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• Flights made unscheduled loops in the sky to show passengers northern lights

Horseshit

• US Pedestrian Death Rate Increased 9x Faster Than Population 2019 to 2022 | Hacker News

• The 20-Somethings Fueling a Stick-Shift Renaissance

• America Is Trying to Electrify. There Aren’t Enough Electricians

  • HN comments

Rank Propaganda / Thought Policing / World Disordering

• Inside the New Right’s Next Frontier: The American West | Vanity Fair

• Opinion: Bernie Sanders is right about capitalism

Musk

• SpaceX Falcon rocket aces 100th consecutive rocket landing.

• China’s CCP warns Elon Musk against sharing Wuhan lab leak report.

• I Watched Elon Musk Kill Twitter’s Culture from the Inside

• How Elon Musk has missed his targets on delivering affordable cars

Pestilence / Pox / COVID / VaxCult

• CDC says it's in a 'posture of readiness' amid bird flu pandemic fears | Daily Mail Online

• CCP government ‘intentionally released’ Covid-19

• FBI chief Christopher Wray says China lab leak 'most likely'

  • FBI chief Wray confirms agency’s belief Covid came from Chinese lab leak

  • HN comments

  • 'Potential lab incident': FBI director Wray speaks publicly on Covid origin

• The Journalists Who Smeared Tom Cotton Over Lab Leak Theory

• The Lockdown Files

• No One Knows How Much Covid Is Silently Spreading Again

• What does the science say about the origin of the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic?

• CDC Refuses to Answer House GOP Questions About Codes to Track Reasons Why Americans Turn Down the COVID-19 Jabs.

• How did they know about testing for Covid-19 in 2015? | Hacker News

  Patents can cite a priority filing date, and that's what happened here. The filing at the original date can have a different name than the final filing. The filing did not have the phrase COVID-19 until May 17, 2020.

  • nice of multiple folks to pop up and so quickly explain that detail.

Culture War / Tribal / Re segregation

• Add pronouns to your GitHub profile

Edumacationalizing / Acedemia Nuts

• Takeaways from Supreme Court oral arguments in cases challenging Biden’s student loan forgiveness

  • Supreme Court seems ready to reject student loan forgiveness

Media / ShowBiz / Advertising

• Substack reaches 2M paid subscriptions

• OpenAI Is Now Everything It Promised Not to Be: Closed-Source, and For-Profit

  • HN comments

• TikTok to limit under 18s to 60 minutes of screen time per day

TechSuck

• HN Jobs:

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

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

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

• AMD Zen2 ymm registers rolling back | Hacker News

• Swarm M138 Modem – Swarm Technologies

  137-138 MHz (downlink), 148-150 MHz (uplink)

• Qualcomm CEO says he’s expecting Apple to use its own modems in iPhones in 2024

Crypto con games

• Investors pull around $6B out of Binance's stablecoin

Economicon / Business / Finance

• QE has become ‘Hotel California’ for central banks

• Apartment Rents Fall as Crush of New Supply Hits Market

  • HN comments

• Mortgage demand from homebuyers drops to a 28-year low

Gubmint / Poilitcks / Law Making

• The House was supposed to grow with population. It didn’t. Let’s fix that

• Lori Lightfoot eliminated in Chicago mayor's race - Washington Times

External Security / Militaria / Diplomania

• “Havana Syndrome” not caused by foreign adversary review finds

World

• At least 36 dead, scores injured as trains collide in Greece

• China’s collapsing birth and marriage rates reflect a people’s deep pessimism

• ‘Stockpile food and water’: South Africa faces ‘civil war’ conditions if power grid collapses.

• A Pound of Sugar Approaches 200 pesos ($8.30) on the Informal Cuban Market.

Russia Bad / Ukraine War

• Military and financial support to Ukraine hits a record high

• The stage is set for Hybrid World War III

• Russia fines Wikipedia for publishing facts instead of Kremlin war propaganda

Health / Medicine

• Eli Lilly to Cut Prices of Insulin Drugs by 70%

• More Young People Are Getting Colorectal Cancers, and Doctors Don’t Know Why

Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda

• Can We Make Bicycles Sustainable Again? | Hacker News

• Goodbye Business as Usual: Rethinking My Career for the Climate

• Greta Thunberg has joined a protest against wind farms. Here’s why

• Show HN: Our Favorite Websites Are Contributing to Climate Change