2023-09-30

Horseshit

• George W. Bush is building a memorial to the War on Terror, wants your feedback

• What If the Robots Were Nice While They Took over the World?

celebrity gossip

• Las Vegas police arrest person related to previous Tupac Shakur investigation

  • Man Is Charged with Murder in Tupac Shakur Case

• Spanish justice ends John McAfee case: ‘no indication other than suicide’

Rank Propaganda / Thought Policing / World Disordering

• Supreme Court to hear TX and FL social media cases over right to moderate

  • SCOTUS to decide if Florida and Texas social media laws violate First Amendment

Trump / War against the Right / Jan6

• Is Google Rigging The 2024 Election? The Controversy Over Invisible Republicans

• Trump Attacked Me. Then Musk Did. It Wasn’t an Accident. – Yoel Roth in NYT

Pestilence / Pox / COVID / VaxCult

• COVID-19 Vaccine Found In The Hearts Of Dead People: Study | ZeroHedge

Religion / Tribal / Culture War and Re-Segregation

• Associate administrator for NASA sworn in on Sagan's “Contact”

Entertainment / ShowBiz / Advertising

• DOJ finally posted that “embarrassing” court doc Google wanted to hide

• Netflix shutters the remnants of the largest film library in history

• Authors shocked to find AI ripoffs of their books being sold on Amazon

• Peak TV Is Over. A Different Hollywood Is Coming

TechSuck / Geek Bait

• Critical vulnerabilities in Exim threaten over 250k email servers worldwide

• 50 years later, is two-phase locking the best we can do?

  • HN comments

• CSS Solves Auto-Expanding Textareas (Probably, Eventually) - Chris Coyier

Crypto con games

• A Founder of the Crypto Hedge Fund Three Arrows Capital Is Arrested

• The Global Victims of FTX’s Collapse Won’t Get Their Day in Court

Economicon / Business / Finance

• Economic shocks about to hit the US

• Used Car Shoppers Now Have to Buy Cars Twice as Old Compared to 2019

Gubmint / Poilitcks / Law Making

• What We Can Learn From Dianne Feinstein.

• Biden Impeachment Hearing Had Ample Evidence Of Corruption

• BREAKING: RFK Jr plans to announce independent run for president: report | The Post Millennial | thepostmillennial.com

External Security / Militaria / Diplomania

• Navy Will Start Testing SEALs for Illicit Drug Use

• White House warns of ‘unprecedented’ Serbian troop buildup on Kosovo border

  • HN comments

World

• Sweden reports record number of monthly fatal shootings

• Bedbug crisis sparks political row in Paris as insect ‘scourge’ continues

  • HN comments

  • France races to stamp out bedbug 'scourge' before Olympics

• Canadians have a ‘right to be forgotten’ on Google, Federal Court rules

Russia Bad / Ukraine War

• Russia's Gas Production Collapses to Late-Stage USSR Levels

• Russia May Annex More Ukrainian Regions, Medvedev Says

Health / Medicine

• Drinking diet sodas daily during pregnancy linked to autism in male offspring

  • HN comments

• WHO says flu vaccines should ditch strain that vanished during Covid

Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda

• Cleanup of Berlin’s Brandenburg Gate after climate protest to be longer and more expensive

• Shell employees urge CEO to rethink shift from renewables in rare letter

• Why New York City Keeps Flooding

  • New York City’s Floods and Torrential Rainfall Explained

• The Microplastics Are in the Clouds Now

• A Revelation About Trees Is Messing with Climate Calculations | Hacker News

• Don't worry about global population collapse