2021-10-22

Cool

• Smokeless Burn Barrel Makes Your Backyard Fire Much Cleaner | Hackaday

  • The comments are a dumpster fire of "Carbon Sequestration" honking

Worthy

• The Great Coinage Debate - by Davis Kedrosky - Economic History Research

• Mom of No Rank on Twitter: "I bought a bag of this brachs turkey dinner candy corn a while back and have been saving them: my honest review as a nutrition professional. Ahem. 1/18

  Bottom middle is green beans. Friends, it is unforgivable. If you left a cup of green tea on the porch in bad weather for a week, during which time it attained sentience and promptly began plotting your demise, and you hate green tea, that’s what this tastes like.

• Resisting Commodification of Specialties - by Tony - The Polymerist

• The Art of Drawing Money for Aliens - by Brett Scott - Altered States of Monetary Consciousness

etc

• Dept of No Shit: Being bi-lingual may affect your thinking

• Cause of Death Finally Revealed In Case of Former SF Couple and Infant On Sierra Hike

  the final determination of a two-month investigation into the deaths of married couple Jonathan Gerrish, 45, and Ellen Chung, 30, and their baby daughter Miju, as well as their dog Oski. And investigators have concluded that they all died from hyperthermia, or overheating, and likely dehydration, on what was an extremely hot day in Sierra National Forest, near the Merced River.

• Lego's New 3,955-Piece Home Alone Set Will Help You Forget the Remake

• When Outdoor Diners and Homeless People Meet, Restaurants Try to Cope

• ‘Shrooms, Shamans, Kosher LSD: Why Los Angeles Is Suddenly Tripping Out

Horseshit

• Jetson – Personal Electric Aerial Vehicle

• The Holmfield Hum: Yorkshire village plagued by mystery throbbing

• China bans Boston Celtics games after ‘brutal dictator’ tweet

• Furious diner stunned by £37,000 bill at Salt Bae's new London restaurant

• Man Arrested for Unblurring Japanese Porn with AI in First Deepfake Case

• The Anger of Tesla Fans Is Becoming a Problem

• America must protect these 5 technologies if it wants to remain a superpower

• Living Alone in the U.S. Is Harder Than It Should Be

celebrity gossip

• Alec Baldwin fires prop gun in ‘misfire’ that kills cinematographer, injures director.

  • Alec Baldwin fatally shoots woman with prop gun on movie set

• Elizabeth Holmes is on trial for fraud, but don't forget about her VC enablers

• Fellow actors criticise William Shatner’s space flight

• China Arrests Star Pianist with Sex Worker, Warns Celebrities

• The Many Crimes of Colin Powell

COVID / VaxCult

• Cook Islands Olympians finally return home after Tokyo 2020 quarantine ordeal

  Graham departed for the Olympics 13 weeks and three days ago, but due to lockdown in New Zealand, through which he and several Cook Islands Olympians transited on their return journey, he has been unable to get home. The CISNOC President conducted a two-week Managed Isolation and Quarantine (MIQ) in Christchurch upon arriving in New Zealand, before spending two months in lockdown in Auckland. He and the Cook Island cohort are in the process of conducting a further two weeks in MIQ at the Edgewater Resort and Spa in Rarotonga.

• New NIH Statement on Misinformation about SARS-CoV-2 Origins

  NIH wants to set the record straight on NIH-supported research to understand naturally occurring bat coronaviruses at the Wuhan Institute of Virology, funded through a subaward from NIH grantee EcoHealth Alliance. Analysis of published genomic data and other documents from the grantee demonstrate that the naturally occurring bat coronaviruses studied under the NIH grant are genetically far distant from SARS-CoV-2 and could not possibly have caused the COVID-19 pandemic. Any claims to the contrary are demonstrably false. ... Importantly, after an intensive investigation, agencies in the U.S Intelligence Community agreed that the virus was not developed as a biological weapon and most agencies assessed that SARS-CoV-2 most likely was not genetically engineered.

