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• Rhubarb Conquered Germany, Then the World

• (2019) Reappraising the exteriorization of the mammalian testes through physiology

  A number of theories have been proposed to explain the exteriorization of the testicles in most mammalian species. None of these provide a consistent account for the wide variety of testicular locations found across the animal kingdom. It is proposed that testicular location is the result of coordinate action of testicular tissue ecologies to sustain preferential states of homeostatic equipoise throughout evolutionary development in response to the advent of endothermy.

• The farther left you lean, the more anxious, depressed, and unhappy you are

  • HN comments

• How to Raise a Tribal Army in Pre-Roman Europe, Part I

Horseshit

• US has the highest rate of maternal deaths among rich nations. Norway has zero

  • HN comments

• 'cuz they suck No One Wants a New Car Now. Here's Why

• Player Caught Cheating Over-the-Board at Chicago Open 2024

• UBI can double global GDP while reducing carbon emissions

• Bride-to-be holding down mattress flies out of moving truck; couple warns of unsecured loads | KSL.com

  They were in a little bit of a "time crunch," Kessinger admits, so they hastily decided his wife-to-be would ride in the back of the truck, lying on top of the mattress so it wouldn't fly out of the cargo bed. It was supposed to be an easy, 10-minute drive on back roads. But the trip was cut short when Lydia Kessinger and the mattress flew out of the back of the truck, which was going 50 mph down State Street in Provo. Lydia can't remember many details of the accident. She remembers flying out of the truck bed, rolling on the street and then running to the side of the road. She doesn't remember how high she flew or how she landed.

Electric / Self Driving cars

• EV slump, Hertz fire sale take used Teslas to 'no haggle' $25,000 price

• Tesla's new self-driving software throws out its old code

• Rivian's path to survival is now remarkably clear

• Militarized Cybertruck cop cars are coming: A California company is advertising ‘tactical response’ Tesla Cybertruck upgrades for police cruisers, including shotgun racks and sirens.

celebrity gossip

• Alex Jones agrees to liquidate assets to pay Sandy Hook families

• FBI releases documents on O.J. Simpson

Obit

• Apollo 8 astronaut William Anders ID'd in Washington State plane crash

  Retired American astronaut William Anders, who was a member of the Apollo 8 crew, has been identified as the pilot inside the plane that crashed in the waters off the San Juan Islands on Friday afternoon. According to flight data and FAA records, FOX 13 Seattle has confirmed the plane that crashed was a vintage Air Force T-34 Mentor, which is owned by Anders, who is also a San Juan County resident.

Rank Propaganda / Thought Policing / World Disordering

• UK intelligence secretly funded leftist magazine, then covered it up

  Encounter was an intellectual and cultural magazine set up during the Cold War with secret funds from the US and British intelligence agencies. The magazine’s purpose was to cultivate a compatible, non-communist left, while creating content that was generally supportive of Washington’s geopolitical interests. Encounter’s intelligence links eventually became publicly known. In 1963, however, a British journalist almost blew the lid off its secret sources of funding. Recently declassified files show how the Foreign Office mobilised to kill the story.

• YouTube announces new restrictions on gun videos

Musk

• Musk could leave if $56B pay package not approved, shareholders warned

• XAI claims it will build the " most powerful supercomputer" in Tennessee

• X app ran ads on whitepower and other hateful hashtags

Trump / War against the Right / Jan6

• San Francisco Fetes Trump on Post-Conviction Fundraising Tour - Bloomberg

  Donald Trump raised millions of dollars from technology industry leaders at a campaign event in San Francisco hosted by investor David Sacks that signaled growing interest from Silicon Valley in the former president's comeback bid. Wealthy donors converged Thursday at Sacks’s home in San Francisco, where the presumptive Republican nominee addressed attendees for roughly an hour on topics ranging from cryptocurrency to artificial intelligence to preventing deep fakes. The sold-out dinner brought in $12 million for Trump’s reelection effort, Harmeet Dhillon, a member of the Republican National Committee who attended the fundraiser, posted on social media site X. The Trump campaign did not immediately respond to a request to comment about the money raised.

• Trump pitches himself as 'crypto president' at San Francisco tech fundraiser

• American business should not empower a criminal, says Reid Hoffman

  Unfortunately, many American business leaders have recently developed a kind of myopia, miscalculating what politics, and which political leaders, will truly support their long-term success. Perhaps this stems from their having lived their entire lives in a stable legal regime that they now take for granted. But a robust, reliable legal system is not a given. It is a necessity we can ill afford to live without. We trade it away at our peril. Which makes it all the more lamentable that a growing number of America’s corporate and financial leaders are opening their wallets for Donald Trump.

  Of course, few of these leaders would do actual business with Mr Trump. Even fewer would trust him to pay his bills. Long before the Electoral College made him president in 2016, Mr Trump was known as a liar and grifter who would browbeat vendors and debtors. More recently, American courts—including two unanimous juries—have found him to have engaged in sexual assault, defamation, fraud (including misuse of charitable funds) and—by a unanimous Colorado Supreme Court—insurrection.

