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• Why animals shrink explained with new evolution theory

• Portland woman recounts rescuing baby after fallen power line kills 3 | CNN

  The three people who died had gotten out of the car, slipped when walking away and slid until they encountered the live and active wire, resulting in their deaths,

  • HN comments

  • Winter storm: Oregon teen recounts saving baby after she saw 3 people electrocuted | AP News

• Remembering Bell Labs as legendary idea factory prepares to leave N.J. home

• What If Life on Earth Began When Interstellar Objects Crashed Here?

Horseshit

• Disney Adults Have Entered Their Swinger Era

• Companies Make It Too Easy for Thieves to Impersonate Police and Steal Our Data

  • HN comments

• Why do we have right-on-red, and is it time to get rid of it?

• Year of the Dragon 2024: is your luck in?

  Lucky stars are shining on the careers of Rats so there is a good chance for a promotion at work. Leadership is also in the stars, so this will be a particularly good year for Rats in law enforcement.

• Nobel laureates call on EU to relax rules on genetic modification

• The 2023 Hugo nomination statistics have finally been released – and we have questions | Cora Buhlert

  • Charlie Stross: "worldcon Hugo nomination statistics suggest the 2023 Hugo awards were rigged"

• Ask HN: Will the energy of the 80s ever come back to the West? | Hacker News

• Why Is Everything So Ugly?

  • HN comments

• Johns Hopkins Says Gun-Control Will Prevent Second Civil War | ZeroHedge

• Couple Accused of Living With Dead Parent for Years to Collect Retirement Check

Electric / Self Driving cars

• What happens when you trigger a car's automated emergency stopping?

celebrity gossip

• I believe bestselling author Mark Dawson is a serial plagiarist | Hacker News

• (2023) How Al Gore has made $300m with climate alarmism: Former VP made a fortune after losing to George W

Obit

• Journalist who tried to cancel Novak Djokovic over not taking COVID vaccine collapses and dies while covering Australian Open | Human Events | humanevents.com

• Vistex CEO Sanjay Shah dies on stage after freak accident

Musk

• Ask HN: Why isn't Twitter / X dead yet? | Hacker News

Trump / War against the Right / Jan6

• Biden’s DOJ seeks 6 months jail term Peter Navarro after conviction for defying Congressional subpoena | The Post Millennial | thepostmillennial.com

  • Obama DOJ Wants To Jail Peter Navarro For 6 Months For Same Thing Eric Holder Got Away With | ZeroHedge

• FBI's Role In The Whitmer 'Kidnap Plot' Is Bigger Than You Think

• "Trump Economy" story reaction: Enjoy the ratio on this take from Axios.

• Evidence Mounts That the Government Planted Pipe Bombs at Capitol on January 6.

  • IP thread

• "Patriot Front": The Feds aint fooling anyone

Pox / COVID / BioTerror AgitProp

• Massie: "Your primary care provider was bribed to get you to take the..." Well, you know | Not the Bee

Religion / Tribal / Culture War and Re-Segregation

• Prevent referrals for children expressing pro-Palestine solidarity | openDemocracy

  openDemocracy has been alerted to reports from across the UK of schools allegedly telling pupils to remove badges, stickers and t-shirts that have “free Palestine” on them; alleged retaliatory measures against college students for tweeting support or joining pickets for Palestine; and claims about university exclusions, suspensions and investigations, as well as the cancellations of pro-Palestinian events.

• White men no longer want to fight for a nation that scorns them

  Recruiting targets are consistently not met, but the main priority is not to get more people to join up – it is to get more non-white people and women to join up.

• Pastor Charged With Housing Homeless in Church Sparks Fury

  charged with violating the city's zoning laws for allegedly keeping the church's doors open for the homeless 24/7. City officials said the charges stem from investigations that allegedly uncovered safety risks inside the church, but his attorney told Newsweek that the church made necessary repairs and that the city continues shifting the goalposts amid the dispute.

Edumacationalizing / Acedemia Nuts

• Student Loan Forgiveness Biden-Harris Administration Announces Additional Relief

  This brings the total loan forgiveness approved by the administration to an impressive $136.6 billion for over 3.7 million Americans.

• Emergency-Hired Teachers Without Degrees as Effective as Licensed Educators

• After Affirmative Action Ban, They Rewrote College Essays with a Key Theme: Race

• Why Americans Have Lost Faith in the Value of College - WSJ

Info Rental / ShowBiz / Advertising

• Music Journalism Can't Afford a Hollowed Out Pitchfork

• Anime is a $25B industry that pays its animators pennies

  • HN comments

• Most streamed music had fewer than 1k plays in 2023

• Billionaires Wanted to Save the News Industry. They're Losing a Fortune

• L.A. Times Employees Go on Strike, Get Whiplash When the Consequences Arrive – RedState

TechSuck / Geek Bait

• For a moment there, Lotus Notes appeared to do everything a company needed

  • HN comments

• Ditching GitHub

AI Will (Save | Destroy) The World

• UK parcel firm disables AI after poetic bot goes rogue

  • Delivery firm chatbot disabled after swearing at customers

• 'Very scary': Mark Zuckerberg's pledge to build advanced AI alarms experts

• AI bots are everywhere now. These telltale words give them away

Space / Boomy Zoomers / UFO

• NASA loses contact with Ingenuity Mars helicopter

  • HN comments

• NASA study: clean, space-based solar power beaming is possible.

