2022-12-10

etc

• Can Duolingo actually teach you Spanish?

  • HN comments

Horseshit

• The Wrong Americans Are Buying Electric Cars

• Exclusive satellite images show Saudi Arabia's sci-fi megacity is well underway

  • HN comments

celebrity gossip

• Tennessee’s Tamari Key out for season with blood clots in lungs.

• American journalist Grant Wahl dies after collapsing at Qatar World Cup | CNN

  • Grant Wahl last article “They just don’t care.” | Hacker News

Rank Propaganda / Thought Policing / World Disordering

• Gun Shops And Customers Claim Credit Card Firms "Restrict" Firearm Purchases

Musk

• The Twitter Files, Part II: The Shadowban Protocols

• Twitter Files: Trump

  • ACE on The Twitter Files: The Road to the Removal of Donald Trump

  • THE TWITTER FILES: The Removal Of Donald Trump, Part 1 | ZeroHedge

• Musk Confirms Political Candidates Were Shadow Banned By Twitter’s Censors

• Bari Weiss Twitter Files Reveal Systematic ‘Blacklisting’ of Disfavored Content

• The Twitter Files are damning to the government

• Twitter working on a software update that will show if you’ve been shadowbanned

• Shadowbanned Scientist Jay Bhattacharya: Twitter Harmed Science By Banning Debate on COVID, Censorship Led To Tremendously Bad Policies.

Pestilence / Pox / COVID / VaxCult

• From Fear to Self-Reliance: Behind China’s Covid-19 Shift

Edumacationalizing / Acedemia Nuts

• Can Duolingo actually teach you Spanish?

  • HN comments

Crypto con games

• SBF funded crypto news site The Block and its CEO's Bahamas apartment

• Rivals Worried SBF Tried to Destabilize Crypto on Eve of FTX Collapse

• Bankman-Fried ‘would give anything’ to start new business to help FTX users

• Binance Is Trying to Calm Investors, but Its Finances Remain a Mystery

Economicon / Business / Finance

• Some retail store credit cards now carry APRs of more than 30%

• Ford Disbands Argo AI Autonomous Vehicle Unit, Posts Loss

World

• Russia and Iran in full defence partnership

• Bags of cash found at the home of the European Parliament vice-president

Russia Bad / Ukraine War

• Pentagon gives Ukraine green light for drone strikes inside Russia

Health / Medicine

• Juul to Pay $1.7B in Legal Settlement