2022-12-23

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• Exploitation and misery in America's weed industry

• Can Dogs Smell Time?

Horseshit

• Meta employee pays $300K for 12-year lease on cruise ship

Obit

• Transgender rights activist Henry Berg-Brousseau dies aged 24

Rank Propaganda / Thought Policing / World Disordering

• Facebook and Google are riddled with ex-CIA agents, many ex-FBI work at Twitter

• Epik, the far-right’s favorite hosting service, is now keeping Kiwi Farms alive

Musk

• George Hotz resigns a month after starting a 12-week internship at Twitter

  • HN comments

• Elon Musk says he will not sell more Tesla stock for another two years

• Twitter's top global policy official departs as layoffs continue

• Musk’s Campaign to Win Back Twitter Advertisers Isn’t Going Well

• The FBI and Twitter - by Arnold Kling - In My Tribe

• Ask HN: Why is Tesla stock dropping? Meta? | Hacker News

• German government should control Twitter

• “Conspiracy Theorists…Attempting to Discredit the Agency”: The FBI Attacks Critics Objecting to its Role in Twitter’s Censorship System  – JONATHAN TURLEY

• Twitter’s new view counts for tweets offer measurement without meaning

Trump / War against the Right / Jan6

• Rapper who used Capitol riot pose as album cover sentenced to 5 months in prison

• Post Politics Now: Fallout continues from Jan. 6 report that blames Trump for deadly riot

• George Santos’ Bio Remains Murky—But He Did Work at Dish Network: Report

• Jan 6 Committee Unveils 845-Page Report Damning Trump & His Supporters One Last Time

Pestilence / Pox / COVID / VaxCult

• China lacked a ‘zero COVID’ exit plan. Its people are paying the price.

• Biden ‘Determined’ to Hide Coronavirus Origins, Expert Says.

• China Is Likely Seeing 1M Covid Cases, 5k Deaths a Day

• China estimates 250M people have caught Covid in 20 days

Media / ShowBiz / Advertising

• Netflix buys former Army base to create $850M production studio in New Jersey

• Sanderson shares intimate details about contracting with publishing industry

• Meta agrees to pay $725M to settle lawsuit prompted by Cambridge Analytica

TechSuck

• 40 Years of PCMag: An Illustrated Guide

• ChatGPT no longer displays a clear left-leaning political bias

Crypto con games

• Sam Bankman-Fried Released on $250M Bond with Restrictive Terms

• SBF judge is married to law partner of firm that arranged the FTX-BlockFi deal

• Bankman-Fried's Shrinking ‘$250M Bond’ | Hacker News

Economicon / Business / Finance

• Wall Street landlords who've stockpiled $110B are lying in wait for home-buying

• America needs immigrants to solve its labor shortage

Shortages

• Rolling blackouts affecting various East Tennesseans | wbir.com

Gubmint / Poilitcks / Law Making

• Biden hopes Christmas will ‘drain the poison that has infected our politics.’

• What's in the $1.7T federal spending bill

• US election agency approves use of NFTs as campaign fundraising incentive

Law Breaking / Police / Internal Security

• What We Found in the New JFK Files

World

• France starts a debate on legalising assisted dying

Russia Bad / Ukraine War

• No conclusive evidence Russia is behind Nord Stream attack

Health / Medicine

• First came a viral storm. Now, we have puzzling superinfections

Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda

• Florida Iguanas Could Fall From Trees on Christmas Weekend

• WPC's Short Range Public Discussion

  .Historic winter storm to produce widespread disruptions to large portions of the nation heading into the holiday weekend... .Over 200 million people, or roughly 60% of the U.S. population, are under some form of winter weather warnings or advisories across the U.S..

• A 47-degree drop in Denver in 2 hours. Here are some of other dramatic changes

• Winter storm in US and Canada will bring frostbite within minutes

• Historic biodiversity agreement reached at UN conference

• Snowfalls are now just a thing of the past (2000)