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• Impaled Horse Heads Are Appearing More and More Around Iceland

• The Technological Innovations That Produced the Shale Revolution

Horseshit

• $23,500 in Coins to Pay a Settlement? Judge Says Keep the Change and Try Again

  • HN comments

• Delta Co-Pilot Pulled Gun on Captain Threatened to Shoot Him If Diverted Flight

• The EV transition trips over its own cord

• Cute, fun to ride, but does it have a future? The Honda Motocompacto

Rank Propaganda / Thought Policing / World Disordering

• Critics renew calls for a TikTok ban, claiming platform has an anti-Israel bias

Musk

• Tesla wins fatal Autopilot crash jury trial

• I Took Elon Musk's Las Vegas Loop and It's Just as Dumb as I Was Expecting

• Major critic of X sues after being banned from platform

  Software developer Travis Brown’s X account was banned after his research alleged far-right influencers were becoming more prominent on the platform. He’s taking X to court in a bid to reverse the decision.

• (Video) Musk on Rogan

  Old Twitter was basically an arm of the government... It was a State publication.

  • Elon Musk: "Twitter Was Completely Controlled By The Far Left"

  • Elon Musk unleashes in fiery Joe Rogan podcast: Tesla owner slams George Soros for ‘eroding the fabric of civilization’, says he bought Twitter because it was being ‘controlled by the far-left’ and warns of the woke ‘mind virus.’

Trump / War against the Right / Jan6

• Donald Trump's second term would be a protectionist nightmare

Pestilence / Pox / COVID / VaxCult

• Boris Johnson thought old people should accept Covid fate

• Pfizer To Shut Down Two Facilities Amid Major Cost Cuts

Edumacationalizing / Acedemia Nuts

• Home schooling's rise from fringe to fastest-growing form of education

  • 1,000+ HN comments

• John Oliver Is Worried about Nazi Homeschoolers

• Second teacher at Missouri high school caught peddling porn on OnlyFans.

• Forest schools boost children's immune systems

Entertainment / ShowBiz / Advertising

• 'Nightmare Before Christmas' went from a cult classic to beloved Disney property

• Content creators surge past legacy media as news hits a tipping point

• Did ESPN think nobody would care that they deepfaked a Damian Lillard interview?

• Microsoft accused of damaging Guardian's reputation with AI-generated poll

• The People Who Ruined the Internet

• Netflix Ad Tier Hits 15M Monthly Active Users

• Netflix will skip some ads if you binge-watch

• Cities Skylines II renders invividual teeth of all human models

• Facebook owner Meta faces EU ban on targeted advertising

• YouTube's ad blocker crackdown escalates, aggravating users

• AI detectors are destroying innocent writers' livelihoods

TechSuck / Geek Bait

• HN Jobs

  • Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2023)

  • Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (November 2023)

  • Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (November 2023)

• Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (November 2023)

• What The Goddamn Hell Is Going On In The Tech Industry? — Ludicity

  Ack, it makes my skin crawl just thinking about it. There's a team out there where the main drama isn't one right faction and one wrong faction, there are two factions fighting to the death over how best to use a spreadsheet as a database for a production application. I feel like this has to be stopped but I don't have the strength.

  • HN comments

• Introduc ing the .ing top-level domain | Hacker News

• Diversity, inclusion, and belonging at GitHub in 2023

Space / Boomy Zoomers / UFO

• Weird stuff happens when animals reproduce in space

Crypto con games

• Sam Bankman-Fraud didn't ask where the $8 billion went.

• The Humiliating Cross-Examination of SBF

  SBF’s other problem: he is still the same creature of Wall Street he’d been when he was riding high. He talks about billions of dollars as if it were pocket change. He constantly lapses into financial-ese: “correlated with the market.” “Margin exchange.” “Counterparty complications.” Cohen usually asked him to define the terms, but that only made things worse: his efforts to explain the lingo in easy-to-understand language came across as condescending to the middle-class jurors who will decide his fate.

