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• UK drivers make claims of 'dangerous' electric car faults

• Cats have nearly 300 facial expressions

Horseshit

• Experts warn therapy speak is being weaponized

• 42 really is the answer to these 5 fundamental questions - Big Think

Rank Propaganda / Thought Policing / World Disordering

• Extreme Diet Content Should Not Be Incentivized, Meta Oversight Board Says

Musk

• From Twitter to X, Elon Musk's transformation to champion of disinformation

• Fidelity has marked down the value of Twitter/X by 65%

• Douglas Rushkoff: Why I'm leaving X and social media behind

• Creators confused by Elon Musk's plan to "incentivize truth" on X

Trump / War against the Right / Jan6

• Georgia DA Offers ‘Nothingburger’ Plea Deals To Build Parade Of Witnesses For Later Show Trials.

• Judge Reverses Pause On Trump Gag Order In Federal Election Case

Pestilence / Pox / COVID / VaxCult

• The Viral Threat Almost No One Is Thinking About

Religion / Tribal / Culture War and Re-Segregation

• Gender-affirming care is dangerous. I know because I helped pioneer it.

Edumacationalizing / Acedemia Nuts

• Harvard’s Double Standard for Free Speech.

• How deep is the brain? The shallow brain hypothesis | Hacker News

• The UNC Covid Lawsuit Is Valid — The James G. Martin Center for Academic Renewal

  Notably, UNC-Chapel Hill told students of its decision to take an “off-ramp” only “one hour and 15 minutes before the 5 p.m. deadline for fall tuition cancellations.”

Entertainment / ShowBiz / Advertising

• TikTok Gets Tougher in Performance Reviews, and Employees Are Spooked

• Tug-of-War over NBA Rights Provides Glimpse of Media's Future

• The poster's guide to the internet of the future

• Facebook and Instagram launch a paid ad-free subscription

  • Facebook and Instagram to Offer Subscription for No Ads in Europe

  • Meta introduces ad-free plans for Instagram, Facebook in Europe

• Threads Software Limited gives Meta 30 days to stop using the name Threads | Hacker News

• New York Times Tech Workers to Strike This Afternoon

TechSuck / Geek Bait

• The Compiler Is Just Ignoring All My Comments

• Partitioning The Index @ marginalia.nu

Crypto con games

• The FTX trial, day thirteen: Sam Bankman-Fried gets a dress rehearsal

• Same events, new stories (The FTX trial, day fourteen)

• The SBF trial is a reminder that crypto is a rotten business

• Treasury Department introduces proposal targeting crypto mixers

• Forgiveness vs permission: The SEC Burned LBRY to the Ground

  after years of protracted and extremely expensive legal wrangling with the SEC, LBRY has been driven into bankruptcy and forced to shut down as an organization (although the code lives on). It makes me angry that with all the scams in the crypto world, the SEC chose to go after a working product with real customers and users. No one, not the customers, the content creators or the investors has benefitted or been protected by the SEC.

• Britain to push ahead with rules for cryptoassets

• Sam Bankman-Fried called some customers 'dumb'

Economicon / Business / Finance

• The Home Office Was a Must-Have During Covid. Now It's Just Meh

• Lenders Want Ex-Employees to Give Back Their Bonuses Due to Bad Mortgage Market

• Home cooking falls to pre-pandemic levels in North America

• Less boo for your buck: For the second Halloween in a row, US candy inflation hits double digits | AP News

  U.S. shoppers are seeing double-digit inflation in the candy aisle. Candy and gum prices are up an average of 13% this month compared to last October, more than double the 6% increase in all grocery prices, according to Datasembly, a retail price tracker. That’s on top of a 14% increase in candy and gum prices in October 2022.

• Western Digital to spin off flash business

• Home purchase activity is at a “virtual standstill” as interest rates continue to grow.

• Apple jacks prices to juice profits because $19.3B a quarter isn't enough

Gubmint / Poilitcks / Law Making

• “Lord of the Flies”: The House’s chaotic next era, explained

• A new tool confirms the shift towards more a negative political tone in the US

• Executive Order on Safe, Secure, and Trustworthy Artificial Intelligence

  • Biden to sign sweeping artificial intelligence executive order

  • Biden to Use Emergency Powers to Mitigate AI Risks

  • Biden to Issue First Regulations on Artificial Intelligence Systems

  • Biden unveils U.S. government's first-ever AI executive order

  • The forthcoming Biden executive order on AI

  • Biden Signs Sweeping Executive Order Regulating Artificial Intelligence

  • Biden signs executive order to oversee and invest in AI

  • Biden Wants to Move Fast on AI Safeguards and Will Sign an Executive Order

  • US announces 'strongest global action yet' on AI safety

  • White House unveils wide-ranging action to mitigate AI risks

  • Biden Issues Government's First-Ever Artificial Intelligence Executive Order To 'Support Workers, Combat Discrimination'

  • Executive order for AI: Biden will sign executive order to address his concerns

• Electoral bonds are a threat to Indian democracy

• Crazed man dragged from Hillary Clinton event after screaming about Bill visiting Jeffrey Epstein’s island.

