2021-09-27

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• Science needs fixing, not just funding

Horseshit

• This is going to keep happening, isn't it? - by Lyle McKeany - Just Enough to Get Me in Trouble

  Sometimes it feels as if logging off to go on a walk or to run an errand or whatever can potentially cost me thousands of dollars. Several weeks ago, I somehow missed the launch of an NFT project called Loot and some of my friends are selling theirs for tens of thousands of dollars. One friend even paid off their mortgage with the proceeds from it

• She Bought Her Dream Home. Then a ‘Sovereign Citizen’ Changed the Locks

• The Experts Somehow Overlooked Authoritarians on the Left

• Sometimes mindlessness is better than mindfulness

• The great sperm heist: ‘They were playing with people’s lives’

celebrity gossip

• Biden-boosting influencer ‘Brooklyn Dad’ slammed for taking PAC money

• Liz Cheney Says She Was 'Wrong' In Opposing Same-Sex Marriage

• French President Emmanuel Macron hit by egg thrown from crowd in Lyon

• John Hinckley, Who Shot President Reagan, to Be Granted Unconditional Release

Culture War / Re segregation / Identdoctrination

• Counterweight and the Movement Against “Wokeness”

• Why Lockdown, Distance Learning Likely to Increase Social Class Achievement Gap

• Upstate University Hospital to shutter ORs, blaming NY vaccine mandate

  • New York Area hospitals face tough decisions as vaccine mandate deadline approaches

  • NY won't extend unemployment to workers fired over Covid-19 vaccine mandates

• Ohio State Police "Aware And Monitoring" Possible Truck Protest Against Vaccine Mandate | ZeroHedge

• Covid-19 patients take hospitals to court to demand ivermectin

• How conspiracy theories "infiltrated" the wellness community - CBS News

  And I thought, 'Wait, these are people who I know and who I respect. Why are they sharing this misinformation?'" Barkataki recalled.

• Fallout begins for far-right trolls who trusted Epik to keep identities secret

  After Alayon’s name appeared in the breached data, his brokerage, Travers Miran Realty, dropped him as an agent, as first reported by the real estate news site Inman. The brokerage’s owner, Rick Rapp, told The Washington Post that he didn’t “want to be involved with anyone with thoughts or motives like that.”

  The Post publicizes material obtained through hacking with caution, only after verifying its authenticity and ascertaining that there is news value in bringing such information to light.

• UK Labour Leader Says It's 'Wrong' To Say That Only Women Have A Cervix

• Hate Hoax: Black employee arrested over racist graffiti on Emory University building

• Doctors Are Being Forced Off Clubhouse by Anti-Vax Harassment

• A new formula may help Black patients’ access to kidney care

• Red Covid: Covid’s partisan pattern is growing more extreme

Media / Many Ministries of Truths / Censorship

• Pausing “Instagram Kids” and Building Parental Supervision Tools

• Facebook Is a Hostile Foreign Power

• Hosts Of The View Say Their COVID Tests Were False Positives

• "Question Memes" Something Weird Is Happening on Facebook – Political Orphans

TechSuck

• Facebook will open up the Oculus Go to tinkerers with an unlocked OS

• Tesla NDA warns ‘Self-Driving’ Beta Testers ‘People Want Tesla to Fail’

• Chipmakers to carmakers: Get out of the Stone Age.

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  Carmakers to chipmakers: Your old chips actually fucking worked. Well, not worked as such, but failed in documented ways. It takes years to validate a new design, and not taking the time to do that validation could get people killed.

• “Intel Software Defined Silicon” Coming to Activate Extra Licensed HW Features

Economicon

• Robinhood CEO Unwittingly Inspired $1M Meme Stock Fraud

• Someone using Ethereum paid a $23.6M transaction fee

• Premarket stocks: How bad are supply chains? Costco is renting ships

• Europe's energy crisis is coming for the rest of the world, too

• Why America has a school bus driver shortage

  • Short version: the pay sucks and the schedule sucks worse.

• Scam ‘epidemic’: Big tech firms must join fight, says Nationwide chief

Poilitcks

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  [Clinton] lost because she was a woman and because she rightly declared a large chunk of America is deplorable at the same time as Trump was speaking so effectively both to those deplorables and to many who felt left behind in our current America.

• Trump’s Plans for a Coup Are Now Public

• GOP rep. calls for 2020 election redo after audit disproves conspiracy theories

• Biden to receive Covid booster shot live on camera Monday

• Biden's schedule is open this week. Here's why that's intentional.

Crime / Police

• Student-turned-'shaman', 30, is arrested on suspicion of starting California wildfire | Daily Mail Online

• Abolish the FBI: You heard it here first.

• Covert Postal Service unit probed Jan. 6 social media

  Few Americans are aware that the same organization that delivers their mail also runs a robust surveillance operation rooted in an agency that dates back to the 18th century. And iCOP’s involvement raises questions about how broad the mandate of the Postal Service’s policing arm has grown from its stated mission of keeping mail deliverers safe.

• Murders Spiked in 2020 in Cities Across the United States

Security / Militaria

• "They Were Seeing Blood": Bombshell Report Details CIA's 'Kidnap Or Kill' Plans Against WikiLeaks' Assange | ZeroHedge

• Watch: Australian C-17 Globemaster Conducts Insane Maneuver Between Skyscrapers | ZeroHedge

World

• 1 dead, buildings damaged as 5.8 magnitude quake hits Crete, Greece

• 5.7-magnitude quake shakes Philippines' main island: USGS

• Germany votes: Big gains for center-left parties, heavy losses for conservatives

  • SOCIAL DEMOCRATS BEAT MERKEL’S PARTY IN TIGHT GERMAN ELECTION

• Berliners vote to expropriate large landlords in non-binding referendum

• China’s Power Cuts Widen Amid Shortages and Climate Push

  • China power crunch spreads, shutting factories and dimming growth outlook

• Pumps run dry at gas stations in Britain

  • Fuel supply: UK suspends competition law to get petrol to forecourts

• India bans all form of Recurring Card Charges

  • Recurring card payments to be affected in India from October 1

• Watch: Israelis Rise-Up Against Vaxx Passports After Being Told More Shots Needed To Be Considered "Fully Vaccinated"

Health / Medicine / COVID

• For Covid-19, Age Matters as Much as Vaccination Status

• Do Monoclonal Antibodies Help Covid Patients?

• "Damn You To Hell, You Will Not Destroy America" - Here Is The 'Spartacus COVID Letter' That's Gone Viral | ZeroHedge

• The story of "probably the worst drug approval decision in recent US history"

• Does low cholesterol cause cognitive impairment? Part II

Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda

• Even with Climate Change, the World Isn’t Doomed

• Children will face increases in extreme climate events in their lifetimes

• Scotland’s Oil Industry Is Fading as Wind Energy Beckons

• Race to the bottom: the disastrous blindfolded rush to mine the deep sea

• Excellent: An Illustrated Guide to Plastic Straws - by Handwaving Freakoutery - Handwaving Freakoutery

  Globally: One and only one solution exists to curbing the deluge of oceanic plastics. The international community has to get the Philippines and similar countries enough money to have proper garbage collection. Locally: You must reduce the amount of plastic shipped overseas by putting it in the regular garbage instead of the recycle bin. There is no other reasonable option, mathematically speaking, given the realities on the ground. And banning straws is just plain stupid.

• ‘Humanity is doomed,’ say 56% of youth.

• Climate Policy Meets Cold Reality in Europe