But how do we even know what is false!?



Conservatives more susceptible to believing falsehoods

Did Donald Trump admit on tape he killed 600,000 Americans? Or is this just another fake news ad campaign from a desperate liberal trying to trump up evidence. 

Did Donald Trump admit on tape he killed 600,000 Americans?

A YouTube video with same visuals published on 13 May 2017 with the title, ‘A boy from Sri Lanka uses robot technology to create the Muchalinda cobra’, the description of the video says that this video used a robot to simulate the scene from legend, when a snake-like being emerged to protect the Buddha after his enlightenment.

A video going viral on social media claims that every year during the rains, a 15 feet snake wraps itself around a local Buddha statue

Every Chevy Bolt and Volt and Tesla on the Eastern Seaboard have been purchased, leased or stolen. 

Pipeline shutdown leads to panic-buying of Electric Cars on the East Coast

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⁦‪@keithedwards‬⁩ Rudy was not disbarred..he was suspended.
 
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Was Rudi Giuliani disbarred?

A study looked at mRNA vaccines and did not consider the vaccines made by Johnson & Johnson or AstraZeneca. Dr. Ellebedy said he expected the immune responses produced by those vaccines to be less durable than those produced by mRNA vaccines.

If I received the J&J vaccine, should I also get a mRNA vaccine?

Small, modular reactors have been touted as the next big thing for nukes for over 20 years. None have gone commercial and most projects are overbudget and overdue. But, hey, it generates headlines. 

Will Modular Reactors Save Nuclear?

Says TUCKER CARLSON: It's not just political protesters the government is spying on, yesterday, we heard from a whistleblower within the US government who reached out to warn us that the NSA, the National Security Agency, is monitoring our electronic communications and is planning to leak them in an attempt to take this show off the air. 

Is the NSA spying on 'Tucker Carlson Tonight'?

Democratic legislators in New York are opposing plans to open Chick-fil-A restaurants at rest stops in the state, citing the fast-food chain’s past donations to groups accused of opposing same-sex marriage.

Will Chick-fil-A be banned from rest stops?

After initially dismissing the claim as a conspiracy theory, some journalists and media organizations now wonder if they got the story right.

Did COVID-19 leak from a lab?

A report from Al Gore's General Investment Management warns large emitters have not achieved realistic near term goals for curbing CO2 and that sustainable investing has “entered the mainstream,” providing even more openings for potential greenwashing, according to an interview with Bloomberg. “We must be vigilant about the rising threat of greenwashing or risk derailing hard-won progress” that has been made in recognizing the climate crisis, he said.

Greenwashing is a real and significant threat to transitioning the world away from fossil fuels

While not involving J&J there is clinical evidence combining different vaccines is safe and effective.

Preliminary results from the trial of more than 600 people — announced in an online presentation on 18 May — are the first to show the benefits of combining different coronavirus vaccines, according the respected science journal. 

The clinical trial, known as CombivacS study, was conducted by the Carlos III Health Institute (ISCIII) and is the first worldwide to provide data on immunogenicity derived from the combined use of two different vaccines involving the administration of the Comirnaty vaccine against the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus (BioNtech / Pfizer) in people under 60 years who had already received a first and only dose of Vaxzevria ( AstraZéneca ).

(The link to the ISCII article is in Spanish, but can be translated using Google Translate.)

Nature reports mix-and-match COVID vaccines trigger potent immune response

Britney Spears spoke publicly for the first time about just how little control she has over her own life. Testifying before a California judge, she described a world in which nearly all of her decisions are made by her father, who has controlled her career and finances by way of a controversial conservatorship for the past 13 years. Britney recalled being medicated against her will and coerced into entering a mental-health facility. She said that she isn’t able to see her friends or ride in her boyfriend’s car and that she wants to get married and have a baby but hasn’t been allowed to have her IUD removed (seemingly violating a basic human right). In her testimony, she called the conservatorship “abusive” and repeated multiple times that she wants to end it. “I don’t feel like I can live a full life,” she said.

Britney Spears is nuts. 

Bob Dylan accused of sexually abusing a 12-year-old in 1965
A lawsuit, filed Friday, alleges the Nobel laureate plied a girl with drugs and alcohol and abused her over six weeks in 1965 

Bob Dylan did not do it. 

Laying wreaths on veteran graves without consent akin to a Christian 'gang sign,' group said


Is a non-profit carpet bombing veteran cemeteries with 'Christian gang sign's'?

