2021-09-24

Worthy

• Collections: No Man’s Land, Part II: Breaking the Stalemate – A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry

• Whither Tartaria? - by Scott Alexander - Astral Codex Ten

etc

• Cavers Reached the Bottom of an Ancient 'Well of Hell' for the First Time

• 750k in cash found scattered throughout the rubble of Surfside condo collapse

• A reminder that electric cars need to solve their neutral problem

Horseshit

• A teenager on TikTok disrupted thousands of scientific studies with a single video - The Verge

  Prolific, a tool for scientists conducting behavioral research, had no screening tools in place to make sure that it delivered representative population samples to each study. Suddenly, scientists used to getting a wide mix of subjects for their Prolific studies saw their surveys flooded with responses from young women around Frank’s age.

celebrity gossip

• 'The View' Sent Into Chaos After Two Hosts Test Positive For COVID Mid-Show; Kamala Interview Upended | ZeroHedge

  • 'View' Hosts Spread COVID While Complaining About Unvaccinated

• John Stossel Sues Facebook for Allegedly Defaming Him with Fact-Check

• William Shatner’s Going to Space on Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin Rocket Ship

Culture War / Re segregation / Identdoctrination

• ACLU Celebrates Ginsburg’s Legacy by Editing Out Her Actual Words as Offensive

• North Carolina Hospital System Suspends Hundreds Of Employees After COVID-19 Vaccine Mandate | ZeroHedge

• By The Left's Standards, The Pro-Fat Movement Is Institutional Racism

  “[Seventy-eight percent] of hospitalizations due to COVID are Obese and Overweight people,” Neman wrote in an Aug. 31 deleted LinkedIn post citing March data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). “Is there an underlying problem that perhaps we have not given enough attention to? Is there another way to think about how we tackle ‘healthcare’ by addressing the root cause?”

• Scientific American: “Star Wars”, “Jedi” Are Problematic

Media / Many Ministries of Truths / Censorship

• A note on recent content takedowns

  demands by Elsevier and ACS resulted in the removal of around 200,000 public files.

• Philly News Anchor Overcomes Tech Legal Shield in Appellate Twist – The Hollywood Reporter

TechSuck

• “Completely Running Blind.” Apple’s Power Move To Kneecap Facebook Advertising Is Working. - by Alex Kantrowitz - Big Technology

• Tech billionaire: Facebook is what's wrong with America

• Do not leave XPS laptop in any sleep/hibernate/standby mode when placed in a bag | Hacker News

• Unlocked OS Build for the Oculus Go

Economicon

• America is substantially reducing poverty among children

• An all-time high of 56 cargo ships are stuck waiting off the California coast

• The cannabis industry has become a refuge for retail and restaurant workers

• This Has To Be A Mistake | ZeroHedge

  While we were digging through the data for today's household net worth report we stumbled upon something that seem beyond ridiculous: the ratio of Household Net Worth to Disposable Net Income. At 786% in the latest quarter, the chart at first appears to be a mistake but we triple checked it, and... well, here it is.

• Uber to pay pensions to all its UK drivers, backdated to 2017

• Bitcoin plummets after China intensifies cryptocurrency crackdown

• ShortageWatch: "Sorry. No French Fries with any order. We have no potatoes." - by Matt Stoller - BIG by Matt Stoller

• Before They Were An Inconvenience, But Now The Shortages Are Really Beginning To Sting | ZeroHedge

Poilitcks

• House Committee Will Vote on Federal Marijuana Legalization Bill Next Week

• GOP-led Arizona election review closely matches Biden's winning margin - POLITICO

  • Ignore the MSM: Here’s What the 2020 Maricopa County Election Audit Actually Says – PJ Media

• Too good a headline to pass up: Indictments Prove Biden Regime Involved in Underage Sex Trafficking

• AOC Cries On House Floor After Bill To Fund Israel's Iron Dome Passes In "Blowout" | ZeroHedge

• Pelosi Vows To Avert Shutdown As Dems Reportedly Cave To "Republican Blockade" | ZeroHedge

  “Whatever it is, we will have a CR that passes both houses by September 30," Pelosi said at a press briefing Thursday, referring to the continuing resolution that will be needed to fund the federal government at the start of the new fiscal year on Oct. 1.

• Psaki Announces Border Patrol Agents Will No Longer Use Horses in Response to False 'Whip' Narrative | National Review

  • Border Patrol Loses Horse Privileges, Must Now Bang Two Empty Halves Of Coconuts Together | The Babylon Bee

  DEL RIO, TX—After horrific images surfaced showing horseback Border Patrol agents patrolling the border while on horseback, President Biden’s Secretary of Horses has temporarily revoked their privilege of doing their job while riding horses.

• Many Believe It's Time to Do Away with Lawmakers Making Stock Trades

Crime / Police

• Tether is under undisclosed SEC investigation, FOIA blocked

• L.A. County sheriff’s unit accused of targeting political enemies, vocal critics

• Fawn Fire Arsonist Charges Filed

Security / Militaria

• DARPA Denies Funding Wuhan Institute of Virology Amid Alleged Document Leak

World

• WATCH: Elections Canada publishes results before polls close — The Counter Signal

  “Those Liberal numbers are up one. But again, those are early results that we actually shouldn’t have at this stage,”

• China vows ‘clamp down’ on cryptocurrency trading, bans crypto mining

  + [China's central bank declares all cryptocurrency transactions
  illegal](https://www.france24.com/en/asia-pacific/20210924-china-s-central-bank-declares-all-cryptocurrency-transactions-illegal)
  

  • China cracks down on cryptocurrency, banning all transactions

• Don't panic buy, Britain tells consumers as BP shuts gas stations

  • Empty shelves, gasoline shortages? Britain is facing a ‘difficult winter’

Health / Medicine / COVID

• Covid-19 in Wales: A third of positive cases are unvaccinated

• New Leaked Documents Point to Engineered Lab Origin for SARS‑CoV‑2

  Since the genetic code of the coronavirus that caused the pandemic was first sequenced, scientists have puzzled over the “furin cleavage site.” This strange feature on the spike protein of the virus had never been seen in SARS-related betacoronaviruses, the class to which SARS-CoV-2, the coronavirus that causes the respiratory illness Covid-19, belongs.

• Heart inflammation, COVID-19 and the rare side effects of the vaccine

• ‘Highly probable’ Covid-19 was in US in September 2019: Chinese paper

Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda

• Almost a third of the world’s trees are threatened with extinction

• Alternative materials could shrink concrete’s giant carbon footprint

• Volvo to stop using leather in new cars by 2030

• California makes zero-emission autonomous vehicles mandatory by 2030