2021-10-12

Cool

• The M5Stack Color Maker Can Mix Paint To Match Your Subject

• 2021 Fall Foliage Predication Map

Worthy

• A Self-Fulfilling Prophecy: Systemic Collapse and Pandemic Simulation - The Philosophical Salon

  The mainstream narrative should therefore be reversed: the stock market did not collapse (in March 2020) because lockdowns had to be imposed; rather, lockdowns had to be imposed because financial markets were collapsing. With lockdowns came the suspension of business transactions, which drained the demand for credit and stopped the contagion. In other words, restructuring the financial architecture through extraordinary monetary policy was contingent on the economy’s engine being turned off. Had the enormous mass of liquidity pumped into the financial sector reached transactions on the ground, a monetary tsunami with catastrophic consequences would have been unleashed.

• Straps on for this one Life Through Quantum Annealing – Vessel Project

• The Death and Birth of Technological Revolutions – Stratechery by Ben Thompson

• We are headed for a geopolitical Minsky Moment – Mark E. Jeftovic is The Bombthrower

  Varying US states ruling against vaccine and mask mandates, people are setting up job boards for those who aren’t vaxxed (or those who are but don’t want to work for companies that require it). The transportation system is grinding to a halt as air traffic controllers, air crew and pilots are calling in sick, resulting in mass flight cancelations, who knows where it will spread next. Why? The MSM is trying hard not to find out, but guys like Ron Paul suspect vaccine mandates.

  Right now we’re in civil disobedience, nullification and secessionist territory, but when I think about escalation: as the financial crisis that seemed imminent before COVID seems to be edging back into the frame (inflation, energy costs, supply chain constraints, cascading debt collapses: Evergrande and now the entire Chinese bond market) governments who seized on the COVID opportunity to introduce emergency measures may see a need for doubling down.

  After chasing the goalposts for almost two years now, I’m not sure the rabble is going to take it much longer. And if it doesn’t, what would that mean?

• From 1978. Classic. How to Drive Fast on Drugs While Getting Your Wing-Wang Squeezed and Not Spill Your Drink

  Overall, though, it’s the bigness of the car that counts the most. Because when something bad happens in a really big car – accidentally speeding through the middle of a gang of unruly young people who have been taunting you in a drive-in restaurant, for instance – it happens very far away – way out at the end of your fenders. It’s like a civil war in Africa; you know, it doesn’t really concern you too much. On the other hand, when something happens in a little bitty car it happens right in your face. You get all involved in it and have to give everything a lot of thought. Driving around in a little bitty car is like being one of those sensitive girls who writes poetry. Life is just too much to bear.

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• Alpaca and llama therapy for care home residents in Germany – in pictures

• World’s deadliest bird was raised by people 18,000 years ago

• ‘Everything went wrong’ – the Great Chicago Fire at 150

• Can the legacy of trauma be passed down the generations?

• WSJ, wtf? Cooking Pro Pizza at Home: The Best Gear, Recipes and Tricks

Horseshit

• Islamic Republic of Iran TV: Women can’t be shown eating pizza

• Bomb scare that led to emergency landing was just passenger adjusting camera

  • Airline Passenger Mistakes Vintage Camera for a Bomb - Schneier on Security

• Best Buy’s new $200/yr membership locks PS5, hot holiday items behind membership

celebrity gossip

• Peter Norvig Leaves Google to Join Stanford HAI

COVID / VaxCult

• Satire (today it is...) Southwest Airlines Offering Free Flights To All Passengers Who Are Vaccinated And Can Fly A Plane | The Babylon Bee

  DALLAS, TX—A spokesperson for Southwest Airlines has announced delays in flights due to strange weather that seems to pass over competitors’ planes, only affecting their own signature blue and orange aircraft. The airline has stated these delays have no connection to their pilots protesting vaccine mandates.

  The spokesperson then announced a new Southwest Airlines incentive program for potential passengers: All flights, domestic or international, are free to any passenger who is vaccinated and can also fly a plane.

• FDA weighing emergency approval for 1st pill to treat COVID-19.

