2023-10-23

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• EU-funded report calls for wealth of super-rich to be taxed, not income

  • HN comments

Horseshit

• Why Are So Many Dogs on Prozac?

• Testosterone parties: the latest Silicon Valley fad

• cooler screens

  Out here, I am hoping the staff have fabricated crude signs so that I don't have to manually open every door. I am starting to memorize Walgreens shelf plans as an adaptation. I am nodding and appropriately chuckling when a stranger says "remember when you could see through these?" as they fight against retail innovation to purchase one of the products these things were supposed to promote. You cannot say they aren't engaged, in a sense.

  • HN comments

• Wacky world of baby names: guess how much mine cost? | Baby names | The Guardian

  Some parents are paying up to $30,000 for a ‘doula’ to create a bespoke moniker for their offspring

• SEC boss warns it's 'nearly unavoidable' that AI will cause financial crash

• Mustafa Suleyman and Eric Schmidt: We Need an AI Equivalent of the IPCC

• The Sociopaths Among Us–and How to Avoid Them

celebrity gossip

• The world's most popular painter went after me because he didn't like a review

• Judicial Watch: New Records Reveal Barack Obama’s Presence at Emergency Scene of Obama Family Chef Drowning | Judicial Watch

Rank Propaganda / Thought Policing / World Disordering

• Elite disinformation is a far greater problem than fake news on Twitter

  "The truth is not whatever we believe or perceive it to be. But the trouble with post-modernism is that it can become self-fulfilling. When those in positions of power decide the truth can be whatever they wish were the case, the floodgates open. Now it is not clear they can ever be closed, and that spells grave danger for all of us."

• Pro-Palestinian creators use secret spellings, words to evade social algorithms

• Could a $400k Australian court ruling silence Kiwi Farms?

Musk

• The deranged mind of Twitter's 'For You' algorithm

• Elon Musk Says He'll Give Wikipedia $1B If They Change Their Name to DiCkipedia

Trump / War against the Right / Jan6

• FCC launchin preliminary process of stripping FOXNews of broadcasting license

Pestilence / Pox / COVID / VaxCult

• Musings on long Covid and the epistemology of medicine

• (April 2020) Coronavirus and Credibility

Entertainment / ShowBiz / Advertising

• Facebook web desktop can not access messenger in widely experienced bug | Hacker News

• Americans’ Trust In The Media Hits All-Time Low In Latest I&I/TIPP Poll – Issues & Insights

TechSuck / Geek Bait

• Cubic spline interpolation - Eli Bendersky's website

  • HN comments

• Why the hospital pager withstood the test of time | Hacker News

• Raspberry Pi 5: available now! - Raspberry Pi

  • HN comments

• Millions of smart meters will brick it when 2G and 3G turns off

• Excel will allow certain auto data conversions to be turned off | Hacker News

• Protomaps – A free and open source map of the world | Hacker News

Space / UFO / Boomy Zoomers

• Moon may be 40M years older than previously thought

Crypto con games

• Is cryptocurrency helping Hamas fund terrorism?

• Caroline Ellison Was to Shock the SBF Trial. Instead, the Defense Team Has

Economicon / Business / Finance

• Black Monday - by Jeffrey Carter - Points And Figures

  There will be no Black Monday tomorrow. No one, and I mean no one, can call a market crash like that. As a matter of fact, the dean of Finance Professor Eugene Fama said something really prescient to me once. “You only see crashes in the rearview mirror.” He’s right of course.

• China is becoming a data black hole, says short seller Aandahl

• Chevron to Buy Hess for $53B

• Billionaires are driving South Florida home prices to new records

• Late payments rise on US loans tied to inflated pandemic credit scores

• Nobody Wants Mutual Funds Now

Gubmint / Poilitcks / Law Making

• Conservatives are increasingly knives out for the nation's top cyber agency

• ‘It’s a Very Bad Look’: Biden Energy Loan Czar Freezes Up During Senate Hearing on ‘Pay-To-Play’ Allegations

• These 9 candidates have joined the House speaker race after Jim Jordan dropped out.

Law Breaking / Police / Internal Security

• Killings in the U.S. are dropping at a historic rate

• NJ Man Hired Online to Firebomb, Shoot at Homes Gets 13 Years in Prison

• Off-duty pilot charged with 83 counts of attempted murder after security threat

External Security / Militaria / Diplomania

• We Should Fear China More Than Middle Eastern War

World

• Taiwan's Foxconn faces China tax probe, seen as politically motivated -sources

  • Foxconn being investigated in China as founder runs for Taiwan presidency

Israel

• The Media Will Never Forgive Israel for Not Bombing That Hospital

• Palestinian parents take heartbreaking step of writing their children’s names on legs to ID them if killed.

• Israel Foils ‘Significant And Imminent Terror Attack’ By Striking Terror Tunnels Under Mosque.

• More Than 500 Rockets Fired By Palestinian Terrorists Have Fallen Inside Gaza.

• “Evidence on Display at Israel’s Forensic Pathology Center Confirms Hamas’ Atrocities”.

  • Evidence on Display at Israel’s Forensic Pathology Center Confirms Hamas’ Atrocities - The Media Line

• 7 influential accounts are warping Israel-Hamas news on X, researchers find

  • CNN, WaPo, BBC, NYT, Reuters, MSNBC, AP ... oh. Nope, more "right wing Russian disinformation" i guess.

• Hamas torture confirmed as Israeli forensics institute identifies victims.

• CNN Tries to Explain What’s Going on in Israel, but There’s a Slight Problem With That Map

• Cyber attacks in the Israel-Hamas war

• Editors’ Note: Gaza Hospital Coverage - The New York Times orig paywalled

  However, the early versions of the coverage — and the prominence it received in a headline, news alert and social media channels — relied too heavily on claims by Hamas, and did not make clear that those claims could not immediately be verified. The report left readers with an incorrect impression about what was known and how credible the account was.

  The Times continued to update its coverage as more information became available, reporting the disputed claims of responsibility and noting that the death toll might be lower than initially reported. Within two hours, the headline and other text at the top of the website reflected the scope of the explosion and the dispute over responsibility. Given the sensitive nature of the news during a widening conflict, and the prominent promotion it received, Times editors should have taken more care with the initial presentation, and been more explicit about what information could be verified.

• Israeli Merkava Tanks Appear with 'Cope Cage' Armor

• LinkedIn Issues Warning to Site Shaming Pro-Palestinian Sentiment

• Hamas Expected To Release 50 Dual National Hostages "Within Hours"

Russia Bad / Ukraine War

• Ukrainian spies with deep ties to CIA wage shadow war against Russia

Health / Medicine

• Unearthing diseases' ancient origins could help produce modern cures

• Two Scientists Taking Down Cold Medicines That Don't Work

• Ozempic and Wegovy Don’t Cost What You Think They Do.

• CVS, Walgreens and Rite Aid are closing stores across the U.S. Here’s how ‘pharmacy deserts’ can impact your health.

Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda

• Summer heat may have cost the Texas economy $24B this year

• Orcas are learning terrifying new behaviors. Are they getting smarter?

  • Previously people whose boats were attacked by orca were likely to have reacted forcefully. Killing might not be required even, just enough force to communicate "these creatures bite back." Human societies tend to lose those lessons after 3 or 4 generations, too. Then someone has to learn again the hard way.

• Earth Stopped Getting Greener 20 Years Ago

• The race to spend IRA's $100B in climate grants

• We're entering a pretty strong El Niño–here's what that means for a US winter

• Melting in W. Antarctica 'unavoidable,' potentially disastrous sea level rise

• It's too late for nuclear to save the climate