2022-12-13

Cool

• DOE SEC. Granholm to Announce Major Fusion Energy Breakthrough 10:00 Am EST

  • With historic explosion, a long sought fusion breakthrough

Horseshit

• $949 price for Dyson air-purifying headphones more absurd than device itself

Musk

• Elon Musk Responds to Being Booed During Dave Chappelle’s Show in San Francisco

• Goodbye, Twitter

  This is exactly how it’s supposed to work, as I’ve been arguing for years. Twitter — or whoever runs it — has rights. I have rights. If one of us disagrees with the other’s exercise of rights, we can part company. That, not government regulation, is the way to do it. I’m repulsed by the flood of triumphant bigotry and trolling, and by Musk’s sad-lonely-boy leaning into the arms of freaks who embrace him in his fruitless quest for love. But I’d never ask the government to stop it. I’m voting with my feet, exactly the way I’ve been telling people to do for years.

• Musk's Fauci tweet angers medical Twitter

• Twitter has dissolved its Trust and Safety Council

• Other Twitter Troubles

• Tesla: Our ‘failure’ to make actual self-driving cars ‘is not fraud’

• Tesla Investors Voice Concern over Elon Musk’s Focus on Twitter

• Musk’s Twitter disbands its Trust and Safety advisory group

Culture War / Tribal / Re segregation

• Why Black People Are Overrepresented in Ads

• Cambridge Dictionary updates definition of 'woman'

Edumacationalizing / Acedemia Nuts

• Why hasn’t technology disrupted higher education already?

  • HN comments

• Loudoun grand jury indicts ousted Superintendent Scott Ziegler following report on sexual assault response.

Media / ShowBiz / Advertising

• Dungeons and Dragons executives think “the brand is under monetised”

• Washington Post caught stealth-editing report that initially labeled Matt Taibbi, Bari Weiss ‘conservative.’

Crypto con games

• The doctor who helped take down FTX in his spare time

• King and queen of the crypto con may be turning on each other.

• FTX Bankruptcy Means $73M in Political Donations at Risk of Being Clawed Back

• Former FTX CEO Bankman-Fried arrested in Bahamas, U.S. to unveil charges

  • Sam Bankman-Fried, FTX’s founder, is arrested in the Bahamas

  • SBF Arrested by Bahamian Authorities | Hacker News

• The Full Testimony Bankman-Fried Planned to Give to Congress

• SEC Charges SBF with Defrauding Investors in Crypto Asset Trading Platform FTX

• Binance temporarily suspends USDC withdrawals

  • HN comments

  • Binance temporarily halts withdrawals of stablecoin USDC

  • Crypto Exchange Binance Experiences Sharp Increaser in Customer Withdrawals

  • Binance freezes withdrawals of stablecoin USDC as investors pull $2B

  • HN comments

• South Korea says crypto fugitive Do Kwon is hiding in Serbia

• FTX’s inner circle had a secret chat group called ‘Wirefraud’

• Watch Live: New FTX CEO Throw SBF Under The Bus In Congressional Hearing | ZeroHedge

• The Justice Department Faces Questions After Effectively Preventing Bankman-Fried from Testifying in Congress – JONATHAN TURLEY

  This is the first time that I can recall where the prosecutors, rather than defense counsel, moved effectively to muzzle a defendant.

• The United States of America vs. Samuel Bankman-Fried Indictment Unsealed | Hacker News

• CFTC piles on with new charges against Bankman-Fried

Economicon / Business / Finance

• WeWork’s Once Robust Cash Reserves Have Dwindled, Raising Chances of Default

• Vegetable Prices Soar 40% as Crops Fail Under Extreme Weather

Gubmint / Poilitcks / Law Making

• SEC Chairman Gensler Scrubbed Evidence Of Clinton, Soros And Pelosi Meetings: FOIA Lawsuit | ZeroHedge

• The ‘Smart’ Party Never Learns, if your views are by definition enlightened

• Recount confirms Lauren Boebert narrowly held her House seat.

Law Breaking / Police / Internal Security

• Very Interesting – The Laughing Wolf

External Security / Militaria / Diplomania

• Biden’s chip curbs outdo Trump in forcing world to align on China

World

• Data centres to get one hour’s notice to halve power usage – Business Post

• New Zealand bans cigarettes for future generations

Health / Medicine

• Fentanyl is now the leading cause of death for Americans ages 18 to 49

Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda

• Nationwide winter storm set to bring everything from blizzards to tornadoes