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• Patreon cuts deep inside creators’ pockets

Horseshit

• ‘A merry-go-round of buck-passing’: inside the four-year Grenfell inquiry

• US envoy sees China lockdowns extending into 2023

• Why New Jersey and Oregon still don't let you pump your own gas

celebrity gossip

• Bidding tops $13.1M for Warren Buffett charity lunch

  • Warren Buffett charity lunch fetches record winning bid of $19M

Rank Propaganda / Thought Policing / World Disordering

• What the New York Times Didn't Say About Crypto Firm Kraken's Culture War

• White House official asks tech companies to settle questions about climate

• Oxfam serves up a lot of dodgy statistics: numbers are more polemic than useful

• Justice Eats The World - by Erik Torenberg

• How Elites Misread Public Opinion

Abortion

• The Future Isn’t Female Anymore

Jan6

• YouTube Deleted a January 6th Committee Video

  • YouTube pulls Jan. 6 committee post, citing election disinformation

• 7 arrested in House office building linked to Colbert show.

  • "Put ’em in solitary with no bail for year. That’s how we handle these things now, right?"

  • Southwest unchecked Colorado River water thirst could prove devastating upstream

Gun control / Mass shooting

• Uvalde Hires Law Firm, Argues It Doesn't Have to Release Shooting Public Records

  • Uvalde police are using a legal loophole to block the release of shooting record

Musk

• Elon Musk Reveals Crypto Twitter Plans in Leaked Transcript

• SpaceX firings likely violate US labor law, experts say

• Hundreds of SpaceX employees signed letter denouncing Elon Musk's behavior

• Elon Musk pressured Twitter for access to a 'firehose' of data to evaluate bots

Pestilence / Pox / COVID / VaxCult

• Exposure to humorous memes about anti-vaxers boosts intention to get a Covid vax

• Residents say China used health tracker for crowd control

• WHO considers renaming monkeypox over fears of stigma and racism

• Canada's Covid Alert app retired

• Chinese Officials Are Weaponizing Covid Health Tracker to Block Protests

• 100% of Long Covid patients have GPCR-autoantibodies

• Japan Low Covid Death Rates Are Model for World

Culture War / Tribal / Re segregation

• How Big Tobacco used George Floyd to create fear among Black smokers

Edumacationalizing / Acedemia Nuts

• How I Almost Didn't Graduate from Stanford: A tale of “booster noncompliance”

• BUSTED: Teacher Arrested for Having Sex with 13-Year-Olds at Lunchtime.

Media / ShowBiz / Advertising

• TikTok moves U.S. user data to Oracle servers – company

TechSuck

• As cryptocurrency tumbles, prices for new and used GPUs continue to fall

• OpenAI

  • HN comments

Crypto con games

• Crypto Crashed So Hard It May No Longer Be Profitable to Mine Ethereum

• Trustless | No Mercy / No Malice

  This is the end of the beginning of web3, not the beginning of the end. A staggering amount of human and financial capital has been allocated to web3 businesses and technologies. If we invested this much in cheese we’d convince ourselves that Gouda can arrest a pandemic. But the sector’s struggles highlight crypto’s failure to deliver on a core promise: trustlessness. Trustless transactions are crypto’s raison d’etre.

• Su Zhu’s cryptic statement as rumors swirl of 3AC liquidations and insolvency

• Three Arrows Capital reportedly facing insolvency, crypto bubble is bursting

  • HN comments

• Cryptocurrency Lender Babel Follows Celsius in Withdrawal Freeze

• US lawmakers urge EPA to consider the potential benefits of crypto mining

• The Coin That Could Wreck Crypto

• Unusual Trading Activity On The Bitfinex Crypto Exchange

• Bitcoin Falls Below $20k

  • HN comments

• Babel Finance is freezing withdrawals as Crypto downward spiral continues

• Bitcoin Falls Below $20k for the First Time Since 2020

  • HN comments

  • Bitcoin slumps below key $20k threshold

  • Bitcoin’s Price Falls Below $20k

  • Bitcoin drops below $20k to lowest since December 2020

• The Crypto Party Is Over

• Bitcoin Falls Below $20k, Ethereum Tests $1k

• Bitcoin mining: surging production costs crimp crypto margins

• We’ve only scratched the surface of how bad the crypto crime wave has gotten

• What will the crypto crash mean for 'Bitcoin nation' El Salvador?

