2022-12-22

Worthy

• Think wider about the root causes of progress

etc

• Europe's Vega rocket crashes back to Earth - BBC News

• Big Chemistry: Liquefied Natural Gas | Hackaday

• Winter Solstice – When Is Winter 2022 / 2023?

• Why electric vehicles need EV-specific tires

• O Holy Crap

  • HN comments

Horseshit

• Knowing the difference between lies and bullshit

• Children are more exposed than adults to non-photographic pornography websites

Obit

• Mike Hodges, Director of 'Flash Gordon' and 'Get Carter,' Dies at 90

Rank Propaganda / Thought Policing / World Disordering

• Free speech is not in peril in America

• The Intoxicating Pleasure of Conspiratorial Thinking

• Artificial intelligence and the looming misinformation society

Musk

• Elon Musk expects Twitter to be 'cash flow break-even' next year

• Elon Musk Still Silencing Journalists He Banned from Twitter

• TwitterFiles Part 7 – FBI and DOJ Worked To Discredit Reports of Hunter Biden’s Foreign Business Dealings

• Musk’s Distraction Just One of Tesla’s Problems

• TwitterFiles is becoming a conspiracy theory

• Musk’s Twitter is ‘stirring up’ polarisation

• I am humbled, honored, and frankly still in shock to be the new CEO of Twitter

• Tesla doubles discounts on mainstay vehicles to $7,500 in U.S.

• Musk Lifted Bans for Thousands on Twitter. Here’s What They’re Tweeting

• Elon Musk claims the FBI paid Twitter to 'censor info from the public.'

• Tesla's Market Cap Drop Is Bigger Than The Legacy Car Industry | ZeroHedge

• Musk's Twitter Drama Isn't Over

Trump / War against the Right / Jan6

• BitChute: Is this Theft? BANKS won't give us our money

Pestilence / Pox / COVID / VaxCult

• Sean Penn: ‘It’s Time to Send Unvaccinated Citizens to Jail’

Culture War / Tribal / Re segregation

• Men do not understand risks of gender reform, says UN expert

• SEC Calls FTT Exchange Token a Security

Edumacationalizing / Acedemia Nuts

• The war on merit takes a bizarre turn

  • HN comments

Media / ShowBiz / Advertising

• Mark Zuckerberg will split Meta and take the verse

• Firefox and Tumblr join rush to support Mastodon social network

• YouTube Cements Its TV Shift with NFL Sunday Ticket $2B a Year, Seven-Years Deal

• Mastodon is hurtling toward a tipping point

Crypto con games

• Sam Bankman-Fried Transferred to U.S. Custody

• We Just Discovered Caroline Ellison and Gary Wang Turned on SBF

• Full CFTC Complaint Against SBF, Caroline Ellison, and Gary Wang

• Sam Bankman-Fried's exgirlfriend, FTX cofounder plead guilty to criminal charges

  • FTX co-founder and former CEO at Alameda Research plead guilty to fraud

  • Caroline Ellison and Gary Wang are cooperating in the criminal case against SBF

  • HN comments

  • Caroline Ellison Throws SBF Under The Bus: Pleads Guilty To Fraud, Agrees To Cooperate With The DOJ | ZeroHedge

• SEC Heightening Scrutiny of Auditors’ Crypto Work

• Ellison And Wang likely to be freed on $250k bail after FTX fraud pleas

Economicon / Business / Finance

• Micron to Cut 10% of Workforce as Demand for Computer Chips Slumps

• Home Sales Tumble for Tenth Straight Month as Americans Face Mortgage Rate Surge.

• AMC plunges after theater company announces capital raise, reverse stock split

• Dow drops 500 points as December sell-off continues

Gubmint / Poilitcks / Law Making

• Congress's latest budget: The 5 most absurd things slipped in

  The budget bill allocates $200 million for a “Gender Equality and Equity Fund,” of which some of the funds “shall be made available for programs to promote democracy and for gender equality in Pakistan.”

• Ex-Google boss helps fund dozens of jobs in Biden’s administration

• The FDA’s Lab-Test Power Grab

Law Breaking / Police / Internal Security

• FBI Says Twitter Infiltration Business As Usual , Slams 'Conspiracy Theorists' | ZeroHedge

• Judge pauses SEC case in alleged NJ deli stock fraud in favor of criminal probe

World

• Some Turkish Banks Are Now Giving Out Free Money

• German Officials Blame Gas Shortage on Consumers, warn “People Will Feel the Cost of The Energy Crisis Hard”.

• Japan’s changing nuclear energy policy

Russia Bad / Ukraine War

• Evidence In Nord Stream Sabotage Doesn't Point To Russia: Washington Post

• US to send $1.8B in aid, Patriot battery, to Ukraine

• Putin blames 'third' countries for Ukraine war in address

• The Russian Military Unit That Killed Dozens in Bucha

• Ukraine’s Patriot Missiles Will Take “Several Months” to Arrive

• Sixty years on from the Cuban missile crisis, Putin has not learnt its lessons

Health / Medicine

• Scientists tie third clinical trial death to experimental Alzheimer’s drug

• American life expectancy is now at its lowest in nearly two decades

• Why Many Cold Medicines Don’t Work to Relieve Congestion

Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda

• 'Once-in-a-generation' winter storm will impact nearly every state

• Weather conditions across the U.S. mean bomb cyclones are possible