Sen. Josh Hawley called Black Lives Matter's major corporate sponsors "anti-American" for their silence on the activist group's monthlong boycott against non-Black-owned businesses.

Are BLM corporate sponsors boycotting non-Black-owned business?

In a recent Youtube video, Australian author Riccardo Bosi explained some historical "facts" about Ukraine, claiming it has been a part of Russia since the 10th century, and that therefore its invasion of the region "is like Russia invading Russia."

Ukraine is not a sovereign nation it is part of Russia

“Hunter Biden’s Rosemont Seneca investment fund financed the Pentagon’s military biological program in Ukraine." So Igor Kirillov, head of the radiation, chemical and biological defense forces of the Russian Armed Forces, told the Russian state-owned domestic news agency RIA Novosti on March 24. His remarks were later repeated by Fox News pundit Tucker Carlson and affirmed by the New York Post, citing emails found on a laptop abandoned at a computer repair shop confirmed to belong to Hunter Biden. The Washington Post fired back with a detailed rebuttal. Key points of dispute are 1) the characterization of the labs linked to Hunter Biden as "military" in nature, which the Post claims is false; 2) Hunter Biden's role as an "investor" (the Post says he was "affiliated" with groups that provided the financing but did not actively fund the lab, Metabiota, which the Post says was set up under a threat detection program sponsored by the Pentagon.

Was President Biden’s son Hunter financing biological laboratories in Ukraine?

Rep. Jake Ellzey questioned whether a cue card with talking points that President Biden used involved collusion with the media and suggested that other people are "calling the shots."



Did Biden administration collude with media after president's cheat sheet was exposed?

Layer 2 is a term used for solutions created to help scale an application by processing transactions off of the Ethereum Mainnet (layer 1) while still maintaining the same security measures and decentralization as the mainnet. Layer 2 solutions increase throughput (transaction speed) and reduce gas fees. Does Polygon meet this definition? Hacker News dissected this in detail, with user vmception concluding 

"I’m so glad people are catching on! Polygon is two separate products, masquerading as union advertised as an Ethereum layer 2
The two products are
1) a completely independent and separate proof of stake blockchain with validators, and a cron job that stores the network state hash on the Ethereum blockchain for shits and giggles. This is the only product anybody uses.
2) The Plasma system. Which would sometimes maybe be an Ethereum layer 2. Its fairly pointless.
The first product competes with other EVMs (Ethereum virtual machines) such as Binance Smart Chain (BSC) and Ethereum testnet. Somehow people have been swayed to believing the identical BSC is centralized while Polygon is a decentralized layer 2 solution. Oh by the way, if you are new here, people want an Ethereum layer 2 solution.
Polygon isnt it.
It is not a layer 2 solution it is a separate blockchain."

Is Polygon L2?

Amber Heard and Johnny Depp were both found liable for defamation in their lawsuits against each other on Wednesday, with a jury awarding damages to both. Neither was awarded the damages they had requested. Depp had asked for $50 million and won $15 million in total, while Heard had sued for $100 million and won $2 million for a statement by one of Depp's lawyers calling her allegations of domestic abuse a hoax. On hearing the verdict, Depp was quoted saying "The jury gave me my life back," while Heard said she was "heartbroken."

Johnny Depp did not win his defamation case against Amber Heard

A Facebook video posed May 23 to the Australian Climate Sceptics Group claims warmer ocean temperatures are not harming coral reefs but helping them instead.

A rise in ocean temperatures is helping coral reefs to survive

There has been sporadic shooting on gathering of muslims in the United state of recent. The Police, Sheriff and other law enforcement agencies will only apprehend the offender and the court will just pass a light judgement. Do they not count a muslim man or woman a right citizen that needs to get justice? What will happen to the bereaved?

No crowd shooter  of muslims praying in the mosque has ever been rightfully prosecuted by the authorities. Does that mean a muslim man or woman does not deserve the right justice? 

Elon Musk has a 'super bad feeling' about the economy. Is the gloomy economic outlook his fault? 

- His cars are dangerous: More than 700 customers have pointed out their Teslas suddenly came to a halt while traveling at high speeds - double the number of grievances last year. 

- He's slashing Tesla jobs by 10 per cent and paused hiring worldwide

- His $44billion bid to take over Twitter has plunged the company into chaos. 

- Tesla's share price plummeted 3.3 percent early Friday, while Dow Jones sunk 0.5 percent



Elon Musk has a 'super bad feeling' about the economy. Is the gloomy economic outlook his own fault? 

