2023-10-02

etc

• Massive emergency alert test scheduled to hit your phone on Wednesday

• The Curse of Dialup World

  • HN comments

Horseshit

• Varoufakis: Capitalism is dead, long live Technofeudalism

• Teens inundated with phone prompts day and night, research finds

  • HN comments

• Motorist fined after dog seen behind wheel of car - BBC News

• People going 'monk mode' to limit social media use

  • HN comments

• Big Tech Lobbyist ‘Stunned’ People Think Planned Obsolescence Conspiracy Is Real

• How the AR-15 Became an American Brand

• Could mRNA make us superhuman?

• The case for – and against – taking your shoes off in the house

Rank Propaganda / Thought Policing / World Disordering

• The New Push for Censorship Under the Guise of Combating Hate

Musk

• The Verge continues to be totally normal and definitely isn't writing 5000 word pieces every single day hating on Elon Musk.

• Global: X’s new policy risks violating right to privacy for millions

• Will Musk’s Starlink satellites lead to Kessler syndrome?

• Elon Musk Changed the Way Washington Looks at Space

Trump / War against the Right / Jan6

• Trump Sues Christopher Steele Over Hoax Dossier

Pestilence / Pox / COVID / VaxCult

• Fine, I'll run a regression analysis but it won't make you happy | Hacker News

• Over 277,000 'Vaccinated' COVID-19 Cases Hidden By CDC In 2021: Newly Obtained Files Show

• Covid-19 mRNA Vaccines Win Nobel Prize for Medicine

• Why Did People Comply? ⋆ Brownstone Institute

• The Government Is Ignoring 'The Greatest Mass-Disabling Event in Human History'

Religion / Tribal / Culture War and Re-Segregation

• Sixth Circuit Reverses Preliminary Injunctions Against TN & KY Laws Restricting Gender Dysphoria Treatments for Minors: After a divided ruling, laws limiting such treatments in Tennessee and Kentucky will go into force.

• South Asians Are Divided over a Pending Ban on Caste Discrimination

Edumacationalizing / Acedemia Nuts

• Majority of US students now support speech codes

• How ‘Preapproved Narratives’ Corrupt Science

• Stop Arguing over Elite Schools. Just Make Public Colleges Free

  • HN comments

Entertainment / ShowBiz / Advertising

• 4chan Turns 20

  • HN comments

• Tom Hanks says that’s not him selling dental insurance in Instagram ads

  • HN comments

• Facebook could have 4.9B dead users by 2100, study finds

TechSuck / Geek Bait

• HN Jobs:

  • Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2023)

  • Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (October 2023)

  • Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (October 2023)

• Python 3.12

  • HN comments

  It's so hecking wholesome I started crying. My wife's son came to ask me, "Frank, why you crying?". I had to explain to him there's evil people in this world who oppose open borders.

• Exim fixes 0days that allows mail servers to be taken over

  The last one is related to DNS lookups. If you use a trustworthy resolver (which does validation of the data it receives), you're not affected. We're working on a fix.

• Displays We Love Hacking: The HD44780 Family | Hackaday

Space / UFO / Boomy Zoomers

• Starlink lost another 43 satellites last night. 3 positions for spacecaster open

• Giant, next-generation satellite now one of the brightest objects in night sky

Crypto con games

• Except from Michael Lewis Book on FTX and Bankman-Fried

• Sam Bankman-Fried met Bahamas PM to discuss paying off country's national debt

• SBF’s Defense Will Be Tough

Economicon / Business / Finance

• Why is coffee suddenly more expensive?

• Americans Saved $1.1T Less Than Previously Thought from 2017-2022

  • HN comments

• Federal Reserve Board Launches Instagram and Threads Accounts

Gubmint / Poilitcks / Law Making

• Hunter Biden's Daughter Was Living In White House While Representing Peruvian Government

• IRS agent said CNN has Hunter Biden email where Hunter claimed legal ‘stuff’ would go away under Biden admin

• Newsom Fills Feinstein's Empty Senate Seat With Wealthy Black Lesbian From Maryland

Law Breaking / Police / Internal Security

• FBI Indicts Wall Street Banker for Doing Crimes on Xbox 360

External Security / Militaria / Diplomania

• Caregivers want answers to mystery link between ALS, military service

World

• ‘No turning back’: how the Ukraine war has profoundly changed the EU

• Supreme Court upholds Japan's ban on dual nationality

Russia Bad / Ukraine War

• Russia police crisis: Burned out, disappointed and demoralised

Health / Medicine

• Unexpected benefits of sun exposure on skin

  • HN comments

• Urgent appeal to get flu jab after virus killed more than Covid last winter

• The CDC Awards $260M Contract for Disease Surveillance

Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda

• Is California's wildfire season finally over? Don't bet on it, experts say

• Fire retardant has killed thousands of fish, endangered salmon species

• Carbon prices are taking over the world

• Climate scientist Michael Mann on our last chance to save human civilisation