2021-09-02

Worthy

• Fossil fuels are dead (and here's why) - Charlie's Diary

• The Australian federal government is planning to de-anonymize the internet | Hacker News

etc

• A Static Electricity Disease?

• Faulty design and construction contributed to collapse of South Florida Building

• Towards the abolition of animal farming - by Noah Smith - Noahpinion

• Hurricane Ida: Before and after images reveal devastation - BBC News

• Satellite View of New Orleans Power Before/After Ida

• NYC Paralyzed, 9 Dead As Ida Remnants Unleash "Once In A Century Storm" Across Northeast

• Data Brokers Are Advertising Data on U.S. Military Personnel - Lawfare

• US Civil Engineers Bent Rules to Give New Orleans Extra Hurricane Protection

Horseshit

• Raunchy Simpsons prank pulled at school board meeting

• Eating a hot dog could take 36 minutes off your life, study says

• Are you ready to eat your delicious nutrient square? Yum, yum, yum - The Verge

• Spring removes math geek t-shirt because it included the trademarked word 'zeta'

• How to Persuade Americans to Give Up Their Guns

• 16% of Gen Z Believe Hitting a Router Improves UK Broadband

• How snake oil got a bad name

  Just to confuse matters, Floridian reptile squalene – actual snake oil – has been credibly proposed by scientists for use in COVID vaccines. Its use would serve double duty: it would help to boost the immune system response, while also helping control the population of invasive Burmese pythons ravaging wildlife populations in Florida’s everglades.

celebrity gossip

• The Sackler Family Wins Immunity from Future Opioid Lawsuits

  • Purdue Pharma Bankruptcy Plan Approved, Freeing Sacklers from Lawsuits

• Joe Rogan Has Covid

  • Joe Rogan has Covid – and his treatment will make health experts feel ill

• Larry Ellison's Oracle Started as a CIA Project (2014)

• ‘Jackie Chan thought women belonged in the kitchen – until I kicked his butt’

Obit

• Carolyn Shoemaker, Hunter of Comets and Asteroids, Dies at 92

Culture War / Re segregation / Identdoctrination

• The self-silencing of American students

• You are not a horse: Bogus Covid craze for ivermectin vexes Bay Area feed stores

• ACLU: Want to Enhance Civil Liberties? Embrace Vaccine Mandates

• Requiring Masks in Schools Has a Downside

• Prof at Top University Says 'Whiteness' Is Responsible for Opposition to School Mask Mandates

• CDC Director Tells The Unvaccinated Not To Travel Over Labor Day Weekend - Except What About Natural Immunity?

• Judge rescinds order stripping unvaccinated Pilsen woman of child custody rights

• White supremacist praise of Taliban takeover concerns US officials

  • DHS, CNN Scramble To Flip Biden Afghanistan Narrative Back To Domestic 'White Supremacists' Threat | ZeroHedge

Media / Many Ministries of Truths / Censorship

• "Breaking Points": On Afghanistan, the Revolving Door, and Media Failure to Disclose Contracting Ties of Guests - by Matt Taibbi - TK News by Matt Taibbi

  questions I overlooked, including the revolving door in the contracting world, as well as the remarkable intransigence of the corporate press on the “forever war” front. Many long-ago disgraced or discredited hawks were mysteriously revived to play analyst as the gruesome footage from Kabul rolled in. “The same liars are elevated despite the fact that we knew they were lying,” noted Saagar.

• 85 years ago, FDR saved American writers. Could it ever happen again?

• Amazon to remove more content that violates rules from cloud service – sources

TechSuck

• Meet The Self-Hosters, Taking Back the Internet One Server at a Time

• No, The iPhone 13 Does Not Have Satellite Internet | Band n53 & Globalstar (GSAT) Explained – SemiAnalysis

• The Feds Want to Know What the McFuck Is Going on with the McFlurry Machines

• Hewlett Packard Enterprise announces $2B contract with the NSA

• TSMC ask suppliers to cut price by 15% in 2022

• Arm dismisses suggestion its Chinese JV has staged a 'heist' • The Register

• The FAA is grounding Virgin Galactic until further notice

  • Virgin Galactic flights grounded after New Yorker story on Branson spaceflight - BBC News

• 24% of unemployed workers have been jobless for over a year

Economicon

• One in four adults say they ended up worse off financially from the pandemic

• Federal Jobless Aid, a Lifeline to Millions, Reaches an End

• (PDF) Rising income inequality explains the decline in interest rate

• Amazon’s Answer to Delivery Driver Shortage: Recruit Pot Smokers

• SPAC Rout Erases $75B in Startup Value

• Tether Goes Full Ponzi - by Doomberg - Doomberg

• Robinhood Stock Drops After SEC Chairman Warns on Payment for Order Flow

Poilitcks

• New Boss of U.S. Digital Service: Mina Hsiang

• Gab.com’s Response to Congress

• The Threat from the Illiberal Left

Crime / Police

• FAA Releases Data Showing Trends in Dangerous Laser Strikes

• Lawyer Representing 17 Jan. 6 Defendants Has Mysteriously Gone Missing: Court Filings | ZeroHedge

Security / Militaria

• Ben Rhodes' Book Proves Obama Officials' Lies, and His Own, About Edward Snowden and Russia - by Glenn Greenwald - Glenn Greenwald

• UK defence secretary suggests US is no longer a superpower

Afghanistan

• The Actual Number of Afghan Allies Evacuated Leaves the Biden Administration Flailing – RedState

  While the administration has touted the total numbers of evacuees as some kind of vindication for their strategic and tactical blunders, it appears that most of those people were not former US military allies at all. In fact, while only 5,400 or so Americans were brought to safety, only about 8,500 SIV holders were rescued, with the vast majority left behind.

  In other words, the one thing Biden has been bragging about as his supposed great success was actually a colossal failure as well. The airlift may have gotten out 120,000 people total, but those were not mostly Afghan allies who we had sworn to protect.

• Why the only winner of America's war in Afghanistan is opium

• Taliban fighters upset, feel betrayed that US military left non-working helicopters: report | Fox News

• The Taliban have declared victory. Now they must reckon with a country freefalling into chaos

• Kabul Airport's Abandoned Dogs Are Now On The Loose And The Taliban Want To Round Them Up

• Video shows man hanging below Black Hawk flown by Taliban

• State Dept Contradicts Biden, Says Vast Majority Of Interpreters & Visa-Eligible Afghans Were "Left Behind"

World

• China’s ‘Volcker moment’ is a mounting risk to the global recovery

• China to require foreign vessels to report in ‘territorial waters’

• What China’s Afghan Bluster Hides

• China's Alibaba to invest $15.5 bln for “common prosperity”

• China bans ‘sissy men’ from TV in new crackdown

• China's war on celebrities and capitalism: Stars are deemed 'social tumours'

• South Korean lawmakers mandate cameras in operating rooms after surgery deaths

Health / Medicine / COVID

• More than 80% of Americans 16 and up have some immunity to coronavirus, blood donation survey finds

• IU Health suspends more than 1k unvaccinated workers

Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda

• IUCN to Boost Open Access to Conservation Knowledge

• California to open 5 natural gas plants to avoid blackouts

• Nuclear energy is key in fight for climate

• U.S. Envoy Kerry Says China Is Crucial To Handling The Climate Crisis

• Weather disasters are getting worse worldwide, report says. But the good news is they aren't ...

• Climate Change Is Bankrupting America’s Small Towns

• Why won’t US TV news say ‘climate change’?

• U.K. Facing Accusations of Climate Failure over BP Oil License