2022-11-19

etc

• Earth now weighs six ronnagrams: New metric prefixes voted in | Hacker News

• Baby chimp being reintroduced to its mother

• What makes us dance? It is all about that bass

Horseshit

• The truffle industry is a big scam, not just truffle oil, everything

  • HN comments

• Computer proof ‘blows up’ centuries-old fluid equations | Hacker News

• The Myth of the Tech God Is Crumbling

celebrity gossip

• Elizabeth Holmes: 'They Don’t Put Pretty People Like Me in Jail'

  • Elizabeth Holmes Is Sentenced to 11.25 Years in Prison

  • Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes sentenced to 11 years in prison for fraud

Rank Propaganda / Thought Policing / World Disordering

• The “Great Reset” is too stupid to be a conspiracy

  • HN comments

Musk

• Elon Just Unbanned the Babylon Bee

• Elon Musk’s Twitter Teeters on the Edge After Another 1,200 Leave

• Musk emails remaining Twitter staff to find “anyone who writes software”

• Ask HN: What if Musk's strategy is to destroy Twitter?

• The Tantrum at Twitter Reveals How Privileged the Liberal Laptop Class Is

• TechCrunch staff on what we lose if we lose Twitter

• Musk summons engineers to Twitter HQ as millions await platform’s collapse

• Read Elon Musk’s Friday emails to Twitter engineers asking them to come to off

• The Elon Musk effect: have we reached our limit with awful bosses?

• CBS News confirms it's no longer posting updates on Twitter

• The Harvard Business School Professor Who Isn’t Counting Elon Musk Out

• Musk’s Fix-It Team Fades Out as Billionaire Says Transition Is Almost Done

• ‘Twitter Is Dead,’ 300M People Post on Twitter

Trump / War against the Right / Jan6

• Attorney General Garland to Name Special Counsel in Trump Criminal Investigations.

  • Biden's Attorney General names special counsel over Trump investigations: Garland picks Jack Smith | Daily Mail Online

  Since 2018 Smith has served as chief prosecutor for the special court in The Hague, investigating war crimes in Kosovo.

• Donald Trump Posted Classified Satellite Imagery on Twitter

Pestilence / Pox / COVID / VaxCult

• Massachusetts DPH, Google 'secretly' installed Covid 'spyware' onto 1M phones

  • Koch-funded group sues US state agency for installing spyware on 1M Androids

  • HN comments

  If Charles Koch doesn't want state governments to secretly install surveillance apps on my cellphone, I don't even want any constitutional rights. That'll show him.

• New Swiss Study:Covid Shots Increase Risk of Myocarditis by X800 in Young Adults

  • HN comments

• Covid vaccine injury payouts explode to $77M, budget reveals

• COVID-19 vaccinations found to cause small, temporary changes in menstruation.

Culture War / Tribal / Re segregation

• A gender imbalance emerges among trans teens seeking treatment

Edumacationalizing / Acedemia Nuts

• Empty Classrooms, Abandoned Kids: Inside America’s Great Teacher Resignation

• Law School Accrediting Panel Votes to Make LSAT Optional

Media / ShowBiz / Advertising

• Disney Parks’ Ride Stoppages and Wait Times Grow as Ticket Prices Rise

• Don't Make Taylor Swift Fans Angry - BIG by Matt Stoller

TechSuck

• The Mystery Blips - by Mosquito Capital

• Ask HN: What is the most impactful thing you've built? | Hacker News

Crypto con games

• Bankrupt FTX Fires Three of Sam Bankman-Fried’s Top Deputies

• $477M FTX ‘hack’ was a Bahamian government asset seizure

  • HN comments

• Polyamory, penthouses and plenty of loans: inside the crazy world of FTX

• “‘Queen Caroline’: The ‘Fake Charity Nerd Girl’ Behind The FTX Collapse”

• Sam Bankman-Fried’s media outlets must come clean

• How Did SBF Convince West Africans Crypto Was Their Future?

• FTX Hires Bank to Sell Salvageable Units

• How many publications did SBF bribe?

• They Lived Together, Worked Together and Lost Billions Together: Inside FTX

Economicon / Business / Finance

• TikTok Is Still Hiring as Competitors Shed Jobs

Shortages

• A Quarter of Americans at Risk of Winter Power Blackouts, Grid Emergencies

• 'It's like living in an igloo' People are turning off their heat as prices surge

Gubmint / Poilitcks / Law Making

• Ted Cruz beer can incident: Man arrested for throwing beer can at Texas senator during Houston Astros parade - CBS News

Law Breaking / Police / Internal Security

• FBI Director Wray Defends Using Bureau Jet To Go On Vacation

• DOJ Investigated Journalists for Insider Trading, Stalking … and Worse

World

• North Korea's leader Kim reveals his daughter in rare appearance

• Symbol of reunion with China, panda Tuan Tuan dies in Taipei

Russia Bad / Ukraine War

• Is Russia firing denuked cruise missiles into Ukraine?

• Nord Stream leaks confirmed as sabotage, Sweden says

• Kyiv may face 'complete shutdown', nearly half Ukraine's energy system disabled

Health / Medicine

• Eli Lilly CEO says insulin tweet flap “probably” signals need to bring down cost

• Things I've noticed while visiting the ICU

  • HN comments

Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda

• Bureaucracy is blocking the green energy revolution

• First Images Reveal Snowmageddon's Aftermath Across Buffalo

• The largest dam demolition in history is approved for a California river