2021-10-29

Cool

• Mechanic retires after 75 years with the same company

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• The US Copyright Office just struck a blow supporting the right to repair

• Why noise is necessary for our brains to perform at a high-level

• I made my own garum | Hacker News

  • Culinary detectives try to recover the formula for garum

• Why do dogs tilt their heads? New study offers clues

Horseshit

• I'm certain I heard a stand up comedy bit mention this idea in the early 90s: Cheesecake-to-Go Saved the Cheesecake Factory

• Can a giant thruster on the South Pole change Earth's orbit? - Big Think

  As the sun heats up, thrusting Earth to a more distant orbit might be the only way to stop our oceans from boiling.

• Crypto Punk #9998 Bought for $532M

  • An NFT Just Sold for $532M, but Didn’t Sell at All

• A Brief History of Online Influence Operations - Lawfare

  The extent of this problem was first widely recognized following the revelation of Russia’s influence efforts in the 2016 U.S. presidential election. This realization and the steady spread of fallacious content kicked off a strong global response; fact-checking organizations proliferated, and countries began implementing a raft of new policies. But these efforts proved insufficient to manage the infodemic that accompanied the coronavirus.

• ‘Yeah, we’re spooked’: AI starting to have big real-world impact, says expert

celebrity gossip

• Julian Assange Extradition Appeal: Day 2

COVID / VaxCult

• Jabs do not reduce risk of passing Covid within household, study suggests

• The antidepressant fluvoxamine can reduce Covid-19 hospitalizations

  • Effect of early treatment with fluvoxamine on risk of hospitalization for Covid

• I Have Been Through This Before - Tablet Magazine

• Covid Expanded the Boundaries of Personal Space–Maybe for Good

• Delta Variant of COVID-19: Fully Vaccinated People Can Contract The New Variant And Spread It Further, Lancet Study Confirms.

• Latest Lancet Study Exposes Limits Of Vaccines At Preventing COVID Infection | ZeroHedge

  What's more, people who have been vaccinated against COVID can be equally as infectious as the unvaccinated, the study showed.

• FDA Adviser Explains Why He Abstained From Vote On Pfizer's COVID-19 Vaccine For Kids | ZeroHedge

• (PDF, Aug 2021) Comparative Basic and Clinical Pharmacology of Molnupiravir and Ivermectin

• Waning Immunity After the BNT162b2 Vaccine in Israel

• Biden admin barred from firing unvaccinated employees DC judge issues injunction

• "Why I Still Believe Covid-19 Could Not Have Originated in a Lab" | naked capitalism

• Implications of Delayed Reopening in Controlling the Covid-19 Surge in USA

• How to help kids with ‘long Covid’ thrive in school

• NYPD preparing for slew of retirements amid vaccine mandate

• Covid's endgame: Scientists have a clue about where SARS-CoV-2 is headed

• COVID-19: Moderna Gets Its Miracle

• Vaccination protects against Covid-19 more strongly than prior infection, study

  Among COVID-19–like illness hospitalizations among adults aged ≥18 years whose previous infection or vaccination occurred 90–179 days earlier, the adjusted odds of laboratory-confirmed COVID-19 among unvaccinated adults with previous SARS-CoV-2 infection were 5.49-fold higher than the odds among fully vaccinated recipients of an mRNA COVID-19 vaccine who had no previous documented infection (95% confidence interval = 2.75–10.99).

  • CDC Finally Recognizes Natural Immunity After Their Own Study Shows Vaccines Are Better | ZeroHedge

• FDA Authorizes Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 Vaccine for Emergency Use in Children

  • FDA authorizes Pfizer vaccine for kids 5 to 11

Culture War / Re segregation / Identdoctrination

• “Comedy” and “Free Speech” Are Not Moral Justifications for Bigotry

• Sex Differences in Work Aspirations

  In each country and region, more boys than girls aspired to a things-oriented or STEM occupation and more girls than boys to a people-oriented occupation. These sex differences were larger in countries with a higher level of women’s empowerment. We explain this counter-intuitive finding through the indirect effect of wealth. Women’s empowerment is associated with relatively high levels of national wealth and this wealth allows more students to aspire to occupations they are intrinsically interested in.

• The Self-Isolation of the American Left

• Reasons Truck Drivers Walk Out the Door | Hacker News

  • "I played Truck Simulator so I know about the challenges they face" and "AI is gonna make truck drivers obsolete!" .. and "garbage people anyways"

Edumacationalizing

• Big Teacher Is Watching: How AI Spyware Took over Schools

• BREAKING: Investigation underway after Kentucky high school hosts drag pageant featuring male teens in lingerie giving lap dances to staff | The Post Millennial

• Florida School Board Member Takes Young Children to Gay Bar on a Field Trip

• Student, 21, jumped to her death after automated email contained incorrect grade

