2023-10-10

Cool

• How to Easily Make Your Own Pyramid Salt Crystals - Crystalverse

  • HN comments

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• Vermont Utility Plans to End Outages by Giving Customers Batteries

• Airbnb listings down to 3,227 from 22,434 since August

Horseshit

• Medieval staircases were not built going clockwise for the defender's advantage

  • HN comments

• New York's Airbnb Ban Is Descending into Pure Chaos

• Why does Canada have three of the most liveable cities?

  • is canadia. if people didn't really like it there, they'd move somewhere more habitable. perhaps where water is a liquid.

• Physicist claims he has new evidence we're simply characters in a virtual world

  • we are the ultimate entropy coding. map vs territory.

Obit

• Chuck Feeney has died

• One of Last Survivors of Oklahoma Race Massacre Dies at 102

Rank Propaganda / Thought Policing / World Disordering

• Major moderation failures by X and Meta highlight election year risks

Musk

• Israel-Hamas Conflict Was a Test for Musk's X, and It Failed

• Twitter (X) CEO Linda Yaccarino drops out of the WSJ Tech Live conference

• Elon Musk Is Shitposting His Way Through the Israel-Hamas War

Pestilence / Pox / COVID / VaxCult

• Unvaccinated people who recover from Covid at higher risk of heart complications

Religion / Tribal / Culture War and Re-Segregation

• (Video) Ray Stevens "now That Bubba Changed his Name"

• Stem Jobs See Uneven Progress in Increasing Gender, Racial and Ethnic Diversity

Entertainment / ShowBiz / Advertising

• John Riccitiello steps down as CEO of Unity after pricing battle

• The Future of CSS: Easy Light-Dark Mode Color Switching with Light-Dark() | Hacker News

• Google wins reprieve from $32M verdict in Sonos patent fight

• After 80 years, CBC Radio stops broadcasting official time signal

• Why the New York Times is looking to shorten stories

TechSuck / Geek Bait

• John Carmack: Be an Open Source Absolutist

  congress should make no law abridging the freedom to release open source software.

• Simulation Islands :: Box2D

• Google is making passkeys the default option

  • Google is making their weak, flawed passkey system the default login method

• CSS howto: Some simple ways to make content look good

• Fresh curl tomorrow will patch 'worst' security flaw in ages

Space / UFO / Boomy Zoomers

• What If UFOs Have Been A Cover For High-Tech Human Defense Research Programs? | ZeroHedge

• SpaceX slams FAA report on falling space debris danger.

Crypto con games

• FTX – The Fraud Was in the Code

• Caroline Ellison took almost 30 seconds to recognize ex-boyfriend SBF

• SBF's Bets Used to Work Out

Economicon / Business / Finance

• Samsung expected to report 80% profit plunge as losses mount at chip business

• Nearly Half of Higher-Income Households Say They Are ‘More Reliant on Credit Cards Than Ever.’

• Catastrophe Bonds Defy Global Selloff with Record Returns

Gubmint / Poilitcks / Law Making

• Joe Biden’s younger brother Frank admits naked selfie on GuysWithiPhones gay dating site is genuine. ‘My phone must have been hacked.’

• North Carolina Republicans create "secret police force"

• More Newsom fellation California is banning junk fees

• Rubin and Tribe Under Fire for Using the Massacre in Israel for Bizarre Attacks on Political Figures – JONATHAN TURLEY

• When Does Federal Debt Reach Unsustainable Levels?

Law Breaking / Police / Internal Security

• US Sues eBay for Allowing Sale of More Than 300k Emissions Defeat Devices

External Security / Militaria / Diplomania

• China's actual military budget is close to 700B dollars

• Suspect in Chinese Consulate crash shot, killed by police: SFPD

  • San Francisco: Man who crashed car into Chinese consulate shot dead

World

• Egyptian banks suspend debit card use in foreign currency

• Finnish media: Balticconnector pipeline leak 'does not appear to be an accident'

  • Nord Stream 2.0? Finland-Estonia Undersea Pipeline In Baltic "Has Been Deliberately Damaged"

Israel

• Israel Loosens Gun Laws After Unprecedented Terror Attack

• CNN lets Palestinian National Initiative founder lie about who Hamas is targeting.

• Over 100 Bodies Found In Israeli Kibbutz; Biden Confirms 11 Americans Killed & "Likely" More In Captivity | ZeroHedge

• 'Mahmoud al-Zahar: "The entire planet will be under our law, there will be no more Jews or Christian traitors.'

• Militants Behind Israel Attack Raised Millions in Crypto

• Egypt spy chief warned Netanyahu of Gaza assault, was ignored -- report; PM denies it | The Times of Israel

• "It's Not A Battlefield, It's A Massacre": Israeli Army Takes Foreign Press To Scenes Of Kibbutz Slaughter | ZeroHedge

Health / Medicine

• California Becomes First State to Ban Four Harmful Chemicals in Food

• Wild to Mild Campaign Drives Key Message to Tame Flu and Reset Expectations

• The "Deaths of Despair" narrative is wrong

Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda

• The sordid tale of L.A.'s forever war on smog

• Sadly, It's Not 'Just Another Summer.' We Must End the Fossil Fuel Industry

• Climate crisis costing $16M an hour in extreme weather damage, study estimates

• Rabies Vaccines Airdropped From Planes Throughout The Southeastern States In October | ZeroHedge

• Google wants to be at the center of all your climate change decisions

• Titanium Oxide Removes Toxic Dyes from Wastewater

• The environmental impact of the AI revolution is starting to come into focus

• The global costs of extreme weather that are attributable to climate change