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• Bow To Our Future Overlords - by Robin Hanson

  I’m not sure quite how best to persuade you all of this, but world population will soon fall fast, and then unless we achieve full AGI or end aging by then, our total world economic capacity will also fall, with scale economies and innovation rates both falling roughly in proportion. Actually innovation will fall faster due to diminishing returns, populations getting older, and lower-than-Western African innovation quality.

• No TP? No Problem!

• Thanksgiving travel surges to 55 million amid weather warnings, according to AAA

• How the Gas Turbine Conquered the Electric Power Industry

• This Would Be More Professionally Useful If Not For the Furry Art - Dhole Moments

Horseshit

• Taylor Swift is having a moment. So is girlhood in pop culture

• 'Hallucinate' chosen as Cambridge dictionary's word of the year

• Magicians less prone to mental disorders than other artists, finds research | Hacker News

• CSAM and 'mainstream' pornography: overlapping content, constructs and ideology

• Why the Fall of the Berlin Wall Didn't Unite Germans

• The invisible dangers of travelling through time

celebrity gossip

• Rush's Geddy Lee: 'Punk bands made us seem like Beethoven by comparison'

• Snoop Dogg begs fans to ‘respect my privacy’ after rap legend announced he had quit smoking weed sparking concern.

Rank Propaganda / Thought Policing / World Disordering

• Tech Providers’ Arbitration Clauses Don’t Block Lawsuit Over Government-Inspired Censorship.

Musk

• Elon Musk agrees with tweet accusing Jews of 'hatred against whites'

• Elon Musk no longer listed as speaker at APEC

• Musk's Antisemitic Post Draws Criticism from Some Shareholders

• White House excoriates Musk for endorsing message accusing Jews

• IBM pulls X ads as Elon Musk endorses white pride

  • IBM suspends ads on X after they appeared next to Nazi posts

  • IBM suspends advertising on X as Musk faces antisemitism backlash

• Elon Musk backs antisemitic claim; Tesla shares tumble

• Backlash spreads over Musk's endorsement of antisemitic post

• X can't shirk FTC privacy settlement, or block Elon Musk's deposition

• Why Teslas Totaled in the US Are Mysteriously Reincarnated in Ukraine

• EU Gets Busted 'Microtargeting' X Users, Rage-Quits Ad Campaign Citing 'Misinfo' | ZeroHedge

  According to Politico, the European Commission has decided to stop advertising on X due to "widespread concerns relating to the spread of disinformation," approximately one day after they were called out by NOYB for 'misleading' advertising.

  • No more ads on Elon’s X, EU Commission tells staff – POLITICO

• Swedish dockworkers are refusing to unload Teslas at ports in broad boycott move

• SpaceX Reveals Next-Gen Starlink Dish for Residential Users

Trump / War against the Right / Jan6

• The biggest danger to the world in 2024 – Trump

• Trump takes victory lap on Truth Social by attacking judge and clerk right after gag order paused

• Ohio man sentenced to nearly 5 years for attacks on police during Capitol riot

Pox / COVID / BioTerror AgitProp

• Rand Paul on the Lab Leak ‘Deception.’

• Why are so few people getting the latest Covid-19 vaccine?

• Covid strain that killed 8k cats found in UK

  • Imagine what would've happened had they admitted that cats carry COVID in 2020.

Religion / Tribal / Culture War and Re-Segregation

• Real CNN Headline: "Arrest made in death of Jewish protester who fell and hit his head"

• Pro-Palestinian violent protest erupts outside DNC headquarters in Washington DC, Capitol police injured

  • Congressman Thanks Capitol Police for Keeping Lefty Dems Safe From Their Own Supporters

• New York Times Opinion Columnist Doesn't Know Hamas Runs Gaza – HotAir

Edumacationalizing / Acedemia Nuts

• Fewer U.S. college students in foreign language− troubling for national security

• Idaho teacher arrested for rape of teen cops found driving her car because she was too ‘drunk to drive.’

Entertainment / ShowBiz / Advertising

• Google News is shutting down purchased magazine content, offering refunds

• US wraps up antitrust case against Google in historic trial

• Google Hidden Gems Ranking Algorithm Rolling Out: Promotes Forums, Blogs

• Apple announces that RCS support is coming to iPhone next year | Hacker News

• Methodology for a edit of Doctor Who in the chronological order

• Moving Away from Substack

• Star Wars Holiday Special was genuinely dire – how did it happen?

