2023-01-15

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• NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test Is a Smashing Success | Hacker News

• At Least 68 Dead In Nepal Plane Crash After Aircraft Plummets Into Gorge

• Mars Is Rich in Extraterrestrial Gems That Could Point to Alien Life, NASA Finds

Horseshit

• Donkeys, a neglected animal, are having a moment – and they deserve it

• (Nov 2022) If the Media Reported on Other Things Like It Does Effective Altruism

Rank Propaganda / Thought Policing / World Disordering

• Those Russian Twitter Bots Didn’t Do $ % in 2016, Says New Study

• In Emails to White House, Facebook Admits Suppressing ‘Often-True Content’

Pestilence / Pox / COVID / VaxCult

• China reports 60,000 Covid-related deaths, says peak passed

• They Promised “Safe and Effective”, We Got “Sudden and Unexpected”

• COVID Vaccines Are "Obviously Dangerous" And Should Be Halted Immediately, Say Senior Swedish Doctors

• CDC now says it's 'very unlikely' Pfizer booster has stroke risk after review

• New study offers even more proof lockdowns were deadly.

• Omicron subvariant XBB possibly more likely to infect the vaccinated: officials

• Dr. Leana Wen writes that COVID deaths are being overcounted

• Struggling to grieve my father's Covid death – until I smelled cigarette smoke

• How Epidemics End

• After three years of covering Covid, I built my own air filter

• Multiple Young Athletes And Former Athletes Died Suddenly This Past Month

Culture War / Tribal / Re segregation

• Cousin of Black Lives Matter co-founder dies from being tased by police

• $5M for each longtime Black resident? S.F. reparations plan to consider

Edumacationalizing / Acedemia Nuts

• School Searched 6-Year-Old's Backpack Before He Shot Teacher | ZeroHedge

  “The book bag for the student was searched after it was reported that he potentially had a weapon," said Newport News Superintendent George Parker. “At least one administrator was notified of a possible weapon.”

Media / ShowBiz / Advertising

• Facebook’s systems promoted violence against Rohingya; Meta owes reparations

• Medium embraces Twitter alternative Mastodon with launch of its own community

• HBO Max’s Great Looney Tunes Purge

• "Last time I'm participating" - Max Verstappen fumes as he forcibly retires from virtual 24 hours of Le Mans - The SportsRush

TechSuck

• Ask HN: How do you trust that your personal machine is not compromised?

Crypto con games

• FTX lawyer says Sam Bankman-Fried's 'backdoor' discovered

• FTX Arena, Home of the Miami Heat, Redubbed Miami-Dade Arena

Economicon / Business / Finance

• Apple Card responsible for more than $1 billion in losses - 9to5Mac

• USDA Reveals US Corn-Harvested Acres At 2008 Levels Amid Megadrought | ZeroHedge

• Increases in egg prices likely caused by Avian Flu culling chicken populations

• Globalisation, already slowing, is suffering a new assault

• Companies, Lenders Clash over Loan Spreads in Switch from Libor

Gubmint / Poilitcks / Law Making

• THE NEW REFORM CLUB: Some Biden-related questions no one seems to be asking?

• More classified documents found at Biden’s home by lawyers

• Guccifer Speaks Out After Nearly a Decade Behind Bars

• Hunter Paid $50k/Month in Rent for Biden Home Where Classified Docs Were Stored

• Biden Used Classified Documents Accusation Against Carter CIA Nominee

• Five unanswered questions about Biden’s classified documents

  Crucially, there was a long stretch when the whole issue remained unknown to the public. The first CBS story came almost 10 weeks after the initial discovery. Politically speaking, the problem is not only the passage of time in itself. It’s that the first documents came to light six days before the midterm elections.

  In Biden’s case, the documents were promptly returned to the National Archives upon being discovered. In Trump’s case, the fate of those documents was subject to a long battle.

Law Breaking / Police / Internal Security

• 9/11 and the quest for power turned the FBI into a political weapon

• ATF Declares Braced Pistols Illegal, Demands Registration Or Face Jail Time | ZeroHedge

External Security / Militaria / Diplomania

• Obama’s Chilling Description of US Involvement in the '65 Indonesia Massacre

World

• German riot police clear protesters for coal mine expansion

  • HN comments

• (Sep 2022) To Defend Democracy, Is Brazil’s Top Court Going Too Far?

Russia Bad / Ukraine War

• Unexploded grenade removed from Ukrainian soldier's chest

• How Ukraine became a laboratory for Western weapons and battlefield innovation

• Mother Russia: Maria Lvova-Belova, the Putin Ally Deporting Ukrainian Children

• NYTimes Accidentally Leaked Phone Numbers of Russian Soldiers Criticizing War

Health / Medicine

• US vaccination decline continues: 250k kindergarteners vulnerable to measles

• New study offers even more proof lockdowns were deadly.

• The Surprising Reason for the Decline in Cancer Mortality

Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda

• Don’t believe this week’s denials. Progressive Democrats really are coming for your kitchen appliances.

• Ocean heat warming equal to 5 atomic bombs exploding “every second” for a year

• Private jet emissions sky-high at Davos, group says