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• 3 Dead, At Least 50 Injured After Packed Amtrak Train Derails In Missouri

• Mystery rocket crashed into the moon – and no one (on Earth) is owning up

  • Mystery rocket crashed into Moon, NASA baffled who was behind launch

• Great America, a beloved Bay Area theme park, to shut down within next 11 years

• We are days away from seeing James Webb’s first scientific images

• Are big tech getting too judgemental?

  • HN comments

• Delta Passengers Offered $10k Each to Take a Later Flight

• Why America can’t build | Hacker News

• Airbnb’s party ban is now permanent

  • Official Codification of Party Ban

Horseshit

• Socially isolated people have differently wired brains and poorer cognition

• The Flight of New York City’s Wealthy Was a Once-in-a-Century Shock

• Men Are Now More Likely to Be Single Than Women. It's Not a Good Sign

• California's Fight Against Homelessness Has Turned Desperate and Dangerous

• The iPhone at 15: An Inside Look at How Apple Transformed a Generation

celebrity gossip

• Jupiter CEO Quits $68B Firm to Sit at the Beach and ‘Do Nothing’

• Ghislaine Maxwell To Be Sentenced Today As More Accusers Get Last Word | ZeroHedge

Rank Propaganda / Thought Policing / World Disordering

• Chris Hedges: Fascists in Our Midst

  Supreme Court rulings, including the overturning of Roe v. Wade, herald the ascendancy of Christian fascism in the United States.

• 45% of People Have Not Felt True Happiness for More Than Two Years

• Why is so much political commentary misleading?

• “I'm Pretty Worried About Our Democracy”

• Against the Great Reset: 'The Great Regression' | The Pipeline

• Police swoop on Stop Brexit Man under new anti-protest law

• Why superhero satire The Boys turned off its rightwing fanbase

• Former Nazi guard, 101, gets 5 years in jail

Abortion

• The lonely chief: How John Roberts lost control of the court

• Missouri considers law to make illegal to ‘aid or abet’ out-of-state abortion

• CVS, Walmart Limit Purchases of Plan B Pills After Surge in Demand

• My Body, My Data Act Tackles Online Privacy in Wake of Roe vs. Wade Decision

  • HN comments

• "Fuckk Clarence Thomas!" Shouts Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot During Pride Parade

• Facebook Is Banning People Who Say They Will Mail Abortion Pills

• The SCOTUS Abortion Leak Backfired: The shock of the ruling doesn’t seem to be there. Because it wasn’t a surprise.

• Tech companies may surrender abortion-related data

• Analysis of White nationalists’ discussion of abortions online

• Do restrictive abortion laws reduce abortion?

• Deleting an app won't bring back Roe vs. Wade

• The Left Aborts Its Right To Be Called Tolerant … Or Intelligent – Issues & Insights

• The abortion clues that can hide on your phone

• Anti-Abortion Centers Find Pregnant Teens Online, Then Save Their Data

• Colleges offer students counseling to cope with news of Roe v. Wade reversal.

• Facebook Labels Abortion Rights Vandals as Terrorists Following Roe Reversal

• Why US women are deleting their period tracking apps

• Pharmacies Rationing Purchases Of Emergency Contraception Pills Amid Soaring Demand Post-Roe

Jan6

• Fmr. Senate Sgt-At-Arms Michael Stenger Dies Ahead Of Last-Minute J6 Hearing

  Stenger's death came one day before a J6 panel hearing that was abruptly added to the schedule, in which an aide to former White House Chief-of-Staff Mark Meadows will testify to present "recently obtained evidence and receive witness testimony."

• Donald Trump Fought Secret Service to Lead Rioters to Capitol

  Donald Trump was not only in on the January 6th insurrection, he wanted to lead the insurrectionists to the Capitol, and when the Secret Service refused to drive him there, Trump tried to grab the wheel of the Presidential car ... this according to Mark Meadows' right hand aide, Cassidy Hutchinson.

  When the head of security refused, she says Trump reached forward and grabbed the steering wheel and had to be physically restrained. She says he then lunged at the head of security and allegedly attempted to go for his throat. Trump was again restrained and the limo proceeded back to The White House.

Gun control / Mass shooting

• California DOJ's new website leaks names and addreses of people with CCW Permits

  • Attorney General Bonta Releases Name, DOB, and Address of CCW Holders

  • HN comments

Musk

• Tesla doesn’t have enough desks after Musk threatens to fire remote employees

• Elon Musk and Kraken’s Jesse Powell Shouldn’t Claim to Be Free Speech Advocates

• Tesla bundles battery users to make it look like lower power demand

Pestilence / Pox / COVID / VaxCult

• The FDA’s “Future Framework” for Covid Vaccines Is a Reckless Plan

• An independent inquiry into Covid’s origins is long overdue

• America Is Sliding into the Long Pandemic Defeat

• Taiwan birthrate dropped 23% in one year

• Alarm in Beijing after announcement zero-Covid policy may last five years

• Monkeypox found to be evolving at a faster rate than expected

• WHO declines to label monkeypox a global emergency

• Serious Heart Inflammation 44 Times Higher After Covid Vaccination

• Alopecia areata after SARS-CoV-2 vaccination

Culture War / Tribal / Re segregation

• Is California ready for more Black people to legally carry guns in public?