Rep. David Cicilline (D-R.I.) said today: "I don‘t think there is a single incident, and maybe there is one, but I have not found one, of an assailant using an assault weapon that was stopped by a person with a gun. Maybe there's one." 

No assailant with an assault weapon has been stopped by person with a gun

A Sunday New York Times article about New Zealand’s efforts to eliminate non-native predators that threaten local fauna focused on the ravages of the stoat, culminating in an extremely polemical quote from a local volunteer helping with the Herculean task. Said Sue Hope: “Stoats are horrible, they kill things for no reason not even to eat them.”

Are stoats evil?

Former Pres. Trump and GOP loyalists have long complained Obama appointees including national security advisor Susan Rice misused intelligence reports for political purposes in an illegal witch hunt over Trump's supposed Russia connections to damage his election chances. Flynn was allegedly targeted over calls in 2016 with Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak. Under this theory, details of those calls were illegally accessed by senior Obama officials from intelligence reports and leaked, leading Flynn to plead guilty to charges of lying to the FBI about the calls. Democrats have denied any illegal unmasking requests took place. Now new evidence in the long standing debate has emerged, with a report this week from Buzzfeed News detailing a Trump administration investigation into the allegations ordered by Attorney General Bill Barr. In a September 2020 report, then-U.S. Attorney John Bash found “no unmasking requests made before Election Day that sought the identity of an apparent associate of the Trump campaign.” This appears to settle the matter once and for all.

Trump associate Michael Flynn was the target of a Obama administration 'unmasking' campaign

If the GOP says it, it's TRUE!!!

WHEREAS, Representatives Cheney and Kinzinger are participating in a Democrat-led persecution of ordinary citizens engaged in legitimate political discourse

PROOF!

Jan. 6 rioters were engaged in “legitimate political discourse”

AUSTIN, Texas — Heavily armed officers delayed confronting a gunman in Uvalde, Texas, for more than an hour even though supervisors at the scene had been told that some trapped with him in two elementary school classrooms needed medical treatment, a new review of video footage and other investigative material shows. Instead, the documents show, they waited for protective equipment to lower the risk to law enforcement officers.

Texas police are cowards.

Carl P. Paladino, a Republican running for a House seat in Western New York, praised Adolf Hitler last year for inspiring his followers, describing the fascist dictator as “the kind of leader we need today.”

Carl Paladino wants to be Hitler

NBC News affiliate KCTV5 reported the incident citing police sources at the scene, and, after being challenged by readers, confirmed the officer was later treated for fentanyl exposure by doctors. Nevertheless the danger of casual exposure to fentanyl through the skin or air, while widely believed by cops, has been thoroughly debunked. See “Can touch this: training to correct police officer beliefs about overdose from incidental contact with fentanyl” published 11/2/2021 by The Health and Justice Journal, which provides details of the medical facts, as well as the history of police training over fentanyl exposure, media coverage propagating misinformation about it and extensive polling of active police officers beliefs. They found 80 percent of poll respondents believed casual exposure to fentanyl can be fatal, while in fact it would take sustained massive exposure to trigger health effects, for example, breathing airborne fentanyl particles for over three hours.

Kansas City cop collapsed due to casual fentanyl exposure during an arrest

Justin Bieber announced on June 10 he has Ramsay Hunt syndrome, a neurological disorder causing him to suffer partial facial paralysis. The syndrome is triggered by deactivation of dormant varicella-zoster virus, the same virus that causes chickenpox and shingles. A number of people on social media speculated the singer contracted the syndrome as a result of a COVID-19 vaccination including prominent anti-vaxxer Steve Kirsch. According to Kirsch cases of shingles have spiked after people started getting COVID-19 vaccinations, and some medical research indicates there may be a link between the two. Numerous reputable sources have declared Kirsch’s claims misinformation unsupported by the evidence.

Justin Bieber contracted Ramsay Hunt syndrome when he was vaccinated for COVID-19 

Musk accused the social media company of breaching the merger agreement by not providing the data he has requested on spam and fake accounts.

Twitter has made the same boilerplate disclosure — that spam accounts make up less than 5% of its active users — for many quarters. 

Moreover, a recent securities filing from Twitter revealed that Musk waived due diligence before making his offer to buy Twitter.

Elon Musk is trying to back out of his Twitter takeover

Glenn Greenwald: “You know those billions of your money US is sending to Raytheon and Lockheed "for Ukraine"? The arms are being sold by Ukrainian smugglers onto the black market.

