satanic cult

• Google User Data Has Become a Favorite Police Shortcut

• Internal Emails Show Food Delivery Robots Are Feeding Camera Footage to LAPD

External Security / Militaria / Diplomania

• Routers have been rooted by Chinese spies, US and Japan warn

  • Firmware backdoors lets China state hackers control routers with “magic packets”

• Navy Looking to Operate Air Combat Drones from Wide Range of Ships

• War Thunder user leaks restricted military documents for AH-64D Apache Longbow

• Why The Pentagon’s ‘killer robots’ are spurring major concerns

World

• UK’s cost of living crisis will cause thousands of premature deaths, study says

Russia Bad / Ukraine War

• Russia is suddenly running low on fuel

• Powerful explosion has occurred near airport in Tashkent, Uzbekistan

• Tanks and Troops Out In The Open In Ukraine Are Fired Upon Within 10 Minutes

• Ukraine rips Elon Musk for disrupting sneak attack on Russian fleet

• How surging trade with China is boosting Russia’s war

Health / Medicine

• Unraveling the gut's role in Gulf War illness

• The Great 2028 Pharma Patent Cliff - by Evan Zimmerman

• Precision Medicine Has Been Overhyped

Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda

• Ski Resorts Are Giving Up on Snow

  • (April 2023) California surpasses all-time snowpack record - KTLA

• 3 pesticides pushing hundreds of endangered species toward extinction, says EPA

• DOJ accuses eBay of violating Clean Air Act by allowing sale of harmful products

• New Orleans' drinking water threatened as saltwater intrusion looms

• The case for doing (almost) nothing about climate change

• Got Plastic with a No. 2 Recycling Symbol? Beware a Toxic Problem

• Swiss glaciers lose 10% of their volume in two years

• The Mysterious ‘Warming Hole’ in the Middle of the US