2022-12-15

Worthy

• The rise and fall of peer review - by Adam Mastroianni

  • HN comments

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• The federal government owns much of the West – and that's a housing opportunity

Horseshit

• A dark online Sandy Hook subculture is growing

• “Hardly seen as human at all”: will fantasy ever beat its dwarfism problem?

• Are Mushrooms the Future of Alternative Leather?

  • Real leather market is so bad that prime hides are waste and not worth the investment of tanning them; so obviously there's a demand for fake leather that costs more?

celebrity gossip

• Epstein Island: Newly Unsealed Evidence of Abuse

Rank Propaganda / Thought Policing / World Disordering

• WordPress discussed deplatforming The New York Post after Hunter Biden story

Musk

• Ask HN: Why Twitter is not releasing “Twitter files” to the public? | Hacker News

• Yoel Roth Flees Home After Musk Accuses Him Publicly as Pedophile

• “We’ve updated our policy to prohibit sharing someone else’s live location.” | Hacker News

• Elon Musk gave $5.7B to charity last year

  • Musk’s $5.7B Mystery Gift Went to His Own Charity

• Elon Musk sells yet another $3.58B of Tesla shares

• So when will Jack Dorsey be indicted for lying to Congress?

• Why the ‘Twitter Files’ Are Falling Flat

• A 1941 book explains Elon Musk’s Twitter takeover

• Starlink Now Selling Pricey High-Performance Dish to Residential Users

• We’re witnessing the brain death of Twitter

• Twitter bans popular flight tracking service ADS-B Exchange

Trump / War against the Right / Jan6

• Trump’s ‘major announcement’ tease is for release of digital card collection

  • Donald Trump Digital Trading Card NFTs

Pestilence / Pox / COVID / VaxCult

• WHO estimates 14.83M excess deaths associated with Covid-19

• COVID origins ‘may have been tied’ to China’s bioweapons program.

• China’s Great Covid-19 Wave Has Begun

• Covid is here to stay, but global emergency could end next year, WHO chief says

Edumacationalizing / Acedemia Nuts

• 9 million people received emails that mistakenly said their student loan forgiveness was approved.

Media / ShowBiz / Advertising

• A newspaper vanished from the internet. Did someone pay to kill it?

• Epic is turning off online services and servers for some older games | Hacker News

• Pornhub’s 9th Year in Review

• Reddit files to take the company public

Crypto con games

• Parents of Sam Bankman-Fried face scrutiny over their roles in FTX

• Bahamian authorities were tipped off by top Bankman-Fried associate

• GitHub account authored code that hid Alameda’s liabilities

• Bitcoin has rallied. What are crypto’s true believers still smoking?

• Binance founder insists ‘business as usual’ after $1B pulled out in a day

• FTX Spokesman Kevin O’Leary Blames Competitor for Collapse in Senate Hearing

• Cryptocurrency Is the Segway of Finance

• Sam Bankman-Fried Got What He Wanted

• No One Is Happier About Sam Bankman-Fried’s Downfall Than the Bitcoin People

• The amateur sleuths who helped bring down Sam Bankman-Fried

Economicon / Business / Finance

• FOMC Hikes By 50bps, Hawkishly Signals Rates Will Go Higher-For-Longer

• Can you raise a family on one income? - Econlib

• Rail Workers Oust Union President Who Backed Labor Deal

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• Largest monthly rental decline closes the door on two years of rent increases

• Securities trader charged in New York with front-running employer's trades

• Swiss central bank hikes interest rates by 50 basis points

• ECB raises rates to 2% and warns of more increases to come

• Men without college degrees dropping out of work; viewed jobs as status threat

Gubmint / Poilitcks / Law Making

• Hunter Biden’s Laptop and 2020’s First Big Lie Archive

• Vote Recount Flips Massachusetts Midterm Race From Republican To Democrat By 1 Vote

Law Breaking / Police / Internal Security

• Handwritten complaint to the court by alleged CIA Vault 7 leaker

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• Long read on how the fentanyl crisis became so bad

External Security / Militaria / Diplomania

• China's older chip tech buildup raises U.S. concern

World

• China’s War Against Taiwan Has Already Started

• Tokyo makes solar panels mandatory for new homes built after 2025

• Erdogan Rival Handed Nearly 3-Years In Prison For "Insulting" Election Authority

• Antismoking Law in New Zealand Sets New Frontier in Battle over Cigarettes

Russia Bad / Ukraine War

• Satellite images show newly built Russian fortifications

• US finalizing plans to send Patriot missile defense system to Ukraine

• UK Military Publicly Admits Covert Operations In Ukraine For First Time

• GPS signals are being jammed in Russian cities

Health / Medicine

• Human Metabolism Research Upends Conventional Wisdom about How We Burn Calories

• Harmful fungal toxins in wheat: a growing threat

Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda

• Maryland couple fights home owners assoc. and wins ushering in new state law

• Colorado goes cage-free for eggs, joining trend in other states | Washington Examiner

• Wetland emission and atmospheric sink changes explain methane growth in 2020

• Ask HN: Why aim for reducing climate change? | Hacker News

• ‘The Grievers’ of Climate Change