2021-11-12

Worthy

• How to Avoid Going to Jail under 18 U.S.C. Section 1001 for Lying to Government Agents | Solomon L. Wisenberg. | Washington D.C.

  Did you know that it is a crime to tell a lie to the federal government? Even if your lie is oral and not under oath? Even if you have received no warnings of any kind? Even if you are not trying to cheat the government out of money? Even if the government is not actually misled by your falsehood? Well it is.

• (2009) How Not To Sort By Average Rating – Evan Miller

  • (2017) Introducing Steam Database's new rating algorithm · SteamDB

  function GetRating( $positiveVotes, $negativeVotes ) {
    $totalVotes = $positiveVotes + $negativeVotes;
    $average = $positiveVotes / $totalVotes;
    $score = $average - ( $average - 0.5 ) * 2 ** -log10( $totalVotes + 1 );

    return $score * 100;
  } 
  

etc

• Would You Manage 70 Children and a 15-Ton Vehicle for $18 an Hour?

Horseshit

• Pigshit: Tapeworms found in man’s brain years after he ate feces-tainted food | Ars Technica

• America is hiring a record number of robots

• 'Tyrannophone' iPhone case comes with an actual dinosaur tooth

celebrity gossip

• Peter Thiel, Irresistible Pariah - by Luke Burgis - Anti-Mimetic—New Ways of Wanting

• Dems Gone Wild: Michigan AG Behaves Like Sloppy Freshman at College Football Tailgate

  Once inside the stadium, Nessel "started to feel ill" and attempted to sleep it off. Eventually her friends intervened, demanding she leave "so as to prevent me from vomiting on any of my constituents," Nessel wrote on Facebook. "Polling consistently shows ‘Roman showers' to be unpopular among most demographics."

• Julian Assange allowed to marry partner Stella Moris in jail

• Barclays CEO exchanged 1,200 emails with Epstein, some with unexplained phrases Archive

  • Large Stash Of Previously Unreported Emails Between Staley And Epstein Emerges, Some Reference "Snow White"

Obit

• Alan Paller: Infosec world pays homage after SANS founder and infosec luminary dies | The Daily Swig

COVID / VaxCult

• Australia has officially hit 90 per cent first-dose milestone: PM

• "Dead" on HN in under 10min Why can't anyone explain how these 14 kids died after getting vaccinated? - by Steve Kirsch - Steve Kirsch's newsletter

  There was a memo sent out to doctors from the CDC. It was a short memo:

  Death after vaccination is never a vaccine death. Death within 28 days of a postive COVID test is always a Covid death.

• Children in VA Given Adult Version of Pfizer Vax - by Darby Shaw - Kids, Covid, and Covid Vaccines

• (Nov 4) 100% of Covid-19 Vaccine Deaths caused by just 5% of batches produced | Principia Scientific Intl.

• Taiwan Halts 2nd Dose of Pfizer Jabs for 12-17 Year Olds

• Washington Post: 'Has resistance to getting vaccinated declined?'

• Covid antiviral pills: what scientists still want to know

• The Impact of Covid-19 on Future Cruise Ship Design

• With 7.4 billion COVID shots deployed in arms, Bill Gates declares that ‘we need a new way of doing the vaccines’ - by Jordan Schachtel - The Dossier

• CDC Admits Crushing Rights of Naturally Immune Without Proof They Transmit the Virus - by Aaron Siri - Injecting Freedom

  My firm, on behalf of ICAN, asked the CDC for precisely this proof (see below). ICAN wanted to see proof of any instance in which someone who previously had COVID-19 became reinfected with and transmitted the virus to someone else. The CDC’s incredible response is that it does not have a single document reflecting that this has ever occurred. Not one.

• How do people resist Covid infections? Hospital workers offer a hint

• Austria to Impose Lockdowns on Unvaccinated

• (May 2021) COVID19 Predictions for 2021 · Jacques Mattheij

  We are at the end of the ago of ‘I’ and at the beginning of the age of ‘we’. This is a tough wake-up call for many, who have been told their whole life long that the individual is the thing that matters most even if that is at the expense of the rest. Now we suddenly have to do a full 180, realize that without ‘we’ there is no ‘I’ to begin with.

