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• Why We Ignore Thousands of Daily Car Crashes

  • HN comments

• She just got accepted to medical school. She’s 13

• The Left is a Labor Movement, the Left is a Worker's Movement

• Mysterious bundle of string on Mars’ surface found by Perseverance rover

• High Housing Costs, Remote Work Leading People to Move Out of the Bay Area

• Why can't America build trains?

• On Sarcasm - boz.com

Horseshit

• Analysis: Starbucks can't be America's public bathroom

• Russian chess robot breaks 9-yr old opponent's finger

• Sexual assault in the metaverse part of a bigger problem tech alone won't solve

• Colorado officer disperses ‘suspicious’ raccoons at public park.

• How canine heart disease was tied to grain-free dog food

celebrity gossip

• Stephen King DRAGGED for claiming he was NOT owned by 2 Russians and did NOT call an anti-Semite/Nazi collaborator a ‘great man’ (dude, there’s video!) – twitchy.com

Rank Propaganda / Thought Policing / World Disordering

• The Earth Wants Biden to Keep Gas Prices High

• Why the Human Rights Movement Is Losing and How It Can Start Winning Again

• The Future Is Italy, and It’s Bleak

• A radical plan for Trump’s second term

• USA is in “civil war-like situation”

Musk

• Twitter blames Elon Musk for making it lose money

• SpaceX breaks launch record as it sends 46 Starlink satellites into space Friday

Abortion

• 10-Year-Old Rape Victim’s Mom Is in Domestic Relationship With Child’s Alleged Illegal Alien Rapist.

• US dollars put anti-abortion groups at the heart of Romanian healthcare

• South Carolina bill outlaws websites that tell how to get an abortion

  • HN comments

Gun control / Mass shooting

• Uvalde shooter exhibited ‘almost every warning sign,’ expert says.

Pestilence / Pox / COVID / VaxCult

• Biden’s doctor stops heart meds to avoid bad interaction with Covid treatment

• Biden Tests Positive: Is It Still A Pandemic Of The Unvaccinated? | ZeroHedge

• A Pandemic of the Vaccinated: President Biden tests positive for COVID-19

• Brutal: Biden Contracts COVID Just One Day After Miraculous Recovery From Cancer | Babylon Bee

• Opinion: These tests to determine who's immune could help us face future Covid surges - CNN

• People with Long Covid May Still Have Spike Proteins in Their Blood

• French gov refuses to reintegrate non-vaccinated medical staff

• The Covid Super-Dodgers

• After Covid: Unhappiness Is Worse Among Single and Non-Religious Americans

Edumacationalizing / Acedemia Nuts

• Negative incentives in academic research – Daniel Lemire's blog

  • HN comments

• Ask HN: Why aren't students penalized for scoring too highly on an exam? | Hacker News

• Growing Number Of K-12 Teachers Charged With Child Sex Crimes In Recent Months: Analysis | ZeroHedge

Media / ShowBiz / Advertising

• Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg to give 6-hour deposition

• Shares in Snapchat owner slump 25% amid slowdown in ad revenue

• Neopets Hacker Steals 69M Accounts, Tries to Sell Them for Bitcoin

• Facebook's Revenue May Shrink for the First Time Ever

• 'We’re All Speculating': Inside the Wildly Hyped Metaverse Real Estate Rush

• Eve Online's most notorious player has quit the game

  • HN comments

• Discworld on Page and Screen, Part 1: Serious Comedy The Digital Antiquarian

• What Is a Stream, Anyway?

  If streaming is indeed none of these things, it must be a new category of use for music, made possible by a new technology. Just like records made mechanical reproduction possible. And film made synch possible. And radio made public broadcast possible. And satellite radio made digital public broadcast possible. If it is a new category of use made possible by a new technology, it is in fact just like all those prior ones. And therefore in need of new laws and regulations insuring a standard of payment to musicians for use of their work.

TechSuck

• Two senators propose ban on data caps, blasting ISPs for “predatory” limits

• Ask HN: What are some cool but obscure data structures you know about?

• Hardcoded password in Confluence app has been leaked on Twitter

Crypto con games

• The SEC decides some alt-coins are securities Archive link

  In other words, big congrats to the folks who run AMP, RLY, DDX, XYO, RGT, LCX, POWR, DFX and KROM! The SEC says it’s reasonable for investors to expect to make money based on your managerial efforts. You were able to list a security without the messy initial public offering process!

