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• Underrated reasons to be thankful V

• The True Story of Thanksgiving as Told by Rush Limbaugh

  the Pilgrims' original contract with their London sponsors demanded collectivism. All they produced went into a common store, and from this, everyone was allotted an equal share. Nobody owned any individual property—they just had a communal share. In essence, this was socialism. The houses they built and the land they cleared belonged to everyone, regardless of how hard they worked. Predictably, as Governor Bradford noted, this system bred "much confusion and discontent." Why work harder than anyone else if there’s no individual reward? The industrious were disincentivized, while the idle reaped the benefits of others’ labor. It was, as Rush pointed out, a forerunner to the communes of the 1960s—complete with organic vegetables, but without a hint of efficiency or prosperity.

Horseshit

• Apple's 1976 formation papers could fetch $4M at auction

• Raccoon Was Once a Thanksgiving Feast Fit for a President

• Genetics testing startup offers to genetically optimise would-be parents babies

• How Arthur Conan Doyle Explored Men's Mental Health Through Sherlock Holmes

• I'm 62. Stop Telling Me I'm Old

• New research highlights a shortage of male mentors for boys and young men

• Artificial 'nose' tells people when certain smells are present

• Scientists Unearth 15-Meter Snake Fossil in India, as Large as a T. Rex

• Archaeologists Discovered a Board Game Built into the Floor of a Maya Compound

• Campbell's fires executive who criticised its food in recording

• This Charming English Village Uses Sleds Instead of Cars

• The writer who dared criticize Silicon Valley

• I was left hospitalized and coughing up blood after using a glass straw

• Four-inch worm hatches in woman's forehead, wriggles to her eyelid

• Woman’s Jaw-Dropping Christmas Tree Topper Goes Viral: ‘You Won'

  posted by TikTok user @regmolina on November 23, has been viewed over 2 million times and liked more than 611,000 times in just days. Viewers on the platform praised the striking visual trick, which makes the iconic skyscraper appear to top the indoor Christmas tree perfectly from a head-on perspective.

• The reason states first emerged thousands of years ago – new research

celebrity gossip

• The Untold Story of Charlie Munger's Final Years

Obit

• RIP David Lerner, a Mr. Fix-It of Apple Computers, Co-Founder of Tekserve

Musk

• Tesla FSD software may not be approved by EU regulator after all

• Tesla CEO Elon Musk admits tough realization about FSD

  “I’ve tried to warn them and even offered to license Tesla FSD, but they don’t want it! Crazy…” Musk tweeted. “When legacy auto does occasionally reach out, they typically discuss implementing FSD for a tiny program in 5 years with unworkable requirements for Tesla, so pointless.”

• Tesla Model Y Is the Most Defective Car This Year, Germany Says

• Small changes to 'for you' feed on X can rapidly increase political polarisation

Info Rental / ShowBiz / Advertising

• Tiny tweak for Pi OS, big makeover for the Imager

• iPhone Air Flop Sparks Industry Retreat from Ultra-Thin Phones

• iPhone Fold Will Be Creaseless and Cost $2,400, Report Says

• Apple projected to beat Samsung in smartphone shipments first time since 2011

  • Apple iPhone shipments to beat Samsung for the first time in 14 years

• Plex's crackdown on free remote streaming access starts this week

• Nvidia rumored to stop bundling memory with GPUs, squeezing smaller partners

• Apple's Second Limited-Edition Accessory in a Month: Hikawa Phone Grip and Stand

