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• New Scientific Technique Dates Shroud of Turin to Around Time of Christ’s Death

• Plan to See the Great North American Eclipse in 2024

  • Solar Eclipse of April 8th, 2024

• Customers line up overnight as recreational weed sales in N.J. begin

Horseshit

• A YouTuber purposely crashed his plane in California, FAA says

• Self-driving cars: Motorists will not be liable for crashes and can watch TV behind the wheel, government says | UK News | Sky News

  While the DfT also intends to allow drivers to watch TV programmes and films on built-in screens while using self-driving cars, it will still be illegal to use a mobile phone.

Rank Propaganda / Thought Policing / World Disordering

• Former Intelligence Officials: Big Tech Monopoly Vital to National Security

• What Peter Thiel and Others Are Learning from Curtis Yarvin and the New Right

• Great Moments In Airbrushing

• Libs of TikTok Doxing Uncovers Secret Hacker-Government Mercenary Alliance Behind Regime’s War on MAGA Americans - Revolver

  • ‘This Is On You!’: Woman With Same Name As Doxxed ‘Libs Of TikTok’ Reveals Threats, Blasts WaPo’s Taylor Lorenz | The Daily Wire

• PolitiFact declares viral clip of Biden 'shaking hands' with air is 'false'

• It's hard to trust the press when journalists keep saving scoops for future books

• YouTuber Who Said Cancel Culture Was A Good Thing Gets Cancelled | ZeroHedge

COVID / VaxCult

• Effective treatments for Covid are now available. Why are they not being used?

• My life in Shanghai’s never-ending zero-Covid lockdown

• Woman caught virus twice within record 20 days

• DOJ Files Perfunctory Appeal to Revive Travel Mask Mandate

• Not Ready for the End Game — Why Ending Federal Covid-19 Emergency Declarations Will Harm Access to Care

• CDC advisers discuss future of COVID-19 booster shots

• The Key Policy We Need to End the COVID-19 Pandemic Is Being Ignored

• Study shows 99% on Indonesia’s most populous island have COVID-19 antibodies

Culture War / Tribal / Re segregation

• Amazon to Undergo Racial Audit, Led by Former AG Loretta Lynch

Edumacationalizing / Acedemia Nuts

• More than 300 at once: Publisher retracts entire conference proceedings

• Texas teacher 'watching porn on laptop shown on projector' gets fired | Metro News

Media / ShowBiz / Advertising

• Since lockdown live audiences have forgotten how to behave

• Madison Avenue Loves the Idea of a Netflix with Ads

• Netflix Claims 'Fortnite' Is a Bigger Competitor Than HBO

• Meta’s Sheryl Sandberg Pressured Daily Mail to Drop Bobby Kotick Reporting

• Wow, that was quick. CNN+ to shut down April 30

  • CNN+ will shut down at the end of April

  • Warner Bros. Discovery Expected to Shut Down CNN+

Musk / Twitter

• Musk announces funding secured for Twitter buy

  • HN comments

• Elon Musk Considering Tender Offer for Twitter, Says $46.5 Billion Lined Up

• Elon Musk Wants Free Speech at Twitter After Years Silencing Critics

• Elon Musk lays out funding for ambitious Twitter takeover

• Elon Musk Details Financing Plan to SEC

TechSuck

• Nvidia Posts Open-Source DRM Kernel Driver for Nvdla

• Major cryptography blunder in Java enables “psychic paper” forgeries

  The vulnerability, which Oracle patched on Tuesday, affects the company’s implementation of the Elliptic Curve Digital Signature Algorithm in Java versions 15 and above.

  • CVE-2022-21449: Psychic Signatures in Java – Neil Madden

  It’s hard to overstate the severity of this bug. If you are using ECDSA signatures for any of these security mechanisms, then an attacker can trivially and completely bypass them if your server is running any Java 15, 16, 17, or 18 version before the April 2022 Critical Patch Update (CPU). For context, almost all WebAuthn/FIDO devices in the real world (including Yubikeys*) use ECDSA signatures and many OIDC providers use ECDSA-signed JWTs.

