2022-12-06

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• NASA Awards $57M Contract to Build Roads on the Moon

• After the Artemis I mission’s brilliant success, why is an encore 2 years away?

Horseshit

• The Year Without Germs Changed Kids

• A Reader Asks How to Avoid Working for Evil | Hacker News

• No one wants to have kids anymore | Hacker News

• Want Your Country to Thrive? Give Geniuses a Universal Basic Income

  • HN comments

Obit

• Kirstie Alley Dead: Star of ‘Cheers’ Dies at 71 After Short Battle with Cancer

Musk

• Neuralink faces federal probe, employee backlash over animal tests

  • HN comments

  • Neuralink faces federal inquiry after killing 1,500 animals in testing

• Twitter’s credit rating was just withdrawn by S&P due to a ‘lack of information’

• It sure seems like Elon Musk is purging left-leaning Twitter accounts

• Twitter comes of age

• How do you solve the problem that is Twitter?

• Tesla Short Sellers Profited Nearly $12B in 2022

Trump / War against the Right / Jan6

• Trump Clarifies Statement Misrepresented as a Call to End to U.S. Constitution.

• Why are there so many right-wing scams?

• The Beijing-Aligned Group Who Branded a Repub’s Tough-on-China Rhetoric ‘Racist’

Pestilence / Pox / COVID / VaxCult

• The great Covid and smoking cover-up? | Hacker News

• Covid boosters for young adults: Risk benefit and ethics of university mandates

• The COVID lockdowns were all for naught.

Media / ShowBiz / Advertising

• Dwarf Fortress’ graphical upgrade provides a new way into a wildly wonky game

• GE buys out entire NYT print paper in historic first

  • HN comments

TechSuck

• US Tariffs on GPUs, Motherboards Might Return in January

• The Brilliance and Weirdness of ChatGPT

• Just How Bad Is CXL Memory Latency?

  in the neighborhood of 170 nanoseconds to 250 nanoseconds.

Crypto con games

• Hedge Fund Hit by FTX Collapse Defaults on $36M of Debt

• FTX Contagion

  • HN comments

• Why Is No One Asking SFB What Happened to the $3.3B He Borrowed? | Hacker News

Economicon / Business / Finance

• How the gates closed on Blackstone’s runaway real estate vehicle

• SPACs Collapse as $11B of Deals Are Called Off Within an Hour

• Rising thefts at Walmart could lead to price jumps, store closures, CEO says

Gubmint / Poilitcks / Law Making

• DOE Touts $200M Grant to Lithium Battery Company as Boon to American-Made Clean Energy. The Company Operates Primarily From China.

• The last time the US faced a debt fight this bad it lost its AAA rating

Russia Bad / Ukraine War

• US Altered Himars to Keep Ukraine from Firing into Russia

• Ukraine appears to expose Russian air defence gaps with long-range strikes

• Agents of Influence: How Russia Deploys an Army of Shadow Diplomats