2023-11-02

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• Moon-forming impactor as a source of Earth's basal mantle anomalies

  • well then it aint really lost is it? Researchers Find Evidence of a Lost Planet, Theia, Deep Within Earth's Core

• How “blue” and “green” appeared in a language that didn’t have words for them

• "We dunno yet" How sunflowers see the sun

  Indoors, sunflowers grew straight toward the light, activating genes associated with phototropin. But the plants grown outdoors, swinging their heads with the sun, showed a completely different pattern of gene expression. There was no apparent difference in phototropin between one side of the stem and another. The researchers have not yet identified the genes involved in heliotropism.

• Watch: Bear goes trick-or-treating in Florida neighborhood, eats candy

• Does Big Business Hate Your Family?

Horseshit

• Bad grammar cause real physical stress, study finds

• Translation app prompts terror alert after "pomegranate" confused with "grenade"

• We decided to open a cafe for a day. This happened

• The Economy Is Great. Why Are Americans in Such a Rotten Mood?

celebrity gossip

• Fox News host Laura Ingraham learns James Webb Space Telescope is a thing | Salon.com

Musk

• Starlink has achieved breakeven cash flow

Trump / War against the Right / Jan6

• It Seems Judge Aileen Cannon Is About To Hand Trump a Massive Win

• Trump gloats over retirement of Republican who attacked election lie

Pestilence / Pox / COVID / VaxCult

• Covid vaccines included in Brazil's regular immunization calendar

• Children with asthma not at higher risk of severe COVID, research suggests.

Religion / Tribal / Culture War and Re-Segregation

• Apple just paused Jewish and Muslim employee Slack channels

• American birds and dozens more will be renamed, to remove human monikers

  injustice wasn't a traditionally accepted reason for changing bird names. That really started to change in 2020, when police officers killed George Floyd in Minneapolis. On that same day, a white woman in Central Park called the police on black birder Christian Cooper, claiming he was threatening her.

  • Why North American Birds Will Soon Get New Names

• People Filmed Tearing Down Posters of Israeli Hostages

  ‘Like a trap’: Are posters of Israeli hostages drawing awareness or baiting pro-Palestinians into getting canceled when they tear them down? 'I think people are looking at the fact that they are so one-sided about these missing people.'

• Anorexia was the gender dysphoria of yesterday

• Is the American Academy of Pediatrics placing its own members at risk?

Edumacationalizing / Acedemia Nuts

• Big ideas for reforming higher ed

• Fake Nudes of Real Students Cause an Uproar at a New Jersey High School

Entertainment / ShowBiz / Advertising

• Capcom thinks PC game modding is akin to "cheating"

• Disney to buy remaining 33% stake in streaming service Hulu

  • Disney is about to own all of Hulu

• Plano-Based Frito-Lay Launches 'Crunch-Cancelling' AI Tech for PC Gamers

• Dagor Game Engine Powering War Thunder Open Sourced

• Scarlett Johansson hits AI app with legal action for cloning her voice in an ad

  • HN comments

• In Marvel we no longer trust

• SEOs did not ruin the Internet and the Internet is not ruined

• Starlink plans to launch texting service in 2024, voice/data in 2025

• EU data regulator bans personalised advertising on Facebook and Instagram | Hacker News

TechSuck / Geek Bait

• Help wanted at LWN

• Cosmopolitan Third Edition

  • HN comments

• Programming in Rust is like being in an emotionally abusive relationship

Space / Boomy Zoomers / UFO

• Starlink satellites are 'leaking' signals that interfere with radio telescopes

• FAA completes safety review for next Starship launch.

• After Vulcan slips, Space Force ends up awarding more missions to SpaceX

Crypto con games

• Sam Bankman-Fried lawyer says government portrayed FTX founder as a 'monster'

• Sam Bankman-Fried Often Didn't Recall in His Testimony. But the Prosecution Did

• Ryder Ripps loses Bored Apes lawsuit, to pay $1.6M+legal fees

• Remember how Ethereum was supposed to be the 'World Computer'?

