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• World's second tallest rollercoaster is permanently closing

• Natural gas pipeline fire in water SE of New Orleans

• NASA's DART Spacecraft Sends First Image of Didymos Asteroid

• Royal beekeeper has informed the Queen's bees that HM has died

Horseshit

• Hans Niemann Says He Is Being Unfairly Attacked in Chess Scandal

Obit

• Frank Drake, of the Famed Drake Equation (Alien Intelligence), Has Passed Away

Rank Propaganda / Thought Policing / World Disordering

• Everyone Wants to Ban Certain Content Online. No One Wants to Talk Enforcement

• Can't We Come Up with Something Better Than Liberal Democracy?

  • HN comments

• (1988) The Rec.humor.funny Ban

• Communications Between Top US Officials and Social Media Companies

• (2020) Cognitive Ability Is Related to Supporting Freedom of Speech

  • HN comments

Kiwifarms

• The world should not need Kiwi Farms

  There is more going on here beyond a rogue message board having a tiff with a transgender video game streamer. Journalists are swapping out their duties from reporting news to defining what is information and what is “disinformation.” The media companies, competing for attention first and dollars second, are providing their full backing. The world should not need a website like Kiwi Farms. Instead Twitter, Facebook, Tumblr, Wordpress, TikTok, YouTube, Reddit, and the myriad other publishing platforms should already be open forums supporting free expression and committed to viewpoint neutrality. But this is not the reality. Kiwi Farms, though it may be a hive of scum and villainy, may also be one of the last places where free expression lives online. The only way to solve a problem like Kiwi Farms is to restore the norm of free expression everywhere else.

Musk

• SpaceX appeals U.S. FCC rejection of rural broadband subsidies

• Twitter bots appear to be in line with the company's estimate

Trump / War against the Right / Jan6

• Bombshell Report: Dozens of Trump Allies Raided or Served Subpoenas by FBI – RedState

• WATCH: New York AG Twists the Knife Into Steve Bannon – RedState

• 35 Trump Allies Served With Warrants, Subpoenas According To Steve Bannon

Bannon's claim was corroborated by top Republican lawyer, Harmeet Dhillon of the Dhillon Law Group. "The truth is that a few days ago, a political reporter called several people and said, ‘Hey, have you heard or been served yet? The FBI will be serving 50 approximately search warrants or subpoenas on Trump supporters,’ and then, you know, within 24 hours of that, two of our clients, three of our clients actually did either get search warrants or subpoenas, and the subpoenas are extremely broad," she told Fox News host Tucker Carlson.

"They’re from the Capitol siege section of the Department of Justice D.C. office, and ask for broad categories of documents. They ask for all communications dating from a month before the election until a month – two months after the election," Dhillon continued. "They ask for all communications regarding dozens of people, and the categories are alternate electors, fundraising around irregularities around the election, and also a rally that happened before the Jan. 6 situation at the Capitol."

Pestilence / Pox / COVID / VaxCult

• Persistent circulating SARS-CoV2 spike associated w post-acute Covid-19 sequelae

• Ontario school board sends home memo about Sudden Arrhythmia Death Syndrome | Western Canadian News and Current Events | westernstandard.news

  “SADS refers to a variety of cardiac disorders which are often genetic and undiagnosed that can be responsible for sudden cardiac death in young apparently healthy people,” said the Halton Catholic District School Board in a memo. “Fainting or seizure during/after physical activity or resulting from emotional excitement, emotional distress, or being startled can be a warning sign of Sudden Arrhythmia Death Syndrome.”

• How the US monkeypox response failed to learn COVID’s lessons.