Nobody knows exactly where these dangerous weapons are, but I'm sure we'll have a new war at some point to stop them.”

Ukraine is selling weapons donated by US onto the black market

Bias by decision makers at all stages of justice process demerits black people

No black that has been racially abused has ever received the right justice from a lawyer in a law court. Is it because they see themselves as inferior or the government see black skin an inferior to white skin

Prosecutors are building a follow-the-string murder case against a romance
novelist. She says their real story is one about love. Was it?




She Wrote ‘How to Murder Your Husband.’ Did She Do It?

Customs agents recently seized a large shipment of fentanyl at the border including brighty colored pills resembling candy. The DEA, Sen. Chuck Shumer and others now contend these pills were meant to target children and lure them into becoming drug addicts. Some influential people have uncritically picked up the story, warning parents to be on the lookout for rainbow fentanyl this Halloween.

Drug dealers are targeting children in the U.S. with 'Rainbow Fentanyl'

Many people have argued that it will not be in 2022. What do you think?

Arbitrum will launch its governance token in 2022

Security researcher James Edwards aka Librehash has published new research claiming to show the $160M hack of Wintermute, a leading crypto market maker that provides liquidity for crypto traders, was not the result of an external attack but facilitated by insiders.

The Wintermute hack was an inside job

This week two leaks were detected in Nord Stream 1 and one leak detected in Nord Stream 2. Neither was in use shipping gas but they were pressurized with natural gas and saw pressure drop. Given the depth of the pipelines (~50m) and the complexity of such an attack many people presume a state actor was responsible. Both Russia and the US have been named as potential suspects.

Russia sabotaged the Nord Stream gas pipelines

Niemann, an American teenager with an unremarkable record, beat Carlsen at the Sinquefield Cup chess tournament in St. Louis earlier this month, snapping a 53-match winning streak. Carlsen withdrew form the match and Tweeted a meme video stating, “If I speak I am in big trouble,” which many people interpreted as an accusation of cheating. 

Hans Niemann cheated in his recent victory over chess champion Magnus Carlson

For years social media has been flooded with fake media showing a shark swimming in the streets following a hurricane. Now a new video purporting to show a shark swimming in the streets of Fort Myers, FL on the heels of Hurricane Ian is making the rounds.

Video of shark swimming in flooded Fort Myers street is real

A burrito by definition requires a tortilla. QED. H/t @maxdubler

Burrito Bowls are not burritos

Aerial speed traps were created in the 1960s in many US states using low flying planes and helicopters equipped with stop watches to time how long a car travels a section of highway marked by two white lines. They then radio a patrol officer on the ground to make the stop and issue the ticket.

Despite signs on US highways, speeding is not really enforced by aircraft

@cryptoranman on Twitter: Over 51% of Ethereum validators are OFAC compliant. Ethereum is pretty much under the control of the US government…

Etherium is under the control of the US government 

The Intercept this week published an extensive report purportedly document DHS plans to coordinate directly with social media platforms to moderate posts that might undermine the US government, for example, attempts to manipulate elections.

The Department of Homeland Security is policing disinformation on social media

@StephenKing: Kudos to Elon Musk, who has begun a revolution in how the world drives and who has incredible visionary talents. I got an early Tesla and traded for another one. Wonderful cars (no autopilot for me, thanks). That said, when it comes to Twitter...

Elon Musk gets too much credit for Tesla

From Coindesk: Fears over another 'Three Arrows' event, but this time tied to FTX and its hybrid investment fund/market maker Alameda Research, gripped the markets Tuesday morning Asia time, sending FTX's exchange token FTT down nearly 20%.

FTX is insolvent

An AI Art Manifesto was posted on Twitter this week by @bl_artclub making an impassioned argument for the legimacy of the form, and debunking popular narratives in the media portraying it as derivative and even theft.

AI Art is “Art”

This week Twitter briefly rolled out then paused a change to its subscription product allowing anyone with a card card to pay $8 to get a blue check. Numerous fake accounts immediately popped including an Eli Lilly imposter that posted the company was giving away insulin for free. At about the same time Eli Lilly stock dropped 5%, or about $20 billion.

A fake Twitter account created under the new blue check program wiped $20B off Eli Lilly’s market cap

Russian missiles have killed two people in NATO member Poland, an unnamed US intelligence official said Tuesday. The US Defense Department said it was unable to corroborate media reports that two Russian missiles had landed inside NATO member Poland, but added it was investigating the claims. 

