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• Greetings from 1980: Dutch postcard finally arrives – 42 years late

• People are fleeing Puerto Rico, Guam and every other U.S. territory. What gives?

Horseshit

• No tune, no words, no dancing: white noise is the music industry’s newest hit

• The Andy Warhol case that could wreck American art

  • HN comments

• Viral video about why pen caps have a hole stuns some on social media.

• 75% of UK children spend less time outdoors than prison inmates

Musk

• The Quest to Find Twitter’s Elusive Bot Team

Trump / War against the Right / Jan6

• National Archives says some Trump administration records are still missing

Pestilence / Pox / COVID / VaxCult

• Pfizer CEO pulls out of testifying to EU Parliament Covid panel

• Latest Covid surge a ‘heavy straw on camel’s back’ for every hospital in UK

• In China, Living Not ‘With Covid,’ but with ‘Zero Covid’

• The mystery virus that protects against monkeypox

Edumacationalizing / Acedemia Nuts

• Mandated diversity statement drives Jonathan Haidt to quit academic society

  • HN comments

• Department of Education: One-Time Student Loan Debt Relief

Media / ShowBiz / Advertising

• Stadia died because no one trusts Google | Hacker News

• The Making of Google Glass – New Book Depicts ‘Carnival of Failure’

TechSuck

• FreeBSD Supports Netlink(7) and Iproute2

• An elegy for GNU and RMS | gay robot noises

  • HN comments

• Debian votes for non-free firmware in the installer

  • Debian Choose Reasonable Common Sense Solution to Dealing with Non-Free Firmware

• LKML: Linus Torvalds: rust: add kernel crate

  And yes, in certain configurations, even those warnings will be turned off because the state tracking isn't done. Again, that's just reality. You don't need to use those configurations yourself if you don't like them, but that does NOT mean that you get to say "nobody else gets to use those configurations either".

  Deal with it.

  Or, you know, if you can't deal with the rules that the kernel requires, then just don't do kernel programming.

  Because in the end it really is that simple. I really need you to understand that Rust in the kernel is dependent on kernel rules. Not some other random rules that exist elsewhere.

  • HN comments

Crypto con games

• Even cryptocurrency fans are starting to doubt cryptocurrencies

• Arrested Tornado Cash developer to stay in jail after appeal rejected

Economicon / Business / Finance

• There Is a Tax That Could Help with Inflation

• Economists say inflation is easier on Gen Z, TikTok disagrees

• FOMO Helped Drive Up Housing Prices in the Pandemic. What Can We Expect Next?

• Credit Suisse CEO Seeks to Calm as Default Swaps Near 2009 Level

• Fed Announces Advanced Notice of a Meeting Under Expedited Procedures

Gubmint / Poilitcks / Law Making

• We don’t need a third party. We need ranked choice voting

• London Gold Bullion dealers are seeing demand, running out of inventory

Law Breaking / Police / Internal Security

• Rights Groups Say The Pentagon Is Buying Its Way Around the Fourth Amendment

External Security / Militaria / Diplomania

• Sailor Acquitted of Setting Fire That Destroyed $1.2B Navy Ship

World

• Post Elizabeth: Palace video footage demands are an early red flag

• Chief Putin Critic Wins Elections in Latvia, Exit Poll Shows

• Yurts provide cheap escape for Hungarians fleeing cost of living crisis

Russia Bad / Ukraine War

• The Age of Predatory Nuclear-Weapon States Has Arrived

• “Vladimir Putin’s latest frightening gambit lies at the bottom of the ocean”

• Nuclear strike odds moved from “single” to “double digits” in past week

• Nordstream II (Electric Instapundit) | The LawDog Files

• Why Putin would be a fool to go nuclear in Ukraine

Health / Medicine

• Malnutrition can be treated by encouraging the right gut bacteria

• How Palantir Will Steal the NHS

Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda

• I come bringing good news about hydrogen

• 100% solar community endured Hurricane Ian with no power loss, minimal damage

• Is climate change making hurricanes worse?