2022-11-21

Cool

• NASA’s Orion spacecraft reaches the moon, flying 81 miles above the surface

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• I hate living in my tiny house | Hacker News

• Comparing process improvement in manufacturing and construction: Duco vs Drywall

• We are sorry to inform you that you are in a cult | Hacker News

Horseshit

• Singles can snuggle this giant emotional support bear — and it doesn’t snore.

• “Human composting” is a hot new burial alternative

• Mercedes Makes Better Performance a $1,200 Subscription in Its EVs

Musk

• Trump Cites Twitter ‘Problems,’ Says He’ll Stick to Own Platform

• Tesla killers: The new wave of must-have electric vehicles

• CBS ‘Left’ Twitter to Virtue Signal; Now They’ve Truly Beclowned Themselves by Returning

• The Fraudulent King - Ed Zitron's Where's Your Ed At

• Trump has fiduciary obligation to delay non-TruthSocial posts by 6 hours

• 89% of surveyed Twitter employees say the company will fail under Musk

• Elon Musk Explains Why He's Never Letting Alex Jones Back on Twitter

• Lies You Can Get Away With - by Loudt Darrow

  If Musk Twitter has the slightest ambition to approximate the word "accurate" or any of its distant synonyms, they can't allow unhinged free speech to go rampant on the platform. They’ll need to suppress the spread of bullshit before Alex Jones puts on a tinfoil hat, evolves into his final form, and starts convincing people that unvaxxed sperm has officially become the new Bitcoin.

• 'It's over': Twitter France's head quits amid layoffs

• Elon Musk is laying off even more Twitter workers

Pestilence / Pox / COVID / VaxCult

• Competition between respiratory viruses may hold off a ‘tripledemic’ this winter

Culture War / Tribal / Re segregation

• The perverse incentive to act woke.

• The waning days of DEI's dominance

• European teams ditch pro-LGBTQ+ armbands at Qatar World Cup

Media / ShowBiz / Advertising

• Journalists want to re-create Twitter on Mastodon. Mastodon is not into it

• Bob Iger Is Back as Disney CEO After 2 Years

• Tumblr is planning to join the Fediverse ASAP

• Facebook Is a Freak Show Ghost Town, and I’m Loving It

• DVD Sales Surpass Blu-ray in 2021: Physical Format Market

  • HN comments

Crypto con games

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

• Mainstream mediocrity: How the media failed to report the FTX meltdown

• FTX Hacker Starts Dumping Haul of Ether Tokens

• Proof of solvency and beyond

  • HN comments

• The FTX Debacle ELI5 - Marginal REVOLUTION

• Sam Bankman-Fried tries to broker FTX bailout from his Bahamas home

• Grayscale refuses to share proof of reserves due to ‘security concerns’

  • Grayscale Bitcoin Trust suffers due to FTX collapse and doubts over reserves

• DraftKings Tumbles on Report of Unauthorized Money Withdrawals

• Alameda Gap’ Seen Drying Up Liquidity Across Crypto Markets

Economicon / Business / Finance

• Amazon's customer satisfaction slips with shoppers

• The U.S. Needs More Housing Than Almost Anyone Can Imagine

Gubmint / Poilitcks / Law Making

• Biden: Six More Weeks To Flatten Inflation - Victory Girls Blog

• What Elephant? AP Denies that There is Any Evidence That Joe Biden Discussed Hunter’s Business Dealings – JONATHAN TURLEY

• Biden grants PG&E $1B to keep Diablo Canyon nuclear plant open

World

• South Africa's national electricity crisis to worsen

  • HN comments

• Megalopolis: Coastal west Africa will shape the coming century

Russia Bad / Ukraine War

• Ukraine war: We will rebuild, vows mayor of flattened Mariupol

• Russian Occupation of Nuclear Plant: Accusations of Torture and Beatings

• Golden billion, Putin's favorite conspiracy, explains his worldview and strategy

• Poland to put German Patriot missiles near border with Ukraine

Health / Medicine

• Rate of premature births in U.S. rises above 10%.

• Marijuana May Hurt Smokers More Than Cigarettes Alone

• Audits reveal millions in overcharges by Medicare Advantage plans

Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda

• COP27 ends in tears and frustration: ‘The world will not thank us’

• The big takeaway from Cop27? These climate conferences just aren’t working