2023-02-01

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• More than 1,600 Tuesday flights canceled as winter weather hits the US

• Boeing delivers last 747 as fans celebrate plane that changed air travel

• San Francisco is getting cold feet about self-driving car tests | Hacker News

Horseshit

• Is ‘Workism’ Dooming Civilization? Notes on the New Pew Parents Study

• AI tool used to spot child abuse allegedly targets parents with disabilities

• Bleach Is Toxic, but Plenty of Americans Are Still Drinking It

Obit

• Food Innovator Bob Born – Creator of Peeps – Dead

Rank Propaganda / Thought Policing / World Disordering

• The Astounding Saga Of Hamilton 68 Illustrates Scope Of America’s Institutional Rot.

• The Website That Wants You to Kill Yourself – and Won’t Die

• Pakistani gov degrades Wikipedia connections due to blasphemy | Hacker News

• “Objectivity Has Got To Go”: News Leaders Call for the End of Objective Journalism – JONATHAN TURLEY

Musk

• Dissecting Elon Musk’s Tweets: Memes, Rants, Private Parts and an Echo Chamber

Trump / War against the Right / Jan6

• Prestigious Liberal Watchdog Condemns New York Times' Russiagate Coverage | ZeroHedge

• Tinfoil hat media - Your Daily Don Surber

• Trump’s Best Foreign Policy? Not Starting Any Wars - WSJ

Pestilence / Pox / COVID / VaxCult

• Biden to end US Covid-19 emergency declarations on May 11

• Time for the scientific community to admit we were wrong about Covid

  • HN comments

• Army’s ‘information warfare’ unit monitored Covid lockdown critics

• Response To Alexandros Contra Me On Ivermectin

Culture War / Tribal / Re segregation

• Do You Want Cancel Culture to Exist? - Freddie deBoer

Edumacationalizing / Acedemia Nuts

• Hide your books to avoid felony charges, Florida schools tell teachers

Media / ShowBiz / Advertising

• Meta shutting down its most popular VR game

• Firearms channels embrace Rumble as YouTube starts censoring videos

TechSuck

• HN Jobs:

  • Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2023)

  • Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (February 2023)

  • Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (February 2023)

• Intel Cuts Employee Pay to Maintain Quarterly Dividend

  • Intel slashes wages, bonuses after disastrous quarterly results

• When Discord is open in the background, graphics card memory clocks will not reach full speeds | NVIDIA

Crypto con games

• Sam Bankman-Fried accused of possible witness tampering | Hacker News

Economicon / Business / Finance

• PayPal lays off 7% of staff

  • HN comments

  • PayPal to lay off 7% of its workforce, about 2,000 employees

  • PayPal to lay off 2k employees in coming weeks, about 7%

• The Great Fraud Reckoning, Sam Bankman-Fried Was Just the Start

• Adani Stock, Bonds Meltdown As Credit Suisse Halts Margin Loans

• Rivian Lays Off 6% of Workforce

• Federal Reserve Slows Interest Rate Increases

Gubmint / Poilitcks / Law Making

• BOMBSHELL: FBI Searched the Penn Biden Center in November, White House Misled the Public – RedState

• FBI Searches President Biden's Luxury Beach House For Classified Documents | ZeroHedge

• “FDA officials told reporters Tuesday that they do not expect anyone at the FDA to be fired or reassigned over the infant formula shortages.”

External Security / Militaria / Diplomania

• US Says Russia Violating Start Nuclear Treaty

World

• UK economy to shrink more than Russia, predicts IMF

• Missing radioactive capsule found in Australia

• British Columbia becomes first province in Canada to decriminalize heroin

  • Heroin use no longer a crime in Vancouver – and the results are already dramatic

Russia Bad / Ukraine War

• The new shock of Russia’s war in Ukraine: Genocide fatigue

Health / Medicine

• One in Eight US adults are addicted to highly processed food, survey suggests

• What New Weight Loss Drugs Teach Us About Fat and Free Will

• Erectile Dysfunction Drugs Could Protect Men's Hearts

Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda

• Which Wetlands to Protect? Supreme Court Will Soon Decide