2021-09-01

Cool

• The Discovery of Radio Waves | Nuts & Volts Magazine

• The 31st First Annual Ig Nobel Ceremony

  The 31st First Annual Ig Nobel Prize ceremony will happen entirely online on Thursday, September 9, 2021, at 6:00 pm (US eastern time).

• So How Does A Rocket Fly Sideways, Anyway? | Hackaday

Worthy

• How is nursing evolving? (from my email)

  Agency pay has gotten ridiculously high, so more and more nurses are quitting the local hospital, signing on with the agency, and then going to work for any hospital that can pay the agency’s rates. In exchange for going wherever the highest bidder is, they get huge increases in their take-home pay. No shame in that.

• The Complex Truth About ‘Junk DNA’ | Quanta Magazine

• Goes well with two shots of high test likker Return Of The Son Of Manipulating Liars - by Dan Scott - Meanderings Of a Common Man

etc

• 2 Alabama electric company employees killed while on duty

• Major electrical tower collapse leaves New Orleans completely without power

• Satanists Demand FDA Give Them Access to Abortion Drugs for Religious Ritual

• International Space Station facing irreparable failures, Russia warns

• A breathing tube through the butt could be an alternative to mechanical ventilators

  In a clinical setting, scrubbing the mucus off of a person’s intestines isn’t really feasible, and doesn’t sound like a pleasant experience. But using a method akin to an enema may work, by infusing safe, oxygenated liquid through the butt. This liquid, called perfluorodecalin, could safely store and deliver oxygen via an enema. Due to the properties of this liquid, it doesn’t need to scrub the mucus off of the intestines, meaning less discomfort and abrasion.

Horseshit

• Why America Needs a Department of the Future

• New San Francisco Initiative to Pay Individuals Not to Shoot Others

• The Internet ‘Died’ Five Years Ago

• Insurers Pullback On Satellite Policies Due To Space Junk Crisis | ZeroHedge

  • these "Kessler Syndrome" stories are Bezos vs Musk pissing match propaganda aimed to impede Starlink.

celebrity gossip

• Man can change his pupil size on command, once thought an impossible feat

Culture War / Re segregation / Identdoctrination

• What If the Coronavirus Crisis Is Just a Trial Run?

• Vaccine passports will make hesitant people ‘even more reluctant to get jabbed’

• Pentagon Exempts Pregnant Women From COVID-19 Vax Mandate

  Pregnant or breastfeeding women in the military will qualify for an exemption from the COVID-19 vaccine mandate,

• Zero COVID, a once wildly popular ideology, quietly faces extinction - by Jordan Schachtel - The Dossier

• Lockdown was based on faith, not evidence

• Masks Turn Democrats in Favor of School Choice

• The Left is now too weak for democracy to survive

• Black men executed in 1951 rape granted posthumous pardons

• UW-Madison to host ‘Welcome BBQ’ intended only for students of color | The College Fix

• (Aug 11 2021) The Assault on Empiricism - Tablet Magazine

Media / Many Ministries of Truths / Censorship

• Broadcasters Score Big Legal Win Against Locast

• Most of the information we spread online is quantifiably “bullshit”

  A clear pattern emerged in the types of people who were more likely to find profundity in the meaningless. People who were more religious, more likely to believe in the paranormal, and more accepting of alternative medicine were more receptive to the bullshit. People who were less analytic and intelligent were also more likely to find the bullshit statements to be profound than their more reflective and intelligent counterparts. Our research also suggests that people who are generally biased toward finding things profound are more receptive to bullshit.

• Twitch Streamers Stage a Walkout

• AAS Journals Will Switch to Open Access

• Salman Rushdie Enters His Substack Period

• Reddit communities ‘go dark’ in protest over Covid misinformation

• Reddit enforces policy about 'Covid denialism' – bans 1 sub, quarantines 54 more

• Subreddits have started banning accounts for potentially not being vaccinated

• Reddit bans anti-vaccine subreddit r/NoNewNormal after site-wide protest

TechSuck

• 200 / 48 / 18 @ 1hr

  • Ask HN: Who is hiring? (September 2021)

  • Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (September 2021)

  • Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (September 2021)

• Cloudflare says Intel not inside its servers: Ice Lake melted its energy budget

• GM throws LG under the bus as Chevy Bolt production pauses amid recall

• Intuit in Talks to Buy Mailchimp for More Than $10B

• Apple secures first states to support digital driver’s licenses

• Blue Origin hires advisory firm linked to messy Jedi contract process

• Regulators and Reality – Stratechery by Ben Thompson

  You can even grant the argument that Facebook tried to corner the social media market — whatever that is — a decade ago, but you have to also admit that here in 2021 it is clear that they failed. Competition is the surest sign that there was not actually any anticompetitive conduct, and I don’t think it the FTC’s job to hold Facebook management accountable for failing to achieve their alleged goals.

