2023-10-09

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• Hundreds of vagina plaster casts spill onto road after crash.

• Feds find "substantial'' safety issue at SC nuclear plant

Horseshit

• How the God Complex of 4Baires Could Destroy Society

• 'Several Amish Men' Allegedly Shunned After Emergency Alert Test

• Ozempic Is Making People Buy Less Food, Walmart Says

Rank Propaganda / Thought Policing / World Disordering

• X, formerly Twitter, amplifies disinformation amid the Israel-Hamas conflict

Musk

• Starlink carbon footprint up to 30 times size of land-based internet

• Elon Musk recommended that users follow accounts notorious for promoting lies

• As false war information spreads on X, Musk promotes unvetted accounts

Trump / War against the Right / Jan6

• IRS Slaps Giuliani With $500K Tax Lien

  The lien, while just recently surfaced, was filed on Sept. 1, 2023 at the County Courthouse in Palm Beach County, in West Palm Beach, Florida

Pestilence / Pox / COVID / VaxCult

• Fever, chills and fatigue may all be signs of vigorous Covid antibody production

• Rand Paul rages at ‘staggering’ media ‘know-nothingism,’ COVID cover-up.

Entertainment / ShowBiz / Advertising

• Enhance your calm: Demolition Man turns 30

• Wall Street Isn't Sure It Can Handle All of Washington's Bonds

• Google Made Billions with Secret Change to Ad-Auction Algorithm

• the US library system, once the best in the world faces death by a thousand cuts

TechSuck / Geek Bait

• Why I can no longer recommend a Mac to fellow blind computer users

  • HN comments

• Forty years of programming | Hacker News

• tldr: jskirpt sucks Speeding up the JavaScript ecosystem - The barrel file debacle

• GitHub Copilot loses an average of $20 a month per user

Crypto con games

• FTX's All-Night Race to Stop a $1B Crypto Heist

• Did Bitcoin leak from an American spy lab?

Economicon / Business / Finance

• The U.S. Economy's Secret Weapon: Seniors with Money to Spend

• BofA says–it's a housing recession, 1980s-style

• Economics Nobel Prize Goes to Claudia Goldin

• Collapse of the Dollar's Purchasing Power for Used Cars

Gubmint / Poilitcks / Law Making

• He's being groomed to run for President Newsom signs CA law requiring businesses to disclose their indirect emissions

  • Newsom vetoes bill that would require free condoms to be handed out at public high schools

  • Newsom vetoes bill to make free condoms available for hs students, citing cost

  • California Governor Gavin Newsom signs historic wave energy legislation into law

• Supreme Court sounds skeptical of challenge to consumer protection bureau

• Lawmakers shift gears on TikTok ban

• Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announces he’s running as an independent after being snubbed by Democrats

• Biden Considering Huge $100 Billion Ukraine Spending Package: Telegraph

External Security / Militaria / Diplomania

• Rep. Ilhan Omar demands ‘protection from the international community’ for Palestinians following Hamas attack on Israel.

• The U.S. Government Is Preparing for a Fentanyl WMD Attack

• Vietnam tried to hack U.S. officials, CNN with posts on X, probe finds

World

• Thousands of young people are fleeing Toronto, economists: city will suffer

• German far right surges ahead in state elections

Israel

• At least three Americans killed in attacks in Israel near Gaza border

• Israel declares war: leaders vow to wipe out Hamas and take full control of Gaza

• Victor Davis Hanson on X: A 50th Anniversary War?

• Egyptian policeman opened fire on Israeli tourists, killing 2

• How did Israel miss what Hamas was planning?

• Iran helped plan Hamas attack on Israel, gave green light to attack last Monday

  • Iran Helped Plot Attack on Israel over Several Weeks.

• Footage of Hamas assault on civilians shows likely war crimes, experts say

• Horrifying images show victims of Hamas attack at Nova music festival

• Israel's Failure to Stop Hamas Attack Shows the Danger of Too Much Surveillance

• German tattoo artist ID’d as woman paraded through streets by Hamas.

• A three-state solution is the only viable future for Israel and the Palestinians

• The Final Solution To The Gaza Problem.

  No Palestinians in Gaza = No terror attacks from Gaza. Occupation didn’t work. Coexistence didn’t work. But ethnic cleansing will.

• Netanyahu says Israel's response to Gaza attack will "change the Middle East"

• Hamas Threatens To Begin Publicly Executing Hostages If Israel Doesn't Halt Unrelenting Gaza Strikes

Health / Medicine

• Who profits most from America's baffling health-care system?

Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda

• Single-use take-away cups of paper are as toxic to aquatic life as plastic cups

• It's Time to Engineer the Sky

  Global warming is so rampant that some scientists say we should begin altering the stratosphere to block incoming sunlight, even if it jeopardizes rain and crops

• US agency refuses to examine toxicity of 'inactive' pesticide chemicals to crops

• Zombie Viruses Are Waking Up After 50k Years as Planet Warms