• Tech giants bet consumers are finally ready to strap on smart glasses

• The ultralight gummy bear power bank just got yanked from Amazon

• Apple TV Pulls 'The Hunt' Show over Plagiarism Claims

TechSuck / Geek Bait

• G0-G3 corners, visualised: learn what "Apple corners" are

AI Will (Save | Destroy) The World

• As AI reshapes shopping, US retailers try to change how they're seen online

• Major LLMs fabricate evidence when presented with governance critiques

• California prosecutors used AI to file inaccurate motion in criminal case

• Tim Sweeney thinks Steam should stop labelling games as being made with AI

• OpenAI says dead teen violated TOS when he used ChatGPT to plan suicide

• Who's Next? Pete Townshend and Roger Daltrey at Odds over AI Music

• A.I.'s Anti-A.I. Marketing Strategy

• OpenAI confirms major breach, exposing user's names, email addresses, and more

• US Patent Office issues new guidelines for AI-assisted inventions

• The AI boom is based on a fundamental mistake

Crypto con games

• Mission home invasion highlights danger of crypto-related violence

Economicon / Business / Finance

• Morgan Stanley Warns Oracle Credit Protection Nearing Record High – Above 2008

• HP to Cut Up to 10% of Workforce as Part of AI Push

• SEC probes Jefferies over First Brands disclosures

Gubmint / Poilitcks / Law Making

• A Highway Is Crumbling. New York Can't Agree on How to Fix It

Left Angst

• U.S. to Charge International Tourists $100 to Visit National Parks

• Green Card Interviews End in Handcuffs for Spouses of U.S. Citizens

• BBC tells staff they cannot quote Trump line removed from Reith Lecture

  BBC presenters and journalists have been told they cannot quote a line removed from its prestigious annual lecture, in which a Dutch writer accused Donald Trump of being “the most openly corrupt president in American history”. Rutger Bregman accused the BBC of cowardice after the decision to remove the line from the first of his Reith Lectures, which he was invited to give by the corporation.

  • Bring us evidence at least as good as that around Biden's deals.. remember "no one is above the law?"

• RFK Jr.'s new CDC deputy director prefers "natural immunity" over vaccines

  • Before Biden, a "vaccine" was a small application of non-infecting agent that prompted a natural immune reaction. What is it today?

• Mother of Karoline Leavitt's nephew arrested by ICE in Massachusetts

  The mother of White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt's nephew was arrested by ICE after they said she overstayed her tourist visa.

  • silly Republicans, don't they know family members of those in power aren't supposed to be touched by police? It's like they think the law applies to everyone!

• Republican fears mount over Tennessee special election that could leave GOP House majority with zero-vote margin

• Final criminal case against Trump dismissed

• The Democrats' "Illegal Orders" Video Isn't About the Law. It's About Undermining the Military's Trust in Trump and the Chain of Command

  Their rhetorical tactic mirrors the strategy used in the now-infamous 2020 letter signed by 51 former intelligence officials, which warned that the Hunter Biden laptop story had “all the classic earmarks of Russian disinformation.” The political world and virtually the entire press knew what they were really saying and took the intended action to suppress any mention of the story and sway the election. After the election, when the deception could be sustained no longer, the signers defended themselves by arguing that they never claimed the laptop actually was Russian disinformation — only that it resembled it.

Law Breaking / Police / Internal Security

• Court Ends Dragnet Electricity Surveillance Program in Sacramento

• The FBI Has Seized an Ultra-Rare 2002 Mercedes CLK-GTR Roadster Worth $13 Million Tied to Ryan Wedding.

• Andrew Wolfe ID'd as one of two National Guard members shot in DC | New York Post

  • Here’s a Look at the D.C. Shooting Suspect’s C.I.A.-Backed Unit in Afghanistan

  • What were Afghan "Zero Units" where the National Guard shooting suspect worked?

  • D.C. Shooting Suspect 'Could Not Tolerate' Violence of His CIA-Backed Unit

  • National Guard member critically wounded in suspected terror attack in Washington DC unlikely to survive, dad says

External Security / Militaria / Diplomania

• Drones have revolutionized warfare. They're about to do it again

World

• Chinese businesses are transforming Mexico City's poshest neighborhood

• Apple Asks Indian Court to Block Antitrust Law Allowing $38B Fine

• EU lawmakers back plan for social media age rules

  • European parliament calls for social media ban on under-16s

• Germany's pension reform becomes a generational conflict

• France brings back limited military service with 3,000 volunteers next year

  A limited form of military service will be re-introduced in France in response to growing fears of a confrontation with Russia. More than 25 years after conscription was phased out, the plan will see young men and women volunteering for a paid 10 months of military training. "In this uncertain world where might triumphs over right, war is in the present tense," said Macron. The armed forces would benefit from motivated young French men and women, he added: "It is an act of trust in our youth." Initially, numbers will be restricted to 3,000 next year, but this should rise to 50,000 by 2035. France currently has around 200,000 military personnel and a further 47,000 reservists. The new scheme should usher in a three-tier structure, comprising professionals, reservists and volunteers.

