2022-11-30

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• Two South Korean miners rescued after surviving for days on coffee powder

Horseshit

• Bones and All: The greatest taboo of all - BBC Culture

  Anywhere that resources are scarce, and society's rules don't apply, can be a home to cannibals

• Death and the salesman: the 22-year-old selling human bones for a living

celebrity gossip

• Guardian Could Help Assange by Retracting All the Lies It Published About Him

Obit

• Former Chinese President Jiang Zemin dies aged 96

Rank Propaganda / Thought Policing / World Disordering

• When High Fashion and QAnon Collide

• Author warns about 'epidemic of self-censorship'

  She said literature was increasingly viewed "through ideological rather than artistic lenses". She continued: "Nothing demonstrates this better than the recent phenomenon of 'sensitivity readers' in the world of publishing, people whose job it is to cleanse unpublished manuscripts of potentially offensive words. "This, in my mind, negates the very idea of literature."

  • HN comments

• In Brussels, Fighting Misinformation Online

• Blogger Censors Borepatch « Lawrence Person's BattleSwarm Blog

Musk

• Elon Musk may be luring Apple into a fight with Republicans

• Left-Wing Voices Are Silenced on Twitter as Far-Right Trolls Advise Elon Musk

• Elon Musk delaying Twitter’s paid verification to avoid Apple’s 30 percent cut

• Elon Musk Is Turning Twitter into a Haven for Nazis

• Head of Trust and Safety at Twitter: This Is What Could Become of It

• EU warns Musk that Twitter faces ban over content moderation

• Musk: Twitter Has "Interfered In Elections" | ZeroHedge

Trump / War against the Right / Jan6

• Two Oath Keepers, Including Founder Stewart Rhodes, Found Guilty Of Jan. 6 Seditious Conspiracy

Pestilence / Pox / COVID / VaxCult

• China warns of 'crackdown' after weekend of widespread zero-Covid protests

• With Intimidation and Surveillance, China Tries to Snuff Out Protests

• Covid Zero and Its Ironies - by Kevin Xu - Interconnected

Culture War / Tribal / Re segregation

• American police forces perpetuate racial stereotypes on social media

Media / ShowBiz / Advertising

• TikTok’s Viral Challenges Keep Luring Young Kids to Their Deaths

TechSuck

• Just Say No | Jeff Geerling

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Crypto con games

• “I never opened the code for FTX”: SBF has long, candid talk with vlogger

• SBF Addresses Rumors Whether He Laundered Ukraine Donations: "I Wish I Could Have Pulled That Off"

• 'It just kinda went crazy': FTX's lavish spending highlights lack of controls

• Sam Bankman-Fried says he is down to $100k

• More Disturbing Revelations About Sam Bankman-Fried

• FTX customers instructed to wire transfers to Alameda’s account

• Distributed crypto exchange Serum, formerly backed by FTX, is toast.

• Crypto: Everyone Was Just That Stupid – Heisenberg Report

• Kraken lays off 30% of staff

Economicon / Business / Finance

• Snap demands employees work in office 80% of the time starting early next year

• Largest Pokémon collection fails to sell

• DoorDash to lay off 1,250 employees

• H&M to lay off 1,500 staff in drive to cut soaring costs and rescue profits

• CNN Layoffs Begin

• The US economy’s growth was stronger than expected in the third quarter

Gubmint / Poilitcks / Law Making

• Same-Sex Marriage Bill Passes Senate After Bipartisan Breakthrough

• Wait, whut?! Biden’s Nantucket Secret Service rental vehicles burst into flames.

  All five vehicles accompanying the president mysteriously and spontaneously combust in the rental drop-off parking lot after he leaves?

  • There Once Was A Prez on Nantucket, and Each of His Cars, a Fire Struck It.

• Theft case against Biden nonbinary aide Sam Brinton is admittedly ‘weirder.’

• Did Big Tech antitrust pick the wrong target?

World

• The Palace Coup That Brought MBS to Power

• HSBC to shut 114 UK branches as more people bank online

• India Economic Growth Slows to 6.3%

• The Bank of Canada lost $522M in three months – here's why

Health / Medicine

• Alzheimer's drug lecanemab hailed as momentous breakthrough; targets root cause

• Cannabis for Pain Relief? Review of 20 Studies Provides Sobering Results

Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda

• Mauna Loa eruption halts key atmospheric measurements

• ‘More coral cover on it this year than any time on record’: Great Barrier Reef