2023-10-05

Day 1,000!

Cool

• (2006) Ron Patrick's Street-Legal Jet Powered Volkswagen Beetle

  • HN comments

Worthy

• Half A Million Kinksters Can’t Be Wrong—Asterisk

  If you’re new to my work, I’m a self-taught researcher, driven to learn through fortunate access to high sample sizes and sheer curiosity. As of this writing, over 700,000 people have responded to my Big Kink Survey on fetishes and sex — likely one of the largest surveys on the topic ever done.

etc

• GM Has at Least 20M Vehicles with Potentially Dangerous Air-Bag Parts

• Shimano recalls cranksets for bicycles due to crash hazards

Horseshit

• 'I was kidnapped by my runaway electric car'

• "so now you want me to wait?"

• America Has as Many as 2B Parking Spaces, and They're Ruining Our Cities

• Delta finds fake jet aircraft engine parts with forged airworthiness documents | Hacker News

• AI threatens to dethrone the 4-year college degree

• ‘Monk mode’ is the ‘new’ trend to improve your attention span

• Adoption of vegan dog and cat diets could have environmental benefits.

celebrity gossip

• The two faces of a wartime engineer: the controversial tale of Wernher von Braun

• "censoring progressive voices" pardom me whilst i LOL about that one Drew DeVault makes plea for evidence of Hacker News misbehavior

• Why Mark Zuckerberg and Jeff Bezos could be smarter than Elon Musk

Rank Propaganda / Thought Policing / World Disordering

• AI used to target kids with disinformation

Musk

• Elon Musk’s X is a black hole of value

• X stops showing headlines because Musk thinks it will make posts look better

• this is the disaster they feared: ‘This Is a False Advertisement’: X Ads Are Being Challenged by Reader Context

• (Sep 2023) The Harassment of Elon Musk

Trump / War against the Right / Jan6

• Donald Trump Followers Targeted by FBI as 2024 Election Nears

  The federal government believes that the threat of violence and major civil disturbances around the 2024 U.S. presidential election is so great that it has quietly created a new category of extremists that it seeks to track and counter: Donald Trump's army of MAGA followers.

• even told the guy at one point that I felt like I was being push-polled

Pestilence / Pox / COVID / VaxCult

• Post-vaccine vaginal bleeding rates associated with all COVID-19 vaccine types across reproductive ages.

Religion / Tribal / Culture War and Re-Segregation

• Planned Parenthood is Helping Teenagers Transition After a 30 Minute Consult. Parents and Doctors are Sounding the Alarm

• Why This One Simple Chart Will End Wokeism

• Men invade tech job fair for women after ‘lying’ about being non-binary

  • Men Overran a Job Fair for Women in Tech

  • Men took over a job fair intended for women and nonbinary tech workers

• Satanists Turn On Leader Over Transgenderism After He Takes Photo With ‘Ex-Woke’ Atheist

  Several factions of the Satanic Temple expressed their strong disapproval. All 41 members of the Satanic Temple in Britain voted to leave, rebranding themselves as Satanists in the Wilderness, the outlet reported.

Edumacationalizing / Acedemia Nuts

• NYC professor who threatened Post reporter with a machete avoids jail with wrist-slap therapy plea deal.

  • to be fair, reporters should be fair game for all manner of abuse

• After Shunning Scientist, University of Pennsylvania Celebrates Her Nobel Prize

• Biden Cancels an Additional $9B in Student Loan Debt

  • Biden announces $9B of student debt relief as payments resume

• School shooting hoaxes have terrorized kids across U.S.

Entertainment / ShowBiz / Advertising

• Nobel Prize in Literature 2023 Awarded to Jon Fosse

  • Jon Fosse wins the 2023 Nobel Prize in literature

• Unreal Engine to change pricing model for non-game developers in 2024

• Netflix Plans to Raise Prices After Actors Strike Ends

• Hollywood relies on China to stay afloat. What does that mean for movies?

TechSuck / Geek Bait

• Vespa.ai is spinning out of Yahoo as a separate company | Hacker News

• Intel to set its FPGA unit free to pursue its own path | Hacker News

• Vulnerabilities in Supermicro BMCs could allow for unkillable server rootkits

• 1.1.1.1 lookup failures on October 4th, 2023 | Hacker News

  • (2015) Against DNSSEC — Quarrelsome

• Bitmagnet: A self-hosted BitTorrent indexer, DHT crawler, and torrent search | Hacker News

Space / UFO / Boomy Zoomers

• Gen2 Starlink, with cell phone service SpaceX requests special approval to take a huge step forward.

Crypto con games

• NYT: “Even Michael Lewis Can’t Make a Hero Out of Sam Bankman-Fried”

• FTX Employees Found Alameda’s Backdoor Months Before Collapse

  • FTX Workers Knew About Alameda’s Backdoor into Customer Funds: Report

• FTX Might Have Found Some Money

Economicon / Business / Finance

• Booking.com makes a fortune – so why is it leaving its bills to hotels unpaid?

Gubmint / Poilitcks / Law Making

• The House Crack Suicide Squad: The Ouster of McCarthy Captures the Politics of Our Times – JONATHAN TURLEY

• The Whole ‘McHenry Kicks Pelosi out of Her Hideaway Office’ Story Gets Even More Amusing – RedState

• Biden Taps Former Hunter Biden Colleague To Lead Office of the Special Counsel.

• Biden's new green jobs initiative delivers more promises than details

• Commander Biden should have been raised right

Law Breaking / Police / Internal Security

• Biden administration reverses course, clears way for new border wall

External Security / Militaria / Diplomania

• Marines temporarily relax dress code due to camouflage shortage

• Cat accused of wiping US Veteran Affairs server

World

• India's spies infiltrated West long before Canadian murder

• But will it fit in a vending machine? Mint releases Canada-shaped $50 coin

• Swiss writer who called journalist ‘fat lesbian’ sentenced to 60 days in prison.

• Will Rishi Sunak's plan to ban smoking in UK work?

Russia Bad / Ukraine War

• Former Wirecard CEO Accused of Leading Russian Spy Ring

Health / Medicine

• Nursing schools turning away 1000s of applicants during major nursing shortage

• Second malaria vaccine to win global approval is cheaper and easier to make

• Grug on diet soda and autism

• GSK stalled its own tuberculosis vaccine

Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda

• The climate model approximation that could fundamentally change climate movement

• Return of the wolf to Nepal’s Himalayas may threaten snow leopards

• September was the most anomalously hot month ever

• 2023 on track to be the warmest year on record

• Locals warned to stay away after Australian swamp mysteriously turns pink.

• US startup begins producing 40%-efficient thermophotovoltaic cells

  • HN comments

• Lots of people will have to die, but that's not our problem. The Green Revolution is a warning, not a blueprint for feeding a hungry planet

• The Impact of Climate Change on American Household Finances