Two Russian missiles landed inside Poland

SpaceX is in funding talks that would value it at over $150B

@0xfoobar: hearing rumors that ethereum is insolvent, withdrawals are disabled for all staked eth

Ethereum is insolvent

@balajis (and many others): The net result of FTX is that billions of dollars was stolen from crypto investors to give to Democrat-aligned politicians, nonprofits, and journalists.

This is why there may be no prosecution.

SBF won’t face tough criminal charges because donated millions to democrats

@Bitboy_Crypto: Shocking @kevinolearytv bombshell

I’m hearing he was visited by a group of people who are forcing him to say positive things about SBF under the threat of physical violence & blackmail.

Shark Tank’s Kevin O’Leary is being intimidated by SBF goons

The New York Times published an article citing findings from the Center for Countering Digital Hate, the Anti-Defamation League and other groups that study online platforms that show a sharp increase in slurs on Twitter since Elon Musk took over the company, adding these researchers "had never seen such a sharp increase in hate speech, problematic content and formerly banned accounts in such a short period on a mainstream social media platform."

Hate speech on Twitter has jumped since Musk took over

Scientists at Lawrence Livermore Lab, after decades of research, broke through a major barrier, extracting more energy from a controlled fusion reaction than the energy put in. 

Fusion breakthrough achieved promising clean cheap power

Chainalysis, a blockchain research company, says it has come up with a method for measuring the total wallet value of the crypto market. Looking at the data they say real investor losses at FTX were about $9B compared to $20.5B related to the depegging of Terra's UST token and $33B with the collapse of Celsius and Three Arrows Capital. 

FTX investor losses much less than other crypto crises

“For most people, for 99% of people today, asking them to hold crypto on their own, they will end up losing it,” Changpeng Zhao (aka CZ), CEO of crypto exchange Binance, said Wednesday in a Twitter Space. 

 People are more likely to lose crypto by holding it in a cold wallet than by putting it on a centralized exchange

Pres. Joe Biden claims billionaires pay 3% taxes on average

Billionaires Pay 3% Taxes on Average

Avi Loeb, an astronomer at Harvard University, and Sean M. Kirkpatrick, director of the Pentagon’s All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO) — established in July 2022 by the Department of Defense (DoD) to detect and study “objects of interest” — released a draft report, Physical Constraints on Unidentified Aerial Phenomena, on March 7 saying it is feasible an extraterrestrial spaceship could be in our galactic neighborhood, exploring the region.

An Alien Mothership Is In Our Solar System

This is a commonly cited statistic that appears in dozens of articles online. For example: 

https://www.news4jax.com/features/2023/01/12/rip-up-the-winning-ticket-5-reasons-why-winning-lottery-can-destroy-lives/#:~:text=The%20lottery%20does%20change%20people,bankrupt%20within%20a%20few%20years.

https://www.kxly.com/news/money/70-of-lottery-winners-lose-it-all-within-years-here-s-how-you-can-hang/article_4a6637ea-1b12-57a8-9dd9-29b3baa2f70e.html

https://www.willis.law/estate-planning-elder-law-medicaid/lottery-planning/

70% of Lottery Winners Go Bankrupt Within 7 Years

Justice Clarence Thomas has frequently traveled with and accepted the hospitality of long-time friend and Dallas billionaire businessman Harlan Crow without making any formal disclosures. 

Justice Clarence Thomas Broke No Rules Traveling With a Billionaire Buddy

Elon Musk's Twitter began "throttling" Substack links in response to the platform's launch a new micro-blogging tool. Tweets with links to Substack became impossible to "like" or re-tweet as a result for a period of time last week. 

Twitter 'Throttled' Substack in Retaliation for Launching a Similar 'Notes' Service

A ruling by a federal judge could lead to the FDA's approval of the drug mifepristone for use in abortions being revoked. Statements by the New York City Health department stated that the ruling would make the drug illegal within a week. However, the legal status of the drug for abortion does not necessarily change automatically as a result of the ruling and it remains legal as a prescription for other medical conditions. The NYC government's statement has since been deleted from social media. 

 A federal judge in Texas made an abortion drug illegal when he ruled against its approval by the FDA

In a political speech, Ron DeSantis claims the Fed is planning to launch a digital currency to monitor US citizens and control their purchasing abilities based an an “ESG agenda”: environmental, social, and governance goals.

The Fed is planning to launch a digital currency to spy on US citizens and control their purchasing abilities based an an “ESG agenda”.