• Twitter Beta Testing Bitcoin Lightning Tipping Service

• Twitter: Introducing $uper Follows

• AT&T asks the FCC to put extra guardrails on 5G spectrum acquisition

• Uber and Lyft cars now come with Chinese facial recognition ad tablets

• Lenovo tablet forced update shows un-dismissable, un-mutable, ad notifications | Hacker News

• Amazon asked FCC to reject Starlink plan because it can’t compete, SpaceX says

Economicon

• The Red Tape That Could Cost Millions of Americans Their Homes

• Woman with 3 Properties Left Homeless Because Tenants Couldn't Be Evicted

• New Report Says Covid Recession Has Pushed Social Security Insolvency Up a Year

• Confessions of a Venture Capitalist

  There’s this old line that being a VC was 99 percent saying “No” and 1 percent begging. And now, it's more like 10 percent begging. You spend a lot of your time trying to convince some 23-year-old little shit that you are better than some internet celebrity who they think is going to be more effective than you are because they have more Twitter followers.

• Supply Chain Shortages Continue Around the World. Get Used to It

• Tyler Cowen is the best curator of talent in the world - by Tony Kulesa - Beginnings

Poilitcks

• Costly, too! Ukrainian President accomplishes years-long quest for a White House visit with Biden

• GOP sharpens attacks on Biden's Afghanistan exit ahead of midterms - Axios

• Biden's top-down booster plan sparks anger at FDA

• Texas' 6-Week Abortion Ban Takes Effect Overnight as Supreme Court Stays Silent

• In Texas, 666 Laws Take Effect Sept. 1, Including Many Conservative Priorities

• ‘Scared’ Kevin McCarthy Trashed On Twitter For ‘Thuggery’ After Threatening Telecoms

• Poor Broadband Access Linked to Less Farm Funding | Ambrook

Crime / Police

• ‘I Helped Destroy People’: FBI Agent

• A former Marine was pulled over for tailgating. Police took $87,000

• 65,000 fake students applied for financial aid in wide community college scam

• 33 PPP loans linked to single Denver address | 9news.com

• UK national extradited to US for film/TV piracy

Security / Militaria

• COVID-19 Origin Report is More of a Capitulation to China Than Initially Reported

  Granted, it is much easier to spy on effective news analysts and falsely accuse Americans of “insurrection” because they have a boxed Lego model of the U.S. Capitol in their closet than to effectively carry out intelligence on a foreign adversary such as China. I suppose we should all be grateful that the report did not blame the release on Fort Detrick, per Chinese propaganda. It was probably the only element on China’s wish-list that didn’t make it into this squishy analysis.

Afghanistan

• The story of an Afghan man who fell from the sky

• PHOTOS: The Taliban flew a Black Hawk helicopter over a parade of military equipment captured when it overran ...

• Defense secretary: US and allies evacuated 6,000 Americans and 124,000 civilians

• Pentagon debunks reports claiming US abandoned dozens of military service dogs in Kabul.

• Biden Administration Erased Afghan Weapons Reports From Federal Websites | ZeroHedge

• Taliban Holds Huge Victory Parade Showing Off US Military Hardware | ZeroHedge

  At least one Black Hawk helicopter has been seen flying over Kandahar in recent days, suggesting someone from the former Afghan army was at the controls as the Taliban lack pilots.

  During his speech on Tuesday, President Biden hailed the US exit and evacuation efforts an "extraordinary success". He said, "No nation has ever done anything like it in all of history; only the United States had the capacity and the will and ability to do it." In a deeply ironic, twisted, and tragic sense... this statement is true, just not at all in the way the president thinks.

• Exclusive: In secret texts, U.S. military officials lamented leaving Americans behind in Kabul | Just The News

• Biden Told Afghan President To "Create Perception" Taliban Wasn't Winning "Whether It Is True Or Not" | ZeroHedge

• Afghan Interpreter Who Helped Rescue Biden in 2008 Left Behind After U.S. Exit

• Here's What Is Really Going On With Those Dogs The U.S. Supposedly Abandoned At Kabul's Airport

• The Story Of The Mysterious White 727 That Appeared In Kabul After The Bombing Of Abbey Gate

World

• Turkish Pentagon: Erdogan breaks ground on crescent defense complex

• Brazilian criminal group ties hostages to getaway cars

• Volkswagen to stop making its best-selling product: VW-branded sausages

• Panama's Congress approves medical cannabis bill in unanimous vote

• El Salvador: Bitcoin Law critic Mario Gómez arrested without charge

Health / Medicine / COVID

• Judge’s order requiring Covid patient ivermectin called “unethical”

• Mild cases: people with breakthrough Covid can still feel pretty sick

• Long Covid in children 'nowhere near scale feared'

• Japan finds stainless steel particles in suspended doses of Moderna vaccine

• 12 lessons Covid-19 taught us about developing vaccines

• Israel’s Covid-19 boosters are preventing infections

• Delta is still killing Americans. Long Covid is the crisis in waiting

• Rogue antibodies involved in almost one-fifth of Covid deaths

• Large RCT on face mask effectiveness

• Biden admin monitoring supply of medical grade oxygen

• Long Covid and chronic fatigue syndrome share striking similarities

• RNA vaccines seem to produce different antibody levels

• Covid-19 patients with severe symptoms suffer long-lasting cognitive impairments

• Delta is still killing Americans. Long Covid is waiting to take its place

• Seventy percent of adults in the European Union have been fully vaccinated

• Florida's Covid data creats an artificial decline

Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda

• New ruling reverts Clean Water Act protections to 1980s vintage

• When Climate Change Comes to Your Doorstep

• Scientists warn glacier in Canadian Rockies slipping away at unprecedented rate

• Madagascar is suffering from a climate change famine

• UN Study: Weather Disasters Increased by Five Times in 50 years

• The way to cut your food’s climate emissions