2024-04-21

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• Children Need Neighborhoods Where They Can Walk and Bike

• NASA Veteran's Propellantless Propulsion Drive That Physics Says Shouldn't Work

  • HN comments

Horseshit

• We live in a cosmic void so empty that it breaks the laws of cosmology | New Scientist

• Scientists push new animal consciousness paradigm: even insects may be sentient

• Sacrificing safety for a selfie: Group caught on camera pulling bear cubs from tree

  “We did follow up with the people who pulled the bear out of the tree," Hobbs said. "We did confront them on site that day and let them know how irresponsible and potentially deadly it could be for that cub to be separated from its mom, especially ripped out of a tree like that." Hobbs said she felt frustrated when she watched the video because of how often she preaches about the need to coexist with these animals and to give them the space they need. “It is frustrating to see people be that irresponsible around wildlife because it is a blessing that we get to live in the mountains around these creatures,” she said.

Electric / Self Driving cars

• Mercedes becomes the first automaker to sell autonomous cars in the U.S.

• British Columbia has banned self-driving vehicles that exceed Level 2

Rank Propaganda / Thought Policing / World Disordering

• US Banning TikTok Would Destroy Decades of US Work on Promoting an Open Internet

• How Antifa went mainstream: from Brussels to California, illiberalism thrives

Musk

• Tesla recalls nearly 4k Cybertrucks over faulty accelerator pedal

• OpenAI Slams Musk's 'Revisionist History' in Bid to Toss Lawsuit

• Some potential Tesla buyers couldn't stomach a purchase amid the CEO's outbursts

• Tesla Cybertruck turns into most expensive brick after car wash

• Elon Musk and X to fight Australian order to remove Sydney stabbing content

  • X vows to 'robustly challenge' Australia order to remove stabbing posts

Trump / War against the Right / Jan6

• Truth Social Files Nasdaq Complaint, Blames Market Manipulation for Stock Price

• Trump appears to be target in bill to strip Secret Service protection from convicted felons.

• Man Who Self-Immolated Near Trump Trial Has Died

• Hillary Clinton: ‘What Trump really wants’ is to ‘kill his opposition.’

Pox / COVID / BioTerror AgitProp

• H5N1 Strain of Bird Flu Found in Milk: WHO

• Gay, bisexual men infected during mpox outbreak faced stigma, shame.

Religion / Tribal / Culture War and Re-Segregation

• Hilary Cass: I can't travel on public transport after gender report (Archive)

Edumacationalizing / Acedemia Nuts

• Oxford shuts down institute run by Elon Musk-backed philosopher

• Feds hit coding boot camp with big fine for allegedly conning students

Info Rental / ShowBiz / Advertising

• CNN, record holder for shortest streaming service, wants another shot

• Vinyl LPs Now Outsell CDs

• Americans' New TV Habit: Subscribe. Watch. Cancel. Repeat (Archive)

TechSuck / Geek Bait

• Do not buy a Hisense TV (or at least keep them offline) | Hacker News

  The root cause is the TV generates random UUIDs for UPNP network discovery every few minutes. That means it poses as a new device. This caused windows to add it to the device list (Device Association Framework, aka DAF) as a new device. This means now 1000s of devices (which is the same device) filled the device tree causing it to enumerate forever. Thus the "deadlock".

• So Long, Z80

AI Will (Save | Destroy) The World

• Here Come the Anti-Woke AIs

Crypto con games

• Crypto's Comeback on Full Display at Rain-Soaked Dubai Gathering

• FTX investors agree to drop lawsuit against SBF if he snitches on celebrities

Economicon / Business / Finance

• Volkswagen workers vote overwhelmingly to join the UAW

  • UAW secures historic union election win at Tennessee Volkswagen plant

• Details about Jane Street's top secret, $1B trade revealed in court

• Something has been happening with jobless claims numbers lately

  For five of the past six weeks, the level of initial jobless filings totaled exactly 212,000. Given a labor force that is 168 million strong, achieving such stasis seems at least unusual if not uncanny, yet that is what the figures released each Thursday morning since mid-March have shown. The consistency has raised a few eyebrows on Wall Street. The only week that varied was March 30, with 222,000.

• Many baby boomers own homes that are too big. Can they be enticed to sell them?

• Why Marriott, Hilton and Hyatt Don't Own Nearly 99% of Their Hotels

• Housing is in a recession: Top real estate CEO says

• San Francisco small business ownership is still a nightmare

Gubmint / Poilitcks / Law Making

• Senate passes reauthorization of key US surveillance program after midnight

  • U.S. officials scramble to stop Internet firms from ditching FISA obligations

  • US surveillance program (briefly?) lapses amid congressional dysfunction

  • US Senate renews FISA law moments after it expires

• Nation's first high-speed rail project continues to expand, creating 10k+ jobs

• US House passes bill to ban TikTok if owners won't divest

  • House votes to ban TikTok in US unless ByteDance sells to American company

  • House approves sell-or-be-banned TikTok measure

  • The House votes for possible TikTok ban in the US

  • House passes bill that could ban TikTok in US amid high-stakes foreign aid vote

• U.S. House approves aid for Ukraine, Israel after bitter battle

  • US House approves $61B in military aid for Ukraine after months of stalling

  • House Approves Long-Stalled Ukraine Aid

External Security / Militaria / Diplomania

• Water Facilities Warned to Improve Cybersecurity as Nation-State Hackers Pounce

• US to withdraw military personnel from Niger, source says

• Chad Asks US Troops to Cease Operations at Strategic Army Base

World

• To Fight 'Shrinkflation,' France Will Force Retailers to Warn Shoppers

• Are embassies off-limits? Ecuadorian and Israeli actions set dangerous precedent

• Two arrested in Poland over attack on Navalny ally Leonid Volkov

• UN warns 800,000 people in Sudan city in 'extreme, immediate danger' | Reuters

  Some 800,000 people in a Sudanese city are in "extreme and immediate danger" as worsening violence advances and threatens to "unleash bloody intercommunal strife throughout Darfur," top U.N. officials warned the Security Council on Friday. War erupted in Sudan one year ago between the Sudanese army (SAF) and paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF), creating the world's largest displacement crisis. U.N. political affairs chief Rosemary DiCarlo told the 15-member Security Council that clashes between RSF and SAF-aligned members of the Joint Protection Forces were nearing El Fasher, the capital of North Darfur.

Israel

• Israel’s Strike on Iran: A Limited Attack but a Potentially Big Signal - The New York Times

China

• Why a deluge of Chinese-made drugs is hard to curb

Health / Medicine

• It's cutting calories–not intermittent fasting–that drops weight

• Articles Claim Hunters Died After Consuming Infected Deer: What Happened

Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda

• UN plastics treaty: don't let lobbyists drown out researchers

• Thousands protest against Canary islands' 'unsustainable' tourism model

• Taking Big Oil to court for 'climate homicide' isn't as far-fetched as it sounds

• New Starbucks cold cups are made with up to 20% less plastic