2021-11-16

Cool

• 1930s – U.S. Navy's Airborne Aircraft Carriers

• Nifty! Open Source Ticker Tape | polygon.io

  • Github Repo

Worthy

• Decentralized Woo Hoo

  The essence of decentralized woo, and why it’s such a pernicious form of sophistry, is that it’s simply a proxy meme of the more dangerous idea that technology can fix social problems. This is an idea that is popular and dangerously seductive in its appeal, the idea that every social woe is simply a problem of lack of either connectivity or or lack of technology.

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• Vancouver is now completely cut off from the rest of Canada by road

Horseshit

• The claw clip hairstyle is more than a ’90s trend - Vox

• (Feb 2020) A moldy Whopper? Burger King launches campaign to highlight removal of artificial preservatives

• Risk compensation: The dangerous theory that got everything from bike helmets to vaccines wrong.

• (2018) How the shared family computer protected us from our worst selves

• California Man in 4-Day Standoff with Abandoned Amazon Truck in Driveway

celebrity gossip

• Prince Andrew $2M loan paid off by top political donor

• Bush Family Scion Sponsors Event With Blacklisted Chinese Company

COVID / VaxCult

• FDA will likely make booster decision without outside advisory committee

• Amazon to pay California $500k for ‘concealing’ Covid cases among workers

• Why I'm Not Vaccinated

• Florida School District Abandons Mask Mandate After 8-Year-Old Girl Told Them They Should Be In Prison

• The COVID Blog - Official blog of COVID Legal USA. Vaccines are the leading cause of coincidences. Stay Vigilant.

• Covid 11/11: Winter and Effective Treatments Are Coming - LessWrong

  Pfizer’s Paxlovid, a new Covid-19 treatment pill, works, with our best guess being it is 89% effective at preventing hospitalization and death, and that’s that. Trial was halted because medical ‘ethics’ is crazy and decided we couldn’t study the pill because it was too effective.

  The trial was stopped due to ‘ethical considerations’ for being too effective. You see, we live in a world in which:

  • It is illegal to give this drug to any patients, because it hasn’t been proven safe and effective.

  • It is illegal to continue a trial to study the drug, because it has been proven so safe and effective that it isn’t ethical to not give the drug to half the patients.

  • Who, if they weren’t in the study, couldn’t get the drug at all, because it is illegal due to not being proven safe and effective yet.

  • So now no one gets added to the trial so those who would have been definitely don’t get Paxlovid, and are several times more likely to die.

  • But our treatment of them is now ‘ethical.’

  • For the rest of time we will now hear about how it was only seven deaths and we can’t be sure Paxlovid works or how well it works, and I expect to spend hours arguing over exactly how much it works.

  • For the rest of time people will argue the study wasn’t big enough so we don’t know the Paxlovid is safe.

  • Those arguments will then be used both by people arguing to not take Paxlovid, and people who want to require other interventions because of these concerns.

  • FDA Delenda Est.

  There is still far too much uncertainty in how effective Paxlovid is, due to the trial being halted early – the idea that we know what we need to know here already is absurd. But we do know enough that this should become the standard treatment, and it should mostly replace prevention efforts other than vaccination.

• Early Data Suggest Pfizer Pill May Prevent Severe Covid-19

  • Pfizer agrees to let other companies make its Covid-19 pill

  • Pfizer to allow generic versions of its Covid pill in 95 countries

• Ask HN: Searching for jobs with employees not mandating vaccines for their employees?

• Five fold increase in Cardiac deaths of FIFA athletes

  • HN thread

• Why does Covid-19 make things smell disgusting?

• California says Amazon must stop hiding Covid case counts from workers

• Pentagon Says It Has Authority To Require Oklahoma National Guard To Follow Vaccine Mandate

• Covid antiviral pills: what scientists still want to know

Culture War / Re segregation / Identdoctrination

• The Behaviors and Attitudes of U.S. Adults on Twitter

• The Ten Stages of Genocide Are Hitting a Little Too Close to Home - American Thinker

• Rural Bangladeshis Turn to Faith and Family for Fact Checking

• Clinician peer networks remove race and gender bias

• Social Media: Influences and Impacts on Culture

Edumacationalizing

• ‘Locked And Loaded’ School Board Meeting Erupts After Pro-CRT Speaker Warns Parents He’s Got 1,000 Soldiers - NewsBreak

  A pro-Critical Race Theory parent told attendees at a Texas school board meeting that he has 1,000 soldiers “locked and loaded” for those who “dare” question the need for race-based curricula.

  “Look at the word racism, this is something deliberately done to people of African descent to shackle us down, this hate, fear-mongering ain’t gonna work no more,” Austin added. “It’s over with, we are not our ancestors. I got over 1,000 soldiers ready to go.”

