2022-12-25

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• Reminder: Husbands, It’s Time To Start Christmas Shopping

• Merry Christmas, HN | Hacker News

• The cold hard truth about electric vehicles in winter | Hacker News

• Is it cheaper to cook with an air fryer?

• Pub-crawling Santas get armoured vehicle stuck in Cornish hedge | Cornwall | The Guardian

• Want to know “How to spend a secular Christmas?” The Washington Post has you covered!

Rank Propaganda / Thought Policing / World Disordering

• Matt Tabbai drops new round of TwitterFiles showing depths of gov’t meddling (‘this is insane’) – twitchy.com

  • THE TWITTER FILES: Clandestine Government Agency Edition | ZeroHedge

• The Spies Who Loved Twitter

• The FBI was the primary link between the intelligence community and Twitter | Hacker News

Musk

• Elon Musk is disconnecting random Twitter-servers just to see what happens | Hacker News

• Elon Musk Warns Against Margin Debt on Risk of Market ‘Mass Panic’

• Twitter API hacked, user database being sold online | Hacker News

• Americans Are Realizing Tesla Isn’t the Only Electric Car

Pestilence / Pox / COVID / VaxCult

• China stops publishing daily Covid figures amid reports of explosion in cases

• Apple’s business under growing threat from China’s Covid wave

Culture War / Tribal / Re segregation

• (Jul 2022) Redpill Op: How online White Supremacists ruined 4chan

  My childhood, as the prodigal son of shyster, militia general, and future Savior of America Stewart Rhodes, was awful in ways that differ from what is generally expected.

  • HN comments

Edumacationalizing / Acedemia Nuts

• Medieval Manuscripts Provenance: "Nobody cares about your blog!"

  • HN comments

Media / ShowBiz / Advertising

• The Atlantic introduces dynamic paywall with varying prices

TechSuck

• The UKHO intends to withdraw from paper chart production by 2026

  • HN comments

• Kickstarter shuts down campaign for Unstable Diffusion amid changing guidelines

Crypto con games

• Judge in SBF criminal trial has recused herself | Hacker News

Economicon / Business / Finance

• FTC orders Mastercard to open debit transactions to competing payment networks

Shortages

• US Declares Texas Grid Emergency in Arctic Blast

  • HN comments

• Utilities Impose Rolling Blackouts As US Power Grid In Emergency Amid Cold Blast

  Tennessee Titans delayed the home game against Houston Texans over power concerns.

  It is 20° in Memphis, TN & we are stuck in what is now a 6 hour "rolling blackout"... on Christmas Eve.

• Climate Alarmism Behind Christmas Energy Shortages: Never forget that Ebenezer Scrooge was inspired by Thomas Malthus.

Gubmint / Poilitcks / Law Making

• Kari Lake Loses Arizona Election Appeal, Vows To Appeal | ZeroHedge

World

• ‘I stopped saying Xi’s name out loud’: Why a correspondent had to flee China

• China stages 'strike drills' around Taiwan, citing provocation

Russia Bad / Ukraine War

• Ukrainians struggle to find and reclaim children taken by Russia

Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda

• America's Coldest Christmas Eve Ever

• Subpoenaed Fossil Fuel Documents Reveal an Industry Stuck in the Past

• 2022 Atlantic hurricane season ends, Quieter than Usual