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• NASA's test launch for the Artemis Moon rocket has been scrubbed for the third time in a row.

• Self-Control Secrets of the Puritan Masters

• 50 years and $500M: the happy business of the smiley symbol

Horseshit

• 40 Percent of American Children Think Hot Dogs Are Vegetables

celebrity gossip

• Pink Floyd’s Roger Waters cancels concerts in Poland after Ukraine war comments

Rank Propaganda / Thought Policing / World Disordering

• Planned Parenthood Stealth-Edits Website To Match Stacey Abrams 'Heartbeat' Claim | ZeroHedge

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

• Why liberals should oppose Paypal’s assault on liberal democracy

  My grandmother, not a formally educated woman, first told me of the old dictum; ‘I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it’. Years later, this principle can feel gauche, contemporary imperatives seeming more important. This will not do. When partisans use freedom of speech as a weapon, only demanding it for colleagues, the principle withers, liberal democracy surely following. Whatever one’s feelings towards Toby Young, Paypal’s act has undermined liberal democracy. Friends of liberty should oppose it.

• How Could We Have Been So Naive about Big Tech?

Musk

• Starlink Not Approved in South Africa.

Trump / War against the Right / Jan6

• FBI Responds To Whistleblower Saying Child Abuse Cases Being Dropped In Favor Of Jan. 6

• This Is Not The America I Know: Dozens of FBI Agents Raid Home of Catholic Pro-Life Activist as Children Scream in Terror.

• The media forget themselves on political violence

Pestilence / Pox / COVID / VaxCult

• Covid still kills in California – but the Demographics of Victims are shifting

• Pfizer CEO tests positive for COVID-19 again.

Culture War / Tribal / Re segregation

• Indigenous Continent

  I would say that a Finnish white guy even tried to pull this off is a positive signal about its quality, at least these days.

Edumacationalizing / Acedemia Nuts

• Tired teens: historical accidents left us pitting education against biology

Media / ShowBiz / Advertising

• We Finally Know Why You Can't Watch 'Dogma' Anywhere

• UK broadcasters battle monarchy over control of Queen’s memorial footage

Economicon / Business / Finance

• Food prices are soaring, and that's changed how we eat

• Direct And Clear - by Jeffrey Carter - Points And Figures

• Fed Finally Vanquishes Stocks from Asset Allocation Throne

• Buckle up, America: The Fed plans to sharply boost unemployment

• Stocks, bonds both get clobbered this time. Here's what's behind the double wham

• Canadian tech boom is fizzling out as more startups cut jobs, fight to survive

Shortages

• Europe is in danger of rolling electricity shortages

  • HN comments

Gubmint / Poilitcks / Law Making

• Comment:

  According to CNN the republicans are talking about "fringe issues such as the economy and immigration". The democrats are talking about the "important election issues of abortion and the threats to our democracy".

External Security / Militaria / Diplomania

• Signal Is Asking People Around the World to Help Iranians Access Signal

• CIA doctor hit by Havana syndrome says he was in 'disbelief'

• U.S. Warns Russia of ‘Catastrophic Consequences’ of Using Nuclear Weapons

• Citing New Evidence, Surviving Family Members Sue Feds, Raytheon and Lockheed Martin Over 1996 TWA Crash - News

  The wrongful death suit claims that Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) evidence has ” emerged proving that TWA 800’s explosion was not caused by any defect in the airplane, but instead by an errant United States missile fired at aerial target drones flying nearby. “

World

• Britain sends investors fleeing with historic tax cuts and borrowing

• Italy poised for hard-right leader as country votes in snap election.

• Kazakhstan’s president: We’re moving full speed ahead toward reform

• A Ponzi scheme by any other name: the bursting of China’s property bubble

• Xi Jinping Trends Online Amid Coup Rumors, Canceled Flights.

• Germany Secures Just One Tanker of Gas During Scholz’s Gulf Tour

• Iran’s Internet Shutdown Hides a Deadly Crackdown

Russia Bad / Ukraine War

• Do Russia’s military setbacks increase the risk of nuclear conflict?

• You don’t understand how bad it could get in Europe this year | Hacker News

• 'I dont want to die for someone else's ambitions': Russian men face mobilization

• Ask HN: We are getting close to Russia using nukes and few people care. Why?

• Drowning Of Russian Executive Latest In A String Of Mysterious Deaths

• Finland Shuts Borders With Russia As Military Age Men Flee

Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda

• Gone with the winds? What happens if there is a ‘global terrestrial stilling’

• Officials assess full extent of damage after Fiona batters Atlantic Canada

• Philippines on red alert as Super Typhoon Noru roars in

• In the End, Climate Change Is the Only Story That Matters

  • HN comments