2021-07-19

Cool

• Studio Ghibli anime museum gets saved by crowdfunding money

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• Surgeon general: No 'value' to locking people up over marijuana use

Horseshit

• Re-run; look at the whole panoply of propaganda on display Assange case: Key witness admits he lied, media ignores exculpatory revelations | Hacker News

Culture War / Re segregation / Identdoctrination

• Will ‘The Great Wealth Transfer’ Trigger a Millennial Civil War?

• Superintendent Who Eliminated Entrance Exam at Nation’s Top High School To Resign

Media / Many Ministries of Truths / Censorship

• CNN is hiring hundreds of people for a subscription streaming service

TechSuck

• Apple sued by teen wrongly accused of shoplifting by unreliable facial-rec tech

• Spotify Has Changed Music Libraries Forever

• Muse Group head of strategy: musescore-downloader dev could be “deported”

• Shield TV Owners Are Pissed About the Banner Ads in Android TV

Economicon

• Robinhood seeks up to $35B valuation in mega U.S. IPO

Poilitcks

• Analysis: Why America Is Losing To Marxist Democrats In Two Sentences - The Lid

Security / Militaria / Crime / Police

• Russiagate: Luke Harding's Hard Sell | ZeroHedge

• Biden Administration Transfers Its First Detainee from Guantánamo Bay

• Amazon Shuts Down NSO Group Infrastructure

  The move comes as a group of media outlets and activist organizations published new research into NSO's malware and phone numbers potentially selected for targeting by NSO's government clients.

  • Huge data leak shatters the lie that the innocent need not fear surveillance

  • Forensic Methodology Report: How to catch NSO Group’s Pegasus | Amnesty International

World

• UK and allies hold Chinese state responsible for a pervasive pattern of hacking

• U.S. Will Formally Accuse China of Hacking Microsoft

Health / Medicine / COVID

• How children are spoofing Covid-19 tests with soft drinks - BBC Future

  First, I thought it best to check the claims, so I cracked open bottles of cola and orange juice, then deposited a few drops directly onto LFTs. Sure enough, a few minutes later, two lines appeared on each test, supposedly indicating the presence of the virus that causes Covid-19.

Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda

• Florida hires Indian tribesmen to catch invasive snakes

• Cigarette butts are poisoning shoreline animals