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• Workers discover ‘unprecedented’ Phoenician necropolis in southern Spain

• The Era of ‘the Car You Own Forever’ Is Coming to an End | The Drive

• Russia Will Quit International Space Station over Sanctions

• Kansas tornado inflicts heavy damage and leaves thousands without power

• Food Processing Plant Fires: Conspiracy Or Coincidence? | ZeroHedge

Horseshit

• Cambridge University study finds Anglo-Saxon kings were mostly vegetarian

• 27,000 chickens boiled alive at poultry farm after computer error

• Millions of Bees Died in Atlanta After Delta Rerouted Alaska-Bound Jet

celebrity gossip

• Theranos merchandise on eBay sparks bloodlust among Elizabeth Holmes fans

• ACLU helped draft article at heart of Depp vs. Heard case for $3.5m donation

Rank Propaganda / Thought Policing / World Disordering

• The ‘GOOD CENSOR’: Leaked documents show Google struggling with ‘free speech’

• The effect of university on political values

• One Rogue Exec Thrust Levi’s into the Culture Wars

COVID / VaxCult

• Covid infections in record drop of nearly one million, says ONS

• Hundreds Of CDC Employees Still Haven't Received COVID-19 Vaccine | ZeroHedge

Culture War / Tribal / Re segregation

• Where are the articles asking why men don’t want to have children? – Terence Eden’s Blog

Media / ShowBiz / Advertising

• Disney's writer wage theft, a year on

• ‘Tucker Carlson Tonight’ Fuels Extremism and Fear

Musk / Twitter

• The Shadow Crew Who Encouraged Elon Musk’s Twitter Takeover

• ‘We know bad things are going to happen,’ with Musk and Twitter

• Elon Musk wants to re-engineer the “public square”

• Musk’s Ties to China Could Create Headaches for Twitter

• Twitter Was Already Doing Most of the Things Musk Claims He Wants Them to Do

• What we know about Elon Musk’s ownership plan for Twitter

• Elon Musk reveals how his Twitter purchase may fuel right-wing extremism

• The Shadow Crew Who Encouraged Elon Musk’s Twitter Takeover

• On Twitter, Briefly - by L. M. Sacasas

  Social media are the fidget spinners of the soul.

• jack on Twitter: "I love Twitter. Twitter is the closest thing we have to a global consciousness."

• Judge questions if Musk's acquisition may blow up Twitter free-speech lawsuit

• What's the Mood Inside Twitter?

• How Twitter’s Board Went from Fighting Elon Musk to Accepting Him

TechSuck

• Intel CEO Sees Chip Shortage Lasting into 2024

• Arm Retakes Control of China Operation, Erratic CEO Replaced

• The Amazon Kindle will support ePub in late 2022

  only for Kindle Personal Document service and Send to Kindle.

• Audacity releases on Microsoft Store to counter the 'ludicrous number of fake' | PC Gamer

• In Exchange, You Get Nothing

• Tyler Cowen: Why Does the Tech Workforce Lean Left?

  • Marginal Revolution Comments

  • HN comments

• Atlassian doubles the number of orgs affected by two week outage

Crypto con games

• I think I just interviewed a North Korean hacker

• Robinhood Has a Crypto Trading Problem. It Might Soon Be Coinbase’s, Too

Economicon / Business / Finance

• Ford Motor layoff – 580 engineers

• Dow plunges 900 points, Nasdaq suffers worst month since 2008

• Instacart Searches for a Direction as Its Pandemic Boom Fades

• The Stock Market Isn’t Falling Like It Did in the 1970s–It’s Even Worse

• Record Fertilizer Prices Drive Investors, Farmers to Microbes

• Powell Seen Slowing Rate Hikes After May and June Front-Loading

• Imports do not subtract from GDP - by Noah Smith

  the idea that imports are subtracted from GDP — is not right. Imports are not subtracted from GDP. Bloomberg made the exact same mistake, and I heard that NPR made the same mistake as well, as did the WSJ. Even some economists make this mistake. Even the Bureau of Economic Analysis makes this mistake in some of its press releases! So I don’t want to single out the NYT here.

Gubmint / Poilitcks / Law Making

• Elon Musk: "Democratic Party Has Been Hijacked By Extremists" | ZeroHedge

  He has also labeled Joe Biden a “damp sock puppet,” asserting that the president “is treating the American public like fools.”

• Reforming the patent system to support American innovation

• DeSantis Banana Republic - Corporations Must Support Party : Orbanism in Florida

• USPS sued by states and environmental groups over purchase of 8.6 mpg trucks | Ars Technica

• The Rise and Fall of the Star White House Reporter

• Economy contracts as ‘Bidenflation’ glides toward ‘Bidencession.’

• Who Benefits from Student-Loan Forgiveness?

Law Breaking / Police / Internal Security

• FBI Searched Data of Millions of Americans Without Warrants

• Durham's Treatment Of Clinton Camp Contrasts With Mueller's Treatment Of Trump Camp | ZeroHedge

External Security / Militaria / Diplomania

• Top Navy Admiral Wants Rust-Free Ships

World

• Ethiopian drought leading to ‘dramatic’ increase in child marriage, Unicef warns

Health / Medicine

• An improved ink for colon tattoos

• Nature has enormous emotional and cognitive benefits on people

Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda

• Paris suspends electric bus fleet after two fires

• Underwater power cables make lobsters larvae bad swimmers

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• Ghost of Kyiv dies in battle ‘after shooting down 40 Russian aircraft’

  • Ukrainian fighter pilot ace known as the Ghost of Kyiv was killed in combat

• Ukrainian Battle Buggies Are Out to Kill Russian Tanks

• Ukraine’s Digital Battle with Russia Isn’t Going as Expected

• Biden Seeks to Rob Putin of His Top Scientists with Visa Lure