2021-11-09

Cool

• Planetary Defense Test Launches to See if an Asteroid's Path can be Changed

• Development Of Magnetic Locking Idea Shows Great Progress | Hackaday

• (PDF, Dec 2020) RF Magnetoelectric Antenna for Neural Activity Monitoring

  This article describes the development of a radio frequency (RF) platform for electromagnetically modulated signals that makes use of a software-defined radio (SDR) to receive information from a novel magnetoelectric (ME) antenna capable of sensing low-frequency magnetic fields with ultra-low magnitudes. The platform is employed as part of research and development to utilize miniaturized ME antennas and integrated circuits for neural recording with wireless implantable devices.

  • Using 2Ghz to harvest tiny ~1Khz signals. Targeted Intermodulation, perhaps.

etc

• Nashville pastor and church members tackle shooter during service.

• Fabric technology: Modified silk keeps skin 12°C cooler than cotton

Horseshit

• SpinLaunch completes first test flight

• Where Did All the Public Bathrooms Go?

• What the Hell Is ‘Right-Clicker Mentality’?

  “This is a great example of right-clicker mentality,” Midwit Milhouse said on Twitter. “Sure, you can make your own gold-coated steak for 65GBP, but then you don’t have the satisfaction, flex, clout that comes from having eaten at Salt Bae’s restaurant. The value is not in the cost of the steak. Go ahead, make yourself a gold-coated steak at home. Post a picture of it on Instagram. See how much clout it gets you. Salt Bae’s dish costs around 1500GBP because people want to pay 1500 GBP to show off that they can afford to pay that much. It’s all about the flex.”

• Four NFT Novices Created a Billion-Dollar Ecosystem of Cartoon Apes

• When We Don’t Own the Things We Use, Will We Still Love Them?

Obit

• Max Cleland, Vietnam Veteran and Former Senator, Dies at 79

COVID / VaxCult

• Senior NIH expert pushes back on growing vaccine mandates

• White House tells businesses to proceed with vaccine mandate despite court stay

• Gavin Newsom is out of sight likely because he has Bell's Palsy or GBS from his booster shot - by Steve Kirsch - Steve Kirsch's newsletter

  • Gov. Newsom Injured by Moderna Booster Shot, Source Tells the Defender

• Bogus Anti-Vaccine Video of a 'Karen' on a Plane Goes Viral on TikTok

• Singapore to End Free Covid Treatment for Those 'Unvaccinated by Choice'

• U.S. Covid Deaths Get Even Redder

• Internal Report: More Than Half Of Border Patrol Agents May Be Fired For Being Unvaccinated

• Biden Admin Tells Businesses To Implement Vaccine Mandate Despite Federal Court Halting Mandate | The Daily Wire

• I Had Breakthrough Covid. It Was a Logistical Nightmare

• Judge upholds United Airlines' Covid vaccine mandate for employees

• School mask mandates are starting to disappear. Is it too soon?

• WTF? Singapore Appeals Court Issues Stay of Execution of Malaysian Drug Smuggler After COVID-19 Diagnosis

  • Stay the execution, he’s got Covid

• Study shows how Covid-19 immunity wanes over time

  The results were clear: the rate of confirmed COVID-19 infection revealed a slow but steady waning of immunity over time. Among individuals 60 years or older who were fully vaccinated last January, the number of confirmed breakthrough infections was 3.3 per 1,000 people during the three weeks of the study. Those who were vaccinated in February and March had lower infection rates of 2.2 per 1,000 and 1.7 per 1,000, respectively. The data revealed a similar pattern in those aged 40 to 59 and those aged 16 to 39.

• Pfizer and BioNTech expected to ask regulators to clear boosters for all adults

• Coronavirus boosters likely for years to come: Pharmacy Guild

• (Mar 2021) Discrimination on the basis of vaccination status is inherently wrong

• Vaccine Mandate resisted within NIH, sparking debate Archive link

  Christine Grady, head of the NIH’s Clinical Center bioethics department, signed off on the Dec. 1 seminar, a session called “Grand Rounds.” She said via email that she believes there is interest in the topic across the agency. “Our hope is that the December Grand Rounds will be relevant to the debates that are going on around the country regarding vaccine mandates,” an agency spokeswoman said on her behalf. Dr. Grady is married to Dr. Fauci, who has advocated strict mandates to propel vaccination drives. Dr. Wendler, who reports to Dr. Grady, said the bioethics department doesn’t set out to influence government policy. “We’re a consultation service and sort of an academic department,” he said. “We’re not policy people.”

