2021-11-18

Cool

• Spy Camera Detection Using Smartphone Time-of-Flight Sensors | Hacker News

• First look at the Original Prusa XL: CoreXY with an always-perfect first layer and plenty of new features! - Prusa Printers

  Due to the ongoing uncertain situation with components and delivery times at hand, we decided to set the start of XL manufacturing to Q2/Q3 2022,

  Based on the current situation, we’re targeting the following prices: + Single toolhead semi-assembled – $1999 (vat excl.) / 2099€ (vat incl.) + Dual toolhead semi-assembled – $2499 (vat excl.) / 2599€ (vat incl.) + Five toolheads semi-assembled – $3499 (vat excl.) / 3699€ (vat incl.) The price of the fully assembled version of each variant will be $500 more. Should this change at any point, we’ll post an update.

Worthy

• Be Less Crazy - by Mike Solana - Pirate Wires

  There has been a hurricane of economic incoherence and misinformation from our media and government. The purpose of the misinformation is obviously to protect the current administration from criticism, and to convince Americans to support the aggressive Congressional spending agenda. But the story behind the story is every take I’ve cited, from the “what inflation” Krugman chronicles to sweet, simple Sarah’s “the poors love expensive shit” sideshow, has been ruthlessly ratio’d online. Overwhelmingly, people know this stuff is bullshit, and they’re over it.

  The smarter folks in media and government have begun to realize they can’t just shout “things are great” and force Americans to trust them anymore. They need something else. They need something powerful, and ancient. What they really need is a scapegoat.

Horseshit

• The software that studies your Facebook friends to predict who may commit crime

• Should elephants have legal personhood? An upcoming case will decide

• US law signed by President Biden will require new cars to detect drunk drivers

• In 1995... Biden's Pick For Top Bank Regulator Has A Troubling Shoplifting Record | ZeroHedge

• A German shepherd dog is selling a Miami mansion previously owned by Madonna

celebrity gossip

• Professor Cited as Corruption Expert Is Sentenced for Money Laundering

COVID / VaxCult

• Czechs bar unvaccinated from public events, services

• Negative Vaccine Effectiveness Isn't a New Phenomenon – It Turned Up in the Swine Flu Vaccine – The Daily Sceptic

• (2015) Leaky Vaccines Enhance Spread of Deadlier Chicken Viruses

• Reap what you sow? Doctors dropping like flies in deaths described as "died unexpectedly" and "died suddenly" since mid-October - The COVID Blog

• Are we seeing some new form of Covid-19 Vaccine induced Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome? – Official Government data suggests the Fully Vaccinated are on the precipice of disaster as their Immune Systems are being decimated – The Expose

• FDA Asks Federal Judge to Grant it Until the Year 2076 to Fully Release Pfizer’s COVID-19 Vaccine Data - by Aaron Siri - Injecting Freedom

• 8 Dead, 80 Infected In Fully-Vaccinated Connecticut Nursing Home

• Biomarker predicts severity of Covid-19 infection early on

• The Covid lab leak theory just got even stronger

• Covid Can Cause Strange Eye and Ear Symptoms

• Japanese SARS-CoV-2 Delta Variant Dying Out?

• 93%-Vaccinated Ireland Has Gone Back Into 'Partial Lockdown', Including Midnight Curfew

• Germany Preparing To Impose Austria-Style Lockdown On The Unvaxx'd

• 'Most vaccinated' place on earth cancels Christmas

• Antibody protection after mild COVID-19 may not last; an estimated 100 million people have had long COVID

• The impact of COVID-19 critical illness on new disability, functional outcomes and return to work at 6 months: a prospective cohort study

• MMA fighter who called himself the Unvaccinated Assassin ‘stabs doctor to death with animal bone in row over Covid jab’

  Akmal Khozhiev, 27, has been detained in Guam for allegedly choking and stabbing Dr Miran Ribati, with an animal bone

• New Clues to Delta Variant’s Spread in Studies of Virus-Like Particles

• Doctors are fighting back against fringe doctors pushing Covid misinformation

  Over the weekend, nearly 100 physicians in Alaska signed onto a letter urging the state medical board to investigate doctors in the state who have promoted vaccine skepticism and pushed unproven treatments, namely the antiparasitic drug ivermectin and the antimalaria drug hydroxychloroquine.

• Newport News Shipbuilding Parent Company Announces Suspension Of Vaccine Deadline

• CDC: Immunocompromised May Need 4th Covid Shot

• In Hamburg Germany, only the vaccinated can enjoy mulled wine

• Exclusive: The Despicable Reason "Vaccine" Requirements for Air Travel Were Put on Hold Until After the Holidays | The Liberty Daily

  they decided they could leverage family gatherings to “coax” people to get vaccinated. “Ridicule and anger are powerful tools within a family,” my source said. “The best way to make people feel like a black sheep is to get them in front of their family in a group setting. We’re playing the odds. In a standard family gathering, there will be more properly vaccinated than not.”

