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• Ukraine’s Astronomers Say There Are Tons of UFOs over Kyiv

• "Secrets" about the consumer audio business you may find interesting | Audio Science Review (ASR) Forum

  • HN comments

• Unearthing a Maya Civilization That ‘Punched Above Its Weight’

• The Sugar Babies of Stanford University

  • HN comments

Horseshit

• How to show your friends you love them, according to a friendship expert

• Should We Be Searching for Smart Aliens or Dumb Aliens?

celebrity gossip

• King Charles’s staff given redundancy notice during church service for Queen

• Queue to see The Queen over 2 miles long

Obit

• Ken Starr, Clinton investigator, dead at 76

  • Kenneth Starr: Clinton investigator dead at 76

Rank Propaganda / Thought Policing / World Disordering

• How to Fix America’s Child-Pornography Crisis

  • HN comments

• The End of Roe Will Spark a Digital Civil War

• Federal officials pressure social media platforms to suppress disfavored speech

Musk

• Twitter shareholders vote in favor of Elon Musk's $44B takeover deal

  • Twitter Investors Back Musk’s Takeover Bid

• Twitter whistleblower says company had Chinese agent on payroll

• What we learned when Twitter whistleblower Mudge testified to Congress

• The search for dirt on Mudge

  • HN comments

• Mudge is a cyber activist, not a business executive

  • HN comments

• Peiter Zatko and Other Tech Whistle-Blowers Face Real Challenges

Trump / War against the Right / Jan6

• FBI Shows up on Trump Supporter’s Doorstep, and She Wasn’t Even at the Capitol on Jan. 6.

• Trump's Choice for Special Master May Be Brilliant – PJ Media

• Durham shocker: Danchenko was a paid FBI informant

  • Wait — the Steele Dossier’s discredited source became a paid FBI informant?

• Tucker Reveals FBI Just Raided Mike Lindell, the Pillow Guy.

  • FBI Tracks Down Mike Lindell On Hunting Trip, Surrounds His Car And Seizes Cell Phone | ZeroHedge

    While heading home from a hunting trip with a friend, Lindell said he was at a Hardees in Minnesota when "cars pulled up in front of us, to the side of us and behind us, and I said 'they're either bad guys or the FBI,'" he said. "Well, it turns out they were the FBI.

• January 6 Pipe Bombs Get Curiouser and Curiouser - American Thinker

• Why Were Ukrainian Nazis in the U.S. Capitol on January 6 - A Son of the New American Revolution

• Watch: Dem Rep. Says "We Gotta Kill" MAGA "Extremists" | ZeroHedge

• Man who pinned police officer in door during Jan. 6 riot convicted of 7 felonies

Pestilence / Pox / COVID / VaxCult

• Sweden and Covid: BOTH sides were wrong

• US officially added to WHO’s list of poliovirus outbreak countries

Culture War / Tribal / Re segregation

• Fear of a Black Hobbit

Edumacationalizing / Acedemia Nuts

• Bomb explodes at Boston's Northeastern university

  • Package Delivered to Northeastern University Detonated as It Was Opened

  • Northeastern Bomber Targeted Virtual Reality Club on Campus: Report

  • Northeastern professor injured by bomb targeting metaverse research

• Florida private school teacher arrested for allegedly having sex with student.

• Boys should start school a year later than girls

Media / ShowBiz / Advertising

• Roblox is ready to grow up

• It's been a little over 3 weeks since Google randomly sent me $249,999

• TikTok search results are reportedly swarming with misinformation

• Netflix Estimates Ad-Supported Tier Will Reach 40M Viewers by Late 2023

TechSuck

• The last person standing in the floppy disk business | Hacker News

• Sudden disturbing moves for IT in large companies, mandated by CEOs

  • HN comments

• EA announces kernel-level anti-cheat system for PC games

  • HN comments

Crypto con games

• Bitcoin slumps 7% on high inflation report

• South Korea Seeks the Arrest of Terraform Labs Founder Do Kwon

• Celsius Network Plots a Comeback After a Crypto Crash

• Tornado Cash and bullets

• Ethereum Merge: How one big cryptocurrency is going green

Economicon / Business / Finance

• Patreon Lays off 17% of Staff

  • HN comments

  • Child Porn Allegations at Patreon After Security Team Fired

• U.S. Banks Lost a Record $370B in Deposits

• Biggest Jump in US Rents Since 1991 Keeps Overall Inflation High

• Why Railroad Workers Like Me Are Planning to Strike This Friday

• A Dubious Truck, a Whistleblower Army, and Inept Spies: Inside the Nikola Saga

• Don’t be indispensable at work – it’s a terrible trap

• Cineworld = a World of Hurt - by PETITION LLC

• Mortgage demand from homebuyers falls 29% since last year, as interest rates surge past 6%.

• A message from Twilio CEO Jeff Lawson: 11% workforce cut

• U.S. housing markets are at risk of 15%–20% home price declines

Gubmint / Poilitcks / Law Making

• Biden Admin Reportedly Ready To Refill Strategic Petroleum Reserve At $80/BBL

• Uber Drivers and McDonald’s Franchise Owners Have a Common Enemy

• House Dems Target New Narrative 'Deniers' for Persecution – PJ Media

Law Breaking / Police / Internal Security

• The SEC revealed today that it charged VMware with fraud

• Woman whose rape DNA led to her arrest sues San Francisco

External Security / Militaria / Diplomania

• US special ops aircraft stuck in a Norwegian nature preserve

World

• France to Raise Armenia-Azerbaijan Conflict at UN Security Council

• ‘Unstoppable’ bird flu epidemic causes growing alarm among Dutch farmers

• Woman holds up Lebanese bank for $13,000 of her own money

• Italians at boiling point over how to cook pasta with less gas

Russia Bad / Ukraine War

• Putin’s Russia struggles for response to Ukrainian blitz

• Russia has spent $300M influencing foreign elections since 2014, officials say

• Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, September 13.

  The Kremlin acknowledged its defeat in Kharkiv Oblast, the first time Moscow has openly recognized a defeat since the start of the February 2022 invasion of Ukraine.

• Russia-Ukraine updates: Zelenskyy visits recaptured frontline city of Izyum

• As war began, Putin rejected a Ukraine peace deal recommended by aide

Health / Medicine

• An end-of-life doula’s advice on how to make the most of your time on earth

• Sony announces development of its first over-the-counter hearing aid for the US

• Daily multi-vitamins may improve brain function in older people – US study

• The Midlife Crisis

Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda

• Are drying rivers a warning of Europe's tomorrow?

• Climate report: World heading into ‘uncharted territory of destruction

• Death by Hockey Sticks | Do the Math

  • HN comments