2021-10-25

Cool

• WWII ships raised from watery graves by volcanic activity

Worthy

• Null Call: Advice for the vestigial shamans among us

  I recently stumbled onto a website outlining something called “CAPS” (aka CYP21A2 Mutation Associated NeuroPsychiatric Spectrum), which is a medical theory proposed and advanced by a psychiatrist named Dr. Sharon Meglathery.

  Briefly, we know that the RCCX genes are unique in that mutations can be inherited together and they mutate often. There is a collagen matrix/hypermobile gene (TNXB) sitting next to a stress response gene (CYP21A2), sitting next to an autoimmune/CVID/schizophrenia gene. Doctors often see combos of these illnesses in families and individuals at a rate far higher than by chance alone.

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• Yes, Free Will Exists

• Why aviation’s compass is shifting towards True navigation | In depth | Flight Global

  The debate about changing from Magnetic to True navigation is now moving towards how to change, and when, with March 2030 as the proposed date.

• Why millennials love Halloween way too much - The Spectator World

• Candyman and the Horrors of Cabrini-Green: Soulless Sequel Lacks the Original’s Hook - American Thinker

  • Cabrini Green was all over the media; but it was a shitty apartment complex where poor people lived as best they could, for the most part.

Horseshit

• Dangerous Laser Strikes Continue Rise in ’21

• A Future for People with Disabilities in Outer Space Takes Flight

• Servicing and repairing electric cars requires new skills

• You may be able to book a flying taxi within three years

celebrity gossip

• Sen. Rand Paul sees global role for crypto

• The Power of Elon Musk, the Meme-Stock Lord

COVID / VaxCult

• Leos are most likely to get vaccinated, Utah officials. Written in the stars?

• Fully Vaccinated are suffering far higher rates of infection than the Unvaccinated, and it is getting worse by the day; there is no justification for Vaccine Passports – The Expose

  Much has been said and written to show the vaccinated are equally capable of transmitting Covid. But because their symptoms are often muted, they are also more likely to be out and about; add this to escalating infection rates, and there can be little doubt the vaccinated now constitute by far the greatest Covid transmission risk.

• Fauci stands by gain-of-function research denials, defends collaboration with Wuhan lab | Washington Examiner

  Fauci also argued Sunday that “there’s all of this concern about what's gain-of-function or what's not, with the implication that that research led to SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19, which … unequivocally anybody that knows anything about viral biology and phylogeny of viruses know that it is molecularly impossible for those viruses that were worked on to turn into SARS-CoV-2.”

• China Covid-19 Variant Outbreak Latest News on Virus Spread

• How Public Health Took Part in Its Own Downfall

• S-acylation enhances Covid-19 infection

• How Many Coincidences Does the Natural Spillover Theory of Covid Require?

  So, in theory, the pandemic could have started with some random Chinese person who doesn’t have any connection to the Wuhan Institute of Virology having some spectacularly unlucky run-in with a bat or other animal… and that random Chinese person just happened to catch the exceptionally rare naturally-occurring animal virus that infects, sickens, and spreads among human beings like wildfire… on the metaphorical doorstep of one of the three labs in the world doing gain-of-function research on novel coronaviruses found in bats… and that spectacularly contagious virus also just happens to be nearly impossible to find in any other bats or animals in China. But that’s one hell of a series of coincidences, isn’t it?

• Major US Cities Risk Losing One-Third Of Their Police Forces Due To Vaccine Mandates

• With Covid-19, every disagreement became a culture-war flashpoint

• Fully vaccinated now might not be considered so in future without a C-19 booster

• Dr. Ugur Sahin: “The virus is starting to escape immune responses”

• Australians will require booster shots each 6 months to remain fully vaccinated

• Endemic Covid-19 Has Arrived in Portugal. This Is What It Looks Like

• The Covid Story Is Coming Out

• The Obvious Wins Again: Natural Immunity Superior to Vaccine Immunity

• Anti-Mandate Protesters Storm Barclays Center, Demanding Nets Let Kyrie Irving Play.

• Advancing the Safe Resumption of Global Travel During the Pandemic (US)

Culture War / Re segregation / Identdoctrination

• Most Americans want major changes to economy, politics and healthcare-new report

• Hate on trial in Virginia, four years after deadly extremist rally

• Our society is troubled. Beware those who blame it all on big tech

• "Be moderate and humble as your betters dictate your new mode of life." The two contercultures: Who will speak for ordinary Americans.

