2022-10-27

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• The New USPS Mail Truck Looks Positively Goofy on the Street

• Lego Is Discontinuing Mindstorms

  • HN comments

• Investigation continues after Amazon delivery driver found dead in yard

• ISS had to dodge space junk from satellite Russia blew up

• Marijuana company sued for not making customers high enough

Horseshit

• The United States’ Unamendable Constitution

• Even nuns watch porn, Pope says, warning of risks

• The internet is broken due to structural injustice

• Online microaggressions strongly impact disabled users

Rank Propaganda / Thought Policing / World Disordering

• PayPal quietly re-adds $2,500 “misinformation charge” in user agreement | Hacker News

  • PayPal restores to its TOS $2,500 charge for any post they don't like

  • PayPal boo

• Considering Covid a hoax is ‘gateway’ to belief in conspiracy theories

• FAKE NEWS: Newsweek Claims Ted Cruz Lied About Antifa Burning Down Cities

Musk

• Elon Musk’s Twitter deal has to close by Friday or the trial is back on

• Elon at Twitter HQ

• Shell beats forecasts as profits more than double

• Musk Tells Twitter Employees He Doesn’t Plan to Cut 75% of Jobs

• Tesla under Criminal Investigation from U.S. Department of Justice

• Staring Down the Twitterpocalypse

• Elon Musk tells advertisers he doesn't want Twitter to become free-for-all

• Elon Musk confirms $44B acquisition of Twitter

• Elon's $44B Twitter deal has closed

• REPORT: Twitter Employees Draft Letter Demanding Assurances Against Discrimination for Their Political Beliefs

• Elon Musk claims he has acquired Twitter ‘to help humanity’

Pestilence / Pox / COVID / VaxCult

• Vitamin D Supplements Don’t Reduce Covid-19 Risk

Edumacationalizing / Acedemia Nuts

• Forbidden Questions

  It is extremly disturbing that major scientific organizations are forbidding the publication of research that offends some political sensibilities. Indeed, roadblocks are being put into place to even investigate some questions.

• Video gaming may be associated with better cognitive performance in children

  • HN comments

Media / ShowBiz / Advertising

• Meta plans to lose even more money with metaverse while its ads business shrinks

  • Meta’s value plunges more than $65B amid falling sales and rising costs

  • Meta share price collapses after Mark Z. says he will not give up on metaverse

  • Meta stock price drops more than 20% | Hacker News

TechSuck

• Signal says it won’t compromise on encryption

  • HN comments

Crypto con games

• How Much Money You’ve Lost If You Took Matt Damon’s Crypto Advice 1Y Ago

Economicon / Business / Finance

• Shell beats forecasts as profits more than double

• Rush on I bonds paying 9.62% is crashing TreasuryDirect website

• Ford and Volkswagen hit reverse gear on self-driving cars

• The Freight Industry Is Looking At A "Very, Very Ugly" End Of 2022 | ZeroHedge

• ECB raises interest rates across eurozone by record margin

• Major Fuel Supplier On “Code Red” As Diesel Crisis Hits Southeast.

• US exports record oil volumes as fuel price tensions build

• Another Rail Union Rejects Biden-Backed Tentative Labor Agreement

Gubmint / Poilitcks / Law Making

• The Leak About a Black Republican Candidate Being Sexually Assaulted Was In Fact Via an Illegal Leak, and Not a Legal "Public Information Request,"

Hunter

• (2014) Hunter Biden’s new job at a Ukrainian gas company is a problem for U.S. soft power - The Washington Post

Law Breaking / Police / Internal Security

• New Justice Department Policy Marks ‘Historic Shift’ in Press Protection

• One Store’s Decision to Leave San Francisco over Crime

• How the FBI Stumbled in the War on Cybercrime

External Security / Militaria / Diplomania

• China Wants to ‘Speed Up’ Its Seizure of Taiwan, Blinken Says

World

• Chinese authorities ask: Dear newlywed, when's the baby arriving?

Russia Bad / Ukraine War

• Russia to target US satellites as legitimate targets in Ukraine war

Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda

• Wildlife in 'grave danger', biodiversity declined by 69% since 1970, warns WWF

• UN finds ‘no credible pathway to 1.5C in place’

• Swarming bees may potentially change the weather

• Saltwater is moving up the Mississippi River. Here's what's being done