• Biden's New Deputy Coordinator on Monkeypox... Literally Wrote the Article Instructing Health Professionals To Lie About How Monkeypox Is Really Spread, and By Whom, In Order to Spare Gays "Stigma"

• COVID vaccines slash risk of spreading Omicron — and so does previous infection

• Polio declared a disaster emergency in New York after more poliovirus found

Culture War / Tribal / Re segregation

• Oh, So Here's the 'White Supremacist' Accused of Vandalizing a Gay Pride Crosswalk With Swastikas

• Microsoft Fellowship Caps the Number of White and Asian Applicants

Edumacationalizing / Acedemia Nuts

• Top med schools weed out DEI-skeptical applicants, new report finds

• Tech Boot Camps Dangled Well-Paid Jobs. They Didn't Deliver

• A top scientific journal places political correctness above the search for truth

Media / ShowBiz / Advertising

• Roblox jumps into online advertising as revenue growth slows

• Ask HN: What happened to theregister.com? | Hacker News

TechSuck

• Stable Diffusion web UI

  • HN comments

• Shape-shifting cryptominer savaging Linux endpoints and IoT

  • New Linux malware combines unusual stealth with a full suite of capabilities

Crypto con games

• U.S. Recovers over $30M in Cryptocurrency Stolen by North Korean Hackers

• U.S. SEC to set up new office for crypto filings

Economicon / Business / Finance

• U.S. household wealth suffers record drop in second quarter

• Why investors are reaching for the astrology of finance

• Robinhood Unveils Index to Track Customers’ Favored Stocks

• Gasoline prices have been falling since June

  • Gasoline Has Now Dropped More Than at Any Point in the 1970s

• Wells Fargo Screws Sex Workers, Cancels Accounts Over 'Risks' | ZeroHedge

• Amazon Sellers See ‘scary’ Holiday Season As Consumers Pull Back

Gubmint / Poilitcks / Law Making

• White House ‘Principles’ for ‘Tech Platform Accountability’, Removing Sec 230

  • Trump and Biden agree on something – changing Section 230

• Biden extends 9/11 State of Emergency to 2023

  Because the terrorist threat continues, the national emergency declared on September 14, 2001, and the powers and authorities adopted to deal with that emergency must continue in effect beyond September 14, 2022.

Law Breaking / Police / Internal Security

• A legal fund to sue SF over housing deadlock

  • HN comments

• Credit Card Sales at Gun Stores Would Be Flagged Under New Code

External Security / Militaria / Diplomania

• Navy Says All UFO Videos Classified Releasing Them ‘Will Harm National Security’

World

• EU to consult on making Big Tech contribute to telco network costs

• China Is Buying the Farm

• On my resignation as regulator of the Dutch intelligence and security services - Bert Hubert's writings

  • HN comments

• Hong Kong Sentences 5 to 19 Months for Children’s Books Deemed ‘Seditious’

• Iran Hit With New US Sanctions After Massive Cyberattack On Albania

Russia Bad / Ukraine War

• Ukraine Is Waging a New Kind of War

• Putin Says He Is Losing War in Ukraine Because FBI Seized Stuff He Needed

• Offsite power supply to Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant destroyed

• Ukraine Attacks Russia Along Northern Front, Swiftly Making Gains

• Shock Waves Hit the Global Economy, Posing Grave Risk to Europe

• Local Russian lawmakers called for Putin's removal from power

• In Major Advance, Ukraine Drives Russians Out of Key Eastern City.

• Wounded Ukrainian Soldiers Paint Grim Picture Of Kherson Counter-Offensive | ZeroHedge

• Russia abandons northeast Ukraine bastion after Kyiv severs supply line

• Lightning Ukraine offensive pushes Russia back 70km in a week

• Ukrainian forces enter strategic city of Izium that Russia occupied for 5 months

Health / Medicine

• Cravings for fatty foods traced to gut-brain connection

  • HN comments

• Some artificial sweeteners may be linked to heart disease, study says.

• Air pollution cancer breakthrough will rewrite the rules

Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda

• In Venezuelan oil town, solar-powered car offers escape from fuel lines

• Contrarian perspective on mainstream climate change claims

• California heatwave leaves older adults teetering on edge

• What My Family and I Saw When We Were Trapped in China’s Heat Wave

• The Marxist, post-capitalist, green manifesto captivating Japan

• California fire creating its own weather as dozens of blazes burn across U.S.