2021-08-23

Cool

• ‘Miracle’ baby shark born in tank of females living together for decade

• Open-Source Insulin: Biohackers Aiming For Distributed Production | Hackaday

  • comment:

  why is there even a need? Insulin is cheap/free and provided by the NHS or your country’s equivalent.

• Self-powered Diaper Sensors that Monitor Urine Sugar Levels

Worthy

• The Roots of Progress is now a nonprofit organization

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• Plane damaged after being hit by York police drone at Buttonville Airport

• England's crop circle controversy - BBC Travel

  There is much that remains enigmatic about crop circles, even to farmers like Carson, who has tired of the whole thing and now deters visitors by cutting out any formations as soon as they appear. He spoke of watches stopping inside circles and recording equipment inexplicably failing during a visit from the BBC's Newsround in 1991. He has allowed companies including Nissan to build corporate crop circles in his fields for use in advertising, but claims that just a basic design took professionals 12 hours of daylight to produce, in contrast to the suggestion that hoaxers produce circles quickly in the dead of night.

Horseshit

• (NFT) Visa Buys CryptoPunk No. 7610

• 'How I found out my dad was a best-selling sex writer' - BBC News

celebrity gossip

• "Jeopardy!" fans, LeVar Burton still might not have a chance – or may not want one anymore

• Cuomo's dog Captain left at mansion after governor departed

Culture War / Re segregation / Identdoctrination

• Pentagon To Mandate Covid Vaccine For All Service Members; One-Third Have Refused Jab

• Can 'love letters' from home buyers perpetuate racism? This state thinks so

• Police pin hopes on ‘rainbow cars’ to drive out hate crime

• The CEO Trying to Build a Christian Secessionist Tech Industry

• Montana legislature passes bill to prohibit employers from mandating vaccine

Media / Many Ministries of Truths / Censorship

• Joe Scarborough tells Pulitzer Prize-winning author and Vietnamese refugee to ‘please don’t embarrass yourself by comparing Afghanistan to Vietnam’ – twitchy.com

• Nearly half the public favors a digital Ministry of Truth, but it’s a terrible idea | Washington Examiner

TechSuck

• RTX 3090 Owner Finds Old Glove Inside $1500 GPU

• What Chip Shortage: Inventory At Leading Chipmakers Hits Record $65 Billion | ZeroHedge

• Facebook's Horizon Workrooms promises a virtual future of teal despair

• Gadgets can help you track your kids on the way to school

Economicon

• GM recalls every Chevy Bolt ever made, blames LG for faulty batteries

• PayPal launches crypto buying and selling in the UK

• Bitcoin price shoots past $50k amid ‘buying frenzy’

• New Appetite for Mortgage Bonds That Sidestep Fannie and Freddie

• Lyft, Uber stocks fall after court says gig worker push is unconstitutional

Poilitcks

• How the U.S. vaccination drive came to rely on an army of consultants

• The Taliban's Rise Is Complicating Efforts to Close Guantánamo's Prison

• Bush Era NSA Head Says Its A "Good Idea" To Send Unvaxx'd Trump Supporters To Afghanistan | ZeroHedge

• CA recall ballots with "Yes" vote shown outside Why you could have holes on your California recall election ballot envelope

• Biden Stands By Kabul Evacuation, Laughs When Confronted With Poll Suggesting Majority No Longer See Him As "Competent Or Effective" | ZeroHedge

• What the Exit from Afghanistan Tells Us About How Biden Sees the World

  "What have they done with the real Joe Biden? And who is this guy up there now?" Crocker asked. "For me, there are kind of two sets of issues here: one of them is what his international philosophy actually is, the other is, quite frankly, an issue of competence. I found both alarming."

• Biden was always unfit to be president but his Left-wing media cheerleaders didn’t dare admit it

Crime / Police

• 'ShotSpotter' employee deposition raises questions in Pittsburgh police shooting

• Hundreds clash in Portland as Proud Boys rally descends into violence

Afghanistan

• “The visas were then copied as screenshots and sent ”

  One reason for the chaos was the decision to issue electronic visas, without names or document numbers, to SIV applicants. The visas were then copied as screenshots and sent by Afghans to thousands of other Afghans who were not eligible for access to the airport, a source told CNN at the weekend. "I don't think consular, or the administration frankly, realizes how badly they f$%$%d up by sending that stupid visa and letting everyone in for 24 hours straight," the source said Monday.

• Afghan staff at U.S. Embassy losing faith in evacuation efforts, diplomatic cable says

• Biden on Afghanistan fact-checked - BBC News

• (Aug 1 2021) Fighting Like Taliban – The Scholar's Stage

• How the Taliban Turned Smartphones into Weapons

• Afghan Killed In Firefight At Kabul Airport As Resistance Forces Prepare For Showdown In Panjshir | ZeroHedge

• Deadly firefight erupts at Kabul airport as evacuation chaos continues into second week

• Kabul: More footage from NEO being conducted at Kabul International Airport

• Afghan woman gives birth to baby girl on US evacuation plane

• Stranded Afghans Delete Social Media As Taliban Seizes US Surveillance Equipment

• The west will learn no lessons from the fall of Kabul

World

• China formally implements 3-child policy

• The Sweden experiment: how no lockdowns led to mental health, healthier economy

• Australian man pleads guilty to downloading Christchurch video

Health / Medicine / COVID

• First U.S. COVID deaths earlier -- and in different places -- than previously thought

  A half dozen death certificates from that month in six different states — California, Alabama, Georgia, Kansas, Oklahoma and Wisconsin — have been quietly amended to list COVID-19 as a contributing factor, suggesting the virus’s deadly path quickly reached far beyond coastal regions that were the country’s early known hotspots.

• FDA Approves First Covid-19 Vaccine

  • Pfizer Jab Receives Full Approval From FDA, Pentagon Mandates Vaccinations For All Troops

  • Pfizer Vaccine Receives Full Approval From FDA

    • The FDA grants full approval to the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine

  • FDA Pfizer-BioNTech: Covid vaccine wins full approval, clearing path to mandates

• The Coronavirus Is Here Forever

  • Someone mentions animal transmission in thread... ignored in favor of "everybody must get vaccinated" chorus The Coronavirus Is Here Forever | Hacker News

• A Systematic Review of Ivermectin for Prevention and Treatment of Covid-19

• Taiwan Begins Using a Homegrown Vaccine

• Seven Vaccinated Florida Patients Die of Covid

• Scientists question evidence behind U.S. COVID-19 booster shot drive.

• How often should I poop: The strange history of an American obsession

• How one local man's immunity to ticks could save us all

Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda

• A Midwest town moved uphill to survive climate crisis. Can others do the same?

• Major US river that supplies water to 40M people is drying up

• How climate change is making parts of the world too hot and humid to survive

• Giant Tortoises Eat Baby Birds