2022-10-03

etc

• Look: Moose pays unexpected visit to Maine daycare - UPI.com

• New asteroid strike images show impact 'a lot bigger than expected'

  • HN comments

• Truth cultures and rhetoric cultures - Omnibudsman

• Tell HN: A disabled 40-year-old person founded a startup and makes a living | Hacker News

Horseshit

• After chess, cheating rows rock poker and fishing

  • HN comments

• Phone Alerts Responders After Car Hits Tree, Killing All

• John Deere plans to build a world of fully autonomous farming by 2030

• Hurricane Ian and other disasters are becoming a growing source of inequality

Obit

• Elias Theodorou, Pioneer of Medical Marijuana in Sports, Dies at 34

Musk

• Tesla deliveries undershoot production by 23k

Trump / War against the Right / Jan6

• 'Oath Keepers' Seditious-Conspiracy Trial Could Hinge On Centuries-Old Militia Laws: The Insurrection Act

• FBI's termination letter to disgraced former agent Peter Strzok released and it's SMOKIN'

Pestilence / Pox / COVID / VaxCult

• When Will the Pandemic Truly Be ‘Over’?

• Japan ends distribution of AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine, discards 13M doses

  • HN comments

• Sweden Stops Recommending COVID-19 Vaccines For Children

• (PDF) Excess Death Rates for Republicans and Democrats During the Covid-19 Pandemic

• Coast Guard hero thanked by Biden for Ian response says he's facing discharge over COVID mandate | Just The News

• Monkeypox virus shows potential to infect diverse range of native animal species

Media / ShowBiz / Advertising

• Companies are paying huge sums to show their ads to bots

  • HN comments

• Fandom Acquires GameSpot, Giant Bomb, GameFAQs, TV Guide and Metacritic

  • Fandom Buys TV Guide, Metacritic, GameSpot for $50M – Variety

• Meta in Free Fall: Users Leaving, Revenue Down, Stock Keeps Falling

• Stadia shutdown shows Google's struggle to innovate

TechSuck

• HN jobs:

  • Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2022)

  • Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (October 2022)

  • Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (October 2022)

• Linux Kernel 6.0 Released

Crypto con games

• Celsius Network founder withdrew $10M ahead of bankruptcy

• SEC Charges Kim Kardashian for Touting Crypto Asset Security

  • Kim Kardashian pays over $1M for SEC charges linked to a crypto promo

Economicon / Business / Finance

• Gavin Newsom’s Gas Price Premium

• Credit Suisse shares tank 10% on restructuring, capital concerns

  • Credit Suisse Turmoil Deepens with Record Stock, CDs Levels

  • Credit Suisse reassures investors over its financial strength

• PayPal has banned using its services to buy, well, books.

• Physical Silver prices soar 6% on fears of bank defaults, inventory shortages

• Inflation makes everything more expensive, right?\

• America’s economy is too strong for its own good

• Shrinking Mississippi River Puts American Farm Trade at Risks

• U.N. Calls on Fed, Other Central Banks to Halt Interest-Rate Increases

Gubmint / Poilitcks / Law Making

• A lot of folks are running the White House. Joe Biden just isn’t one of them.

Law Breaking / Police / Internal Security

• Supreme Court to hear case challenging Section 230 immunity for tech companies

  • Supreme Court will hear challenge to legal immunity for tech sites

External Security / Militaria / Diplomania

• Israel's friends in DC are worried so why won't they speak out?

• Army misses recruiting goal by 15,000 soldiers

• The Nord Stream leaks are a wake-up call for countries with vulnerable pipelines

• US considering responses to Russia in Ukraine including tactical nuclear weapons

World

• British pound jumps as UK government U-turns on cut to top tax rate

• Bolsonaro Outperforms Polls, Sends Brazil Presidential Race To Run-Off

• Turkey’s inflation hits 83% as Erdogan vows to keep cutting interest rates

• China Is Rerouting U.S. Liquefied Natural Gas to Europe at a Big Profit

Russia Bad / Ukraine War

• Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, October 2

• Putin is making rash and secretive decisions in face of defeats

• US would destroy Russia’s troops if Putin uses nuclear weapons in Ukraine

• Nord Stream blasts ‘tremendous opportunity’ to wean EU off Russian energy

• Gazprom: Nord Stream leaks stop, gas supply could resume on single line

• Kremlin unclear on which parts of Ukraine it has ‘annexed’

Health / Medicine

• Doctors are Causing Patients to be Brain Dead So Their Hearts Can be Harvested.

• “We’re so hungry for organs right now that we are pushing all the limits.”

• Fentanyl Test Strips Highlight Rift in Nation’s Struggle to Combat Drug Deaths

Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda

• Florida death toll soars to 74 after Hurricane Ian demolished entire communities

• Over 600k pounds of fish died in European river. Now experts know why

• No, the U.S. didn't outsource carbon emissions to China

• NOAA hurricane data refutes main stream media

• Nord Stream rupture may mark biggest single methane release ever recorded