2022-10-20

Cool

• Pillars of Creation (NIRCam Image)

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• The rise and rise of legalized gambling in America.

• Interstellar object 'Oumuamua still puzzling scientists 5 years after discovery

• Baseball History Is No Longer Written with Ash Bats

Horseshit

• Silicon Valley’s plutocrats are shaking up culture in the region

• Space-based solar power is getting serious–can it solve Earth’s energy woes?

Rank Propaganda / Thought Policing / World Disordering

• New York AG Letitia James is pushing for new regulations that would criminalise online speech that could be linked to a subsequent crime by another person.

  • New York wants to ban the sharing of violent crime videos online

Musk

• Tesla Slides 6% On Revenue And Margin Miss, Musk Says Production "Pedal To The Metal" Regardless Of Recession

• Elon Musk’s Starlink Is at the Forefront of a Corporatized Space War in Ukraine

Pestilence / Pox / COVID / VaxCult

• CDC Advisory Committee Votes Unanimously to Add COVID-19 Vaccines to the Vaccines for Children List Children’s Schedule.

• We Advised Biden on the Pandemic. Much Work Remains to Face the Next Crisis

• Next pandemic may come from melting glaciers, new data shows

Edumacationalizing / Acedemia Nuts

• College enrollment declines for third straight year since pandemic

Media / ShowBiz / Advertising

• How Many Bad Signs Does Zuckerburg need to pull the plug on the metaverse?

• Parler Accidentally Doxxed Its Most VIP Members

TechSuck

• Interview with Signal’s New President - Schneier on Security

Crypto con games

• Unstoppable Domains disables .coin extensions: will you always own your NFT?

Economicon / Business / Finance

• Time to ditch the 9-to-5 workday

• Forget Oil, The Real Crisis Is Diesel Inventories: The US Has Just 25 Days Left

• Existing-Home Sales in US Extend Decline to Longest Since 2007

• U.S. Home Sales Dropped for 8th Straight Month in September

Gubmint / Poilitcks / Law Making

• The FTC is looking at fixing appliance repair, but it needs to go beyond manuals

• Bi den: Releasing 15 Million More Barrels of Oil Reserves Right Before Election ‘Not Politically Motivated at All!’

• Why political tribes are becoming more dangerous than ever

External Security / Militaria / Diplomania

• US hits network that smuggled chips to Russian arms makers

World

• Japanese yen hits 150 against the U.S. dollar, weakest level since August 1990

• Has the media told you about the MASSIVE protests happening all over Europe right now? Come watch them here.

• Liz Truss resigns as UK prime minister

  • Liz Truss resigns to become shortest-serving Prime Minister in British history

  • Liz Truss resigns as UK prime minister

  • HN comments

  • The Lettuce Outlasts Liz Truss

  • Liz Truss resigns as U.K. prime minister after Tory party revolt

Russia Bad / Ukraine War

• Russia May Detonate Nuclear Weapon Over Black Sea, Vladimir Putin Preparing To Declare All-Out War On Ukraine: Reports.

• Russian Attacks on Power Plants Spur Emergency Actions

Health / Medicine

• More than a million Americans ration insulin as prices skyrocket.

• Most people on antidepressants don’t need them

  • HN comments

• Black Death etched a mark on our genetics, warping immune responses

Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda

• California’s greenhouse gas reductions could be wiped out by 2020 wildfires

  • HN comments

• “Paraquat Papers” corporate tactics to protect weed killer linked to Parkinson's

• Few take respite in smoke shelter amid unhealthy Seattle air quality

• VW climate protesters demand bowl to ‘urinate and defecate’ after gluing themselves to floor