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• Boy Scouts to exit bankruptcy after $2.46B U.S. sex abuse settlement approved

• NASA targets Sept. 23 for next Artemis 1 launch attempt

Horseshit

• Chess Is in Chaos over Suspicion That a Player Cheated Against Magnus Carlsen

• Man discovers pitfalls of nut foraging with hydrogen balloons

• Widespread misperceptions of long-term attitude change | Hacker News

Obit

• Queen Elizabeth II has died

  • Twitter pulls vile tweet by critical race theory professor mocking dying Queen

  • The Demise of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II: National Mourning Guidance

  • Clueless US Tourist Asked Queen to Take Photo of Him With Bodyguard | PetaPixel

  In her entire life, Queen Elizabeth II never gave a single interview so wonderful anecdotes such as this one reveal what her personality was like.

Rank Propaganda / Thought Policing / World Disordering

• Facebook suspended my account without warning because I mentioned a placename

• Temperature impacts on hate speech online: evidence from geolocated tweets

• Propaganda Critic

Kiwifarms

• Kiwi Farms is effectively offline following campaign to deplatform the hate site

• Cloudflare explains why Kiwi Farms was its most dangerous customer ever

Musk

• Twitter Isn't a Public Square. It's a Coliseum

• Twitter Whistleblower Scored $7M Settlement Days Before Dropping Bombshell Allegations

  • Twitter Agreed to Pay Whistleblower Roughly $7M in June Settlement

• Musk says Apple passed on Tesla acquisition three years ago

Trump / War against the Right / Jan6

• Watch: MSNBC Reporter Says It's "Deeply Dangerous" To Cover "Both Sides" Of A Story | ZeroHedge

• Mar-a-Lago Raid: Feds Ask Judge To Partially Stay Special Master Order, Will Appeal If Don’t Get Their Way

Pestilence / Pox / COVID / VaxCult

• Is early-onset cancer an emerging global epidemic?

• NY mask policy has experts facepalming

• Omicron Boosters – Do I need One, and if so, When?

• Long Covid's link to suicide: scientists warn of hidden crisis

• Adults Aged 35–44 Died At Twice The Expected Rate Last Summer, Life Insurance Data Suggests | ZeroHedge

Culture War / Tribal / Re segregation

• Firearms and Lynching

• The need to remove the urban highways that destroy neighborhoods

• (2019) Clarence Thomas’s Radical Vision of Race

Edumacationalizing / Acedemia Nuts

• Higher Ed’s New Woke Loyalty Oaths

• Oberlin College pays out FULL $36.5m it owes to Ohio bakery that it defamed with racism claims | Daily Mail Online

  • After a Legal Fight, Oberlin Says It Will Pay $36.59M to a Local Bakery

  • HN comments

• YouTube Tries Again to Break into Education Market with New School Service

Media / ShowBiz / Advertising

• No, Most Books Don't Sell Only a Dozen Copies

• It seems that the good times for online Minecraft play are over

  • HN comments

• TikTok unites tech factions against it

TechSuck

• Patreon laid off their ENTIRE security team

  • HN comments

• Int/str conversions broken in latest Python bugfix releases in all versions

• Apple’s Killing the Password. Here’s Everything You Need to Know

  • HN comments

• Google Pays ‘Enormous’ Sums to Maintain Its Search Engine Dominance DOJ Says

• Apple’s Emergency SOS link puts it into the satellite fight with SpaceX and more

• The iPhone Isn't Cool

• Apple used to sell wonder. Now it sells fear

  • HN comments

• Apple’s Satellite Emergency Texts, How Do They Work?

