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• Dublin Airport Airbrige Collapsed, Damaging American Airlines Boeing 787

• A solar storm on Thu is expected to make Northern Lights visible in 17 states

Horseshit

• China announced new social credit law. The West has largely gotten system wrong

• Americans Don’t Like to Chew

• Facebook turns over chats to police resulting in abortion charges (2022) | Hacker News

Rank Propaganda / Thought Policing / World Disordering

• The New York Times spreads misinformation about misinformation

• Covid Censorship Proved to Be Deadly - WSJ

  • HN comments

• Elle Purnell: “Misinformation” Is The Vocabulary Of A Culture That Has Lost Its Capacity To Discuss “Truth”

Trump / War against the Right / Jan6

• Threads backtracks flagging right-wing users for spreading disinformation

Culture War / Tribal / Re segregation

• Leftists Mock Anti-Sex Trafficking Film As ‘QAnon Adjacent.’

Media / ShowBiz / Advertising

• Meta's 'friendly' Threads collides with unfriendly internet

TechSuck

• Overclocked 286es DOS Days - A 286 Running Like a 386?

External Security / Militaria / Diplomania

• NATO, China, and the Vilnius Summit

World

• Defecting from North Korea Is Now Far Harder

• Jack Ma’s Clash with Beijing Costs Ant, Alibaba $850B

  • Ant Announces Unexpected Share Buyback At 75% Discount To Botched IPO | ZeroHedge

Russia Bad / Ukraine War

• Cluster bombs: Unease grows over US sending cluster bombs to Ukraine

• UK will not follow Biden in giving cluster weapons to Ukraine, Sunak indicates

• Ukraine’s Trembita Bomb

• Biden says war with Russia must end before NATO can consider Ukraine membership

• Twitter Blue accounts fuel Ukraine War misinformation

Health / Medicine

• Does the microbiome hold the key to chronic fatigue?

  • HN comment

Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda

• Two corpse flowers are blooming in the U.S.

• End Antarctic tourism now.

• $12M in fines hasn’t stopped Jersey Shore town from bulldozing its beach

• Earth is at its hottest in thousands of years

• The planet heats, the world economy cools – real global recession is ecological