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• Large-scale warfare occurred in Europe 1000 yrs earlier than previously thought

• Investigators are being sent to Antarctica to look into sexual violence concerns

• Google's plan to build 15,000 homes fizzles out

Horseshit

• Those Promotions Promising a 'Free' iPhone? It Isn't Free

• Humanity is out of control, and AI is worried

• World leaders ink AI safety pact while Musk and Sunak engage in awkward bromance

• The Fight over Return-to-Office Is Turning into a Disability Dispute

celebrity gossip

• Amazon's Jeff Bezos Announces Move to Miami from Seattle

  • Jeff Bezos Says He Is Leaving Seattle for Miami

Obit

• Ken Mattingly, astronaut scrubbed from Apollo 13, has died

  • NASA Administrator Remembers Apollo Astronaut Thomas K. Mattingly II

Rank Propaganda / Thought Policing / World Disordering

• The Israel-Palestine Debate Shows the Dangers of Groupthink

  Weaponized economic-persecution feels oh-so-delightful when you’re the one wielding it against your ideological opponents. But once the tables are inevitably turned, you start to realize how incredibly dangerous and destructive it is to society. Stifling the free exchange of ideas, and punishing people for endorsing ideas you disagree with, is hardly conducive to the pursuit of truth.

Musk

• Musk gives Ukraine discount on Tesla Powerwalls to prevent blackouts

• X runs 'timeline takeover' ad promoting anti-trans film

• Elon Musk on the Future of Work: No Jobs Needed

  • Elon Musk tells Rishi Sunak AI will put an end to work

• Elon Musk's Unrecognizable App

• Elon Musk says his new startup xAI will debut tech for the first time

Trump / War against the Right / Jan6

• Marjorie Taylor Greene doubles down on Jan. 6: Antifa and federal ‘provocateurs.’

Pestilence / Pox / COVID / VaxCult

• Unraveling The Wuhan Cover-Up: How Fauci Conspired With Virologists To Deceive The Public And Smear Critics | ZeroHedge

• Google has removed Android's Covid-19 exposure notification settings

Religion / Tribal / Culture War and Re-Segregation

• Tulane University Activist Group Says White Supremacy, Not Hamas, Is Biggest Threat to Jews.

• Sam Bankman-Fried and the effective altruism delusion

  • HN comments

Edumacationalizing / Acedemia Nuts

• Free speech is in trouble - by Nate Silver

Entertainment / ShowBiz / Advertising

• Nokia seeks compensation for Amazon's use of our patented multimedia inventions

• Amazon Enshittifies the Fire TV User Interface with Even More Ads

• Why some streaming companies are leaning into adverts and raising prices

• HBO CEO Used Fake Twitter Accounts to Troll Critics

  • HBO Bosses Used 'Secret' Fake Accounts to Troll TV Critics

• Newsrooms don't need to cede control to social media

• 'I'd Have Told Them to Fuck Off': Succession's Brian Cox on AI as Human Rights

TechSuck / Geek Bait

• The Morris Worm was released 35 years ago today

  • HN comments

  • Reflecting on the Internet Worm at 35

  we should not dismiss the past as "Ho-hum, history." Members of the military study historic battles to avoid future mistakes: mentioning the Punic Wars or The Battle of Thermopylae to such a scholar will not result in dismissal with "Not relevant." If you are interested in cybersecurity, it would be advisable to study some history of the field and think about lessons learned -- and unlearned.

• Wafer Wars: Deciphering Latest Restrictions On AI And Semiconductor Manufacturing

• Ask HN: Why is the technical cert industry so broken?

• No dogs were harmed in the making of this app

• Why You Should Write Your Own Static Site Generator

  • HN comments

• In Memoriam of Python 2 | Internet Archive Blogs

• Oxide Hiring Process | Hacker News

Space / Boomy Zoomers / UFO

• First images returned by Lucy reveal asteroid Dinkinesh is actually binary pair

  • NASA’s Lucy spacecraft swoops past first of 10 asteroids on long journey to Jupiter.

