2022-11-12

Cool

• Bubbles

Obit

• Gallagher, watermelon smashing comedian, dead at 76

Musk

• Major ad firm Omnicom recommends clients pause Twitter ad spend

• Elon Musk reportedly said Twitter could file for bankruptcy next year

• Twitter Was a Lifeline for People with Disabilities. Musk Is Changing That

• The reason to get off Twitter

Trump / War against the Right / Jan6

• Peter Thiels Palantir struggles to win contracts since Trump left White House

• Trump, Musk and Kanye Are Twitter Poisoned – Jaron Lanier

Pestilence / Pox / COVID / VaxCult

• Global COVID-19 infection rates may far exceed reported cases, WHO says.

• Southeast US has hit the roof of CDC’s respiratory illness level scale

• Chinese are criticizing zero-Covid, in language censors don’t seem to understand

Culture War / Tribal / Re segregation

• An overweight bloke just won a Miss America beauty pageant

Crypto con games

• Hedge fund admits half its capital stuck on FTX exchange

• FTX faces potential hack, sees mysterious outflows totaling more than $600M

  • HN comments

• FTX Says It Moved Remaining Funds to Cold Wallets to 'Mitigate Damage'

• You Can Forget About Crypto Now

  • HN comments

• Sam Bankman-Fried Transferred FTX Customer Funds to Alameda Research

• SBF’s disgrace could make things awkward for Gary Gensler and the Democrats

• FTX: Greed, Grift and Grandiosity

• Alameda, FTX Executives Are Said to Have Known FTX Was Using Customer Funds

  • HN comments

• Most Tracked Flight Right Now | Hacker News

• FTX says ‘unauthorized transactions’ drained millions from the exchange

• FTX hit by rogue transactions, analysts saw over $600M outflow

Economicon / Business / Finance

• An unconfirmed tweet about Freeport LNG is upending gas markets

  • HN comments

• Fake account and $8 blue checkmark wipe $20B off Eli Lilly's market cap | Hacker News

• Walmart Is Flexing Its Muscle Again

Gubmint / Poilitcks / Law Making

• Friday Night Arizona, Nevada Election Updates Boost Democrats

Russia Bad / Ukraine War

• Ukraine battles for Kherson, gateway to Crimea

• Ukraine’s Shadowy Kamikaze Drone Boats Officially Break Cover