2021-11-10

Cool

• Bullseye bonus: 1.8GHz Raspberry Pi 4 - Raspberry Pi

  • Testing determines that extant hardware can be pushed a bit further, so that's included in this software update.

Worthy

• stomped HN comment from "Polarization Spiral" thread below

  Let's have a real conversation.

  • Half of the US wants their country, traditions and values
  • Half of the US doesn't want a country (no border), upended traditions and no values

  There are two countries and will destroy each other.

  One country believes the world is going to end from climate change; that COVID19 is 10-100x more deadly than it actually is; that men can transition to women; that abortion is not murder.. I can go on.

  The other believes the climate is always changing, but humans can adapt over years; that COVID19 is only 5x-10x more deadly than it actually is; and that a man can be a eunuch and dress like a woman, but still is not a woman; that abortion is murder... again, I can go on.

  The polarization isn't really mend-able.

  Both sides believe in polar opposites. Only one side believes this is the land of the free where anything is possible. The other side wants believes it needs to impose it's will to "stop climate change", "stop the spread", "stop the hate".

  Don't you see it!? The hypocrisy of it?

  Only one side wants to take away peoples ability to work, to travel, to raise a family, to educate your children, even your bodily autonomy.

  This polarization is driven by hate. Hatred of traditions and of a history.

  “With those three words—‘very fine people’—the president showed that he was sympathetic to the men who staged the most highly publicized march for racism and antisemitism in the United States in many decades.”

  Yes, because there were "many 'very fine people' on both sides", the omitted words are important. "There's no excuse for what happened" indeed.

  This stops when both sides can admit that last years riots which left at least 38 dead were not "mostly peaceful", but a deadly riot. Similarly, that "January 6" was not an "insurrection", but a deadly riot (as the FBI already stated).

  Yes, there were and are 'very fine people' on both sides, but the extremes on both sides are violent. We as a free people should not oppress our neighbors and that collaboration is required for us to continue as a civilization ... if we can even agree we want a civilization any more.

• Secrets Of The Great Families - Astral Codex Ten

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• The Folly of Crowds - by Illyia Faraji - The Discourses

• An original Apple-1 computer sells for $400k

Horseshit

• The chilling rise of the death threat

• The FDA Warns That Hand Sanitizer ‘Can Cause Serious Injury’ If You Put It in Your Eyes.

• NASA Moves Moon Landing Deadline Back to 2025

  • We do these things, not because they are necessary, but because they are expensive

• No, The Astroworld Tragedy Was Not A Satanic Ritual

• Why are so many people so cruel to their dogs?

• Thanksgiving means family, food – and plenty of harmful diet talk

• Arby’s Teams With Minneapolis Distillery Tattersall For Fry-Flavored Vodka

celebrity gossip

• Michael Burry Claims Musk Selling Tesla Shares To Cover Personal Debts | ZeroHedge

  • someone else mentions "Tesla slumped 12% and is now down $199bn in just a few days. So much for asking for personal financial advice from Twitter in-between toilet humour." ... If selling 10% of the stock == 12% price dip; how much is it actually worth, again? That's bitcoin levels of market depth.

• Newsom resurfaces after two weeks, says he chose trick-or-treating over COP26 summit | Washington Examiner

• Former WeWork CEO Adam Neumann Says He Has Regrets

• Uncovering the secret offshore accounts of the global elite

• Pelosi slammed for officiating lavish wedding of Getty oil heiress

COVID / VaxCult

• (May 2021) Review of the Emerging Evidence Demonstrating the Efficacy o... : American Journal of Therapeutics

• How protein-based Covid vaccines could change the pandemic

• Unvaxxed 20 times more likely to die from Covid – Texas Research

• Pfizer CEO calls people who spread vaccine misinformation 'criminals'

  “Those people are criminals,” Bourla said to Atlantic Council CEO Frederick Kempe, CNBC reported. “They’re not bad people. They’re criminals because they have literally cost millions of lives.”

• SARS-CoV-2 vaccine protection and deaths among US veterans during 2021

  We report SARS-CoV-2 vaccine effectiveness against infection (VE-I) and death (VE-D) by vaccine type (n = 780,225) in the Veterans Health Administration, covering 2.7% of the U.S. population. From February to October 2021, VE-I declined from 87.9% to 48.1%, and the decline was greatest for the Janssen vaccine resulting in a VE-I of 13.1%. Although breakthrough infection increased risk of death, vaccination remained protective against death in persons who became infected during the Delta surge. From July to October 2021, VE-D for age 65 years was 73.0% for Janssen, 81.5% for Moderna, and 84.3% for Pfizer-BioNTech; VE-D for age ≥65 years was 52.2% for Janssen, 75.5% for Moderna, and 70.1% for Pfizer-BioNTech. Findings support continued efforts to increase vaccination, booster campaigns, and multiple, additional layers of protection against infection.