• The big questions about Covid-19 booster shots

• AstraZeneca Plans to Start Selling Covid-19 Vaccines at Profit

• Europe becomes Covid-19's epicentre again, some countries look at fresh curbs

• Regulator Reviewing Reports Of "Rare" And Serious Condition Linked To Moderna Vaccine | ZeroHedge

• All adults can get a Covid vaccine booster in CA, not just those CDC listed

Culture War / Re segregation / Identdoctrination

• Greenwald: Democrats Are Profoundly Committed To Criminal Justice Reform... For Everyone But Their Enemies | ZeroHedge

• Art Bell's old shows are on Apple Podcasts now HN on: Art Bell Back in Time

• Left and Right Agree Selling Bodies Are Wrong – For Different Reasons

  • me:

    Of course they confuse the issue by refusing to acknowledge some basics that would complicate their narrative: The difference between "selling" and "renting" for example.

    Selling a kidney is a different thing entirely than giving or getting a handy.

    Perhaps we'd better discuss who owns our bodies and what and how "Society's Interest" should impact our own sovereign position as the tenants of these bodies?

    Many think their bodies belong to God. Other "Society" or The State or some other concept that is explicitly "not me". If that's your concept then I wont argue it as it applies to your body; but I feel I'm the only person that can make that decision for myself.

    My body belongs to me, with a first call lien to my wife.

Edumacationalizing

• Harvard hosts ‘Hit Me Baby One More Time’ BDSM tutorial, ‘Orgies 101,’ anal sex workshop.

Media / Many Ministries of Truths / Censorship

• Netflix’s Sex Education is doing sex education better than most schools

Facebook

• You Are the Object of a Secret Extraction Operation Archive link

TechSuck

• The New Rectangular Starlink Dish

• Apple MacBook: Try charging on the right and not on the left

• Practical advice: Running a law firm on Linux - decoded.legal: Internet, telecoms and tech law decoded.

• I'm unsure of the security of simultaneous multithreading on modern x86 CPUs

• "Generous estimates" instead of "ludicrous assertions"; refreshing! How badly is cryptocurrency worsening the chip shortage? – Single Lunch

Economicon

• On-chain, The Emperor Wears No Clothes

  Bechenski makes a remarkable categorization of authorities within the book. He generally divides authority into epistemic and deontic and specifies that: + an epistemic authority (= "relating to knowledge") says it "how it is"; whereas + a deontic authority (= "relating to duty and obligation) says it "how it should be".

• So which one gets to be just "Johnson"? Johnson & Johnson plans to split into two companies

• Toshiba plans to split into three firms

• Toyota to ramp up production after cutbacks driven by the Covid-19 pandemic

• The 4% Retirement Rule Is in Doubt

• For investors, Rivian isn't the next Tesla

• U.S. consumer sentiment plunges to 10-year low on inflation worries -UMich

• A record 4.4M Americans quit their jobs in September

Gubmint / Poilitcks

• Biden's science guy is driving folks mad

• President Lacks Constitutional Authority to End Cannabis Prohibition by Executive Order

• White House wants McAuliffe after Virginia gubernatorial loss: report

• 1980's Pravda grade kowtowing here: Fugitive Jan. 6 Rioter Makes Desperate Plea on Belarus State TV

  In a country dealing with a severe migrant crisis in a cruel and callous way, this transplant from California is being handled in a markedly privileged way. For the Belarusian and Russian state media, he is a convenient pawn for besmirching the U.S. government. Russian President Vladimir Putin, as well as Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko, repeatedly used the Capitol insurrection to take jabs at the U.S.’s election integrity and to claim that the rioters are facing “political repressions,” in an attempt to deflect from domestic issues plaguing Russia and Belarus under their authoritarian leadership.

