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• NASA's lander just detected the biggest earthquake on Mars

• So you want to invent a nuclear weapon

• Passenger with “no idea how to fly” lands plane after pilot incapacitated

Horseshit

• Big meat is gobbling up fake meat companies

• The QAnon Queen Told Followers They Didn’t Need to Pay Bills. It Didn’t End Well

• Tusk Browser: Free Speech, Censorship Free Browser Exclusively for Conservatives

• Trump Kept Asking If China Was Shooting Us with a ‘Hurricane Gun’

• Less immigrant labor in US contributing to price hikes

Obit

• Shireen Abu Akleh: Al Jazeera Reporter Killed by Israeli Gunfire

  • Linux foundation? In Memory of Shubhra Kar

Rank Propaganda / Thought Policing / World Disordering

• Disinformation Is a Threat to Our Democracy

• Klein: Trump was right about TikTok. It’s more dangerous than it looks

• Facebook whistleblower has a new mission

• Neoliberalism has resulted in preference for greater income inequality

• FDA Commissioner Claims ‘Misinformation’ Is Now America’s Leading Cause Of Death.

• The second American civil war is already happening

• Senator Hawley wants to punish Disney by taking copyright law back to 1909

• Ignore the hysteria over the Disinformation Governance Board

• RCMP commissioner denies claim Mounties used 'kid gloves' with Freedom Convoy

• Biden Disinformation Czar Demands Power to Edit Other People’s Tweets – Summit News

• Safetyism is the Water in Which We Swim - Freddie deBoer

Musk / Twitter

• Elon Musk says Twitter banning Trump was “morally wrong and flat-out stupid”

• Jack Dorsey says he agrees with reversing Trump's Twitter ban

  • HN comments

• ACLU: “Elon Musk's Decision to Re-Platform President Trump Is the Right Call”

• Free speech could doom India's minorities, writes an anonymous idiot.

• Musk effect already wearing off in Mastodon: new signups down 80%

• Elon Musk praises Chinese workers and says Americans try ‘to avoid going to work

Supreme Abortion

• The End of Roe Will Bring About a Sea Change in the Encryption Debate

• MSNBC Guest Wants to Have Sex With the SCOTUS Leaker and ‘Joyfully Abort Our Fetus’.

• Who’s Paying Protesters to Harass Justices and Churches? | FrontpageMag

• How period tracking apps and data privacy fit into a post-Roe vs. Wade climate

COVID / VaxCult

• Covid-19 Cases Rise in Parts of U.S. with High Vaccination Rates

• Rapid Relapse of Symptomatic Covid Infection Following Suppression with Paxlovid

• Why are Covid-19 cases increasing in the San Francisco Bay Area?

• Number of Americans who say they won't get a Covid shot hasn't budged in a year

• Lifting zero-Covid policies in China could risk 1.6m deaths

• Bill Gates says he has tested positive for Covid-19

• WHO chief says China's zero-COVID policy not 'sustainable'

• The Vindication of the Great Barrington Three - Left Lockdown Sceptics

Culture War / Tribal / Re segregation

• Politics Poisoned the Evangelical Church

• Less than half of US children under 15 are white, census shows

• Popular merit college scholarships have perpetuated racial inequities

Edumacationalizing / Acedemia Nuts

• Let them eat prestige? | Washington Examiner

Media / ShowBiz / Advertising

• The Taylor Lorenz ‘Lizard Person’ Scandal, Explained

• Television Is in a Showrunning Crisis

• Valve Loses Bid to End Antitrust Case over Steam Gaming Platform

• Secrets of the publishing industry - by Erik Hoel

• EA Sports officially ends FIFA partnership after 30 years of games

TechSuck

• AT&T will now use a device’s GPS location to route 911 calls

  • AT&T Launches First-Ever Nationwide Location-Based Routing

• NIST Finds Wireless Performance Consistent Across 5G Millimeter-Wave Bands

• Historical interest: wrotniak.net: The xD-Picture card abomination

• Thousands of Popular Websites See What You Type–Before You Hit Submit

Crypto con games

• Terra’s stablecoin does its own 2008 crisis: UST crashes, takes Bitcoin with it

• UST “Stablecoin” at $.43

  • HN comments

• Stablecoin Terra falls as low as 30 cents on the dollar

• Blue-Chip NFT Collections Hit Harder Than Bitcoin in Crypto Rout

• Moneyness: The tragedy of Dogecoin

• TerraUSD Stablecoin Plunges as Crypto Market Awaits Rescue

• Coinbase warns that bankruptcy could wipe out user funds

  • SEC made us say that

  • HN comments

• El Salvador expected to default as Bitcoin plummets

  • HN comments

• Cryptocurrency TerraUSD Plunges as Investors Bail

• Is Crypto Re-Creating the 2008 Financial Crisis?

