2022-10-31

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• Candy corn contains a disgusting ingredient made from insects.

Horseshit

• Re-using the heat in bathwater in Britain

  • HN comments

celebrity gossip

• German climate activists glue themselves to dinosaur display.

Musk

• By Buying Twitter, Elon Musk Has Created His Own Hilarious Nightmare

• Twitter trolls bombard platform after Elon Musk takeover

• Elon Musk Is Not a Renegade Outsider – HE’S a Pentagon Contractor

• Elon Musk Deleted Pelosi Attack Conspiracy Theory Tweet

  • Elon Musk tweets unfounded conspiracy theory about Paul Pelosi attack

• Musk wants to fire Twitter employees who do not support him as leader

• Twitter to Charge $20 a Month for Blue Tick Verification, Reports Suggest

  • Twitter is planning to start charging $20 per month for verification

  • HN comments

• Wachtell and Twitter board deliberately hid this evidence from the court

• “It's going to be a bloodbath”: Twitter workers brace for cuts

• Elon Musk shows what being Chief Twit is all about across weird weekend

• “There Seem to be 10 managers for every one dev at Twitter” – Elon

  • HN comments

• Can Elon Musk Make the Math Work on Owning Twitter? It’s Dicey

• Twitter Is Drafting Broad Job Cuts in Whirlwind First Weekend Under Elon Musk

• Elon Musk wastes no time changing Twitter

• Musk Seeks a Steve Jobs-Like Turnaround of Twitter

• Elon Musk tweets misinformation about Paul Pelosi

• Elon Musk dissolves Twitter’s board and makes himself ‘sole director’

• Elon Musk disbands Twitter’s board, cementing control over company

Pestilence / Pox / COVID / VaxCult

• Covid transmission higher in households than in workplaces, schools or community

• The End of Evusheld: Covid Antibody Treatments Are in Decline

Culture War / Tribal / Re segregation

• The Incel is the Greatest Villain of 2022

Edumacationalizing / Acedemia Nuts

• US Supreme Court poised to ban affirmative action in university admissions

• Mass school shootings are not caused by mental illness: study

Media / ShowBiz / Advertising

• Wikipedians question Wikimedia fundraising ethics after “somewhat-viral” tweet

  • HN comments

TechSuck

• SourceHut terms of service updates, cryptocurrency projects to be removed

  • HN comments

• Ford drops full self-driving cars

Economicon / Business / Finance

• Tremors in Treasury Bonds Worry Wall Street and Washington

• Higher Interest Rates Fuel Losses at the Federal Reserve

• Eurozone inflation jumps to record-high 10.7%

• JPMorgan Chase wants to disrupt the rent check with its payments platform

• Cash-Rich Consumers Could Mean Higher Interest Rates for Longer

• Wheat prices jump by nearly 6% after Russia withdraws from Ukrainian export deal

• U.S. workers have gotten way less productive. No one is sure why

• Ford to Offer Severance to White-Collar Employees Deemed Underperformers

Gubmint / Poilitcks / Law Making

• Elon Musk, right-wing figures push misinformation on Twitter about Pelosi attack

World

• Liz Truss's personal phone was hacked by Putin's spies for top messages

• Oxford has gone back to Feudalism

• Spain extends short and medium free train travel until December 2023

• Lula Is Elected President of Brazil

  • Lula Narrowly Wins Brazil’s Presidency

• South Korean authorities say they had no guidelines for Halloween crowds

Health / Medicine

• Species of bacteria in microbiome may be a culprit behind rheumatoid arthritis

• Cannabis doesn't increase creativity, only how creative you think you are

Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda

• Global coal demand is set to return to its all-time high in 2022

• ‘Fast Furniture’ Is Cheap. and Americans Are Throwing It in the Trash