  As religious affiliation declines, and as some orthodoxies enter into concordats with nationalists hostile to democratic capitalism, the priority must be the vigorous and nonsectarian promotion of what were once called "middle-class values"—moderation, civility, empiricism, prudence, humility, restraint, and reverence for the law—and the families that transmit these values to the next generation. Only a sober and reflective defense of the constitutional order and sustained attention to the priorities and aspirations of everyday, nonideological men and women will allow us to resist the two countercultures. Before they bring America down with them.

• Putin Warns Wokeness Is Destroying the West

• John McWhorter on Woke Racism

Edumacationalizing

• UK Schools pause facial recognition lunch plans

• Activist lectures U. North Carolina students about ‘right-handed privilege.’

• 50 years ago, The Electric Company used comedy to boost kids' reading skills

• Wisconsin teacher gets 12 years in jail for videotaping undressed students

• Bizarre claims in multiple school board races funded by teachers unions; over $300K kicked in.

Media / Many Ministries of Truths / Censorship

• After Pushing Anti-Trump Vulgarity, WashPost Decries 'Let’s Go Brandon' | Newsbusters

• British entrepreneur sells company to Twitter - BBC News

• Twitter's ML algorithms amplify tweets from right-wing politicians vs. the left

• Sticks and Stones; a Counterargument to Political Calls for Anonymity

• Banning anonymous social media accounts would only stifle free speech, democracy

Facebook

• In India, Facebook Struggles to Combat Misinformation and Hate Speech

• The Facebook Papers may be the biggest crisis in the company's history

• Facebook’s Lost Generation

• Wall Street Journal Provides New Evidence of Facebook Politically-Driven Intervention in Content | naked capitalism

  The Wall Street Journal just published a detailed story substantiating what many have suspected of Facebook, that it’s been censoring right-wing content. Admittedly, this finding is in “dog bites man: terrain. Gizmodo had ascertained that through an analysis of “Trending Topics” in May 2016, meaning well before the Trump win led Democratic/establishment screeching about Russian influence and clamping down on opinion suddenly deemed responsible and necessary.

• What's Inside the Facebook Papers

• Facebook Debates What to Do with Its Like and Share Buttons

• Employees pleaded with Facebook to stop letting politicians bend rules

• Facebook, Alarmed by Teen Usage Drop, Left Investors in the Dark

• ‘History Will Not Judge Us Kindly’

• Life in the Fantastic World of the Facebook Metaverse

• Facebook Failed the People Who Tried to Improve It

• Facebook Papers paint damning picture of company's role in insurrection

• Facebook did little to moderate posts in the world’s most violent countries

• Facebook Failed the World

• Apple once threatened Facebook ban over Mideast maid abuse

• Facebook documents offer a treasure trove for Washington’s antitrust war

• The Facebook Papers: dozens of stories based on whistleblower docs dropped

• Facebook Whistleblower Frances Haugen Faces UK Parliament

• Wall Street Journal Provides New Evidence of Facebook Politically-Driven Intervention in Content | naked capitalism

• Facebook Became Boomerbook

• Facebook targeting policy makers with ads

• Pierre Omidyar's Financing of the Facebook “Whistleblower” Campaign Reveals Much

• Insiders say Mark Zuckerberg Chose growth over safety

• The Facebook whistleblower's documents show how 'Stop the Steal' evaded monitors

• Facebook groups push people to 'extreme interests', says whistleblower

TechSuck

• (PDF, 2020) Towards 3D Human Pose Construction Using WiFi

• Electronic Frontier Foundation ousts co-founder John Gilmore from its board

  "the EFF Board of Directors has recently made the difficult decision to vote to remove Gilmore from the Board."

• EBCDIC is incompatible with GDPR – Terence Eden’s Blog

• Panasonic said it has mostly solved the technology challenges of 4680 batteries

• SolarWinds hackers targeting more tech companies, Microsoft says

• snrk With or without cryo cooling? Intel Core I9-12900HK Turns Out to Be Faster Than the Apple M1 Max

• Best Buy stores will soon offer Samsung foldable repairs

Economicon

• Elon Musk’s Las Vegas Tunnel Transportation System Approved

• PayPal says it is not pursuing Pinterest acquisition

• Supply chain: Stop Shopping

• Hertz Orders 100k Teslas in Car-Rental Market Shake-Up

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  • Hertz orders 100k Teslas in deal reportedly worth $4.2B

  • Hertz Just Ordered 100k Teslas in Supposed $4.2B Deal

• TSLA Crosses $1k/Share

• The Bright Side of Higher Inflation

• One of the few things still made domestically Cardboard shortages deal another blow to strained supply chains