  • 'Star Wars' Documentary About Infamous 1978 Holiday Special Sets Release Date

• FCC rules to eliminate 'digital discrimination' for those with poor internet

  • FCC Is Trying to Stop Discrimination in Broadband Deployment. Telecoms Are Mad

  • HN comments

• apparently this is a big deal? multiple stories about it Why Apple Is Content with the Blue Bubble Divide in iMessage

• Amazon’s Project Kuiper completes successful tests of broadband connectivity.

TechSuck / Geek Bait

• The Lack of Compensation in Open Source Software Is Unsustainable

  • HN comments

• Disks lie. And the controllers that run them are partners in crime (2012) | Hacker News

Space / Boomy Zoomers / UFO

• SpaceX's 2nd Starship launch on Nov. 18: How it will work

• Harvard astronomer's "alien spherules" are industrial pollutants

Crypto con games

• Ramaswamy Shares Crypto Plan, Making Him the Only GOP Candidate Who Has One

• Cryptomining rig discovered under Polish court's floor, stealing power

Economicon / Business / Finance

• Walmart, Costco and other companies rethink self-checkout

• Justice Dept Says Collusion Suit Against Apartment Owners Should Move Forward

  • HN comments

• Carvana Stock, CarMax Sink as Amazon Enters Online Car Sales

• Amazon cuts 'several hundred' jobs in Alexa division

• Report on household debt and credit Q3 2023

  Aggregate household debt balances increased by $228 billion in the third quarter of 2023, a 1.3% rise from 2023Q2. Balances now stand at $17.29 trillion and have increased by $3.1 trillion since the end of 2019, just before the pandemic recession.

  Delinquency transition rates increased for all product types, except for student loans. Missed federal student loan payments will not be reported to credit bureaus until 2024Q4. Because of these policies, less than 1% of aggregate student debt was reported 90+ days delinquent or in default in 2023Q3 and will remain low until at least 2024Q4.

Gubmint / Poilitcks / Law Making

• Media Aren't Quite Hackish Enough For The Biden White House

• Rep. George Santos says he won’t seek reelection

  • House Ethics Chair Files Resolution to Expel George Santos

• Outrage Ensues After No Charges Likely In Biden Classified Document Scandal | ZeroHedge

• Opinion | Why Great G.D.P. Growth Isn’t Good Enough for Bidenomics - The New York Times

  The mortal enemy of Bidenomics isn’t Donald Trump; it’s a reliance on aggregate and average numbers that mask the nature of the economy Americans experience. Focusing on G.D.P. is a mistake, as it obscures the range of financial success and hardship in an economy as unequal as that of the United States.

Law Breaking / Police / Internal Security

• Paul Pelosi attack suspect David DePape found guilty in federal trial

• Do Safe Injection Sites Increase Crime? There's Finally an Answer

• Triad Weed: How Chinese Marijuana Grows Took Over Rural Maine.

• FBI, CDC Ignored Concerns Over California-Based Chinese Biolab Containing Deadly Pathogens.

• Eye Opener: Mistrial declared in case of ex-officer involved in fatal Breonna Taylor raid

External Security / Militaria / Diplomania

• Panda Diplomacy Might Not Be Dead Just Yet

• Pentagon fails sixth audit, with number of passing grades stagnant

Israel

• UN experts call on international community to prevent genocide

• Biden Says ‘Real’ Palestinian State Must Come After War

• Israel's 'Iron Wall' crumbled under Hamas's Oct. 7 attack

Health / Medicine

• Fentanyl kills thousands every year in America. Will Europe be next?

• WHO: Loneliness global health priority with new Commission on Social Connection

• The dangers of reproducing while old

  I think this qualitative description matches the data: Risks start rising at around 30 years old for both mothers and fathers, rises gradually through about 35 for mothers and 40 for fathers, and then sharply after that.

• Measles rises globally amid vaccination crash

Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda

• He won a Nobel Prize. Then he started denying climate change

• The house that climate change built

• Capacitor-based heat pumps see big boost in efficiency

• A Look at the Real Greenhouse Gas Emissions Impact of Volcanic Eruptions.

• Minimizing the impacts of the ammonia economy on the nitrogen cycle and climate

• California strikes another blow against rooftop solar

• Scientists battling orcas sinking yachts tackle problem with heavy metal music