2022-04-25

Horseshit

• Red bull is denied FAA exemption, crashes Cessna 182 anyways

• Esports stars have shorter careers than NFL players

celebrity gossip

• Jon Stewart to Receive Mark Twain Prize for American Humor

• New Texts Shed Light on Elon Musk’s 2018 Spat with Saudi Fund

Obit

• World's oldest person dies aged 119 in Japan

  • Kane Tanaka Dies

Rank Propaganda / Thought Policing / World Disordering

• The Demand for Political Misinformation Is a Bigger Danger Than the Supply

• The platform where the right-wing bubble is least likely to pop

• The Irony of Canceling Everything Russian

• When billionaires talk about freedom, watch your wallets

• Free speech criticism has unlikely source: the press

COVID / VaxCult

• Japan's Shionogi says Covid-19 pill shows rapid clearance of virus

• Beijing shoppers clear store shelves as district starts mass testing

• China’s Covid-19 Czar pushed TCM treatments from co’s he invested in

• Shanghai’s plan to reboot the supply chain will hit workers the hardest | Ars Technica

  Workers may end up trading being locked down at home for locked down at work.

• I’m a Flight Attendant, and I’m Thrilled the Mask Mandate Is Over

• How the pandemic is changing home design

Culture War / Tribal / Re segregation

• How the trans ideology dehumanises women

• Citing Racism, Washington State Bans The Word ‘Marijuana’ From All State Laws

Media / ShowBiz / Advertising

• Meta investors brace for a difficult quarter after stocks nosedive

• Inside the Implosion of CNN+

• Netflix’s Subscriber Loss Has Destroyed Employee Morale

Musk / Twitter

• Twitter’s Board Is Said to Seriously Consider Elon Musk’s Bid

• Elon Musk wants to own Twitter to protect his ‘freedom’, not everyone else’s

• Twitter Board Considers Musk Bid

• Twitter, under shareholder pressure, begins deal talks with Musk

• Twitter set to accept Musk's 'best and final' offer-sources as soon as today

  • HN comments

• Twitter ready to accept Elon Musk’s bid

• Twitter to accept Elon Musk’s takeover bid

• Twitter on track to make deal with Musk Monday

• Twitter Shares Jump As Deal Talks Enter "Final Stretch"

• The Musk-Twitter Endgame

• Elon Musk could buy Twitter today, per reports

• Elon Musk Clinches Deal to Take Twitter Private for $44B

• Twitter Board folds: Musk to take Twitter private

• Twitter agrees Elon Musk takeover deal

• Twitter and Elon Musk Strike Deal for Takeover

• Twitter accepts buyout, giving Elon Musk total control of the company

• Twitter accepts Elon Musk’s buyout deal

• Twitter Agrees to Be Taken Over

• Twitter Headquarters Suffers Severe Water Damage From Liberal Employees’ Tears

TechSuck

• The state of fq_codel and cake in 2022

Crypto con games

• U.S. hasn’t stopped N. Korean gang from laundering its crypto haul

Economicon / Business / Finance

• Workers Are Winning the Return-to-Office War Because They’re Right

• The Grumpy Economist: Inflation and the end of illusions.

• Millennials, Gen Z putting off major financial decisions due to student loans

Hunter

• ‘It reeks of pay-to-play’: Joe Biden and his staff met with Hunter’s top business partner at the White House throughout his vice presidency, visitor logs reveal.

Law Breaking / Police / Internal Security

• Former Guantanamo Bay detainee sues Canada for $35 mm over 14-year imprisonment

• John Durham has issued subpoenas to members of the Clinton campaign and DNC

World

• Macron bests Le Pen after far right's historic challenge

• The Chinese government is hunting down Uyghurs around the world with help

Health / Medicine

• Adenovirus probable cause of mysterious child hepatitis

Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda

• The Rich, Black Soil That Fed a Growing China Is Washing Away

• ‘What we now know they lied’: how big oil companies betrayed us all

Ukraine War

• Russia Investigating Fuel Depot Explosions & Fire Near Ukraine Border Amid 'Pattern' Of Incidents | ZeroHedge

etc

• Dozens of Bucha civilians were killed by metal darts from Russian artillery

• Binance gave Putin regime information on donors to opposition leader Navalny

• Why Are Russia’s Arms Sucking So Badly?

• Blinken Declares Russian Operation Has "Failed" During Zelensky Meeting - Says US Diplomats Returning To Ukraine

• Bucha, Ukraine doctor says most people killed during curfew time zone confusion