2021-10-16

Cool

• NASA’s Lucy mission will soon be in the sky, with a launch set for Saturday

• Here’s A 100 MHz Pin-Compatible 6502 Replacement

  The CPU then runs at full 100MHz speed except when it needs to talk to those I/O addresses. The pin-compatible design has been tested successfully in an Apple II and a Commodore 8032, as well as a variety of vintage chess computers.

• Wearable Microphone Jamming

  • Worked around in iPhone 8+, others

Worthy

• UFOs and the import of Blink 182

• Status Explains Lots

  I spent many years studying the topic of rational disagreement, and I’m now confident both that rational agents who mainly wanted accurate beliefs would not knowingly disagree, and that humans often knowingly disagree. Why implies that humans have some higher priorities than accuracy. And the strongest of these priorities seems to me to be to avoid domination. People often interpret being persuaded to move toward someone else’s position as being dominated by them. Why is why leaders so often ignore good advice given publicly by rivals. Pride is one of our main obstacles to rationality; it is the main reason we disagree.

• Uniform random sampling on a disc – Andy G's Blog

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• A meteorite landed inches away from a Canadian woman’s pillow as she slept

• Surprise Russian Thruster Firing Prompts Space Station Emergency

  The Russian space agency said in a statement on its website that the crew and station were never in any danger. But it was the second such emergency on the station since July, when an unexpected firing of thrusters on a new Russian module briefly inverted the outpost.

Horseshit

• World’s Fair Offers a New View of Michelangelo’s ‘David’: Just His Head

• The Campaign to Wipe Out the Common Sparrow

celebrity gossip

• Peter Thiel bets on the far right

• Elon Musk is now worth $230Bn; as much as Bill Gates and Warren Buffett combined

• Michael Caine Announces His Retirement From Acting

• Ariana Grande mocked for Japanese tattoo typo: ‘Leave me and my grill alone’

• Stella Moris on her secret family with Julian Assange

COVID / VaxCult

• Friday "Humor": Vaccine Efficacy 'Science' Explained | ZeroHedge

  + [Twitter link](https://twitter.com/i/status/1448936949012578304)
  

• Newly Discovered Bat Viruses Give Hints to Covid’s Origins

• In Gavin Newsom's California, Covid Rules Are for Those Without Political Power

• Hospitals brace for strikes as California workers protest staff shortages

• FDA Delays Moderna Vaccine for Adolescents to Review Rare Myocarditis Outcome

• CDC emails show that vaccine cards are supposed to fit in your wallet

• Can China afford to stay isolated as world abandons ‘zero Covid’?

• Pandexit, please: The need for a Covid end date — Bournbrook Magazine

• US throws out millions of doses of Covid vaccine as world goes wanting

• Coronavirus (COVID-19) Vaccinations - Statistics and Research - Our World in Data

  47.4% of the world population has received at least one dose of a COVID-19 vaccine. 6.64 billion doses have been administered globally, and 21.41 million are now administered each day.

  • Excess mortality: Deaths from all causes compared to projection based on previous years

• FDA panel recommends J&J COVID-19 booster for all recipients who got first shot.

• Vaccination reduces transmission to unvaccinated household members by 63% (RIVM)

• German supermarkets are allowed to lock out unvaccinated people

Culture War / Re segregation / Identdoctrination

• (Sep 2021) Bruce Charlton's Notions: What is the meaning of Establishment language? Manipulation versus communication

• Wokeness as Saddam Statues: The Case of the Tesla Elevator Operator - by Richard Hanania - Richard Hanania's Newsletter

• Sex discrimination: why banks shun workers in adult entertainment

• An Economic Theory of Woke Takeovers - by Arnold Kling - In My Tribe

• Six Designs That White People Never Notice Are Racist

Edumacationalizing

• Social-Justice Blowups Are Mostly About Intraelite Jockeying - by Jesse Singal - Singal-Minded

Media / Many Ministries of Truths / Censorship

• Teen Girls Are Developing Tics. Doctors Say TikTok Could Be a Factor

• Epic hints that it's store will allow blockchain and NFT games

• ‘It spreads like a disease’: how pro-eating-disorder videos reach teen on TikTok

Facebook

• Lawmakers want to strip legal protections from the Facebook News Feed

• Researchers show Facebook’s ad tools can target a single user

TechSuck

• Nvidia allegedly halting RTX 3000 production this October to keep prices high

• You can pre-order Microsoft's official Xbox Series X mini fridge next week

• Canon sued for disabling scanner when printers run out of ink

• A common charger: better for consumers and the environment

Economicon

• This exists now. oboy. Sotheby’s Metaverse curated NFT marketplace

• Bitcoin Nears $63k As Dorsey Signals Square Considering Mining System | ZeroHedge

• Ford to suspend production on Friday at Mexico plant on materials shortage | Reuters

