2021-10-09

Worthy

• Sabine Hossenfelder: Backreaction: How I learned to love pseudoscience

  And if you remember, Karl Popper came up with his demarcation criterion of falsification because he wanted to show that Marxism and Freud’s psychoanalysis wasn’t proper science. Now, of course we know today that falsification is not the best way to go about it, but Popper’s work was arguably instrumental to the entire discipline of the philosophy of science. Again that came out of the desire to fight pseudoscience.

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• Zebras escape from Illinois pumpkin farm, snarling traffic

• Pandora Papers: is the world’s biggest leak the world’s biggest cover-up? - Michael West Media

Horseshit

• Remystifying Supply Chains - by Venkatesh Rao - Ribbonfarm Studio

• Iraq's bloodiest battle will be a video game

celebrity gossip

• ‘Fuck Twitter’: Dave Chappelle Addresses Backlash to “Transphobic” Jokes

• Key witness in Assange case jailed after admitting to lies and crime spree

Culture War / Re segregation / Identdoctrination

• Moderna, Racing for Profits, Keeps Covid Vaccine Out of Reach of Poor

• Servers are masked, the elites are unmasked

• The roots of digital racism date back to 19th-century railroads

Edumacationalizing

• Student journalist fired from newspaper after column criticizing mask mandates.

Media / Many Ministries of Truths / Censorship

• Wikipedia:Deprecated sources - Wikipedia

• Google Banning Ads With "Inaccurate" Content On Climate Change

  • Google, YouTube to Prohibit Monetization of Videos Featuring ‘Climate Denial’ Content.

  • There will soon be no more ads denying climate change on Google

• New York Times issues massive correction after overstating COVID hospitalizations among children

  The article also misstated the number of Covid hospitalizations in U.S. children. It is more than 63,000 from August 2020 to October 2021, not 900,000 since the beginning of the pandemic.

  • NYT Rectracts Number of Children Hospitalized by Covid-19 (From 900K to 63K)

• Student athlete's video discussing vaccine-induced myocarditis removed by TikTok

• Ozy Media - The Ship Has Sunk so Deep - by Mahmoud - Bolded

Facebook

• Philippine 2021 Nobel winner Ressa calls Facebook “biased against facts”

• Could Facebook sue whistleblower Frances Haugen?

• The Moral Bankruptcy of Facebook

• For Teen Girls, Instagram Is a Cesspool

TechSuck

• The Uncertain Future of Ham Radio

• Apple files appeal in Epic Games case, delaying App Store changes for years

• Beware nasty ads but has a PDF Understanding Modern Digital Modulation Techniques

• Microsoft has promised to actively look into right to repair

Economicon

• Why U.S. decline does not mean the end of globalization

• Tesla’s Texas Move Is Latest Sign of California Losing Tech Grip

• Your Money and Your Life - by Edward Snowden

• The New US Jobs Numbers Are Pretty Good

• How to Move More Goods Through America’s Clogged Infrastructure? Robot Trains

• America’s unemployed are sending a message: Safety and compensation matter

Poilitcks

• Where Is Biden's Vaccine Mandate?

• White House orders release of Trump records to Jan. 6 committee

• McConnell vows GOP won’t help raise debt ceiling in December after Schumer ‘tantrum.’

Law / Crime / Police

• Whistleblower: Capitol Police Leaders Acted ‘With Intent and Malice’ on Jan. 6

• Texas School Shooting Suspect Freed On Bail

Security / Militaria

• Underground railroad working to free at-risk Afghans struggles to succeed

• Is the United States Training Taiwanese Troops?

• ‘Starting a Fire’: U.S. and China Enter Dangerous Territory over Taiwan

• Havana syndrome: Berlin police probe cases at US embassy

  • Havana Syndrome: US investigators increasingly confident it's directed-energy

  • Havana Syndrome: Berlin police probe new cases at US embassy in Germany

• The CIA's Bird-Shaped Aquiline Drones Could Still Be Caged Up at Area 51

World

• Dangers in the Darién: Deaths and needs rise on Central American migration route

• A decaying oil tanker is stranded in Yemen. When it explodes, thousands may die

• Eight million Britons unable to buy essential food items in last fortnight

• China-Taiwan tensions: Xi Jinping says 'reunification' must be fulfilled - BBC News

  • China's Xi vows 'reunification' with Taiwan

• Entirety Of Lebanon Goes Dark, Mass Power Outage To Last Several Days

Health / Medicine / COVID

• Iceland Bans Moderna Vaccine Use Due To Heart Inflammation Risk

• Study: Accidental burns among children up by one-third during pandemic.

• Real-world data show that filters clean Covid-causing virus from air

• Snow Leopard Dies of Suspected COVID-19

• Delta does not appear to make children sicker

  Secondary immune response stronger after infection than after shot

• Why are women more prone to long Covid?

• How bad is Covid-19 in kids?

• Covid: What do we know about China's coronavirus vaccines?

  • China administered total of 2.216 bln doses of Covid-19 vaccines as of Oct 6

• Can migraines be untangled by new medical thinking?

Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda

• ‘Eco’ wood stoves emit 750 times more pollution than an HGV, study shows

• Hydrogen’s moment is here at last?

• Antarctica's last 6 months were the coldest on record

• Learning to correct climate projection biases

• How biodiversity loss is jeopardising the drugs of the future

• U.S. Hit with 18B-Dollar Disasters So Far This Year

• The American Bumblebee Has Vanished from Eight States