2021-09-08

Worthy

• Big Brothers Has Privatized - by MJ Javani - Politics, News, Novels and More

• Archive.is owner on “continuity of his project”

  Archive.Today was born precisely out of an understanding of the fragility of services from which it itself is not immune. And this is not a project to transmit information to distant descendants, it is a project to let latecomers be witnesses. Having the magic to assure continuity, I wouldn’t need to invent such weak tools.

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• Zebras Spotted in VA Prince George's County

  I said, 'Ma’am, I am not drinking. I have not had any drugs. I have zebras in my backyard walking on the train tracks. I just wanted to know what service could come out because I didn’t want them to get hit

• Largest pinball museum in the world closing for good; 1000 games to be auctioned

• Mysterious Explosion Shakes Tennessee Ground | ZeroHedge

  On Saturday night, residents in Clarksville contacted police about a "loud explosion." Some residents told 911 Dispatch Centers that the ground beneath them shook during the loud bang, which only lasted a couple of seconds.

• The 'megacomet' Bernardinelli-Bernstein is the find of a decade. Here's the discovery explained. | Space

Horseshit

• Solarpunk Is Not About Pretty Aesthetics. It's About the End of Capitalism

celebrity gossip

• Original ‘Blue’s Clues’ Host Steve Burns Finally Addresses His Sudden Departure

• Donald Trump to provide commentary on boxing match on 9/11 anniversary

Culture War / Re segregation / Identdoctrination

• Why the unseemly rush to give our children a vaccine they don't need?

• One Thing We Can Agree on Is That We’re Becoming a Different Country

• My University Sacrificed Ideas for Ideology. So Today I Quit. – Peter Boghossian

  brick by brick, the university has made this kind of intellectual exploration impossible. It has transformed a bastion of free inquiry into a Social Justice factory whose only inputs were race, gender, and victimhood and whose only outputs were grievance and division.

• Winning the Cold Civil War

  This war is between those who are convinced that America is good and those who are convinced that America is bad. The latter wish to destroy the American way of life. They go about it by trying to force everyone to say that America is "systemically racist." If they can convince us of this falsehood, they will be well on their way to overturning the American way of life.

• The ACLU, Prior to Covid, Denounced Mandates and Coercive Measures for Pandemics

• Rutgers bars unvaccinated student from attending virtual classes

• Tripwire CEO out after tweeting support of Texas abortion law

• As a virologist I’m shocked my work has been hijacked by anti-vaxxers

• Robert E Lee statue: Virginia removes contentious memorial as crowds cheer

• The CDC Just Made an Orwellian Change to the Definition of ‘Vaccine’ and ‘Vaccination' – PJ Media

  So, up until last week, a vaccine went from being something that “produces immunity to a specific disease” to something that merely “stimulates the body’s immune response against diseases,” and a vaccination no longer “produces immunity” to a disease, just “protection” from a disease.

Media / Many Ministries of Truths / Censorship

• Politico runs Lockheed Martin puff piece amid sponsorship questions – Responsible Statecraft

• Taibbi: The Moral Majority Strikes Again | ZeroHedge

  The original report would have been sensational enough, if true. McElyea told stories of backed-up ambulances, patients “in worse conditions than if they’d caught COVID,” and “scariest” of all, “people coming in with vision loss.” Nonetheless, in the game of Twitter telephone that led from KFOR to the Stone, details were magically added. Reid somehow knew the hated overdosers not only swallowed “horse paste” but had done so “instead of taking the vaccine.” Occupy Democrats knew for whom the horse-pasters voted, noting that “so many Trumpers are overdosing” that emergency rooms are full. MSNBC contributor Dr. Jason Johnson even speculated Oklahoma Senator Jim Inhofe was somehow profiteering from the misery:

• As US Prepares to Ban Ivermectin for Covid-19, More Countries in Asia Begin Using It | naked capitalism

• Disinformation-for-hire in Kenya

  • Why is "Mozilla Foundation" doing this? Why is the Linux foundation doing vaccine passport stuff?

