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• New report shows more people are leaving San Francisco than any other metro

• This miracle plant was eaten into extinction 2,000 years ago—or was it?

• New island emerges from the sea after only 11 hours of volcanic eruptions

• Why No One Will Build an Engine for Boom's Supersonic Plane

Horseshit

• Crop circles cost farmers thousands in lost revenue

  Farmers lost £30,000 in income between 2018 and 2022 as a result of 92 crop circles of varying sizes. The wheat and barley lost over the period could have made 300,000 loaves of bread, and the flattened rapeseed could have produced 600 litres of canola oil.

Rank Propaganda / Thought Policing / World Disordering

• TikTok is bombarding our teenagers with fake news

• Florida asks Supreme Court if it's OK to ban content moderation it doesn't like

• Anti-trans hate group Gays Against Groomers banned from PayPal and Venmo

Musk

• Elon Musk has more than 20 direct reports at Tesla

• Elon Musk activates Starlink in Iran to counter censorship

• Twitter moves to sanction Musk over Signal usage and denial

Pestilence / Pox / COVID / VaxCult

• Vaccine Researcher Who Developed Tinnitus After COVID Shot Calls for Further Study | MedPage Today

• Scientists Find a New Coronavirus in Bats That Is Resistant to Current Vaccines

• Why did I invent the mRNA vax tech?

• Did a famous doctor’s Covid shot make his cancer worse?

• ‘I'm Dropping My Covid Hubris,’ Vows a Top Immunologist

Culture War / Tribal / Re segregation

• The Gender Identity Of ... Eunuchs - by Andrew Sullivan

• A White Supremacist Under Every Bed

Media / ShowBiz / Advertising

• NPR chief news executive Nancy Barnes to depart as network reshapes top ranks

• Why the Rings of Power Show Is Not Good

  • HN comments

• Twitch Creator Chief Exits with Controversy over Streamer Pay Swirling

• Cybersickness Could Spell an Early Death for the Metaverse

TechSuck

• Refreshingly, "used hardware may be unreliable" from an honest broker of information with no interest in the sale of new gear... Video Allegedly Shows Crypto Miners Jet Washing Nvidia RTX GPUs | Tom's Hardware

• GeForce GPUs are slowing down after installing the Windows 11 2022 Update

• Windows Will Die: 90 Minutes to Do 5 Minutes of Work

  • HN comments

Economicon / Business / Finance

• Stocks tumble, dollar soars and bonds plunge as recession fears grow

• Secret power players are shaping the Bay Area housing market

Gubmint / Poilitcks / Law Making

• Biden leaves viewers stunned in teachers speech: 'She was 12, I was 30'

• Who’s our real president? Joe Biden — or the staffers who keep walking back his comments?

• Joe Biden's Old Man Filter Goes Haywire Again – RedState

External Security / Militaria / Diplomania

• Treasury Department helps expand internet access to Iranians amid gov. crackdown

  • US Treasury Issues Iran General License to Increase Support for Internet Freedom

• SPR: America Has Lost Its Oil Buffer

  • HN comments

• DoD to end procurements of geosynchronous missile-warning satellites.

• US is misleading in its assessment of China’s Taiwan threat

World

• Pound tumbles below $1.09 after Kwarteng’s £45B tax cut package

Russia Bad / Ukraine War

• Long lines form at borders as Russians flee military call-up

• Darth Vader’s Voice Emanated from War-Torn Ukraine

Health / Medicine

• Early Puberty in Girls Surged in The Pandemic, And We May Finally Know Why.

• Mosquitoes were the vaccinators in a new malaria vaccine trial

Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda

• Ban meat-eating men from sex, animal rights group urges

• Global warming may increase risk for heart failure.

• How the Montreal Protocol Helped Save Earth from a Climate Time Bomb

• Don’t Believe the Hype About Antarctica’s Melting Glaciers`

  • HN comments

• Online retailing delivers a public health problem

• California Moves to Ban Natural Gas Furnaces and Heaters by 2030

• ‘I’d rather eat an actual burger’: plant-based meat’s sizzle fizzled in the US