• (Jan 2022) The Ticking Bomb of Crypto Fascism - In These Times

  Here is what will happen when hundreds of thousands of younger investors are smashed by the crypto crash: They will be radicalized. This will not be experienced as simply a decline in prices, because crypto represents much more than a simple investment to its most fervent adherents — it represents a way out of the American trap. It represents the existence of opportunity, the possibility of economic mobility, the validation of the idea that you, a regular, hard working person without connections, can go from the bottom to the top, thanks to nothing but your own savvy choices. When that myth is shattered, disillusionment with the American system will follow. Unfortunately, given the realities of the moment, these newly disillusioned and radicalized and angry and broke people are far more likely to turn to fascism than to socialism.

• Terra Flops

Economicon / Business / Finance

• Carvana laid off 2,500 employees today via a pre-recorded message through zoom

  • Carvana Plans to Lay Off 12% of Workforce as It Closes Expansion Deal

• SoftBank Faces Record Loss as Masayoshi Son’s Bets Tumble Again

• ‘Buy the dip’ believers are tested by market’s downward slide

• Roblox shares sink on disappointing revenue and wider-than-expected loss

• Developer creates bot to mimic stock trading by US politicians: portfolio up 25%

• What is behind the baby formula shortage?

  • A Baby Formula Shortage Leaves Desperate Parents Searching for Food

  Republicans have seized on the widening anxiety among parents to blame President Biden, arguing that the administration has not done enough to ramp up production. On Tuesday, Senator Mitt Romney of Utah sent a letter to the Food and Drug Administration and the Department of Agriculture, asserting that federal officials have been too slow to respond.

  • My Baby Needs Formula, And I’m Getting Scared She Won’t Have It

• Fear and Loathing Return to Tech Startups

• Which housing markets are most exposed to the coming interest-rate storm?

  • HN comments

    people should be financially punished for owning more than two houses

• Electricity prices are spiking, ten times as much as normal

• Private Equity Looted America

• For Tens of Millions of Americans, the Good Times Are Right Now

• Robinhood aims to court users with 1% interest rate on cash

• The Folly of Debt Cancellation

• "permit" not found: Shale Struggles - by Rory Johnston - Commodity Context

• CPI Prints Hotter Than Expected In April, Real Wages Tumble For 13th Straight Month

• Tech stocks lose over $1T in value

• How Wall Street banks made a killing on SPAC craze

• Inflation barreled ahead at 8.3% in April

• The Mortgage Refi Boom Is Running Out

• US inflation stays at 40-year high, defying expectations of bigger drop

Gubmint / Poilitcks / Law Making

• House Panel to Hold Public Hearing on UFOs

  • Congress to Hold First Open Hearing About UFOs in 50 Years

• Trump-endorsed Republican accused of sexual assault loses Nebraska governor primary

Law Breaking / Police / Internal Security

• San Francisco 'Ice Cream with a Cop' event devolves into chaos

• ICE "now operates as a domestic surveillance agency".

• Biden DOD demands Mike Flynn fork over speech fee even though he helped DIA spy on Russians | Just The News

External Security / Militaria / Diplomania

• Sarin gas blamed for Gulf War syndrome

• How big a deal would a nuclear explosion be?

• Biden Wanted $33B More For Ukraine. Congress Quickly Raised it to $40B. Who Benefits?

• Covert Operation to Back Ukrainian Independence That Haunts the CIA

  After WWII, officials in Washington sent scores of agents to their deaths in a misguided effort to create an uprising against Moscow.

World

• Crucial NATO decisions expected in Finland, Sweden this week

• Germany prepares crisis plan for abrupt end to Russian gas

• 'Bongbong' Marcos, Son Of Notorious Dictator, Wins By Landslide In Philippine Presidential Vote

Health / Medicine

• Black Pepper: Healthy or Not?

• Food allergy ‘explosion’ poses risk to vegans and vegetarians

Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda

• Climate simulations are mostly accurate, study finds

• Revealed: The ‘carbon bombs’ set to trigger catastrophic climate breakdown

• Short Term Climate Projections

Ukraine War

• Fmr PRC Amb to Ukraine on Russia’s Impending Defeat and International Relations | 高大伟 David Cowhig's Translation Blog

• Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, May 10.

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• Russia orders 174,000 diplomatic passports

• UK, US, and EU officially blame Russia for cyber attack targeting Viasat

  • US and its allies say Russia waged cyberattack that took out satellite network

• There's no ban on Estonia giving Israeli weapons to Ukraine – Estonian FM

• Interests, not values, underpin Asia’s ambivalence about Russia

• Former Kremlin mercenary: Russian army was not prepared for a real war; Kremlin propaganda’s Janus face.

• Downed Russian fighter jets are being found with basic GPS ‘taped to the dashboards,’ UK defense minister says.

• European Sanctions Blown To Bits: Draghi Says "Most Gas Importers" Have Opened Ruble Accounts With Gazprom

• Russian-Captured Ukrainian Territories Will Soon Ask To 'Join Russia': State Media

• Berlin 'Open' to Seizing Russian Central Bank Assets for Ukraine