2024-09-21

Three Mile Island to be relit, Jill runs a Cabinet meeting, Intel may be sold, Another Nazi ain't, de-growth fluff, Kennedys are incubi, Musk sued again, COVID Czar partied

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• Earth will get a second "mini-moon" for 2 months this year

• How can inkcap mushrooms give you the worst hangover ever?

  Coprinopsis atramentaria, the common inkcap, is a rare case of sometimes poisonous. Eaten on its own it’s considered edible. However, these mushrooms contain the compound coprine, which can cause unpleasant symptoms if you also consume alcohol. Drinking alcohol within 48 hours of ingesting common inkcaps is a recipe for a world of pain.

Horseshit

• Judge Orders Homeowner to Leave House After Fight With 'Squatters'

• America through the looking glass: The crypto bros crowdfunding a new country

• Gold Treasure Worth a Fortune Was Just Hidden in a Forest. The Hunt Starts Now

• When “Punch a Nazi” Goes Wrong - by TracingWoodgrains

  Whether the call is punch TERFs, punch Nazis, or some other permutation, the sentiment that some beliefs are so egregious they should be met with on-the-spot violence is increasingly the consensus in online leftist subcultures. But idle talk is one thing, and it’s not unreasonable to treat most tough talk on the internet as just that. What caught my eye about this situation in particular was the widespread consensus that a specific, named individual absolutely deserved to be assaulted, complete with tips for destroying evidence and exhortations to bail out the assailant after his arrest.

  The closer I looked, the more the “punch a Nazi” framing seemed incongruous. The assault, instead, was the culmination of half a decade of interpersonal bitterness stemming initially from an extraordinarily petty dispute. Over the years, what could and should have remained a simple personal disagreement spiraled into a public smear campaign, a series of increasingly heated confrontations, threats of doxxing and legal action, destroyed friendships, and an apparently irreconcilable feud, with one accusation circling again and again: They’re Nazis.

• COBB Tuning Hit With $2.9 Million Fine Over Emissions Defeat Devices

• Stonehenge-like structure in US lake is 5k years older than British landmark

• Mouse crawling out of meal forces plane to make early landing

• Degrowth Ideology as LARPing - by Jeremiah Johnson

  Earlier this week, a Dutch PhD candidate wrote a long, viral thread in defense of degrowth ideas. This was mostly viral in the sense of ‘everyone sees the tweets because people dunk on them repeatedly’, but our hero didn’t back down. He kept posting through it, adding more examples and more evidence that degrowth is good. The portion that went the most viral was about washing clothes

• What climate activists won't tell you about protecting the planet

  I once also believed that preventing economic growth was the solution to tackling climate change. We have been told repeatedly, by mostly well-meaning activists, that our lifestyles are the problem. This is a logical fallacy. We have also been told that to stop climate change we have to change everything immediately: stop oil, go plastic-free, stop driving, and so on, and these myths have taken hold. I, myself, wrote a book on how to live with a low carbon footprint to save the planet. While these are still admirable aims and we should all try to live less wasteful lifestyles, the hyperfocus on individual action has been at best a distraction and at worst a complete fraud. We have also repeatedly been told that we are the problem, and therefore the solution is for there to be fewer of us. But all of this is wrong. It may seem unbelievable that continuing on our current trajectory will solve anything, but the evidence shows that environmental progress is being made in many areas and that growth is the only thing that is working in terms of lowering emissions and improving air quality.

• Comedian John Mulaney roasts SF techies at Dreamforce

  You look like a group who looked at the self-checkout counters at CVS and thought, ‘This is the future,’” Mulaney said.

• FAA investigating cabin pressure problem that injured passengers on Boeing plane

• Amazon CEO Andy Jassy Targets the Meeting Before the Meeting

• The Man Who Made Nike Uncool

celebrity gossip

• New York Magazine's Olivia Nuzzi on leave after alleged relationship with RFK

  New York Magazine Washington correspondent Olivia Nuzzi is on leave after an alleged "romantic" relationship with former independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Status magazine first reported on Thursday. The magazine said in an online statement that Nuzzi "acknowledged" to editors "that she had engaged in a personal relationship with a former subject relevant to the 2024 campaign while she was reporting on the campaign, a violation of the magazine's standards around conflicts of interest and disclosures." A spokesperson for RFK told CNN that Kennedy, who endorsed former President Trump after dropping out of the 2024 race, "only met Olivia Nuzzi once in his life for an interview she requested, which yielded a hit piece."

Obit

• Mike Valentine, the patron saint of radar detectors, has died

  • Radar Detector Legend Michael Valentine Has Died

Musk

• Russia's Kadyrov accuses Musk of 'remotely disabling' his Cybertruck

  • "That's not manly": Chechen warlord claims Elon Musk disabled his Tesla

• Elon Musk officially moves X headquarters from California to Texas

• Elon Musk and Tesla Shape America's Future. But Problems Run Deeper Than Tweets

• Writers and Academics Applaud Brazil's Censorship in Open Letter

• Predicting Malicious Behavior on X Before It Happens

• Cards Against Humanity sues SpaceX, alleges "invasion" of land

  Cards Against Humanity sued SpaceX yesterday, alleging that Elon Musk's firm illegally took over a plot of land on the US/Mexico border that the party-game company bought in 2017 in an attempt to stymie then-President Trump's attempt to build a wall.

