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• Cannabis-fed chickens may help cut Thai farmers’ antibiotic use

• Sick and struggling to pay, 100M people in the U.S. live with medical debt

• Do we need a better understanding of 'progress'?

• What Europe’s Universal Charger Mandate Means for You

• Record-Breaking Voyager Spacecraft Begin to Power Down

  This year NASA plans to begin turning off some of the Voyagers' systems, eking out the spacecrafts' remaining energy stores to extend their unprecedented journeys to about 2030.

• Ferrari says going electric means 'even more unique' cars

• Lego will start building its bricks in the United States

Horseshit

• Don't Be Stoic: Roman Stoicism’s origins show its perniciousness

  • HN comments

• Window into the drug business: Why I'm now making drugs for cats (and you should, too)

• NASA rover sighting reignites fears about human space debris

Rank Propaganda / Thought Policing / World Disordering

• The Dubious Science of Microaggressions

• Why The Biden Admin Wants Censorship Of Renewable Energy Critics.

• Europe: Fighting disinformation and “issues advertising” now a matter of compliance

• “Encrypted planning, high-power firearms make extremist threat in US unique”

• The Villains in the Gentrification Story Are Wealthy NIMBYs

Jan6

• Democrats’ January 6th Show Trial Episode 2 Falls Dramatically in Ratings and Episode 3 is Postponed.

Gun control / Mass shooting

• The Rifle That Ruined America

Musk

• Tesla bumps prices across its lineup by between 2500 and 6000

• SpaceX employees draft open letter to execs denouncing Elon Musk’s behavior

• Elon Musk Live Twitter Meeting Blog

• Musk, Tesla, SpaceX Are Sued for Alleged Dogecoin Pyramid Scheme

• Musk takes heat from Twitter employees at town hall

• Elon Musk Fields Questions from Twitter Employees Amid Takeover Saga

• SpaceX employees denounce CEO Musk as “distraction”

• Elon Musk Tells Staff Twitter Should Allow ‘Pretty Outrageous’ Tweets

• Musk will allow ‘outrageous’ comments on Twitter says they won't be amplified

Abortion

• Abortions Increase in the U.S.

• Facebook and Anti-Abortion Clinics Are Collecting Info on Would-Be Patients

• Kavanaugh's Neighbor Claims Pro-Abortion Protesters Are Threatening Homeowners; "Fck You, Fck Your Children"

Pestilence / Pox / COVID / VaxCult

• Fully Vaxxed and Boosted Dr. Fauci Catches COVID.

  • Fauci tests positive for Covid-19

  • Dr. Anthony Fauci tests positive for Covid

• Months-long Covid infections could seed dangerous new variants

• Mild respiratory Covid can cause multi-lineage neural cell, myelin dysregulation

• Reuters Pulls A Fast One - But Internet Remembers - Victory Girls Blog

• China Uses COVID-19 App to Prevent Run on Rural Banks

• Moderna, Pfizer vaccines for under 5s overwhelmingly endorsed by FDA advisors

• Long Covid Could Be a ‘Mass Deterioration Event’

• The search for people who never get Covid

• People who caught Covid in first wave get ‘no immune boost’ from Omicron

• Covid isn’t over, it’s just getting started

• Neurotoxic peptides in SARS-COV2: potential implications in ‘brain fog’

• (Feb 2021) Covid-19 and the Political Economy of Mass Hysteria

• China bank protest stopped by health codes turning red, depositors say

Culture War / Tribal / Re segregation

• Progressivism, Sexuality, and Mental Illness

Media / ShowBiz / Advertising

• Some Ads Play on Streaming Services Even When the TV Is Off, Study Finds

• Meta's memo: make FB more like TikTok, recommend posts from unconnected sources

• Telegram Premium is coming later this month

• Cults at Google

  • A Religious Sect Landed Google in a Lawsuit

TechSuck

• Browser Extension to Bypass Media Sites Paywalls

Crypto con games

• What the crypto crash tells us

• Bitcoin Veterans Know to Keep Their Eyes on $19,511 Level

• Crypto Debt Can Be Trouble

• Bitcoin miners stung as fallout from price collapse widens

• Belgium bank KBC lanches it's own “Kate coin”, based on blockchain

• Convicted scammer Anna Sorokin says she is now selling NFTs

• Yes, Crypto Is Crashing Again. Blockchain Will Survive

• Celsius Investors Unlikely to Provide More Funds to Bail Out Crypto Lender

• Celsius Is Running Out of Options to Stay Solvent, Kaiko Says

• State securities regulators investigating Celsius accounts freeze

Economicon / Business / Finance

• Fed Hikes Rates By The Most In 28 Years, Signals Volcker-Era Is Back

• Powell: Fed 'not trying to induce a recession' with interest rate hikes

• Fed rate hike will have 'devastating' impact on consumers

• Nord Stream pipeline components stuck in Canada, throughput reduced by 40%

• Robinhood's Stock Is Now Worth Less Than Its Cash on Hand

• Pound Tumbles After Bank of England Hikes 25bps In Split Decision, Drops Guidance Of Future Rate Hikes

• Where does the wealth go when asset prices go down?

• Mortgage Rates Hit 5.78%, Highest Level Since 2008

  • Mortgage rates hit 5.78%, the biggest weekly jump since 1987

• The crash in Nasdaq looks like the bursting of the 2000 dot-com bubble

• Samsung Asks Component Makers To Delay Shipments Amid Build-Up In Inventories

• U.S. Home Equity Hits Highest Level on Record–$27.8T

• Private Markets Will Pump the Oil

Shortages

• The World Is Constantly Running Out of Helium. Here's Why It Matters

Gubmint / Poilitcks / Law Making

• 'Big Oil' Responds To Biden's Threats: Here's 10 Things You Can Do To Ease Gas Prices

  • Reuters: Biden demands oil companies explain lack of gasoline as prices rise

• Press Sec Wants Americans to 'Remember Where This Country' Was When Biden Entered Office. RNC Reminds Her.

• Greenwald on Biden and Saudi Arabia

• With Recession Now Guaranteed, The "One-Term" White House Begins To Panic | ZeroHedge

• Opening a Boston Restaurant: 92 Steps, 22 Forms, 17 Office Visits, $5,554 Fees

• The Hands-Off Tech Era Is Over

Law Breaking / Police / Internal Security

• House passes a bill giving police security to families of Supreme Court justices

• The Criminal Order Beneath the 'Chaos' of San Francisco's Tenderloin

External Security / Militaria / Diplomania

• Navy Releases Videos from Mysterious Drone Swarms Around Warships Off California

• US sending $1B more military aid to outgunned Ukraine

World

• Eight million Australians urged to turn off lights

• India Lifts Ban on MasterCard

Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda

• Sea level rise in England “will put 200k homes at risk by 2050”

• U.S. issues new warnings on 'forever chemicals' in drinking water

  • EPA Announces New Drinking Water Health Advisories for PFAS Chemicals

• A Warming Arctic Emerges as a Route for Subsea Cables

• Federal official warns of Colorado River water supply cuts

• Texas has a feral hog problem. Hunting them makes it worse

• At least 2k cattle dead in Kansas heat, adding pain to beleaguered industry

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• U.S. targets Russia with tech to evade censorship of Ukraine news

• Ukrainian Students Pose for Grad Photos in the Rubble of Their School

• Europe is making it much harder for Russia to ship oil anywhere

• Romanian port becomes key transit hub for Ukrainian grain