• Facing 110 years in prison, Sam Bankman-Fried "can't recall" what he did at FTX

• Safemoon Creators Indicted by the FBI

Economicon / Business / Finance

• Jury Finds Realtors Conspired, Awards Nearly $1.8B in Damages

  • Federal jury verdict on broker fees rocks real estate industry

• Union workers are catching up on pay as labor organizing surges

• WeWork Plans to File for Bankruptcy as Early as Next Week

  • HN comments

  • Once valued at $47B, coworking-space provider WeWork nears bankruptcy

• US media veterans back new trading firm with financial news arm

• McDonald’s insane new prices chart supersized toll of Bidenomics.

• Middle East fighting could usher in oil prices over $US150 a barrel

• The Money Has Stopped Flowing in Commercial Real Estate

• The hidden culprit driving America's apocalypse of boarded-up storefronts

• Mint.com Is Being Sunset (Converting to Credit Karma)

• I Was Illegally Fired by Amazon for Speaking Out About a Coworker's Death

Gubmint / Poilitcks / Law Making

• Biden's EO plans for standardized digital watermarking rules no silver bullet

• Joe Biden Kicked Off the Encryption Wars - by Louis Anslow

• FBI Director Warns Threat Of Attacks By Hamas On American Soil Raised "To A Whole Other Level" | ZeroHedge

• Losing the Vote, Losing the Faith: Electoral Defeat in Polarised Times

• DC sues more than a dozen of DC's largest landlords, alleging rent collusion

Law Breaking / Police / Internal Security

• SEC Charges Four Long Island Men with Perpetrating $2M Free-Riding Scheme

• St. Louis Cop Sabotaged His Own Cases to Undermine a Prosecutor

• Florida officials warn of ‘Booty Patrol’ truck they say is impersonating a Border Patrol vehicle

External Security / Militaria / Diplomania

• U.S. Space Force chief urges universal rules to keep China in check

• Senators warn of Chinese effort to recruit US service members

• US Sends 300 More Troops To Middle East, Raising Total To 1,200

World

• China removes anonymity of bloggers' accounts with more than 500k followers

• Home ownership killed Britain's property dream

• The parallels between Argentina and Britain's inept political class

• Taiwan Tried to Digitize Democracy. It Was a Flop

• UK Government to Abolish Biometrics and Surveillance Safeguards

Israel

• Israel Announces First Confirmed IDF Troop Deaths Of Gaza Invasion

• Expel all Palestinians from Gaza, recommends Israeli gov't ministry

• Houthis say they launched ballistic missiles, drones at Israel.

  • Israel Rushes Warships To Red Sea After Yemeni Houthis Launch Ballistic Missile & Drones

• First Details of Hamas' New Submarine Drone Weapon

• Hundreds Of Foreigners, Including Americans, Allowed To Exit Gaza Into Egypt For 1st Time

• BBC Launches Emergency Radio Service for Gaza

• UN official in New York steps down citing 'genocide' in Palestine

Russia Bad / Ukraine War

• Time Magazine's Stunning Reversal: Zelensky 'Deludes' Himself Into Thinking Ukraine Can Win

• North Korea allegedly shipped more than a million artillery shells to Russia

Health / Medicine

• "Pharmageddon" Strikes US Drugstores As 5,000 Workers Walk Off Job

• Amid Regulatory Gaps, Telehealth Prescribers Flourish

• Whatever Happened to Carpal Tunnel Syndrome?

Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda

• How workers remove toxic debris and ash after Hawaii wildfires

• Chimpanzees, like humans and whales, get menopause

• Silicosis report calls for world-first ban on engineered stone

• Dust Is Melting Snow and Current Models Can't Keep Up

• Lessons from raising Europe's biggest climate fund

• Climate conscious Americans reduce their carbon footprints

• Carbon Offset Market Faces Chaos as African Mega-Project Collapses