• The Great Resignation Is Accelerating

• FT: Xi Jinping’s Evergrande dilemma has repercussions far beyond China - Kevin Rudd

• California Scrambles to Find Electricity to Offset Plant Closures

• I'm unsure if is horseshit: Oil Companies Placing Big Bets On Pyrolysis Oil - by Tony - The Polymerist

  Exxon plans to start-up their Baytown site by the end of 2022 and want to have 500,000 tons of capacity available by the end of 2026. ... have a capacity to an estimated 350,000 tons by the end of 2024 and the capacity of the plant if it is full represents about a third of Shell’s goal. ... I think there is an untapped market here too for Dow, Exxon, Shell, and their competitors to do curbside hauling or partnerships with municipalities to sort and move the plastic waste. In theory they could be “paid” to collect their raw materials and can then sell their new products to the market. A potential economic win-win or doing well by doing good. Should be an exciting few years to watch this unfold.

• Confronting the Supply Chain Crisis

• Warning: Tether Props up Toxic Crypto Carousel

• Unhappy with prices, ranchers look to build own meat plants

• Certain this is horse shit: The inflation debate, continued – Grey Enlightenment

  Domestic oil production likely would not have risen under Trump. Gas prices also rose from 2016-2019 under Trump, and Trump didn’t make energy affordability and independence a major part of either his 2016 or 2020 campaigns . Had Trump won in 2020, it’s unlikely he would have done anything,

  I think most people if given a choice would choose high inflation, some shortages, a strong economy, and rising stock market, versus a weak economy, a falling stock market, and low inflation, which explains the apparent lack of urgency of the Biden administration to do anything about inflation even if the media is making it seem like a crisis.

• Why You’re Probably Better Off Buying Bitcoin Than a Futures ETF

• Wall Street Could Get Four Bitcoin Futures ETFs by Month-End

• Baby boomers are snatching houses out of the hands of millennials

Poilitcks

• 'I like kids better than people,' Biden says as hecklers shout

• CAUGHT ON CAMERA! Did NH Gov. Sununu Coordinate and Trigger Unfounded "POLICE STATE" Arrests? - Granite Grok

• Opinion: Americans suddenly want smaller government

• Trumpist county clerk barred after leak of voting-system passwords to QAnon

• It's time to repeal the Patriot Act and dismantle the surveillance state

Law / Crime / Police

• 'Citizen' app sent staffer to livestream Capitol riot undercover

• Assistant To US House Sergeant-At-Arms Charged With 10 Child Pornography Felonies | ZeroHedge

Security / Militaria / Diplomania

• Marine Who Was Imprisoned for Speaking Against Afghanistan Incompetence Receives Surprise Sentence.

• Non-Toxic Gas to Be Deployed in 100 NYC Locations in Bio-Attack Readiness Test

  • Environmental Assessment of Proposed Tracer Particle and Gas Releases

World

• MP David Amess Killing Was "Terrorist Incident", UK Police Say  | ZeroHedge

• Pakistan Airlines suspends Afghanistan flights amid Taliban row | Taliban News | Al Jazeera

• How India defeated the evil of recurring payments - The Ken

• Drug made of car exhaust filters alarms Congo's capital

  This drug is very dangerous,” says the leader of the Congolese addiction program, Patrice Kapia. "It causes heart and lung problems, and on the long term, cancer.” A colonel of the National Police who prefers to remain anonymous points to an initial chemical analysis from a laboratory in Kinshasa. It has found that bombé includes a mixture of different substances like tramadol, dolarene, nitrile, ampicillin and, in some cases, traces of heroin.

  • So new, we dunno what it is, but we know it causes cancer long term! Is it just me, or is the appeal here: "Look! Poor people are having unapproved fun! Shame and Horror!" and assurances that they will suffer for it. Wheras we the Enlightened, have publications like this to protect us from going so dangerously astray.

Health / Medicine

• FDA Permits Marketing of E-Cigarettes, Marking First Authorization by the Agency

Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda

• Key to Biden's Climate Agenda Like to Be Cut Because of Manchin

• The Enduring Hope of Jane Goodall

• Earth is dimming due to climate change

• SPACEX #16- Elon Musk is (STILL) Building a Big Gas Plant for Fracked Well Gas - by ESG Hound - ESG Hound

• Who is the real problem when it comes to climate change? - by Noah Smith - Noahpinion

  This is a boring, cliche answer, because people who recognize the danger of climate change have all been yelling our heads off about the fossil fuel lobby for decades. They funded disinformation campaigns claiming climate change didn’t exist, or wasn’t a problem, or wasn’t caused by humans. They spend billions of dollars lobbying against policies to accelerate the transition to green energy. We know they’re the bad guys in this fight. This is not news.

• UN Climate Change Conference Reportedly Using Diesel Generators To Charge Teslas Being Used As Shuttles | ZeroHedge