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• An Air Force officer who spent $11M searching Earhart's plane may have found it

  • HN comments

  • Amelia Earhart's long-lost plane possibly spotted in Pacific by exploration team

• Olympic figure skater disqualified for doping, Russians to lose gold to US

• Toyota recalls 50,000 US vehicles over airbag 'injury or death' fears

Horseshit

• Robotic "Companions" Are Testing the Scope of Privacy and Sexual Freedom

• There's So Much Data Even Spies Are Struggling to Find Secrets

• Debunking The “700,000 Truckers To Texas” Story.

  • Convoy seeks to blockade southern border, hold protests: 'We ... shall never surrender'

    A convoy seeks to line the southern border with more than 700,000 vehicles and hold several rallies next week to demand action from the Biden administration. The Take Our Border Back Southern Border Convoy will span from Virginia Beach, Va. to San Diego, Calif. and hold protests urging officials to enforce the Constitution's amendments and halt human and drug trafficking across the border from Jan.29-Feb. 3.

  • Mess In The West: 'Army Of God' Convoy Heads To US Border While EU Farmers Block Cities | ZeroHedge

• There's No Good Reason to Buy a Carbon Bike

  • HN comments

• Juries keep doling out massive awards in defamation cases — but it might not be enough to stop people like Trump

Electric / Self Driving cars

• New tires every 7k miles? Electric cars save gas; tire wear shocks some drivers

  • HN comments

celebrity gossip

• Estates of Jimi Hendrix bandmates can sue over royalties dispute

• Valley mogul to produce film about 'PayPal Mafia' led by Elon Musk, Peter Thiel

• MacKenzie Scott sold Amazon stock worth more than $10 billion last year

• Jury selection begins in fatal shooting trial of Run-DMC’s Jam Master Jay

  • Jam Master Jay: Run-DMC star shot by godson after drug deal dispute, court told

Rank Propaganda / Thought Policing / World Disordering

• Florida House of Representatives approves bill to ban social media for kids < 16

  • HN comments

Musk

• SpaceX Faces Negligence Lawsuit over Injury That Left Worker in a Coma

• Tesla Model Y Was the World’s Best-Selling Vehicle in 2023.

• Fidelity increases X (Twitter) valuation by 11%

• Musk Says First Human Patient Has Received Brain Implant (Archive)

• The first human received an implant from Neuralink yesterday

  • Brave soul; good luck. At this point I'll stick with hooking audio amplifier speaker outputs to various piercings for my jollies, tx.

  • HN comments

  • Elon Musk says Neuralink has implanted first brain chip in a human

• Elon Musk just lost his spot as the richest person in the world

  • Elon Musk is losing so much money that Jeff Bezos could beat him in the billionaires' race

Trump / War against the Right / Jan6

• The Crowd Beyond the Courtroom

• E. Jean Carroll Dishes on the Most Surprising Thing About Trump Case

• E. Jean Carroll gleefully invites Maddow on shopping spree with Trump's $83 million: 'Penthouse? It's yours!'

• Trump Claims Credit For Record Stock Market Using Bogus Reasoning

  • Donald Trump claims he's responsible for stocks hitting record highs

  • Trump attempts to take credit for stock market record highs under Biden

Pox / COVID / BioTerror AgitProp

• Negligence by experts in the early response to Covid-19

Edumacationalizing / Acedemia Nuts

• The Intellectual Rot of the Industrially Necessary University - Epsilon Theory

  The problem is not Claudine Gay. On the contrary, Claudine Gay is exactly the sort of person you would want to hire for your meritocratic organization. She would have absolutely killed it at Bridgewater or Citadel or (lol) Bill Ackman's Pershing Square if that's how she had wanted to apply her abilities. The problem is the office of a university president or dean. The problem is the system of university administrators and faculty. The problem is the role of higher education in modern society, transformed from investment good into consumption good, serving as a gigantic Hogwarts sorting hat while masking an increasingly rigid and polarized caste system beneath.

• Do we want dishonest people driving research with real-world consequences?

• Schools are using surveillance tech to catch students vaping

Info Rental / ShowBiz / Advertising

• Dr Strangelove turns 60 today

  • Dr. Strangelove - Wikipedia

• Users of the internet need not think about its physical underpinnings

  Its distributed nature and its abstractions make the internet difficult to pin down. But not so for the tech giants. They are vertically integrating the internet: laying cables, building data centres, providing cloud services and AI. As the internet becomes more powerful, it is becoming crucial to grasp both its physical and corporate composition. Only by peeling back the layers of abstraction can one lay bare the internet’s foundations and understand its future.

• As Promised, Ford Reactivates Am Radio in 2023 Electric Vehicles

• Watching Ads on Amazon Prime Video Is a Deal Breaker for Some

  • HN comments

• Apple sold nearly 200k Vision Pro headsets

TechSuck / Geek Bait

• Linus Torvalds flames Google kernel contributor over filesystem suggestion

  You copied that function without understanding why it does what it does, and as a result your code IS GARBAGE. AGAIN.