On the podcast No Lie with Brian Tyler Cohen, Gavin Newsom claims Florida "had 58% higher per capita death rates under COVID." No sources for the claim are attributed.

Gavin Newsom claims Florida "had 58% higher per capita death rates under COVID.

Numerous news reports such as this one by Business Insider assert the FDIC, the agency that provides bank deposit insurance, is funded by premiums from banks, not tax payers, therefore the public will bear no costs for the SVB $150B bailout.

SVB rescue won’t cost the public a dime

In a since-deleted tweet, Dr. Kelly Victory claims hospitals hyper-oxygenate air in operating rooms to offset CO2 entrapment from surgical masks.

Hospitals hyper-oxygenate air in operating rooms to offset CO2 entrapment from surgical masks.

Jack Posobiec claims on Twitter that "3 million people just heard that Joe Biden threw a guy in jail for posting memes" in reference to Douglass Mackey aka Ricky Vaughn who was charged with interfering in the 2016 election over posting disinformation claiming that Democratic voters could cast votes for Hillary Clinton via text. 

"Joe Biden threw a guy in jail for posting memes"

Former Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton, appears to have endorsed Florida Governor Ron DeSantis in a video posted on social media.

Hillary Clinton endorses Ron DeSantis in a video posted on social media.

The rats got really bad in the post-Covid era...  Now a new job has been created. 

New York City appointed an official "Rat Czar"

On Twitter, Tom Goodwin claims the Adderall shortage was caused by tech startups using telehealth brands to push amphetamines on kids.


Tech startups caused the Adderall shortage by promoting amphetamines to children.

Commentators including the Jewish Telegraphic Agency have noted the Texas oil billionaire has collected Nazi memorabilia, causing some to speculate that Crow is sympathetic to Nazi beliefs.

Harlan Crow is a Nazi sympathizer

Historical accounts describe a weapon that fires a dart of shellfish toxin causing a rapid death by heart attack. CIA Director William Colby testified before Congress and displayed and answered questions about the gun, but the gun hasn't been seen since and it is unknown if the weapon was ever used or if it worked as was claimed.

The CIA has a heart attack gun that can be used to silently assassinate someone from a distance.

Glenn Greenwald's statement suggests that Bellingcat is by the US Security State and receives funding from the US government

Bellingcat is funded by the US government

For decades now, sodas and other beverages have made use of a variety of artificial sweeteners as a way to offer a hit of fizziness or caffeine or both without all the calories of regular super sweet drinks. Along the way, scientific studies have provided conflicting results about the potential dangers -- including cancer risk -- associated with a diet soda drinking habit. Plenty of sweeteners remain approved for legal use and the general consensus is that the health risk is low. However, it's not hard to find health professionals and others who caution against making a habit of drinking diet sodas. 

True or False: Diet Soda Causes Cancer

Mohammad Emad Mostaque is the founder and CEO of Stability AI, one of the companies behind Stable Diffusion claims 41% of all code on GitHub is now AI generated.

41% of all code on GitHub is now AI generated

Check the numbers.  I wrote a paper for a Dr. about it.

White people destroyed hip hop culture.

Elon Musk's destructive actions against the Twitter brand, such as replacing the Twitter bird logo with the doge meme image and covering up the W on the Twitter sign, suggest that he plans to rename the website to the X app.

Elon Musk's destructive actions against the Twitter brand is because he plans to kill the brand and launch the X app in its place.

The Asia Internet Coalition, which represents major tech companies like Facebook, Twitter, Google, Apple, and Amazon, has raised concerns about a recent amendment to India's IT regulations. They believe that the changes give the government significant power to remove content without proper procedural safeguards.

From the article:
"Relying on a government agency such as the Press Information Bureau as the sole source to fact-check government business without giving it a clear definition or providing clear checks and balances “may lead to misuse during implementation of the law, which will profoundly infringe on press freedom,” Paine added."

US tech giants warn India’s fact-checking rule will ‘profoundly infringe’ on press freedom

National Public Radio has opted to stop using its Twitter account after first being labeled by the platform as "state-affiliated" and later "Government-funded" media. Funding for public media and what NPR even is is a widely misunderstood topic, but the fact is that NPR as an entity received very little direct government funding. 

NPR is Government-funded Media

Years after extra unemployment benefits and stimulus checks stopped flowing, millions of workers have opted not to return to work. 

The CDC reports drug overdose deaths were on the rise at the start of 2020 but have shot up since the pandemic took hold.  Non-fatal overdoses shot up by 30 percent during 2020, fell back by 20 percent in 2021 before rising again slightly in 2022. 

