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• NASA's Dart spacecraft 'changed path of asteroid'

• Tree Trimmer Dies After Falling into Wood Chipper in Menlo Park

Horseshit

• America is facing a diaper crisis, and the anti-abortion movement is making it worse

Rank Propaganda / Thought Policing / World Disordering

• What exactly is stochastic terrorism?

• Seven times 'disinformation' turned out to be just the opposite | Just The News

• The next time Wikipedia asks for a donation, ignore it

  • HN comments

Musk

• A small fund wagered big that Elon Musk would be forced to buy Twitter

• Musk Denies Report He Spoke with Putin Before Peace Tweets

  • Elon Musk denies he spoke to Putin about Ukraine war

• SpaceX announces a second private flight to the Moon aboard Starship

• Twitter reviewing policies around permanent user bans

• Musk’s Twitter Buyout Gambit Is Getting Costlier by the Day

• Elon Musk sells $1M worth of new perfume, 'Burnt Hair'

Trump / War against the Right / Jan6

• Durham probe: FBI offered Christopher Steele $1 million to corroborate Trump allegations in dossier.

  • FBI Offered Christopher Steele $1M For Evidence Backing Up Dossier Claims About Trump: FBI Analyst | The Daily Wire

Pestilence / Pox / COVID / VaxCult

• Biden’s HHS and CDC Paid Screen Writers and Comedians to Mock the Unvaccinated

• Biden Administration Propaganda Plan to Push Covid Vaccine

• Medium Covid Could Be the Most Dangerous Covid

• Shanghai Quietly Shuts Down Schools, Bars, Gyms as Covid Returns

• Moderna COVID-19 Vaccine Effectiveness Turns Negative Within Months: Study

• Pfizer Executive: ‘No, Haha!’ We Didn’t Test If COVID Vaccine Stopped Transmission of Virus.

Edumacationalizing / Acedemia Nuts

• Authors’ names have ‘astonishing’ influence on peer reviewers: study | Hacker News

Media / ShowBiz / Advertising

• It’s painful how hellbent Mark Zuckerberg is on convincing us that VR is a thing

• Zuckerberg kicks off Meta conference, shows off high-level $1,500 headset

• Legs are finally coming to Mark Zuckerberg’s metaverse

TechSuck

• Google Kills Cloud Gaming Service, Announces Cloud Gaming Laptops

Economicon / Business / Finance

• Food inflation has soared in the U.S. And now farmers are planting wheat

• Westinghouse to be sold for $7.9B in sign of nuclear power revival

• Intel Plans Thousands of Job Cuts in Face of PC Slowdown

  • Intel plans to cut thousands of jobs

• 'The worst is yet to come' for the global economy, IMF warns | Hacker News

• Wholesale prices rose 0.4% in Sept., more than expected as inflation persists

• People Can No Longer Afford to Be Monogamous with Their Full-Time Jobs

• U.S. mortgage interest rates rise to highest level since 2006

Gubmint / Poilitcks / Law Making

• Tulsi Gabbard Abandons 'Elitist, Woke, Anti-White' Democratic Party

  • Tulsi Gabbard is leaving the Democratic Party: no longer stomach the woke party

• Federal Employees Are Trading Stock in Companies They Oversee

  • Federal Officials Trade Stock in Companies Their Agencies Oversee

Law Breaking / Police / Internal Security

• FBI brass who warned Facebook about Post's Hunter Biden report were Dem donors

• FBI Monitored Aretha Franklin for Years, File Shows

  • HN comments

External Security / Militaria / Diplomania

• Letter to Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen: In Support of a Price Cap on Russian Oil Exports – The Baseline Scenario

Russia Bad / Ukraine War

• Sweden Refuses To Share Results Of Nord Stream Pipeline Explosion Investigation With Russia

Health / Medicine

• ‘A New Frontier’ for Hearing Aids.

• As Hospitals Close Children’s Units, Where Does That Leave Lachlan?

Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda

• California's opening bid won't solve the Colorado River crisis alone

• Heatwaves to make certain regions uninhabitable within decades: UN, Red Cross

• The Bill Gates-Backed Startup Cleaning Up the Steel Industry

• Atlantic Ocean Currents Weakening, Near Verge of Collapse

• “There's just not enough water”: California drought hits grocery stores