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• "Do you thing Einstein went around all day thinking everyone else was dumb shits?" High, Exceptional and Profound Giftedness

• CA County Warn People to Shelter in Place Because of Tesla Megapack Battery Fire

• Asteroid 5 times faster than hypersonic missile to skim past Earth

• What Happened to the Idea of Progress?

• The De-Population Bomb

• The Long March of the YIMBYs

• NASA’s deep space telescope is having instrument trouble

  • One of the James Webb Telescope’s Cameras Is Having a Mechanical Issue

• New leak detected as NASA Artemis I tanking test underway

Horseshit

• Intelligence and Radical Economic Attitudes | Hacker News

  • Cognitive ability predicts economic extremism

• FDA warns against potentially deadly ‘NyQuil Chicken Challenge’

Rank Propaganda / Thought Policing / World Disordering

• Expanding our commitments to countering violent extremism online

• PayPal Demonetises the Daily Sceptic

  • HN comments

• The Fifth Circuit’s Social Media Decision: First Amendment Absolutism

Musk

• Twitter to depose Elon Musk in Delaware on Sept. 26-27

• Shareholders file suit against Twitter following whistleblower security warnings

• Tesla gets ready to unveil 'Optimus' robot September 30th

Trump / War against the Right / Jan6

• Nolte: Man Admits to Killing Teen He Claimed Was 'Republican Extremist'

  Forty-one-year-old Shannon Brandt said he was afraid 18-year-old Cayler Ellingson was “part of a Republican extremist group and that he was afraid they were ‘coming to get him.'”

  • Police: Driver admitted to intentionally killing teen at North Dakota street dance after political dispute - Grand Forks Herald | Grand Forks, East Grand Forks news, weather & sports

  • Man admits to killing teen after political dispute in Foster Co., court docs allege

  • This leftist didn’t understand why he was just arrested for running over, killing an 18-year-old “Republican extremist.” Huh

• Videos Show Trump Allies Handling Georgia Voting Equipment

• TikTok Lawyer Says Left-Wing Nonprofit Offered Him $400 to Post Propaganda About Trump and Jan. 6.

• Major Garrett says US is barreling towards civil war, and it’s Trump supporters fault: ‘We’re 85 percent there’

• Donald Trump sued for fraud by New York state Attorney General

Pestilence / Pox / COVID / VaxCult

• Covid deaths: more than 10M children lost a parent or carer

• US criticised for rolling out Covid boosters without human trials

• People vaccinated against Covid share common symptom after testing positive Archive link

  According to data gathered by the ZOE Health Study app, diarrhoea is a common symptom of Covid for vaccinated Britons.

• Canada to make ArriveCAN optional, drop Covid vaccine mandate at border

• COVID Devotees Insist Pandemic Isn't Over - Victory Girls Blog

• Polio is spreading in the US for the 1st time in decades. Do you need a booster?

Culture War / Tribal / Re segregation

• Gov. Bill Lee Calls For Investigation Of Vanderbilt’s Pediatric Transgender Clinic Following Matt Walsh Revelation

  • Matt Walsh Exposes Trans Clinic at Vanderbilt, Lefties Immediately Call the FBI.

  • Vanderbilt Medical Center Chemical Castrates Children as Young as 13, Does Transgender Surgeries On Children Because "It's a Real Moneymaker"

Edumacationalizing / Acedemia Nuts

• US librarians face unprecedented attacks amid rightwing book bans

• No, Covid Learning Loss Doesn't Prove That School Works

• Canadian high school says it is illegal to criticize trans teacher with huge prosthetic breasts as it’s claimed ‘disturbed’ students are skipping her classes and school board is refusing to address parents’ concerns

Media / ShowBiz / Advertising

• MeWe to join Project Liberty's internet protocol

• Shutterstock is removing AI generated images

• YouTube will start sharing ad revenue with Shorts creators

• How to See Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter Posts Chronologically

• Twitch to limit gambling content on their platform from Oct 18

• Dilbert removed from over seventy newspapers

  • HN comments

  • Dilbert was cancelled in 77 newspapers this week

TechSuck

• Just stop it A rant about entitlement in tech (not what you think) | Hacker News

• IT services group Wipro fires 300 employees moonlighting for competitors

Crypto con games

• Bitcoin Dips Back Below $19,000 as Risk-Off Sentiment Worsens

• Stablecoin Issuer Tether Ordered to Produce Documents Showing Backing of USDT

Economicon / Business / Finance

• Of Course Government Spending Contributed to Inflation

• Netflix rekindles analyst interest after 60% wipeout

• Gap Inc. to lay off 500 employees in San Francisco, New York and Asia

• Unfinished Ford Trucks Keep Piling Up in Lots Visible from Space

  • Profits Plummet And Vehicles Left Unfinished As Ford Struggles With Inflation.

• One company operates thousands of SF apartments. But who’s the landlord?

