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etc

• Why are nuclear power construction costs so high? Part III – the nuclear navy

  • HN comments

• Keeping trains apart is crucial to safety

• NASA Will Wait Until November to Launch Artemis I

celebrity gossip

• Bruce Willis did not sell a deepfake company the rights to his likeness

• Is Mark Zuckerberg Fighting at This Weekend’s UFC Show?

Obit

• Nick Holonyak Jr., Pioneer of LED Lighting, Is Dead at 93

Rank Propaganda / Thought Policing / World Disordering

• YouTube restricts video of Dems saying 2016 election was hacked then backtracks

• US Government plans to develop AI that can unmask anonymous writers | Hacker News

• Removing watermarks, copyright signs and cigarettes from photos

• (Sep 17 2022) The New York Times and its fellow woke dogmatists have completely lost the plot

Musk

• Elon Musk’s Phone: The world’s richest man has some embarrassing friends

• Elon Musk’s Texts Shatter the Myth of the Tech Genius

• Tesla previews humanoid robot, but Musk cautions it is not ready just yet

  • Tesla CEO Elon Musk unveils prototype of humanoid Optimus robot

  • What was missing from Tesla’s new Optimus demo

Trump / War against the Right / Jan6

• "That's Just Wild": CNN Eagerly Reports Ginni Thomas Remains Unrepentant On The 2020 Election

• Durham Prosecutes FBI Informants, While Protecting Their Handlers | RealClearInvestigations

• FBI Agents Improperly Saw Privileged Trump Communications: Lawyers | ZeroHedge

Pestilence / Pox / COVID / VaxCult

• Pfizer pays almost $120M for app that detects Covid from a cough

• Covid may have pushed a leading seasonal flu strain to extinction

• I am going to mask because I want to get fewer colds and other flawed ideas

  Covid19 did infect neurons— just not in the way people think. A tiny fraction of people can't get back to normal. They are suffering from long pandemic. They still entertain magical thinking. It would be tolerable if they didn't continue to try to interfere with the lives of others. But they can't help themselves. It's important to remind them that they may also be deeply incorrect.

Culture War / Tribal / Re segregation

• Butterfly in the Sky ... as Long as You Are the "Right" Color

• Tennessee (and Many Other) Public Libraries ‘Grooming’ Our Children?

Edumacationalizing / Acedemia Nuts

• School officials texted Oakland shooting victims to not cooperate with police investigation: Sources

• Biden administration changes student loan guidance, as Republican states lawsuit

  • Biden administration scales back student loan forgiveness plan as states sue

  Borrowers whose federal student loans are guaranteed by the government but held by private lenders will now be excluded from receiving debt relief. Around 770,000 people will be affected by the change, according to an administration official. The Department of Education initially said these loans, many of which were made under the former Federal Family Education Loan program and Federal Perkins Loan program, would be eligible for the one-time forgiveness action as long as the borrower consolidated his or her debt into the federal Direct loan program.

  • 'Just Kidding': Biden Yanks Student Loan Forgiveness From 770,000 Borrowers | ZeroHedge

Media / ShowBiz / Advertising

• YouTube age-restriction quagmire exposed by 78-minute Mega Man documentary | Hacker News

TechSuck

• Ask HN: Am I the only one who does NOT want IoT in their solar panel setup?

• AMD Zen 4 is faster with CPU security mitigations enabled on Linux

• Int/str conversions broken in latest Python bugfix releases

• Apple's Korea Offices Raided by Antitrust Regulators

• Ask HN: What did Linux NOT do right?

Crypto con games

• Bitcoin in crosshairs as EU goes after non-green crypto

Economicon / Business / Finance

• Japan has the lowest inflation of all major economies

• Ask HN: What are you doing now to profit from the current or upcoming recession?

• "Full-Fledged Ice Age": Semiconductor Companies Slash Output On Supply Glut

Gubmint / Poilitcks / Law Making

• FCC Approves 5 Year Satellite Deorbiting Rule

  • HN comments

• My weird, enlightening month living strictly by the US constitution

• Soviet Union's Gerontocracy Is a Warning Sign for the US

• Wife of White House Cheif of Staff: In a first, U.S. appoints a diplomat for plants and animals

• Boom! Antitrust Bill Passed - BIG by Matt Stoller

  Against fierce opposition from dominant firms, the U.S. House of Representatives voted for the Merger Filing Fee Modernization Act, which is first time I can remember that we’ve won a floor vote to explicitly roll back monopoly power.

• Remote Work and the State Tax War

Law Breaking / Police / Internal Security

• Covid policies show many people in prison are no danger to the public

• NYPD Considers Using Encryption to Block Public from Radio Scanner Broadcasts

External Security / Militaria / Diplomania

• US Pentagon planning Ukraine command in Germany

• NATO Working With Arms Industry To Ramp Up Production Amid Depleting Stockpiles

World

• Bollywood under siege as rightwing social media boycotts start to bite

• Netherlands: Inflation rises to record high of 17.1 percent

• In October 2020 more Japanese suicided than 2020's COVID deaths combined

Russia Bad / Ukraine War

• Nuclear Experts on Chances of Russia Using Atomic Weapons in Ukraine

• Prisoner Exchange Reveals Large Number of Foreign Mercenaries in Ukraine

• In the Ukraine war, a battle for the nation’s mineral and energy wealth

• How to Defeat Putin

• Gazprom Cuts Off Supplies of Russian Gas to Italy

• Russia withdraws troops after Ukraine encircles key city

• Russians retreat from strategic Donetsk city day after Moscow annexes the region

Health / Medicine

• Science says we could “cure” ageing. But should we?

  • HN comments

Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda

• Florida farms are underwater and without power delaying critical planting season

• A Small Nuclear War Would Stall Global Warming

• The internet subculture obsessed with nuclear power – and proud of it