2021-10-08

Worthy

• The Cult of the Vaccine - by Matt Taibbi - TK News by Matt Taibbi

• Things I’ve learned in my 20 years as a software engineer

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• The Nobel Peace Prize Goes to Journalists in the Philippines and Russia

• Diet soda may prompt food cravings, especially in women and people with obesity

• “‘If you’ve never had an orgasm pre-surgery, and then your puberty’s blocked, it’s very difficult to achieve that afterwards… I consider that a big problem, actually.'”

• Why Covid vaccines didn’t win a science Nobel this year

• Seal-mounted camera recovered after 3 years on ocean floor yields hours of video

Horseshit

• Doctors Are Injecting Bleach to Treat Covid in Bolivia

• The Postal Service is slowing the mail to save money

• The world's five safest cities post-pandemic

celebrity gossip

• Trump DC hotel incurred more than $70M in losses while Trump was POTUS

• Narcan Inventor Uses Narcan to Treat Man Suffering Opioid Overdose on LA Street

Culture War / Re segregation / Identdoctrination

• Tennessee doctors who spread COVID-19 vaccine misinformation could lose their licenses.

• Critics Call Dave Chappelle’s Netflix Special ‘Closer’ Bigoted, Transphobic.

• Citing liberty, Idaho Lt. Gov. McGeachin bans vaccine mandates in power grab

• Unvaccinated Anesthesiologist Escorted from UCLA Medical Facility

• No, your antibodies are not better than vaccination

• Kaiser Permanente suspends 2,200 employees who didn't get Covid vaccine

• The Covid Fable: When we treat Covid as a simple morality play

Edumacationalizing

• BREAKING: Mark Levin Shares Evidence of Biden Administration Colluding to Silence America's Parents – PJ Media

• School boards persecute dissident parents

• DC COVID Policies Leave Hundreds of Students Without Clean Drinking Water

  • Water and COVID-19 FAQs | CDC

  The virus that causes COVID-19 has not been detected in drinking water. Conventional water treatment methods that use filtration and disinfection, such as those in most municipal drinking water systems, should remove or inactivate the virus that causes COVID-19.

Media / Many Ministries of Truths / Censorship

• Ruqqus, an open source Reddit clone, is shutting down their main instance

• AT&T helped build far-right One America News

Facebook

• The long list of Facebook insiders that turned into critics

• We’re Smarter About Facebook Now

• Facebook bans developer behind Unfollow Everything tool

• What Realistically Happens Next to Facebook

• Haugen isn’t really a ‘Facebook whistleblower’

• Alex Schroeder: 2021-10-08 Talking about Cancer on Facebook

• Facebook's data is not as conclusive as you think about teens and mental health

• Facebook apologises as services including Instagram hit again

TechSuck

• Elon Musk: US Nationwide Starlink Rollout Is Coming This Month.

• AWS Service Terms Mentions a Zombie Apocalypse in 42.10

  42.10. Acceptable Use; Safety-Critical Systems. Your use of the Lumberyard Materials must comply with the AWS Acceptable Use Policy. The Lumberyard Materials are not intended for use with life-critical or safety-critical systems, such as use in operation of medical equipment, automated transportation systems, autonomous vehicles, aircraft or air traffic control, nuclear facilities, manned spacecraft, or military use in connection with live combat. However, this restriction will not apply in the event of the occurrence (certified by the United States Centers for Disease Control or successor body) of a widespread viral infection transmitted via bites or contact with bodily fluids that causes human corpses to reanimate and seek to consume living human flesh, blood, brain or nerve tissue and is likely to result in the fall of organized civilization.

• How the .NET Foundation kerfuffle became a brouhaha

  • "Mistakes were made" .NET Foundation: My Take

Economicon

• Anyone Seen Tether’s Billions?

