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• Low current around roots boosts plant growth

  • In situ self-induced electrical stimulation to plants: Modulates morphogenesis, photosynthesis and gene expression in Vigna radiata and Cicer arietinum - ScienceDirect

  • HN comments

• Review: 'JFK: What the Doctors Saw' eyewitnesses contradict Warren Commission

Horseshit

• We're All Bored of Culture

• America Is Getting Lonelier and More Indoorsy. That's Not a Coincidence

• Pet psychics are making their way from the fringe to socially acceptable

• Silicon Valley City Wants to Ease Housing Crisis with $150k Cargo Containers

celebrity gossip

• Hockey player Matt Petgrave arrested in death of fellow player Adam Johnson

Rank Propaganda / Thought Policing / World Disordering

• 'Alarming': convincing AI vaccine and vaping disinformation

• Fake Reviews Are Rampant Online. Can a Crackdown End Them?

Musk

• Tesla solar panels were going to change the world. What happened?

• Man vs. Musk: A Whistleblower Creates Headaches for Tesla

• New Report Finds Musk's X Is an Antisemitic, Islamophobic 'Hell-Scape'

  • X continues to suck at moderating hate speech, according to a new report

• Tesla Won't Sue Cybertruck Resellers Anymore

Trump / War against the Right / Jan6

• Trump calls political enemies 'vermin,' echoing dictators Hitler, Mussolini

• When Trump tells you he's an authoritarian, believe him

Religion / Tribal / Culture War and Re-Segregation

• Bari Weiss: You Are the Last Line of Defense

• What's driving social justice ideology? The US and UK compared

• We wanted the public statements of support to be a bit less public? Columbia student sues group behind 'doxxing truck'

• How George Floyd Actually Died.

• A tech investor was fired after making remarks about sterilizing Palestinians

• He's a Communist Trust Fund Baby Who Inherited Millions. Now, He's Using Daddy's Money To Harass Jews.

  "We need to start making people who support Israel actually afraid to go out in public," Chambers said in a Friday Instagram post. "We need to make all of white America afraid that everything they have stolen is going to be burned to the ground. That's what makes them listen."

• The Left uplifts its artists. Why doesn’t the Right?

• The NRA Is Going Broke And Moving To Texas.

Edumacationalizing / Acedemia Nuts

• US Confidence in Higher Education Institutions Continues Long Decline

• School Choice Dies in Illinois, as 35% Read at Grade Level

Entertainment / ShowBiz / Advertising

• The Dying DVD Business Could Be Headed for a Resurrection

• Magic: The Gathering Black Lotus card sells for a record $540k

• Tell HN: "Ctrl+Shift+Alt+Win+L" opens LinkedIn if you're using Windows

• YouTube adapts its policies for the coming surge of AI videos

• Tumblr is downscaling after failing to 'turn around' the sit

• Online news pioneer Salon.com is sold to Find.co

• Everything about SEO is obnoxious

TechSuck / Geek Bait

• Hot Wheel Car Becomes 1/64 Scale Micro RC Car, Complete With Camera

• Maxar's Open Satellite Feed

• Blender 4.0

  • HN comments

• Rivian bricks infotainment with wrongly signed OTA

  • Rivian Pushes Broken Software Update That Will Require Physical Repair

AI Will (Save | Destroy) The World

• A Coder Considers the Waning Days of the Craft | Hacker News

• Google wants governments to form a 'global AI corps'

• Why your weather forecasts may soon become more accurate

  • Google's New AI Weatherman Will Leave Forecasters in the Dust

Space / Boomy Zoomers / UFO

• Astronauts dropped a toolbag on an ISS spacewalk; you can see it with binoculars

• Starship will attempt a launch this weekend

  • HN comments

  • HN discussion links wiki "Dialectical Materialism" article on the first page.

