2022-12-21

Horseshit

• Kids’ ward evacuated after pensioner shows up at A&E with World War One bomb up his ase

celebrity gossip

• Harvey Weinstein Found Guilty Of Rape, Sexual Assault In Los Angeles Trial

Obit

• "After dropping from 800lb to 400lb in a year" Star Of Body-Positivity Show Dead From Heart Failure At Age 37 | ZeroHedge

Rank Propaganda / Thought Policing / World Disordering

• That mean person on the internet might be a paid troll

Musk

• TWITTER FILES: Twitter Assisted Pentagon's "Psychological Influence Ops"

• Documents show Twitter let US Government accounts run propaganda campaigns

• More Twitter Files: Intelligence Community Pressure Campaign against Twitter

• Police provide first official details of Elon Musk’s alleged stalker incident

• No, the FBI Is Not ‘Paying Twitter to Censor’

• Police say member of Elon Musk's security team is a suspect in stalker case

• Elon Musk states he will resign as CEO

• Investor in Musk's Twitter buyout expects to make up to five times its money

• Elom Musk Suggests He Lost “Should I Resign” Twitter Poll Because of Fraud

• Elon Musk is using Twitter Files to discredit foes and push conspiracy theories

• Musk Confirms He’ll Resign as Twitter CEO After Successor Found

  • Elon Musk to quit as Twitter CEO when replacement found

  • Elon Musk says he'll resign as Twitter CEO–eventually

• Elon's Stale Playbook

Trump / War against the Right / Jan6

• Dems Dump Trump Tax Data In Tuesday Night Release | ZeroHedge

Pestilence / Pox / COVID / VaxCult

• Zero-Covid to zero deaths: China alters coronavirus counts

• China Covid infection surge puts end of global emergency in doubt

• More doses, more COVID

Culture War / Tribal / Re segregation

• War on wokeness: the year the right rallied around a made-up menace

Edumacationalizing / Acedemia Nuts

• Twitter changed science – what happens now it’s in turmoil?

• Supreme Court likely to 'dismantle' student loan forgiveness after it hears case

Media / ShowBiz / Advertising

• 'Westworld,' 'The Nevers' Canceled and Pulled from HBO Max, Avoiding Residuals

• She was an ABC News producer. She also was a corporate operative

TechSuck

• Signed distance functions in 46 lines of Python

Crypto con games

• Sam Bankman-Fried will fly from Bahamas to US Wednesday to face criminal charges

• Core Scientific, One of Largest Bitcoin Miners, Files for Bankruptcy Protection

• Crypto Giant Binance Offers Little Transparency After FTX Collapse

• The fall of FTX shocked everyone. Except this guy

• Sam Bankman-Fried’s Extradition Approved by Judge

• Binance caught commingling funds between US and international exchanges

  • HN comments

Economicon / Business / Finance

• BOJ jolts markets in surprise change to yield curve policy

• Microsoft to buy 4% of London Stock Exchange in 10-year platform deal

Gubmint / Poilitcks / Law Making

• US Postal Service to Buy 66K Electric Trucks by 2028 After Initial Backlash

• Sorry About Those Jobs | Power Line

  The Biden administration vastly overstated its estimate that employers created more than 1 million jobs in the second quarter of this year, claiming historic job growth when in fact hiring had stalled, according to a new estimate. Job growth was “essentially flat” in the second quarter with only 10,500 jobs added, the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia said.

• No one should be convicted for solving a problem the government refused to address

  • HN comments

Law Breaking / Police / Internal Security

• Are FBI And CIA Agents ‘Sheep Dipped’ At Twitter And Other Tech Companies?

External Security / Militaria / Diplomania

• Zelenskiy to meet congressional leaders in Washington on Wednesday

World

• Taliban ban university education for Afghan women nationwide

• Nazi typist guilty of complicity in 10,500 murders

Russia Bad / Ukraine War

• Russian oil exports crater by 54% in the first full week of the EU’s embargo amid a shortage of tankers willing to carry cargoes.

• How the algorithm tipped the balance in Ukraine

Health / Medicine

• (UK) “It’s not the system that’s breaking now, it’s the people.”

Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda

• Wild mammals are making a comeback in Europe

• Researchers find that groundwater gets recharged faster than expected