2021-09-03

Cool

• NASA’s Perseverance Rover Successfully Cores Its First Rock

Worthy

• Long COVID: Much More Than You Wanted To Know - by Scott Alexander - Astral Codex Ten

• (Aug 24 2021) The Covid 19 Red Ink Blue Ink Problem - by Handwaving Freakoutery - Handwaving Freakoutery

etc

• The lonely journey of a UFO conspiracy theorist in an age of distrust

• Why Empathy Is Not a Reliable Source of Information in Moral Decision Making

  • empathy, being internally generated, is not a "source of information" at all is it?

• US Patent Office Report concludes software piracy increases innovation

• Road Deaths Keep Spiking in 2021 Despite People Driving Less: Nhtsa

Horseshit

• Family’s Death in Sierra National Forest Is Shrouded in Mystery

• Loot is a viral social network that looks like nothing you’ve ever seen - The Verge

• Texas schools are surveilling students online, often without their knowledge

• Highwayman's 1750 confessions reveal ‘unusual’ ambivalence about gay sex

• Chinese quantum physics project moves radar closer to detecting stealth aircraft

celebrity gossip

• All Communications Between Myself and Chelsea Manning Since 2016: to Debunk Her Innuendo - by Glenn Greenwald - Glenn Greenwald

• Abba Back After 40 Years with New Album, Virtual Concerts

• Fran Drescher Elected President of Sag-Aftra

• Banksy was warned about website flaw before NFT hack scam

Obit

• Greek Composer and Politician Mikis Theodorakis Has Died at the Age of 96

Culture War / Re segregation / Identdoctrination

• comment:

  A male who gives advice to their female co worker clearly doesn't understand the current cultural situation when any advice can be taken as sexism. Best to keep quiet and work around it rather than trying to give advice or bother them.

• Gen Z takes new approach to 'cancel culture' on social media

• Stop Death Shaming

• Veronica Wu: Silicon Valley investor dismissed racism, called BLM “racists”

• UBS CEO: Those who don’t want the vaccine can work from home

• (Jun 14 2021) Critical Race Theory, a Consolation Prize

  The question is, how did the same misplaced sense of radicalism that burned down laundromats in 2020 produce $5,000 a plate antiracism dinners in 2021? How did we go so seamlessly from there to here? I’ll ask again: when you took the streets, what did you take them for? What did you demand? What are you demanding now? And how does any of this help us get there?

• Staggering US wealth inequality heaps long-term harm on to minority children

• GoDaddy is cutting off Texas Right to Life’s abortion ‘whistleblowing’ website

  • GoDaddy boots Texas abortion “whistleblower” site for violating privacy rule

• We created a Chrome extension to spam the anti-abortion vigilante form

• TikTokers flood Texas abortion whistleblower site with Shrek memes, fake reports

Media / Many Ministries of Truths / Censorship

• The Media Is Lying To You About Florida (Again) - by IM - Unmasked

• Misinformation on Facebook got 6x more clicks than factual news during election

• New Texas Abortion Law to Unleash a Torrent of Lawsuits Against Online Speech

• Amazon is planning more aggressive moderation of its hosting platform

• Feds close unit that monitored Americans’ social media for Census disinformation

TechSuck

• “apkeep,” EFF's new APK Downloader

• Deobfuscator3000 – Deobfuscation tool for Minecraft mod developement

• Take-Two Sues Enthusiasts Behind GTA Fan Projects Re3 and ReVC

• Apple delays controversial plan to scan iPhones for child exploitation images

• Amazon “may be the largest unregulated pawnshop on the face of the planet”

• Only Humans, Not AI Machines, Can Get a U.S. Patent, Judge Rules

Economicon

• Working Overtime on Weekends Undercuts Capitalism

• GM temporarily shuts down North American factories because of chip shortage

  • GM shutting down production at most of its plants in North America

• Amazon’s answer to delivery driver shortage: Pot smokers

• The August jobs numbers have economists worried. Here's why

Poilitcks

• Tree of Life synagogue says Biden’s claim of visiting them after 2018 attack is false.

