2024-04-22

Horseshit

• The meteoric rise – and fall – of the Queen of Airbnb

• Jonathan Haidt blames teenage depression, anxiety on smartphones, social media

  • The Coddling of the American Parent

  Jonathan Haidt’s new book “The Anxious Generation” blames youth mental health issues on social media in a way that’s easy, wrong, and dangerous.

Musk

• Tesla cuts price of Full Self-Driving software by a third to $8k

• Tesla's biggest retail shareholder is voting against Elon Musk's $55B package

• The Cybertruck's failure is now complete

  Crucially for Tesla's future, we may have reached a tipping point: The Cybertruck has become a punchline in a way that its owners cannot get out from under. The joke is that they are dupes who paid through the nose for an extremely expensive vehicle that looks like it was designed by a child and does not actually perform many of the functions we expect from a truck, and that they'll put up with any design flaw whatsoever.

• Elon Musk's Robotaxi Dreams Plunge Tesla into Chaos

Pox / COVID / BioTerror AgitProp

• Bombshell Testimony Reveals WHO Pushed for COVID Vaccine Passports Despite Knowing They Were a Scam.

• The fungi in our guts can make cases of Covid worse

Edumacationalizing / Acedemia Nuts

• In Defence of Scientific Truth

• Should the SAT still matter after all? Why some colleges are bringing it back

• Liberal Education

• A Utah Mountain Town Brings Back an Old Idea: The One-Room Schoolhouse

• Louisiana's flagship university lets oil firms influence research – for a price

Info Rental / ShowBiz / Advertising

• A24's New AI-Generated 'Civil War' Ads Generate Controversy

• Nine of the 10 most-watched streaming programs are reruns

TechSuck / Geek Bait

• You shouldn't run a BSD on a PC

• More Computer Magazine Lore: A 1983 Nastygram from Wayne Green

AI Will (Save | Destroy) The World

• GitHub policy proposal on deepfake AI tools

  GitHub does not allow any projects that are designed for, encourage, promote, support, or suggest in any way the use of synthetic or manipulated media for the creation of non-consensual intimate imagery or any content that would constitute misinformation or disinformation under this policy.

• We need legal protections from AI's risks

Crypto con games

• 'Dubai's Fyre Festival': Crypto Investors Caught In Chaotic UAE Floods | ZeroHedge

  There were significant delays and disruptions at Dubai International Airport - the world's busiest for international traffic. Clips online showed planes taxiing across a flooded runway. There appeared to be little online sympathy for the crypto aficionados caught up in the chaos.

• Crypto influencer guilty of $110M scheme that shut down Mango Markets

• Planet Money - FTX and the Serengeti of Bankruptcy

• Bitcoin's 'halving': what is it and does it matter?

• Bitcoin miners upgrade power centers to brace for slashed revenue post halving

Economicon / Business / Finance

• Amazon Grows to over 750k Robots, Replacing 100k Humans

• Small-business owners brace for uncertainty from $20 hourly fast-food wage

• Three errors in inflation control

Gubmint / Poilitcks / Law Making

• What the Supreme Court case on tent encampments could mean for homeless people

• The Second Cold War Is Escalating Faster Than the First

External Security / Militaria / Diplomania

• FBI Director Says China's Hacking Aimed at U.S. Infrastructure to 'Induce Panic'

• Microsoft is a national security threat: ex-White House cyber policy director

  • HN comments

• US weighs sending additional military advisers to Ukraine as Russia gains momentum

World

• Is it now a crime to be a Jew in London? - spiked

• Japan's cannabis market growing rapidly amid regulatory shift

Iran / Houthi / Red Sea / Mediterranean

• Iran quickens path towards the atomic bomb

Israel

• 'Like Toys, Not Drones': Iran Continues Mocking Israel's Attack As Contrasting Narratives Emerge | ZeroHedge

• Satellite pics show Iran air base damage after IAF strike

• New Images Show Base Of Iranian-Backed Group In Iraq Was Completely Destroyed In Strike

China

• China orders telcos to rip out American chips by 2027

Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda

• Antarctic Ice Shelf the Size of France Suddenly Jumps Once or Twice a Day

• Climate Doom Is Out. ‘Apocalyptic Optimism’ Is In. - The New York Times

• Cicadas are coming, bringing mysteries that fungus scientists hope to study

• What is chlormequat in Quaker Oats and Cheerios, and can it impact fertility?

• Scientists Warn Gulf Stream Slowdown Could Begin as Early as 2025

• JPMorgan warns of need for 'reality check' on phasing out fossil fuels