2021-10-30

Cool

• Spiders are much smarter than you think | Ars Technica

• Aurora Borealis Visible in Parts of US, Europe, Aus/NZ on Saturday

etc

• FAA approves hundreds more engines to use unleaded avgas

• Goat-rescuing, firefighting nonprofit is a reason to like social media

Horseshit

• Warren Buffett's billionaire partner funds windowless dorm. An architect quit

• The Fall and Rise of Techno-Globalism

• Investors Spent Millions on ‘Evolved Apes’ NFTs. Then They Got Scammed

• Texas Isn’t Ready for Another Deep Freeze

• comment on vinyl records:

  The off-gassing from records is nearly instantaneous and reaches measurable levels where it's dangerous within minutes - having the extra surface area for off-gassing from the grooves makes it much worse. A vinyl collection is certainly better than other vinyl things like you mentioned since an album won't off-gas much in its sleeve, but playing one will definitely do a bit of liver damage if you're near it.

celebrity gossip

• China shouldn’t cancel Piano Prince Li Yundi over one night with a sex worker

• Devo Responds to John Hinckley, Would-Be Reagan Assassin, Over Song Royalties

• Musk says he has a better plan for his money than Democrats

• British court postpones ruling on US govt’s appeal to extradite Assange

COVID / VaxCult

• (PDF) Declassified Updated Assessment on Covid 19 Origins

  • Covid-19 virus most likely began with Wuhan lab accident: US intelligence agency

  • U.S. spy agencies say origins of Covid-19 may never be known

  • US intelligence concludes China didn't weaponize Covid-19 or have foreknowledge

• Complete protection by a single-dose skin patch–delivered SARS-CoV-2 vaccine

• FDA authorizes use of Pfizer's Covid vaccine for 5- to 11-year-olds

• CDC study: Vaccination offers better protection than previous Covid-19 infection

• North Macedonian's public key used to sign Covid-19 certs is not trusted anymore

• Covid booster mandates? NJ hospital is among first for those who got J&J shots

• Largest real-world study of third dose of Covid-19 vaccine effectiveness

• Transmission evidence from LG Delta outbreak among fully vaxed in P-town, MA

• CDC: Prior Infection Won't Protect You from Covid Hospitalization

• Russia imposes nationwide paid holiday to curb Covid

• Thousands of Air Force troops set to reject vaccine mandate

• Merck’s COVID pill is factory ready—but only with the FDA’s approval.

• Covid: Which children are being vaccinated and why? - BBC News

• Definition of 'fully vaccinated' could change, CDC chief says. What that means

Culture War / Re segregation / Identdoctrination

• Why We Need a Good Villain: From Ancient Lore to Pandemic Finger-Pointing | The Walrus

• (Aug 2021) Worm Joke Causes Science Twitter Flame War over Accusations of Sexism and Racism

• Diving into ‘woke racism’ with John McWhorter

• ANALYSIS: Liberals Increasingly Concerned That Women, Minorities Can’t Be Trusted

• The cultural factors behind falling fertility rates

• Netflix employees at the heart of the Dave Chappelle controversy file charges

Edumacationalizing

• Tiger Moms Switch Kids to Sports After Tutoring Purge

• 23 state school board associations have "distanced" themselves from the partisan fascist NSBA, and five have quit the association completely.

Media / Many Ministries of Truths / Censorship

• Roblox has been down for over 24 hours | Hacker News

  • Roblox has been down for more than a day

• Real-time crowdsourced fact checking not that effective, study says

• Epic Games believes the Internet is broken. This is their blueprint to fix it

Facebook

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

• The Metaverse community reconsidering name change after Facebook rebranding

• Zuckerberg, Meta promise a metaverse that other companies are already building

• The Facebook Papers: 6 Big Takeaways

• Meta buys Within, the studio behind VR fitness app Supernatural

• Mark Zuckerberg’s Facebook fight is about silencing right-wing voices

TechSuck

• Amazon reveals 20% stake in electric-vehicle maker Rivian

• FAA has 'deep concern' about 5G network plan on aviation safety

• Roku releases IDK to allow consumers to develop applications for their Roku

• The QUIC API OpenSSL will not provide | daniel.haxx.se

• GlobalFoundries CEO: We’re sold out of semiconductor chip capacity through 2023

Economicon

• Montana stops making license plates because of disruption in aluminum supply

• Hong Kong Tycoon Loses $174M in Property Bond Fire Sale

• America’s Jammed-Up Ports Need Help

• U.S. house prices are rising exponentially faster than income

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

• Young People Are Leaving Their Jobs in Record Numbers–and Not Going Back

Poilitcks

• How Desperate Is the McAuliffe Campaign? | Power Line

  • Greenwald speaking to Tucker Carlson:

  "They have the mindset of fanatics. They believe that their cause is so just -- they think they're fighting Naziism, the movement of Donald Trump, which is going to, you know, end democracy -- they believe they're such good and benevolent people that whatever tactics they use, including lying, including smearing people's reputations, is justified because their involved in this war that is so noble. That really is what they think, so even if they get caught lying and cheating, and breaking rules, and even breaking the law, they believe that there should be no accountability. They're happy that the people who did this did it, they probably are only mad that they got caught. There'll never be professional consequences for them because they encourage this, this is what this climate fosters and incentivizes."

  • Lincoln Project Democrat Operatives Busted For White Nationalist Hoax | ZeroHedge

• Report: Pelosi kicked out of meeting with House Progressive Caucus | One America News Network

• Joe Biden gets a win on global taxes at his first G20 as President

• Administration to pay $450K per person to immigrants separated at border

Law / Crime / Police

• ISIS Halloween scare: Northern Virginia police increase security at shopping malls amid potential threat | Fox News

Security / Militaria / Diplomania

• Assange Hedges: The Most Important Battle for Press Freedom in Our Time – scheerpost.com

• Hookworms have potential to protect soldiers from chemical, biological weapons

• Could the U.S. Lose a War with China over Taiwan?

World

• Most Iran gas stations still offline three days after cyberattack

• Nazi-themed host bars are still opening in Japan

• Japan ports swamped by pumice spewed from undersea volcano | Japan | The Guardian

• Rise of far right puts Dreyfus affair into spotlight in French election race

Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda

• The US and China are the biggest greenhouse gas emitters

• First Confirmed Hatchings of Two California Condor Chicks from Unfertilized Eggs

• Amazon protectors: we want illegal gold miners out of our territory - Geneva Solutions

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

• How To Turn The GOP Green - by Andrew Sullivan - The Weekly Dish

• In 1959, Teller warned the Oil Industry about the perils of climate change