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• Play deprivation is a major cause of the teen mental health crisis

  • HN comments

• Would We Recognize Extraterrestrial Technology If We Saw It? | Hackaday

• Burning Ship Off Dutch Coast Carries 498 Electric Vehicles

• Argonne National Lab is attempting to replicate LK-99 | Hacker News

• Voyager Command Glitch Causes Unplanned Pause In Communications | Hackaday

Horseshit

• America Is Drowning in Packages

Rank Propaganda / Thought Policing / World Disordering

• WEF Advisor Describes COVID as Model for Making Change

• The Most Embarrassing "Facebook Files" Revelation? The Press, Exposed as Censors

  We are facing continued pressure from external stakeholders, including the White House and the press, to remove more Covid-19 vaccine discouraging content.

  We see repeatedly in internal communications not only in the email above, but in the Twitter Files, in the exhibits of the Missouri v Biden lawsuit, and even in the Freedom of Information request results beginning to trickle in here at Racket, that the news media has for some time been working in concert with civil society organizations, government, and tech platforms, as part of the censorship apparatus.

• US rejects Australia’s calls to end pursuit of WikiLeaks

Musk

• SpaceX hasn’t obtained environmental permits for ‘flame deflector’ it’s testing

• SpaceX Punched a Hole in the Ionosphere

  • And just like that, space travel is no longer cool: HN comments

• Elon Musk installed a giant X on Twitter HQ. The city is investigating

Pestilence / Pox / COVID / VaxCult

• Sex-specific differences in myocardial injury incidence after Covid mRNA Booster

• The Great Cloud of Disrepute.

• Will There Ever Be an Apology for Covid Overreaction? – Chicago Boyz

Media / ShowBiz / Advertising

• Blizzard says that modding Diablo IV can result in a permanent account ban

• Disney to Cease Releasing Physical Media in Certain Countries.

• These are the classic video games you can no longer play (It's most of them)

  • That Which Copyright Destroys, ‘Pirates’ Can Save

TechSuck

• US smartphone shipments fall sharply, but Android more than iPhone | Hacker News

• No-GIL mode coming for Python | Hacker News

Economicon / Business / Finance

• J&J effort to resolve talc lawsuits in bankruptcy fails a second time

• Forced merger of community banks in Southwest Kansas: Dream First Bank Assumes All of the Deposits of Heartland Tri-State Bank

• Waymo kills off autonomous trucking program

Gubmint / Poilitcks / Law Making

• Not bad for a Banana Republic | Sovereign Man

• The Bidens’ Influence Peddling Timeline

• McCaskell: Republicans Are 'Trying To Indict a Father For Loving His Son' | MRCTV

• A Tale of Two Plea Deals - by Techno Fog - The Reactionary

  in the De Sousa case, DOJ prosecutors Wise and Hines wanted to send a message that you get a harsh sentence if you try to avoid your taxes. The DOJ, assisted by Wise and Hines, now sends a different message in the Hunter Biden case: the son of the President gets preferential treatment.

• Videos of Dianne Feinstein and Mitch McConnell Resurface Questions About Age - The New York Times

• President Biden FINALLY acknowledges his 7th grandchild – Twitchy

Law Breaking / Police / Internal Security

• Officials bust illegal lab containing 20 infectious agents, hundreds of lab mice

External Security / Militaria / Diplomania

• Pentagon hit by ‘critical compromise’ of US Air Force communications – report

• Uh, guys, we should think about spending more on defense

World

• German science organisations express concern for academic freedom in Israel

• UK Home Office backs facial recognition technology to curb shoplifting

Russia Bad / Ukraine War

• US Was Behind Both Crimean Bridge Attacks: Seymour Hersh

• Russia ‘using disinformation’ to imply Sweden supported Qur’an burnings

• Ukraine fires North Korean rockets to blast Russian positions

Health / Medicine

• Aziyo Biologics has issued a product recall after its bone matrix material was found to be infected with tuberculosis

Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda

• The Lancet’s Scientific Chicanery on Temperature-Related Deaths

• Electric recumbent bikes are 80 more efficient than EV

• ‘Something weird is going on’: Antarctic sea ice stays at historic lows

• Federal Agency planting cyanide bombs on public land may stop

• Feverish BBC Reporting On European 'Heatwaves' Debunked By Actual Temperature Readings