2022-11-18

Worthy

• Announcing the Progress Forum

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• Judas Goats: Agriculture’s Bizarre, Drug-Addicted Masters of Deceit Once Ruled the Killing Floor | AgWeb

• The Anti-Promethean Backlash

• Baby shortfall is so bad that the labor shortage will last for years

Horseshit

• What Sam Bankman-Fried’s downfall means for effective altruism

  • Sam Bankman-Fried and the Moral Emptiness of Effective Altruism

celebrity gossip

• Sonic creator Yuji Naka arrested in insider trading scandal

Obit

• Fred Brooks has died

  • HN comments

Rank Propaganda / Thought Policing / World Disordering

• The three Republican ‘tribes’ that could define US relationship with the world

Musk

• European Parliament to Summon Elon Musk

• Twitter alerted employees all office buildings closed and badge access suspended

  • HN comments

• 100s of Twitter Employees Leaving After Musk's 'Extremely Hardcore' Work Demands

• Users urged to archive tweets amid rumors of Twitter implosion

• How to Download Your Twitter Archive

• Twitter in chaos as employees accept Musk’s invitation to quit their jobs

• Twitter loses payroll dept, other financial employees from mass resignation

• Why Elon Musk Is Blowing Up Twitter’s Business

• Elon’s War Room

• Negative/hate tweets will be max deboosted and demonetized

  • HN comments

Trump / War against the Right / Jan6

• Trump tweeted an image from a spy satellite, declassified document shows

• Donald Trump Said Something Kind of Interesting

Pestilence / Pox / COVID / VaxCult

• The End of Vaccines at ‘Warp Speed’

• Will Covid Boosters Prevent Another Wave? Scientists Aren’t So Sure

Culture War / Tribal / Re segregation

• Mormon Church supports same sex marriage law

Edumacationalizing / Acedemia Nuts

• The most-regretted college majors

• I Judged Student-Loan Borrowers … Until I Became One — The James G. Martin Center for Academic Renewal

  only 52 percent of surveyed students could accurately identify, within a $5,000 range, what they paid for their first year of college. According to the same survey, only 30 percent of first-year students were able to estimate their student-loan balance within 20 percent. In fact, 28 percent of first-year students weren’t even aware they had federal student loans to begin with.

Media / ShowBiz / Advertising

• Facebook Takes Sexuality, Religion, Address, and Politics Off of Your Profile

• Meta’s Metaverse Is Doomed

Crypto con games

• "This Is Unprecedented": Enron Liquidator Overseeing FTX Bankruptcy Speechless: "I Have Never Seen Anything Like This" | ZeroHedge

• The FTX bankruptcy filing in full

• Declaration of John Jay Ray – FTX Is Worse Than Enron

• The failure of FTX and Sam Bankman-Fried will leave deep scars

• FTX used corporate funds to purchase employee homes, new filing shows

  • HN comments

  FTX's books don't so much have red flags as that they are printed on red flags, with ink derived from red flags, a custom-made red cover made out of more red flags, and each page, when opened, has pop-up red flags along with a little electronic speaker that plays Red Flag by Antigoni while you get sprayed with Red Flag perfume [

• Magic Beans? In This Economy? - by Rusty Foster

• Let’s Talk About the New York Times' ‘Puff Piece’ on Sam Bankman-Fried | Nasdaq

• Inventing the Crypto King - Tablet Magazine

• Crypto lender Genesis had sought emergency loan of $1B

• FTX bought its way to become the 'most regulated' crypto exchange

• FTX Auditors Doubled as Crypto Industry Cheerleaders

• FTX suggests SBF transferred assets to Bahamas government after bankruptcy

• Hong Kong's leading crypto retail operator says it ceases trading

• CFTC Has ‘Boots on the Ground’ at FTX Subsidiary LedgerX

• Bahamas regulators confirm they’re holding some of FTX’s assets

• Exec who cleaned up Enron calls FTX mess 'unprecedented' | Hacker News

• Alameda CEO's Blog Hints at “Imperial Chinese Harem” Lifestyle at FTX

• Digital Dollar Pilot

Economicon / Business / Finance

• Mortgage rates plunge, largest weekly drop since 1981

• US Homebuilding Tumbles to Two-Year Low Amid Soaring Mortgage Rates.

• Used-car retailer Carvana cuts 1,500 jobs

Shortages

• United States at risk of tight electric supplies this winter

• British Supermarkets Start To Ration Eggs | ZeroHedge

Gubmint / Poilitcks / Law Making

• Come celebrate her best GIFs as Nancy Pelosi steps down as House Democrat leader after 20 very long years

• Paul Pelosi Seen Opening Door for Police on Body Cam Video as Originally Reported.

• Republicans have won the House. Now, they're promising to investigate the Bidens

• House Republicans: Joe Biden had Direct Involvement With Hunter’s Business Deals.

• House Committees Slam ID.me for 'Baseless' Unemployment Fraud Claims

• Tap Oil Fields, Not Our Emergency Reserves, to Lower Energy Prices.

Law Breaking / Police / Internal Security

• Z-library founders arrested in Argentina

  • HN comments

  • The FBI closed the book on Z-Library, and readers and authors clashed

• Justice Dept. Is Said to Investigate Ticketmaster’s Parent Company

• Sheriff's deputy accidentally SHOOTS and injures Indiana high school student during 'bad guy drill'  | Daily Mail Online

External Security / Militaria / Diplomania

• Mohammed bin Salman: Saudi leader given US immunity over Khashoggi killing

World

• Three men found guilty of murdering 298 people in shooting down of MH17

• Legoland bond crisis threatens South Korea's economy

  • HN comments

• Japan's inflation hits 40-year high as weak yen fans import costs

Russia Bad / Ukraine War

• Sanctions: Russia's commercial airlines face a slow death

Health / Medicine

• Red meat is not a health risk. New study slams years of shoddy research

Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda

• Environmental impact of diets for dogs and cats

• Ohio vandals release 10k carnivorous mink into the wild