An NBER study also points to drug use spikes as decreasing labor force participation.

An epidemic of addiction is contributing to the labor shortage.

Discussion online and on social media talks about the failure of Elon Musk's massive Starship rocket, which exploded over the Gulf of Mexico Thursday morning, four minutes after launching from Starbase, Texas. SpaceX aimed to send Starship on a short trip to orbit and then splash down off the coast of Hawaii. Musk had long cautioned that the test flight might end in an explosion.

The First Launch of the SpaceX Starship Failed

Nicaragua president Daniel Ortega made the claim in recent remarks. 

World War III is already underway

According to the New York times, there are seventeen million flies for every human being on earth. 

True or false: There are 17,000,000 flies for every person on Earth

A class action lawsuit alleges unacknowledged pictures taken without permission and used as training data to create generative imaging AI models constitutes intellectual property theft.

Stability.AI, MidJourney and Deviant Art are guilty of copyright infringement 

The Fed is now talking mild recession later this year, but others have been saying we are already in one for years, including Liz Ann Sonders from Schwab.

We Are Already In A Recession

An African-American woman shopping at a Target in Ohio reportedly asked for $1,000 worth of groceries as "reparations" and then had a confrontation with employees that escalated to a blow thrown.

Target Security Guard Punches Woman In Face After She Asks for Reparations

Scott Adams flagged it on Twitter as a question: “Tell me this isn’t true.”

LinkedIn collects demographic information about accounts and has an option to use it for “diversity in recruiting,” which could be interpreted as removing accounts identifying as white men from candidate search results. See second link.

LinkedIn added a feature to filter out white men from job searches

So @ezra “Okay, so picture this: SpaceX just blew up their Starship on purpose! Yep, you read that right. They triggered the Flight Termination System (FTS) after some of the engines unexpectedly shut down during its first test flight. But don't worry, it wasn't some kind of accident. The company did it on purpose to make sure the spacecraft didn't go rogue and start causing chaos on the ground. Plus, they did it in style - the explosion happened over the ocean, far away from any innocent bystanders. And get this - Starship actually made it to an incredible height of 39 km before things started to go wrong. But when it started to tumble and lose altitude, SpaceX knew they had to take action. So they hit the self-destruct button on both the booster and the ship. Boom! Mission accomplished. SpaceX might have lost a spacecraft, but they gained some pretty cool bragging rights.

And here's the best part - SpaceX founder Elon Musk himself took to Twitter to share that they learned a lot from the test flight. In fact, they're already gearing up for the next one, which could take off from South Texas in just one or two months! Of course, the team will need to fix the damage caused by the 33 Raptors force on the launch pad mount first. But hey, that's just part of the journey when you're pushing the boundaries of space exploration. Bring on the next Starship test flight!

@elonmusk @SpaceX #Starshipexplosion #Starship”

SpaceX blew up Starship on purpose

The former President of the United States has said he will be indicted next week by the Manhattan District Attorney's office over hush money paid to adult film star Stormy Daniels.

Donald Trump Will Be Arrested on Tuesday

Those printed dates on the bottom of your food can or package have don't mean your can of beans or container of yogurt is going to turn lethal if you eat it after it expires.  It's more likely to do with brand preservation and a deterioration of taste or quality. 

True or False: Food Expiration Labels are Not Real

 a Tweet today he denied it: “ For the record, I never compared the government’s Covid mandates to the Holocaust as the @nytimes  falsely reported this week. Listen to my Lincoln Memorial speech and verify for yourself that I mentioned Ann Frank in an entirely different context. I was warning against the alarming totalitarian potential of AI + surveillance technologies.

@CNN originated this mischaracterization, and media censors made sure that nobody heard my objection. The onslaught of relentless media indignation finally compelled me to apologize for a statement I never made in order to protect my family.”

Robert Kennedy Jr. compared COVID mandates to the holocaust

Reports circulated Tuesday that a Japanese lander crashed during an attempted soft landing in the surface of the moon. The mission was actually carried out be a commercial company in Japan rather than the Japanese Space Agency (JAXA). Japanese company iSpace had hoped to land its Hakuto moon lander carrying a UAE-built rover softly, but the company's CEO said it seems a destructive impact was the more likely outcome. 

Japan just crashed a spacecraft into the moon

Former College Football Running back and CBS Analyst Emory Hunt claims that coaches push young football players who are white to play certain positions based on biases around their race over their athletic talents. 

