2023-03-10

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• 'Repair Cafes' in Mass. build community by restoring busted home goods

• Microbiologist Investigates After Her Beef Soup Turned Blue In The Fridge | IFLScience

Horseshit

• WWE in talks with state regulators to legalize betting on scripted match results

• E-Trikes Are Coming to Rescue the Aging Suburbs

• NASA monitoring asteroid that may collide with Earth on Valentine's Day in 2046

celebrity gossip

• DA refutes claims that 'Rust' gun was destroyed - ABC News

Rank Propaganda / Thought Policing / World Disordering

• Dems Blast "Threat" Of "So-Called Journalists" As Taibbi, Shellenberger Expose "State-Sponsored Thought-Policing"

• The dumbest five minutes of Congress, ever: Dems demand sources from journalists who exposed government-media censorship complex – HotAir

• Visa, Mastercard Pause Work on Code Aimed at Tracking Gun Purchases

• Democracy Needs Free Speech

Musk

• Elon Musk Is Spiraling

• Musk said Twitter would open source its algorithm:then fired the developers

Pestilence / Pox / COVID / VaxCult

• Restrictions on state public health authorities

  Conservative and libertarian forces have defanged much of the nation’s public health system through legislation and litigation as the world staggers into the fourth year of covid.

• Zoo lion transmits Covid to its keepers

Culture War / Tribal / Re segregation

• White drivers are polluting the air breathed by L.A.’s people of color

Edumacationalizing / Acedemia Nuts

• The Myth of the Campus Coddle Crisis: The Coddling of the American Mind

• Grade inflation lures parents to new locations, inflating real estate prices

• Allegations of Scientific Misconduct Mount as Physicist Makes His Biggest Claim | Hacker News

Media / ShowBiz / Advertising

• Sales of vinyl albums overtake CDs for the first time since the late ’80s

TechSuck

• Visual ChatGPT

  • HN comments

Crypto con games

• More than $70B wiped off crypto market in 24 hours as BTC drops 8% below $20K

• Crypto Bank Silvergate Announces 'Voluntary Liquidation'

• Starbucks sold 2k NFTs in 20 minutes – coffee not included

Economicon / Business / Finance

• GM offers buyouts to ‘majority’ of U.S. salaried workers

• America's Top% Has Taken $50T from the Bottom 90%

• Moderna to hire around 2k employees amid mRNA development push

• U.S. Economy Added 311,000 Jobs in February, Unemployment Rate Ticks Up to 3.6%

• Bank run on Silicon Valley Bank? | Hacker News

  • SVB Financial Realigns Portfolio–and Blows Up the Banking Sector. Stock Halted

  • Bank Run on SVB – Nasdaq Halts Stock

  • Silicon Valley's Burning Bank

  • 11a: Silicon Valley Bank is shut down by regulators, FDIC to protect insured deposits

  • FDIC Takes over Silicon Valley Bank

  • HN comments

  "Imagine raising $100m for your AI enabled dog washing app - and your bank sets it on fire before you can".

  • 300 Billion Reasons Why SVB Contagion Is Spreading To The Broader Banking System | ZeroHedge

• First Republic, PacWest Plunge Amid Wider Bank-Stock Selloff

External Security / Militaria / Diplomania

• Final redacted CIA “Family Jewel” accidentally revealed via JFK files

• Saudi Arabia Seeks U.S. Security Pledges, Nuclear Help for Peace with Israel

World

• Cartel suspected of American kidnappings issues apology letter

• Joint Trilateral Statement by Saudi Arabia, Iran and People’s Republic of China

Russia Bad / Ukraine War

• Russia pummels Ukraine with array of high-tech weaponry in nationwide assault

• The Nord Stream Andromeda Story: What We Know and What We Don’t

• Nord Stream Blast Probe in Germany Centers on Sailboat, Crew

  • HN comments

• Nord Stream: the tanker Minerva Julie spent 7 days idling near the attack site

• Russia sending some US-provided weapons captured in Ukraine to Iran, sources say

Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda

• ‘Extraordinary’ sighting of orca with baby pilot whale astounds scientists

• BBC will not broadcast Attenborough episode over fear of rightwing backlash

• A level 4 of 4 warning of excessive rainfall issued in some California areas