2023-01-06

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• Why are antennas popping up over the Salt Lake City foothills? | Hacker News

• My bad habit of hoarding information | Hacker News

• Luck, Tesla design likely saved family that plunged off cliff, experts say

• ‘Remember your training’: teen pilot makes emergency landing on Route 66

Horseshit

• Why Paul Ehrlich got everything wrong

• Self-Driving Cars Are a Natural Fit for Rural America

celebrity gossip

• DAMAR HAMLIN UPDATE: Buffalo Bills player asked in writing if team won the game, doctors said

  • AP sources: NFL will not resume Bills-Bengals game

• Hillary Clinton will join Columbia University as a professor in 2023.

Obit

• Carl Hewitt has died | Hacker News

Rank Propaganda / Thought Policing / World Disordering

• Latest ‘Twitter Files’ Reveal ‘Struggle’ With Public Agencies, and Adam Schiff’s Push to Censor Journalist

Musk

• Elon Musk says Twitter staff 'error' led to hiring Perkins Coie law firm

Trump / War against the Right / Jan6

• FBI Increases Reward To $500,000 For Info About Capitol Hill Pipe-Bomb Suspect

• Social Security numbers of Trump officials, allies posted in Jan. 6 files.

Pestilence / Pox / COVID / VaxCult

• Harvard Med research on mRNA vax spike protein undermines fact-checkers, COVID censorship | Just The News

• China Covid: Young people self-infect as fears for elderly grow

• Who killed the Covid vaccine waiver?

• CDC Finds Hundreds of Safety Signals for Pfizer and Moderna Covid-19 Vaccines

Media / ShowBiz / Advertising

• Dungeons and Dragons' New License Tightens Its Grip on Competition

TechSuck

• The (Almost) Definitive 486DX/50 Article

  • HN comments

• Whatever Happened to Google Search?

• useful updater code: Google open sourced CDC File Transfer from the ashes of Stadia

Crypto con games

• Bad news for thousands of crypto investors: They don’t own their accounts

Economicon / Business / Finance

• OpenAI in talks for tender offer valuing company at $29B

• Housing market enters freeze as half of homes sell below list price in Seattle

• U.S. job growth solid in December; wage growth slows

• US NatGas Prices Slide To 18-Month Low On Warm Spell; Some Models Forecast Cold Blast In Weeks

• Samsung Profits Plunge 69% As Global Chip Demand In 'Full-Fledged Ice Age'

Gubmint / Poilitcks / Law Making

• Day Three: House Speaker Vote Ties 100-Year Record As Ninth Round Kicks Off

  • McCarthy fights to lock down a deal in longest speaker contest in 164 years

  • Meet Cheryl Johnson, the House clerk managing the speaker votes

• Biden Administration Touts Drained Emergency Oil Reserves as Top 2022 Accomplishment

Law Breaking / Police / Internal Security

• Walgreens exec admits it may have overblown threat of retail theft

External Security / Militaria / Diplomania

• Russian hackers targeted U.S. nuclear scientists

World

• Brazil first lady ‘shaken’ by state of presidential palace after Bolsonaro

Russia Bad / Ukraine War

• Putin orders weekend truce in Ukraine; Kyiv won’t take part.

Health / Medicine

• Microbial Community Dynamics and Potential Shopping Mall Microbial Pollutants

Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda

• World’s first vaccine for honeybees gets US Government approval

• Climate change puts more women at risk for domestic violence