2022-11-09

Horseshit

• Ask HN: Why is there no way to lower amber alert volume on headphones?

• 3D printed guns: Warnings over growing threat of 3D firearms

Musk

• Elon Musk sells almost $4B of Tesla shares

• Twitter Files Paperwork to Enter Payments Business

• Elon Musk kills the “official” label hours after Twitter introduced it

Pestilence / Pox / COVID / VaxCult

• The Latest Covid-19 Variants Can Evade Vaccine Protection

• Excess death from around the world due to Covid

Media / ShowBiz / Advertising

• Online community MetaFilter (est. 1999) is nearly bankrupt

• Social Media Is Dead

• Slingbox Getting Bricked – You Have Less Than 24 Hours

• Home Invasion – Mastodon's Eternal September Begins

• The decline of text-based social media

TechSuck

• Redditor discovers legendary 1956 computer in grandparents’ basement

Crypto con games

• Binance to acquire FTX

  • HN comments

• Levine: Binance's Zhao SBF'ed FTX's Bankman-Fried - Bloomberg

• Binance’s FTX Takeover Risks Global Antitrust Backlash

• Bitcoin price dips under $17.6K June low as FTX nerves liquidate nearly $1B

• Binance Is Strongly Leaning Toward Scrapping FTX Rescue Takeover

• Binance says FTX going down ‘not good for anyone’, did not master plan the deal

Economicon / Business / Finance

• Facebook-owner Meta to cut 13% of its workforce

  • Meta lays off 11,000 people

  • HN comments

  • Meta shares pop 7% as Wall Street rallies around layoffs

• Redfin Cuts 13% of Staff, Shuts Down Home-Flipping Business

• After student loan forgiveness, 73% plan to spend more on travel and dining out

Gubmint / Poilitcks / Law Making

• REDSTATE LIVE BLOGS THE 2022 MIDTERM ELECTIONS

• 2022 U.S. House Election - Live Results | RealClearPolitics

• Record Numbers Of Voters Show Up To End Democracy.

• Sorry guys, I guess we’re not voting our way out of this.

• Cancer – According To Hoyt

• Republicans See Gains In Midterms, But 'Red Wave' Hopes Fade As Democrats Outperform | ZeroHedge

• John Fetterman wins Pa. Senate race, defeating celebrity TV doctor Mehmet Oz

• Midterm Election 2022 Takeaways :: The Future of Capitalism

Russia Bad / Ukraine War

• Russian forces withdraw from Kherson

Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda

• Climate activists target Andy Warhol’s Campbell’s soup cans

• World population to reach 8B on 15 November 2022