2021-07-02

Cool

• The crisis era in ancient Egypt led to a change in the sources of copper - The Archaeology News Network

etc

• Denied space travel for being female, Wally Funk, 82, is getting her chance

• Damage from Covid-19 restrictions 'cannot be undone' – Duluth News Tribune

• Hospitals Have Started Posting Their Prices Online. Here's What They Reveal

• America’s Pot Labs Have A THC Problem | FiveThirtyEight

• Boy Scouts reach $850M settlement with tens of thousands of sexual abuse victims

• Boeing cargo plane makes emergency landing in ocean off Honolulu coast, FAA says

Horseshit

• The UFO Trap

• When Orcs were Real - by Tree of Woe - Contemplations on the Tree of Woe

• America forgot how to make pie crust. Can it remember before it’s too late?

celebrity gossip

• Richard Branson plans to trump Jeff Bezos by 9 days in billionaires' space race

Culture War / Re segregation / Identdoctrination

• Did You Miss The Joint Chiefs Chairman Labeling Trump Voters Terrorists?

• Facebook tests “worried a friend is 'becoming an extremist'” prompts

• Google reports soaring attrition among Black women

• Winston Marshall Was 'Bloody Terrified' to Quit Mumford & Sons. He Tells Me Why. - by Bari Weiss - Common Sense with Bari Weiss

Media / Many Ministries of Truths / Censorship

• A Remarkable Silence: Media Blackout After Key Witness Against Assange Admits Lying – Media Lens

TechSuck

• Intuit to share payroll data from 1.4M small businesses with Equifax

• Amazon Delivery Companies Revolt Against Amazon, Shut Down

  Last week, two well-established Amazon delivery companies in Portland, Oregon offered Amazon an ultimatum: agree to a set of conditions that it said would improve revenue and driver safety—or we'll stop delivering Amazon packages. Amazon refused, and the two companies in the Portland area terminated their contract with Amazon, their only client, effectively shutting down

• Google Play Dumps APKs for the More Google-Controlled “Android App Bundle”

Economicon

• Student Loans. Medical Debt. Criminal Justice Fees. Cancel It All.

• Older Americans Stockpiled $35T. The Time Has Come to Give It Away

Poilitcks

• (Video) Thousands of migrant children detained in Texas in appalling conditions – BBC News.

• Fourth Circuit Rules Baltimore’s Aerial Surveillance Program Unconstitutional

Security / Militaria / Crime / Police

• US hands Bagram Airfield to Afghans after nearly 20 years

  • U.S. pulls out of Bagram Airfield without notice – HotAir

• U.S. Exposes Details of Russian Hacking Campaign

• Navy ditches railgun, eyes hypersonic missiles

Health / Medicine / COVID

• Canadian official admits ban on in-person gatherings is to prevent spread of ‘false information.

• Welcome Polygenically Screened Babies - by Scott Alexander - Astral Codex Ten

• Malaria Has Officially Been Eliminated in China, WHO Declares

• Where’s My Lyme Vaccine?

Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda

• Exxon lobbyists admit they have no intention of fighting climate change

• The scientists hired by big oil who predicted the climate crisis long ago

• Canadian inferno: northern heat exceeds worst-case climate models