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• The Social Recession Is Accelerating

  In my analysis, social recession refers to the narrowing of opportunities to marry and raise a family, own a home and have a secure livelihood from the vast majority of the populace to an elite selected by fierce competition--a competition few have the means to win, as the winners tend to win by choosing their parents wisely. In the purely financial / economic terms of growth of GDP, household income, corporate profits and the value of assets, the US has only been in an economic recession for a few months in 2008-09 and at the start of the pandemic lockdown. But when measured by the ability of just about anyone willing to work hard and practice basic frugality to buy a house and start a family, the US has been in a social recession since 2009.

Horseshit

• The Spectrum full-size retro computer leaks,$99 device will arrive in November

• BMW Recalls Nearly 721,000 Cars and SUVs Due to a Fire Risk

• VC accused of 'hostile takeover' of S.F. neighborhood

• Who’s Afraid of the Big, Bad Tradwife? - The New York Times

  When the tradwife puts on that georgic, pinstriped dress, she is not just admiring the visual cues of a fantastical past. She takes these dreams of storybook bliss literally, tracing them backward in time until she reaches a logical conclusion that satisfies her. And by doing so, she ends up delivering an unhappy reminder of just how much our lives consist of artifice and playacting. Because we have merely cherry-picked pleasing visual references as decorative touches on our modern lives, we are disturbed to see those same aesthetics appear alongside the actual ideologies and social norms that once animated them. A tough-looking guy can stroll down the street in cowboy boots, but we wouldn’t expect him to start a gunfight; a woman who puts girlish bows in her hair isn’t meant to start playing with Barbies and cooing like a child. The downtown kids in their heroin-chic eyeliner aren’t actually supposed to be shooting up. So here we are, stuck in a proxy war over a gingham apron. The tradwife outrages people because of her deliberately regressive ideals.

  The tradwife’s trollish genius is to beat us at our own dress-up game. By insisting that the idyllic cottage daydream should be real, right down to the primitive gender roles, she leaves others feeling hollow, cheated.

• A lot of new in-car tech is "not necessary," survey finds

• Woman's death on first day of Burning Man festival under investigation

Rank Propaganda / Thought Policing / World Disordering

• Mark Zuckerberg just admitted to working with Biden/Harris admin to censor Americans

  • Mark Zuckerberg Says White House Was 'Wrong' to Pressure Facebook on Covid

  • Facebook censored Americans

  Facebook throttled the Hunter Biden laptop story.

  • Mark Zuckerberg admits Biden administration 'pressured' Facebook to censor Americans | Just The News

  "I believe the government pressure was wrong, and I regret that we were not more outspoken about it," Zuckerberg continued. "I also think we made some choices that, with the benefit of hindsight and new information, we wouldn't make today." The Facebook founder also admitted that Facebook demoted the Hunter Biden laptop story, because it was warned by the FBI about a potential Russian disinformation operation regarding Burisma and the Biden family leading into the 2020 election. "It's been since made clear that the reporting was not Russian disinformation, and in retrospect, we should not have demoted the story,"

Telegram

• Emmanuel Macron about the Pavel Durov Arrestation

• Is Telegram really an encrypted messaging app?

  The arrest of the Telegram president on French territory took place as part of an ongoing judicial investigation. This is in no way a political decision.

• In Russia, questions swirl over arrest of Telegram boss

• Pavel Durov is questioned on 12 charges | Hacker News

• Pavel Durov's arrest linked to inability to moderate 'child sex crimes'

• Snowden: The arrest of Durov is an assault on the basic human rights

• 'RuPavel Durov's arrest upends Kremlin military comms

• Durov's arrest could be a smart move. Tech bosses care about themselves, not you

• Keep Pavel Durov LOCKED UP

  My gut says Telegram is an FSB operation.

• I am calling for the immediate arrest of Gonzalve Bich, the CEO of BIC

  His pens have been used to write down all sorts of devilish plans and to create insensitive imagery for many years. He has done nothing to stop this.

Musk

• Tesla deletes its blog post stating all cars have self-driving hardware

• Banks Realize Backing Elon's Twitter Buyout Close to 'Worst Buyout of All Time'

• X edits AI chatbot after election officials warn that it spreads misinformation

Electric / Self Driving cars

• The Plug-In Hybrid Car Starts to Win over Buyers

Religion / Tribal / Culture War and Re-Segregation

• Women now dominate the book business. Why there, not other creative industries?

• (Oct 2023) The Mystics of Progress - by Isaac Young

Edumacationalizing / Acedemia Nuts

• What the Freshman Class Needs to Read - The Atlantic

  the reality of what freshmen and sophomores are required to study usually belies the admissions-office propaganda. In our view, liberal education requires that students, like rowers, face backward in order to move forward. If they are to become active and reflective individuals, they must learn to regard the past not merely as the crime scene of bygone ages, but as the record of human possibilities—an always unfinished tapestry of admirable and shameful lives, noble and base deeds. They must develop an ear for the English language and the language of ancestral wisdom as well as the various languages of intellectual inquiry, including mathematics. They need a good grasp of modern statistical methods. But they must also allow themselves to be inwardly formed and cultivated by the classics—what the English critic Matthew Arnold called “the best which has been thought and said.”