• US vs. Bankman-Fried: Trial Transcript 31 Oct 2023

• SEC subpoenas PayPal over its USD-pegged stablecoin

Economicon / Business / Finance

• $2k/mo US consumer spending dashboard built on data from 50M+ cards now on Snowflake

• WeWork: Shares plunge after reports say firm is filing for bankruptcy

  • WeWork is likely to declare bankrupcy next week

• Trade the News, Then Publish It

• US FDIC is probing former First Republic Bank directors and officers

• Why doctors in America earn so much

  • HN comments

• As child care costs soar, more parents may have to exit the workforce

  • HN comments

• Post Covid Remote Work Doesn't Work as Well

• The US Housing Market Has Become an Impossible Mess

• New York Is Too Expensive to Even Visit

• Arm Acquires Minority Stake in Raspberry Pi

• Why You Might Get Cheap Gas for Christmas

Gubmint / Poilitcks / Law Making

• OMB Releases Implementation Guidance Following Biden's Executive Order on AI

  • Establishment of the U.S. Artificial Intelligence Safety Institute

  • Open source AI need to look at Section 4.6 of Biden's Executive Order | Hacker News

• FCC to propose a minimum 100mbps to qualify as broadband, future goal of 1gbps | Hacker News

• Biden tries to stanch Democratic losses in rural America.

• White House Announces 'National Strategy To Counter Islamophobia' As Antisemitism Soars | ZeroHedge

  "For too long, Muslims in America, and those perceived to be Muslim, such as Arabs and Sikhs, have endured a disproportionate number of hate-fueled attacks and other discriminatory incidents,"

  • White House indicates people making ‘violent antisemitic threats’ not classified as ‘domestic terrorists’ | Fox News

• Doh! Looks Like Now We Ought to Be Rooting for RFK Jr.

Law Breaking / Police / Internal Security

• Colorado judge chides company that tried to pay $23,500 settlement in coins

• Costco Continues to Sell Banned Surveillance Equipment, Lawmakers Say

External Security / Militaria / Diplomania

• Biden calls for ‘pause’ in Israel-Hamas war during Minnesota event

  • Israel Gaza: Joe Biden calls for 'pause' in conflict

  • Joe Biden Calls For Humanitarian 'Pause' In Israel-Hamas War

• US Destroyer, Canadian Frigate Transit Taiwan Strait

World

• China regulators probe liquidity stress that sent rates to record 50%

• China's Male Leaders Signal to Women That Their Place Is in the Home

• China bans export of Loongson chips due to strategic importance and military use

• Italy's Rumbling Supervolcano Has Half a Million Residents on Edge

Israel

• Why Do Young Americans Support Hamas? Look at TikTok

• 'No Jews' Trends on Twitter but Not for the Reason You Think – PJ Media

• Civilians caught in Gaza crossfire scrambling to find safety, many with nowhere to go

• Hundreds more civilians, including 400 Americans, permitted to leave Gaza amid Israel-Hamas war

• Palestinian Americans trapped in Gaza wait desperately to leave

• Qatar mediated deal between Egypt, Israel and Hamas to permit limited Gaza evacuations

• Israeli Ground Troops Push Toward Gaza City

• Gaza authorities say 15 killed in Israeli strike on Bureij refugee camp

  • Hamas Says Israel's Strikes on Refugee Camp Kill More Than 195 People

• Israel-Gaza war: Hamas fighters seek to block Israeli army’s advance on Gaza City, hospitals are beyond ‘catastrophic’

• What Palestinians Think of Hamas

• The Israel-Hamas Tunnel War Will Be Like No Other

• The Hamas tunnels: a wildcard in the Gaza fighting

Russia Bad / Ukraine War

• "suspect source" ... all tracing to one guy afaik Vladimir Putin's Death is Being Celebrated by His Former Cronies, Kremlin Source Says

• Ukraine's Commander-in-chief admits the war is at a stalemate

• Ukraine Is Using AI to Help Clear Russian Landmines

• Putin Reverses Ban on Nuclear Testing

Health / Medicine

• Despite spooky Consumer Reports' testing, metals in chocolates aren't scary

• Doctor implies oral sex has surpassed smoking and alcohol as greatest risk factor for THROAT CANCER | Daily Mail Online

• Non-alcoholic beer ‘breeding ground for bacteria.’

Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda

• 45 Hurricane Otis death toll rises again nearly a week after nightmare storm slammed into Mexico

• Uncommon rat mitigation technique nearly eliminating Upper East Side infestation

  Deodato pumps carbon monoxide into rat holes in sidewalk tree boxes. He said the method is only used by a few exterminators in the city because the machines cost roughly $3,000 each, but the results speak for themselves.

• To control rabies in wildlife, the USDA drops vaccine treats from the sky

• Fruit Flies Are Invading Los Angeles. The Solution? More Fruit Flies

• Wind Power, Key to Democrats' Climate-Change Goals, Faces a Crisis

• Anthropogenic Coal Ash as a Contaminant in a Micro-Meteoritic Underwater Search