• Spacewalk Snafu: Astronauts Lose Tool Bag in Orbital Oopsy.

Crypto con games

• Sam Bankman-Fried found guilty on all seven counts

• Sam Bankman-Fried Found Guilty at FTX Criminal Trial

• Ex-crypto mogul Sam Bankman-Fried convicted of defrauding FTX customers

• Sam Bankman-Fried found guilty on all charges

  • HN comments

• 'Crypto King' Sam Bankman-Fried Guilty of FTX Fraud

• Sam Bankman-Fried and other FTX staff allegedly had 'Wirefraud' chat group

• Sam Bankman-Fried's deluded philosophy

• Sam Bankman-Fried Was a Grown Up Criminal, Not an Impulsive Man-Child

• Federal Reserve is threatening to sue Bitcoin Mag over parody product

  • HN comments

Economicon / Business / Finance

• The Way You Pay to Buy or Sell a Home Is About to Change

• Target seeing customers pulling back even on groceries – CEO tells CNBC.

• Amazon Execs Intentionally Made Site Shittier to Boost Profit, FTC Lawsuit Shows

  • HN comments

• 92% of young people would sacrifice other perks for a 4-day workweek

• World's Biggest Shipper Cuts 10,000 Jobs, Warns Of Subdued Global Trade

  • Maersk cutting at least 10k jobs as shipping boom unravels

• Uber, Lyft drivers to receive $328M in back pay as part of NY AG settlement

• U.S. payrolls increased by 150,000 in October, less than expected.

• Apple revenue drops for the fourth straight quarter in what the company’s longest slump in 22 years.

• (Sep 2023) U.S. Consumers Spent More on Food in 2022 Than Ever Before (Inflation Adjusted)

• House Rich, Cash Poor: America’s New Retirement Trap.

• Sharp U.S. Hiring Slowdown Signals Cooling Economy Ahead

• VW Group's troubled Cariad software division to lay off 2k workers

Gubmint / Poilitcks / Law Making

• On the Executive Order - by Zvi Mowshowitz

• Hunter Biden Whines That Republicans Weaponize His Addiction to Attack His Father.

Law Breaking / Police / Internal Security

• FBI Raids Home Of Top Eric Adams Fundraiser | The Daily Caller

• America's shoplifting problem, explained by retail workers and thieves

External Security / Militaria / Diplomania

• US House panel seeks ban on federal purchases of China drones

World

• Russia, a Chinese cargo ship and the sabotage of subsea cables in the Baltic Sea

• Pakistan starts to expel 1.7 million undocumented Afghani migrants

• Why have emerging markets not spiralled into a debt crisis?

• Cases of fetuses with their organs reversed left-to-right have quadrupled in China.

• Rwanda joins Kenya to initiate visa-free travel for all Africans

• Japan to offer surveillance radars to Philippines

• Labour accuses Rishi Sunak of angling for job after Elon Musk interview

Israel

• Top UN official in New York steps down citing genocide of Palestinian civilians

• Couple accused of drawing Stars of David in Paris claim they acted on orders from Russia.

• Gaza running out of time UN experts warn, demand ceasefire to prevent genocide

  • HN comments

• Pentagon confirms that US conducting drone flights over Gaza to locate hostages

Russia Bad / Ukraine War

• Ukraine's Top Commander Makes Surprising First-Time Admission | ZeroHedge

Health / Medicine

• The Potato People - by Alistair Kitchen - Kitchen Counter

• In 2022, U.S. infant mortality up 3% in biggest increase in 20 years, CDC says.

  the report said the mortality rate increased significantly only for male infants from 2021-2022

• Association of self-reported mobile phone use and semen quality of young men

• After pig-to-human heart transplant, patient lived six weeks

• Fecal microbiota transplantation promotes reduction of antimicrobial resistance

Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda

• What raising an orphaned owl taught me about our broken bond with nature

• Environmental crime money easy to stash in US due to loopholes, report finds

• Heavy industry turns to carbon capture to clean up its act

• Students ate less meat for 3 years after hearing talk on environmental impacts

• Why can't we just quit cows?