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• EVs Are Too Heavy for Current Road Weight Limits, Car Haulers Say

• Ten years of YIMBYism have accomplished a lot

Horseshit

• The Housing Revolution Is Coming

• French hunters react angrily to drinking ban plan to reduce accidental deaths

• America is history’s most successful failing state

• False memory implantation in adults is easy

• The Battle for the Soul of the Web: DWeb vs. Web3

• American tourist smashes two sculptures in the Vatican

  • HN comments

Rank Propaganda / Thought Policing / World Disordering

• Our domain and 700 non-profit sites got blocked by Meta

• Twitter is making its crowdsourced fact-checks visible to all U.S. users

  • All Twitter users in the US will start to see crowdsourced fact checks on tweets

• Tackling disinformation – how can we combat the lies that go viral?

Musk

• 'Betrayed' Twitter Staff Resume Exorcist-Like Tantrums After Musk Deal Back On

• Elon Musk may want a WeChat for the world

• Elon Musk’s Twitter Will Be a Wild Ride

• Elon Musk and Twitter Discussed Price Cut to $44B Takeover in Recent Weeks

• Potential Funders of Elon Musk’s Twitter Buy Are Walking Away

• Demographers disagree with Elon Musk on population collapse

• Everything we think we know about Elon Musk’s plan for Twitter

• Musk's trial hasn't stopped, no matter what he told Twitter, says judge

• Elon Musk's plan to create an “everything app” is untethered to reality

• Elon Musk’s Incredible Shrinking Future

• Musk and Twitter Still Have Some Loose Ends

• Musk-Twitter Deal Is Said to Be Stuck on Debt Contingency

• SpaceX Crew-5 NASA mission launches, carrying astronauts to ISS

• Eight ways Elon Musk could still get out of buying Twitter

• Elon Musk's foray into geopolitics has Ukraine worried

• How worried should you be about Elon Musk's superpowers?

Trump / War against the Right / Jan6

• Blake Masters Is Peter Thiel’s Dream Candidate–and a Nightmare for Democracy

• How the Right-Wing Tech Ecosystem Has Changed Since Jan. 6

Pestilence / Pox / COVID / VaxCult

• After vaccines became available, a partisan gap in deaths emerged

• Excess Death Rates for Republicans and Democrats During the Covid-19 Pandemic | Hacker News

• Judicial Watch releases bombshell documents exposing deep state’s involvement with media in the biggest propaganda campaign in history – LeoHohmann.com

• Anti-vaccine legislation is on the rise after the Covid-19 pandemic

• Heavy-tailed sexual contact networks and monkeypox epidemiology

Edumacationalizing / Acedemia Nuts

• Schools can now apply for funding to increase mental health staff

• Fed up with 4-H focus on DEI, local group forms an alternative - The Sentinel

• NYU’s firing of Professor Maitland Jones Jr. should frighten every American

  • HN comments

  • New York University professor fired after students say his class was too hard

Media / ShowBiz / Advertising

• Facebook closes down Bulletin, service it hoped would compete with Substack

• Steve Wozniak slams Meta for yanking internship offers after Post report

TechSuck

• PC-MOS/386: a complete multitasking/multiuser DOS-compatible OS, now FOSS

Crypto con games

• Celsius Execs Cashed Out $40M in Crypto Before Halting Withdrawals for Customers

Economicon / Business / Finance

• “Skimpflation” is hitting everything from food to hotels

• Why California is paying nearly 70% more for gasoline at the pump?

• Amazon suspends 50 workers who refused to work after warehouse fire

• Facebook reportedly laying off thousands of employees

  • HN comments

• Coast Guard: Barge Groundings Increasing on Parched Lower Mississippi River

• Krugman’s argument that interest rates will fall low again

• NY Times Op-Ed: A Progressive Consumption Tax Could Help With Inflation.

• How a Social-Media Frenzy Around Credit Suisse Rattled Its Stock

• GE is laying off 20% of its workforce devoted to onshore wind power

• Peloton to cut about 12% of workforce in a move to 'save' company

Gubmint / Poilitcks / Law Making

• FEMA's secret weapon when disaster strikes? The IRS

• Psaki Buries Her Knife in Biden’s Back.

• NYT 'Right Wing Conspiracy Theory' Comes True In Less Than 24 Hours | ZeroHedge

• American software biz CEO arrested for allegedly storing election data in China

• Head of Election Worker Management Company Arrested for Theft of Personal Data

  • HN comments

• CISA: Election Security Rumor vs. Reality

  • HN comments

• The Stock Market Made Nancy Pelosi Rich. Now, She Wants To Ban Her Colleagues From Trading.

• Political spam is out of control. Now Gmail is about to make it worse

Hunter

• Tony Bobulinski reveals details on Hunter Biden business dealings in exclusive interview with Tucker Carlson.

Law Breaking / Police / Internal Security

• CA Leaders Say Legalizing Jaywalking Will Not Lead to Greater Pedestrian Deaths

External Security / Militaria / Diplomania

• USA spends $290M on anti-radiation drugs

• Boston Dynamics pledges not to weaponize its robots

World

• "Please Don't Panic Buy": France Taps Strategic Reserve After Gas Stations Run Out Of Fuel

  • France Taps Strategic Fuel Reserves as Refinery Strike Grinds On

• Royal Mail will require barcodes on stamps after 31 January 2023

• OPEC Makes Deep Supply Cuts

• Russia and Saudi Arabia agree to cuts to oil output. Why it matters

• Bank of England says pension funds were hours from disaster before it intervened

• UK Plans for Three-Hour Power Blackouts in Event of Gas Shortages

Russia Bad / Ukraine War

• US believes Ukrainian government elements authorized assassination near Moscow

  • U.S. Believes Ukrainians Were Behind an Assassination in Russia

• CIA Thought Putin Would Quickly Conquer Ukraine. Why Did They Get It So Wrong?

• How does the Russo-Ukrainian War end?

• We Survived the Last Nuclear Standoff Through Compromise and De-Escalation

• Gazprom Ready to Ship Gas via Shelved Nord Stream 2 Pipeline

• I’ve Studied the Cuban Missile Crisis. This Is What I See When I Look at Putin

• Nord Stream Leaks Caused by Detonations in Sign of Sabotage

• Multiple Russian Fronts Collapsing.

Health / Medicine

• A stomach bug infection may trigger Crohn's disease

• It's Time to Mandate Treatment of the Dangerously Mentally Ill

Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda

• Climate change isn’t only changing the weather, it’s changing our children

• The Climate-Change Censorship Campaign

• The Climate Economy Is About to Explode