• At least 65,000 more men than women have died from COVID-19 in the US

• CDC Advisory Committee Quietly Confirms Moderna Jab Significantly More Dangerous Than Pfizer

• URGENT: Covid vaccines will keep you from acquiring full immunity EVEN IF YOU ARE INFECTED AND RECOVER - by Alex Berenson - Unreported Truths

  What the British are saying is they are now finding the vaccine interferes with your body’s innate ability after infection to produce antibodies against not just the spike protein but other pieces of the virus. Specifically, vaccinated people don’t seem to be producing antibodies to the nucleocapsid protein, the shell of the virus, which are a crucial part of the response in unvaccinated people

• Exclusive — Sen. Roger Marshall: Dishonorable Discharge Treats Veterans as Felons

• Pfizer to Vaccinate Entire City of Toledo in Brazil as Part of Study

• Vaccine Rejectionism and the Left

• Properly measuring vaccine efficacy and risk reward

  • if you are under 60 and healthy, the risk reward for these vaccines looks extremely poor.
  • if you have had covid and recovered, the risk reward for these vaccines looks extremely poor.
  • if you are both, the risk reward is outright absurd. there is no meaningful risk to mitigate in the first place.

• Is Europe Wrong About Covid Masking and Vaccines for Children? Or Are We?

• Bonus: FDA Releases Pfizer Data on Kids Vaccines - by Emily Oster - ParentData

  The sample is slightly smaller because they focus on kids without evidence of prior infection. Of these, 3 of the 1273 vaccinated children had evidence of COVID infection, versus 16 of the 663 placebo group. This translates to 90% efficacy. Which is so good! There were no documented infections in either group among children who had previous evidence of SARS-COV-2 infection.

  + [Pfizer says Covid vaccine more than 90% effective in
  kids](https://www.cnbc.com/2021/10/22/pfizer-says-covid-vaccine-more-than-90percent-effective-in-kids-.html)
  

  • CDC Says 5 Year Olds Will Still Need to Wear Masks After Vaccine Is Approved for Kids.

• NIH Scrubs 'Gain-Of-Function' Definition From Website After Wuhan Bombshells, Rand Paul Vindicated | ZeroHedge

• Why Developing Countries Can Make the Top Covid Vaccines

• Gates Foundation commits up to $120M to support access to new Covid-19 pill

  The new funding from the Gates Foundation will support the development and manufacture of generic versions of the molnupiravir. The foundation, for instance, has provided $2.4 million in grants to companies to expedite readiness for manufacture, and $1.3 million to develop low-cost manufacturing processes.

• Delta 'Plus' Covid variant may be more transmissible

• 2:00PM Water Cooler 10/22/2021 | naked capitalism

  So how long does it take before 10% “excess” deaths becomes the new normal? (Adding: I know the data is bad. This is the United States. But according to The Narrative, deaths shouldn’t have been going up at all. Directionally, this is quite concerning. Needless to see, this is a public health debacle. It’s the public health establishment to take care of public health, not the health of certain favored political factions. Also adding: I like a death rate because it gives me a rough indication of my risk should I, heaven forfend, end up in a hospital. I should dig out the absolute numbers, too, now roughly 660,000, which is rather a lot.)

• New study provides robust evidence that COVID-19 is a seasonal infection.

Culture War / Re segregation / Identdoctrination

• Anarchist Think Tank Locked Out of PayPal

• Black, female DC police officers say they were given ultimatum: Have an abortion or be fired.

• Our Anger Problem Is Making Me Angry - by Matt Labash - Slack Tide by Matt Labash

  One thing that both me and my father understand, however, while much of the rest of the country has ceased to, is that even when we’re on different sides, we’re still on each other’s. No matter what. We are still family, and despite sometimes less-than-polite disagreements, we’re going to stay that way. Even after he reads this, all will (mostly) be fine, with the requisite ten or twenty mild objections. Yet I will happily see him this Sunday for dinner.