• Saturn's Rings Will Temporarily Disappear from View in 2025

• SETI Institute gets $200M to seek out evidence of alien life

Crypto con games

• Grayscale CEO hints at Bitcoin ETF approval, 'We're ready for the main event'

• 48-nation bloc to crack down on using crypto assets to avoid tax

Economicon / Business / Finance

• Why Washington wants to treat Apple and Google like big banks

• 20% of Millennials and 68% of Gen Z-ers still live with other family members

  • HN comments

• Panama Canal drought hits new crisis level

• CPI for all items unchanged in October; shelter up

  • CPI Unexpectedly Misses Across The Board, Core Inflation Lowest In Over 2 Years

  • Wall Street Reacts To Today's CPI Shocker Which Was The Biggest "Market Surprise" Of 2023 | ZeroHedge

• He was working three full-time jobs at Meta, IBM, and Tinder. Bosses didn't know

• US retailers stuck with excess stock offer bargains as holiday season nears.

• Fisker EV maker discloses 'material weaknesses' in financial reporting

• Electric heat to cost 77 percent more than natural gas, federal agency says

  • HN comments

• Andreessen Horowitz Invests in Civitai, Which Profits from Nonconsensual AI Porn

• U.S. Reenters the Nuclear Fuel Game

• Golden Heaven (NASDAQ: GDHG) down 28% on Hindenburg report – how much lower?

Gubmint / Poilitcks / Law Making

• (PDF) Supreme Court of the United States Statement Regarding the Code of Conduct

• EXCLUSIVE - First photos reveal the COCAINE found in the White House: Images of the baggy in cubby hole that sparked White House investigation - and the culprit has still not been found | Daily Mail Online

• CFPB Proposes New Federal Oversight of Digital Wallets and Payment Apps

• Carr Opposes Biden's Internet Plan

• Here’s How Biden Can Turn It Around - POLITICO

Law Breaking / Police / Internal Security

• FBI struggled to disrupt dangerous casino hacking gang

• Teens with "digital bazookas" are winning the ransomware war, researcher laments

External Security / Militaria / Diplomania

• China Should Just Accept US Exceptionalism

World

• China Shaken by String of Cancer Cases Tied to Top Oncology Lab

• Afghan opium poppy cultivation plunges by 95 percent under Taliban: UN

• Nepal bans TikTok and says it disrupts social harmony

• EU Parliament Decides That Your Private Messages Must Not Be Scanned

• Turkish parliament commission to debate Sweden NATO bid Thursday.

Israel

• Why the Irish side with Palestine

• IDF reveals Hamas hostage, explosives center under Rantisi Hospital.

• Nothing To See Here: Democrat Media Arm Scrambles As It Becomes Clear They Knew About Hamas Invasion Of Israel Before It Happened.

Russia Bad / Ukraine War

• Ukrainian officer coordinated Nord Stream attack

Health / Medicine

• Pasta and Rice May Be Healthier as Leftovers. Here’s Why. - The New York Times

• Costly Cures: Harsh Treatments Appear to Uphold Social Trust

  The idea is that unpleasant or aversive treatments (e.g., drilling holes into skulls, amputating limbs, ingesting noxious substances, bloodletting, leeches) have been ways of making sure people are actually sick or injured. They are social technologies to make faking it more costly.

  Humans sometimes fake pain to receive benefits. Thus, aversive treatments arose to introduce a cost to ensure that signals are honest. Aversive treatments help caregivers to distinguish the truly ill from the pretenders. Moreover, people with symptoms that can be easily faked can credibly request care. If you can’t see my injuries, but I tell you that I am in pain, you might be skeptical. But if we both know that the treatment for my pain is unpleasant, then you will have little reason to doubt my claims. And, thus, you’ll be more likely to help me.

• Getting an Itemized Hospital Bill Is Basically Impossible

• Salt Lake County sees an 800% increase of Syphilis in women

• States with legalized medical marijuana see decline in nonmedical opioid use

• The Trouble with America's Ultra-Processed Diet

• Lead-tainted fruit pouches poison 22 toddlers; blood lead levels 8X threshold

• Facing Financial Ruin as Costs Soar for Elder Care

Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda

• Latest US climate assessment shows the extreme toll taken by climate change

• United States Fifth National Climate Assessment

• The myth of 'slowing' EV sales

• A lot of damage in Grindavík - Iceland Monitor

  • HN comments

• The Big Pineapple Pesticide Problem