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• Yamaha hits the dirt with two full-suspension electric mountain bikes

• Electric vehicles are exploding from water damage after Hurricane Ian

Horseshit

• False memory implantation in adults is easy | Hacker News

• Magic: The Gathering Celebrates 30 Year Anniversary by Selling $1k Boosters

• Internet Trolls Have Tormented Patrick Tomlinson for Years. He Can’t Stop Them

• Now we know for sure that big tech peddles despair, we must protect ourselves

• The Housing Revolution Is Coming: YIMBYs are enabling new supply

• Woman, 23, who survived 2016 Brussels airport ISIS bomb euthanised in Belgium

• Everyone wants a tip now. Touchscreens and the pandemic have created tipflation

celebrity gossip

• Multiple pro-Assange demonstrations planned for tomorrow

Rank Propaganda / Thought Policing / World Disordering

• Democracy needs to destroy social media; It is self defense

Musk

• Musk Asks Delaware Judge to Halt Lawsuit over $44B Twitter Deal

• “Be Afraid, Be Actually Afraid”: Reporters Panic at the Thought of Twitter Restoring Free Speech Protections – JONATHAN TURLEY

• Twitter opposes Musk’s motion to delay trial

• Twitter 'won't take yes for an answer'

• Judge puts the Elon Musk vs. Twitter trial on hold until October 28th

• Judge halts Elon Musk-Twitter litigation to allow time to finance $44B takeover

• Twitter lawsuit halted so Elon Musk can close deal by Oct. 28

• Paid Subscribers in America Can Now Edit Tweets

• Musk says Tesla's electric Semi truck has started production

• Elon gets three weeks to change his mind

• I No Longer Care If Elon Musk Is Buying Twitter Please God Let It End

• PepsiCo to get first delivery of Tesla semi-electric trucks

Trump / War against the Right / Jan6

• Anyone can submit filings to a court docket. The Mar-a-Lago probe proves it.

Pestilence / Pox / COVID / VaxCult

• Hypothesized behavioral host manipulation by SARS-CoV2/Covid-19 infection

• Mouthwashes may suppress SARS-CoV-2.

• Hundreds Of Thousands Of Americans Sought Medical Care After COVID-19 Vaccination: CDC Data

• Twitter suspends account of Dr. Peter McCullough | Hacker News

• Germany to Burn Almost 800M Unused Covid Masks

Media / ShowBiz / Advertising

• Roblox sued for allegedly enabling young girl’s sexual, financial exploitation

• Watchmen author Alan Moore: ‘I’m definitely done with comics’

• Mastodon.technology Shutdown

  • HN comments

• What happened to the virtual reality gaming revolution?

• Meta’s flagship metaverse app is too buggy and employees are barely using it

TechSuck

• liam_on_linux | I've been playing with OS/2 again -- more on that soon -- but it was doomed from a young age

• Ukama: Run your own cellular data network

  • Ukama is selling boxes that let you broadcast your home internet as LTE

• On AlphaTensor’s new matrix multiplication algorithms | Hacker News

Crypto con games

• $570M worth of Binance’s BNB token stolen

• Celsius exposes the names of all customers and recent transactions in filing

Economicon / Business / Finance

• Walmart to lay off 1,500 workers at Atlanta fulfillment center

• Chipmakers See ‘Breathtaking’ Drop in Demand as Recession Looms

• The U.S. is not harvesting as many fish as it could, driving up imports

• Is the world economy in a debt trap?

• Amazon Abandons Home Delivery Robot Tests in Latest Cost Cuts

• Dwindling Mississippi Grounds Barges, Threatens Shipments

• Peloton CEO doesn’t understand why people aren’t happier he laid off 500 people

• Hackers Target Eager Homebuyers with a Dumb Scam That Keeps Working

• US Home Prices Now Posting Biggest Monthly Drops Since 2009

• Working from Home Is Sticking in US as Office Occupancy Stalls

• Despite inflation, Americans less likely to cut Prime, Netflix than food spend

• Meta might layoff 12k Employees

• AMD has warned that it will miss its previously expected revenue for Q3 by, well, about a billion dollars.

• Americans are becoming less productive, and that's a risk to the economy

Gubmint / Poilitcks / Law Making

• Foreign spies hijacking US mid-terms? FBI, CISA are cool as cucumbers about it

• SCOTUS Hears a Case with Broad Implications for the Clean Water Act

• California will start handing out $1,050 stimulus payments to residents this week to combat inflation

  • California residents to get massive $1,050 direct payments today.

• California Quietly Raises State Income Tax Rate to 14.4%.

• The Election-Swinging, Facebook-Fueled, Get-Out-the-Vote Machine

• Kamala Harris Involved in Car Accident - Secret Service Failed to Note Key Details of Incident — The Republic Brief

• As Biden Welcomes Venezuela Oil, He Prepares To Block All US Offshore Drilling

• Biden signs order to implement EU-U.S. data privacy framework

  • President Biden signs Executive Order aimed at legal reboot of EU-US data flows

• Biden Warns Armageddon Is Coming, But It’s Time For Him To Enjoy Another Weekend in Delaware

  • Just a stutter, folks: WH walks back Joe Biden’s warning that we’re on the verge of nuclear Armageddon

Hunter

• Feds Have Enough Evidence To Slap Hunter Biden With Tax, Gun Charges: WaPo

• Why Hunter Biden’s legal troubles are back in the news

Law Breaking / Police / Internal Security

• Biden Plans to Pardon People Convicted of Simple Marijuana Possession

  • Statement from President Biden on Marijuana Reform

  Third, I am asking the Secretary of Health and Human Services and the Attorney General to initiate the administrative process to review expeditiously how marijuana is scheduled under federal law.

  • Biden Pardons People Convicted of Marijuana Possession Under Federal Law

  • Biden pardons thousands of people convicted of marijuana possession

External Security / Militaria / Diplomania

• Would we risk New York to keep Odessa free?

• The Downside of Imperial Collapse

World

• U.N. body rejects debate on China's treatment of Uyghur Muslims

• The Gas Field That Europe Can’t Use

• People in Poland Are Burning Trash to Stay Warm This Winter

• 10-hour cutlass-rattling stand-off between Taiwan coastguard and Japan patrol

• Saudi Arabia lowers oil prices for Europe but raises them again for the US

• In pictures: Easter Island statues damaged by fire - BBC News

  • Sacred Easter Island statues suffer 'irreparable damage' after volcano fire

Russia Bad / Ukraine War

• Meta disables Russian propaganda network targeting Europe

• 'Gold Teeth' Ukraine Recovered From "Russian Mini-Auschwitz Torture Chamber" Were Actually From Village Dentist; Report | ZeroHedge

• Germany and US Play Out Scenarios of a Nuclear Strike by Russia

• The News Is Just Guesswork Now

  The key news is clearly the fact the article was even published. Someone in the U.S. government took an extraordinary step of outing our intelligence agencies’ supposed belief that Ukraine was involved in the bombing. Writers Julian E. Barnes, Adam Goldman, Adam Entous and Michael Schwirtz do at one point address this, saying “Countries traditionally do not discuss other nations’ covert actions,” but in this case, “some American officials believe it is crucial” to “curb what they see as dangerous adventurism, particularly political assassinations.”

• 534 civilian bodies found so far in Ukrainian territory recaptured from Russia

• Morale is plummeting in Putin's private army as Russia's war in Ukraine falters

• Biden warns Putin is 'not joking' about nuclear weapons

Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda

• Tennessee Snail Darter No Longer a Threatened Species.

• Hawai'i national park summit closed due to ‘elevated seismic activity’