  “I don’t know if it played a role in Biden’s decision but I can tell you there’s a campaign in the works to encourage people to ‘educate’ their vaxx-skeptic family members during Thanksgiving and Christmas,” my source close to the DNC said. “It’s funny because they’re saying our best ‘advocate’ to promote the vaccine is the guy who already got vaccinated.”

• Genetic engineering: why some fear the next pandemic could be lab-made | Financial Times

• Exemptions to the COVID-19 Vaccine - by Techno Fog - The Reactionary

• The Ottawa Senators Are Fully Vaccinated–40% of Team Tested Positive for Covid

• Forty Four Cal Football Players Tested Positive for Covid, 99.5% Vaccinated

• More people died in the key clinical trial for Pfizer's Covid vaccine than the company publicly reported - by Alex Berenson - Unreported Truths

  Pfizer said publicly in July it had found 15 deaths among vaccine recipients by mid-March. But it told the FDA there were 21 - at the same data cutoff end date, March 13. The placebo figure in the trial was also wrong. Pfizer had 17 deaths among placebo recipients, not 14. Nine extra deaths overall, six among vaccine recipients.

• Covid: Germany cases hit record high with Merkel warning of 'dramatic' situation - CNN

Culture War / Re segregation / Identdoctrination

• Where Americans find meaning in life has changed over the past four years

• Social media creating virus of lies, says Nobel winner Maria Ressa

• Scientific American Goes Woke - by Michael Shermer - Skeptic

Edumacationalizing

• Allegations of bigotry and calls for impeachment rock College Democrats

Media / Many Ministries of Truths / Censorship

• Minecraft 1.18 is due out on November 30.

  It also apparently makes axolotls harder to find. Since I only have one so far, I might need to look around for some more before I update.

• The metaverse is already here. The debate is now over who should own it

  • Don’t mock the metaverse. It's already here. It’s just not evenly distributed

• Why MasterCard’s New Porn Rules Should Scare Everyone

Facebook

• Restore Net Neutrality, or Facebook Will Dominate the Internet Forever

• The Facebook Team That Tried to Swing Nicaragua’s Election Is Full of U.S. Spies

• Facebook Isn’t Telling You How Popular Right-Wing Content Is on the Platform

• Facebook is bad at moderating in English. In Arabic, it’s a disaster

TechSuck

• gee. makes HN front page this evening, co-inky-dinkly. is a great package. But its in the news because of the Rittenhouse trial. HandBrake – An open source video transcoder | Hacker News

• Google is extending Chrome support for Windows 7 by another year

• The Legacy of Mattress Cash Fires Archive link

  It feels as if many of the tech mistakes from the past decade are being repeated on steroids. Electric vehicle companies that have barely produced cars are worth more than many of the world’s automakers. I see a lot of excess hype around NFTs and the blockchain, and new services cropping up that are likely to prove unsustainable. I want to be an optimist about the ways technology has made our lives better. Right now, I’m not.

• Wow. the virtualenv / pip / pip2 carp got a lot worse than I thought. Customize Python dependency resolution with machine learning

• Privacy Report: What Android Does In The Background | Hackaday

Economicon

• The government dramatically underestimated job growth this summer

• John Deere UAW Members Ratify a 6-Year Agreement With Substantial Gains | UAW

• Ford Steps into the Chips Business

• Premarket stocks: Oil prices are finally falling. Thank China and Joe Biden - CNN

  the biggest factor driving prices right now is the expected release of strategic reserves from the United States and China.

• (Oct 20) Lower-Income Americans Starting to Opt Out of Holiday Spending Archive link

• Farming Software Maker Valued at $4B in Round

Gubmint / Poilitcks

• FCC votes unanimously to require texts/calls to 988 route to suicide prevention

• Marco Rubio Is Burnishing His Nihilist Credentials in a Political Party Gone Mad

• Biden blames rising gas prices on ‘anti-consumer behavior’ from oil companies.

• Nightmare fuel: Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm sings the praises of banning gasoline in music video that should’ve been left in the ground – twitchy.com

• House votes to censure GOP Rep. Paul Gosar over video depicting killing of AOC

• Idaho Lawmaker Is Censured for Doxxing Intern Who Reported Rape

• An Antidote to Inflation? ‘Buy Nothing’ Groups Gain Popularity

• Writers seem to want to work themselves into an incautious panic about inflation

  . Nationally, gas is at about $3.4 a gallon. In the early 2010s, that was just what the gas price was over a period of years, and immediately prior to the financial crisis gas jumped over $4 per gallon. In real terms, current gas prices are substantially below the levels of the early 2010s and mid 2000s.

Law / Crime / Police

• Why the FBI raid of Project Veritas is concerning for press freedom

• FBI raids home of Trumpist county clerk in probe of voting-system passwords leak

  + [FBI raids homes of Mesa County Clerk and Recorder Tina Peters and
  Lauren Boebert’s former campaign
  manager](https://www.nbc11news.com/2021/11/17/fbi-raids-homes-mesa-county-clerk-recorder-tina-peters-lauren-boeberts-former-campaign-manager/)
  

  • FBI search Mesa County clerk Tina Peters’ home in election security breach investigation | Colorado Public Radio

  • Homes of Colorado Elections Clerk and Rep. Lauren Boebert’s Campaign Manager Raided by FBI - by Big League Politics - Big League Politics

    Another home also raided was that of Sherronna Bishop, a Garfield County resident who managed the 2020 campaign of now-representative Lauren Boebert.

