2023-04-23

celebrity gossip

• The Cult of Warren Buffett

• Billionaire Brin Sold Tesla Near Its Peak for New Giving Vehicle

  • HN comments

Musk

• Elon Musk Figured Out the Media's Biggest Weakness

• Twitter once muzzled Russian and Chinese state propaganda. That's over now

• Tesla beats Autopilot lawsuit as jury rejects crash victim’s claim.

• Twitter drops “Government-funded”/“state-affiliated“ from NPR, BBC, RT, Xinhua

  • HN comments

• Twitter restores blue tick to high profile accounts

Pestilence / Pox / COVID / VaxCult

• Psychedelic Drugs as Long Covid Treatment

Culture War / Tribal / Re segregation

• When Cleopatra was alive, she wasn’t categorised by the colour of her skin

Media / ShowBiz / Advertising

• Are Text Messages the New Social Media? One Startup Thinks So

TechSuck

• The magic of DC-DC voltage conversion - lcamtuf’s thing

  • HN comments

Economicon / Business / Finance

• Moody’s Downgrades 11 Regional Banks Including Zions, US Bank, Western Alliance

• Bed Bath and Beyond Files for Bankruptcy

Shortages

• Payment systems outages

Gubmint / Poilitcks / Law Making

• US Presidential Hopefuls Rally Against a Digital Dollar Ahead of 2024 Elections

• Biden Marks Earth Day with New Environmental Justice Orders.

• Republicans Start Calling For Blinken To Resign Over Hunter Biden Laptop Story.

Law Breaking / Police / Internal Security

• FBI Blocking Release Of Nashville Trans Shooter's Manifesto

External Security / Militaria / Diplomania

• Airman's Leaks Started Just 48 Hours After Russia Invaded Ukraine

• US Tries To Blame Russia For Sudan "Deep State" War | ZeroHedge

• The Sudan crisis and the Sahel gold rush

  • HN comments

World

• The most serious democratic crisis in France since the Algerian conflict

Russia Bad / Ukraine War

• China’s Ambassador to France Says Ex-Soviet States Lack Basis for Sovereignty

  • HN comments

• Russia’s Technocrats Embraced the West, Then Enabled Putin’s War

Health / Medicine

• Pain, hope, science collide as athletes turn to magic mushrooms

• The revolting reason cheap ice cream takes so long to melt

Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda

• 250k gallons of sewage spill into Los Angeles River, prompting beach closures

• The Case for Making Earth Day a Religious Holiday

• Why Are We So Afraid of Nuclear Power?