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• Some WFH Employees Have a Secret: They Now Live in Another Country

  • HN comments

Horseshit

• Johnson and Johnson and a New War on Consumer Protection

• Chess grandmaster accused of using sex toy to cheat, win against Magnus Carlsen

  • Chess world rocked by rumours of anal beads and artificial intelligence

• Hunter-gatherers kept animals for food before they farmed crops

celebrity gossip

• ‘The strain is the worst of my lifetime’: how Bill Gates is staying optimistic

• Roger Federer Announces Retirement from Tennis

Obit

• Fred Franzia, the California winemaker behind the iconic Two Buck Chuck, dies

Rank Propaganda / Thought Policing / World Disordering

• Jawboning Against Speech: How Government Bullying Shapes Rules of Social Media

• Cloudflare admits wrong in deplatforming 8chan and The Daily Stormer

• What happens when Twitter suppresses your tweets?

Musk

• Tesla struggles with Elon Musk’s strict return-to-office policy

• Twitter shareholders have approved the $44B sale to Elon Musk

Trump / War against the Right / Jan6

• This FBI-Steele-Danchenko triangle smells. Here’s why.

• Why FBI Agents Jumped MyPillow’s Mike Lindell at a Hardee’s Drive-Thru.

• 'Suspicious Actors' Who Conspired To Raid Capitol On Jan. 6 Never Arrested, Attorney Alleges

• Election Interference: DOJ/FBI Carpet-Bombed Subpoenas An Attempt To Freeze Political Opposition In Runup To Midterms

• Did Democrats Let the Capitol Riot Happen? Whistleblower Memo Raises Questions.

• DOJ Tramples On The Constitution - The Lid

  In August, the United States Department of Justice issued a subpoena demanding records from the Eagle Forum of Alabama, stating: “Several public statements suggest that Eagle Forum of Alabama staff may have had some involvement in drafting the legislation or its predecessor bills. As a result, the United States is issuing the enclosed subpoena for certain records in the Eagle Forum of Alabama’s possession from January 1, 2017, through the present.” The official subpoena demands: “any draft legislation, proposed legislation, or model legislation.” This included all their communique on the subject, e.g., “any social media postings.”

• Facebook spied on private messages of Americans who questioned 2020 election

  • Facebook Worked With FBI to Spy on Americans Who Questioned 2020 Election.

• Democrats Are Trying To Trump-Proof The Government In Case He Wins In 2024.

Pestilence / Pox / COVID / VaxCult

• End of Covid-19 pandemic is in sight, WHO director-general says

• Denmark no longer offering Covid vaccinations to healthy adults under 50

  • HN comments

• US Navy Quietly Cancels Vaccine Requirement Order For SEALs

• Moderna: Spikevax Bivalent Original/Omicron BA.4/BA.5

• A neurologist’s quest to solve Covid-related neurological disorders

  • HN comments

• EU stonewalls over von der Leyen’s role in multibillion-euro Pfizer vaccine deal

• The Lancet Commission on lessons for the future from the Covid-19 pandemic

• Covid-19 Illnesses Are Keeping at Least 500k Workers Out of U.S. Labor Force

• (Paywall) CDC Director Robert Redfield on Inside Battles with Anthony Fauci

• Risk for Alzheimer’s Disease Doubles in Older Adults Who Caught Covid-19

• End of Covid pandemic ‘is in sight’, WHO chief says

• Nasal irrigation may reduce COVID-19 severity.

Edumacationalizing / Acedemia Nuts

• Northeastern University explosion investigated as a hoax as campus returns to normal.

Media / ShowBiz / Advertising

• Harvard expert: Mark Zuckerberg is 'continuing to derail' Facebook

• Regulators put the brakes on Microsoft’s Activision acquisition

TechSuck

• FLAC 1.4.0 released – added support for 32-bit audio

• Five years of data show that SSDs are more reliable than HDDs over the long haul

• Discord revolutionizes online conversations with forums

Crypto con games

• Ethereum's 'Merge' Will Happen Tonight

  • The merge will reduce worldwide electricity consumption by 0.2%

  • The Ethereum merge reduces the world's electricity bill by 0.5%

  • Ethereum activates The Merge as it shifts to proof of stake

  • HN comments

  • Vitalik: Ethereum Merge Just Finalized

  • The Ethereum Merge Is Done, Opening a New Era for the Second-Biggest Blockchain

  • HN comments

  • Crypto’s Long-Awaited ‘Merge’ Reaches the Finish Line

• Ethereum Classic Hashrate up 500% in 24 hours

• 46% of ETH POS post merge is just two addresses

• Norwegian central bank uses Ethereum to build national CBDC

Economicon / Business / Finance

• SoftBank Considers Launching a Third Vision Fund

• Antitrust and the Fall of a Cheerleading Giant

• Ray Dalio Does the Math: Rates at 4.5% Would Sink Stocks by 20%

• Patreon denies hosting child sexual abuse material.

