2022-09-29

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• Two planes collided on the ground at London Heathrow Airport

• The Anxiety of the Moderate

• It’s No Secret: Hidden Rooms Make Homeowners Feel Like Kids Again

Horseshit

• When social media controls the nuclear codes - by Erik Hoel

  you probably won’t die in an initial strike. But you will die from starvation as agricultural yields plummet in the following nuclear winter,

• CIA Just Invested in Woolly Mammoth Resurrection Technology

• Gen Z's favorite brands, revealed

• Lidl ordered to destroy its Lindt-like chocolate bunnies by Swiss court

• The Lessons of the Recovered Memory Movement

celebrity gossip

• MacKenzie Scott, Billionaire Philanthropist, Files for Divorce

Obit

• David Foreman, Hard-Line Environmentalist, Dies at 75

• Coolio, Grammy-Winning ‘Gangsta’s Paradise’ Rapper, Dies at 59

Musk

• Elon Musk Got Caught Deleting Messages

Trump / War against the Right / Jan6

• Government Disclosed Jan. 6 Activities Of Five Confidential FBI Sources: Defense Lawyer

• Politico Co-Founder Says Constitution Must Be Rewritten To Stop Donald Trump

• 30 ex-FBI agents stand up to support whistleblower who exposed agency’s political bias.

Pestilence / Pox / COVID / VaxCult

• Europe: 755% spike in excess deaths in kids since vax rollout

• The Coming Covid Brain Wreck?

Culture War / Tribal / Re segregation

• TikTok Trend Shows Anal Sex Is Not Just for Gay Men

Edumacationalizing / Acedemia Nuts

• MIT Asks Its Faculty to Endorse Free Speech

Media / ShowBiz / Advertising

• On Mr. Beast and being alone in a circle for 100 days | Hacker News

• Google is shutting down Stadia

  • HN comments

TechSuck

• Ken Thompson really did launch his "trusting trust" trojan attack in real life

  • HN comments

• RootMyTV is a user-friendly exploit for rooting/jailbreaking LG webOS smart TVs

  • HN comments

• Obscure election will decide the fate of the open internet

Crypto con games

• The Feds Served Ooki DAO Papers by Posting Them in an Online Discussion Forum

• 20 Ethereum Validators slashed in 3 hours

• Nasaa Nashville: Protecting Investors and Consumers in the Age of Digital Assets

Economicon / Business / Finance

• DocuSign to cut workforce by 9% as part of restructuring plan | Hacker News

• The Other Reason The BOE Panicked: 26% Of All UK Mortgages Are Variable Rate And Set For Imminent Repricing

• Nikola Badger Was an F-150 Raptor All Along

• Amazon rolls out pay raises for warehouse workers

• Bank of England to buy 65B pounds of UK bonds to stem rout

• How Much Less House You Can Buy Thanks to the Mortgage Spike

• Tech billionaires lost $315B in 2022 and it genuinely doesn’t matter

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

• After 14 years, Lehman Brothers' brokerage ends liquidation

• CarMax’s Earnings Miss Sends Warning Signal on US Consumer

• Mortgage rates race toward 7%, hit 15-year high

• Millennials will never get a good home

• Jobless claims hit five-month low despite Fed’s efforts to slow labor market

Gubmint / Poilitcks / Law Making

• President Biden Signs Executive Order on Foreign Investment in the United States

• The WaPo Fact Checker fact-checks Stacey Abrams’s denial that she was ever an election denier.

Law Breaking / Police / Internal Security

• SEC Charges 16 Wall Street Firms with Widespread Recordkeeping Failures

• Former eBay exec who ran scheme to harass Natick couple sentenced to 57 months

External Security / Militaria / Diplomania

• Pentagon Announces $1.1 Billion More in Military Aid for Ukraine

• Physics Body Concedes Mistakes in Study of Missile Defense

World

• Xi Reemerges In 1st Public Appearance After 'Coup' Rumors

• US and Russia Face Off in UN Telecom Agency Leadership Vote

• Ask HN: What Is Happening in the UK?

• UK to Slash Taxes for the Rich

• Despite Iran’s Efforts to Block Internet, Technology Has Helped Fuel Outrage

• Europe braces for mobile network blackouts

  • HN comments

Russia Bad / Ukraine War

• NATO Says Sabotage Behind Destruction of Natural Gas Pipelines

• 8th EU Sanctions, Oil Price Cap Will "Make Kremlin Pay" For 'Sham' Referendums: Von Der Leyen

  • EU announces Russian oil price cap in new sanctions plan

• Intercepted Calls from Russian Soldiers

• Fingers Point at Russia in Baltic Undersea Pipeline Attack (Updated)

• Leaks in Nord Stream gas pipelines likely 'sabotage,' European leaders say

  There are entirely unsubstantiated conspiracy theories, which Russian state and non-state actors are amplifying, circulating already that the U.S. government, or other actors working in cooperation with it, were responsible. Spreading misinformation and disinformation, or enabling their spread, are common Russian government tactics to deflect attention from its own malign activities. ... No hard evidence has been put forward to link American forces to the pipeline incidents in any way.

  • Of course, blaming Russia requires no evidence whatsoever, and insinuation and "capabilities" are all we need. No reasons for doubt here, Citizen! ... The tread marks of the propaganda boot are getting recognizable through repetition.

• 'Everything is pointing to Russia': U.S., EU officials on edge over pipeline

• Chomsky: US Must Join Global Call for Negotiations as Russia Escalates Actions

• 4th leak reported on Nord Stream pipelines in Baltic Sea

  • HN comments

  • Fourth Leak Discovered in Nordstream

• Germany Believes High Explosive Devices Equivalent To "500 Kilograms Of TNT" Used To Destroy Nord Stream

• Russia poised to annex occupied Ukraine after sham vote

• Putin set to proclaim annexation of seized Ukrainian territory on Friday

• Putin to sign treaty annexing territories in Ukraine, Kremlin says

• How the War in Ukraine Might End

Health / Medicine

• The FDA announces a new definition of what’s ‘healthy’

• Google Pilots Low-Tech Opioid Addiction Rehab Clinic in Dayton, Ohio

Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda

• Hurricane Ian making landfall near Sanibel, Captiva Islands, Florida

  • Many Trapped in Florida as Hurricane Ian Moves Towards South Carolina

  • 'Looks Like Atom Bomb Dropped': Hurricane Ian Levels Neighborhoods In Southwest Florida

• Hurricane Season Went from Quiet to a ‘Powder Keg’

• The Climate Crisis Is Making the Pacific Islands Uninhabitable

• Trees bulking up and growing faster on excess CO2 in atmosphere, study suggests

• 63-year-old denial of climate change cost the world $220B in 2021

• Revealed: Huge Gas flaring emissions never reported

• Bitcoin’s climate damage is similar to beef and crude oil, says new study