• Cherry gives up German production and wants to sell core division

• Rocket attack shuts down Iraq's Khor Mor gas field, bringing power cuts

  There was no immediate claim of responsibility and authorities did not say who was behind the attack, which did not cause any casualties and took place late on Wednesday. The gas field provides supplies for regional power generation, and the attack did not impact oil production or exports.

• Canada signs pipeline deal that could reverse oil tanker ban

• The dark side of Japanese convenience stores

• Europe thinks the unthinkable: Retaliating against Russia

• Germany's Plan for War with Russia

• Earthquake of 6.6 Magnitude Strikes Off Indonesia's Sumatra

• Taiwan raids former TSMC exec's home and seizes his shares and real estate

• Taiwanese authorities raid Intel exec's home, seize his computers

Israel

• Israel proposes Kiryat Tivon for Nvidia's multibillion-$ tech campus in North

• Israeli air strikes hit villages in south Lebanon on ceasefire anniversary

Russia Bad / Ukraine War

• Baikonur launch pad damaged after Russian Soyuz launch to Space Station

China

• China launches an emergency lifeboat to bring three astronauts back to Earth

  • China completes first emergency mission to Tiangong space station

• China's tech giants take AI model training offshore to tap Nvidia chips

• China is making trade impossible

• Families tracked victims and survivors in real time in Hong Kong tower fire

  • Toll in Hong Kong fire rises to 65, police cite 'grossly negligent' firm

  • Hong Kong fire latest: rescue crews search for survivors as death toll rises to 83 with hundreds reported missing

• China's Alibaba brings removable batteries to the smart glasses race

  • Alibaba starts selling Quark AI glasses in China, enters global wearables race

• Robots and AI Are Already Remaking the Chinese Economy

Health / Medicine

• Music eases surgery and speeds recovery, study finds

• Face transplants promised hope. Patients were put through the unthinkable

• Tattoo ink induces lymph node inflammation&alters immune response to vaccination

• Ingredient in diet sodas, ice cream and chewing gum now linked to liver disease

  Scientists found that sorbitol, a sugar alcohol used as a sugar substitute added to some diet sodas, sugar-free gums, low-sugar candy, ice cream and desserts, as well as some low-calorie fruit drinks, could raise the risk of fatty liver disease.

• Pharmaceutical companies agree to cut prices on 15 prescription drugs on Medicare plans, HHS.

• Why Have Vaccines Become a Religion?

  As more and more people are awakening to the dangers of vaccines, they are gradually discovering a problem vaccine safety advocates have had to deal with for decades—talking to vaccine zealots is like speaking to a brick wall and regardless of the evidence you put forward, you can’t reach them (sometimes seeming as though you are speaking to a religious fanatic who is unwilling to even consider the “blasphemy you are spewing forth”).

  much of science gradually morphed into the society’s religion, resulting in it claiming to be an objective arbiter of truth, but in reality, frequently being highly dogmatic and irrational as it seeks to establish its own monopoly over the truth (which has led to many labeling the current societal institution of science as “scientism”). As such, when science is discussed, religious terminology is often used by its proponents (e.g., “I believe in science,” “I believe in vaccines,” “anyone who denies climate change is reprehensible and must be silenced”).

• Major journal under fire for omitting Pfizer's failed flu data in seniors

Pox / COVID / BioTerror AgitProp

• Bird flu viruses are resistant to fever, making them a major threat to humans

Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda

• The New York Neighborhoods That Best Protect Against Extreme Heat

• Turning old bread into flour and then into tasty tortillas

• Fracking has transformed an Argentine town

• 'The narwhals stop calling': how noise from ships silences wildlife in Arctic

• Are Thanksgiving turkeys bad for the environment? Here's the carbon footprint

• Satellite data reveals a huge solar storm in 2024 shrank Earth’s protective plasma shield.

• Pakistan says rooftop solar output to exceed grid demand in some hubs next year

• The Deep Ocean Is a Global Public Good

• Hydrogen fuel isn't always the green choice