• Why open source databases have achieved dominance

• Everyone should join the “cult of privacy”

• Byte Magazine: The C Programming Language (1983) | Hacker News

Crypto con games

• Treasury will warn White House that cryptocurrency needs regulation

• When Bitcoin plunges, Buttcoin cheers: the community praying for end of crypto

• Crypto Mining Is Threatening US Climate Efforts, White House Warns

• Y Combinator is doubling down on crypto founders despite market volatility

• Crypto’s Core Values Are Running Headfirst into Reality

• Crypto lender Celsius looked a lot like a Ponzi, says state regulator

• Quentin Tarantino settles NFT lawsuit with Miramax

Economicon / Business / Finance

• More Americans tapping buy now, pay later services for groceries

• Bitcoin and Gold Both Fail Miserably as Hedges, Investments

• JPMorgan Expects OPEC+ To Cut Another 1 Million b/d In Output As Biden Mulls More SPR Releases

• San Francisco Home Prices Slide in Stark Turn for Costly City

• What if we’re fighting inflation all wrong?

• New York company hiring high school grads for $47 an hour.

• The Great Pandemic Wealth Migration

• This Is the Kind of Storytelling That Economics Needs

Gubmint / Poilitcks / Law Making

• Vote For Us, Or We Will Do What Democrats Did in 1861

• Biden Admin Is Placing Vending Machines Filled With Drug Supplies in Rural Kentucky

• Congress.gov API | Hacker News

• Social media firms to testify at U.S. Senate Homeland Security hearing

• Politico Reports White House Anger at CNN Over Negative Coverage of Biden’s ‘Red’ Speech

• No, AOC, there's a different reason you won't be president

• Jackson Water Shakedown? Water Pressure Restored Immediately After Army Corps Arrives: Social media users have begun to suggest the Jackson, Mississippi water crisis was merely a manufactured crisis.

• FBI Conceals Chinese Infiltration of U.S. Election Software

• Trumpier than Trump: Doug Mastriano’s playbook for PA governor race

• David Shor, a Data Guru for Democrats, Throws One Last Bash

• Computer experts urge Georgia to replace voting machines

Law Breaking / Police / Internal Security

• Police, Car Owners Wrestle with Growing Thefts of Kias, Hyundais

• Local official arrested in Nevada reporter's slaying

• Woman Beheaded by Sword in Downtown San Carlos

External Security / Militaria / Diplomania

• Ask HN: Did you know the US launched a test nuclear missile two days ago?

• ‘They Are Getting Ready for Trump’s Second Term’: Former Pentagon Brass Encourage Military to Disobey Orders.

• Nuclear 201: Policy, SIOP, and Escalation.

World

• King Charles the III, the new monarch

• Spain says gas pipeline to France possible in 8-9 months

• The Weakness of Xi Jinping: How Hubris and Paranoia Threaten China’s Future

• "Wide Rescue Umbrella": Germany Plans To Support Companies As Energy Crisis Worsens

• Finnish economist: “I am telling you people that the situation in Europe is much worse than many understand”

• With Queen Elizabeth's death, republicans sense their chance

• Dutch agriculture minister resigns after farmers kick up a stink over pollution

• British Prime Minister Truss lifts fracking ban amid energy crisis

Russia Bad / Ukraine War

• Ukraine Holds the Future: The War Between Democracy and Nihilism

• North Korea-Russia weapons deal: Ammo will stretch supplies for Ukraine war

• Clever Anti-Censorship Tool Lets Russians Read Blocked News

• Russia offers bounty for the capture of robotic vehicle deployed in Ukraine

• Ukraine counterattack takes Russia – and everyone else – by surprise

• Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine Looks Like a ‘Failure,’ CIA Director Says

• 'Substantial victory' for Kyiv as Russian front crumbles near Kharkiv

Health / Medicine

• I believe we’ve been told devastating lies about mental health

• Additional types of cancer reported in people with breast implants, FDA says

• Superbugs are a “second punch” after pandemic

Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda

• World on brink of five ‘disastrous’ climate tipping points, study finds

• Countries growing 70% of world's food face 'extreme' heat risk by 2045

• For first time on record, Greenland saw extensive melting in September

• The Crisis of Climate Policy: A Tsunami of Energy-Price Bankruptcies Approaches

• Heat wave scorching California may be the worst in its history

• Exceeding 1.5°C global warming could trigger multiple climate tipping points

• A chef’s mission to prove eating insects is good for the planet – and palate

• Europe Pays for Net Zero. Prices and subsidies both soar due to climate policy