• What We Lose When We Lose Thomas Jefferson - by Samuel Goldman - Common Sense with Bari Weiss

• Oath Keepers in the State House: How a Militia Movement Took Root in the Republican Mainstream

• Death Threats Are Creating a Mass Exodus of Election Officials

Edumacationalizing

• Garland Admits War On Parents Sprang From NSBA Letter, Not Evidence

  • White House Knew About Letter That Compared Parents to Domestic Terrorists

• The War over Academic Freedom

  Three of Stock’s four fellow professors of philosophy at Sussex told me that they supported her academic freedom, but none would say so publicly, despite more than 200 UK academic philosophers signing an open letter supporting Stock’s and others’ “right to raise concerns on this matter”. The Oxford historian Timothy Garton Ash tweeted: “Whatever your views on her views on gender and sexual identity, every civilised person must condemn this harassment [and] intimidation of a woman on campus. It’s discrimination in the name of anti-discrimination, harassment in the name of anti-harassment.”

Media / Many Ministries of Truths / Censorship

• Jonas Bendiksen intended manipulated images to be caught, but no one noticed

• Examining algorithmic amplification of political content on Twitter

  + [Twitter’s own research shows that it’s a megaphone for the
  right](https://www.protocol.com/policy/twitter-algorithm-right-wing-bias)
  

  • Twitter admits bias in algorithm for rightwing politicians and news outlets

• New World's Economy Is So Busted, Players Are Bartering for Items

• Google takes two-to-four times as much as the fees charged by rival ad networks

• YouTube is about to pull its apps from Roku

Trump-Book

• Donald Trump’s social app ‘Truth Social’ hijacked by fake account before launch

• Journalist able to setup account using the handle @donaldtrump on 'Truth Social'

• Trump's Social Media Platform Could Already Face Legal Issues, After Allegedly Ripping Off Code

  • Truth Social broke software rules, says copyleft group

  • Trump's New Platform and the Affero General Public License (Of Mastodon)

• Trump's "Truth" SPAC Halted 5 Times, Now 'Only' Up 120% Today | ZeroHedge

• DWAC, the Trump Social-Media SPAC, Quadruples

Facebook

• How Many Users Does Facebook Have? 32% - 56% of accounts opened by existing user

• Senator calls on Mark Zuckerberg to testify about Instagram and kids

• Facebook doesn’t care about you: Tech giant always chooses profits over people

• Oversight Board demands more transparency from Facebook

• People Aren’t Meant to Talk This Much

• Jack Dorsey mocks Mark Zuckerberg's metaverse plan, saying it's dystopian

• Facebook removed “Proud boy” post but was Ralphie from The Simpsons

  a post that Facebook removed believing it to be an endorsement of a hate group, then restored realizing it was something quite different. “The content is an image of Ralph Wiggum, a character from the American TV show ‘The Simpsons.’ He is depicted saying ‘I am a Proud Boy!’ and apparently urinating in his pants,” the report says. Facebook, it seems, removed the post believing it was promoting the far-right group the Proud Boys who were linked to the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol. Upon further review Facebook found “the content does not praise, support, or represent the Proud Boys”…

• Haugen claims backed by new Facebook whistleblower filing with SEC

TechSuck

• FTP Removed from Google Chrome

• Tech workers recount the cost of speaking out, as tensions rise inside companies

• Google Stadia’s salvaged future as a back-end cloud service is here

• Intel’s future now depends on making everyone else’s chips

• Intel Betting The Farm – Shrinking Business, Margins Down For Few Years, But Aggressively Investing $40B-$43B A Year And More With Subsidies – SemiAnalysis

  Intel’s plan just feels insane to us. “5 nodes in 4 years.” After the firm struggled on the 14nm replacement for nearly a decade, to believe they can execute on this vision takes a whole lot of kool-aid.

• Internet providers collect “staggering” amounts of data

• John Carmack pushes out unlocked OS for defunct Oculus Go headset

Economicon

• China Evergrande shares fall sharply after $2.6B asset sale collapses

  • Evergrande Shares Tumble On Sale Failure, 97% Plunge In Sales As Markets Brace For Chinese Default Avalanche

• Crypto Slide The Result Of A "87%-Off" Binance Fat Finger | ZeroHedge

  As Bloomberg notes, either someone (like an enterprising short who was deeply underwater and desperate for any trick to push momentum lower) was in a huge hurry to dump bitcoin (even if it meant taking a big loss on the trade), or we had a legitimate fat finger trade because at precisely 7:34am ET the price of Bitcoin appeared to plunge about 87% on Binance’s U.S. exchange, sinking to as low as $8,200 from around $65,000. According to Binance, volume on the exchange at 7:34am when the broader market was shocked by the "fat finger", was 592.8 Bitcoins, or just shy of $40 million at prevailing prices.

