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• WSJ: More Than 800 Missing Nearly Two Weeks After Lahaina Wildfire

  • 850 still missing after Maui fires

• BurgerKing gave candy to worker who never took sick day. The internet gave $400k

• Satellite built as cheap way to reduce spacejunk reenters atmosphere years early

Horseshit

• AI could make it less necessary to learn foreign languages

• Empowering Intimacy: Exploring the Benefits of Remote-Control Vibrators in Long-Distance Relationships.

Rank Propaganda / Thought Policing / World Disordering

• Misinformation Is Particularly Harmful When It Comes to Your Health

• A new blasphemy battle is coming - UnHerd

• The Feds Asked TikTok for Lots of Domestic Spying Features

  • HN comments

Musk

• Musk considered pulling plug on Ukraine’s Starlink after ‘great talk with Putin’

  • Reid Hoffman: Musk 'bought what Putin was selling, hook, line, sinker'

Trump / War against the Right / Jan6

• Trump Will Surrender In Georgia for Arrest on Thursday – Rolling Stone

Pestilence / Pox / COVID / VaxCult

• Long Covid lingering effects two years later

• BA.2.86 shows just how risky slacking off on Covid monitoring is

• A third of adults believe Covid-19 vaccines caused deaths, poll says

• Atlanta-based Morris Brown College says they are reinstating Covid mask mandates

Edumacationalizing / Acedemia Nuts

• Welsh Is a Language for Science

• A study of language in Science articles from 1997 through 2021 raises concerns about exaggerated claims.

Media / ShowBiz / Advertising

• The Fandomization of News

• Bluegrass Archive | Hacker News

• Oliver Anthony “Rich Men North of Richmond” Debuts at No. 1 on Billboard Hot 100

• Trudeau denounces Meta's news block as fires force evacuations

• Francisco Partners to Acquire the Weather Company Assets from IBM

• Atari Launches Atari 2600+

  Plays both Atari 2600 and 7800 game cartridges

  • HN comment

TechSuck

• Microsoft Kills Kinect Again

• It's official Arm files for IPO on Nasdaq

• Saving Lives | Hacker News

Economicon / Business / Finance

• The Electric-Vehicle Bubble Starts to Deflate | Hacker News

• Northvolt raises $1.2B convertible note from BlackRock | Hacker News

Gubmint / Poilitcks / Law Making

• Democracies need to replace voting with sortition

• Does the Washington Post have a policy against using the word ‘Democrat’ when reporting on arrested politicians?

• Biden Leaves Jaws on the Floor With Corvette Joke During Tone-Deaf Maui Speech – RedState

  he decided to tell a made-up story about how his house almost burnt down. Not only that, he suggested that his made-up story gives him a "little sense" of what it's like to lose a home. In reality, as has been noted before, Biden's house did not almost burn down. Rather, it suffered a small kitchen fire that was contained within 20 minutes.

• Damn It Feels Good To Be A Biden – Issues & Insights

External Security / Militaria / Diplomania

• US citizens urged to leave Belarus immediately.

  • U.S. citizens should leave Belarus embassy warns

World

• Nvidia has sold $5 billion worth of crippled high-end video cards to China for AI training.

Russia Bad / Ukraine War

• Ukraine has no realistic path to military victory over Russia – Modern Diplomacy

Health / Medicine

• Hookworms successfully prevent type 2 diabetes in human trial

Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda

• 10 Facts That Prove the World Is in a Climate Emergency

• Venus fly trap removed from endangered species list

• We Are Witnessing the First Stages of Civilization’s Collapse

• Climate change is making debt more expensive–new study