• Naturally-Acquired Immunity Versus Vaccine-Acquired Immunity | ZeroHedge

• Why telling a cop you have Covid in New Jersey could get you 10 years in prison

• Whistleblowers to play key role in enforcing Biden vaccine rule

  There is no army of OSHA inspectors that is going to be knocking on employers door or even calling them," said Debbie Berkowitz, a former OSHA chief of staff who is a fellow at Georgetown University's Kalmanovitz Initiative for Labor and the Working Poor. "They're going to rely on workers and their union representatives to file complaints where the company is totally flouting the law.''

• Feds Seek To Block Promotion Of Nasal Spray Against COVID-19 | ZeroHedge

• Actually "exaggerating" but hey why report correctly when this sounds more juicy? 38% of US adults believe government is faking Covid-19 death toll

• Again and Again, the FDA Fails American Patients | Cato Institute

• French Health Authority Warns Men Under 30 To Avoid Moderna Jab

• German Newspaper Highlights "Unusually Large" Number Of Soccer Players Who Have Collapsed Recently | ZeroHedge

• Coronavirus deaths falling worldwide except in Europe, says WHO

• Pfizer's Attempt At Winning The 'Meme War' Backfires Disastrously | ZeroHedge

Culture War / Re segregation / Identdoctrination

• Please Just Fucking Tell Me What Term I Am Allowed to Use for the Sweeping Social and Political Changes You Demand - by Freddie deBoer - Freddie deBoer

  I might not have underlined this point enough - I sincerely am asking for a better term and would happily use one if offered. If woke, political correctness, identity politics, etc, are inflammatory terms, I'd be happy to substitute something that's not. But surely something is happening in our politics, and we have to be able to talk about it. So I'm asking for a name.

• Video shows fire being set at Pulse memorial

  The security video shows a person in a wheelchair approaching the wall at about 8:30 p.m. on October 12, just before the fire started.

• Scientific Merit and the Equity Cult

• Overwhelming majority say cancel culture has gone too far

• Toxic Positivity Is Real, and Annoying

• Brazil’s Far-Right Disinformation Pushers Find a Safe Space on Telegram

• Basingstoke 'It’s okay to be white' posters spark investigation

• The Polarization Spiral - by Jonathan Haidt and Greg Lukianoff - Persuasion

  Sometimes the speech that gets professors in trouble is very unsympathetic but nonetheless protected by free speech and extramural academic freedom. For example, Fresno State University investigated a professor following a 10,000 signature petition calling for her firing for tweeting that Barbara Bush was an “amazing racist” who raised a “war criminal”, in response to news of her death. Like the case at Babson, FIRE was there to help the professor, but unlike at Babson, Fresno State did the right thing and dropped the investigation.

  • HN thread

• San Francisco is living the neo-Feudal dream

• Reddit got the best grade on a ‘misogyny report card’ for social media, a C

• Things Feel Bleak Because This Way of Life is Coming to an End | by umair haque | Nov, 2021 | Eudaimonia and Co Archive link

  Life as the American set of freedoms is over now. Let me enumerate a few of those. The freedom to waste and squander. The freedom to believe in any old malarkey you like, no matter how ignorant. The freedom to abuse and exploit. The freedom to make the point of your life as shallow and foolish and stupid as you may want to, like just making more money. None of these things were ever really “freedom.”

Media / Many Ministries of Truths / Censorship

• Updating The Verge’s background policy - The Verge

  • From now on, the default for communications professionals and people speaking to The Verge in an official capacity will be “on the record.”
  • We will still honor some requests to be on background, but at our discretion and only for specific reasons that we can articulate to readers.

• ‘Way to go, stupid Americans’: TIME takes a page from Jen Psaki’s playbook and explains how all you greedy people screwed up the supply chain – twitchy.com

• Unprecedented Abuse Of Power: What The Media Still Isn't Telling You About The Cuomo Debacle - by Michael Tracey - Michael Tracey

• Twitter Blue is now available in the US and NZ

  • comment: " They managed to take essential UX improvements and stick it behind a paid subscription."