Media / Many Ministries of Truths / Censorship

• A Mistake by YouTube Shows Its Power over Media

• More Tech Whistleblowers Are Expected, Experts Say

• Minnesota man charged in hacking MLB and for trying to extort the league - CNN

Facebook

• Facebook to Change Company Name to Meta in Focus on Metaverse

• Stratechery – An Interview with Mark Zuckerberg about the Metaverse

• Watch Facebook's metaverse musical about Open Enrollment for benefits

• Facebook Meta

• Facebook is changing its name to Meta as it focuses on the virtual world

• Facebook Unceremoniously Kills Off 'Oculus' Brand

• Mocking Meta: Facebook’s virtual reality name change prompts backlash – Meta

• Zuckerberg wants to be the hero of the metaverse because Facebook is boring

• Meta: Facebook's new name ridiculed by Hebrew speakers

• Facebook Is Now Meta. and It Wants to Monetize Your Whole Existence

• Oculus Quest is removing the Facebook account requirement

  • Meta removing Facebook login requirement for Quest headsets by next year

• Facebook can’t be trusted to stop spread of extremism, experts tell Senate

• Smaller, Slower, Scavenged: The Story of Facebook’s Free Urban Wi-Fi

• The Metaverse Was Lame Even Before Facebook

• The Facebook name was such a drag that employees referred to it as a ‘brand tax’

• The Criminal Case Against Mark Zuckerberg

• Why Facebook’s angry emoji should interest the US SEC

• John Carmack issues some words of warning for Meta and its metaverse plans

TechSuck

• Apple blames chip shortages and slow supply chain for disappointing quarter

• OpenBSD: How it all started

• Rich Salz to OpenSSL: Please change your mind

• FAA Plans Warnings to Pilots, Airlines over New 5G Rollout

Economicon

• What caused all the supply chain bottlenecks? | Hacker News

• Chip shortages may extend indefinitely as economists cut GDP forecasts

• Zillow Home Buying Algorithm Outbid Buyers, Now Faces Selling Houses at a Loss

• Amazon.com Announces Third Quarter Results

• Carriers must move 60K containers out of LA/LB by Halloween

• Cryptocurrency Loan Platform Implodes in $130M Hack

• The Fun in Non-Fungible

• What we're getting wrong about the 'Great Resignation'

• No end in sight for chip shortage as supply chain problems pile up

• "Heads: You Lose, Tails: I Win" Doctor Copper Is Sick - by Doomberg - Doomberg

• 40% Of The Bull Market Is Due Soley To Buybacks - RIA

• Remote-first work is taking over the rich world – research hints at why

• Exxon Surprises With $10 Billion Stock Buyback Announcement As Cash Flow Soars

• Now that Facebook is Meta – we need a new acronym for FANG

  • "GAMMA" is the only choice

• Microsoft Becomes World’s Most Valuable Stock as Apple Slumps

• 2006: 450k; 200k today. McDonald's: Number of Employees 2006-2021 | MCD | MacroTrends

• US Economy slows to 2% growth in Q3

• Meta shares jump on name-change news, but it's a Canadian materials company

• Oz What is the great shipping container shortage and could it ruin your Christmas?

Poilitcks

• Pelosi Plans Fizzle After Jayapal 'No' Sinks Thursday Infrastructure Vote

• Jen Psaki: Consumer Habits 'Root Cause' of Supply Problems

• Energy secretary defends tax credits for EVs made by unionized automakers

Law / Crime / Police

• Rare win New Orleans shoeshine man wins legal battle over $30k seized by DEA agents

• County sheriff in Wisconsin reveals evidence of felony election law violations | Just The News

  "Election statute was in fact not just broken, but shattered by members of the Wisconsin Elections Commission," said the Racine County sheriff, referring to evidence that absentee votes were cast on behalf of cognitively impaired nursing home residents.

• Texas shocked by killing of motorist who pulled into man’s driveway

• Tucker Rips 'Lying Coward' Liz Cheney After She Joins Democrat Meltdown Over His J6 Exposé | ZeroHedge

  "There is no lie too big or conspiracy theory too dangerous for Tucker Carlson to propagate," said top Russiagate / Ukrainegate peddler Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) in a statement to WaPo. "His latest salvo is nothing less than an invitation to violence. By airing it, Fox News demonstrates yet again a willingness to profit from tearing the country down."

Security / Militaria / Diplomania

• Just the Beginning: Ten Afghan Evacuees Detained as National Security Risks.

World

• Regulator paves way for NHS e-cigarette prescriptions in England

Health / Medicine

• Study: Death Rate from Parkinson’s Rising in U.S.

Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda

• What Big Oil knew about climate change, in its own words

• DNA testing reveals virgin births in California condors

• Wrong Again: 50 Years of Failed Eco-pocalyptic Predictions - Competitive Enterprise Institute

• Antarctic marine conservation park thwarted by China, Russia

• G-20 Climate Talks Threatened by Clash over Coal Ahead of COP26

• Climate change is muting fall colors, but it's just the latest way that humans have altered US forests

• Whales could capture 1.7B tonnes of CO2 a year