• Intel's Humbling

Space / Boomy Zoomers / UFO

• Japan: Moon lander Slim comes back to life and resumes mission

  • HN comments

Crypto con games

• Men hand over Bitcoins worth two billion euros to German federal police

  • HN comments

Economicon / Business / Finance

• Houthi Hit on Russian Fuel Has Oil Traders Recalculating Risks.

• iRobot Crashes To 2009 Lows, Lays Off 31% Of Staff After Regulators Force Termination Of Amazon Acquisition

  • Amazon terminates iRobot deal, Roomba maker to lay off 31% of staff

  • Amazon terminates iRobot deal, Roomba maker to lay off 31% of staff

  • HN comments

  • Amazon's $1.4B iRobot deal is dead

  • Amazon abandons $1.4B deal to buy Roomba maker iRobot

  • Amazon, iRobot Scrap $1.7B Acquisition Deal

• Embracer Group Cancels 'Deus Ex' Video Game, Lays Off Workers

• What's behind the tech industry's mass layoffs in 2024?.)

• Why Walmart pays its truck drivers 6 figures

  • HN comments

  • Walmart Store Managers Can Make Up to $400k

  • HN comments

• How the U.S. government could lower food prices

  • HN comments

• Car ownership in the US is becoming more expensive

  • HN comments

Gubmint / Poilitcks / Law Making

• Biden Orders US Contractors to Reveal Salary Ranges in Job Ads

• Trump leads Nikki Haley by 27% in first South Carolina poll since NH primary.

• The Housing Famine: The real nature of our policy-induced housing problem

• How the new IRS direct file pilot program works

  Certain taxpayers in Florida, New Hampshire, Nevada, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Washington and Wyoming are eligible to participate. None of those states have a state income tax. Four other states that have a state income tax also are part of the pilot program — Arizona, Massachusetts, California and New York. In those four, state tax agencies will help people directly file their state taxes as well. People can check the IRS website to determine whether they qualify

• Step 7 of 7 on Direct File | Internal Revenue Service:

  To use Direct File, you need an IRS account with ID.me.

  To get an ID.me account, you need to: + Be 18 years or older + Prove your identity using your state or federal identification (like a driver's license or passport) + Take a video of your face

  The video is used to match your face to the picture on your identification and will not be stored. If you can't or don't want to take a video of your face, you can have a video call with an ID.me agent who will confirm that your face matches your identification.

• Garland to Undergo Surgery, US Justice Department Says

  • Merrick Garland to Temporarily Cede Power While Undergoing Back Surgery

• MSNBC Host Joy Reid Sorry After Being Caught Dropping F-Bomb on Air

• Nancy Pelosi is desperately grasping at straws with new Russia smear

  • Pelosi condemned for suggesting pro-Palestinian activists have ties to Russia

  • Pelosi clarifies after suggesting Russia links to some pro-ceasefire protests

  • Pelosi comments suggesting Gaza protesters are 'connected to Russia' are 'delusional,' CAIR says

• Federal employees plan second action over Biden’s handling of Israel-Hamas war

  • US government employees plan to fast for Gaza in protest at Biden policy

Law Breaking / Police / Internal Security

• Man who stole and leaked Trump tax records sentenced to 5 years in prison.

• Iranian man and two Hells Angels accused in murder-for-hire plot in U.S.

External Security / Militaria / Diplomania

• U.S. Failed to Stop Attack in Jordan After Mixup Over Drone Identity - WSJ

• Pentagon identifies 3 U.S. soldiers killed in drone attack

• US says it is not seeking war with Iran after troops killed in drone attack – video

• US tightens sanctions on Venezuela after opposition ban confirmed

• Pentagon mulls response to Jordan drone strike amid fears for Gaza ceasefire efforts

World

• Justin Trudeau and the rise of the liberal strongman - spiked

• Milei Shelves Austerity Plan as Argentine Congress Debates Bill - Bloomberg

• Savings passbooks popular as Britain turns to cash amid cost of living crisis

• King Charles III released from hospital after prostate procedure

• Princess Kate back home, King Charles III out of hospital after surgeries

• Hong Kong Expands Its National Security Crackdown

  • Hong Kong to Craft its Own National Security Law

• Analysts Examine Implications of African States’ Exit From ECOWAS

Israel

• At Least 12 U.N. Agency Employees Tied to Oct. 7 Attacks, Intelligence Reports Say - WSJ

  Around 10% of Palestinian aid agency’s 12,000 staff in Gaza have links to militants, according to intelligence dossier

• Israeli forces raid a West Bank hospital, killing three Palestinians

• Officials Propose to Hamas a Six-Week War Pause and a Hostage-Prisoner Swap

China

• China Warns Students on Interrogation Reports at DC Airport

Health / Medicine

• Scientists can tell how fast you're aging. Now, the trick is to slow it down

• Signs of 'transmissible' Alzheimer's seen in people who received growth hormone

Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda

• Families condemn Koch brothers over ploy to avoid asbestos compensation

• The race to build climate-resilient coral reefs

• Zombie fires are burning even in winter amid Canada's record-setting fire season

• Florida park just saw a record number of manatees gather together in its waters