2024-04-17

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• Atlas shrugged: Boston Dynamics retires its hydraulic humanoid robot

• Old Folks See Culture Change

• The invisible seafaring industry that keeps the internet afloat

Horseshit

• Song lyrics are getting more repetitive, angrier

• I love Firefox, but shit like this prevents be from donating to mozilla foundation: Marek Tuszynski reflects on experiences at the intersection of tech and activism

• Black hole 33 times bigger than sun found 'lurking undetected' close to Earth

• Lawyer Screw Up Leads to Couple's Divorce. Judge Refuses to Fix It

• How to keep Earth from being cooked by the ever-hotter Sun

• Sextortion scams are driving teenage boys to suicide

Boeing

• Boeing's problems has cost United $200M in Q1 2024

• Boeing whistleblower says 787 fleet should be grounded

celebrity gossip

• Salman Rushdie Recounts Brutal Attack in New Memoir

Obit

• Legendary St. Louis Cardinals manager Whitey Herzog dead at 92

Musk

• Tesla Is Running Out of Time to Deliver on Self-Driving Promises

• Verified pro-Nazi X accounts flourish under Elon Musk

• 'We have consistently flirted with death': Problems in Musk's tunnels

• My battle with Tesla: I want to clear my name before I die

• Musk's Starlink Cracks Down on Growing Black Market

Trump / War against the Right / Jan6

• Trump Media stock tanks on move to issue millions of shares

• Trump Media Has More Stock Coming

• Small-time investors in Trump's Truth Social reckon with stock collapse

Pox / COVID / BioTerror AgitProp

• CDC report finds no link between COVID vaccine and sudden cardiac deaths in young adults.

• Avian Influenza Isn't Killing Cows. Experts Are Still Worried

Religion / Tribal / Culture War and Re-Segregation

• They criticized Israel. This Twitter account upended their lives

Info Rental / ShowBiz / Advertising

• NPR suspends veteran editor Uri Berliner who called out left-wing bias

  • NPR Editor Uri Berliner suspended after essay criticizing network : NPR

  • NPR Suspends Editor Who Wrote 'Lost America's Trust' with Liberal 'Advocacy'

  • Instead Of Introspection, NPR Suspends Veteran Journalist Who Called Out Partisan Trainwreck

• Mobile Ad Blocker Will No Longer Stop YouTube's Ads

• Telecoms Get $45B Taxpayer Broadband Subsidies, Whine About Affordable Broadband

• Broadcast TV still exists, and now it's sort of getting a built-in DVR

• Amazon is filled with garbage e-books, this is how they get made

• Grindr plans to offer a pocket "gayborhood"

TechSuck / Geek Bait

• The tiny doodles left by engineers on old microchips

• AMD unveils Ryzen Pro 8000-series processors

  • HN comments

• Hardest Problem in Computer Science: Centering Things

AI Will (Save | Destroy) The World

• Is there enough text to feed the AI beast?

• The $665M crypto fund roiling the AI safety fight

• Photobucket Is in Negotiations with AI Companies to Licence 13B Images

Space / Boomy Zoomers / UFO

• Russian space chief says new rocket will put Falcon 9 reuse to shame

• NASA tries to jog Voyager 1's memory from 15B miles away

Crypto con games

• Bitcoin's halving makes its future pay-to-play

Economicon / Business / Finance

• Welcome to Pricing Hell

• To make a fortune, target bored young men who want to make a fortune

  • HN comments

• Ludwig von Mises Is Latin America's Leading Economist

• Amazon HQ2 was supposed to add jobs last year. It shed them instead

• Gold is sniffing out monetary and geopolitical dystopia

• Andreessen Horowitz raises 7.2B, sign startup market may be bouncing back

• Powell says there has been a 'lack of further progress' this year on inflation

• 'Grand Theft Auto' Maker to Fire 5% of Staff, Drop Some Projects

Gubmint / Poilitcks / Law Making

• ‘Bidenbucks’ Make ‘Zuckbucks’ Look Like Chump Change.

• The US reauthorizing and expanding its surveillance laws

• Kentucky legislature rejects pleas, cuts tobacco-prevention spending

Law Breaking / Police / Internal Security

• $10M in Gold Disguised as Machine Parts Seized from Cargo Plane

  • HN comments

• SEC Targets Its Own Staff's Texting, Nixes WhatsApp on Work Phones

External Security / Militaria / Diplomania

• US lawmakers angry after Huawei unveils laptop with new Intel AI chip

• Can geothermal energy ease the US military's logistics challenges?

World

• Copenhagen's historic stock exchange in flames

• Creating sexually explicit deepfake images to be made offence in UK

  • New UK law targets "despicable individuals" who create AI sex deepfakes

• Desperate to dodge dengue, Argentines run out of repellent

• U.K. MPs back smoking ban for those born after 2009

• 'Pacifist' Japan is tooling up for war

• More Taxes on Capital Gains in Canada in 2024

• German transport minister warns of weekend driving ban

Israel

• NYT Leak: Journalists Avoid Words Genocide, Ethnic Cleansing, Occupied Territory

• Google Workers Protest Cloud Contract with Israel's Government

• AOC decries 'unfolding genocide' in Gaza, urges halting weapons to Israel

• Nearly 50 traumatised Israeli revellers have killed themselves since Nova festival was attacked by Hamas on October 7 with others sectioned due to psychiatric issues, survivor tells parliament | Daily Mail Online

China

• China continues to subsidize deadly fentanyl exports

• Chinese Company Under Congressional Scrutiny Makes Key U.S. Drugs

Health / Medicine

• Japan study shows link between passive smoking and lung cancer

• U.S. pharmacy database shows record-high shortages of medical drugs.

• Ban of heat protections for outdoor workers could create 'public health crisis'

Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda

• Eyewitness describes wolf's final hours in a rural Wyoming bar

• Methane Emissions from the Oil and Gas Industry Are Triple Current Estimates

• Dead satellites could affect Earth's magnetic field

• In Australia, 'Cats Are Just Catastrophic'

• New Method That Pinpoints Wood's Origin May Curb Illegal Timber

• B.C., Canada plants its 10Bth tree