• Joe Biden Threatens to Fight Texas Harder Than He Ever Fought the Taliban – PJ Media

• MEDIA BLACKOUT: News Orgs Ignore Biden’s Norm-Defying Call With Afghan President

Crime / Police

• Retailers are spending millions to combat organized theft from stores

• Gunmaker subpoenas school records of 9 slain Sandy Hook students and educators

  A gunmaker being sued by nine families who lost loved ones in the Sandy Hook shootings has subpoenaed the academic, attendance and disciplinary records of five children killed that day.

• Capitol riot commission seeks McCarthy's phone records following telecom ...

Security / Militaria

• Biden orders declassification of Sept. 11 investigation documents

• US Air Force chief software officer quits

Afghanistan

• Slovakian Special Operator Was An Unexpected Passenger On One Of The Last C-17s Out Of Kabul

• Celebratory Gunfire In Kabul Amid Rumors 'Last Holdout' Panjshir Province Has Fallen | ZeroHedge

• The CIA Secretly Evacuated Most of Its Spies from Afghanistan

• Money Down The Toilet In Afghanistan | The American Conservative

  Cockburn dredges up something so horrible and hilarious that it’s straight out of a Monty Python sketch. In it, the American occupiers attempt to enlighten a group of Afghan women by showing them Marcel Duchamp’s famous urinal-as-museum-piece, and telling them that it’s important art.

• Diplomatic Value of Turkey and Qatar Surges After Western Leaders Flee Kabul

• "We're All Ruined": Biden Drone Strike In Kabul Kills 10 Civilians, Family Says | ZeroHedge

• Economists Explain the Taliban

World

• "The End Of Abenomics" - Japan's Struggling Prime Minister Suga Unexpectedly Steps Down | ZeroHedge

• Denmark says Covid is no longer a ‘socially critical disease.’

• 9/11, 20 years later: the tragedy gave US-China relations respite

• New Zealand authorities say Islamic terrorist stabbed 6 at supermarket; suspect dead

• Insider Details the CCP’s Disdain for “Expendable” Entrepreneurs

• Beaten and humiliated by Hindu mobs for being a Muslim in India

Health / Medicine / COVID

• UK scientists not backing Covid jabs for 12 to 15-year-olds

• CDC study estimates over 80% of Americans are now protected from Covid-19

• Surgical masks reduce Covid-19 spread, large-scale Stanford study shows

  The proportion of individuals with COVID-like symptoms was 7.62% (N=13,273) in the intervention arm and 8.62% (N=13,893) in the control arm. Blood samples were collected from N=10,952 consenting, symptomatic individuals. Adjusting for baseline covariates, the 2 intervention reduced symptomatic seroprevalence by 9.3% (adjusted prevalence ratio (aPR) = 0.91 [0.82, 1.00]; control prevalence 0.76%; treatment prevalence 0.68%). In villages randomized to surgical masks (n = 200), the relative reduction was 11.2% overall (aPR = 0.89 [0.78, 1.00]) and 34.7% among individuals 60+ (aPR = 0.65 [0.46, 0.85]). No adverse events were reported."

• Health Officials Advise White House to Scale Back Booster Plan for Now

• Being fully vaccinated halves the risk of getting long Covid after infection

• Covid vaccines: Waning immunity is not a crisis

• Three doses of Covid-19 vaccine are likely needed for full protection, Fauci says

• The pandemic’s true death toll

• American Medical Association Calls for End to Use of Ivermectin for Covid

Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda

• How the Fossil Fuel Industry Convinced Americans to Love Gas Stoves

• He says it’s not about climate. So why is Bill Gates investing in farmland?

• Poorly devised regulation lets firms pollute with abandon

• Wildfire in the Western United States: Past, Present, and Future

• A World Without Mosquitoes? It's Not as Great an Idea as It May Seem

• Climate change: Arctic warming linked to colder winters