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• (Apr 2023) How did places like Bell Labs know how to ask the right questions?

• Small Kentucky town urged to evacuate after train derails, spilling chemicals

• Cranberry Marketing Committee

  The Cranberry Marketing Committee (CMC) promotes the worldwide use and consumption of US-grown cranberries. The CMC was established as a Federal Marketing Order in 1962 to ensure a stable, orderly supply of good quality product. Authority for its actions are provided under Chapter IX, Title 7, Code of Federal Regulations, referred to as the Federal Cranberry Marketing Order, which is part of the Agricultural Marketing Agreement Act of 1937.

Horseshit

• California seeing a sizable influx of new residents relocating from Texas

• Big-Data Study Explores Social Factors Affecting Child Health

• L.A. is going electric. Can it do so equitably?

Rank Propaganda / Thought Policing / World Disordering

• (UK) Toyota advert banned for showing pick-up truck convoy driving through river

• (Apr 2022) The True Purpose of Propaganda

  Alongside the desire to brainwash people, the regime also wants to remind people of their power. When citizens are bombarded with propaganda everywhere they look, they are reminded of the strength of the regime. The vast amount of resources authoritarian regimes spend to display their message in every corner of the public square is a costly demonstration of their power. Propaganda is intended to instill fear in people, not brainwash them. The message is: You might not hold pro-regime values or attitudes. But we will make sure you are too frightened to do anything about it.

Musk

• All design and engineering of the original Tesla Roadster is now open source | Hacker News

  • Tesla open sources all design and engineering of original Roadster

• Tesla workers report explosions, concussions and robot injuries at Texas factory

  • HN comments

• Twitter is going to add headlines back in to embedded news stories.

• Elon Musk calls strikes 'insane' as Swedish workers take on Tesla

• Ask HN: Did Elon/Twitter face any consequences after it stopped paying rent?

  • (Jan 2023) Twitter Employees Were Evicted From Singapore Office Over Unpaid Rent | Observer

  • (Jun 2023) Twitter evicted from office amid lawsuits over unpaid rent and cleaning bills | Ars Technica

Trump / War against the Right / Jan6

• Liberals are realizing that Trump will probably win. And they are terrified

• Air Force Personnel Warned Against Attending Conservative 'Patriot' Event, Sparking Outrage

Pox / COVID / BioTerror AgitProp

• Mysterious pneumonia outbreak leaves China's hospitals overwhelmed with sick

  • WHO statement on clusters of respiratory illness in children in northern China

  • WHO asks China about clusters of respiratory disease among children

  • Mystery child pneumonia outbreak reported in China hospitals

Religion / Tribal / Culture War and Re-Segregation

• Youth gender medicine has become a hall of mirrors

• Pro-Palestinian protesters glue their hands to 6th Avenue, disrupting Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade

• Scientists rewrites assumptions about a gendered prehistoric division of labor

Edumacationalizing / Acedemia Nuts

• High School Coach's Firing After Mass Baptism Sparks Outrage

• Why Research Fraud Is Getting Worse: Until we disincentivize number-fudging, academic scientists will continue to cheat.

Entertainment / ShowBiz / Advertising

• Turns out, Meta's Threads is good for breaking news

• Christopher Nolan and Guillermo Del Toro on Owning Physical Media

• Spotify will end service in Uruguay due to bill requiring fair pay for artists

  • HN comments

• Sorry You Missed It – Inside Rockstar North Blog Shut Down | Hacker News

• Rolling Stones tour sponsored by AARP as 80-year-old rocker Mick Jagger set to hit the road

• Incognito Mode Isn't Doing What You Think It's Doing

TechSuck / Geek Bait

• How do I become a graphics programmer? A small guide from the AMD Game Engineering team - AMD GPUOpen

  • HN comments

AI Will (Save | Destroy) The World

• I figured this out. Steve Jobs is dead, Elon Musk went off script, so they need to anoint a new "TechBro Messiah". All this fuss has been a Chinese Fire Drill hype generation event to crown Sam Altman.

• The Unsettling Lesson of the OpenAI Mess

• The Coups and Concessions That Brought Altman Back to OpenAI

• Ask HN: Why All That Drama?

• The Sam Altman Soap Opera Reflects Silicon Valley at Its Worst

• Sam Altman's ouster was precipitated by letter to board about AI breakthrough

  • HN comments

• Sam Altman's Second Coming Sparks New Fears of the AI Apocalypse

• A.I. Belongs to the Capitalists Now

• Five Days of Chaos: How Sam Altman Returned to OpenAI

• Threat to humanity: The mystery letter that may have sparked the OpenAI chaos

• The Reason Sam Altman Was Fired?

