2023-03-22

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• Hyundai promises to keep buttons in cars | Hacker News

• Oumuamua Was a Comet After All, a Study Suggests

Horseshit

• Why it’s so hard to build new electrical transmission lines in the U.S.

• The biggest lie the rich ever told? That money can’t buy you happiness

celebrity gossip

• When Your Dog Pays the Mortgage

Rank Propaganda / Thought Policing / World Disordering

• For Five Straight Years, the Pulitzer Prizes Have Rewarded Misinformation

Trump / War against the Right / Jan6

• THE COLUMN: The Leaving of It | The Pipeline

• Midjourney Allegedly Banned a Journalist After He Created AI Images of Trump Arrest

Pestilence / Pox / COVID / VaxCult

• Moderna expects to price its Covid vaccine at about $130 in the US

• The full analysis of newly uncovered genetic data on Covid’s origins

Media / ShowBiz / Advertising

• Amazon layoffs will shut down camera review site DPReview.com after 25 years

• Oliver Stone Releases Trailer for His Pro-Nuclear Energy Movie

• Microsoft wins dismissal of gamers' suit over $69B Activision deal

• FCC Fines 15 Year-Old Pirate Radio Station in NYC $2M

TechSuck

• Intel graphics chief Raja Koduri leaves after five years battling Nvidia and AMD

• 2023 Turing Award Given to Bob Metcalfe for Invention of Ethernet

  • HN comments

• Why LLaMa Is A Big Deal | Hackaday

Economicon / Business / Finance

• How the Swiss ‘trinity’ forced UBS to save Credit Suisse

• First Republic Shares Plunge After-Hours As Restructuring Plans Fizzle

• The Federal Reserve is expected to increase interest rates by a quarter point

  • HN comments

• Will Fed raise rate today?

• Brace for the S&P 500 to plunge 50% as the 'everything bubble' bursts

• America’s banks are missing hundreds of billions of dollars

  • HN comments

• Banks as Collateral Damage in a Class War - System Change

• Home Prices Fell in February for First Time in 11 Years | Hacker News

• Federal Reserve to increase interest rates by 25 basis points

  • Fed Raises Rates Amid Banking Turmoil

  • Fed hikes rates by 0.25 point despite recent turmoil in the banking sector

Gubmint / Poilitcks / Law Making

• To Tame the Debt and Inflation, We Need to Increase Taxes

• US says too early to know if legislation necessary on banking crisis

Health / Medicine

• March 21 Update–Extensively Drug-resistant P aeruginosa Assoc w Artificial Tears

Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda

• Crypto carbon emissions could be even higher this year than last

• Pressures of extreme polygamy may be driving southern elephant seals to death

• More than 120k power outages reported in California

• New climate paper calls for charging big US oil firms with homicide