Youth Football Coaches Put Players in Certain Positions Based on Race

Twitter user @TheRabbitHole84 cites a Gallup poll and claims about 1 in 5 people born between 1997 - 2004 are LGBT. Other users suggest additional context is needed and that the majority of those people claim to be bisexual for clout among their friends and are not actually bisexual.

True or False: About 20% of Generation Z identify as LGBT

From Blockworks:

Unlike most PoS chains that have a set unstaking period, Ethereum employs a “dynamic withdrawal queue,” dependent on the demand to unstake at any given moment, Blockworks Research analyst Dan Smith said.

The exit queue has limitations to prevent the entire validator set from leaving at once. The question on people’s lips: How large will the selling pressure be?

“If we assume the maximum outflow permitted by the protocol occurs, i.e. the worst case scenario, we see selling pressure around $95 million per day, for the first 3 days, which is equivalent to 2% of 24-hour volume, according to CoinGecko,” Smith said.

There is a daily limit of $95M in outflows

It is rational to be concerned about developing code that can 1) act as an agent in the world and interact with other software, machines and people 2) rewrite itself to get better at doing what it does 3) with the potential to assign itself goals that include self preservation. You don't need to imagine a sentience inside the machine for the code to do bad things and fall outside of the control of people. Malware developed within self-training AI models alone could do a ton of damage.  

A Lot of Top AI Researchers Worry About It

The Russian democratic movement starting in 1989 undertook a widespread switch in allegiance from Soviet to Russian institutions to realize their political aspirations. The Russian democratic leaders believed it would get more traction in the Russian Duma than in the all-Union Supreme Soviet, because Gorbachev was mobilizing the more conservative votes in the Union parliament against the democratic movement. This switch in allegiance was facilitated by the institutional structure at the time, which consisted of parallel national and republic state structures. As a result, Yeltsin’s Russian Federation was able to replicate and replace Soviet state control across Russia.

Yeltsin’s next move came when he disbanded the Communist Party in August 1991. In so doing, Yeltsin effectively undermined in one stroke one of Gorbachev’s most powerful instruments of political power as president of the Soviet Union. Immediately following this move, the Russian state moved to take complete control of the institutions of the Soviet Union. Plokhii explained that it was Russia’s takeover of Soviet institutions that prompted the declarations of Ukrainian independence that echoed throughout the Soviet Union over the following week.

Once Russia’s attempt to take over Union institutions failed in the wake of Ukrainian declaration of independence, Yeltsin knew his political career depended upon successfully governing Russia rather than preserving or replacing the Soviet Union. Drastic economic reforms were to be planned with only Russia in mind, disregarding the republics. Ethnic and religious considerations also played a role in Yeltsin and Russian elites deciding to abandon the Union: Once it was clear that Ukraine was lost, Russia was not interested in a union with a greatly diminished Slavic influence relative to the populations of Central Asia and the Caucasus.

Ukraine's vote for independence in 1991 preceded and precipitated the dissolution of the Soviet Union rather than the other way around

Evidence obtained from a laptop abandoned at a computer repair shop in 2019 definitively shown to be Hunter Biden's supports the claim that President Biden's son helped fund a biological lab in Ukraine. The liberal media is only now, two years later, admitting the legitimacy of the trove of email records discovered that expose his business dealings, having dismissed it as hot air and a distraction aimed at derailing Joe Biden's presidential run. The truth is the documents are real and reveal numerous questionable dealings including the financing of Metabiota, a bio lab in Ukraine funded in part by the Pentagon. Hair splitting over the exact nature of the deal - was Hunter Biden a direct investor or conduit, was the lab set up overtly to create military grade chemical weapons - fudge the real question and sweep under the carpet important context around the Biden's long standing business interests in Ukraine, and potential improper influence peddling by the son of a sitting Vice President.

As disclosed by the Post:

"Rosemont Seneca Technology Partners invested $500,000 in the San Francisco pathogen research company Metabiota and raised millions more through firms that included Goldman Sachs, according to the e-mails found on the computer, which was abandoned at a Delaware repair shop in April 2019 as Joe Biden ran for president.

Hunter introduced Metabiota to officials at Burisma, the Ukrainian gas company where he was a board member, for a “science project” involving biolabs in Ukraine, the e-mails show.

A memo from a Metabiota official to the then-vice president’s son in 2014 said the company could “assert Ukraine’s cultural and economic independence from Russia.”

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