  • umm does that mean the meercats is that shallow? How much would it cost to crash bitcoin for real, then? Half a billion?

• CA town sees gas prices hit over $7.50 a gallon - ABC30 Fresno

• Billions of banknotes are missing. Why does nobody care? Archive link

• Shipping Containers From Stranded Ships Abandoned In California Neighborhoods | ZeroHedge

• The People’s Ledger: How to Democratize Money and Finance the Economy - Vanderbilt Law Review Vanderbilt Law Review | Vanderbilt University

• John Deere Strike Shows Labor Market Is Ready to Pop

• The supply chain crisis should change our holiday shopping habits - Vox

• Tesla (TSLA) reaches new all-time high, surpasses $900B valuation

• Walmart Has Quietly Begun Hosting Bitcoin ATMs

• How the Supply Chain Broke, and Why It Won’t Be Fixed Anytime Soon

• Ford nabs $884M incentive package for EV mega campus

• Inflation Jump Cost U.S. Treasury $113B in Tips Payments

Poilitcks

• Biden Races Clock and Holds Few Tools in Supply-Chain Crisis

• GOP’s top FCC official calls for ban on DJI drone sales in US

• Democrats aim to make anyone who disagrees with them an enemy of the state.

• John Durham gears up against the Alfa Bank conspiracy - by Techno Fog - The Reactionary

• Biden on where illegal immigrants in the US are going

• California Drove Truckers Out of Business. Now Store Shelves Are Empty | Frontpagemag

• Indicted Clinton lawyer hired CrowdStrike, firm behind dubious Russian hacking claim - by Aaron Maté - Aaron Mate

• CNN’s Townhall Crowd Audibly Giggles As Biden Becomes Confused Mid Sentence

Law / Crime / Police

• Sirens: Loud, Ineffective and Risky, Experts Say

• Ex-Minneapolis cop Mohamed Noor resentenced for killing of 911 caller

• Target Store on Mission St to Close Amid Shoplifting Wave

Security / Militaria / Diplomania

• The Moment Biden Casually Committed To WW3 Over Taiwan At Last Night's Town Hall | ZeroHedge

• Has Interpol become the long arm of oppressive regimes?

• Latest US military hypersonic test fails

World

• Canada's inflation rate jumps to new 18-year high of 4.4%

• Europe is in a muddle over ritual slaughter

• Taliban won't be allowed access to Afghan central bank reserves -Adeyemo

• Taliban beheaded female volleyball player, posted photos online, coach says.

• Armada Of 10 Chinese And Russian Warships Is Sailing Around Japan

• Half a Million South Korean Workers Prepare to Walk Off Jobs in General Strike

• With Coercion and Black Boxes, Russia Installs a Digital Iron Curtain

• How Belarus is helping ‘tourists’ break into the EU

• NATO Presence In Ukraine "Already Underway" Poses "Real Threat" To Russia: Putin | ZeroHedge

• China tells mines to produce 'as much coal as possible'

• Fact sheet of human rights violations by U.S., UK and France

• Brazil orders Google to provide IP address of donors of pro-Bolsonaro blog

Health / Medicine

• Why isn't being obese worse for your health?

• The US healthcare force is short half a million workers

Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda

• The Myth of the Climate Moderate

• Climate change will bring global tension, US intelligence report says

• Lancet: Climate Change Worse Than Covid - Victory Girls Blog

• A lack of fish faeces is changing the flow of carbon in the ocean

• Scientists discover what is killing bees

  • Crop Pollination Exposes Honey Bees to Pesticides Which Alters Their Susceptibility to the Gut Pathogen Nosema ceranae

• Poaching drove the evolution of tusk-free elephants

• Owl unseen for 150 years photographed in the wild for the first time