2023-06-25

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• Pick-your-own event off as fruit eaten by birds.

• Sea-going search for alien fragments yields odd spherules

• MP suggests Canada, allies aware of UFO materials in note to defence minister

• Freight train carrying hot asphalt, molten sulfur plunges into Yellowstone River

• Flying Submarine Documentary Is A Story Of Defied Assumptions | Hackaday

• CEO said Titan’s hull made with carbon fiber that was past airplane shelf life | Hacker News

• The Ultra-Secret Underwater Spy System That Might Have Heard the Titan Implode

• When wealthy adventurers take risks,who foots the bill for rescue attempts?

• Barely a third of Americans still have landlines

• Texas airport worker dies after being sucked into Delta jet engine

Horseshit

• The rule says, “No vehicles in the park” | Hacker News

• Remote work appears to be here to stay, especially for women

• Car quality is suffering as automakers shift focus to technology | Hacker News

• I Shouldn’t Have to Accept Being in Deepfake Porn

celebrity gossip

• The Elonization of Mark Zuckerberg: How the Meta CEO is playing it cool

• Harry and Meghan Produce a Hollywood Flop: Themselves

Rank Propaganda / Thought Policing / World Disordering

• Tech giants could be fined billions in fake news crackdown

Musk

• King of Censorship: 10 Times the 'Free Speech Absolutist' Silenced Twitter Users

Pestilence / Pox / COVID / VaxCult

• Is “Lab Leak” now proven?

• TheMoneyIllusion » Another lab leak bombshell fizzles out

• New excess mortality estimates show increases in US rural mortality during second year of COVID-19 pandemic.

• House Republicans Subpoena Author Of Paper That Derided COVID Lab Leak Theory.

Media / ShowBiz / Advertising

• Second Life by Linden Lab, the company I've worked for since 2004, turn 20 today | Hacker News

TechSuck

• The bigger-is-better approach to AI is running out of road | Hacker News

Economicon / Business / Finance

• Office real estate crash will be so sharp, values unlikely to recover by 2040 | Hacker News

Gubmint / Poilitcks / Law Making

• NY Times columnist explains why the ‘Hunter Biden saga’ should be an inspiration to us all

  • Judge Finds Hunter Biden Guilty Of Being ‘A Lovable Little Rascal With A Heart Of Gold.’

• MSM Betrays Biden Regime, Savages Spox's Over Corruption Bombshells | ZeroHedge

  "Kirby wouldn’t answer James’ question. Are you going to answer the question? It’s not an unreasonable question to ask if the president was involved, as this message seems to suggest, in some sort of coercive conversation for a business dealing by his son. If he wasn’t, maybe you should tell us?"

• As fuel taxes plummet, states weigh charging by the mile

• "Blatant Political Corruption": The Rot In America's Democracy Explained In Under 1000 Words | ZeroHedge

  At the time Trump was being impeached for asking Ukraine to investigate Biden’s alleged corruption in Ukraine, the FBI & IRS already knew the Bidens had indeed laundered more than $10 million from Burisma, via fake companies and dozens of bank accounts, while at the same time VP Biden had used U.S. aid as leverage in getting the Ukrainian prosecutor investigating Burisma fired.

Law Breaking / Police / Internal Security

• “Brief of Amici Curiae David Sosa, David Sosa, David Sosa, David Sosa, & the Institute For Justice in Support of Petitioner David Sosa.”

World

• Doubts creep in about wisdom of ‘no-kids zones’ in South Korea

Russia Bad / Ukraine War

• Russian paramilitary chief says his forces will turn around

  • HN comments

• Wagner Group forces said to be advancing towards Moscow

• Putin accuses Wagner chief of stoking 'armed rebellion'

• Wagner troops may reach Moscow by evening as Kremlin hurries to intercept

• Russia Wagner Group Coup: Why Western Analysts Didn't See It | National Review

• Wagner Group Halts March on Moscow, Striking Deal with Putin

• As of 23-06-24 4.30p CDT, "Belarus President" announced this but no official Russian source has mentioned it?

• Prigozhin Planned This

• U.S. Knew Prigozhin Was Preparing to Take Military Action Against Russia

• Prigozhin 'Exiled' To Belarus In Exchange For Peace, Criminal Charges Dropped: What Was This All About? | ZeroHedge

• Wagner’s Aborted Mutiny Leaves No Winners in Russia

• Chaotic 36 hours in Russia feels like the beginning of the end for Putin

• Site of Alleged Wagner Camp Attack Recently Visited by War Blogger

• Why chaos in Russia could spell trouble for the global economy

Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda

• The environmental hazards of farming fish in a warming world

• Effect of volcanic eruptions significantly underestimated in climate projections