• Mortgage Rates Surging to New 14-Year Highs

• Rate-Hike Fears Are Hitting People Where They Live

• The Fed Is Getting Even Tougher on Inflation – Here's the Shocks to Come

• State of the Economy from Wisconsin to California

• Amazon Built a New Unit to Fix Its Crumbling Engineering Culture

• What downturn? Tech job listings are way up. So are salaries

• You may have a lot more to lose from not quitting than you think, experts say

• Amazon's Roomba acquisition gets caught on FTC's rug

• US dollar hits new 20-year high as Russia calls up reservists

• America's gas prices rise for the first time in 99 days

• Rocket CEO outlines plans to navigate the dramatic decline in mortgages

• 62% of workers cut back on savings amid concerns about the economy

• Existing home sales fall in August, and prices soften significantly.

• Larry Page's Flying Car Company Kitty Hawk Is Shutting Down

Shortages

• US could face ANOTHER beer shortage after extinct Missouri volcano contaminated the country’s largest CO2 reserve – causing shortage in the sector that could see prices quadruple.

Gubmint / Poilitcks / Law Making

• NTSB Calls for Alcohol Detection Systems in All New Vehicles

  • The NTSB wants all new vehicles to check drivers for alcohol use

• Both Left and Right Are Converging on Authoritarianism

Hunter

• Republican Senators Ask For Special Prosecutor For Hunter Biden.

• Joe Biden Was Deeply Involved With Selling U.S. Natural Gas to the ChiComs, New Docs and Whistleblowers Reveal.

Law Breaking / Police / Internal Security

• Indictments Accuse 44 in Minnesota of $240M Pandemic Aid Fraud

• Federal Charges Against 47 Defendants in $250M Feeding Our Future Fraud

External Security / Militaria / Diplomania

• ‘We’re the Space Force from on High’

• US, Canadian warships sail through Taiwan Strait after Biden vows to defend TW

• U.S. Shores Up Ukraine Support as Energy Crisis in Europe Looms

• Secretive B-21 bomber to be revealed to public in December

• Biden denounces Russia at U.N., says Putin “shamelessly violated” charter

World

• Is Germany in danger of repeating its Nazi past?

• German Domestic Intelligence Is Running 100s Of Fake Right-Wing Extremist Social Media Accounts; Report

• Germany seizes control of three refineries owned by Russian oil company Rosneft

• What Is Hindu Nationalism?

• New theory on why women stopped menstruating upon arrival at Nazi death camps

• Why is Canada euthanising the poor?

• Liz Truss urges world leaders to follow UK with trickle down economics

  • HN comments

• Colombian president calls for a worldwide cocaine legalization, UN Assembly

• Russians Living In Estonia To Have Guns Forcibly Confiscated By The Government

• Australia’s central bank has equity wiped out by billions in bond losses

• Three people killed in Iran protests over death of Mahsa Amini

• Israel Could Be One Attack Away from a Palestinian Intifada

Russia Bad / Ukraine War

• The Ragtag Army That Won the Battle of Kyiv and Saved Ukraine

• President Putin has announced a partial mobilization in Russia

  • HN comments

• Putin announces partial military mobilization for Russian citizens

• Russia calls up reservists for war in Ukraine

• Putin mobilises more troops for Ukraine, says West wants to destroy Russia

• Russia announces immediate mobilization of its citizens to war

• Putin announces partial mobilization for Russian citizens

• Putin orders partial Russian mobilisation, warns West over nuclear blackmail

  • HN comments

• Putin Announces Partial Mobilization In Ukraine War Escalation, Says West Wants To "Destroy Russia"

• Putin’s Strategy to Weaponize Winter

• Text of Putin’s Speech Announcing Partial Mobilization

• Russia calls up 300k reservists, says 6k soldiers killed in Ukraine

• This Is What 'Mobilization' That Russians Keep Talking About Actually Means

• Searching online “how to break your arm”

• Putin Orders Draft of Reservists for War in Ukraine, Threatens Nuclear Response

• Quick Initial Thoughts On Vladimir’s Speech.

• Putin Declares Mobilization

• Russian airlines ordered to stop selling tickets to Russian men aged 18 to 65

• Ex-Putin Ally Plunges to His Death ‘From a Great Height’ at Moscow Aviation Institute

• Vladimir Putin’s situation looks ever more desperate

Health / Medicine

• Florida’s Ybor City dispensary first in US to sell ‘magic mushrooms’

Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda

• Most big coastal cities have areas sinking faster than sea level rise

• ‘Polluters must pay’: UN chief calls for windfall tax on fossil fuel companies

  • HN comments

• Revealed: The ‘shocking’ levels of toxic lead in Chicago tap water

• Plant-Based Dietary Patterns for Human and Planetary Health

• Modernity is incompatible with planetary limits: a PLAN for the future

• Our hunter-gatherer future: Climate change, agriculture and uncivilization