2023-01-05

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• Melted butter clogs Wisconsin canal after dairy plant fire

Horseshit

• Many parts of a Christmas tree are edible

Rank Propaganda / Thought Policing / World Disordering

• Capsule Summaries of all Twitter Files Threads to Date, With Links and a Glossary.

• How to Take the Twitter Files to Court: File a class action against federal agents seeking an injunction against social-media censorship efforts.

Musk

• Twitter said it fixed ‘verification.’ So I impersonated a senator (again)

Pestilence / Pox / COVID / VaxCult

• New Covid Boosters Aren’t Better Than Old Ones, Study Finds

Edumacationalizing / Acedemia Nuts

• Public Schools Lost More Than One Million Students During Pandemic

TechSuck

• AUTOMATIC1111's GitHub Account Suspended For "TOS Violations" | Hacker News

• Slack's private GitHub code repositories stolen over holidays | Hacker News

Crypto con games

• U.S. DOJ in process of seizing Robinhood shares tied to Bankman-Fried

• FTX Bahamas vs. John Ray, Bankman-Fried pleads not guilty, DOJ seizes FTX assets

• Silvergate Raced to Cover $8.1B in Withdrawals During Crypto Meltdown

• Influencers outshine traditional media on coverage of FTX implosion

Economicon / Business / Finance

• MMT Is Dead. It Must Now Be Buried for Good.

• Amazon to Lay Off over 17,000 Workers, More Than First Planned | Hacker News

  • Amazon has raised the number of jobs it plans to cut 18,000

Shortages

• Tennessee Valley Authority apologizes for rolling blackouts, vows investigation.

Gubmint / Poilitcks / Law Making

• McCarthy Set To Lose Sixth Vote For Speaker

  • House adjourns until 8 p.m. without a speaker after McCarthy loses 6th vote

Law Breaking / Police / Internal Security

• Two Charged In Christmas Day Attacks On Washington Power Grid | ZeroHedge

  This doesn't appear to have been an attack with political motivations. Authorities say Greenwood confessed that the scheme was aimed at facilitating their burglary of a business. Having knocked out the power, the duo allegedly traveled to the place of business, drilled out a lock and emptied the cash register.

External Security / Militaria / Diplomania

• Iranian attack drone found to contain parts from more than a dozen US companies

World

• Battered by Covid, China Hits Pause on Giant Chip Spending Aimed at Rivaling US

Russia Bad / Ukraine War

• Ukraine pleads with allies to send tanks as fighting grinds on in east

Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda

• Californians Warned to Stay Off Roads as Major Storm Looms

• No, Humans Are Not Causing a “Sixth Mass Extinction”

• How can we stop the super-rich from polluting the planet?