• Discord's Hints About Crypto, NFTs Are Tearing Its Community Apart

• Update to YouTube Dislike Counts - YouTube Community

  the dislike button is staying, but the number of dislikes on a video will only be available to creators in Studio and not visible to the public

Facebook

• Facebook Allows Stolen Content to Flourish, Its Researchers Warned

• Facebook says it can’t keep pace with its own Oversight Board

• Facebook unblocks 'saltbae' after Vietnamese minister's golden steak

• Facebook is blocking searches for “Kyle Rittenhouse” | Hacker News

• Facebook parent company Meta to block some political, religious ad targeting

  • Facebook to stop targeting ads based on race, sexual orientation, and politics

• Man hires woman to slap him every time he's on Facebook

• Meta and Microsoft announce partnership to integrate Workplace and Teams

TechSuck

• Tim Cook: Users Who Want to Sideload Apps Can Use Android

• Satellite Hopes Meet Internet Reality

Economicon

• Peter Jackson sells visual effects firm for $1.6bn to Unity

• Empty Containers Continue Stacking Up At Ports | ZeroHedge

• Fed warns of social media ‘echo chambers’ that pump up meme stocks

• U.S. consumer borrowing accelerates strongly in September

• With Cases Piling Up, an Eviction Crisis Unfolds Step by Step

• Zillow Sells 2k Homes in Dismantling Its House-Flipping Business

• U.S. Inflation Reached 30-Year High in October

  + [U.S. consumer prices rise at fastest pace since
  1990](https://www.reuters.com/business/us-consumer-prices-surge-weekly-jobless-claims-fall-2021-11-10/)
  

  • U.S. consumer prices jump 0.9% in October, 6.2% yoy, highest in 30 years

• Thanksgiving Dinner Staples Are Low in Stock Thanks to Supply-Chain Issues.

• Uber, DoorDash and similar firms can’t defy the laws of capitalism after all

• Rivian prices its IPO at nearly $70B

Gubmint / Poilitcks

• Team Biden and its media apologists blame you for supply shortages

• Biden Energy Sec. Granholm laughs at question about boosting oil production: 'That is hilarious' | Fox Business

• Opposing Tyranny - The American Mind

• Congress mandates new car technology to stop drunken driving

  Under the legislation, monitoring systems to stop intoxicated drivers would roll out in all new vehicles as early as 2026, after the Transportation Department assesses the best form of technology to install in millions of vehicles and automakers are given time to comply.

  • Is it that the principle of "Innocent until proven guilty" was deemed inconvenient; or that the idea of "principles" was?

• US Capitol attack committee issues subpoenas to 10 senior Trump officials

• Trump Officials Illegally Campaigned While in Office, Watchdog Finds

• SF District Attorney Chesa Boudin Officially Forced into Recall Next June

• John Durham Is Getting Close to the Jugular | RealClearPolitics

• How the media pushed Hillary Clinton's lies against Trump

Law / Crime / Police

• Durham Exposes New Links To Clinton Campaign in Creation of Russian Collusion Scandal – JONATHAN TURLEY

• US Justice Department warns of impending corporate crime crackdown

• Prosecution Rests in Rittenhouse Murder Trial; Curfew Violation Dropped

• Feds search home in connection to Biden's daughter's missing diary

• Feds sentence Bay Area man for orchestrating $1B Ponzi scheme

Security / Militaria / Diplomania

• China Initiates 'Combat Readiness Patrol' Near Taiwan, Outraged Over "Surprise" Large US Delegation Visit | ZeroHedge

• Biden’s Pentagon Literally Erasing Proof That Our Soldiers Sacrificed It All in Afghanistan.

  Pentagon Press Secretary John Kirby said the images that were archived, so Afghans who helped the U.S. in the war will not be put in danger. The problem? A large number of the archived images do not show any Afghan soldiers or civilians.

  • (Aug 2021) Taliban kill squad hunting down Afghans – using US biometric data

World

• Taliban Inaugurates "Islamic Emirate Army" With Largest-Ever Convoy Of US Armored Vehicles | ZeroHedge

• Xi asked China's rich to 'give back to society'. It's happening

• 13.5% inflation for Chinese producer price index

• 'Europe is in danger': top diplomat proposes EU military doctrine

Health / Medicine

• Has a treatment for Alzheimer's been on pharmacy shelves for decades?

• Plant-based gummy candy helps vegans and vegetarians get their vitamins

Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda

• Why did glacial cycles intensify a million years ago?

• Climate change Earth has 11 years to avoid the worst scenarios

• COP26: Draft deal calls for stronger carbon cutting targets by end of 2022

• COP26: World headed for 2.4C warming despite climate summit

• First patient to be diagnosed with “Climate Change”

• Ask HN: Is genetically modified trees to capture CO2 possible? | Hacker News