Pox / COVID / BioTerror AgitProp

• "First Bird Flu Death" was bedridden with diabetes and kidney failure

• High Excess Death Rates in the West 3 Years Running Since COVID – “Serious Cause for Concern.”

Religion / Tribal / Culture War and Re-Segregation

• Meta's Ad Algorithm Directs Black Users to For-Profit Colleges

  • HN comments

• As a trans man or non-binary person assigned female at birth, do I need cervical cancer screening? | Canadian Cancer Society (Archive)

  Anyone with a cervix can get cervical cancer. Almost all cervical cancer cases are due to HPV infection. HPV is spread through sexual contact including sexual intercourse, genital skin-to-skin contact and oral sex, regardless of gender or sexual orientation. If your medical records indicate that you are a man, you may not get reminders to get screened for cervical cancer. Talk to your healthcare provider about screening.

  We recognize that many trans men and non-binary people may have mixed feelings about or feel distanced from words like “cervix.” You may prefer other words, such as “front hole.” We recognize the limitations of the words we’ve used while also acknowledging the need for simplicity. Another reason we use words like “cervix” is to normalize the reality that men can have these body parts too.

Edumacationalizing / Acedemia Nuts

• CERN's $17B supercollider in question as top funder criticizes cost

• Why one dad is asking to record school meetings

• NCAA and Power Five conferences agree to deal that will let schools pay athletes

Info Rental / ShowBiz / Advertising

• Apple is fixing years-old parental control bug that lets kids avoid web filters

• Wallace and Gromit return to face penguin nemesis

• Google to store Maps Timeline data locally on users' devices instead of in cloud

• Google is working on a Recall-like feature for Chromebooks, too

• A social app for creatives, Cara, grew 10x as artists tire of Meta's AI policies

• HP CEO: Printed pages are down 20% since pandemic

• Cancel Adobe if you are a creative under NDA with your clients

  • HN comments

• Meta rolls out Communities on Messenger

• The Ads on Your United Airlines In-Flight Screen Are Getting a Lot More Specific

• Washington Post CEO tried to kill story about himself. It wasn't the first time

• 270GB of source code from The New York Times leaked to 4Chan

• Microsoft Will Switch Off Recall by Default After Security Backlash

  • Windows won't take screenshots of everything you do after all, unless you opt in

• Some Cheap Wired Headphones Are Actually Using Bluetooth

TechSuck / Geek Bait

• Intel has dropped hyperthreading in Lunar Lake.

• FCC pushes ISPs to fix security flaws in Internet routing

  The FCC today unanimously approved a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking that would require ISPs to prepare confidential reports "detail[ing] their progress and plans for implementing BGP security measures that utilize the Resource Public Key Infrastructure (RPKI), a critical component of BGP security."

• Nasty bug with simple exploit hits PHP just in time for the weekend

AI Will (Save | Destroy) The World

• AI company Humane is up for sale at an asking price of $1 billion - that's $100,000 per customer.

  • Humane Seeks $1B Buyout

• ChatGPT tells users Labour has already won the election

• Silicon Valley in uproar over Californian AI safety bill

  • Outcry from big AI firms over California AI "kill switch" bill

• Copilot.microsoft.com refuses to say who won the 2020 US Presidential election

• AI 'gold rush' for chatbot training data could run out of human-written text

• Researchers Use AI to Decode the Secret Language of Dog Barks

• What the mentality of the dotcom era can teach the AI generation

Space / Boomy Zoomers / UFO

• An intermittent radio signal from space has astronomers puzzled

• ISS leaks worsen, with no clear plan to deal with them

• Updated Formula on Alien Intelligence Suggests We Are Alone in the Galaxy

• Chang’e 6 probe’s far-side moon samples enter return-to-Earth module in lunar orbit, China says.

Crypto con games

• Bitcoin miners sink millions into AI businesses, seeking billions in return

Economicon / Business / Finance

• Samsung union stages its first ever strike

• Want to Pay Cash? That'll Cost You Extra

• eBay will no longer accept American Express cards over 'unacceptably high' fees

• Eyepopping Factory Construction Boom in US: Semiconductors, Auto Industry Lead

• GameStop stock soars 47% as 'Roaring Kitty' announces livestream, reveals $382

• Walmart Just Announced a Brand-New Way to Track Customers, & It All Starts Today

• US Employment Situation Summary – 2024 M05 Results

  • U.S. adds better-than-expected 272,000 jobs May,unemployment rate edges up to 4%

  • US jobs growth beats all expectations

  • Inside The Most Ridiculous Jobs Report In Years | ZeroHedge

  shifting from a quantitative to a qualitative assessment, reveals just how ugly the composition of "new jobs" has been. Consider this: the BLS reports that in May 2024, the US had 133.3 million full-time jobs and 28.0 million part-time jobs. Well, that's great... until you look back one year and find that in May 2023 the US had 134.4 million full-time jobs, or more than a million jobs than it does one year later! And yes, all the job growth since then has been in part-time jobs, which have increased by more than 1.5 million since May 2023 (from 26.493 million to 28.004 million).

  in May the number of native-born worker tumbled again, sliding by a massive 663K to just 130.445 million, while foreign-born workers (mostly illegal aliens as Standard Chartered calculated earlier this week), surged by 414K. Said otherwise, not only has all job creation in the past 4 years has been exclusively for foreign-born workers, but there has been negative job-creation for native born workers since December 2019!

