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• Act of God? Tornado Rips Through Pfizer Plant, Destroys 50,000 Pallets of Product

Horseshit

• 1 in 5 New Yorkers may be drinking water from lead pipes, new report says

• Burger King fans ‘sickened’ by new ‘Pepto Bismol’ Barbie burger: The limited-edition cheeseburger comes complete with a smoky pink sauce and bacon bits ahead of the film’s release.

• First contact with aliens could end in colonization and genocide

celebrity gossip

• No longer a cold case? Police confirm search warrant Tupac Shakur's 1996 killing

• "FREE KEVIN" Kevin Mitnick has died

  • HN comment

  • He was famous as a liar; everybody who knew him knows at least one "Kevin" story that he stole from them personally; and he's still the darling who did no wrong.

  • Kevin Mitnick Obituary

  • Kevin Mitnick, Hacker Who Once Eluded Authorities, Is Dead at 59

Trump / War against the Right / Jan6

• Flashback: Leftists Urged Trump Electors To Flip For Hillary In 2016

Pestilence / Pox / COVID / VaxCult

• Did you get Covid but never feel sick? New study hints at why

• US Government cuts funding from Wuhan lab off

  • US suspends federal funding to Wuhan lab over non-compliance

• "Vaccinated" animals continue to "die suddenly" at zoos throughout the world

Culture War / Tribal / Re segregation

• Early Christians struggled to distinguish themselves from pagans | Aeon Essays

• How the trans lobby took over the British establishment

Edumacationalizing / Acedemia Nuts

• Stanford president resigns over manipulated research, will retract 3 papers

  • HN comments

• Wesleyan University: Top US college says it will end 'legacy' admissions

• Children of alumni no longer have admissions edge at Carnegie Mellon, Pitt

  • HN comments

Media / ShowBiz / Advertising

• Netflix kills Basic plan, making its cheapest ad-free tier $15.49

• 'Most Contemptible Song Of The Decade': Country Music TV Bans Jason Aldean's "Try That In A Small Town" Video | ZeroHedge

  • Jason Aldean’s ‘Try That In A Small Town’ Shoots To Number One Amid Backlash.

• YouTube Premium quietly goes up in price to $14 per month

TechSuck

• When open becomes opaque: The changing face of open-source hardware companies | Hacker News

• 2600 Magazine now offers DRM-free PDF subscription

• No-more-secrets: recreate the decryption effect seen in the 1992 movie Sneakers | Hacker News

Crypto con games

• The Private Writings of Caroline Ellison, Star Witness in the FTX Case

Economicon / Business / Finance

• Amazon says it’ll ditch plastic padded mailers

• TSMC delays U.S. chip plant start to 2025 due to labor shortages

  • TSMC warns of deepening chip slump as AI boom fails to offset economic woes

• Federal Reserve tries to make up for lost decades with real-time payments system

  • Federal Reserve officially launched long-awaited instant payment service FedNow

• Wall Street Shrinks Headcount by 21,000 as Dealmaking and Trading Slump

• Amazon’s palm-scanning payment system is coming to all Whole Foods stores

• Teamsters Issue Strike Notice at Yellow

Gubmint / Poilitcks / Law Making

• NEW: 'Whistleblower X' Opening Statement Released Ahead of Oversight Hearing re: Biden Criminal Investigation – RedState

  • ‘Whistleblower X’ Is A Gay Democrat, Hopes To Be Good ‘Example’ For ‘LGBTQ People’ | The Daily Wire

• Biden downplays age talk — but subtle accommodations are being made - POLITICO

• UAP hearing witness list released

• FBI admits they knew Hunter Biden’s laptop was real when they killed the story

Law Breaking / Police / Internal Security

• Five Individuals Charged in Multi-State Covid-19 Relief Program Fraud

• The Crazily Unconstitutional New Laws Trying to Criminalize Filming Cops

External Security / Militaria / Diplomania

• Microsoft Poised to Deliver Improved Combat Goggles, US Army Says

Russia Bad / Ukraine War

• 3x the Soviet-Afghan war: New data sheds light on Russian deaths in Ukraine

Health / Medicine

• Florida kept disabled kids in institutions. A judge is sending them home

• Sport supplements study: “Jesus Christ, 40% don't have any ingredients on label”

  • 23 (40%) didn't contain any of the substances on the label
  • 28 (49%) had the wrong amount
  • 6 (11%) had the correct quantity
  • 7 (12%) had illegal additives

  • Presence and Quantity of Botanical Ingredients With Purported Performance-Enhancing Properties in Sports Supplements | Complementary and Alternative Medicine | JAMA Network Open | JAMA Network

• Majority of older adults with cognitive impairment still drive

• Flame retardant found in US breast milk

• Hearing aids may cut risk of cognitive decline by nearly half

Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda

• Eating less meat 'like taking 8M cars off road'

• Are the current heatwaves evidence that climate change is speeding up?

• Extreme heat indices above 105°F to hit 80M people in U.S.