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• Kentucky man finds over 700 Civil War-era coins buried in his cornfield

• People are paying to break printers with sledgehammers in smash rooms | Hacker News

Horseshit

• Fungi bacon and insect burgers: a guide to the proteins of the future

• Pixel 6 Pro does not charge in hot weather

• “The Most Gentle of Lethal Methods”: Consciousness Following Decapitation

• In Defense of a ChatGPT Tax

• Bill Gates Weighs In on AI: The risks of AI are real but manageable

celebrity gossip

• Elizabeth Holmes’ 11-year prison sentence shortened by two years

Rank Propaganda / Thought Policing / World Disordering

• (2022) The Impact of 9/11 on Freedom of Expression in the United States – Verfassungsblog

• Government Seeks Stay Of Injunction Against Censorship Collusion With Big Tech

Musk

• Taliban Endorses Twitter over Threads

• Student Falsely Accused by Musk as Being ‘Fed’ Posing as Neo-Nazi

Trump / War against the Right / Jan6

• Alex Berenson: The Trump documents trial (and all Trump’s criminal trials) must be stopped until after the 2024 election.

  This extraordinary case presents a serious challenge to both the fact and perception of our American democracy. The Court now presides over a prosecution advanced by the administration of a sitting President against his chief political rival, himself a leading candidate for the Presidency of the United States.

Pestilence / Pox / COVID / VaxCult

• CDC admits not including diagnostic codes showing COVID vax as ’cause’ on some death certificates.

• Long Covid activists modding Elden Ring and The Witcher to raise awareness

Culture War / Tribal / Re segregation

• Men are lost. Here’s a map out of the wilderness

Edumacationalizing / Acedemia Nuts

• Tuition costs have risen 710% since 1983 | Hacker News

• Higher education is shockingly right-wing

Media / ShowBiz / Advertising

• Threads: Meta sets out planned new features

• Microsoft wins FTC fight to buy Activision Blizzard

TechSuck

• Easy HTTPS for your private networks | Hacker News

• SUSE is forking RHEL | Hacker News

• Intel is quitting on NUC computers

Economicon / Business / Finance

• No One in the U.S. Wants to Buy Electric Vehicles

• VanMoof, the e-bike darling, skids off track: Sales paused, execs depart

• The American banking landscape is on the cusp of a seismic and painful shift

• UK wage growth matches record high but job market shows signs of cooling

Gubmint / Poilitcks / Law Making

• Congress May Not Renew Low-Income Broadband Program Birthed During Covid

• Joe Biden Is A Total A$$hole In Private: Axios

• DOJ Announces Slew Of Charges Against Gal Luft, ‘Missing Witness’ Of Alleged Biden Corruption

• Supreme Court Justice Sotomayor’s staff prodded colleges and libraries to buy her books.

• Biden admin attempts to blame construction workers for baggie of cocaine in the West Wing.

Law Breaking / Police / Internal Security

• The PPP Scams and Cares Act Fraud That Cost the U.S. Billions

External Security / Militaria / Diplomania

• The Turkey-NATO Deal On Sweden Is A Disaster

World

• Saudi Arabia says new oil cuts show teamwork with Russia is strong

• Privatisation has been a costly failure in Britain | Hacker News

• Most patients using weight-loss drugs stop within a year

• Unpopularity Behind Elite Demands For Spying And Censorship: French President calls for mass censorship after passing law for secret smartphone spying.

Russia Bad / Ukraine War

• Putin’s War for Less NATO Has Brought Him More

• Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, July 10, 2023.

Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda

• Whales are ramming boats – but are they inspired by revenge, grief or memory?

• "You Won't Hear This On NPR or NYT": US Forest Fire Burn Acreage At Decade Lows | ZeroHedge

  • Posted to HN with the headline "Acreage Burned Plummets this Summer"

• Scientists now say a new epoch – the Anthropocene began in 1950s