• Schools are competing with cell phones

• I quit my stressful job as an NYC teacher — now I make $1K in two days as a Hooters girl

Info Rental / ShowBiz / Advertising

• Polish billionaire plans to sue Meta over fake advertisements

• The Simpsons': 34 Times the Fox Comedy Successfully Predicted the Future

• Getting Rich Off Fan Conventions: Taking Home "Garbage Bags Full of $20s"

• A Jenga tower about to collapse: Software erosion is happening all around us

• Microsoft is bringing annoying Windows 11 Start menu ads to Windows 10

• Sovereign Tech Fund to Invest €686,400 in FreeBSD Infrastructure Modernization

• Finale music notation software discontinued; devs embrace Dorico

TechSuck / Geek Bait

• Scanned page by page: 67 years worth of old Radio Shack catalogs

• Senior Intel CPU architects leave for RISC-V startup

Space / Boomy Zoomers / UFO

• Boeing, Lockheed Martin in talks to sell rocket-launch firm ULA to Sierra Space

Crypto con games

• German post office launches post stamp NFT

Economicon / Business / Finance

• IKEA launches secondhand marketplace to compete with eBay

• Young workers face a new challenge: Older workers aren't retiring

• California unemployment remains highest in U.S.

• Bank of Canada Seen Cutting Rates Deeper, Faster over Next Year

Gubmint / Poilitcks / Law Making

• California could be first state to help undocumented immigrants purchase homes

• Judge who overturned verdict against Boeing bought and sold Boeing stock

• U.S. national park system gets a $100M grant, the largest in its history

Harris / Democrats

• Why Kamala Harris’ DNC nomination reminds me of the Soviet Union.

• Hill Dems try to tamp down backlash to Harris’ grocery price gouging pitch - POLITICO

  Under pressure to defend Kamala Harris’ grocery price gouging plan, some Democratic lawmakers are delivering a quiet message to anxious allies: Don’t worry about the details. It’s never going to pass Congress.

  The Harris campaign’s proposal, unveiled as part of her first big economic policy speech, has become a focal point for her presidential rival, Donald Trump, and fellow Republicans, who claim she’s pushing “communist price controls.” It has also alarmed food industry officials and even some left-of-center economists, who’ve warned such policies can hurt more than they help.

Trump / Right / Jan6

• Trump's 'Made in USA' Bitcoin Threatens China Juggernaut Bitmain's Reign

• Far-Right ‘Terrorgram’ Chatrooms Fuel Wave of Power Grid Attacks - Bloomberg

  Damaging the power grid has long been a fixation of right-wing extremists, who have plotted such attacks for many years. They’ve been getting a boost recently from online venues such as “Terrorgram,” a loose network of channels on the social media platform Telegram where users across the globe advocate violent white supremacism.

• Tulsi Gabbard Endorses Trump.

Law Breaking / Police / Internal Security

• Prosecutors seek death penalty against alleged baby killer Nicole Virz

External Security / Militaria / Diplomania

• No U.S. Navy Aircraft Carriers Deployed In The Pacific.

World

• Social services called for allowing son, 15, to travel abroad

  The television presenter said that after sharing online that she had allowed her then 15-year-old son, Oscar, to go travelling across Europe, she was contacted by a social worker who informed her a file had been opened after child protection concerns raised. She said her son was young for his year and was travelling after his GCSEs with a 16-year-old friend.

• Australian employees now have the right to ignore work emails, calls after hours

• France ignored the election results

  We're now 48 days afterwards and Macron and his government are still running the country, they've basically ignored the election results which is unprecedented in the history of the French 5th republic.

Iran / Houthi

• Houthis burn Greek oil tanker in Red Sea, mock US by posting video of blaze.

Israel

• Israel Is Buying Google Ads to Discredit the UN’s Top Gaza Aid Agency | WIRED

China

• The secret backchannel between the US and China

• China's Property Rescue Plan Isn't Working

• Canada to follow US lead in imposing 100% tariff on Chinese electric vehicles

Health / Medicine

• Confusion Around DNR Orders Puts Doctors and Patients in Painful Situations

Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda

• California sees 'winter wonderland' in summer for first time in 20 years

• Plutonium levels near US atomic site in Los Alamos similar to Chornobyl

• Tree mortality may lead to carbon tipping point in the Amazon by 2050s

• Australia sees hottest winter temperature on record, a brutal 107 degrees

• Deep Sea Mining Threatens Newly Discovered Dark Oxygen

  • something we don't really do, is a threat to something we ain't really sure why it exists.