2021-10-15

Cool

• (PDF) Propaganda. By Edward L Bernays. (1928)

• Wild New Paper Claims Earth May Be Surrounded by a Giant Magnetic Tunnel

Worthy

• Economists to Cattle Ranchers: Stop Being So Emotional About the Monopolies

• Fireside Friday: October 15, 2021 – A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry

  I have issues with these kinds of arguments; indeed, for all of my occasional frustrations with political science literature (much of which is perfectly fine, but it seems a frequent and honestly overall positive dynamic that historians tend to be highly critical of political scientists) I consider ‘cliodynamics’ to generally take the worst parts of data-driven political science methodologies to apotheosis while discarding most of the virtues of data-driven poli-sci work.

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• McDonald's will serve Beyond Meat burgers in select US locations next month

• An underwater mystery on Canada's coast - BBC Travel

• Burnt seeds show people used tobacco 12,000 years ago

• More than 90 rattlesnakes found under California home

  • Further snake related news: Indian man sentenced to life after killing wife with cobra

Horseshit

• How to identify bad science in news articles

• NASA advisor quits after the agency keeps telescope named after James Webb

• New Zealand council ends contract with wizard after 23 years of service

• Oregon company’s iron battery breakthrough could eat lithium’s lunch

• Should a dog’s sniff be enough to convict a person of murder?

• Potential match-fixing has been detected in more than 1,100 sports matches

celebrity gossip

• Alan Turing wasn’t hounded to his death, says nephew

• Michael Flynn to QAnon believers: I’m not a Satanist!

• Former President Clinton hospitalized for infection

Obit

• Russ Kick, 'Rogue Transparency Activist,' Is Dead at 52

COVID / VaxCult

• It’s not just the UK; all-cause deaths are also now running well above normal in Germany (80% adults fully vaccinated) - by Alex Berenson - Unreported Truths

  in the spring of 2021, the expectations of reduced post-Covid mortality seemed to be coming true. Now, though, deaths are once again above normal - EVEN IF ALL COVID DEATHS ARE EXCLUDED. It’s almost as if something that happened this year is pushing up population-wide mortality. Could be anything, right?

• Lockdowns Coincided With Record-Breaking Drug Overdose Fatalities, New CDC Data Show

• Aspirin lowers risk of Covid: New findings support preliminary Israeli trial

• Canada imposes Covid-19 vaccine mandate on federal workers, transportation

• Covid super-immunity: one of the pandemic’s great puzzles

• The irrational COVID regime is driving many Americans to a healthy noncompliance.

• The Unvaccinated May Not Be Who You Think

• Tips from an ex-FBI Hostage Negotiator in how to deal with an anti-vaxxer at your holiday dinner.

• Antiviral compound blocks SARS-CoV-2 from entering cells

• US to lift travel ban on Nov. 8, allowing vaccinated visitors into the country

• The Absolute Risk Reduction of the COVID-19 Vaccines! Part 1

• How my ivermectin research led to Twitter death threats

• Thousands protest as Italy's Covidpass becomes mandatory for workers

• Biohackers: The untold story of how DIY experimenters waged war on Covid-19

• More Than Half a Million Health Care Workers Quit Their Jobs in August

Culture War / Re segregation / Identdoctrination

• Hunting the Satanists

  The two cases illustrate that the worldview of QAnon and Yale’s diversity office are surprisingly similar. Both see a world in which Satan, literal or metaphorical, is an active force in the world corrupting individuals and institutions. Satan is powerful but hidden. He only reveals his influence when the corrupted slip-up and by the incorrect use of a word, phrase, or gesture reveal their true natures. The other similarity, of course, is that both views are disturbingly common and completely bonkers.

• Mayor de Blasio Calls For Removal Of Thomas Jefferson Statue

• (July 2021) It’s Hard to Search for a Therapist of Color. These Websites Want to Change That

• Walmart vs. Whiteness

• The Christians who mock wokeness for a living

• I Found a Creepy List on My Son’s Laptop

Edumacationalizing

• Seattle school cancels Halloween over ‘equity,’ says Black kids don’t celebrate.

• City student passes 3 classes in four years, ranks near top half of class with 0.13 GPA

• Harvard’s Endowment Soars to $53.2B, Reports 33.6% Returns

• Women earned the majority of doctoral degrees in 2020 for the 12th straight year

Media / Many Ministries of Truths / Censorship

• Netflix Loses Its Glow as Critics Target Chappelle Special

• Netflix fires organizer of trans employee walkout

• Netflix to Operate Historic Palisades Bay Movie Theater

• YouTube stronger misinformation stance had spillover effect on Twitter, Facebook

• Twitter is being sued for letting Saudi spies inside the company

• Steam bans all blockchain and NFT games on its platform

Facebook

• Trust-Busting as the Unsexy Answer to Google and Facebook

• Most Canadians believe Facebook harms their mental health

• Facebook Grew Marketplace to 1B Users Now Scammers Are Using It to Target People

• Facebook accused of 'fanning ethnic violence' in Ethiopian civil war

TechSuck

• Cybersecurity Experts Criticize Apple CSAM in New Study

  • Cybersecurity Experts Sound Alarm on Apple and E.U. Phone Scanning Plans

  • Bugs in our pockets? | Light Blue Touchpaper

• Tesla's Car Insurance Monitors 'Real-Time Driving Behavior' in Texas

• A viable solution for Python concurrency

• LibVF.IO: A Commodity GPU Multiplexing Tool Driven By VFIO & YAML.

