2021-09-19

Cool

• Hippopotomonstroses-quippedaliophobia: What Is It?

• Astronomers solve centuries-old mystery of supernova observed in 1181 | Ars Technica

Worthy

• Overcoming Bias : Elite Biases Make Policy Biases

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• Humans Today Mate With Cousins Over 3 Times As Much As Did Prehistoric Humans

Horseshit

• Why Silicon Valley's Optimization Mindset Sets Us Up for Failure

• The Form and Function of Science Fiction - Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation

• The US car crash epidemic: Why driving deaths are up — and as high as gun deaths - Vox

celebrity gossip

• Splashdown Welcome back to planet Earth, Inspiration4x

  • SpaceX capsule to return from orbit, capping off first tourism mission

  • SpaceX Returns Private Astronauts to Earth After Three Days in Orbit

• AOC’s ‘Tax the Rich’ dress designer Aurora James owes debt in multiple states

Culture War / Re segregation / Identdoctrination

• Anti-Mask Florida Election Official Dies of Covid and Takes GOP Software Secrets

• Five Oregonians hospitalized due to misuse of ivermectin for Covid-19

  The Oregon Poison Center has managed 25 cases involving Oregonians intentionally misusing ivermectin to treat or prevent COVID-19 between Aug. 1 and Sept. 14. Five of those cases involved hospitalization, and two people were so severely ill that they had to be admitted to an intensive care unit. Although the Oregon Poison Center also serves Alaska and Guam, the vast majority of ivermectin cases it has managed this year have come from Oregon.

• Covid safetyism has gone mad - UnHerd

• In Mississippi, Fetal Deaths Double Among Unvaccinated Pregnant Women with Covid

• WHO: No, we won't tell you how many of us are vaccinated – HotAir

• Why Does No One Ever Talk About Sweden Anymore? - by IM - Unmasked

• I'm not an anti-vaxxer but vaccine passports treat me like I am (anaphylactic)

• White Americans pay less attention to Black peers, says a new study

• "This Is Not Political!" - 1000s Gather At 'Freedom Rally' In New York City To Oppose Vaccine Passport

• The Steel Man Case Against Vaccine Mandates - by Morgan James - Morgan’s Newsletter

• A New Covid Testing Model Aims to Spare Students from Quarantine

Media / Many Ministries of Truths / Censorship

• Instagram ‘fueling conspiracy theorists’ by banning naturalimmunity hashtag

• Pharma Money Reaches Guideline Writers, Patient Groups, Even Doctors on Twitter

• Telegram blocks Russian opposition leader's chat bots during vote

TechSuck

• Power outage at an Internet Archive datacenter takes down archive.org

Economicon

• Banks beware, Amazon and Walmart are cracking the code for finance

• China pumps $14bn in cash into market amid Evergrande crisis

  + ["Global economic crysis (finally) starting, but from
  

  China"](https://twitter.com/TheLastBearSta1/status/1438171695685283847)

  • Evergrande Gave Workers a Choice: Loan Us Cash or Lose Your Bonus

Poilitcks

• Durham Cracks the Russia Case Archive link

  • EXCLUSIVE: Durham Indictment Shows Clinton Likely Worked With Top Google Exec To Fabricate Russia Hoax, Says Google Whistleblower - National File

  the Durham indictment identifies the mastermind of the operation to create spread and spread the Alfa Bank Hoax as a Big Tech executive, who allegedly “exploited” privately-held data of several large tech companies to create a false “narrative” about Trump-Russia collusion. This person may be Eric Schmidt, the former Executive Chairman of Alphabet, the parent company of Google.

• J6 'Chaos' Total Bust For Media As Cops, Journalists And FBI Appear To Outnumber Protesters | ZeroHedge

  • People are still having fun with that photo of hardcore MAGA QAnon insurrectionists at the #JusticeForJ6 rally – twitchy.com

Crime / Police

• Alex Murdaugh investigations explained: murder, fraud, obstruction of justice, maybe more in South Carolina.

• FDA Fetal Organ Purchases Violated Federal Law

Security / Militaria

• Story of the Dog in the Osama Bin Laden Mission

• Biden's Border Blunder: 15,000 Migrants Under Texas Bridge Forces Gov. Abbott To Send In Troopers | ZeroHedge

  "The Texas Department of Public Safety is in full force along the border around the Del Rio area," Abbott tweeted. "They have built a barricade with their squad cars and State Troopers. The National Guard is working with them to secure the border."

• 'We want justice,' say the family of 10 civilians killed in a US airstrike

• Russian-Made Mi-17 Helicopter Flown By Secretive U.S. Unit Lands In Farmer's Field

• Those old OV-10 Broncos Sent To Fight ISIS Were Laser Rocket Slinging Man Hunters

World

• Australia's nuclear-powered submarine deal is fueling anger in the country

• Volcano erupts on Spanish island of La Palma

• "adults who have legal guardians" German election: 85,000 adults with disabilities can vote for the first time

Health / Medicine / COVID

• An appeal for an objective, open, transparent debate re: the origin of Covid-19

• COVID-19: an ‘extraterrestrial’ disease? - ScienceDirect

  A complex disease cannot be solved through a simple, magic-bullet cure or vaccine. The heterogeneity of population profiles susceptible to developing a severe form of COVID-19 suggests the need to adopt varying, targeted measures that are able to address risk profiles in an appropriate way. The critical role of comorbidities in disease severity calls for short-term, virus-targeted interventions to be complemented with medium-term policies aimed at reducing the burden of comorbidities, as well as mitigating the risk of transition from infection to disease. Strategies required include upstream prevention, early treatment, and consolidation of the health system.

• NIH director expects U.S. booster shots, despite FDA advisers' recommendation

• Bombshell testimony from doctors at FDA Vaccine hearing… – CITIZEN FREE PRESS

  The nursing home death data is stunning in the second video. Half the Vaccinated died, and none of the Unvaccinated died.

• Getting Covid in a land where no cases officially exist

• Moderna's vaccine is the most effective, but Pfizer and J&J also protect well

• How Much Can You Trust That Generic Drug You’re Taking?

Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda

• The computer chip industry has a dirty climate secret

• Want to save the earth then don’t buy that shiny new iPhone

• Rhetoric and frame analysis of ExxonMobil's climate change communications

• Fossil-Fuel Companies Spent Millions to Play Up Your Carbon Footprint

• Exxon and BP called to testify on climate after ‘troubling’ new documents

• The Liberation of Paris from Cars Is Working