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• Genes Can Leap from Snakes to Frogs in Madagascar

• Python in Indonesia swallows 54-year-old woman

  • Woman swallowed whole by 22-foot Python

• Piet Mondrian artwork displayed upside down for 75 years

• Many Military UFO Reports Are Just Foreign Spying or Airborne Trash

Horseshit

• Activist glues his head to 'Girl with a Pearl Earring' painting in The Hague

  • HN comments

• It's time to admit self-driving cars aren't going to happen

  • HN comments

• All your old tech is haunted, actually - by Callum Booth

  Unlike some religious or “ethical” beliefs, supernatural enthusiasts are generally benign. Put it this way: I’ve never encountered groups of ghoul-lovers hanging outside abortion clinics and harassing women about hauntings.

• Should We Be Messing with Asteroid Orbits?

• Are We Living Under ‘Technofeudalism’?

Obit

• Jerry Lee Lewis, rock 'n' roll pioneer,' dies at 87

Rank Propaganda / Thought Policing / World Disordering

• Russia continues funding media in the U.S.

• YouTube will let doctors and nurses apply to be labeled as reliable

• The Art of Hitting Disinformation Where It Lives

• Citizens’ social media can provide an antidote to propaganda and disinformation

Musk

• Tesla Engineers Visit Twitter Office to Review Code for Musk

• Watch: Tesla With Gas-Generator Range Extender Completes 1,800-Mile Trip

• Elon Musk Owns Twitter; CEO and CFO have left

• Musk Said to Begin Firing Twitter’s Top Executives

• Top Twitter executives fired as Elon Musk takeover begins

• Musk closes $44B deal to take Twitter private, ending long, twisting journey

• Elon Musk Completes Twitter Takeover

• Ask HN: How many are switching to Mastodon?

• Elon Musk has taken control of Twitter and fired its top executives

• These are some of the Twitter features users want now that Elon Musk owns it

• Elon Musk completes Twitter purchase, immediately fires CEO and other execs

• Elon Musk completes $44B Twitter takeover, begins firing execs

• Musk Is Said to Take Twitter CEO Role, Reverse Life Bans

• Elon Musk Has Taken Twitter: Day Zero

  Leading up to the final hour, the Information declared Elon’s management style a “threat to global democracy,” and the sentiment was echoed throughout the pro-censorship press. Elsewhere, we were told Twitter would now become a breeding ground for fascism (the New Republic), and Elon, a “geopolitical chaos agent” (the New York Times) was a threat to national security (the Washington Post).

• Elon Musk’s Twitter Will Be Chaos

• An Open Letter to Elon Musk – What about Freedom to Seek?

• Welcome to Hell, Elon

• Ye’s Twitter Account Appears to Be No Longer Suspended

• Live Updates: Elon Musk Takes over Twitter

• A Brief Mastodon Guide for Social Media Worriers

• The Babylon Bee's Twitter account is no longer suspended

• As Elon Musk takes over Twitter, free speech limits tested

• Trump applauds Musk’s Twitter takeover

• Twitter will be delisted from the New York Stock Exchange on Nov 8

• “Twitter will be forming a content moderation council with diverse viewpoints.”

• Why Elon Musk's Twitter deal matters for everyone

• Elon Musk Could Kill Twitter

• Departing Twitter employees say layoffs have started as Elon Musk takes over

  • HN comments

• Tell HN: The Twitter acquisition is a mask off moment for this site | Hacker News

Trump / War against the Right / Jan6

• MSNBC’s Alex Wagner and Twitter Blue Checks Fall for Fake Trump Statement Claiming His Account Will Be Reinstated After Musk Takeover

• The FBI Targeting Misinformation ~ Mind's Eye

• Model Oath Keepers

Pestilence / Pox / COVID / VaxCult

• GOP Senator’s Report on Covid Origins Suggests Lab Leak, but Little New Evidence

• (PDF) Senate Report Concludes Covid Came from “Research Related Incident”

• Psychological distress before Covid-19 infection may increase risk of long Covid

• Bracing for up to 70K Covid deaths this winter as booster uptake flops

Edumacationalizing / Acedemia Nuts

• Apex “Peer Reviewed” Journal, Nature, in Free Fall

Media / ShowBiz / Advertising

• Cowardice at Sundance: Why Was Jihad Rehab Canceled?

TechSuck

• Redditor acquires decommissioned Netflix cache server with 262TB of storage

Crypto con games

• A record 55,000 Bitcoin, or over $1.1B, was just withdrawn from Binance

• Bitcoin miner Core Scientific issues bankruptcy warning and the stock is down

Economicon / Business / Finance

• Amazon shares plummet after dismal sales forecast

  • Amazon stock sinks 19% on weak fourth-quarter guidance

• Apple Reports Fourth Quarter Results

• Redfin: Pending Home Sales Fall 35% YoY, biggest drop on record

• Pending home sales fell 10% in September, much worse than expected

• Exxon Reports Record, Blowout Earnings; Stock Soars To All-Time High

Gubmint / Poilitcks / Law Making

• Nancy Pelosi's husband 'violently assaulted' at San Francisco home

  • Pelosi’s Husband Attacked/Beaten in Break-In at California Home

  • Paul Pelosi Undergoing Brain Surgery Following 'Brutal' Attack; Suspect Identified

• Election officials prepare for unprecedented efforts to disrupt 2022 vote

External Security / Militaria / Diplomania

• U.S. Unveils Strategy for Nuclear Threats from China and Russia

  • (PDF) 2022 National Defence Strategy of the United States of America

• Biden Crows About Chips Bill, Says Xi ‘Concerned’ About US Plans

World

• Social media gossip is fuelling mass arrests in El Salvador

• Brazil Election Disinformation Concerns Go Beyond WhatsApp

• EU Reaches Political Deal on Combustion-Engine Vehicle Ban as of 2035

  • EU approves effective ban on new combustion engine cars from 2035

Russia Bad / Ukraine War

• Russia Now Has a Second Frontline Set Up Just to Kill Its Deserters: Intel.

Health / Medicine

• Americans die younger in states run by conservatives, study finds

• There’s a morning-after pill to prevent sexually transmitted infections

• People whose guts produce alcohol

Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda

• Wild mammal biomass has declined by 85% since the rise of humans | Hacker News

• Brazil’s Presidential Election Will Determine the Planet’s Future

• The New World: Envisioning Life After Climate Change

• Unusually warm weather for parts of France and Spain

• Turkey's Honey Apocalypse Is a Warning to the World

• Beyond Catastrophe: A New Climate Reality Is Coming into View