  • Pro-CRT parent who is ex-member of a black militia group threatens anti-CRT parents | Daily Mail Online

Media / Many Ministries of Truths / Censorship

• OnlyFans gave adult content creators control. Now they may lose it

• Trust in media evaporates, with many believing coverage is too easy on Biden | Washington Examiner

• Twitter stops auto-refreshing timelines so tweets won’t disappear

• Hackers Compromised Middle East Eye News Website to Hack Visitors

• GTA Modders to Court: Our Game Fixes and Enhancements Are Fair Use, Not Piracy

Facebook

• Ohio Sues Meta Alleging Facebook Misled Public About Its Effect on Children

• Facebook accused of continuing to surveil teens for ad targeting

TechSuck

• How to design a business card with Inkscape - Fedora Magazine

• “Google can compete for Pentagon contracts without violating principles”

• I will pay you cash to delete your npm module

  +HN thread

• HN on: Google Cloud outage

Economicon

• Michael Burry Nukes His Portfolio, Exits All Bearish Positions | ZeroHedge

• Real-Estate Investors Bought 18% of the US Homes That Sold in the Third Quarter

• Air cargo is suddenly affordable relative to ocean shipping

• The double lives of white-collar workers with two jobs

• Warehouses are overwhelmed by America's shopping spree

• Bitcoin drops toward $60k as major cryptocurrencies plunge

• UK Supermarkets Lining Store Shelves With "Decoys" To Hide Supply Shortage | ZeroHedge

• Retirement Fund Giant Calpers Votes to Use Leverage, More Alternative Assets

• The Great American Trucker Shortage Isn't Real | Time

• Workers call the shots as job vacancies boom

• Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac to Back Home Loans of Nearly $1M as Prices Soar

• Roughly 46% of all Americans expect to retire in debt

• US Retail Sales Surged in October

Gubmint / Poilitcks

• Biden signs infrastructure bill into law

• The Steele Dossier Indicted the Media Archive

  That memo, soon to become known as the “Steele dossier” when a former British intelligence officer named Christopher Steele was publicly identified as its author, would inspire a slew of juicy, and often thinly sourced, articles and commentaries about Mr. Trump and Russia. Now it has been largely discredited by two federal investigations and the indictment of a key source, leaving journalists to reckon how, in the heat of competition, so many were taken in so easily because the dossier seemed to confirm what they already suspected.

  The first problem was this: There is no doubt that Mr. Trump had long curried Mr. Putin’s favor and that he and his family were eager to do business in Russia. Moreover, Mr. Mueller showed, and filed indictments that explained, how the Russians interfered in the 2016 campaign by targeting voter-registration systems, hacking into Democrats’ emails and taking advantage of Facebook and other social media companies to foment dissent and unrest.

  • HN thread

  • (Jan 2021) The Rise and Fall of the ‘Steele Dossier’ | The Nation

• Biden tormented by Republican guerrilla campaign and ‘I did it’ stickers.

• Wyoming Republican Party Officially Disowns Liz Cheney | ZeroHedge

• Biden Won’t Defend Black Woman From Racist Attacks, Former Harris Aide Says

Law / Crime / Police

• In Shock Closing Statement, Rittenhouse Prosecutor Claims Teen 'Lost The Right To Self-Defense' By Carrying Gun | ZeroHedge

Lead prosecutor Thomas Binger asserted to the jury during closing arguments that "You lose the right to self-defense when you're the one who brought the gun,"

+ [Cori Bush: If Rittenhouse Walks, White Supremacists 'Can Shoot
    at
    Us'](https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2021/11/15/democrat-rep-cori-bush-kyle-rittenhouse-acquitted-white-supremacists-can-shoot-us/)


+ [‘Incitement’: Cori Bush Called Out For Rittenhouse Remarks,
    Claims White Supremacists Shot At Her | The Daily
    Wire](https://www.dailywire.com/news/incitement-cori-bush-called-out-for-rittenhouse-remarks-claims-white-supremacists-shot-at-her)

  > “When we marched in Ferguson, white supremacists would hide
  > behind a hill near where Michael Brown Jr. was murdered and
  > shoot at us,” Bush tweeted. “They never faced consequences. If
  > Kyle Rittenhouse gets acquitted, it tells them that even 7
  > years later they still can get away with it.”


+ [Rittenhouse picks final jurors from raffle
    tumbler](https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/581789-rittenhouse-picks-final-jurors-from-raffle-tumbler)

Security / Militaria / Diplomania

• US anger at Russian anti-satellite missile test debris

  + [NASA Administrator Statement on Russian ASAT Test.](https://www.nasa.gov/press-release/nasa-administrator-statement-on-russian-asat-test/)
  

  • Russian suspected ground-launched ASAT test scatters dangerous debris through LEO.

  • NASA says Russia's anti-satellite test endangered International Space Station

  • Russia blows up satellite, NASA boss 'outraged' as ISS crew shelters from debris

• Xi Calls For "Rational" US Policy, Lays Out 'Red Lines' In 3.5-Hour "Respectful" Summit With Biden | ZeroHedge

• Biden To Soon Announce Diplomatic Boycott Of Beijing Winter Olympics: WaPo | ZeroHedge

World

• French flag changes colour – but no one notices

• Germany suspends approval of Russian pipeline, sending gas prices soaring

• Cuba Cracks Down on Protest Organizers Ahead of Planned March

Health / Medicine

• Harvard scientists identify second HIV patient whose body cleared the virus

Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda

• 50 years of predictions that the climate apocalypse is nigh

• Egypt: Scorpions kill three and injure hundreds in Aswan - BBC News

• (2019) Climate Change May Cause Increased Rates of Heart Defects in Babies | Smart News | Smithsonian Magazine

• As climate change policy takes shape, will the U.S. ever put a price on carbon?

• House sparrow population in Europe drops by 247m

• The US finally adopts a national recycling strategy

• The failure at Glasgow and what needs to happen next

• Harnessing Orkneys wave energy to power Scottish homes and whisky distilleries