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• What Happened To All The Futurists? - Theology

Horseshit

• Charging While Driving Now Possible In Michigan

• More on Pharma Pricing

celebrity gossip

• Wanted for Wirecard's Missing $2B Now Suspected of Being a Russian Spy

• Prince Harry wins landmark phone hacking case against Britain's major tabloids

Musk

• 'Shameless': Reporters Without Borders rebukes X for claiming to support it

Trump / War against the Right / Jan6

• Tough Sentence Punctuates Downfall of Former FBI Counterintelligence Chief: Judge sentences Charles McGonigal to more than four years in prison for accepting secret payments from sanctioned Russian oligarch.

  • Charles McGonigal, ex-FBI official, sentenced to 50 months for working with Russian oligarch - CBS News

  McGonigal's lawyers said the former FBI official's work for Deripaska to get another Russian oligarch sanctioned was "at least in part aligned with U.S. interests." His attorneys asked the federal judge overseeing the case to impose a sentence without additional prison time. They said he "understood that the work he agreed to do was consistent with, not in tension with, U.S. foreign policy in the sense that it was in furtherance of potentially sanctioning another Russian oligarch."

• What if Jack Smith Held a Trial and No One Came? – JONATHAN TURLEY

Pox / COVID / BioTerror AgitProp

• 'Long flu' has emerged as a consequence similar to long Covid

• Children born, raised during lockdown developing language skills at slower rate

Religion / Tribal / Culture War and Re-Segregation

• Substackers Against Nazis – A collective letter to Substack leadership

• Leftist art was hidden in Melrose Place for years

• Microsoft Word now scolds you if you use words that aren't "inclusive"

• Oh No! Satanic Goat Skull Display In Iowa's State Capitol Destroyed

Edumacationalizing / Acedemia Nuts

• How to Crush the Ivy League Cartel

• Biden Forgave Billions in Student Debt. Poll Shows It's Not Enough for Gen Z

• Forty-one students arrested, booked within University Hall following second sit-in demanding divestment, ceasefire: University ‘is prepared to escalate’ charges if similar actions are taken in the future.

• The Moral Decline of Elite Universities

Entertainment / ShowBiz / Advertising

• Rishi Sunak considers curbing social media use for under-16s

• The Last of Us Multiplayer Video Game Is Scrapped

• TikTok faces watchdog probe after supplying inaccurate information

• UniFi devices broadcasted private video to other users' accounts

• LinkedIn shelved planned move to Microsoft Azure, will keep data centers

• Can Sukeban make Japan-style female wrestling fashionable with Americans?

• Twitch Reverses Policy on 'Artistic Nudity' After Just Two Days

  • Sexual Content Policy Update

  • Twitch rescinds its artistic nudity policy

• What's Left of Cable TV Is Slowly Going to Hell

• Google develops selfie scanning software ahead of porn crackdown

• Ad Company Claims 'It’s True. Your Devices Are Listening to You'

  • HN comment

• Discord became a perfect conduit for a leak of government secrets

TechSuck / Geek Bait

• Intel CEO: 'The entire industry is motivated to eliminate the CUDA market' | Hacker News

• The Rise and Fall of the 'IBM Way' | Hacker News

• Delta Dental says data breach exposed info of 7M people

  • HN comments

AI Will (Save | Destroy) The World

• Nvidia is now investing in AI startups

Space / Boomy Zoomers / UFO

• Congress Orders UFO Records Released but Drops Bid for Broader Disclosure

• Project Kuiper confirms super-fast satellite communication tech works in space

• New Mexico Spaceport Leaves Economic Dreams Grounded

Economicon / Business / Finance

• Gas Contracts Are Just a Suggestion - Bloomberg

• Bolt Lays Off 29% of Staff

• Record-breaking oil production from the US has left OPEC with its lowest crude market share in nearly a decade.

• Fed Official Says Central Bank Isn’t ‘Really Talking About Rate Cuts.’

• U.S. economy will pull off soft landing in 2024, CBO projects

Gubmint / Poilitcks / Law Making

• Congress passes bill barring presidents from unilaterally withdrawing from NATO

• White House says Biden ‘not lying about anything’ in impeach probe, despite evidence: ‘Baseless political stunt’.

• a16z - Andreeesen Horowitz - will contribute to the campaigns of any politicians willing to fight the over-regulation of the tech industry.

• Joe Biden's Own Staffers Hold Vigil, Demand He Call for Ceasefire in Gaza

• Is It Time for a Second Look at Kamala?

• Who Is Sara Biden? Joe’s In-Law Emerges as Central Figure in Foreign Cash Deals.

• Behind the Scenes at the Dismantling of Roe vs. Wade

Law Breaking / Police / Internal Security

• Guilty plea entered for attempted arson at abortion foe

• U.S. terrorist watchlist grows to 2 million people — nearly doubling in 6 years - CBS News

• Former White House scientist was scammed out of $655,000

• Suspects can refuse to provide phone passcodes to police, court rules

World

• EU tweaks law to allow using spyware against journalists

• Hamas members arrested in Germany, Netherlands over suspected terror plot

• South Korea to see population plummet to 1970s levels, government says

• Porsche stops Macan sales early in Europe on cybersecurity rules

Israel

• Two More Ships Struck By Houthi Missiles As Maersk Diverts All Tankers From Red Sea

Russia Bad / Ukraine War

• EU sidesteps Viktor Orbán to open membership talks with Ukraine

Health / Medicine

• Americans Are Skipping Doctor Visits Due to Costs

• Scientists Pinpoint Cause of Morning Sickness to Hormone Made by Fetus

• Opioid use disorder (OUD), a serious health burden worldwide, is associated with lower cognitive function.

Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda

• Japan says reason behind 1,200 tonnes of fish washing ashore is unknown

  • HN comments

• Levee Breach Creates New Tidal Marshland in San Francisco Bay

• Flying hurts the planet but vital for island tourism. Is there a greener way?

• The Biggest Problem with Lab-Grown Chicken Is Growing the Chicken

• Nine breakthroughs for climate and nature in 2023 you may have missed

• England's village green hydrogen dream in tatters

  the pilot in Redcar, in the north east of England, "cannot go ahead as designed, as the main source of hydrogen supply will not be available."

• Fiddling with Volcanic C02: A made-up, disparate accounting model.