  • Former Coinbase PM charged in cryptocurrency insider trading tipping scheme

    • HN comments

• Coinbase does not list securities. End of story

  • HN comments

• Tesla cashes out $936M in Bitcoin

  • Tesla has dumped 75% of its Bitcoin a year after touting long-term potential

  • Tesla dumps 75% of its Bitcoin a year after endorsing cryptocurrency

• Yes, crypto Twitter, the FBI is reading your tweets

• Three Arrows Founders Break Silence over Collapse of Crypto Hedge Fund

• El Salvador’s Embrace of Bitcoin Didn’t Bring Prosperity

Economicon / Business / Finance

• How to Get Consumers to Accept Slower Deliveries on Online Orders

• Airbnb cofounder Joe Gebbia is stepping down

  • HN comments

• Fed Officials Preparing to Lift Interest Rates by Another 0.75 Percentage Point

• After inflation, people making US minimum wage are earning less than 60 year ago

• Ford Says It’ll Have the Batteries to Build 600K EVs in 2023

• Ford to Fund Its EV Efforts in Part by Laying Off 8,000 Workers

• The True Costs of Inflation in Small-Town Texas

  • HN comments

• Blackstone Prepares A Record $50 Billion To Snap Up Real Estate During The Coming Crash

• Remote work may be an unlikely ally in Federal Reserve’s inflation fight

• Google and GitHub is freezing hiring, effective immediately

• California pension fund reports $29B loss, first since Great Recession

• Airbnb will up its penalty for hosts who cancel last-minute from $100 to $1k

• San Francisco businesses struggle to hang on as tech workers stay home

• FedEx Ground To Drop Sunday Deliveries In Certain Markets

• Snap shares dive 35% following poor earnings report

  • Snapchat Stock Down by 38%

• Recession ‘is here’ and will ‘last for awhile,’ former White House economist says.

• Raimondo warns of ‘deep and immediate recession’ if US cut off from Taiwan chips

• You're not the only one whos confused about the economy. Experts are baffled too

• Hyundai subsidiary used child labor at Alabama factory

Shortages

• US formula shortage persists and will “take a while to fix.

Gubmint / Poilitcks / Law Making

• Congress' push to regulate Big Tech is fizzling out

  • HN comments

• The FCC is cracking down on 'auto warranty' robocalls

• Senate Bill to Federally Legalize Marijuana

• Lawmakers seek answers about defunct NIH oversight committee

Hunter

• “Republicans are Just Going After Him”: The Media Starts the Spin on Possible Hunter Biden Charges – JONATHAN TURLEY

Law Breaking / Police / Internal Security

• San Francisco Walgreens shoplifter caught on viral video sentenced to 16 months

• Oregon’s decriminalization of drug possession is proving disastrous

• DOJ Sabotaged Trump Release Of Russiagate Docs | ZeroHedge

• Lee Zeldin's Failed Assassin Released From Custody Hours Later | ZeroHedge

• How Two L.A. Covid swindlers dodged the FBI and joined the European jet set

External Security / Militaria / Diplomania

• Northrop Grumman Receives Contract for Rapid Deployment of Small Satellites

• Department of Defense establishes office to track UFOs in space

• America’s woke Army is facing a recruiting nightmare.

• What to read to understand modern warfare

World

• Rogers replaces Chief Technology Officer after nationwide outage

• China deploys tanks to prevent withdrawals of money from crisis-hit banks

  • Or possibly not

• Russia Rejects As "Nonsense" Report Saying Nord Stream Turbine Is Stuck In Transit

Health / Medicine

• New York reports first US polio case in nearly a decade

  • Polio case confirmed in New York, health-care providers told to look for more

  • Unvaccinated young adult becomes first US polio case in nearly a decade

  • N.Y. state detects polio case, first in the U.S. since 2013

  • HN comments

• Potential fabrication in research threatens the amyloid theory of Alzheimer’s

  • HN comments

• How menstruation affects athletic prowess is poorly understood

Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda

• Monarch butterflies now listed as endangered

• Ask HN: What's your climate change survival strategy?

• The West’s Climate Policy Debacle

• Climate crisis piles pressure on Senegal’s herders

• Past environmental threats didn’t just disappear

• Heat wave brings out new face of climate denial in UK press

• Migratory monarch butterfly now Endangered

  • HN comments

• The Toll of Fireworks

Ukraine War

• Turkey: Ukraine grain export deal to be signed in Istanbul

• Ukraine, Russia sign deal to reopen grain export ports as war rages on

• Deep State Media Outlet NPR: "Questions Have Resurfaced" About Ukraine's Corruption

• Russian oil is traveling to Asia on tankers that used to carry Iranian crude

• The Road to Stalemate in the Russia-Ukraine War

• What is the coffin money for Russian soldiers?

• Russia Ukraine war running out of steam, Putin's ability to spy in Europe halved

• Google to be banned in Ukraine’s occupied Donetsk and Luhansk regions