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• DART mission successfully altered asteroid's orbit

Horseshit

• I once fell for the fantasy of uploading ourselves. It’s a destructive vision

• Few people in Florida had flood insurance before Hurricane Ian

• The Cult of Civilization | Do the Math

celebrity gossip

• Comedian John Cleese vows his new show will take on ‘censored’ topics

Rank Propaganda / Thought Policing / World Disordering

• A New Anti-Woke Bank Stumbled

• Politically Biased Treatment at Work Is Increasing Ahead of the Midterms

• Ask HN: Why Hasn't the Doomsday Clock Advanced?

• The World Economic Forum is a Dangerous Religious Cult.

• How the Dems Built a Non-Profit Local Fake News Machine | Frontpage Mag

Musk

• Decoding Elon Musk’s Legal Surrender to Twitter

• China asked Elon Musk not to sell Starlink within the country

• Musk Claims Twitter Ordered Whistle-Blower to Destroy Evidence

• Elon Musk Has the World’s Strangest Social Calendar

• Elon Musk Spoke to Putin Before Tweeting Ukraine Peace Plan

Trump / War against the Right / Jan6

• God Moved To FBI Watch List After Pro-Life Comments Surface

• Ryan Doubles Down on Call to 'Kill and Confront' MAGA, Targets Vance

• The Inevitable Indictment of Donald Trump

Pestilence / Pox / COVID / VaxCult

• Nasal version of Oxford/AstraZeneca Covid vaccine fails in trial

• Florida’s Surgeon General Warns Young Men that Covid Vaccines Pose ‘Increased Risk’ of Death.

• The dam is about to break on the COVID shots – Behind The Black – Robert Zimmerman

• Evidence suggests pandemic came from nature, not a lab, panel says

• Pfizer director admits COVID vaccine was never tested to stop transmission

• Twitter Censors, Then Un-Censors Florida Surgeon General After Vaccines Warning

  • HN comments

• Record numbers not looking for work due to long-term illness

• Covid-19:Antiviral purchased by UK gov does not lower risk of hospital admission

Culture War / Tribal / Re segregation

• Alabama Senator Tuberville equates descendants of enslaved people to criminals

• What Native land are you on? This map shows Indigenous tribes' past territories

• Paedophilia is slowly (but steadily) going mainstream

• A Woman's Guide to the Most Toxic Trolls on the Internet

Edumacationalizing / Acedemia Nuts

• Science is the belief in the ignorance of experts (2020) | Hacker News

Media / ShowBiz / Advertising

• She wrote a Bigfoot book for kids. It was no small feat

• Amazon’s Second Prime Day Sale Falls Flat on Social Media

TechSuck

• PC Shipments Plunge Nearly 20%, Steepest Drop in More Than 20 Years

  • After 2 years of unprecedented growth from "work from home" and pandemic demand, and rising prices from shortages.

• RTX 4090 review: Spend at least $1,599 for Nvidia’s biggest bargain in years

  • HN comments

• Cloud Gaming Chromebooks

Crypto con games

• CNN cancels “Vault” its “NFT Market” after trading volume falls 97%

• Couple mistakenly given $10.5M from Crypto.com thought they had won contest

• America’s Oldest Bank, BNY Mellon, Will Hold That Crypto Now

• U.S. SEC Is Investigating Bored Apes Creator Yuga Labs

Economicon / Business / Finance

• Are central banks going bankrupt?

• Bank of England warns of material risk to financial stability

  • HN comments

• Fire-fighting Bank of England forced to buy inflation-linked bonds

• Getir in exclusive talks to rescue rapid delivery rival Gorillas

• Biden Proposal Could Lead to Employee Status for Gig Workers

• Peloton Co-Founder John Foley Faced Repeated Margin Calls as Stock Slumped

• Leaked memo reveals Patreon's valuation plunged 70% in the past year

• Honda and LG to Invest $4.4B in New EV Battery Factory in Ohio

• Are we headed for a rail strike after all? – HotAir

Hunter

• The Golden Rule and the Hunter Biden Scandal: Questions Raised by the FBI Leak

Law Breaking / Police / Internal Security

• Private Prisons Are Behind the Push for Homeless Criminalization | Hacker News

• Witness affirms pay-to-play for gun permits at Santa Clara County sheriff trial

• Police Are Using DNA to Generate 3D Images of Suspects They've Never Seen

External Security / Militaria / Diplomania

• The Navy’s newest and most advanced aircraft carrier just left port.

• U.S. Preps for Nuclear Fallout

• Best Place to Survive Nuclear War in the U.S.

• National Guard troops leaving faster than new enlistments.

World

• Earthquake rattles Taiwan, but epicenter out at sea

• When the Hindu Right Came for Bollywood

Russia Bad / Ukraine War

• Putin's rage against civilians may herald a brutal new phase in the war

• Russia's Crimea Disconnect

• Meta officially declared “extremist organization” in Russia

• Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, October 10 | Institute for the Study of War

• What A Difference A Day Makes For The Ukraine Meme - A Son of the New American Revolution

Health / Medicine

• For decades, fear and failure in the hunt for an RSV vaccine. Now, success

• Gummy vitamins are surging in popularity. Are they healthy or just candy?

Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda

• New Zealand angers its farmers by proposing taxing cow burps

• Glaciers melted 20k years ago may offer clues about climate change's effects

• Frequent fliers are a problem for the planet. Should they pay more?