  • Cards Against Humanity Sues Elon Musk's SpaceX for Trespassing on Texas Land

• SpaceX protests FAA's fines with letter to Congress calling out inaccuracies

  • text of letter

• SEC intends to seek sanctions against Elon Musk in Twitter probe

  • Elon Musk didn’t show up for testimony in a probe over his $44 billion Twitter takeover. Now the SEC wants sanctions | CNN Business

Electric / Self Driving cars

• EV Batteries Can Outlast a Vehicle's Lifetime with Minimal Degradation

• Cybertruck just blew every other electric pickup out of the water

• Tesla's Cybertruck gets military makeover with tactical twist

• Cybertruck Owner's Manual -Hitch Is Designed for Vertical Loads Up to 160 Pounds

Edumacationalizing / Acedemia Nuts

• CERN to Expel Russian Scientists

  • CERN cuts ties with Russia, will expel scientists by December

• Young women are starting to leave men behind

  Across the developed world, girls and young women have been pulling ahead of boys and young men in education for several decades, with much larger proportions going on to attend university than their male counterparts.

• A "golden age" of rat research may be here

• Groundbreaking Study Reveals How Rubbing Generates Static Electricity

Info Rental / ShowBiz / Advertising

• Social media and online video firms are conducting 'vast surveillance' on users

• 30th-anniversary limited-run PS5 and PS5 Pro bring back mid-'90s gray plastic

• Etsy Asks Sellers to Lower Shipping Fees to $6 for Better Search Visibility

• Bluesky catches up to X with native support for video

• Xavier Niel, a Driving Force of French AI, Is Now Shaping TikTok

• Huawei's $2,800 trifold phone is a real thing it wants people to hold and use

• Amazon Fire TV Sales in Germany at Risk After Court Ruling

• Sky Glass customers complain as TVs won't turn on

• Researcher reveals 'catastrophic' security flaw in the Arc browser

• GenCon cancels authors event

  GenCon, the annual Dungeons and Dragons and tabletop gaming convention has fired the organizing committee for its writers’ symposium and possibly cancelled the event for 2025 after a woke meltdown.

• CISA boss: Makers of insecure software are the real cyber villains

• The Truth is Out There, Part 2: The Power of Belief

  The show was saved from going down history as a one-season wonder like its inspiration Kolchak: The Night Stalker by a happy coincidence involving a different, newer form of media than television. The very same month that the pilot episode was broadcast, Marc Andreessen of the National Center for Supercomputing Applications in Urbana, Illinois, released the first version of his NCSA Mosaic Web browser for personal computers running MacOS and Microsoft Windows. Mosaic was the most effortlessly usable browser to appear to that point, with a killer feature that would transform the look and feel of the nascent World Wide Web forever: it could display pictures on the screen alongside text. The arrival of Mosaic marked the moment when the Web went from being an esoteric tool for scientists and hackers to a revolutionary communications medium for everyone. In its wake, new websites sprang up in unprecedented numbers, as the first rumblings of what would become the dot-com explosion of the later 1990s began to make themselves heard. An inordinate number of these sites dealt with The X-Files, which was perfectly pitched to appeal to the legions of brainy, plugged-in, usually male university students who were Mosaic’s most prominent early adopters. There was a time when it seemed that every tenth site on the Web was an X-Files site.

TechSuck / Geek Bait

• There are 665 open licences, most are pretty rubbish

• German authorities apparently cracked Tor anonymity

• FCK IT WE BALL

AI Will (Save | Destroy) The World

• Sakana, Strawberry, and Scary AI

• The AI Boom Could Use a Shocking Amount of Electricity

• These are the AI companies that the CIA is investing in

• Investors pile into OpenAI's $6B funding round in unprecedented bet

Three Mile Island

• I cannot imagine a headline better suited to convince the greying eco zealots that AI is Evil.

• Three Mile Island's Nuclear Plant to Reopen, Help Power Microsoft's AI Centers

• Microsoft deal would reopen Three Mile Island nuclear plant to power AI

• Microsoft wants Three Mile Island to fuel its AI power needs

• Three Mile Island nuclear plant restart in Microsoft AI power deal

• HN comments

• A new life is proposed for Three Mile Island powering Microsoft data centers

• Three Mile Island is reopening and selling its power to Microsoft

• Three Mile Island nuclear plant to restart, power Microsoft data centers

• Re-opened Three Mile Island will power AI data centers under new deal

• Three Mile Island nuclear plant will reopen to power Microsoft data centers

• 3-mile island plant and AI power

• Constellation Energy to Restart Three Mile Island and Sell Power to Microsoft

Space / Boomy Zoomers / UFO

• Bacteria on the space station are evolving for life in space

• Scientists say they've found potential evidence Dyson spheres

Crypto con games

• Silvergate executive blames Fed, FDIC and OCC for bank's collapse

  As Silvergate Capital Corp. filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection on Wednesday, a company executive blamed the collapse of its banking subsidiary last year on regulators who soured on its crypto-friendly business model. In legal filings related to the bankruptcy, a Silvergate Capital executive assigned responsibility for the self-liquidation of the La Jolla, California-based bank to regulators at the Federal Reserve, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. and the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency. Those agencies issued a pair of joint regulatory statements on crypto-related risks in early 2023 following the demise of the crypto exchange FTX.

