2023-12-23

Cool

• New 1.5B-pixel image shows Running Chicken Nebula in unprecedented detail

  • The Running Chicken Nebula | ESO

Worthy

• Repeat complex ideas back to people ("two phase commit" for humans)

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• Ohio gives historical status to building that once housed CompuServe

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• Microsoft just paid $76M for a Wisconsin pumpkin farm

• Iowa state researchers claim Lk-99 really is a superconductor

Horseshit

• Psychologists pinpoint average age children become Santa sceptics

• 3D-printing can reproduce multi-million-dollar masterpieces, stroke by stroke

• Santa can legally enter the U.S. this Christmas, per USDA permit

• Young Americans Turn Against Boomers over Social Security

• Bloomberg: No One Wants Used EVs, Making New Ones a Tougher Sell Too.

• The death of the London houseboat dream

• Quantum Computing's Hard, Cold Reality Check

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celebrity gossip

• "King of the Cannibals": How Sam Altman Took over Silicon Valley

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  • 'King of the Cannibals': How Sam Altman Took over Silicon Valley

Rank Propaganda / Thought Policing / World Disordering

• Leaving the Nazi Bar

  I’ve been thinking a lot about Michael B Tager’s Nazi bar story, which I’ll copy and paste in full below (now that he’s left X/Twitter and the original source is lost to time):

  • the "nazi bar story" is a big feature in this latest wave of "Substack Nazis" PR fluff. Often accompanied by soothing reassurances that "there can be no tolerance for extremists" and a complete lack of questions about "what is extreme?" Replace the word "Nazi" with "Black" or "Jew" in the story ... it is nothing but the age old prejudice that we used to agree was bad.

• Substack Says It Will Not Ban Nazis or Extremist Speech

• Meta censors pro-Palestinian views on a global scale, report claims

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• Rumble Turns Off Access in Brazil Because of Government's Censorship Demands

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  • Rumble Chris Pavlovski's statement on Brazilian censorship

Musk

• Elon Musk's fresh Aussie legal challenge

• Teslas Have a Minor Issue Where the Wheels Fly Off While Driving, Documents Show

• Elon Musk wants to make X a 'giant brain' and financial platform

• Twitter violated employment contract, US judge rules

• Tesla recalls over 120k cars over door risks

Trump / War against the Right / Jan6

• "There will not be a trial in DC before the 2024 election" Supreme Court Rules Against Special Counsel, Will Not Expedite Trump Immunity Clash | ZeroHedge

• Law professor slap fight? PrawfsBlawg: What Getting "On the Wall" is and Isn't

  • THE NEW REFORM CLUB: Is It Soup Yet?

Pox / COVID / BioTerror AgitProp

• American health plummets after Covid pandemic (Gallup)

• Colon cancer is rising in young Americans. It's not clear why

• When Will Queer Bravery Become Part of the World War II Narrative?

• Doc found: blueprint in Wuhan for 'SARS-CoV' virus with altered spike protein

Religion / Tribal / Culture War and Re-Segregation

• Family of autistic Jewish teen who had swastika carved on his back by classmates sues school.

• Paul Biggar removed from CircleCI board for pro-Palestine blog post

• The Neoliberal Transition in Intellectual and Economic History

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Edumacationalizing / Acedemia Nuts

• Analyzing 30 years of US federal research misconduct

• The Harvard Scandal Is Bigger Than Claudine Gay

• Revealed: Harvard cleared Claudine Gay of plagiarism BEFORE investigating her — and its lawyers falsely claimed her work was ‘properly cited’.

Entertainment / ShowBiz / Advertising

• A New Look for Bluesky: The Social Butterfly

• The Fight over Apple's iMessage and Those Green Bubbles

• Hughes Elevates Rural America's Internet Experience with the New Hughesnet

• Meta CTO explains how AI changes the plan for AR glasses

• Warner Eyes Paramount; Its Last Two Disastrous Mergers Weren't Disastrous Enough

• The Google Play Store Ruling Is Bad News for Longtime Android Phone Users

• Pornhub Admits To Profiting From Sex Trafficking, Agrees To $1.8 Million Settlement In Deal With Feds

• A utility company fought to keep two Colorado towns hooked on fossil fuels

• Sony has decided it will not be removing Discovery Channel content that its customers had "bought" on the PlayStation Network.... Yet.

• Why the Fediverse is the future of social networks, and the web

TechSuck / Geek Bait

• Tell HN: I reached 30k karma on HN and I'm so happy

• Year in Review 2023 Explore worldwide trends that shaped our Internet this year

AI Will (Save | Destroy) The World

• God Is Dead So They Are Building a New One

• OpenAI in talks to raise new funding at $100B valuation

  • OpenAI is in talks to raise $750M in funding at an $18.4B valuation

• AI companies required to disclose copyrighted training data under new bill

Space / Boomy Zoomers / UFO

• NASA likely to delay again plans to reach moon with Artemis III, watchdog says

Crypto con games

• SBF Defense Legal Architect David Mills Says FTX Trial Was Unwinnable - Bloomberg

Economicon / Business / Finance

• 'It feels fun and freeing': US sees ebike boom after years of false starts

• Wayfair CEO Niraj Shah tells employees to 'work longer hours' in year-end email

Gubmint / Poilitcks / Law Making

• The grifter defense: The Bidens move to embrace influence peddling with a twist | The Hill

• Third party ‘No Labels’ could hand the election to Trump in 2024, ex-Obama official warns: ‘Cut the crap’

• San Francisco rejects 26 candidates' Chinese names for upcoming election

• Hochul Vetoes Ban on Noncompete Agreements in New York

Law Breaking / Police / Internal Security

• Teens sue San Francisco after mass arrests at skateboarding event

World

• Argentina Milei reform impressions - Marginal REVOLUTION

• Prominent Chinese business analysts are starting to disappear from social media

• Electric Cars Are Driving China Toward the End of the Age of Oil

• Sudan Is on the Brink of a New Catastrophe

• Iran threatens Mediterranean closure over Gaza, without saying how

• Colombia looks to recover billions in treasure from 'holy grail of shipwrecks'

Israel

• Israel Fails To Prove Targeted Gaza Hospital Was Hamas Hub: Washington Post | ZeroHedge

Russia Bad / Ukraine War

• What If Russia Wins?

• Ukraine to begin conscripting citizens living abroad

• Putin ally ‘behind bomb’ that killed Wagner boss

Health / Medicine

• Big data study yields insights into pregnancy symptoms and how they progress

Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda

• Engine maker Cummins to pay $1.67B to settle claims it bypassed emissions test

  • Cummins Fined $1.6B for Diesel Defeat Devices in 630K RAM Trucks

    It's sometimes said that crimes punishable by fines are only crimes for the poor. Without evidence that Cummins' business has been truly harmed as a consequence of its actions here, it's hard to read things any other way.

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• The future of clean hydrogen in the US could hinge on a new tax credit

  • Biden administration unveils hydrogen tax credit plan to jump-start industry

• Toxic chemical reactions fuel crises at L.A. County's two largest landfills

• Nuclear expert on COP28 pledge to triple nuclear: Trumpism enters energy policy

• A surge in organized crime threatens the Amazon

• Whatever happened to the zero waste movement?

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