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• Amish Farmer Amos Miller Wins Battle in War for Food Freedom in US Appeals Court

• NASA Robot Sends One Of The Saddest Tweets You Have Ever Seen

• 6.4 magnitude earthquake shakes Northern California

• Beware of Bargin Bin Tools

Horseshit

• New York Times slammed over 'swastika' crossword on first day of Hanukkah

• Senator asks Gabe Newell why Steam hosts so much Neo-Nazi content

• Against Homeownership

• The Golden Age of Cocaine Is Happening

• Having kids makes you happier, but only when they move out

Musk

• Twitter Files pt 7

• FBI paid Twitter $3.5 million to snitch on and silence its own customers.

• THE TWITTER FILES: How FBI Primed Execs With "Russian Disinformation" Disinformation Ahead Of Hunter Biden Bombshell

• Twitter Files Part 7: The Guns Begin to Smoke

• The Cathedral Turns Torquemada On Elon Musk

• Elon Musk invited to testify in the European Parliament

• Tesla Buyers Are Bailing Because of Elon Musk

• Elon Musk’s $44B education on free speech

  • HN comments

• Elon Musk Breaks Silence After Twitter Users Vote for His Resignation

• Why Petulant Oligarchs Rule Our World

• Policy polls will be limited to Twitter Blue subscribers

• Elon Musk actively searching for a new Twitter CEO, sources say

• Jack Dorsey: Twitter was defenseless against a takeover by Elon Musk

• Elon Musk breaks silence after 10M Twitter users vote for him to step down

• Billionaires Are a Security Threat

• The Dangers of Censoring Real-Time Flight Trackers

• Elon Musk started looking for a new Twitter CEO before polling the site’s users

• Cops Cast Doubt on Musk’s Claim That ‘Crazy Stalker’ Followed His Son

• Open source magical thinking – Notes from Cloud City

• Musk Asks Schiff If He Approved 'State Censorship'; Advocates Modern 'Church Commission' To Investigate FBI Corruption | ZeroHedge

• Elon Musk appears to back out from Twitter poll voting him out

• Ask HN: Are there valuable insights from the Twitter files?

Trump / War against the Right / Jan6

• January 6 Committee Refers Trump to DOJ for Criminal Prosecution.

• A man behind Trump World’s myth of rigged voting machines

Pestilence / Pox / COVID / VaxCult

• Actor Tim Robbins Expresses Regret For His Support Of Covid Authoritarianism | ZeroHedge

• The pandemic’s indirect effects on small children could last a lifetime

• How Lockdowns Made Us Sicker

• “THERMONUCLEAR BAD” Covid situation in China getting out of control

• China battles to keep hospitals open for Covid patients

• No One Knows What’s Inside the Smallpox Vaccine

Culture War / Tribal / Re segregation

• John Cleese on How Wokeness Smothers Creativity

Edumacationalizing / Acedemia Nuts

• Stanford University: List of harmful words to eliminate from use

  • Stanford's “Elimination of Harmful Language” Initiative | Hacker News

TechSuck

• How did Roomba-recorded photos end up on Facebook? | Hacker News

• FTC fines Fortnite maker Epic Games $520M over children’s privacy concerns

• Ask HN: Host a website from a living room in 2022?

• cohost! - "How to draw ugly lines really fast"

  • HN comments

Crypto con games

• FTX founder SBF has agreed to be extradited to the US

• Scoop: ProPublica to Return SBF Funds

Economicon / Business / Finance

• Dow falls more than 300 points as hope for a year-end rally dwindles

• Amazon stock gives up last of its pandemic gains after almost 50% slump in 2022

• Cathie Wood's ETFs lost investors more than $1B before this year wipeout

• The Era of Cheap Oil Has Come to an End

• Has the pendulum swung from capital to labour?

• Auto executives are less confident in EV adoption than they were a year ago

• Wells Fargo to pay $3.7B over consumer loan violations

  • Wells Fargo to Pay $3.7B for Mistreating Customers

• Americans are draining the money they saved during the pandemic

• Nearly half of Americans age 18 to 29 are living with their parents

• Bank of Japan stuns markets with yield control policy change

Shortages

• Automotive chip shortages to continue throughout 2023, industry says

Gubmint / Poilitcks / Law Making

• US Postal Service to purchase 66,000 electric delivery vehicles in major shift

Law Breaking / Police / Internal Security

• Swatters used Ring cameras to livestream attacks, taunt police, prosecutors say

• Information Operations Targeting 2022 U.S. Midterm Elections Include Trolling, Narratives Surrounding Specific Races, Politicians | Mandiant

External Security / Militaria / Diplomania

• America Should Once Again Become a Manufacturing Superpower

World

• Our tanks are kaputt, German general warns

• France bans disposable packaging, utensils in fast-food restaurants

• Germany convicts 97-year-old woman of Nazi war crimes

Russia Bad / Ukraine War

• Putin bolsters Belarus as Kyiv eyes assault from the north

• Three dead as blast shuts part of Russia-Ukraine gas export pipeline

Health / Medicine

• Wastewater samples show effectiveness of crackdown on codeine in Australia

• CDC admits lockdowns, mask mandates and school closures may be fueling Strep A outbreak in the US.

Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda

• Arctic blast this week brings the coldest Christmas in nearly 40 years for millions

• How the race for Covid vaccine enriched monkey poachers and endangered macaques

• 3M to exit PFAS manufacturing by 2025

• Big oil behind conspiracy to deceive public first climate racketeering suit says