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• The Rise of Steel - Part I - by Brian Potter

  • HN comments

• Previously hidden sunspot unleashes colossal X-class solar flare as it turns to face Earth.

• Virgin Orbit Plans Its First UK Boeing 747 Satellite Launch for Monday

• There’s a Reason Moving in Before Marriage Makes Divorce More Likely

• If you like startups you should love anti-trust

  • HN comments

Horseshit

• Social contagions can cause genuine illness, and TikTok may be a superspreader

• Why millennials and Gen Z are helping lead the zero-proof drink surge

Obit

• Woman believed to be oldest in U.S. has died at 115 years old

• Creative founder Sim Wong Hoo, the man behind Sound Blaster, has died - The Verge

Musk

• Twitter Cuts More Staff Overseeing Global Content Moderation

• Elon Musk Is Bad at Running Tesla, Too

• Elon Musk drove more than a million people to Mastodon

Pestilence / Pox / COVID / VaxCult

• Most people who ended up with long Covid started with mild case, new study shows

Culture War / Tribal / Re segregation

• The Quiet Right

Edumacationalizing / Acedemia Nuts

• Hundreds of teachers had sex with students in Chicago alone.

TechSuck

• Who-T: X servers no longer allow byte-swapped clients (by default)

  • HN comments

Crypto con games

• ‘The money is gone’: Bahamas tries to turn page after FTX

Economicon / Business / Finance

• Record share of Americans have $1k monthly car payment

• McDonald's CEO says layoffs are coming

• Tech workers had their pick of jobs for years. That era is over for now

Law Breaking / Police / Internal Security

• Bump Stock Ban Regulation Isn’t Authorized by Federal Law, Says Fifth Circuit En Banc.

• Media Blackout Over Terror Incident At Vegas Power Plant | ZeroHedge

World

• Brazilian demonstrators break through the blockade and invade Congress

Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda

• Why can't we capture all this stormwater?