2023-01-26

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• Ancient Alien Linguistics, The Pyramids, and Radio Antennas

  Stargate, the movie, is a touching documentary about a young James Spader’s deep, personal relationship with a mutant yak.

• Asteroid 2023 BU: Space rock to pass closer than some satellites

  • NASA predicts asteroid to make one of closest approaches to Earth ever recorded

  • Earth will have 'a close encounter' with an asteroid tonight, NASA says

• Breakdancing will debut at the Summer Olympics in Paris next year

Horseshit

• Earth’s inner core stopped turning and could go into reverse, study suggests

celebrity gossip

• How Hollywood Helped Create, and Destroy, ‘Time’s Up.’

Rank Propaganda / Thought Policing / World Disordering

• The Alarming Rise of Dangerous Speech – The Markup

Musk

• Elon Musk’s Epic Quest for LOLs Is Only Hurting Tesla

• The third-party apps Twitter just killed made the site what it is today

• Wikipedia – Elon Musk more popular than Sex

• Ad spending on Twitter falls by over 70% in Dec – data

Trump / War against the Right / Jan6

• Facebook, Instagram Will Reinstate Trump’s Accounts With ‘Guardrails’.

• Gosh golly and gee, ‘newly leaked video’ of Ray Epps on J6 at the U.S. Capitol seems IMPORTANT (watch) – twitchy.com

Pestilence / Pox / COVID / VaxCult

• "Directed Evolution"? Pfizer R&D Exec Says Covid-19 Created In Wuhan, Is 'Cash Cow' For Company | ZeroHedge

• Long Covid Is Keeping Significant Numbers of People Out of Work

• Global coronavirus death toll could be 60% higher than reported

Culture War / Tribal / Re segregation

• What’s the Matter with Men?

Edumacationalizing / Acedemia Nuts

• Stanford student may need to ‘acknowledge harm’ for reading ‘Mein Kampf’

Media / ShowBiz / Advertising

• Drug maker paid for “news” story on CBS’s 60 Minutes, doctors’ group alleges

TechSuck

• T-Mobile advised to stop using ‘fast’ and ‘reliable’ in fixed wireless ads

• Fun with Gentoo: Why don't we just shuffle those ROP gadgets away?

Crypto con games

• Circling Tether - Doomberg

Economicon / Business / Finance

• Levine: NYSE Forgot to Open Yesterday Archive link

  Anyway in the grand scheme of things this doesn’t matter: Yesterday’s opening did match buyers and sellers, over time, and find the market price, just in a harrowing and chaotic way. If you traded at the wrong price, it mattered to you, since you made or lost money, though a lot of those trades will be busted because they were “clearly erroneous.” NYSE has a sensible market structure for its 9:30:00 a.m. trading, and a sensible market structure for its 9:30:01 a.m. trading, and they are very different, and if you mix them up you get a mess.

  • NYSE Tuesday opening mayhem traced to a staffer who left a backup system running

  • HN comments

• Google job cuts include 27 massage therapists

• German software giant SAP to cut 3k jobs

• Two in Three Americans Couldn’t Cover $400 Emergency

• Where have all America’s workers gone?

• Chipotle Goes on Hiring Spree of 15,000 Amid Strong Growth

  • HN comments

• U.S. economy expands at 2.9% annual rate in fourth quarter

• IBM to cut about 3,900 workers while still hiring in ‘higher growth’ areas

  • IBM Announces 3,900 Job Cuts

• Takeaways from the layoffs hitting Big Tech

• IBM and SAP are cutting thousands of jobs

Gubmint / Poilitcks / Law Making

• ‘Incredibly Suspicious’: Detailed Hunter Biden Email Raises Questions Amid Classified Docs Scandal.

  • There’s no hiding Biden’s fright over classified document scandal

• Convenient Timing: Pelosi Sold $3 Million of Google Stock Weeks Before DOJ Launched Antitrust Probe.

• Justice Department was prepared to seek warrant had Biden not consented to home search, sources say | CNN Politics

  The FBI’s unprecedented search of President Joe Biden’s home in Wilmington, Delaware, resulted from high-stakes discussions between the Justice Department and Biden attorneys over when and how it would take place, sources familiar with the matter tell CNN.

Law Breaking / Police / Internal Security

• An AI robot lawyer was set to argue in court. Real lawyers shut it down

  • HN comments

World

• Actually, Japan has changed a lot - by Noah Smith

• El Salvador fully pays off $800M debt due January 2023

Russia Bad / Ukraine War

• In change of course, U.S. agrees to send 31 Abrams tanks to Ukraine

• M1 Abrams Tanks in U.S. Inventory Have Armor Too Secret to Send to Ukraine

• Russian warship with ‘unstoppable’ 7 kmph hypersonic missiles 'sails towards US'

• Britain sounds alarm on Russia-based hacking group

• New Missile Barrage Pummels Ukraine As Russia Vows US-Made Tanks "Will Burn"

• Will Ukraine Wind Up Making Territorial Concessions to Russia?

Health / Medicine

• The Human Microbiome Might Be Contagious

• Rural residents have 19% higher risk of heart failure than urban counterparts

  Researchers said a multitude of factors may be at play, including structural racism, inequities in access to health care, and a dearth of grocery stores that provide affordable and healthy foods, among others.

Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda

• EU Approves Sneaking Powered Insects into Food

• EV Hype Overshadows Public Transit as a Climate Fix

• $1T Green Investment Matches Fossil Fuels for First Time