• MasterCard says any merchant on its vast network can soon offer crypto services

• Trump 'Truth' SPAC Slides After Strong Open Despite WSB'ers Interest

• Shrinkflation is back as ingredient prices rocket

  • Smaller packs, same price: curse of ‘shrinkflation’ hits shoppers’ baskets

• States that cut off of jobless aid see no surge of job seekers

• The Financial Implications of Plasma Sales for Individuals and Non-Bank Lenders

• PayPal Abandons Pinterest Takeover After Its Shareholders Balk

• Nearly half of American companies say they are short on skilled workers

Poilitcks

• The tax on unrealized capital gains

  • With corporate tax off table, U.S. Democrats turn to billionaires

• Joe Biden’s Taiwan Policy Is Now A Total Disaster.

Law / Crime / Police

• The FBI's Internal Guide for Getting Data from AT&T, T-Mobile, Verizon

• FBI Releases Updated 2020 Hate Crime Statistics

• The Sussmann Indictment, Human Source Handling, and FBI’s Declining FISA Numbers

• Jan. 6 Protest Organizers Had Dozens of Planning Meetings W Members of Congress

  Gosar’s office did not respond to requests for comment on this story. Rolling Stone has separately obtained documentary evidence that both sources were in contact with Gosar and Boebert on Jan. 6. We are not describing the nature of that evidence to preserve their anonymity. The House select committee investigating the attack also has interest in Gosar’s office. Gosar’s chief of staff, Thomas Van Flein, was among the people who were named in the committee’s “sweeping” requests to executive-branch agencies seeking documents and communications from within the Trump administration. Both sources claim Van Flein was personally involved in the conversations about the “blanket pardon” and other discussions about pro-Trump efforts to dispute the election. Van Flein did not respond to a request for comment.

• Long but very thorough Meet Ray Epps: The Fed-Protected Provocateur Who Appears To Have Led The Very First 1/6 Attack On The U.S. Capitol - Revolver

  After months of research, Revolver’s investigative reporting team can now reveal that Ray Epps appears to be among the primary orchestrators of the very first breach of the Capitol’s police barricades at 12:50pm on January 6. Epps appears to have led the “breach team” that committed the very first illegal acts on that fateful day. What’s more, Epps and his “breach team” did all their dirty work with 10 minutes still remaining in President Trump’s National Mall speech, and with the vast majority of Trump supporters still 30 minutes away from the Capitol. Secondly, Revolver also determined, and will prove below, that the the FBI stealthily removed Ray Epps from its Capitol Violence Most Wanted List on July 1, just one day after Revolver exposed the inexplicable and puzzlesome FBI protection of known Epps associate and Oath Keepers leader Stewart Rhodes.

  Here’s a question we’d like to see Merrick Garland dodge: Mr. Garland, is there now, and has there ever been, any individual(s) who appeared on the Capitol Violence Most Wanted List whose activities at the Capitol turned out to be part of their work as agents or assets of a US government agency?

Security / Militaria / Diplomania

• Russia Challenges Biden Again with Broad Cybersurveillance Operation

• Guantanamo Bay frees mistaken Karachi taxi driver after 17 years

World

• Does Taiwan’s Military Stand a Chance Against China? Few Think So

• Thousands Of Migrants Push Past Mexican Police As They Head Toward U.S. Border (Videos) - The Lid

• Sudan PM under house arrest, 5 govt officials detained by Military in a coup

  • Internet disrupted in Sudan amid reports of coup attempt

• Japan's Princess Mako is going ahead with wedding to commoner

• Is Russia Starting to Sour on China?

Health / Medicine

• Deadly infection linked to contaminated room spray sold at Walmart

• The Brain Processes Speech in Parallel with Other Sounds

• Toxoplasmosis Associated with Entrepreneurial Initiation and Performance

• Antidepressant, Anxiolytic Effects of Medicinal Cannabis in Observational Trial

Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda

• 70% of Americans Support Solar Mandate on New Homes

• The COP26 summit to fight climate change is about to start. Here's what to expect

• Atmospheric river storms can drive costly flooding

• When it comes to solar farms, sheep are great groundskeepers

• 2050: What happens if we ignore the climate crisis – video explainer

• The Wreck of the Global Warming Narrative

• The Chinese Companies Polluting the World More Than Entire Nations

• Greenhouse Gas Bulletin: Another Year Another Record

• A historic storm brings heavy rain, flooding and mud to Northern California

• Leaf Blowers Destroy the Environment

• Greenhouse emissions reached record levels in 2020, even with pandemic lockdowns