2021-08-14

Cool

• Second IC – Sam Zeloof

• Debian 11 is being released

  • Release Notes for Debian 11

Worthy

• Bureaucratic Blunderland – Charles Lambdin

etc

• California launches largest free school lunch program in US

• NASA stands by its astronaut after incendiary Russian claims | Ars Technica

• Buddha and Mind

• Passenger and Military Jets Both Report Seeing a UFO over Eastern Canada

• Marijuana Legalization Leads to More Crime | National Review

• Playmobil Enters Star Trek Frontier with 42-Inch Classic USS Enterprise Playset

  more than three feet long, this massive set is retailing at $499.99

Horseshit

• Three-month-olds born during the pandemic now score around 80 on IQ tests

• Registrar will track which Sydney residents are dating

• Incels: A new terror threat to the UK?

• Startups Are Not Great for Marriages

• Mexican Demand For California Cannabis "Explodes"  | ZeroHedge

• Reviews for Lawn Mowing Simulator reveal strong feelings about lawn mowing

celebrity gossip

• A Strange Worrying Turn In Assange Extradition Case | ZeroHedge

• Taibbi: The Vanishing Legacy Of Barack Obama | ZeroHedge

  He extended middle fingers in all directions: to his Vineyard neighbors, the rest of America, Biden, the hanger-on ex-staffers who’d stacked years of hundred-hour work weeks to build his ballyhooed career, the not quite A-listers bounced at the last minute for being not famous enough (sorry, Larry David and Conan O’Brien!), and so on. It’d be hard not to laugh imagining Axelrod reading that even “Real Housewife of Atlanta” Kim Fields got on the party list over him, except that Obama giving the shove-off to his most devoted (if also scummy and greedy) aides is also such a perfect metaphor for the way he slammed the door in the faces of the millions of ordinary voters who once so desperately believed in him.

• Ghislaine Maxwell Loses Bid To Drop Child Sex-Trafficking Case

• No Pressure Suits? Bezos, Branson Spark Alarm over Safety in Space

Culture War / Re segregation / Identdoctrination

• LA County to Waive Citizenship Requirements for County Government Employment

• The Emerging Class Structure of Personal Sovereignty | The Sovereign Individual Weekly

• Why Everything We Thought About Drugs Was Wrong - by Michael Shellenberger - Michael Shellenberger

• The toughest opponents in the NFL this season? Unvaccinated players

• IBM to allow only fully vaccinated to return to U.S. offices from Sept. 7

Media / Many Ministries of Truths / Censorship

• Snopes Retracts 60 Articles Plagiarized by Co-Founder: ‘Our Staff Are Gutted’

• Self-described trolls tackle climate disinformation

• Facebook is obstructing our work on disinformation

• Twitter reinstates accounts of India's Rahul Gandhi, other opposition leaders

TechSuck

• Intel locks down all remaining TSMC 3nm production capacity

• The Perl Foundation is fragmenting over Code of Conduct enforcement

  After spending a day wading through the stated reasons and back stories of these high-profile resignations, it's difficult to come to any single, clear conclusion—although "burn this entire pile of serpents down, with the most primal of magics" is frankly tempting.

Economicon

• Pfizer, Moderna seen reaping billions from Covid-19 vaccine booster market

• Exploit remote work policy by taking on a second fulltime job

Poilitcks

• Yellen Redacted 73 Meetings/Calls in First 3 Months in Office

• Analysis: Biden forges ahead where Trump and Obama failed on infrastructure and Afghanistan - CNNPolitics

• Blame Biden for Afghanistan’s Return to the Dark Ages - The Bulwark

• Biden braces for brutal defeat in Afghanistan - Axios

  The Biden administration is preparing for the fall of Kabul and a retreat from any U.S. diplomatic presence in Afghanistan — a stunning reversal of expectations.

• Taliban Sweep in Afghanistan Follows Years of U.S. Miscalculations

Crime / Police

• Surf Instructor Killed His Children and Claimed QAnon Made Him Do It

Security / Militaria

• Biden Mobilizes 5,000 Troops For Urgent Afghan Evacuation | ZeroHedge

  "I have authorized the deployment of approximately 5,000 US troops to make sure we can have an orderly and safe drawdown of US personnel and other allied personnel," he said while acknowledging the Taliban advance. Ironically the past months have witnessed a steady draw down of just as many troops - and now they will go right back.

  Biden confirmed prior reports that Washington has signaled to the Taliban that it's not to attack retreating US forces: "we have conveyed to the Taliban representatives in Doha, via our Combatant Commander, that any action on their part on the ground in Afghanistan, that puts US personnel or our mission at risk there, will be met with a swift and strong US military response," Biden said.

• Taliban Seen Flying Captured Military Helicopters Over Afghanistan | ZeroHedge

• Taliban's Lightning Afghanistan Advance Could Win Billions of Dollars in U.S.-Made Weapons

• What We Got Wrong in Afghanistan

• In desperation, U.S. scours for countries willing to house Afghan refugees.

World

• M 7.2 Earthquake 12 km NE of Saint-Louis du Sud, Haiti

• Canada to require vaccinations for air and train passengers

• Nearly million people in England became addicted to alcohol during the pandemic

• Costa Rica signs law to attract digital nomads

• Women And Children Are Paying The Price As Violence Worsens In Afghanistan : NPR

• Taliban banned COVID vaccines in Afghanistan's province - Insider Paper

Health / Medicine / COVID

• Demographic signatures of the transition from pandemic emergence to endemicity

• Biden Administration Plans for Vaccine Boosters, Perhaps by Fall

• Massive New Analysis Confirms Just How Many COVID-19 Cases Are Truly Asymptomatic

  an analysis by a group of US medical researchers on more than 350 studies has found just over 35 percent of all COVID-19 infections don't proceed to a symptomatic phase.

• 'Your child will wait for another child to die.' Amid Covid-19 surge, Dallas County has no pediatric ICU beds left, county judge says - CNN

  "Hospitals are licensed for a specific number of beds and most hospitals regularly staff fewer beds than they are licensed for. They can't use beds that aren't staffed. With the increase in COVID cases, hospitals are experiencing a shortage of people to staff the beds that they are licensed for," department spokesperson Lara Anton said in an email, adding that staffing agencies in the state are working on recruiting medical surge staff from across the US.

  • RSV spike continues in North Texas | wfaa.com

• Time trends and factors related to Covid-19 vaccine hesitancy: a large US survey

• U.S. chimp sanctuary is poised to give its primates a Covid-19 vaccine

• Fear of COVID-19 in Kids Is Getting Ahead of the Data

• Lockdown was based on faith, not evidence

• Major study of Ivermectin finds 'no effect whatsoever'

• Moderna’s HIV Vaccine to Start Human Trials Early as Wednesday

• Opioid risk prediction algorithm is hurting genuine pain patients

• Aspartame and cancer – new evidence for causation

• Fermented Foods May Alter Your Microbiome and Improve Your Health

Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda

• The Pentagon needs eco-friendly death machines

• Loss of animals’ shared knowledge threatens their survival

• The worst 5% of power plants produce 75% of CO2

• The carbon footprint of streaming video: fact-checking the headlines

• Climate Change Kills the Future

• Crop Insurance and Unintended Consequences | NC State News

  A new study suggests that crop insurance serves as a disincentive for farmers to adopt climate change mitigation measures on their croplands.

• Computer Models of Civilization Offer Routes to Ending Global Warming