• A Gas Station Charged Me $1,500 and My Bank Won't Believe It's Fraud

Gubmint / Poilitcks / Law Making

• The Biden Administration's Plan to Make American Homes More Efficient

• FBI Lies Influenced Election

• Repaving crew abandons Oakland neighborhood citing safety concerns.

• FOIA docs show FBI official 'colluded' with Democrat staffers on FBI whistleblowers: Judicial Watch | Just The News

• Here's how Supreme Court justices earned money this year

Law Breaking / Police / Internal Security

• New change coming to retail theft could splinter support for tough-on-crime

• Florida woman's Apple Watch traces lost luggage to airport worker's home

• Workers at TJ Maxx and Marshalls are wearing police-like body cameras

External Security / Militaria / Diplomania

• D-Day, as told by paratroopers

• America's War Machine Can't Make Basic Artillery Fast Enough

World

• AM radio listeners set to be permanently tuned out in Japan

• UK law will let regulators fine Big Tech without court approval

• UK ban on quantum computer exports is pointless, say researchers

• UK Children's minister admits he does not know how much child benefit is

• Argentina’s Milei To Cut 50,000 State Jobs Amid Legislative Challenges.

• With Marriages Declining in Japan, Government Is Building Its Own Dating App

Iran / Houthi

• Disinformation campaign uses fake footage to claim attack on USS Eisenhower

  False claims of a missile attack by Yemen's Houthi rebels against an American aircraft carrier in the Red Sea over the weekend were followed by a flood of doctored images and bogus videos online, which were amplified by pro-Chinese and pro-Russian social media accounts. The U.S. Navy said there was no truth to the messages claiming the USS Dwight D. Eisenhower had been severely damaged or possibly sunk.

  "The USS Dwight D. Eisenhower (CVN 69) remains in the U.S. Central Command region. The sailors and the ship are ready and postured to respond to any contingency at a moment's notice," a Navy spokesperson told CBS News on Tuesday. "We are committed to protecting freedom of navigation and commerce in the region alongside our partners and allies."

  On Friday, Houthi military spokesperson Yahya Saree announced missile strikes against the Eisenhower in response to U.S. support for Israel in its fight against Hamas militants in the Gaza Strip. Soon after, videos and images falsely said to show the Eisenhower under attack and sitting damaged in port have racked up millions of views across social media platforms.

  Since October, the carrier group has participated in safeguarding critical shipping lanes from Houthi forces who continue to launch attacks against commercial vessels.

Israel

• Palestinian-American engineer accuses Meta of firing him over Gaza content

• 'We have normalised horror' says agency official, after Israeli strike on school

• Israel says Hamas weaponized rape. Does the evidence add up?

• UN adds Israel to list of states committing violations against children

Russia Bad / Ukraine War

• Elite squad of Ukrainian fighters have been battling Russian occupation

• France Has Confirmed the Deployment of Its Military Trainers to Ukraine

• What Ukraine Has Lost During Russia's Invasion

China

• China Is Losing the Chip War

• US tech sector pressures Chinese venture capital to divest

Health / Medicine

• Xylitol: Common low-calorie sweetener linked to heart attack and stroke, study finds

• The boozy story of how we decided alcohol was a health boon in the '90s

• The health care workforce crisis is already here

• First pig-to-human liver transplant recipient 'doing well'

• FDA reverses order taking Juul vaping products off the market in US

Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda

• News and tech media mostly quiet after UN chief calls for ban on ads for oil

• NASA Launches Second Small Climate Satellite to Study Earth's Poles

• Weather tracker: Hail hits Catalonia's vines and reaches pineapple size in Texas

  • A hail stone the size of a pineapple was found in Texas

• Shipowners cautioned on stranded asset risks linked to energy transition

• Fatal Landslides Surge in 2024: Analyzing an Extraordinary Trend

• The hottest place on Earth is cracking from the stress of extreme heat

• During a year of extremes, carbon dioxide levels surge faster than

• CO2 levels surging "faster than ever", beyond anything ever experienced

• Biofuels Aren't Going to Replace Conventional Jet Fuel Anytime Soon

• Rare 7-foot fish washed ashore on Oregon's coast garners worldwide attention

• Clues to disappearance of North America's large mammals 50k years ago