2023-01-21

etc

• Irreproducible, Accumulative Hacks

celebrity gossip

• Queen Elizabeth II left a ‘secret’ letter that will stay unopened until 2085

• Buzz Aldrin marries on his 93rd birthday: Astronaut legend ties the knot for a fourth time | Daily Mail Online

Musk

• Twitter is down to fewer than 550 full-time engineers

• Elon Musk says Twitter now has 2,300 'active, working employees'

Pestilence / Pox / COVID / VaxCult

• Japan to consider downgrading Covid to same level as seasonal flu

• China says Covid outbreak has infected 80% of population

• New Email Release Shows Experts Believed Covid Could Have Come From Lab Leak

• Unredacted NIH Emails Show Efforts to Rule Out a Lab Origin of Covid

• Vaccine Safety: 57% Want Congress to Investigate CDC

• With a Chinese vaccine, not our mRNA ones: After four shots, Covid jabs sharply reduced immune function in mice

• Why is Britain falling behind Europe on excess deaths?

• 2022 Was a Normal Year for Mortality in England and Wales

• Elon Musk Shares Personal Experience with Serious Vaccine Side Effects

  • HN comments

Culture War / Tribal / Re segregation

• The Domestic Terror Attacks You Haven’t Heard About

Media / ShowBiz / Advertising

• Paper Map Sales Are Booming

TechSuck

• clever: One-Piece Tank Chassis Pushes Print-in-Place To New Heights

• NOPs with side effects: An instruction oddity in the ppc64 (PowerPC 64-bit) architecture | Hacker News

• My Husband Was Right About DVDs All Along | Hacker News

Crypto con games

• Crypto Banks Borrow Billions from Home-Loan Banks to Plug Shortfalls

• Feds seize almost $700M of FTX assets in Sam Bankman-Fried criminal case

Economicon / Business / Finance

• Layoffs in some of Apple's retail channels has begun

  • Apple Has So Far Avoided Layoffs: Lean Hiring, No Free Lunches

• Peak Gasoline Heralds Price Shocks for Drivers, Inflation Headaches

Gubmint / Poilitcks / Law Making

• IRS Free File: Do Your Taxes for Free | Hacker News

• Time for Truth and Reconciliation on the Russia Collusion Hoax

  • "firey" IP thread

• The 2024 Election may be a vote over who you want to jail, Trump or Biden

External Security / Militaria / Diplomania

• Opinion: The World Has Fallen for the Taliban’s Lies Once Again

• US Could Defend Taiwan from China – At Great Cost

World

• Suspected paedophile ring at Met Police as serving chief inspector is found dead

• China’s Global Mega-Projects Are Falling Apart

Russia Bad / Ukraine War

• US to designate Russia’s Wagner as a ‘transnational criminal organization’

• There is no path to lasting Russian victory

• Why Germany is struggling to stomach the idea of sending tanks to Ukraine

Health / Medicine

• Could Ultrasound Replace the Stethoscope?

  • HN comments

• What to Know About PFAS in Period Underwear

Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda

• An El Nino in 2023 will be worse for climate than anything in last few years

• A Critical Examination of the Six Pillars of Climate Change Despair | Watts Up With That?

• Grizzly bears test positive for bird flu in Montana, officials say