• Crypto Scammers Steal $243,709,068.03 from One Guy

Economicon / Business / Finance

• Migrant workers let go from troubled Northvolt on their first day at work

• shares jumped 6% on the rumor: Qualcomm Approached Intel About a Takeover in Recent Days

  • what's intel worth now? buck fiddy? someone buy it and make everything public domain. patents, plans, prints, porn in the locker rooms, everything. for the good of humanity. crowdfund it if you like.

  • Qualcomm Wants to Buy Intel

• Motel 6 Sold to Oyo, Indian Hotel Giant That Is Ramping Up in U.S.

• Zoom to Cut Back on Stock-Based Compensation, Joining Salesforce, Workday

Gubmint / Poilitcks / Law Making

• Creator of Kamala Harris parody video sues California over election ‘deepfake’ ban - POLITICO

• Oklahoma officials just announced that they have removed 450,000 ineligible names from the voter rolls, including 100,000 dead people and 15,000 duplicate registrations that somehow got pushed into the system .

• Postal Service insists it's ready for a flood of mail-in ballots

• Massachusetts Bill Could Legalize Kei Cars and Override RMV Ban

• US announces $3B in funding for new battery projects

Biden Inc

• Biden admits economic recovery still needs ‘work,’ forgets meeting Fed chair in error-laden speech.

• Jill Biden sat at the head of the table

  The White House just held its first cabinet meeting in 11 months

  • Questions Abound After Jill Biden Takes Over Cabinet Meeting for a Visibly Tired Joe Biden

Trump / Right / Jan6

• Routh has a wife?

  What’s that? His wife! We hadn’t heard of this person before. She’s been completely scrubbed from corporate media. How is it that corporate media has failed not only to interview this person but even to mention her? Pasting lots of pieces together, Routh apparently has recently remarried, to a woman named Kathleen Shaffer. In addition to the CBP report, Shaffer’s name pops up in a few key places. She evidently helped edit Routh’s book, and she ran a small GoFundMe for his Ukrainian adventures. Social media citizen journalists connected Shaffer to the LinkedIn page to a same-named person who fit her profile and lives in Hawaii.

  It is difficult to imagine what unemployed ex-contractor Ryan Routh and Ms. Shaffer might have in common. But love is a mysterious thing. Assuming we have the correct Kathleen Shaffer in Hawaii who funded Ryan Routh’s Ukrainian adventures, it is very weird she works for a murky, security state-connected, multinational corporation located just down the street from the Central Intelligence Agency.

• Trump and other insiders can now sell shares of DJT, just as stock hits new low

  • Trump Media shares face potential sell-off as insider selling restrictions lift

• Labelling Trump's lies as 'disputed' on X makes supporters believe them more

Law Breaking / Police / Internal Security

• Chicago's New AI Gun-Detection Program Shrouded in Secrecy

World

• A $90B world bank plan to electrify Africa has started

• As World Watches Explosions Elsewhere, the Boomsday Ship Gets Towed Past Norway UPDATE – HotAir

Israel

• Hack of Hezbollah devices exposes dark corners of Asia supply chains

• How did Hezbollah get the pagers that exploded in Lebanon?

• IDF strikes 100 Hezbollah rocket launchers amid fears of expanding war in Lebanon.

• Batteries of Lebanon walkie-talkies contained PETN explosive – Lebanese source

Russia Bad / Ukraine War

• Ukraine bans official use of Telegram app over fears of Russian spying

• Russia anticipated Kursk incursion months in advance, seized papers show

• U.S. struggles with longterm Russia strategy as Putin boasts of Ukraine wins

• The Russian Bot Army That Conquered Online Poker

China

• 'Panda Dogs': Chinese zoo lures visitors with painted pups

Health / Medicine

• Researchers discover new blood group system

• Childhood vaccines may not have outcomes as positive as CDC has suggested

• FTC Sues Prescription Drug Middlemen for Inflating Insulin Drug Price

• FDA approves nasal flu vaccine for at-home use

• Children vaping and alcohol warnings: takeaways from the World Cancer Congress

Pox / COVID / BioTerror AgitProp

• Former NYC Covid Czar Partied While Preaching Social Distancing

  • NYC COVID adviser brags in secret recording about drug-fueled sex parties mid-pandemic: ‘Had to be sneaky.’

Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda

• 'Zombie fires' are burning even in the winter amid Canada's fire season

• Wildlife experts warn of butterfly emergency as count reveals record low numbers

• Scientists looked deep beneath Antarctic ice.What was found could spell disaster

• Even solar energy's biggest fans are underestimating it

• Scientists have captured Earth climate Here's the surprising place we stand now

• Giant Hogweed Can Cause Burns

• Iceland: Police shoot first polar bear sighted in years