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• Shocking Video Shows Plane Collides With B-17 Bomber At Dallas Airshow | ZeroHedge

  • Two aircraft collide during Veterans Day air show in Dallas

Horseshit

• Kayne. Musk. Trump. Krugman. Rowling. Cleese.

Obit

• Iranian man who lived in Paris’ Charles de Gaulle airport for 18 years dies

Musk

• Twitter Buyout Loans Get Bid at 60 Cents as Banks Sound Out Investors

  • HN comments

• Elon Musk culls Twitter contractors after mass employee layoffs

Pestilence / Pox / COVID / VaxCult

• U.S. COVID public health emergency to stay in place.

• U.S. Covid health emergency to stay in place

• Cruise ship with 800 Covid cases docks in Sydney

• Covid Depression Is Real. Here’s What You Need to Know

Culture War / Tribal / Re segregation

• Why are male testosterone levels falling?

  • HN comments

Media / ShowBiz / Advertising

• jwz: Mastodon and federation

  the Twitter Diaspora is going to descend on Mastodon, and they're going to pick their instances essentially at random, for example through the time-tested technique of "the first one on the list that isn't currently closed for sign-ups". And then a few months later, the people actually running those instances are going to start flexing their muscle, and the users' response will be, "Wait, who even are you? This sucks. I just wanted my memes".

• DeviantArt upsets artists with its new AI art generator, DreamUp

  • HN comments

TechSuck

• Where has the passive radar code gone? | Hacker News

Crypto con games

• FTX held less than $1B in liquid assets against $9B in liabilities

  • HN comments

• FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried says he is in the Bahamas

• FTX users appear to be cashing out of crypto exchange through a Bahamas loophole

• FTX Held Just $900MM In Liquid Assets Vs $9BN In Liabilities As Video Emerges Confirming Alameda Knew It Was Pilfering Client Funds

• The rise and fall of US crypto king Sam Bankman-Fried

• Sam Bankman-Fried and the geometry of conscience

• FTX says it’s removing trading and withdrawals, after a $477M hack

• Sam Bankman-Fried is ‘under supervision’ in Bahamas?

  • HN comments

• FTX’s SBF had a secret 'back door' to transfer billions off the books

  • HN comments

• FTX balance sheet, revealed | Hacker News

• FTX collapse being scrutinized by Bahamas investigators

Economicon / Business / Finance

• The global housing market is heading for a brutal downturn

• It's the Worst Time to Buy a Home in a Generation for Americans, US Survey Shows

• Cathie Wood Says Fed Policy Ignores Deflationary Signals

• Layoff spree in Silicon Valley spells end of an era for Big Tech

• Farmland pricing out farmers (private equity and developers buying it up)

Gubmint / Poilitcks / Law Making

• Democrats edge closer to control of US Senate with a key Arizona victory

• Republican Party 'is dead' after major midterm election losses in Arizona, Pennsylvania, Nevada: Hawley | Fox News

• Now-Collapsed FTX Crypto Slush Fund Laundered Ukraine Donation Money to Democrat Candidates to Help Rig Midterms – America First Report

  • Hal Turner Radio Show - UKRAINE "MILITARY AID" FROM USA WAS INVESTED IN CRYPTO "FTX" BY UKRAINE!

• The Case for Abolishing Elections

• GOP Hopes of Senate Majority Officially Dashed

• Police find no powder in ‘suspicious’ envelopes reported by Kari Lake’s campaign office.

• U.S. military weighs funding mining projects in Canada amid rivalry with China

Law Breaking / Police / Internal Security

• Passengers and crew subdue man with box cutters on Frontier Airlines flight

External Security / Militaria / Diplomania

• U.S. Intel report says key gulf ally meddled in American politics

• Computer chip ban signals new era as Biden, Xi meet

• X-37B space plane completes its sixth mission, lands after nearly 30mo in orbit

World

• Pakistan "Has No Option But To Ration" Nat Gas Supply This Winter

• Israel’s Chutzpah at the United Nations

Health / Medicine

• People Have Been Having Less Sex–Whether They’re Teenagers or 40-Somethings

  • HN comments

Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda

• Sea levels might rise much faster than thought, Greenland data suggest

• There are now 8B of us – but soon we'll hit a decline we'll never reverse

• To those who sneer at activists blocking roads: what are you doing?

• Four HUNDRED private jets as climate delegates accused of 'hypocrisy'