• OpenAI researchers warned board of AI breakthrough ahead of CEO ouster

• The Fallout from the Weirdness at OpenAI

  • HN comments

• Despite OpenAI Chaos, Wall Street Is Still Betting Big on AI

• Helen Toner, the Effective Altruist Who Sparked the Open AI Coup

• OpenAI was working on advanced model so powerful it alarmed staff

• Possible OpenAI's Q* breakthrough and DeepMind's AlphaGo-type systems plus LLMs — LessWrong

• Was Sam Altman's Sacking By OpenAI's Board Over 'Q-Star' Breakthrough Seen As Threat To Humanity? | ZeroHedge

• About That OpenAI "Breakthrough"

• After OpenAI's Blowup, It Seems Pretty Clear That 'AI Safety' Isn't a Real Thing

• 'Huge egos are in play': behind the firing and rehiring of OpenAI's Sam Altman

Space / Boomy Zoomers / UFO

• NASA Requests Funding for $1B 'Space Tug' to Deorbit the ISS

• SpaceX launches "limitless" 'zero fuel' engine into space

• Disclosure and National Security: Should US Gov Reveal What It Knows About UAP?

Crypto con games

• Sam Altman's involvement in Worldcoin is not expected to change

• Binance gets hit with crypto's worst possible fate: compliance

• Binance and CEO admit financial crimes, billions coughed up to US govt

  • HN comments

• Sam Bankman-Fried's Life Behind Bars: Crypto Tips and Paying with Fish

  • (2017) How A Fish Became Prison Currency

Economicon / Business / Finance

• Despite strong economy, Americans are spending less: 'I feel like I'm always holding my breath'

• First time unemployment claims fall to 209,000

• McKinsey and Its Consulting Industry Peers Face Wild Headwinds

• Blackstone to shut multi-strategy fund after assets fall 90%

• Canada's unprecedented housing crisis could be a warning sign for the US

• Popular LA grocery store spotted selling Thanksgiving turkey for nearly $200

Gubmint / Poilitcks / Law Making

• Biden Congratulates Argentine President-Elect Javier Milei in Call: White House

• Biden proposes ban on cable cord-cutting fees

• Ethics Panel Votes Against Probing Rep. Bowman’s Pulled Fire Alarm Inquiry – One America News Network

• NYC Mayor Adams accused of sexual assault in new lawsuit ahead of Adult Survivors Act filing deadline

• CA can share gun owners' personal info with researchers, appeals court rules

Law Breaking / Police / Internal Security

• Paul Graham on the CIA Killing Kennedy

  • JFK Assassination Conspiracy Viewed Differently by Gen Z

  • Doctor challenging official narrative that Lee Harvey Oswald was lone gunman

• US nuke reactor lab hit by 'gay furry hackers' demanding cat-human mutants

• US govt pays AT&T to let cops search Americans' phone records without warrant

  • HN comments

External Security / Militaria / Diplomania

• India Alleged to Have Plotted Assassination on US Soil

• Terrorism Task Force Deployed After Vehicle Explosion on U.S. Side of Niagara Falls

  • FBI investigating after deadly car explosion on bridge at U.S.-Canada border

  • US-Canada Bridges Closed After Vehicle Explosion Near Niagara Falls

• Oopsie, nevermind, totally normal accident: Rich Bentley Driver Caused Niagara Falls Checkpoint Explosion After Canceled KISS Concert: Report | ZeroHedge

  What started out with Fox News reporting a terrorism incident involving explosives is now believed to be the fault of a 56-year-old man who lived in a wealthy area, went to a casino after KISS canceled its farewell-tour dates in Ottawa and Toronto, and then drove his $300,000 (after taxes) Bentley Excelsior X into the border checkpoint, killing himself and his wife.

World

• Manga artists and taxi drivers hit as tax frustrations mount

• North Korea launches suspected spy satellite, its neighbors say

• Polish court discovers secret cryptomining rigs hidden throughout building

• China Rounds Up 31,000 Suspects in Sweeping 'Pig-Butchering' Crackdown

• China's share of the global economy is falling by the most since Mao Zedong

• Turkey's central bank hikes interest rate by 500 basis points to 40%

• Netherlands voters head to the polls in tight election

  • Far-right leader Geert Wilders wins Dutch election: Exit poll

  • Dutch election: Far-right Wilders PVV set to win – exit poll

  • Anti-Islam Populist Geert Wilders Heading for a Massive Win in Netherlands.

  • ‘Anti-Islam Bad Boy’ Geert Wilders Wins Big in Dutch Elections, Leftist Meltdown Begins Immediately

  • Dutch election results stir concerns among business, immigrant groups

Israel

• Dirty secret of Israel's weapons exports: They're tested on Palestinians

Russia Bad / Ukraine War

• Russian-made Ukraine-targeting malware has infested systems worldwide

Health / Medicine

• Cheap over-the-counter nail drug found to work on crippling flesh-eating disease

• Five women got eye syphilis from the same man–raising questions

• C diff spores resist bleach and remain viable on surgical scrubs and gown fabrics

• Polio Is on the Brink of Eradication

  • HN comments

  • (2014) CIA operation set back the fight against polio

Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda

• With wild 'super pigs' expanding their range, Minnesota readies for action

• Icelandic authorities consider plan to pump water on to lava if volcano erupts

• Climate change could soon make these staple Thanksgiving dishes more scarce

• 62,000 Barrel Gulf Oil Spill Is Worst Since Deepwater Horizon And 11th Largest In U.S. History | ZeroHedge

  • Main Oil Pass Spill in Gulf of Mexico Prompts Six Drillers to Shut Production - Bloomberg

• Global warming might not happen quite as fast as we thought