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• NASA’s UFO Research Team to Brief the Public

• by using "plasma speakers" for active noise canceling: Actively reducing noise by ionizing air

• Southwest Airlines pilot climbs through window of plane locked by accident - CBS Sacramento

Horseshit

• What Unites Organised Crime in Europe with Rebels in Myanmar? 3D-Printed Guns

• Commentary: Cory Doctorow: The Swivel-Eyed Loons Have a Point – Locus Online

• Can humans ever understand how animals think?

celebrity gossip

• Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes turns herself in for 11-year prison term

Musk

• AOC threatens to leave Twitter after Elon Musk promotes ‘disgusting’ account

• Twitter Is Now Worth Just 33% of Elon Musk’s Purchase Price, Fidelity Says

• Elon Musk Pulls Twitter from European Union’s ‘Anti-Disinformation’ Agreement.

Pestilence / Pox / COVID / VaxCult

• Fever: The Hunt for Covid’s Origin

• The medical field is erasing its own COVID-era history.

Culture War / Tribal / Re segregation

• The Little Mermaid Gets Review-Bombed So Hard That IMDB Changes Rating System

  Several review sites have been hit with ‘unusual voting activity’ driven by bots and an online smear campaign for casting Halle Bailey as Ariel.

Edumacationalizing / Acedemia Nuts

• The Great Student Loan Nonpayment Boondoggle Is Over And Household Spending Is About To Collapse | ZeroHedge

• School official laments electric buses cost ‘5X more’ and are riddled with ‘performance issues.’

TechSuck

• VR optics and why IPD means too many things (2019) | Hacker News

• Critical Barracuda 0-day was used to backdoor networks for 8 months

• Apple's Corny 'AR Experience' All but Confirms We'll See Its Rumored Headset

• I try to answer “how to become a systems engineer” | Hacker News

• Remembering GitHub's Office, a Monument to Tech Culture

  • HN comments

• Millions of PC Motherboards Were Sold with a Firmware Backdoor | Hacker News

  Gigabyte's motherboard software auto-updates over HTTP, which makes it vulnerable to a MitM

• Even more Rust drama Batten Down Fix Later | Hacker News

• Amazon.com's Ring mishandled customers videos and will pay $5.8M fine

Economicon / Business / Finance

• America Has Too Much Pork

• Amazon walkout to go ahead after 1,700 employees sign on, organizers say

  • Amazon corporate workers to stage walkout citing lack of trust in leadership

• Company Insiders Made Billions Before SPAC Bust

Gubmint / Poilitcks / Law Making

• NLRB rules non-compete agreements are illegal

  • HN comments

• ‘Republicans got outsmarted by a President who can’t find his pants’: GOP Rep. Nancy Mace joins growing list of at least TWENTY-SIX defectors voting ‘NO’ on Kevin McCarthy’s debt ceiling ‘debacle.’

• Tara Reade, who accused Joe Biden of sexual assault, defects to Russia

• "Obstructionist And Unacceptable": House GOP To Hold FBI Director In Contempt Of Congress

Law Breaking / Police / Internal Security

• Federal judge: Border searches of cell phones require a warrant

  • HN comments

• Sacklers Can Be Shielded from Opioid Liability, Appeals Court Rules

  • Sackler family wins immunity from opioid lawsuits

• ‘Beyond the financial, it’s personal’: Portland business owner frustrated with crime.

External Security / Militaria / Diplomania

• US ‘Won’t Tolerate’ China’s Micron Chips Ban

• Russia Pulled Out of Its Nuclear Transparency Pact With the United States. The Biden Administration Still Shares Sensitive Data.

• US says Chinese fighter conducted ‘aggressive’ intercept over South China Sea

• U.A.E. Says It Exited U.S.-Led Naval Force.

World

• Taiwan invasion in 2025 gaining credibility; no time for Apple to prepare

• Rocket Carrying North Korean Spy Satellite Crashes into Sea

Russia Bad / Ukraine War

• Ukraine Bets on Wind Power, Which Missiles Can’t Damage as Easily

Health / Medicine

• Weight loss surgeries rise substantially among adolescents: research

Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda

• The Mystery of the Headless Millipedes - Atlas Obscura

• If nobody reports on the state price controls, they're not a factor! Impossible for some Americans to get home insurance because of climate crisis