• Congress mandates anti-drunk driving technology for cars

  + [US infrastructure bill includes law that aims to end drunk
  driving](https://www.morningbrew.com/daily/stories/2021/11/11/infrastructure-bill-includes-law-that-aims-to-end-drunk-driving)
  

  • New Cars Will Have to Detect Drunk Drivers as Early as 2026

• DoD confirms UAP Task Force reports are FOIA-exempt

• New Senate Proposal Seeks “Anomaly Surveillance Resolution Office” for UAP intel

• Director of the DNI hints possible "alien link" to UFOs - Disclose.tv

• Former Trump aide Mark Meadows fails to appear before Jan. 6 committee

Law / Crime / Police

• 'Left Winger' Bill Ackman Says Kyle Rittenhouse Is "A Patriot Who Acted In Self-Defense", Media Assumes Twitter Account Hacked | ZeroHedge

  • Ask HN: Is there any way that using pinch-to-zoom could change/add pixels? | Hacker News

• BREAKING: Judge Orders FBI to Stop Search of Project Veritas Founder O'Keefe's Phone Following Raid – PJ Media

  • The FBI raided Project Veritas on a pretext and is now leaking their privileged communications to the New York Times

  "documents obtained by NYT ... series of memos written by the group's lawyer ... (advise how) to avoid breaking federal statutes"

  • Judge Orders FBI To Stop "Extracting" Data From Veritas Devices Amid Mystery Leaks To NYT | ZeroHedge

  • The FBI Raid of Project Veritas Turns Into a Massive Scandal After Privileged Communications Are Leaked – RedState

  • New York Times Attacks Project Veritas, James O'Keefe for Using Lawyers

    Notably, one of the journalists who worked on the times story is Michael S. Schmidt, who won a Pulitzer Prize for reporting on the supposed link between President Donald Trump and Russia — a link that was later shown not to exist. Many of the Times stories relied on leaks from law enforcement and intelligence agencies, which falsely suggested “Russia collusion.”

• 'Unbalanced' Trump Fanatic Who Took An Arsenal To The Capitol On Jan. 6 Pleads Guilty

• Chicago police cancel one regular day off for cops, reportedly bracing for Rittenhouse verdict

Security / Militaria / Diplomania

• U.S. joins global cybersecurity partnership ignored by Trump

• Green Berets prepared to carry 'backpack nukes' on one-way missions

• Russia Deploys Paratroopers To Belarus After Blasting Increased NATO Reconnaissance In Region | ZeroHedge

  • British troops to aid Poland in strengthening border fence – The First News

World

• Crypto Is Forbidden for Muslims, Indonesia’s National Religious Council Rules

• Russian troop movements show wider conflict possible, top Ukraine official says

• Debunking myths about Nicaragua’s 2021 elections, under attack by USA/EU/OAS

• Detained in Myanmar after coup, US journalist gets 11 years in jail

Health / Medicine

• Veterans Have Become Unlikely Lobbyists in Push to Legalize Psychedelic Drugs

• The obscure UN conflab cutting the world off from vaping and harm reduction

• U-shaped relationship between LDL cholesterol level and all-cause mortality

• Warning of ‘Wild West’ in depression treatment as UK clinics offer ketamine

• Brain changes during orgasmic meditation, study finds.

  • Paper

  This is so far from any sort of valid experiment that it makes the witch cakes of the Salem Witch Trials look like the exemplar of scientific rigor.

• Cannabis use disorder during pregnancy on the rise

Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda

• Bitcoin Mining Noise Drives Neighbors Nuts

• The cow in the room: why is no one talking about farming at Cop26?

• Mapping Our Human Footprint from Space

  • What Climate Change Looks Like from Space

• Hazy skies, poor air quality: Is port congestion worsening L.A. pollution?

• Venomous sharks found in London's Thames river – CNN Travel

• London's Thames, once biologically dead, has been coming back to life

• Who Has the Most Historical Responsibility for Climate Change?

• Battle over coal and fossil fuels dominates final day at COP26

• Denmark Spends $150K to Clean Beach, Then Dumps Seaweed, Plastic Back in the Sea

• Concern grows over Atlantic Ocean ‘conveyor belt’ shutdown