2022-11-23

Worthy

• Crypto and other New Faiths - by Arnold Kling - In My Tribe

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• T. rex auction cancelled after skeleton doubts raised

• Behold Carrot, the 67-pound goldfish caught in France

Horseshit

• Mercedes locks faster acceleration behind a $1,200 annual paywall

Rank Propaganda / Thought Policing / World Disordering

• WikiLeaks is struggling to stay online as millions of documents disappear

  • HN comments

Musk

• As Elon Musk Cuts Costs at Twitter, Some Bills Are Going Unpaid

• Twitter Skeleton Crew Tackle Problem Old Twitter Ignored: Child Exploitation

• Advertisers are dropping Twitter. Musk can’t afford to lose any more

Trump / War against the Right / Jan6

• Trump taxes: Supreme Court clears Democrats to see returns

Pestilence / Pox / COVID / VaxCult

• Remdesivir reduces Covid-19 mortality in a real-world setting

• A newly hired American Airlines regional jet pilot collapsed just after takeoff in Chicago on Saturday night

• China may have ‘passed the point of no return’ as Covid infections soar

• Wearing a well-fitted mask is still a smart choice for holiday travel

• Chaos Erupts in White House Briefing As Fauci Delivers His ‘Final Message.’

• Violent protests break out at Foxconn iPhone factory

• Vaccinated people now make up a majority of Covid deaths

  • HN comments

• The vaccinated now account for a majority of COVID deaths.

Edumacationalizing / Acedemia Nuts

• The Shrinking Future of College

  • HN comments

• Bigshot chief scientist of major corporation can’t handle criticism of the work he hypes. | Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science

Media / ShowBiz / Advertising

• NYT: Journalist-run Mastodon social media as impressive as you'd imagine

• Why have late-night talk show ratings collapsed?

TechSuck

• Thinking about taking your computer to the repair shop? Be afraid

• Voice assistants are not doing it for big tech

  • HN comments

• GPU Market Nosedives, Sales Lowest in a Decade

Crypto con games

• FTX bought Bahamas properties worth $300M

• FTX: Why Didn't the Government Stop the Crypto Scam?

• The bankruptcy proceedings for collapsed Ponzi scheme FTX have been moved from the Bahamas to Delaware.

• FTX Flipped Jane Street’s Risk Obsession. Disaster Followed

• Harvard paper to central banks: Buy Bitcoin

• The Psychopharmacology Of The FTX Crash

• How Crypto’s Collapse May Have Done the Economy a Favor

• SBF Apologizes to FTX Employees, Details Amount of Leverage in Internal Letter

• New York becomes first state to restrict cryptocurrency mining

• FTX's Celebrity Endorsers May Be on the Hook for Investor Damages

Economicon / Business / Finance

• Zoom shares down 90% from peak as pandemic boom fades

• Amazon unable to keep up with inbound freight for xmas

• A house price slump is coming. Rising unemployment could make it much worse

• Black Friday deals: Why bigger discounts may come next month

Gubmint / Poilitcks / Law Making

• Biden reveals White House plan for living on the moon and mining its resources

• White House Extends Pause on Student Loan Payments

  • Biden to extend pause on loans until after June or when legal challenges resolve

• What happens right after you get elected to Congress

Law Breaking / Police / Internal Security

• Sneaky ways cops could access data to widely prosecute abortions in the US

• Army Veteran Went into ‘Combat Mode’ to Disarm the Club Q Gunman

World

• China just announced a new social credit law

• Scottish Parliament does not have power to legislate an independence referendum

  • HN comments

• Bolsonaro contests Brazil election loss, wants votes voided

Russia Bad / Ukraine War

• Russians grow critical as Putin's military ops drag on and sanctions take a toll

Health / Medicine

• Why doesn’t the U.S. have at-home flu tests?

• Will pigs solve the organ crisis? The future of animal-to-human transplants

• Should All Genetics Research on Intelligence Be Off Limits?

Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda

• Dimming the Sun to Cool the Planet Is a Desperate Idea; We’re Inching Toward It

• Aerosols must be included in climate risk assessments