• To prevent the next pandemic, we must find the source of Covid-19

• A Paper Linking Covid-19 Vaccines to High Risk of Myocarditis Has Been Withdrawn

• How are Covid-19 vaccines faring over time? What we know about waning immunity

• Partisan Science in America

• Nobel Prize: We will not have gender or ethnicity quotas – top scientist

• Covid response ‘one of UK’s worst ever public health failures’

• Preventing the Next Pandemic

• Tech millionaire went from Covid trial funder to misinformation superspreader

  What has alarmed many of the scientists associated with CETF, though, are Kirsch’s reactions to the work he’s funded—both successes and failures. He’s refused to accept the results of a hydroxychloroquine trial that showed the drug had no value in treating covid, for instance, instead blaming investigators for poor study design and statistical errors.

• Malone: Physicians Are Being 'Hunted' For Criticizing Vaccines

  Dr Robert Malone, the inventor of mRNA vaccines, says he was branded a “terrorist” by the media in Italy and warns that physicians who speak out are being “hunted via medical boards and the press.” “I am going to speak bluntly,” tweeted Malone. “Physicians who speak out are being actively hunted via medical boards and the press. They are trying to delegitimize and pick us off one by one. This is not a conspiracy theory – this is a fact. Please wake up. This is happening globally.”

• Covid and Age - The New York Times

  An unvaccinated child is at less risk of serious Covid illness than a vaccinated 70-year-old.

• Impact of circulating SARS-CoV-2 variants on mRNA vaccine-induced immunity

• Coronavirus: Lessons Learned to Date

• And Just Like That, Washington State's Fire Marshal Will Lose Job Over Forced Covid Shot – PJ Media

• Masks Are Changing How Kids Interact

• 'Waive the Patents': Moderna Still Refuses to Share Covid-19 Vaccine Recipe | naked capitalism

• Who Slowed Merck’s Covid Remedy?

• Does the Brownstone Institute produce reasoned arguments or propaganda? We report, you decide. - Angry Bear

• Covid lesson: trust the public with hard truths

• How Amish Communities Became The First To Achieve "Herd Immunity" From Covid-19 Without Higher Death Rate, Shutdown, Or Vaccines | Video | RealClearPolitics

• (PDF) Intel accepts antibodies as a full substitute for vaccination

• The Mysterious Case of the Covid-19 Lab-Leak Theory

• Israeli Data Favor Higher Estimates of Post-Vax Myocarditis — Results echo the controversial VAERS study from September.

• Iceland joins Nordic countries in pausing Moderna vaccine over heart fears.

Culture War / Re segregation / Identdoctrination

• California mandates gender-neutral toy aisles for large retailers

Edumacationalizing

• Wyoming teenager arrested for refusing to wear a face mask - Mag Grand

• No, Elizabethtown College, your racially segregated event is not okay.

• Thousands register for geophysicist’s lecture after MIT caved to ‘Twitter mob’

• Loudoun County Schools Tried To Conceal Sexual Assault Against Daughter In Bathroom, Father Says; Father in viral video arrested for resisting arrest says his daughter was raped in school bathroom.

• New York City to end kids gifted and talented program critics call racist

Media / Many Ministries of Truths / Censorship

• Another one bites the dust! Christina Pushaw so badly NUKES NPR journo who came after HER for her Southwest Airlines tweet he blocks and RUUUNS – twitchy.com

Facebook

• Facebook whistleblower to brief Facebook Oversight Board

• As Facebook Crumbles, the Case for Breaking It Up Is Weaker Than Ever

• The planet survived six hours without Facebook. Let's make it longer next time

• Facebook whistleblower behind major leak is going to testify in Europe

• Alison Parker’s On-Air Murder Was in 2015 and Facebook Won’t Remove the Video

• Facebook Whistleblower Haugen’s Patent Filings Might Raise Eyebrows

  a patent application from 2018 titled, “Using Metadata to Summarize Social Media Content” also seems apropos to the discussion. How to interpret these insights will ultimately depend on your opinions of Frances Haugen and Facebook. Is Haugen a hypocrite that knew exactly how to fix Facebook’s problems and did little to sway the company during her tenure? Or is she a frustrated subject matter expert trying to effect change for the greater good of society?

• Facebook’s Blacklist of “Dangerous Individuals and Organizations”

TechSuck

• Schools email marketing firm fixes database login leak • The Register

• L3AF-Walmart’s Production-Grade Project to Support eBPF

• Why does the internet keep breaking?