  • Oracle wins 'crypto bug of the year' with Java signature bypass

• US chip output growth a futile exercise, warns TSMC founder

• The Cloud And The Proverbial Boiling Frog

Crypto con games

• Crypto exchange Binance limits services in Russia after EU sanctions

Economicon / Business / Finance

• Tesla revenues grow 81% from last year

• Cannabis sinks amid weed glut, Congress' inaction

• Bill Ackman loses $400M dumps entire Netflix stake after just 3 months

• Amazon opens up Prime delivery service to other retailers

• Inflation is worse than reported: Elon Musk

• Companies are buying washing machines to take the chips out and repurpose them

• Tesla giving high school grads opportunity to work full-time at Giga Texas

Gubmint / Poilitcks / Law Making

• Gov. Ron DeSantis clears a way to revoke Disney’s special district in Florida

• New Documents Suggest Democrats Sicced the CIA on Their Domestic Enemy

• Trump releases audio that appears to refute claim he walked out of Piers Morgan’s interview over 2020 questions

• Senators want to mandate anti-piracy technology across the web

• Why Is Ghislaine Maxwell’s Lawyer Attacking Antitrust Enforcers?

Law Breaking / Police / Internal Security

• The Fake Federal Agents Case Baffling US Intelligence Experts

  After the postal inspector alerted DHS, the FBI took up the case. But their investigation, according to prosecutors, was still unfolding when the Secret Service, investigating its own personnel’s alleged involvement with the two men, blundered by contacting Taherzadeh, tipping him off. This led the FBI to quickly arrest the men.

• US Capitol evacuated due to possible aircraft threat

  • Capitol Police: No threat

  • Parachute demo at Nats Park causes brief Capitol evacuation

• Alleged Covid-19 Fraud Schemes Totaling $150M Draw Criminal Charges

External Security / Militaria / Diplomania

• Five Eyes nations fear wave of Russian attacks against critical infrastructure

• Biden Unveils Another $800 Million Military Aid Package For Ukraine

World

• Macron and Le Pen clash on Russia in feisty debate ahead of presidential run-off

• Latvia will revoke Citizenship for War supporters

• Mexico nationalises lithium in populist president’s push to extend state control

• China’s Xi Jinping rails against ‘cold war mentality’, US hegemony

Health / Medicine

• Dentists would not treat my toothache – now my health has been wrecked for ever

• Researchers test a means to block–and neatly unblock–men’s reproductive ductwork

• Scientists Find No Benefit to Time-Restricted Eating

Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda

• Climate change and farming driving insect decline

• Maine Resident Dies of Rare Tick-Borne Virus

• Avian flu outbreak causing unprecedented deaths in wild Minnesota birds, eagles

Ukraine War

• Russia may not stop with Ukraine – NATO looks to its weakest link

• Russian Crude Shipments Have Fallen 25% In A Week

• China’s March coal imports from Russia plunge 30% yr/yr

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• Putin Knows the Monetary System Is a Credit Based Ponzi Scheme

• Javelins are good, but artillery strikes that coined Ukraine’s military success

• Ukraine reveals Russian military plans for “full-scale invasion of Belarus”

• Wimbledon Bans Players from Russia and Belarus

• Ukraine war: World Bank warns of a global 'human catastrophe' food crisis

• US Troops Begin Training Ukrainians on Howitzers as War with Russia Shifts

• Russia targets hospitals and other healthcare facilities

• Watch: Lawyers Intervene After MSNBC Analyst May Have Violated The Geneva Convention & Gone Completely Insane | News Thud

• Putin tells forces not to storm Ukraine holdout in Mariupol

• The Fog of Information War in Ukraine

• Loose language on atrocities will not help Ukraine

• Russia’s ‘Satan 2’ missile changes little for U.S., scholars say

• "So Not Even A Fly Can Escape": Putin Declares Mariupol 'Liberated' - Orders Besieged Steel Plant Sealed Off

• Large Deadly Fire Breaks Out At Russian Defense Research Facility