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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close October 13 – November 12, 2022 777 stories · Vol. 22 · Catalogue 45 · Issue 316 Get it by email ↓
The month's top story

Probe finds failures in organ transplant system: "There's people dying"

"A lot of dialysis patients are sitting around like me just wondering, 'When will we get the call?'" said LaQuayia Goldring, who has been waiting seven years for a kidney transplant.

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What dominated November

3 stories that ran all month
  1. Technology

    What “work” looks like

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

  2. Technology

    Find your Twitter friends on Mastodon

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

  3. Technology

    We've filed a lawsuit against GitHub Copilot

    3 of 30 days · 3 articles

Business 36 stories

  1. Ex-Reddit CEO on Twitter moderation

  2. FTX to file for U.S. bankruptcy, CEO resigns

  3. TikTok profits from livestreams of families begging

  4. FTX tapped into customer accounts to fund risky bets, setting up its downfall

Show 10 more
  1. We will not pursue the potential acquisition of FTX

  2. Wikipedians question Wikimedia fundraising ethics after “somewhat-viral” tweet

  3. Hyundai investigating child labor in its U.S. supply chain

  4. As Covid hit, Washington officials traded stocks with exquisite timing

  5. The currency of the new economy won't be money, but attention (1997)

  6. San Francisco is spending $1.7M on one public toilet

  7. US Attorney Announces $3.36B Cryptocurrency Seizure in Connection with Silk Road

  8. Many companies aren’t prepared to replace underperforming CEOs

  9. The Fediverse is inefficient but that's a good trade-off

  10. The Sam Bankman-Fried empire crumbled. What happened?

Sports 24 stories

  1. Nascar driver stuns to qualify for championship with GameCube move

  2. What’s wrong with medieval pigs in videogames

Show 6 more
  1. A chill driving game with procedurally generate scenic landscapes

  2. Octopuses caught on camera throwing things at each other

  3. Why are there so few dead bugs on windshields these days?

  4. US annual inflation declines to 7.7% in October vs. 7.9% expected

  5. Testing Microsoft's Windows Dev Kit 2023

  6. French court: refusing to disclose mobile passcode to law enforcement is a crime

Technology 613 stories

  1. New Jersey legislators aim to ban most in-car subscriptions

  2. Twitter’s mass layoffs have begun

  3. Sound

Show 9 more
  1. Meta lays off 11,000 people

  2. Bubbles

  3. GitHub Copi­lot inves­ti­ga­tion

  4. Accidental Google Pixel Lock Screen Bypass

  5. The Chaostron: An Important Advance in Learning Machines (1961)

  6. Ntfy.sh – Send push notifications to your phone via PUT/POST

  7. Obsidian 1.0 – Personal knowledge base app

  8. I help seniors with technology issues

  9. Kathleen Booth, the inventor of assembly language, has died

Entertainment 41 stories

  1. Show HN: I 3D scanned the interior of the Great Pyramid at Giza

  2. Show HN: Linen – Open-source Slack for communities

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  1. Show HN: America – Road Trip Simulator

  2. Show HN: Circumflex, browse HN in your terminal

  3. Show HN: Feep! search, an independent search engine for programmers

  4. Sweden’s incoming cabinet says new nuclear reactors will be built

  5. Show HN: A tool to help you remember shit you are interested in

  6. Show HN: I made a new AI colorizer

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