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• The persistent and pervasive impact of bullying in childhood and adolescence | Hacker News

• An aging population makes inflation worse

• Two volcanoes erupt simultaneously in Hawaii for first time in decades

• Small-scale commodity exchange fueled tin supply across Late Bronze Age Eurasia

• My secret life as an 11-year-old BBS sysop

Horseshit

• People Cheering for Humanity’s End

• EU throws party in €387K metaverse – and hardly anyone turns up

celebrity gossip

• Jeffrey Epstein estate settles Virgin Islands sex trafficking case for $105M

Obit

• Christine McVie, of Fleetwood Mac, Is Dead at 79

Musk

• Elon Musk Says He Met with Apple’s Tim Cook

• Ex-Twitter safety chief admits Hunter Biden laptop censorship was a 'mistake'

• Elon Musk Says Apple and Twitter Have ‘Resolved’ Differences After Meeting

• Tech Civil War - by Mike Solana - Pirate Wires

• Yellen says she ‘misspoke’ in playing down chance of Twitter deal probe

Trump / War against the Right / Jan6

• Milo Yiannopoulos: I Arranged the Nick Fuentes Dinner to Embarrass Trump and To Teach Him a Lesson About Excluding Me From His Circle of Advisors.

Pestilence / Pox / COVID / VaxCult

• Young people accounted for greater proportion of COVID-19 deaths in 2021 than 2020.

• WHO’s departing chief scientist regrets errors on SARS-CoV-2 spread through air

• A new study says that the adverse effects attributed to the vaccine aren't real,

• Estimated cumulative excess deaths during Covid, World

Edumacationalizing / Acedemia Nuts

• Heresy Helps You Think

Media / ShowBiz / Advertising

• Spotify CEO Joins Elon Musk in Slamming App Store Policies

  • Spotify CEO renews attack on Apple after Musk's salvo

  • HN comments

TechSuck

• HN Jobs:

  • Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2022)

  • Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (December 2022)

  • Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (December 2022)

• Nvidia RTX 6000 48GB Ada Professional GPU Listed at Suggested Retail of $9,999

• The last three years of my work will be permanently abandoned | Hacker News

Crypto con games

• FTX billionaire Sam Bankman-Fried funneled dark money to Republicans

• DealBook SBF Interview

• Kraken crypto exchange lays off 30% of workforce

• Sam Bankman-Fried’s Red Flags Were Seen in All Corners of His Empire

• FTX’s Collapse Was a Crime, Not an Accident

• SBF Broke and down to one credit card

• FTX's Collapse Was a Crime, Not an Accident.

  • HN comments

• Apple blocks Coinbase wallet from sending NFTs unless users pay 30% of gas fees

• Full Transcript: NY Times' Interview with Sam Bankman-Fried

• Rising Tether Loans Add Risk to Stablecoin

Economicon / Business / Finance

• Yield Curve Inversion Reaches New Extremes

• Blackstone limits withdrawals at $125B property fund as investors rush to exit

Shortages

• Shortages of Antibiotics, Antivirals Are Making a Tough Illness Season Worse.

  • Central Pa. pharmacies see shortage of certain drugs due to high demand | fox43.com

Gubmint / Poilitcks / Law Making

• The House votes to avert a potentially devastating railroad strike

• How the Next Civil War Begins - Tablet Magazine

Law Breaking / Police / Internal Security

• US gun death rate hits 30-year high; female fatalities rising faster than men’s

• DEA’s most corrupt agent:Parties, sex amid unwinnable war

External Security / Militaria / Diplomania

• U.S. Army Planned to Pay Streamers Millions to Reach Gen-Z Through Call of Duty

Russia Bad / Ukraine War

• As Russia struggles in Ukraine, repression mounts at home

Health / Medicine

• Sperm counts worldwide are plummeting faster than we thought

Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda

• Hawaii site that measures global CO2 shuts down after Mauna Loa volcano eruption

• The 2022 Seasonal Hurricane Forecast Bust

• The return of the horse?

• Western US residents warned against traveling due to winter storm