2023-04-12

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• Fire at NJ Recycling Plant Burns Hours After Causing Commuting Nightmare

• Indiana residents ordered to evacuate after fire ignites at recycling plant

Horseshit

• After 30 years, a father is exonerated in 'Satanic panic' case

• Yes, it's OK to be mad about crime in San Francisco

  • HN comments

Rank Propaganda / Thought Policing / World Disordering

• Ukrainian hackers say they have compromised Russian who hacked Democrats in 2016

• John Stossel: The Media and Politicians Keep Trying To Censor Things That Turn Out To Be True.

Musk

• At Twitter, Elon Musk Is Doing a Great Job of Disproving the Idea of Meritocracy

• Free Speech Twitter Is Now Globally Blocking Posts Critical of Indian Government

• Elon Musk tells BBC that owning Twitter has been quite painful

• Tesla's fifth price cut this year points to 'slowing demand,' analyst says

• Elon Musk admits he only bought Twitter because he thought he’d be forced to

• "You Just Lied!": Elon Crushes BBC Reporter's Claims About 'Hate Speech' On Twitter | ZeroHedge

  you can't give a single example of hateful content, not even one tweet. And yet, you claimed that the hateful content was high. That's false. You just lied!"

• NPR quits Twitter after being falsely labeled as 'state-affiliated media'

  • NPR quits Twitter after being labeled as 'state-affiliated media' | Hacker News

• Elon Musk reportedly bought thousands of GPUs for a Twitter AI project

Trump / War against the Right / Jan6

• Biden's America - A Society That Has Given Up on Itself

Pestilence / Pox / COVID / VaxCult

• China records first human death from H3N8 bird flu, WHO says

• UW Madison neglected to warn the public when a researcher got infected with H5N1

• China’s struggles with lab safety carry danger of another pandemic

Edumacationalizing / Acedemia Nuts

• Strike of over 9k Rutgers educators and researchers enters its third day

Media / ShowBiz / Advertising

• Now live for all: Substack Notes | Hacker News

• Eve Online player uses obscure rule to pull off biggest heist in game history

  • HN comments

• Mass Layoffs and Absentee Bosses Create a Morale Crisis at Meta

• Why can't Twitter be easily replaced? Something called 'network effects'

• HBO Max to Be Renamed ‘Max’ with Addition of Discovery+ Content

TechSuck

• Linux Patches Confirm Intel Meteor Lake Having an L4 Cache

• WordPerfect for Unix character terminals | Hacker News

• Intel Foundry and Arm announce collaboration on SoC design | Hacker News

Economicon / Business / Finance

• California to lend 20% down payments with 0% interest for homebuyers

• Banks are spooked and getting stingy about loans

• Walmart Announces Closure of Four Chicago Stores

• The reason trucks have taken over U.S. roadways

• Tumbling Money Supply Alarms Economists Who Foresaw Inflation

• Tupperware warns it could go bust without emergency funding

• U.S. Inflation Eased to 5% in March

  driven by falling (plummeting? -6.8%) energy prices.

• Next Wave of Remote Work Is About Outsourcing Jobs Overseas

• Buffett: Do not panic about U.S. banks and deposits

• Egg Prices Fall the Most Since 1987 After Recent Surge

• Credit Crunch Crisis Carpocalypse.

Shortages

• Secret limits to stop ‘suspicious’ Xanax and Adderall orders are forcing some legitimate patients to scramble.

Gubmint / Poilitcks / Law Making

• White House Proposes Evenly Cutting Water Allotments from Colorado River

• White House Tells Journalists They Have ‘No Business’ Reporting On Leaked Intel.

• New NASA Director Swears Oath on Carl Sagan’s ‘Pale Blue Dot’ Instead of Bible

  • HN comments

• Democrats Choose to Advertise Failures of Single-Party Democratic Rule by Holding the 2024 DNC in Chicago.

• Biden Admin Drains SPR For 2nd Week In A Row As Granholm Confirms Refilling Plan | ZeroHedge

• Howie Carr: RFK Jr., the outcast Kennedy, has Dems reeling.

Law Breaking / Police / Internal Security

• OSHA Cites Dollar General Store For "Dangerous Safety Hazards" | ZeroHedge

• San Francisco Whole Foods is closing over crime

External Security / Militaria / Diplomania

• Ukraine war: Leak shows Western special forces on the ground

• An Online Meme Group Is at the Center of Uproar over Leaked Military Secrets

World

• Volcano erupts in Russia’s far east, spewing ash 20 kilometers into the air

Russia Bad / Ukraine War

• Russia’s new law cracks down on citizens avoiding army service

Health / Medicine

• Bay Area couple shocked by $200K hospital bill for rabies shots

  • HN comments

• Doctors Sound Alarm Over Proposed Changes to Definition of Death in Federal Law

  The proposed changes to the Uniform Definition of Death Act would allow comatose patients to be declared dead for use as organ donors.

• US CDC Encouraged People to Take Post-Sex Pill to Combat Rampant Rise in STI's

• Juul to Pay $462M to Settle Underage Vaping Lawsuits

Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda

• Truck Carrying Contaminated Soil from East Palestine Train Derailment Crashes.

• The end is nigh for gas-powered cars.

  the new EPA rules would set an emissions limit on the total number of new cars each automaker sells in a year. That limit would essentially ensure that two-thirds of vehicles they sold in the US by 2032 would be EVs, according to a report by The New York Times. The full details are expected to be released on Wednesday.

• Wind and solar now generate record 12% of global electricity

• Accounting for flood risk would lower American house prices by $187B