2022-11-04

Worthy

• Times Like These

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• Artemis 1 moon rocket 'ready to go' for Nov. 14 launch, NASA says

• "Here We Go Again:" Out-Of-Control Chinese Rocket Expected To Crash On Friday | ZeroHedge

  US Space Command confirmed the Long March 5B rocket reentered the Earth's atmosphere over the south-central Pacific Ocean around 0600 ET. A second object reentered around 0606 ET, indicating the rocket might have broke in half.

  • Spain briefly closes part of airspace as Chinese rocket debris flies over

• Magnetic north, true north and grid north align over Great Britain

• I fought the PayPal and I won

  • HN comments

• US Traffic Safety Is Getting Worse, While Other Countries Improve

Horseshit

• Rest is indeed resistance. For me and others, so is being child-free

Rank Propaganda / Thought Policing / World Disordering

• Survey: 17.5% of Americans Willing to Kill or Injure for Political Objectives

• 'Conspiracy Author' David Icke Banned From EU, Labeled A "Terrorist"

Musk

• Elon Musk set to lay off half of all Twitter employees, end work-anywhere policy

• A Twitter engineer who created cartoons poking fun at his own company was fired

• Musk's California Hyperloop Prototype Will Become a Parking Lot

• Musk orders Twitter to cut infrastructure costs by $1B

  • Musk orders Twitter to cut infrastructure costs by $1B

• What Elon Musk gets out of owning Twitter

• Twitter to begin layoffs Friday, days after Elon Musk's $44B takeover

• Twitter to start layoffs -internal email

  • HN comments

• Elon Musk Begins Layoffs at Twitter

• General Mills, Audi pause Twitter ads, will evaluate site

• Twitter sued by employees amid mass layoffs

• Alarm on Capitol Hill over Saudi Investment in Twitter

• Elon Musk reportedly outlines horrible Twitter layoff process

• If you buy what Elon Musk is selling, you must be high

• Twitter Is Already a Hellscape

• The culture war that Elon Musk has unleashed at Twitter

• Morning Wood: ARK Trying To Hawk Shares Of Now-Private Twitter To Retail Investors | ZeroHedge

• Twitter has had a massive drop in revenue

• Ask HN: Why do HN feel so negatively about Musk?

• Musk says Twitter saw revenue slump as activist groups pressured advertisers

Pestilence / Pox / COVID / VaxCult

• The Totality of the Circumstances surrounding SARS-CoV-2 emergence

  I realized that anyone who could understand that mathspeak would probably already share my beliefs, provided they knew the totality of available evidence.

• AstraZeneca patients data exposed for over a year due to password snafu

• UK researchers cure man who had Covid for 411 days

• Censorship and Suppression of Covid-19 Heterodoxy: Tactics and Counter-Tactics

Culture War / Tribal / Re segregation

• I Feel, Therefore I Am.

• The Donut Hole in Tulsa, Oklahoma was firebombed after it hosted a drag show

Media / ShowBiz / Advertising

• Netflix launches an ad-supported tier

TechSuck

• FSF Adopts New Governance Framework for Board Members

Crypto con games

• International summit agrees crack down on crypto to combat ransomware

Economicon / Business / Finance

• Bank of England expects UK to fall into longest ever recession

  • HN comments

• From Amazon’s Freeze to Lyft’s Layoffs, Tech Firms Brace for Tough Times

• Robinhood reported a 35% drop in September monthly active users

• Apple is now worth more than Alphabet, Amazon, and Meta combined

• Congressional hearing on the influence of corporate profit on inflation

• Ask HN: What Recession?

• Meta is now the worst performer in the S&P 500 this year

• The Housing Market Has Gone from Bad to Worse

Gubmint / Poilitcks / Law Making

• CEO of Michigan election software firm seeks dismissal of charges

• The Coming Struggle to Keep Warm.

• Political spam is out of control. Now Gmail is about to make it worse

Law Breaking / Police / Internal Security

• US Treasury thwarts DDoS attack from Russian Killnet group

• ZLibrary domains have been seized by the United States Postal Inspection Service | Hacker News

World

• UK to hand over Chagos back to Mauritius

• Britain launches scheme to pay homes to curb electricity use

Russia Bad / Ukraine War

• Russian oil exports will fall despite growing ‘dark fleet’, Vitol chief says

Health / Medicine

• Sugar Substitutes Surprise

  • HN comments

Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda

• How to Identify a Climate Denier?

• Oat milk is killing the planet

• The infectious disease trap of animal agriculture

• A Warming Siberia, Wracked by Wildfires, Nears a Crucial Threshold

• Record-breaking Hunga Tonga volcanic plume might have warmed Earth's climate

• UN chief warns ‘we will be doomed’ without historic climate pact at Cop27