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• Dozens of earthquakes detected Hawaiis Mauna Loa worlds largest active volcano

• Nascar driver stuns to qualify for championship with GameCube move

  • HN comments

Horseshit

• The forensic anthropologist who hunts pedophiles by the shape of their hands

• Lottery Winner Keeps $30M Jackpot Secret from Wife and Child

Rank Propaganda / Thought Policing / World Disordering

• Leaked documents outline DHS’s plans to police disinformation

  • HN comments

• Greenwald: Meet The Consortium Imposing The Growing Censorship Regime | ZeroHedge

• Facebook and Twitter have portals for the government to request takedowns

  • HN comments

Musk

• Musk’s inner circle worked through weekend to cement Twitter layoff plans

  • HN comments

• Elon Musk named sole director of Twitter, dissolves board

• Musk To Charge Twitter Blue Checks $20 Per Month; Will Give 90 Day Grace Period: Report

• How Elon Musk Should Shape Twitter — Sans the Sink – JONATHAN TURLEY

• Elon Musk’s plan to charge for Twitter verification: a misinformation nightmare

• Elon Musk has pulled more than 50 Tesla employees into his Twitter takeover

• Elon Musk Begs Bots Not to Quit Twitter

• Tell HN: Adblock rules to hide HN posts about Twitter & Musk

• 'Dangerous for Us All': Elon Musk Completes Twitter Takeover

• Musk Neuters Twitter 'Ministry Of Truth' Ahead Of Midterms | ZeroHedge

• Twitter Limits Content-Enforcement Work as US Election Looms

• Jack Dorsey rolls his stake into Elon Musk-owned Twitter

• Elon Musk Hints at $8 Monthly Subscription for Twitter’s Verified Users

Pestilence / Pox / COVID / VaxCult

• Why U.S. Doesn’t Have a Nasal Vaccine for Covid-19

• 'Scrabble variants' now cause the majority of new Covid-19 infections in the US

• Science Misconceived: How the Covid Epoch Wrecked Understanding

• The Atlantic: Say, Now That It's Known That the Institutional Left and Media and Democrat Party Got Nearly Everything Wrong on Covid, Isn't It Time to "Move On" and Stop This Petty Small-Minded Squabbling About Who Was Right and Who Was Wrong?

• CDC director tests positive for COVID-19 again after Paxlovid treatment.

Edumacationalizing / Acedemia Nuts

• Affirmative action in college admissions doesn’t work – but it could

• The Pandemic Generation Goes to College. It Has Not Been Easy

• School's new policy bans parents from walking children to school

Media / ShowBiz / Advertising

• US court blocks Penguin merger with Simon and Schuster

• What If Rumble Is the Future of the Social Web?

• Amazon Music’s entire library is now free for Prime subscribers

TechSuck

• HN Jobs:

  • Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2022)

  • Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (November 2022)

  • Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (November 2022)

• Identify That Antenna by Sight

Crypto con games

• Major South African retailer accepts Bitcoin payments

Economicon / Business / Finance

• U.S. workers have gotten less productive – no one is sure why

  • HN comments

• Gross domestic product is a misleading measure of national success

  • HN comments

• I Bonds Rate Resets at 6.89%, Ending Mad Rush to Lock in Higher Yield

• Saudi Aramco reports $42B quarterly profit

Shortages

• A Major Diesel Shortage Is Approaching Fast - Victory Girls Blog

Gubmint / Poilitcks / Law Making

• Paul Pelosi and the violence we care about: The liberal media’s double standards on political violence are horrifying.

• Super-Rich Americans Paid 97% More Estate Tax During Pandemic

World

• Bird flu: All poultry and captive birds in England ordered to be kept indoors

• No ‘adults in the room’: Xi Jinping catches global investors off guard

• Bolsonaro Supporters Block Roads As Brazilian President Silent After Election Loss

Russia Bad / Ukraine War

• Why Russia can keep fighting for years to come

• Iran to send weapons including ballistic missiles to Russia to use in Ukraine

Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda

• Europe is seeing its warmest weather on record so late in the year