2023-10-25

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• Louisiana interstate still closed after super fog causes deadly pileup

  • Smoke and dense fog caused a deadly pileup in Louisiana

• Toxicological analyses reveal the use of cannabis in Milan (Italy) in the 1600's

• Vegemite Turns 100

• Flaming Skull Hood Ornament Is Not Suitable For Use In Traffic

Horseshit

• California suspends GM Cruise's autonomous vehicle deployment

  • HN comments

  • California DMV suspends Cruise's driverless testing permit effective immediately | Hacker News

• The cultivated meat industry is gathering in Las Vegas

• Why You Should Make Time for Oddball Rituals

  • If you get one of the little "personal defense" shockbox / taser things, and zap your hand; when you masturbate with it after it feels like a stranger. Do this monthly to keep the libido up.

• 1984' gets a new life, and a fresh perspective, in 'Julia'

• They don't care about the doom loop. They're moving to the Bay Area anyway

• Loyal workers are selectively and ironically targeted for exploitation | Hacker News

• The Junk Is Winning

Rank Propaganda / Thought Policing / World Disordering

• CSAM scanning in chat apps would echo communist surveillance

• Newsguard Case Highlights the Pentagon's Censorship End-Around

  they are government-funded, just not wholly government-funded. These are the people rating others on accuracy, remember.

Musk

• One of Elon Musk's newer ventures is now worth $7B

• Elon Musk saved Tesla from ruin by promising self-driving cars. The problem?

• Elon Musk: Threat or Menace Part 3

Religion / Tribal / Culture War and Re-Segregation

• Pope Francis encourages more children to code, especially in Catholic countries

Edumacationalizing / Acedemia Nuts

• OSU warns to 'avoid all robots' after bomb threat involving food delivery robots

• What does it mean to be a liberal gun owner?

• Google searches for inequality

Entertainment / ShowBiz / Advertising

• Meta sued by states over harmful youth marketing | Hacker News

• 2023 Hugo Awards

• The Blaze Dumps All Advertisers, Goes Subscriber-Only.

• Microsoft now thirstily injects a poll when you download Google Chrome

• Creating disinformation: Archiving fake links on the Wayback Machine

• The Pebble falls: A 'friendly' Twitter replacement closes its doors

• Mortal Kombat 1's New Microtransactions Are Scarier Than Its Fatalities

TechSuck / Geek Bait

• Apple to make tools and parts to fix phones, computers available nationwide

• End of an era: Windows CE's final day

• CSS text-wrap: pretty - Chrome for Developers

Space / UFO / Boomy Zoomers

• ULA targets Christmas Eve for inaugural Vulcan rocket launch, CEO says

• Why aliens might already know that humans exist

• Falling metal space junk is changing Earth's upper atmosphere

• NASA should consider commercial alternatives to SLS, inspector general says

• SpaceX Starship Super Heavy Project at the Boca Chica Launch Site | Hacker News

Crypto con games

• Sam Bankman-Fried Set to Testify at His Fraud Trial

• Zvi Mowshowitz's Book Review: Going Infinite (on Sam Bankman-Fried)

• The tragically millennial vocabulary of the Sam Bankman-Fried trial

• How Michael Lewis Got Duped by Sam Bankman-Fried

Economicon / Business / Finance

• Economists first underestimated inflation, then consumers and the labor market

• The standard American household is now a millionaire, according to the Fed

  • Mean American household is now a millionaire, according to the Federal Reserve | Hacker News

• Thanks to Big Data, Landlords Know How to Squeeze the Most Out of Renters

• A comprehensive list of 2023 tech layoffs

• Goldman Stumped By Mystery Of Oil's Missing 3 Million Barrels/Day Deficit | ZeroHedge

• GM, Honda scrap plans to co-develop 'affordable' sub-$30k EVs

  • Honda says making cheap electric vehicles is too hard, ends deal with GM

• GOOG stock is having its worst day in a year after cloud revenue missed estimate

Gubmint / Poilitcks / Law Making

• Tom Emmer Becomes Next House Speaker Nominee | ZeroHedge

• GOP's Latest Speaker Candidate, Rep. Emmer, Abruptly Bows Out | Newsmax.com

• More Americans say they support political violence ahead of the 2024 election

  • HN comments

• Mike Johnson elected House speaker three weeks after Kevin McCarthy’s historic ouster

  • "He was a key architect of the Jan 6th strategy to overturn the US election." -- Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

Law Breaking / Police / Internal Security

• The Great Train Robbery: Everything We Know So Far

• Pilot Who Tried to Kill Flight's Engines Told Cops He'd Taken Shrooms, Feds Say

• Toyota Prius on LA Craigslist Has a Catalytic Converter Cage Like a Prison

External Security / Militaria / Diplomania

• US orders immediate halt to some AI chip exports to China, Nvidia says

World

• Hull set to allow 'right to grow' on unused council land in UK first

Israel

• Gaza hospitals ceasing to function as water and fuel run out

• Twillio immediatly closes accounts with the word Palestine in them

• Palestinians Claim Social Media 'Censorship' Is Endangering Lives

• New York Magazine Writer Splits Hairs Between ‘Beheaded’ Babies and Babies That ‘Were Found Headless.’

  “Last night, I asserted that this report indicated that babies were beheaded. This was an overstatement,” Levitz, who has written extensively against Israel's bombardment of Gaza, continued. “I should have said that the report established that babies were found headless, a fact that lends plausibility to claims of beheading, but which does not prove them.”

• Many Killed in Gaza Were Buried Under the Rubble

• GPS Spoofing thickens the fog of war

• Israel Delays Gaza Invasion (Again) As US Scrambles To Put Missile Defenses In Place

  Both US and Israeli officials have told The Wall Streat Journal in a breaking major development that Israel has decided to further stall its planned ground invasion of Gaza, at the request of Washington.

Health / Medicine

• First malaria vaccine cut deaths among young children by 13%

• Scientists: Allow forbidden 28-day embryo experiments

• Flu shots may protect against the risk of Alzheimer's, related dementias

• “Nearly half of healthcare workers reported burnout in 2022, when reports of harassment more than doubled from before the COVID-19 pandemic, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.”

• What happens when a for-profit company takes over your local ER

• Tai chi may slow Parkinson's symptoms for years, study finds

Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda

• Billions of snow crabs in Alaska likely vanished due to warm ocean

• Is Environmentalism Killing the American Dream?

• California supervolcano is cooling off but may still cause quakes

• Otis: Tropical storm to category 5 hurricane in 24h

  Otis should maintain category 5 status before the hurricane makes landfall near the Acapulco area overnight or early on Wednesday.

  • HN comments

• Earth close to 'risk tipping points,' will hinder dealing with climate crisis

• Scientists discover why dozens of endangered elephants dropped dead

• Earth's Latest 'Vital Signs' Show the Planet Is in Crisis

• Adding Crushed Rock to Farmland Pulls Carbon Out of the Air

• Time magazine: Cultivated meat one of the best inventions of 2023

• What 2,500 years of evidence tells us about the future of fires in the West