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• More evidence that humans were in North America over 20k years ago

• U.S. Agency Seeks Better Maps of Earth’s Magnetic Field

• A prehistoric cosmic airburst preceded the advent of agriculture in the Levant

• Jailed Iranian Activist Narges Mohammadi Wins 2023 Nobel Peace Prize

  • HN comments

• Kentucky made child care free for child care workers. It's already paying off

  • HN comments

• Eclipse 2024 - Andy Woodruff, cartographer

Horseshit

• 4chan users manipulate AI tools to unleash torrent of racist images

  • HN comments

  • Bing's AI enforces 4chan users creating racist propagandas

• Ring Is Cashing in on the UFO Craze to Promote Its Surveillance Dystopia

• Passing on great wealth to our children spells the end of society

celebrity gossip

• (Mar 2023) Sam Altman's sister says he sexually abused her when she was 4

• Julian Assange is no hero

  while I strongly disagree with punishing journalists for publicising secrets which are being kept for harmful reasons (most secrets, probably), I bristle at the sheer lionising of Julian Assange that we see on an almost daily basis in many parts of the media.

Obit

• Legend Lost — Dick Butkus dead at age 80: NFL legend ‘dies after medical emergency at home’

Rank Propaganda / Thought Policing / World Disordering

• Johnstone: When Even The Nazis Aren't Nazis | ZeroHedge

  It’s just fascinating how everything gets shifted to the right over the decades. Mother Jones is a centrist propaganda rag. Martin Luther King has been historically revised as an innocuous shitlib. George W Bush is just a harmless old painter. Nazis are just brave heroes protecting their homeland.

• Fact-checkers face increased threats amid misinformation battles

• Head of CIA OSINT emphasizes centrality of Twitter and Telegram surveillance

Musk

• X confuses the masses by removing all details from links

  • HN comments

  • Show HN: An image generator that embeds headline text for X / Twitter Cards

• SEC Seeks to Force Musk Testimony over Twitter Stock Purchases

  • SEC sues to force Musk to testify in Twitter probe

  • SEC to compel Elon Musk’s testimony in Twitter stock purchase probe

  • Musk refused to testify in Twitter stock probe, claimed SEC is harassing him

• Twitter Execs Win $1.1M in Legal Fees from Musk’s X

Trump / War against the Right / Jan6

• Trump allegedly discussed US nuclear subs with foreign national

Pestilence / Pox / COVID / VaxCult

• Lack of association between vaccination rates and excess mortality

• More young Americans are dying – and it's not COVID. Why aren't we searching for answers?

  Deaths among young Americans documented in employee life insurance claims should alone set off alarms. Among working people 35 to 44 years old, a stunning 34% more died than expected in the last quarter of 2022, with above-average rates in other working-age groups, too.

• Scientists discover ‘long colds’ may exist, as well as long Covid

• ISPs Are Still Ripping Off a Covid Broadband Discount Program

• Autoimmune and Autoinflammatory Connective Tissue Disorders Following Covid-19

Religion / Tribal / Culture War and Re-Segregation

• Schools Report Bomb Threats Following Libs of TikTok Anti-LGBTQ Posts

• Top holdings of the Mormon Church's $46B stock portfolio

• AI was asked to create images of Black African docs treating white kids

• Family, community, and the rural social mobility advantage - ScienceDirect

  We show that the high level of rural income mobility is principally driven by boys of rural-origin, who are more likely than their urban peers to grow up in communities with a predominance of two-parent households. The rural advantage is most pronounced among Whites and Hispanics, as well as those who were raised in the middle of the country. However, these dynamics are more nuanced for girls. In fact, girls from lower-income rural households exhibit a disadvantage in their personal income attainment, partly due to the persistence of traditional gender norms. These findings underscore the importance of communities with strong household and community supports in facilitating later-life income mobility, particularly for boys. They also challenge the emerging consensus that attributes the rural income mobility advantage to migration from poorer rural areas to wealthier towns and cities.

Edumacationalizing / Acedemia Nuts

• How the White House Keeps Canceling Student Debt After Supreme Court Ruling

Entertainment / ShowBiz / Advertising

• People used to get busted for "scalping", back in the day Low Demand for Travis Scott Creates Liquidity Crisis in Ticket Reselling Economy

• Ha I Just Made $20k Off Taylor Swift Tickets

• Unreal Engine will no longer be free for all

TechSuck / Geek Bait

• Microsecond Accurate NTP with a Raspberry Pi and PPS GPS

• HP fails to derail claims that it bricks scanners on printers when ink runs low

  • HN comments

• How accurate is the birthday’s paradox formula? – Daniel Lemire's blog

• CCC | CCC invites to the 37th Chaos Communication Congress in Hamburg

  After a three-year break, the Chaos Computer Club will host its 37th Chaos Communication Congress (37C3) from 27 December to 30 December 2023.

  • HN comments

• VR is based on a ridiculous misunderstanding

• Thirty Years Ago: MS-DOS 6.00 | PCjs Machines

Crypto con games

• Sam Bankman-Fried Told MIT Friend $8B Hole Meant FTX Wasn’t ‘Bulletproof’

Economicon / Business / Finance

• The collapse in Treasury bonds now ranks among worst market crashes in history

• Flexport Plans to Lay Off 30% of Workforce

• Broker-Dealers Can Be Held Primarily Liable for Clients’ Trading Activities

• Casino giant MGM expects $100M hit from hack that led to data breach

• US jobs growth surges past expectations with 336,000 new posts

• One might suspect they're advertising the stuff Ozempic Threat Is Causing a Selloff in Snack and Beer Stocks

  • If Ozempic Leads People to Eat Less, Maker of Cheez-It Will Be Ready

• Blackstone’s Billion-Dollar Bet on Reese Witherspoon Falls Short

• More than 75,000 Kaiser workers go on strike in clash with over wages

Gubmint / Poilitcks / Law Making

• Democrats relied on one company to power its campaigns. Now its facing collapse

• Interviewing Biden the 'saddest thing' as he 'couldn't finish a sentence': Sage Steele

• Protesters hit Ramaswamy campaign vehicle outside Iowa event

• Sonoma County, CA supervisors approve ban on new gas stations, extra pumps

External Security / Militaria / Diplomania

• For the 13th time, sensitive military info leaked on 'War Thunder'

• US fighter jet downs a drone belonging to NATO ally Turkey over Syria: officials

• International Red Cross issues rules for civilian hackers during war

World

• China Isn't Shifting Away from the Dollar or Dollar Bonds

Russia Bad / Ukraine War

• Ukraine cyber-conflict: Hacking gangs vow to de-escalate

• Radiation Spikes in Chernobyl Show Possible Evidence of Fabrication

• Russian journalist who protested Ukraine invasion sentenced to 8 years in prison

Health / Medicine

• Weight loss drugs may be linked to stomach paralysis

• Decriminalizing Drugs Doesn't Increase Fatal Overdoses: Study

• US nutrition panel’s ties to top food giants revealed in new report

• Synthetic control in python: Opioid death increases in Oregon and Washington | Andrew Wheeler

  • "what do the numbers mean?" statistics vs "what conclusions can we say they support"

Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda

• Mont Blanc shrinks 2 meters in 2 years

• Scientists stunned by planet’s record September heat

• U.S. transition to clean energy is happening faster than you think reporter says

• Phoenix has driest monsoon season since record-keeping began in 1895

• South American monsoon nears tipping point, likely causing Amazon dieback

• The ozone hole above Antarctica has grown to three times the size of Brazil