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• The unintended consequence of EVs: More demand for manual transmissions

• Parents urged not to post videos of their children on social media as no consent

• Moving in Together Doesn’t Match the Financial Benefits of Marriage, but Why?

Horseshit

• Permanent Daylight Savings Time will hurt our health, experts say

• I turned $15,000 into $1.2M during the pandemic – then lost it all

• Being Ridiculed for My Open Source Project (2013) | Hacker News

• The Promise of Cultivated Meat

• Toad Licking: Just say no

celebrity gossip

• Tyson Foods CFO Arrested After Getting Drunk, Breaking Into Home, And Falling Asleep In Random Woman's Bed

Musk

• Musk's advertiser push undermined by his own opening moves

• Twitter Is Said to Delay Changes to Check Mark Badges Until After Midterms

• Why Elon Musk’s Quest to Revive Twitter Is Likely to Fail

• BBC: Twitter users jump to Mastodon – but what is it?

  • HN comments

• Musk’s takeover might change Twitter: what researchers think

• Twitter asks some laid off workers to come back, Bloomberg reports

• Twitter handles engaging in impersonation will be permanently suspended

• As Musk focuses on Twitter, his $56B Tesla pay goes to trial

• Musk Bans ‘Impersonation’ After Parody Elons Flood Twitter

• Elon Musk Tells Independent-Minded Voters “Vote for Republican Congress”

• Mastodon Struggles to Keep Up with Flood of Twitter Defectors

Pestilence / Pox / COVID / VaxCult

• China posts 6 month high Covid count

• China Weighs Zero-Covid Exit

• Researchers report finding "mechanical structures" in Pfizer COVID-19 vaccines

Media / ShowBiz / Advertising

• What Happens When Everything Becomes TikTok?

• Elephants in the Room | No Mercy / No Malice

TechSuck

• The essence of Reed-Solomon coding

  • HN comments

• Undefined Isn’t Unpredictable

• (2018) Some thoughts on Social Networking and Usenet

Crypto con games

• OpenSea plans to enforce NFT royalties on-chain, strong-arming debate

Economicon / Business / Finance

• Meta’s reportedly planning to lay off ‘thousands’ of workers this week

  • Meta is preparing large-scale layoffs this week

  • Meta Plans to Lay Off Thousands of Employees Starting This Week

• Billions in Capital Calls Threaten to Wreak Havoc on Global Stocks, Bonds

• Mild autumn weather has sent European gas prices plummeting

  • HN comments

• Frackers Say Oil Production Slowing in the Shale Patch

• House Analysis: Corporations Use Cover of Inflation to Raise Prices Excessively

• Millions have no savings as prices soar

Gubmint / Poilitcks / Law Making

• White Powdery Substance Found in Packages Mailed to Kari Lake’s Phoenix Campaign Office

• The plan to save America by killing the partisan primary

• US midterms: How BBC's voter profiles were shown hate and disinformation online

• Biden Shouts “No More Drilling. There is no more drilling!” at New York Rally

• Biden says Twitter spews lies across the world.

• A Bottomless Pinocchio for Biden – and other recent gaffes

World

• China’s Natural Gas Consumption Set To Fall For First Time In Two Decades.

• Taiwan Prepares to Be Invaded

Russia Bad / Ukraine War

• Kyiv Planning for Total Evacuation If It Loses Electricity

• Turkey Bitchslaps Russia.

Health / Medicine

• FDA warns against use of infant head-shaping pillows.

Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda

• World in crisis a grim backdrop for UN climate talks

• Past eight years warmest on record

• World is on ‘highway to climate hell’, UN chief warns at Cop27 summit