• (Jan 2021) How Can We Know What’s a Conspiracy Theory and What’s Not? - Rabbit Hole

  Truth is not always found at the top of Google search results, or in the New York Times, or in what the “experts” say. Truth is a process of constantly asking questions and refining hypotheses, and consensus, well, that’s a mutual agreement to stop.

• Moderna and U.S. at Odds over Vaccine Patent Rights

Culture War / Re segregation / Identdoctrination

• Oakland’s sad reality result of defunding police

• So long, jitneys – and farewell to our connective tissue

  Black people have been “Ubering“ each other for decades. ... I am left wondering how these conveniences truncate connections and who controls the outcome. And the answer is, by and large: White men with a lot of money

• Secret recordings of NRA officials after Columbine school shooting show strategy

• How Industry Weaponizes Science and Sows Doubt to Serve Their Agenda

• Arizona School Board, Police Coordinated To Spy On, Arrest Concerned Parents | The Daily Caller

• comment:

  We're in this bizarre zeitgeist where everyone is telling you to listen to science because it's all true, but for the love of god, don't engage in any sort of scientific inquiry yourself, who knows what heterodoxy you might arrive at.

  The coffee machine at work has a bunch of advertisement stuck on it, how the coffee has been fine-tuned by experts and tested by scientists to be the optimal coffee experience. Like what the heck, am I not a better judge of whether I like the coffee than a bunch of scientists?

• What does the word ‘woke’ even mean?

Edumacationalizing

• MIT faculty worried about chilling of speech

• Sen. Rick Scott Leaves CNN’s Brianna Keilar Reeling After Testy Exchange On CRT | The Daily Caller

• “Critical Race Theory” and actual education policy, part two

  Cranky old white people need to get out of their own bubble of conservatism and acknowledge that only half (and falling) of American kids are non-Hispanic whites, so what seemed relevant to most kids one or two generations ago may not be today. And it’s genuinely important for schools to teach kids about stuff that they are interested in. You could imagine a world in which we try to program social studies curricula exclusively with factually accurate and politically uncontroversial information about Paraguay, but it would be extremely uncompelling for most kids. But of course to students in Paraguay, the history of Paraguay feels vital and interesting.

• South Carolina, Montana State School Board Associations Sever Ties with National Organization.

• USC Pushed a $115,000 Online Degree. Graduates Got Low Salaries, Debts

Media / Many Ministries of Truths / Censorship

• MSNBC shares an inflation hot take that’s BEGGING for a coveted Ron Klain retweet – twitchy.com

  • "Why the inflation we're seeing now is a good thing"

• Media Reveals Just How Misleading They Can Be When It Comes to Rittenhouse Coverage

• CNN’s April Ryan asks Pete Buttigieg to address the ‘racism’ built into our roadways

• Discord Nitro users cancel en masse as CEO teases Ethereum and NFT integration

  • Discord community splits as CEO unveils ethereum integration

• Twitter will now let you pay to undo tweets

• Zuckerberg’s metaverse will invade workers’ privacy, whistleblower says

TechSuck

• Robinhood discloses breach that exposed information of millions of customers

  • Robinhood Says It Was Hacked and Extorted but Nobody Lost Any Money

• Nvidia CuNumeric: Bringing GPU-Accelerated Supercomputing to the NumPy Ecosystem

• Google’s New Business Profile: When Search Becomes a Political Tool

• Comcast Outage Affecting US

  • Xfinity Internet Outage

Economicon

• Keystone Pipeline owners to sue Biden administration for $15BILLION

• GE to break up into 3 companies focusing on aviation, health care and energy

  • General Electric plans to break itself up into three companies

• The Biggest Kink in America’s Supply Chain: Not Enough Truckers

• Used car market gets even more bizarre

  The industry’s key index of used vehicle prices jumped another 9.2% over the span of just a month. That puts the index 38% higher than a year ago — compared to “just” 27% for the same stat in September.

