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• Sea urchin sperm is surprisingly useful to robotics experts.

• Orion Splashes Down in Pacific, Ending NASA’s Historic Artemis 1 Moon Mission

Horseshit

• Designed for Rural Living | Cornell Research

  • HN comments

• Why the Age of American Progress Ended

• Artificial womb facility concept for 30k babies per year | Hacker News

• EPA Is Hunting Performance Shops and Diesel Tuners

celebrity gossip

• Viktor Bout: Russia's released arms dealer joins ultranationalist party

Musk

• Twitter Files 4.0 reveal how executives changed policies to permanently ban Trump - World News

• The Great Delusion Behind Twitter

• The fact that Twitter is running well with headcount down significantly matters | Hacker News

• The Twitter Files: The Corporate Media Ignores The Biggest Story Of The Decade | ZeroHedge

  The bottom line is this: According to the Bill of Rights, it is illegal for agents of the US government to obstruct the free speech of law abiding American citizens. It does not matter if the action is done by using “private businesses” as middlemen. And, if a private business is colluding with government to implement political policy then it is no longer a private business. Twitter was participating in a form of treason, along with the agencies that they cooperated with. It's a huge story, and one that should lead to punishment for those involved.

• Elon Musk booed at David Chapelle show

  • Elon Musk booed off stage at a Dave Chappelle show

• Ask HN: What Is going on with Elon? | Hacker News

• Tesla’s Brand Is Suffering as Elon Musk Tries to Save Civilization

• Musk Goes Full QAnon

  • HN comments

  • Twitter battle over child porn claims recalls QAnon - The Washington Post

• Yoel Roth's "secret dirty account"

• Twitter Files Part 5: The Removal of Trump from Twitter

  • thread link maybe

Pestilence / Pox / COVID / VaxCult

• Coming to terms: The Covid lockdowns were all for naught

• …our results suggest that crowded living quarters – which can occur at any level of population density – and not density itself, increase the risk of COVID hospitalization.

• Sweden Saved Children from Lockdown

Edumacationalizing / Acedemia Nuts

• Finally, The Gibson’s Bakery Family Has Been Paid By Oberlin College.

Media / ShowBiz / Advertising

• People on TV Are Harder to Hear, but You Can Fix That

• The Complicated Man Who Made 'Rudolph'

TechSuck

• Raspberry Pi inventory improving, could reach pre-pandemic levels in 2023

Crypto con games

• U.S. Justice Department is split over charging Binance as crypto world falters

• Investors withdraw record levels of coins from crypto exchanges

• The Role of SBF's Parents Joseph Bankman and Barbara Fried in FTX's Rise

Economicon / Business / Finance

• The Federal Reserve’s Artificial Recession

• Carvana sees 98% of its market value evaporate

• Rivian pauses plans to make electric vans in Europe with Mercedes-Benz

• US Vegetable Prices Soar Nearly 40% as Water Cuts Crush Supply.

Shortages

• Now Driving You Mad at the Car Dealership: A Shortage of Title Paper

Gubmint / Poilitcks / Law Making

• "Egregious": McCarthy To Subpoena 51 Intel Agents Who Called Hunter Laptop Bombshell 'Disinformation'

• Patrick Hynes: How serious are NH Dems about saving the primary? | Columnists | unionleader.com

  By now readers know that President Joe Biden and the Rules and Bylaws Committee of the Democratic National Committee have reshuffled the 2024 presidential primary to punish the Granite State and strip us of our traditional first in the nation status.

  The official stated reason for doing this is that we have too many White people. Don’t take my word for it. Here’s Biden on the matter: “We must ensure that voters of color have a choice in choosing our nominee much earlier in the process and throughout the entire early window.”

• $36B federal bail-out rescues pensions of truckers and others

Law Breaking / Police / Internal Security

• Who Is Purposely Sabotaging Power Plants All Over America? | ZeroHedge

World

• Globalization Is Dead and No One Is Listening

• China Maps Out Plans to Put Astronauts on the Moon and on Mars

Russia Bad / Ukraine War

• ADL contradicts years of own reporting, defends neo-Nazi Azov Battalion

Health / Medicine

• THC and CBD improve wound healing, may be valuable as skin rejuvenators, study

Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda

• How We Turned Pigeons into Pests

• Australia's lowest summer temp on record

• Degrowth can work – here’s how science can help

• When coyotes attacked, a dog killed 8 of them, saving a flock of sheep

• U.S. to announce major breakthrough in zero-carbon nuclear fusion energy

• 'Firmageddon': Researchers find 1.1M acres of dead trees in Oregon