  After I returned to the U.S., I obtained a document showing a detailed account of Tether Holdings’ reserves. It said they include billions of dollars of short-term loans to large Chinese companies—something money-market funds avoid. And that was before one of the country’s largest property developers, China Evergrande Group, started to collapse. I also learned that Tether had lent billions of dollars more to other crypto companies, with Bitcoin as collateral

• Workers, vacations, household items are all in pandemic-fueled shortages - Axios

  One Axios editor’s recent efforts to find a decent Airbnb within a few hours’ drive of Washington, D.C. yielded only a $3,000 per night mansion or a nicer-than-average tent that may or may not have had access to a bathroom.

• Tesla to Move Headquarters from California to Texas, Elon Musk Says

• SpaceX hits $100B valuation after secondary share sale

• Global Deal to End Tax Havens Moves Ahead as Nations Back 15% Rate

  • 136 Countries agree to minimum corporate tax rate

• Crews Are Abandoned on Ships in Record Numbers Without Pay, Food or a Way Home Archive link

  Trade disruptions caused by the pandemic and the nature of the competitive, lightly regulated global shipping industry has helped drive the increase in the number of stranded sailors. Industry consolidation has yielded a half dozen shipping firms that ferry a majority of the world’s containers, reaping record profits from ocean freight’s best-ever quarter in the final three months of 2020, according to New York-based investment manager, Blue Alpha Capital.

Poilitcks

• Joe Biden’s Vaccine Mandate Doesn’t Exist. It’s Just a Press Release

• The US has never defaulted on its debt – except the four times it did

• Biden Doesn't Know That Vaccinated Individuals Can Still Spread COVID

• The Debt Fight Shows the U.S. Is Politically Bankrupt

Law / Crime / Police

• Rolling Gun Battles Now All the New Rage in Chicago

• Prosecutors reject charges against 5 suspects in deadly gang-related gunfight in Austin: ‘It’s just like the Wild West’

• A thread about a smash and grab I witnessed today at Brannan and Embarcadero

Security / Militaria

• American Forces Have Been Quietly Deployed To Taiwan With Increasing Regularity: Report

• Army paratroopers traded dip for a Toyota gun truck used to secure Kabul airport

• US submarine hits underwater object in South China Sea

  • One Of The Navy's Prized Seawolf Class Submarines Has Suffered An Underwater Collision (Updated) USS Connecticut 's nuclear reactor was unaffected by the undersea accident, but the Navy won't say what exactly the submarine hit.

• After 20 years of drone strikes, it’s time to admit they’ve failed

World

• Afghanistan: Taliban Desecrate Sikh Temple in Kabul, Arrest Worshipers.

• At Least 50 Killed As ISIS Carries Out Second Major Afghan Mosque Attack This Week

• 100-year-old former Nazi guard has gone on trial, facing charges for 3518 deaths

• Fuel shortage: petrol station deliveries barely fell, panic-buying caused crisis

• Exploring Russian Election Anomalies

• Fury in Brussels after Warsaw court rules Polish Constitution overrides EU law

• Sinophobia and Covid-19 Vaccines in Vietnam

• Trudeau Bans the Unvaccinated from Leaving the Country and from Earning a Living

Health / Medicine / COVID

• "Proceed With Caution At Your Own Peril" - Merck's COVID 'Super Drug' Poses Serious Health Risks, Scientists Warn | ZeroHedge

• Covid vaccine immunity is waning – how much does that matter?

  • Pfizer vaccine immunity diminishes, can reach as low as 20% after 4 months

  • Pfizer's Covid-19 immunity protection diminishes after 2 months

  • Covid vaccines cut the risk of transmitting Delta – but not for long

• Could the global Covid death toll be millions higher than thought?

• Why easing Covid restrictions could prompt a fierce flu rebound

• Finland joins Sweden and Denmark in limiting Moderna Covid-19 vaccine

• Why are we vaccinating children against Covid-19?

Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda

• A global energy crisis is coming. There’s no quick fix.

• Ohio plans to stop using controversial road deicer AquaSalina

• Dwindling Alaska salmon leave Yukon River tribes in crisis

• A mega-drought is hammering the US In North Dakota its worse than the Dust Bowl

• Study: Daily meat consumption in the UK has fallen by 17% in the last decade

• Bushmeat could help us meet the world’s climate goals

• Climate change is making Texas hotter, threatening health and infrastructure