2023-10-07

Cool

• Reverse-Engineering the Mechanical Bendix Central Air Data Computer

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• Half a Million Kinksters Can't Be Wrong | Hacker News

• Toyota Will Adopt Tesla-Style Cast Bodies That Might Be Impossible to Fix

Horseshit

• “Real Water” that poisoned dozens contained chemical from rocket fuel | Ars Technica

  A jury this week awarded $228.5 million to seven plaintiffs in their case against Nevada-based water company Real Water, which sold alkaline water tainted with hydrazine, a highly toxic chemical found in fuel for rockets and spacecraft.

• Target says it's closing stores due to theft. The data tells a different story

• Police Find 115 Decaying Bodies at US Funeral Home Offering 'Green' Burials

• We Finally Have Proof That the Internet Is Worse

• Men are getting rich from AI. Women, not so much

Rank Propaganda / Thought Policing / World Disordering

• A Reagan Judge, the First Amendment, and the Eternal War Against Pornography

Musk

• Tesla slashes prices of Model 3, Models Y vehicles in U.S.

• US ad revenue at Musk's X declined each month since takeover

• Elon Musk's Twitter Takeover

• Elon Musk Says SpaceX Could Land on Mars in 3 to 4 Years

• A primer on Elon Musk's latest dumb fight with the SEC

Trump / War against the Right / Jan6

• Hillary Clinton Calls For ‘Formal Deprogramming’ Targeting Trump Supporters

  • Hillary Clinton says Trump supporters may need to be ‘deprogrammed’

  • HN comments

Pestilence / Pox / COVID / VaxCult

• The CDC has stopped printing COVID vaccine cards. Here’s what to do with your old one.

• Some Embalmers Say White, Fibrous Clots Showing Up; Others Say It's A Conspiracy Theory | ZeroHedge

Religion / Tribal / Culture War and Re-Segregation

• White Supremacist Active Clubs Are Breeding on Telegram

Edumacationalizing / Acedemia Nuts

• Ask HN: Any alternatives to Duolingo without gamification?

Entertainment / ShowBiz / Advertising

• Unreal Engine will remain free for education and small projects: Tim Sweeney

• The Remaking of the Wall Street Journal

• TV streaming Thousands of Android devices come with unkillable backdoor preinstalled

• Discogs' vibrant vinyl community is shattering

• Wired has removed "How Google Alters Search Queries" story | Hacker News

TechSuck / Geek Bait

• AMD may get across the CUDA moat

  • HN comments

• A 20MP Sensor in a Film Canister Reinvigorates Vintage Analog Cameras

• What is in that .git directory?

• The Honeypot Diaries: Thousands of Daily Attacks on My Home Network | Sim O.N.E.

  • HN comments

Space / UFO / Boomy Zoomers

• Amazon launches first two satellites in planned orbital internet service

  • Amazon Kuiper: Jeff Bezos joins satellite internet race

Crypto con games

• Sam Bankman-Fried's reassurances about FTX were false, ex-lieutenant testifies

• Sex, Signal messages, sabotage: SBF's top execs and Bahamas roommates in court

• Today the FTX jury suffered through a code review

• Here’s How FTX Executives Secretly Spent $8 Billion in Customer Money

Economicon / Business / Finance

• Inside Today's Jobs Report: 885,000 Full-Time Jobs Lost, 1.127 Million Part-Time Jobs Added, Record Multiple Jobholders

• A comprehensive list of 2023 tech layoffs

• Tech giants Meta, Amazon lay off more workers as cuts continue

• Brave lays off 9% of its workforce

• Retailers appear to be facing a self-checkout reckoning

• Electric and plug-in vehicle buyers will get US tax credits immediately in 2024

Gubmint / Poilitcks / Law Making

• California to Ensure "Free and Fair Elections" With Hand Counting Ballot Ban | Frontpage Mag

• Biden Administration Deletes Post Calling On Israelis Not to Respond to Hamas Assault

Law Breaking / Police / Internal Security

• Witnesses to FBI hunt for Civil War gold describe loaded armored truck,night dig

External Security / Militaria / Diplomania

• America Needs to Build More (and Better) Ships

• Former U.S. Soldier Accused of Trying to Give Classified Secrets to China

World

• Israel at War as Hamas Attacks

• War in the Middle East (Updated) | Power Line

• Israel army launches air attacks on Gaza

• Why did the Palestinian group Hamas launch an attack on Israel? All to know

• Gaza and Israel on War Footing After Militants Launch Surprise Assaults

• Israel "In State Of War" With Hamas After Palestinian Militants Launch "Unprecedented" Incursion Into Israel

• Israel Declares State of War

• Israel says it is 'at war' after Hamas surprise attack

Health / Medicine

• U.S. cancer centers report ongoing shortage of chemotherapy drugs.

• How Big Pharma Company Stalled Potentially Lifesaving Vaccine Pursuit Profits

• just rank advertising at this point innit Ozempic and other weight loss drugs could reshape the food business

• Sitting all day increase dementia risk – even if you exercise

• Human body temperature has decreased in United States, study finds

Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda

• Is carbon removal critical to save the planet, or just hot air?

• New study definitively confirms gulf stream weakening

• Al Gore Doesn't Say I Told You So

• How dare they attempt to counter the decades of propaganda we've put out? Shell Using Fortnite, TikTok, etc. to Convince Kids Fossil Fuels Are Cool

  • HN comments

• At least 1k birds died from colliding with one Chicago building in one day