2022-11-15

Horseshit

• I record myself on audio 24x7 and use an AI to process the information | Hacker News

celebrity gossip

• Jeff Bezos says he will give most of his money to charity

Rank Propaganda / Thought Policing / World Disordering

• "Stochastic Terrorism" Is About Suppressing Free Speech

• About “Deniers” | Power Line

Musk

• Free employee lunches at Twitter HQ costs more than $400 per meal

  • Musk: Twitter’s free meals cost $400 each

• Tesla Stock Price Value Cut in Half After Elon Musk Stake Sales

• Tesla finds a loophole in states where dealerships are forbidden: Tribal lands

  • HN comments

Trump / War against the Right / Jan6

• In Completely Unforeseeable Twist, January 6th 'Conspiracy Theory' Turns out to Be True – RedState

Pestilence / Pox / COVID / VaxCult

• China zero Covid: Violent protests in Guangzhou put curbs under strain

• NBC Suggests Parents Stay Away From ‘Unvaccinated Individuals’ To Protect Children From Illness That Doesn’t Have Vaccine

Culture War / Tribal / Re segregation

• They Paused Puberty, but Is There a Cost?

• The sinister attempts to ‘decolonise’ mathematics

  • HN comments

• Biological Male Wins Women’s Elite Division Of Cycling Race | The Daily Wire

Media / ShowBiz / Advertising

• Disney World announces ticket price increases

TechSuck

• Ask HN: Is the world run by badly updated Excel sheets?

Crypto con games

• Crypto.com sent $400M to the wrong recipient, but got it back this time

• Man Who Lost Everything In Crypto Just Wishes Several Thousand More People Had Warned Him

• From Binance to Voyager, crypto firms' exposure to FTX is coming to light

• FTX bankruptcy case stalls as lawyers confront crypto chaos

• What Happened at Alameda Research

  We are therefore left with an even greater mystery. Somehow, it seems as though Alameda and FTX managed to burn through >$15 billion dollars’ worth of profits (likely more). This is an incredible shortfall, and, remarkably, no comprehensive account to date has emerged showing exactly how this came about! We may never really know where all of the money went. However, we provide a number of separate hypotheses which, if combined together, could plausibly account for losses of $15 billion or more.

  • HN comments

• FTX Owes Money to More Than a Million People, Court Filing Suggests

• Crypto businesses brace for FTX aftershock

• The Sky Is Falling - Ed Zitron's Where's Your Ed At

Economicon / Business / Finance

• Xi and Biden cool the heat, but China and the US are still on collision course

• Buffett's Berkshire discloses a $4.1B TSMC stake

• Global shipping container shortage is now a container surplus

  • HN comments

• Household debt soars at fastest pace in 15 years as credit card use surges

Gubmint / Poilitcks / Law Making

• Biden pulls back on pledge to codify Roe v. Wade.

External Security / Militaria / Diplomania

• Xi and Biden cool the heat, but China and the US are still on collision course

World

• Netherlands to Ban Laughing Gas

Russia Bad / Ukraine War

• Winter Will Be a Major Factor in the Ukraine War

• Przewodów village in Poland hit by two Russian missiles, two dead

  • Russian missiles hit Poland soil

  • US official: Russian missiles crossed into Poland, killing 2

Health / Medicine

• The Gut Microbiome Helps Social Skills Develop in the Brain | Hacker News

• Humans could face reproductive crisis as sperm count declines, study finds

Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda

• ‘Deep Geothermal’ Promises to Let Drillers Go Deeper, Faster and Hotter

• The big idea: stopping climate change isn’t enough – we need to reverse it

• HelloFresh accused of using coconut milk obtained from monkey labor