  The idea is to use huge solar arrays parked in space to collect and beam solar energy down to remote ground stations on Earth via focused microwaves. The new NASA report, withheld for more than a year for technical and political review, shows that there appear to be no clear technical showstoppers for an in-space solar power demonstration mission.

  • Previous, (2019) Space-based solar power is not a thing – Casey Handmer's blog

  • (2020) Space Solar Power may not be “a thing” for Casey Handmer, but he has not made his case – NSS

  • I think the weapon implications make the idea nonviable from the start.

• Thread: Classified UFO Briefing in Congress

Crypto con games

• Colorado pastor charged for cryptocurrency scam he perpetrated at God's command

  • HN comments

Economicon / Business / Finance

• The Bank of Canada retools its economic forecasting

Gubmint / Poilitcks / Law Making

• Why a Supreme Court decision on fishing boats could change everything

• Top Haley aide Tyler Clarke worked for dark-money Biden donors who funneled $410M to Dems: report

• Trump Rallies In New Hampshire With Top South Carolina Republicans

Law Breaking / Police / Internal Security

• Oregon's drug decriminalization gets poor marks on audit

External Security / Militaria / Diplomania

• Ballistic Missiles May Have Been Used In Huge Strike On US Base In Iraq | ZeroHedge

• U.S. personnel are injured after Iranian-backed militants attacked an Iraq air base

• U.S. Personnel Injured in Attack on Iraq Base

• Taiwan’s Doubts About America Are Growing. That Could Be Dangerous.

World

• Cheap Russian oil cuts OPEC's share of India imports to record-low 50%

• Kurdish solidarity crackdown: How anti-terror laws silence dissent/solidarity

• Seoul police chief charged over Halloween crush that killed 159

• What’s behind mass protests against Germany’s far-right AfD party?

  • Protests against Germany’s far right gain new momentum after report on meeting of extremists

  • Tens of thousands protest in Germany against the rise of the far right

  • 250,000 Germans turn out in mass protests of far-right AfD party

  • Protests of Germany's Far Right Gain Momentum After Extremist Meeting

  • Tens of thousands protest in Germany against the far-right

• 2 British Warships Collide in Middle East Harbor, Damaging Ships

  • British warship crashes into another Royal Navy vessel — for the 2nd time

Iran / Houthi / Red Sea / Mediterranean

• Maersk Warns "Significant Disruptions To Global Shipping Network" As Red Sea Attacks Persist | ZeroHedge

• Houthis Won't Target Chinese, Russian Ships in Red Sea

• Israeli Airstrike Kills Several High-Ranking IRGC Officers In Damascus | ZeroHedge

  • Iran’s IRGC says 5 members killed in Israeli attack on Syria’s Damascus | Israel War on Gaza News | Al Jazeera

• Houthi anti-ship missile systems: getting better all the time

• Iran vows response after suspected Israeli strike on their forces in Syria

• Attacks in Iraq and Syria raise tensions for a region on edge

Israel

• Rare look at underground tunnels where Israeli hostages were held

• Israel's Netanyahu rejects any Palestinian sovereignty post-war, rebuffing Biden

  • Israel’s Netanyahu doubles down on opposition to Palestinian statehood

• Palestinian-American teen one of hundreds killed by Israelis in West Bank

  • He Loved Basketball and Wanted to Help His Family Stores. A Bullet Ended It All.

  • Palestinian American Teenager Killed in the West Bank Is Mourned

Russia Bad / Ukraine War

• France Angrily Denies Russian Claim Of Mercenaries In Ukraine

• Video Games Helped Ukrainian Bradley Gunner Win Duel with Russian T-90M Tank

• Ukraine Military: Russia Has Lost 376.030 Troops in Ukraine

• Russian lawmakers to debate seizing property of those who ‘discredit’ army

  • Russia May Take Property From Those Convicted of Discrediting Military

Health / Medicine

• Frozen and reheated white bread leads to lower blood sugar levels

Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda

• Global Warming? North America Snow Coverage Hits "Decadal Highs" | ZeroHedge

• Why animals shrink over time explained with new evolution theory

• Iron Fertilization Isn't Going to Save Us

• The Murky Campaign to Discredit Lab-Grown Meat

• New York ends record 700 plus days without snow