2022-11-05

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• Avian flu: our food chain is in crisis

• Powerball Jackpot Tops $1.6 Billion, Smashes Lottery Record

• DEWALT debuts Ascent Series - Lawn & Landscape

  A prototype of one of DEWALT’s new Ascent mowers caught fire during the Equip Exposition last week in Louisville, Kentucky.

• Costco Is Selling a 60k-Piece Jigsaw Puzzle

Horseshit

• Denver firefighters declared a living woman dead without assessing her

Rank Propaganda / Thought Policing / World Disordering

• Ask HN: Why do you consider “echo chambers” bad?

Musk

• Elon Musk’s Twitter layoffs leave whole teams gutted

• Starlink Sets High-Speed Data Cap at 1TB per Month, Lowers Advertised Speeds

• Alarm on What Happens If Musk Launches Paid Verification Before the Election

• Twitter layoffs gutted election information teams days before midterms

• Advertisers continue to flee Twitter as civil rights groups call for a boycott

• Antisemitism spikes after Elon Musk takeover, ADL calls for Twitter ad boycott

• Twitter accessibility team laid off

• It looks like I’m moving to Mastodon

  • HN comments

• United Airlines suspends ad spending on Twitter

• We Pay an Ugly Cost for Ads on Twitter

Pestilence / Pox / COVID / VaxCult

• What We Knew In the Early Days ⋆ Brownstone Institute

Edumacationalizing / Acedemia Nuts

• Bloated College Administration Is Making Education Unaffordable

• Geniuses Used to Be Raised

• ‘Not even enough money for food’: graduate students face cash crunch

Media / ShowBiz / Advertising

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

• The End of Duolingo?

TechSuck

• MDN converted to Markdown

  • HN comments

Crypto con games

• In bankrupt Lebanon, locals mine Bitcoin and buy groceries with tether

Economicon / Business / Finance

• Twilio to cut costs by 'rightsizing the workforce': COO

• Fed warns of low market liquidity in $24T Treasury market in report

  • Some crackpot thing i didnt even link, the other day, was ranting about how the Fed had been pinching the bond market by playing with the relative terms they made available, short vs long term bonds.

• Carvana Managed to Lose Half a Billion Dollars in the Third Quarter

Gubmint / Poilitcks / Law Making

• Clock runs out on efforts to make daylight saving time permanent

• White House deletes tweet after Twitter adds 'context' note

• Biden says Twitter spews lies across the world

Law Breaking / Police / Internal Security

• Break Up the FBI.

External Security / Militaria / Diplomania

• Biden vows Iran will be 'free' amid anti-government protests

World

• South Korea scrambles 80 warplanes

Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda

• Catholic Church can curb carbon emissions by returning to meat-free Fridays

• The world is going to miss the totemic 1.5°C climate target

• On Second Thought, Just Throw Plastic Away

• Climate activists block private jet take-offs at Schiphol Airport

• Paintballs to be shot at Dutch wolves in bid to make them less tame