• Twilio promises ‘anti-racist’ layoffs

• Adobe snaps up Figma for $20B

  • Adobe acquires Figma

• Apple Overtakes Tesla as Most-Shorted Stock, Ending Run of 864 Days

• Mortgage Rates Jump Above 6%, Putting Pressure on Housing Market

• How to save as food inflation jumps more than 11% in a year

Rail Strike

• Freight Train Strike: The Biggest Looming Crisis You’ve Heard Almost Nothing About

• A Rail Strike Could Wreak Havoc on the American Supply Chain

• U.S. railways to halt grain shipments ahead of potential shutdown

• U.S. railroad strike hinges on dispute over attendance policies

• Railroad Union Rejects Proposed Labor Deal as Strike Deadline Approaches

• Amtrak cancels all long-distance routes as strike looms

• If rail shuts down, the entire agricultural system shuts down

• Amtrak cancels all long-distance trains as freight rail strike looms

• Bernie Sanders Blocks Proposal Which Would Avoid Rail Strike

• Freight rail strike threatens supply chains

• Railroad strike averted after marathon talks reach tentative deal

• Strike averted? Unions agree to “tentative” 11th-hour deal.

Gubmint / Poilitcks / Law Making

• Newsom signs controversial social media bill into California law

• CA Governor Signs Social Media ‘Transparency’ Bill into Law

• Democratic National Committee Edited Bylaws to Let It Overrule Convention

• The US Supreme Court’s war on science

• Biden Issues New Order to Block Chinese Investment in Technology in the U.S.

• DeSantis ships Florida migrants to Martha's Vineyard

Hunter

• Hunter Biden cries poverty! President’s son is demanding his support payments to four-year-old love child with Lunden Roberts be LOWERED due to a ‘substantial material change’ to his income.

Law Breaking / Police / Internal Security

• Thieves Steal SFPD’s Catalytic Converters Right in Front of the Station

• Iranians hacked US companies, sent ransom demands to printers, indictment says

• Unpacking the Apparent Trump-Hillary Double Standard: For Her, the FBI Helped Obstruct Its Own Investigation | RealClearInvestigations

External Security / Militaria / Diplomania

• Suspected counterfeit components found in ejection seat after fatal F-16 crash

  • HN comments

• U.S. charges 3 Iranian nationals in global hacking campaign

• U.S. Senate panel advances bill to boost support for Taiwan

World

• Nanny News: Swords, knives, etc. can’t be shipped to Canada now.

• Why Europe Won’t Exploit Its Huge Gas Reserves.

• Xi, Putin hold summit in Uzbekistan as the Ukraine war dominates

• How Did Europe Stumble into an Energy Catastrophe?

• China opens unofficial police stations in Britain to hunt down people for return

Russia Bad / Ukraine War

• Russia’s Secretive Long-Range Bomber Operations Against Ukraine

• Ukraine Update for September 14, 2022.

• Zelensky Involved In Car Crash, No Serious Injuries

• 2022 Russian businessmen mystery deaths

• Putin was allegedly subject to an assassination attempt.

• What The Left Keeps Getting Wrong About Ukraine

• Putin Is Trying to Turn Ukraine into a Culture War

• Vladimir Putin’s war is failing. The West should help it fail faster

• Xi and Putin want to create a new world order, Russia’s war fail could break it

Health / Medicine

• How Abbott Kept Sick Babies from Becoming a Scandal

• U.S. Population Growth Has Nearly Flatlined. Is That So Bad?

• Weed Became the New OxyContin

  • HN comments

• DEA Investigating ADHD Telehealth Provider Done

Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda

• Europe shatters all-time summer temperature records (set last year)

• Utah’s Great Salt Lake Is Disappearing, with Mounting Economic Costs

• Earth is now our only shareholder

  • Patagonia founder gives away company: ‘Earth is now our only shareholder’

  • HN comments

• ‘Wobbly’ moon probable cause of mass tree deaths in Australia, scientists say

  • Wobble in the Moon's orbit partly caused largest mangrove die-off

• Remove civil disobedience from climate issue and you will have civil crisis

• Increase in LED lighting ‘risks harming human and animal health’

• EU limits subsidies for burning trees under renewable energy directive

• Pakistan floods are linked to climate change