• 'The Billion Dollar Code': The Battle over Google Earth

• Pandemic-related supply issues send US PC market into decline

• Adobe Uses DMCA to Nuke Project That Keeps Flash Alive, Secure and Adware Free

Economicon

• Charts show how much the world depends on Taiwan for semiconductors

• Record share of small businesses in U.S. report job vacancies

• Americans quit their jobs at a record pace in August

  • A record number of workers are quitting their jobs, empowered by new leverage

  • Record 4.3M workers quit their jobs in August, led by food and retail industries

• The Home Depot Teams Up with Walmart to Expand Same-Day and Next-Day Delivery

• JD Power: New Car Tech Goes Unused, People Don't Intend To Use It

  for more than one in three advanced technologies, fewer than half of owners have used the technology in the first 90 days of ownership. Non-users most often say they don’t need these technologies. For example, 61% of owners say they have never used the in-vehicle digital market technology, and 51% of those saying they have no need for it. Owners feel similarly about the driver/passenger communication technology, with 52% saying they have never used the technology, and 40% of those saying they have no need for it.

• The Supply Chain Crisis: How We Got Here | naked capitalism

• Supply Chain Disruption Update for October 11, 2021 « Lawrence Person's BattleSwarm Blog

• Is this peak gas?

• IMF slashes US growth forecast and warns of rising risks to the global economy

• An Empire of Dying Wells

• America’s bare shelves: Walmart and Costco limit toilet paper sales while toy companies warn parents their kids’ Christmas gifts won’t arrive in time thanks to backlog at ports, rail yards and on the roads

• As drought worsens, California farmers are being paid not to grow crops

• Top 1 percent of US earners now hold more wealth than all of the middle class

• Why some young workers are leaving their office jobs to work on farms

• Hedge Funds Have Never Been This Bullish on Archer Daniels Midland Company (ADM)

Poilitcks

• TX Gov Abbott Issues Executive Order Prohibiting Vaccine Mandates by Any Entity

• Biden 2020 win ‘tainted,’ 56% say it was a cheater’s paradise | Washington Examiner

• The 2020 Election Wasn't Stolen, It Was Bought By Mark Zuckerberg

• Biden's Proposal to Empower IRS Rattles Banks and Their Customers

Law / Crime / Police

• The COVID Hotel Scheme That Took New York City for $400,000

• SEC looks for absence of numeral 4 in earnings reports to detect law violations

• Inside The Courtroom with Theranos’s Elizabeth Holmes

• Bannon’s subpoena snub sets up big decision for Biden DOJ

• Bannon’s subpoena snub sets up big decision for Biden DOJ

• A Guantanamo Detainee’s Case Has Been Languishing Without Action Since 2008. The Supreme Court Wants to Know Why.

Security / Militaria

• The Twenty Year Shadow of 9/11 (Part 2): Why Did Key U.S. Officials Protect the Alleged 9/11 Plotters? - CovertAction Magazine

• Bellingcat funded by US and UK intelligence contractors that aided extremists in Syria

World

• China Is Now the Last Major Country Still Pursuing a 'Zero Covid'

• Lebanon’s electricity was down for a day, but the crisis was years in the making

• Russian elections once again had a suspiciously neat result

  • None of the methods of determining "suspicious" apply to US elections, of course.

• 'Polexit': Is Poland About to Quit the European Union?

• France to ban plastic packaging for most fruit and vegetables from January 2022

• Italy police block Forza Nuova website amid calls to ban neo-fascist group

Health / Medicine

• US task force proposes adults 60 and older should not take daily aspirin

• Scientists develop new drug that can regenerate lost TEETH

• Synthetic chemical in consumer products linked to early death, study finds

  • Synthetic 'everywhere chemicals' linked to premature death in US

Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda

• In Global Energy Crisis, Anti-Nuclear Chickens Come Home to Roost

• Climate-crisis blind spot found from analysis of 100k studies

• They Are Coming for the Environmentalists

• Plant-based meat deceleration signals niche future

• Peak oil and the low-carbon energy transition: A net-energy perspective

• NOAA Upgrades Climate Website Amid Growing Demand for Climate Information

• Whatever Happened to the Population Bomb?

• The Data Behind the EPA's New Restrictions on HFCs

• Limited options for low-global-warming-potential refrigerants