• Bitcoin drops below $20k, Ether cracks $1k – what this means

  Bitcoin had bobbled along all this week just above $20,000. Ether similarly bobbled along just above $1,000. This was not a psychological level. There were large DeFi loans that would liquidate if the price number went down. Liquidations like this were what had just destroyed the crypto investment funds.

  You could watch the charts as borrowers frantically poured millions of actual dollars into the markets, desperate to prop up the price. Often, a seller would dump straight into the pump, a minute later. Thanks for the exit liquidity!

  • HN comments

• Bitcoin fell below $20k – and why it has further to go

Economicon / Business / Finance

• Average Monthly Car Payment Hits Record High of $712

• Housing Crash Imminent: As Mortgage Rates Explode Price Cuts Soar And Buyer Demand Collapses

• Top economists say there are two tech sectors: profitable, and crypto

• Inflation is causing some older Americans to delay retirement plans

• Probability of a soft landing is only about 10 percent

• 60% of CEOs expect recession by 2023

• Leaked Amazon memo warns the company is running out of people to hire | Hacker News

• When Baking and Real Estate Collide

• Brex drops tens of thousands of small businesses as SV adjusts to new reality

• Builders Are Slashing Prices to Sell Homes in Fast-Cooling US Markets

• Deflationary Tsunami On Deck: A "Tidal Wave" Of Discounts And Crashing Prices | ZeroHedge

Gubmint / Poilitcks / Law Making

• Apple's Backup Plan to Stop Antitrust Legislation

• Time to lift Trump’s tariffs on China to fight inflation

  • White House says discussing 'irresponsible' tariffs imposed by Trump

• Watch: Biden Bails On Bike

Law Breaking / Police / Internal Security

• US prison slaves produce $11B worth of goods and services

• Did the FBI Steal Nine Tons of Civil War Gold? - The Atlantic

• Ex-Amazon worker convicted in Capital One hack

• FCC says requests for funds to replace Chinese telecom equipment are deficient

• Betsy DeVos still faces death threats, needs private security.

• Guns for Ukraine Buy Back Program June 18th

External Security / Militaria / Diplomania

• Paul Mason Says Bellingcat Launders Information for Western Intelligence

World

• Gazprom reduces gas supplies to Italy, France cut off

• BOJ maintains ultra-low rates, warns against sharp yen falls

• Canada and Denmark End Their Arctic Whisky War

• WTO approves package of trade deals, prompting cheers

• French Nuclear Power Crisis Frustrates Europe’s Push to Quit Russian Energy

• Details connect police in India to a plot planting evidence on victims computers

• Calgarians forced into jury duty after court summons handed out at mall

Health / Medicine

• New high-resolution view of rabies virus, revealing potential vaccine targets

Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda

• Climate change is turning more of Central Asia into desert

• Minneapolis' Yimby Success Story Halted by “Environmentalist” Lawsuit

• A Degrowth Response to an Ecomodernist Manifesto

• The UK Is Prioritizing Energy Security Over Climate Pledges

• Get ready for triple-digit temperatures again, as heat dome engulfs US

• Doe Announces Breakthrough in Residential Cold Climate Heat Pump Technology

• Southwest unchecked Colorado River water thirst could prove devastating upstream

Ukraine War

• UK pledges to train thousands of Ukrainian troops

• Miami Police Try Hard to Explain How It’s Legal for Them to Ship Guns to Ukraine…and Fail Miserably.

• The modern cannons that may make the difference in Ukraine

• Ukraine claims hitting Russian ship with “Harpoon” near Zmeiny island

• It was a mistake to write off the Russians: Neil MacFarlane takes a long view

• Russia’s Oil Revenue Jumps to $20B in May, IEA Says

• The Trains Keep Running Despite the War