• Flawed AI Makes Robots Racist, Sexist

Edumacationalizing / Acedemia Nuts

• Schools Are Spending Billions on High-Tech Defense for Mass Shootings

• Arizona legislature approves school voucher program for all K-12 students.

Media / ShowBiz / Advertising

• T-Mobile is now selling app usage data to advertisers

• Playstation launches new subscription service at double original price

• 'Game of Thrones' still one of the most popular series, data leak shows

• Politics trumps business in Truth Social’s war on Big Tech

TechSuck

• tolower() in bulk at speed – Tony Finch

  • HN comments

• Google sets a timeline to shut down Hangouts

• U.S. Supreme Court won't hear Apple's bid to revive Qualcomm patent challenges

• Detecting unauthorized physical access with beans, lentils and colored rice (2021) | Hacker News

• AMD targeted by RansomHouse, cybercrims claim to have '450Gb' in stolen data

Crypto con games

• Cryptoverse: Ether holds its breath for the lean, mean 'merge'

• Crypto exchange CoinFlex is raising $47M By Offering A New Coin

• Bitcoin Miners Fight for Survival as Crypto Winter Deepens

• Ethereum Miners Likely Lost Money During the Past Two Years

Economicon / Business / Finance

• FTX Is Seeking a Path to Buy Robinhood

  • FTX exploring a deal to acquire Robinhood Markets, shares jump 12%

  • Meme Stocks Were Too Good to Robinhood

  • Robinhood almost imploded during the GameStop meme stock chaos

• SPACs wipe out 50% value as investors lose appetite for risky growth stocks

• Michael Burry’s ‘Bullwhip’ Tweet Deserves Serious Attention

• 58% of Americans are living paycheck to paycheck – including 30% earning $250k

  • HN comments

• The Liches of Silicon Valley

• EY to pay $100 mln to settle U.S. charges of staff cheating on accountant exams

• Rural Counties Are Booming, but Can It Last?

• Former Toys ‘R’ Us Executives Face Trial over Botched Bankruptcy

• Pension Funds Plunge into Riskier Bets–Just as Markets Are Struggling

Shortages

• Many Winters Are Coming. Start Saving Energy Now

• Another Food Processing Plant Shutters Operations, Adding To Long List Of Closures  | ZeroHedge

Gubmint / Poilitcks / Law Making

• SCOTUS decision regarding coach prayer misconstrues the facts

• NY Supreme Court Tosses Law Allowing Noncitizens To Vote

• Microsoft’s Damage to the Federal Government

• California to send out inflation “relief” checks

  • 23M Californians to get up to $1,050 in “inflation relief” checks

  • "More Money In Your Pocket" - Newsom To Helicopter Drop $17 Billion In "Inflation Relief" Stimmy Checks

• The whispers of Hillary Clinton 2024 have started.

Law Breaking / Police / Internal Security

• Flurry of Calls Among Saudi Diplomatic Staff and Spy Coincided With 9/11 Hijackers’ US Arrival

• John Eastman searched and had phone seized by federal agents last week, he says

• "Stacks Of Bodies": Horror In Texas As 46 Migrants Found Dead In 18-Wheeler

External Security / Militaria / Diplomania

• Every branch of U.S. military struggling to meet its recruiting goals

World

• Chlorine gas leak kills 10 injures 251 more after storage tank falls onto a ship

• Sri Lanka Suspends Fuel Sales Amid Economic Collapse; Asks Russians For Help

• Greek police coerce asylum seekers into pushing fellow migrants back to Turkey

• Tokyo June heatwave worst since 1875 as power supply creaks under strain

• Afghan diplomatic missions are still representing their former republic

• Nicola Sturgeon sets out plan for second Scottish independence referendum

• Finnish President says Turkey agrees to back Finnish and Swedish NATO membership

Health / Medicine

• Weed users nearly 25% more likely to need emergency care and hospitalization

Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda

• Ask HN: What's the most ethical way to have less people on the planet?

• Milan turns off fountains as Italy warns more water rationing to fight drought

• African heritage sites threatened as sea-level rise accelerates

• Nuclear power can help the world achieve energy independence

• Is Seaweed the Next Big Alternative to Meat?

Ukraine War

• Russia Threatens NATO over Crimea

• Russia’s economy: tough times are ahead

• Tracking where Russia is taking Ukraine's stolen grain