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• Trust the Science

Horseshit

• ‘The Owner of This iPhone Was in a Severe Car Crash’–Or Just on a Roller Coaster

• Why many Floridians living in Ian's path can't count on insurance

• A streamer broke her back in two places after jumping in a foam pit at TwitchCon

Rank Propaganda / Thought Policing / World Disordering

• No, the USA Is Not Headed Towards Civil War

  Whenever I encounter a person insisting that civil war is just around the corner in the USA, I always ask them the exact same question: “Can you name the two sides that will be fighting against one another?’ They never can. The best that these types can offer is the suggestion that well-armed men in flyover country will conduct a low-level civil conflict against government forces, or that a Governor will go rogue and will not only reject certain Federal Government rulings and laws, but will also use the National Guard in his/her state to fend off the Feds.

• Where Online Hate Speech Can Bring the Police to Your Door | Hacker News

• The Story of the Century Just Broke (And No One Noticed)

• PayPal will still steal your money if you say something they disagree with. They only removed the "misinformation" clause.

• PayPal won’t fine users ($2.5K) for misinformation posts, policy “in error”

• PayPal Still fining $2500 for Promoting anything “Discriminatory”, “Intolerance”

  • HN comments

• Distinctive Toxicity Norms Are Maintained in Political Subreddits

• An everything app is terrible for liberal democracy | Hacker News

• Fascists Are Benefiting from World Crisis

Musk

• Chinese ambassador thanks Musk for proposal on Taiwan

• Too Many Satellites: Astronomers Voice Concern over Second-Gen Starlink

Trump / War against the Right / Jan6

• Jennifer-Ruth Green takes aim at political opposition after Politico publishes records of her sexual assault.

Pestilence / Pox / COVID / VaxCult

• Strokes heart attacks and sudden deaths

• Yankee Candle reviews indicate that Covid is about surge again

• China ‘began stockpiling PPE months before Covid outbreak’

• Covid 10/6/22: Overreactions Aplenty

  I don’t see any reason to take notice of the latest Covid variant other than its name which is, wait for it, B.1.1.529.5.3.1.1.1.1.1.1.

• American Express ends Covid vaccine requirements for working from office

• Blame Lockdowns on Silicon Valley

• Survey finds more than 40% of Americans misled about having COVID19, precautions

Edumacationalizing / Acedemia Nuts

• Walking to school is more likely to keep kids active as they age

Media / ShowBiz / Advertising

• Slingbox Will Become Permanently Unusable in November, Dish Says

Crypto con games

• World’s largest crypto exchange hacked with possible losses of $500M

• Binance admits hackers used cross-chain bridge to steal at least $100M

Economicon / Business / Finance

• Made in America is back, leaving US factories scrambling to find workers

• Nobel Prize in Economics Awarded to Ben Bernanke, Douglas Diamond, Philip Dybvig

  • Former Fed chair Bernanke shares Nobel for research on banks

• Beware the Cold Monetary Shower

• I don't think the Fed will back off

Gubmint / Poilitcks / Law Making

• Biden’s Marijuana Pardons Don’t Cover Hundreds Kamala Harris Had Convicted

• Tweep’s ‘hobby’ of finding sofas and other objects that Jill Biden’s dresses are ‘MADE from’ results in spectacularly HILARIOUS thread – twitchy.com

• White House spending $265K on staff to deflect Hunter Biden probe.

External Security / Militaria / Diplomania

• Last week's US export controls could mark start of trade war

World

• The single market is looking wobbly

  • HN comments

• Tribesmen ‘sentenced to death’ for resisting futuristic Saudi megacity

• North Korea confirms simulated use of nukes to ‘wipe out’ enemies

• Slowly waking up to the truth: Brexit has left us poorer, adrift and alone

  • Before the votes, Brexit was going to turn Britain into Somalia. Remembering that would not fit the current narrative need, tho.

• UK risks scientists leave Britain to avoid losing EU research funding

Russia Bad / Ukraine War

• Himars Transform the Battle for Ukraine–and Modern Warfare

• Crimean bridge: Who – or what – caused the explosion?

  • HN comments

• WP: We met a 52yo woman who Russians repeatedly raped, beat and electroshocked

• ‘War crime:’ Industrial-scale destruction of Ukraine culture

• Multiple explosions in Ukraine capital Kyiv

  • HN comments

• Russians hit the office and R&D center of Samsung in Kyiv | Hacker News

• Russia blasts Kyiv, other Ukrainian cities in deadly strikes.

  “Russian President Vladimir Putin, whose military invaded neighboring Ukraine on Feb. 24, said the strikes were in retaliation for what he called Kyiv’s ‘terrorist’ actions — a reference to Ukraine’s attempts to repel Moscow’s invasion forces and cripple their supply lines.”

• Russia Launches Large-Scale Strikes On Some 20 Ukrainian Cities In Response To "Terrorist" Crimea Bridge Blast

• There have been 'catastrophic' Starlink outages in recent weeks in Ukraine

Health / Medicine

• Fluoridated water safe, does not affect children's development, new study finds

• In gold-standard trial, colonoscopy fails to reduce rate of cancer deaths

  • HN comments

  • New study questions the effectiveness of colonoscopies

• Telemedicine was made easy during COVID-19. Not any more.

• Ransomware attack delays patient care at hospitals across the U.S.

Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda

• The Sky Needs Its ‘Silent Spring’ Moment