• TikTok Serves Up Sex and Drug Videos to Minors

• The bargain at the heart of the BBC is fraying

TechSuck

• Facebook says it doesn't read WhatsApp messages, but it does – Investigation

• GitHub - doctorray117/minecraft-ondemand: Templates to deploy a serverless Minecraft Server on demand in AWS

• SpaceX Produces 5,000 Starlink Dishes Per Week, But Plans a Production Boost.

  The company currently has over 600,000 pre-orders for Starlink. So producing only 5,000 dishes per week means SpaceX would need more than two years to address its backlog. Waiting that long would be especially painful for prospective Starlink users since many are saddled with unbearably slow internet speeds. The good news is that SpaceX plans on increasing the 5,000-dish capacity by ‘multiples’ in the coming months, according to Johnsen’s remarks at the conference.

Economicon

• The US could default on its debt by October

• Silicon Valley finds remote work is easier to begin than end

• Bitcoin crashes on first day as El Salvador's legal tender

• The SEC has told us it wants to sue us over Lend. We don’t know why

• Chinese activist Ai Weiwei says Credit Suisse closing foundation's bank account

• IKEA Is Buying Containers and Chartering Vessels

• Coinbase Some sketchy behavior coming out of the SEC recently | Hacker News

• Downsides of a white hot economy - VC Adventure

  Interestingly we’ve also seen a couple of companies – especially those that work with small businesses – whose message typically is: “We help you find and engage with customers more effectively.” The small businesses they target are pushing back and saying that they need more staff, not more customers. Currently, they’re running one, two, or even three-month waiting lists to provide services to their customers. We’ve all seen signs on restaurants that they’re closed or have reduced hours because of the unavailability of staffing. It’s interesting to consider the ramifications across the economy when many industries are at such capacity.

Crime / Police

• LAPD officers told to collect social media data on every civilian they stop

• Man Gets 4 Years in $126M Printer Toner Fraud

• Florida sheriff calls shooting suspect a 'coward,' deputies would have 'shot him up a lot' | Fox News

  "It would have been nice if he would have come out with a gun," Judd told a news conference, according to Reuters. "We would have shot him up a lot. But he didn’t because he was a coward. When someone chooses to give up, we take them into custody peacefully."

Security / Militaria

• FBI says Chinese authorities are hacking US-based Uyghurs

• 20 years after 9/11: Will we ever stop taking our shoes off at airports?

Afghanistan

• 'Gone Too Far'? Taliban Paints Over George Floyd Mural In Kabul | ZeroHedge

• State Department voices concerns over all-male Taliban government

• State Dept. won’t give private rescue flights OK to leave Afghanistan.

World

• Hong Kong Police Arrest Defiant Leaders Of The Tiananmen Vigil

• Strong Quake In Mexico Hits Near Acapulco, Buildings Sway In Capital

• Australia’s new mass surveillance mandate

• Aussie cops surround synagogue, fine Rosh Hashanah worshipers in lockdown breach

• Australia Finds Media Companies Liable for Other People’s Facebook Comments

• atlanticcouncil.org Ukraine's digital revolution is gaining momentum

Health / Medicine / COVID

• AFLD Sold Access to Bogus Covid-19 Treatments–and Left Patients in the Lurch

• Joint COVAX Statement on Supply Forecast for 2021 and Early 2022

• Idaho allows Covid-slammed hospitals to ration care for first time ever

• WHO: Covid will mutate like the flu and is likely here to stay

• Covid-19 response may cause more deaths in some countries than the pandemic

• WHO Calls Out Wealthy Nations For Hoarding COVID Treatments & Vaccines

• New Details Emerge About Coronavirus Research at Chinese Lab

• Lung function appears to be unaffected after Covid-19 infection in young adults

Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda

• Animals Are Changing Shape to Cope with Rising Temperatures

• Biden Declares Climate Change a Pressing Issue After 48 Years in Government

• We Could Brighten Clouds to Cool the Earth

• ‘No point in anything else’: Gen Z members flock to climate careers

• Climate Policy Should Pay More Attention to Climate Economics

• From 4% to 45%: Biden Releases an Ambitious Plan for Solar Energy

  • White House calls for solar to be nearly half of electricity supply by 2050

• Climate Disaster Preparation Is More Urgent Than Ever

• Researchers watch Washington’s snowpack melt, exposing glaciers’ retreat