• TSLA Plummets: $150BN In Market Cap Gone In Minutes; Did Elon Start Selling? | ZeroHedge

  • Robinhood Down, Users Unable To Transfer Money Out | ZeroHedge

• Deere Strike Delays Delivery of Parts to Farmers Scrambling to Finish Harvest

• Thinking of upgrading your company’s tech gear? Now’s not the time. | Computerworld

• Fed Warns of Peril in Run-Up of Risky Asset Prices, Stablecoins

• Nov 2021 Crop Production Report

  Corn production for grain is forecast at 15.1 billion bushels, up less than 
  1 percent from the previous forecast and up 7 percent from 2020. Based on 
  conditions as of November 1, yields are expected to average 177.0 bushels per 
  harvested acre, up 0.5 bushel from the previous forecast and up 5.6 bushels 
  from last year. Area harvested for grain is forecast at 85.1 million acres, 
  unchanged from the previous forecast but up 3 percent from the previous year.

  Soybean production for beans is forecast at 4.42 billion bushels, down 
  1 percent from the previous forecast but up 5 percent from last year. Based 
  on conditions as of November 1, yields are expected to average 51.2 bushels 
  per harvested acre, down 0.3 bushel from the previous forecast but up 
  0.2 bushel from 2020. Area harvested for beans in the United States is 
  forecast at 86.4 million acres, unchanged from the previous forecast but up 
  5 percent from the previous year.

  All cotton production is forecast at 18.2 million 480-pound bales, up 
  1 percent from the previous forecast and up 25 percent from 2020. Based on 
  conditions as of November 1, yields are expected to average 880 pounds per 
  harvested acre, up 9 pounds from the previous forecast and up 33 pounds from 
  2020. Upland cotton production is forecast at 17.9 million 480-pound bales, 
  up 1 percent from the previous forecast and up 27 percent from 2020. Pima 
  cotton production is forecast at 346,000 bales, down 2 percent from the 
  previous forecast and down 37 percent from 2020. All cotton area harvested is 
  forecast at 9.92 million acres, unchanged from the previous forecast but up 
  20 percent from 2020.

Poilitcks

• Opinion: Blue States, You're the Problem

• Biden looking at shutting down another pipeline as winter approaches – HotAir

• Kamala Harris’s approval rating falls to 28%, a historic low for any modern vice president.

• (Mar 2019) It's official: Russiagate is this generation's WMD

• No voter fraud? How about 1,334 cases, 1,147 convictions.

• DeSantis office claims Border officials secretly sent 70 planes of migrants to Florida

• Walensky’s efforts to resuscitate the CDC are faltering

Law / Crime / Police

• Facebook is blocking searches for the name of Kenosha shooter

• Investigation into Biden's "stolen" diary reveals agency's selectivity

• 5th Circuit: Man Cant Sue Feds for Targeting Him for Refusing ToBe FBI Informant

• LAPD ended predictive policing. A new effort shares many of their flaws

• Why Philadelphia has banned low-level traffic stops

• Organized retail criminals are making the most of San Francisco’s urban chaos

• The U.S. Treasury is buying private app data to target and investigate people

Security / Militaria / Diplomania

• Metallurgist admits faking steel-test results for Navy subs

  • Metallurgist admits faking steel test results for US Navy subs

• Taiwan defense report records 384 exchanges, 2799 troops, with US since 2019

World

• Rolls-Royce plans to build small nuclear power plants in Britain

  • Rolls-Royce announces funding secured for Small Modular Reactors

• Belarus migrants: EU accuses Lukashenko of gangster-style abuse

• How The ANC Destroyed South Africa

• 19th CPC Central Committee kicks off sixth plenary, to table landmark resolution

• Chinese tech CEOs just keep quitting

• As China’s Property Crisis Spreads, Beijing Says There’s Nothing to See

Health / Medicine

• Study links particular kind of fat, not amount, to higher stroke risk

Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda

• Carbon emissions rapidly rebounded following Covid pandemic dip

• Choosing a better climate future requires acting now

• An insider’s look at the Glasgow climate summit – talks intensify

• Ultralow Surface Temperatures in East Antarctica

• The global chip industry has a colossal problem with carbon emissions

• As climate talks put focus on water crisis, the Colorado River is stark example

• Instead of cheques to fight climate change, billionaires should just pay taxes

• Japan gov't moves to restart aging nuclear reactors unjustifiable

• President Macron: France to build new nuclear energy reactors

• COVID-19 Lockdowns and Greenhouse Gas Emissions