• When You Lose the Washington Post, You've Gone Way Too Far – PJ Media

  Then today came news of FBI raids of the homes of Colorado’s Elections Clerk and Rep. Lauren Boebert’s (R-Colo.) campaign manager. It looks as if the Justice Department has become an authoritarian tool of Biden’s handlers in their quest to criminalize dissent from their agenda — and this corruption is advancing so rapidly that even the Washington Post, a reliable mouthpiece of the Deep State, is now wondering if it is all going too far.

• 2 Men Convicted of Killing Malcolm X Will Be Exonerated Decades Later

Rittenhouse / Kenosha

• Bricks in Kenosha? Again? Pay No Attention to the Brick Wizard Behind the Curtain.... - by The Starfire Codes - The Starfire Codes by Demi Pietchell

• Rittenhouse Trial Erupts Into Chaos As Prosecution Goes On Defense Over Withheld Evidence | ZeroHedge

• Kyle Rittenhouse prosecutors HELD BACK high-def drone footage

  For his part Judge Schroeder did not accept Binger's insistence that he acted 'in good faith' snapping, 'I don't believe you.'

• Rittenhouse defense requests mistrial after iOS Mail compresses video evidence

• They released HD drone footage of Kyle Rittenhouse shooting Joseph Rosenbaum and it couldn't be more clear what happened | Not the Bee

• HANDBRAKE! – Geller Report

  Handbrake is now trending in the United States after being spotted on Lunchbox's computer

• Pro-Conviction Protesters Arrested for Attacking Kyle Rittenhouse Supporters.

• Protesters Are Already Clashing While Jury Decides Rittenhouse’s Fate

  “Gaggles of his right-wing supporters, including at least one waving a giant “Let’s Go Brandon” flag, which is a conservative meme making fun of President Joe Biden” versus “Meanwhile, activists, including some who were wearing T-shirts saying “Fuck Kyle,”

• MSNBC Banned From Rittenhouse Trial After Employee Follows Jury Bus; Boss Nukes Accounts | ZeroHedge

  Judge Bruce Schroeder banned MSNBC from his courtroom for the duration of the trial, after an employee claiming to be a producer with the outlet reportedly followed the van taking jurors home on Wednesday evening and was pulled over after running a red light.

  "No one from MSNBC news will be permitted in this building … this is an extremely serious matter and will be referred to the proper authorities," said Schroeder.

• Judge bans NBC from Kenosha courthouse after report of producer following jurors

• The Media's Verdict on Kyle Rittenhouse - by Bari Weiss - Common Sense with Bari Weiss

• Don’t Blame Judge Schroeder if Kyle Rittenhouse Goes Free

• (Nov 11) When You Condone Chaos, You Condone the Consequences of Chaos - by Freddie deBoer - Freddie deBoer

  You endorsed chaotic violence. In that state, someone you don’t like engaged chaotically and violently. You said “riots are good.” But people get killed in riots! Now two people are dead, another is maimed, and the guy responsible may very well walk, as his actions took place against a backdrop of lawlessness and gunfire that gave him the legal arguments he needs to be acquitted. What else did you expect to happen, in that scenario? How did you think this would all go, this peacocking endorsement of violence for its own sake? Reap what you sow. Reap what you sow.

Security / Militaria / Diplomania

• Wagnergate: Ukraine’s Brazen Sting Operation to Snare Russian Mercenaries

World

• Chinese Tennis Star accuses former Politburo member of assault, goes missing

• Decathlon halts canoe sales to curb English Channel migrant crossings - BBC News

  Sporting retailer Decathlon has pulled canoes from sale in northern France to stop migrants from using them to cross the English Channel. The decision on Tuesday followed a sharp rise in attempts to reach the UK from migrant camps in northern France. A record 1,185 migrants crossed the Channel in small boats last Thursday.

• Venezuela liberalizes economy to provide an economic boost

Health / Medicine

• Lab-stage mRNA vaccine targeting ticks may offer protection against Lyme

• Eleven-year-old girl who bathed in hot spring diagnosed with gonorrhea: Case study | National Post

• Maryland Monkeypox infection is second in US of 2021

Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda

• Surf and Turf: How Seaweed Helps Cows Become Better Climate Citizens

• To Fight Climate Change, Los Angeles Bans Restaurants From Giving Out Unsolicited Ketchup Packets

• (Video) Carl Sagan testifying before Congress in 1985 on climate change

• What Would It Look Like If We Treated Climate Change as an Actual Emergency? ❧ Current Affairs

• Why are the B.C. floods so bad? Blame the wildfires, at least in part

• Stratospheric aerosol injection for climate change