2022-12-24

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• Things to argue about over the holidays instead of politics

  • HN comments

Horseshit

• For the rich and famous, private jets are no longer private enough

Rank Propaganda / Thought Policing / World Disordering

• Trump, Bankman-Fried and Musk are the monsters of American capitalism

Musk

• Musk ordered removal of suicide-prevention advisories on Twitter, sources say

• Journalists who won’t delete Musk tweets remain locked out of Twitter

• Twitter's CIA-linked Strategic Response Team Head Deletes LinkedIn Profile In Response To Twitter Files Drop

• Here's Who helped Elon Musk buy Twitter

• Elon Musk’s Jet Has a Twitter Account Tracking It Again–With a 24-Hour Delay

• California passes law banning Tesla from calling software FSD | Hacker News

• Why Twitter abandoned view counts back in 2015, when first they tried it

• Twitter restores suicide-prevention hotline feature after outcry

• Twitter brings Elon Musk's genius reputation crashing down to earth

Trump / War against the Right / Jan6

• Pelosi's Office Was Directly Involved In Failed Jan. 6 Security, Texts And Emails Reveal | ZeroHedge

Pestilence / Pox / COVID / VaxCult

• China: Fever meds in short supply, hospitals overwhelmed, blood shortage

Edumacationalizing / Acedemia Nuts

• Utah axes degree requirement for 98% of civil servant jobs.

TechSuck

• The situation at LastPass may be worse than they are letting on

  • HN comments

  • LastPass admits attackers have a copy of customers’ password vaults

• Bill Introduced to Replace HF Symbol Rate Limit with Bandwidth Limit

Crypto con games

• Caroline Ellison, CEO of Alameda Research, pleads guilty to seven offences | Hacker News

• Where Did FTX's Missing $8B Go? Crypto Investigators Offer New Clues

• How Sam Bankman-Fried got bail

  Bail works completely differently for federal white-collar defendants than for poor people accused of crimes in a state court — where bail can be arbitrary without regard to ability to pay, and is often punitive and used to try to coerce the defendant into pleading guilty. This is the sort of bail most people will have heard about, and that seems to be the source of the confusion.

  A huge number of these African enterprises kept their cryptos at FTX — the blockchain contingent at the World Economic Forum promoted FTX in particular. That’s all gone now, and everyone’s wrecked.

Economicon / Business / Finance

• Great News NFL Fans: Avocado Prices Have Crashed | ZeroHedge

• Deadly, dirty, indispensable: the nitrogen industry has changed the world

• Feds probing Hertz for allegedly renting cars under recall

• Why aren't wages rising in a tight labor market?

Shortages

• A deep dive into what’s behind TVA’s unprecedented rolling blackouts in the face of not-unusually cold weather.

  • TVA reinstates rolling blackouts for Nashville Electric Service, other companies

Gubmint / Poilitcks / Law Making

• IRS delays $600 1099-K reporting for another year

  • IRS delays tax change for Venmo, Cash App users

• TikTok banned on government devices under spending bill passed by Congress

  • HN comments

• Cannabis is legal in most America but federal laws block businesses from banks

External Security / Militaria / Diplomania

• Joe Biden: Iran nuke deal is 'dead' but he can't announce it

World

• ‘Worse than feared’: Brexit to blame for £33B loss to UK economy, study shows

Russia Bad / Ukraine War

• The Brutal Alternate World in Which the US Abandoned Ukraine

Health / Medicine

• New federal food label law has unintended effect: Sesame now in more foods

  Food industry experts said the requirements are so stringent that many manufacturers, especially bakers, find it simpler and less expensive to add sesame to a product — and to label it — than to try to keep it away from other foods or equipment with sesame.

  • HN comments

Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda

• Power Outages, Flight Delays as US Storm Leaves Chaos Behind