Economicon

• America Needs Higher, Longer-Lasting Inflation

• The Great Resignation Is Accelerating

• Why is everyone quitting, and how do I know whether it’s time to leave my job?

• Reddit crowd's new tactic in war with Wall Street:cutting brokers out altogether

  However, the trend into direct registration—in some ways, the equivalent of a Gen Xer’s late-teen child finding their Sony DiscMan hidden in a an old briefcase and deciding that this was the pinnacle of music technology—started weeks ago as self-professed ‘Apes’ realized after January that using zero-commission trading apps didn’t mean they were buying stock in a company, but were instead paying a broker to hold their stock via a “street name.”

• Uber Freight boss says 'We're living in shipping Armageddon'

• SEC Set to Allow Bitcoin Futures ETFs as Deadline Looms

• CA Shortages caused by law - Robert Bishop via Facebook

• Higher Rents Burden Tenants, Fuel Inflation and Trouble the Fed

• CFTC Orders Tether and Bitfinex to Pay Fines Totaling $42.5M

  • Tether Fined $41M for Lying About Fiat Currency Backing

• The Great Resignation is causing 'structural changes' to the workforce, BofA

• Almost 20% of U.S. Households Lost Entire Savings During Covid Restrictions

• Second-largest U.S. mortgage lender ditches its plan to accept payments in bitcoin

Poilitcks

• Senators aim to block tech giants from prioritizing own products over rivals’

• Congress vs. “The Algorithm”

• Opening the Port of Los Angeles 24/7 Isn't the Game Changer Biden Claims – RedState

  • Empty Christmas Stockings? Don't Blame COVID, Blame California | ZeroHedge

• The case for minting a $1tn coin to deal with America’s debt ceiling

• Governor Wants to Prosecute Journalist Who Clicked View Source on Gov’t Site

• Joe Biden’s Proposed Ban on Fast, Effective Dishwashers Is a Gift to Big Business – Reason.com

• DHS Tells Court Remain In Mexico Policy Will Be Back In November (If Mexico Agrees)

• Jan. 6 panel moves to hold Steve Bannon in criminal contempt

Law / Crime / Police

• A World Without the Traffic Cop

• Federal Judges or Their Brokers Traded Stocks of Litigants During Cases

• Did they apologize for slapping the wrist, too? Biden Admin Reinstates Andrew McCabe's Full Pension After 2018 Firing For Lying Under Oath | ZeroHedge

• Former Boeing 737 Max Chief Technical Pilot Indicted for Fraud

• Babbitt shooting internal police docs reveal 'no good reason for shooting,' according to Judicial Watch | Fox News

Security / Militaria / Diplomania

• Army Delays $22B Augmented Reality Goggle Program

• Russian Warship Chased 'Intruding' US Destroyer After Breaching Joint Russia-China Drills: Kremlin | ZeroHedge

World

• Conservative MP Sir David Amess 'stabbed multiple times' at surgery in church

  • Sir David Amess, Conservative MP, Assassinated at Constituency Meeting in UK

• On Internet Freedom, China and Taiwan Are Worlds Apart

• no link: @libertydownundr

  Bad news from Australia. The Victorian parliament has voted to stop 4 senators from voting (because they didn't hand over medical information about vaccination status), giving Labor a majority in both houses of parliament, allowing them to pass proposed permanent emergency powers

• Apple took down Quran app and Bible app in China on request of Chinese officials

• Zimbabwe US plan to discredit Chinese investments unmasked

  an intricate plan, also involving some European and Nordic countries, to discredit Chinese businesses through disinformation, lies and sensationalism in the independent media and social platforms. It entails portraying Chinese businesses as unethical, reckless, without values, criminal and causing harm to communities, environment and workers.

• Privacy fears as Moscow metro rolls out facial recognition pay system

• Evergrande crisis shines a light on China's millions of empty homes

• China Completes 37th Orbital Launch of 2021

Health / Medicine

• Study: 'Sociability' hormone didn't help kids with autism

Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda

• La Niña has arrived and will stick around

• Chemicals used in packaging may play role in 100k US deaths a year – study

• Hydrogen Is as Broadly Useful as Hemp, and Will Be Used Just as Much

• Countries are gathering in an effort to stop a biodiversity collapse

• The climate disaster is here

• A half-mile installation just took 20k pounds of plastic out of the Pacific

• It’s easy to feel pessimistic about the climate. But we’ve got two big things