• FCC Robocall Enforcement a Feckless Mess, Experts Once Again Tell Congress

Law Breaking / Police / Internal Security

• At least 15 people shot, two critically, at Halloween party in Chicago

• Halloween Weekend Gun Violence: 7 Dead After Shootings In Texas, Indiana, Florida And Kansas

• Maine cops alerted about 'veiled threats' from mass shooter Robert Card

  • Maine police alerted weeks ago about threats from mass shooting suspect.

• Venezuela’s worst gangsters have crossed into the US illegally and are unleashing chaos in Dallas, Chicago and Miami – with fearful residents saying they’ve had tires slashed, windows shot out in retribution for reporting them to cops.

External Security / Militaria / Diplomania

• The future of warfare: A $400 drone killing a $2M tank

• US Military pursuing modern variant of B61 nuclear bomb, Pentagon says

World

• Death Toll in Mexico From Hurricane Otis Reaches 43

• The mystery of the British government's vanishing WhatsApps

• Some Dutch people seeking euthanasia cite autism or intellectual disabilities, researchers say | AP News

• Japan mulls eased residency requirements for foreign entrepreneurs

• Far-right German politician arrested after 'Sieg Heil' salutes heard

Israel

• Desperate Gazans Raid UN Food Warehouses As Norway, France Condemn 'Disproportionate' Israeli Attacks | ZeroHedge

• Israel Intensifies Attacks on Gaza as US Urges Protection of Civilians

• Israeli media, traumatized by Hamas, become communicators of Israel's message

• The 'Gaza metro,' Hamas' secret weapon against an Israeli invasion

• 7,000 pro-Palestinian protesters take over Brooklyn Bridge, call for elimination of Jewish state: ‘By any means’.

• IDF ground operation started; BBC official told staff to accuse Israel of ‘ethnic cleansing’.

• Twisted Sister’s Dee Snider responds to Israeli forces playing ‘We’re Not Gonna Take It.’

• Hamas horrors you luckily won't see -- glimpse of terror too sick for Israel to air

  The words “terrorist” or “terrorism” don’t appear in the piece. (They don’t appear in The New York Times’ report of that screening either.) I can tell you it was not “a militant” who “stands over a man.” A group of terrorists argue over who gets to behead the man, a Thai worker bleeding profusely from his stomach but still alive. Someone does repeatedly hack at him with a hoe, trying to behead him. Every single time, the terrorist yells, “Allahu akbar!”

• The error-prone Israeli government spokesman who wasn't

• $200k+ raised Games for Gaza

• IDF Tanks Reach Outskirts Of Gaza City, Cut Key North-South Highway, After Netanyahu's Chilling War Message To "Smite Amalek"

  Gazans have told Al Jazeera that they are receiving emergency phone calls at their residences (after communications were switched back on this weekend) with messages like the following: "This is the Israeli army, we are telling you to evacuate south because in the coming hours it is going to be very dangerous in the area where you are at."

• Voices from Front Line Against Occupation: Interview with Palestinian Anarchists

Russia Bad / Ukraine War

• Mobs In Russia Yelling ‘Allahu Akbar’ Hunt Down Jews, Storm Airport After Flight From Israel Arrives.

  • Mob storms Dagestan airport looking for Israelis on jet from Tel Aviv

Health / Medicine

• Ninth Circuit revives petition to give magic mushrooms Schedule II status

• My Data-Backed Battle and Defeat of Hypertension with Modern Medicine

• FDA Advises Parents and Caregivers Not to Buy or Feed WanaBana Apple Cinnamon Fruit Puree Pouches to Toddlers and Young Children Because of Elevated Lead Levels | FDA

  NCDHHS analyzed multiple lots of WanaBana apple cinnamon fruit puree, detecting extremely high concentrations of lead. The FDA has reviewed and supports NCDHHS’s analytical findings and found that analytical results at this level could result in acute toxicity.

• What Financial Engineering Does to Hospitals

• How and Why Do Flesh-Eating Bacteria "Eat" Flesh?

• Some foods boost levels of an Ozempic-like hormone

• Non-hormonal birth control: Antibodies can stop sperm in their tracks

Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda

• Climate change may make Bordeaux red wines stronger and tastier

• Scientists discover why dozens of endangered elephants died

  • HN comments

• (2021) Ivan Illich: A Forgotten Prophet Whose Time Has Come

  The warming biosphere is making it intolerable to think of industrial growth as progress; now it appears to us as aggression against the human condition.

• Why many scientists are now saying climate change is an all-out 'emergency'