2021-11-27

Worthy

• The Brickyard Summer of 1957

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• Hundreds of FedEx packages are found in Alabama woods

• The pandemic has helped transform the e-bike into a juggernaut

• Canada taps into strategic reserves to deal with shortage of maple syrup

Horseshit

• Mixed Personality Disorders Are More Common Than You Think

• Are Instagram’s Aesthetic Moms Hindering Kids’ Development?

• Everyone’s Moving to Texas. Here’s Why

• Bison in Canada Discover Ancient Petroglyphs, Fulfilling an Indigenous Prophecy

• The western men who think they are South Pacific kings

celebrity gossip

• Epstein Victims' Compensation Program

• Catherine the Great Letter Extolling Virtues of Vaccination Is Up for Auction

• Canadians rocked by celebrity groundhog death coverup

• I’m a therapist to the super-rich: they are as miserable as Succession makes out

• Victims and Prosecutors See Ghislaine Maxwell as ‘Center’ of Epstein’s Scheme Ahead of Trial.

Obit

• Towering musical theater master Stephen Sondheim dies at 91

COVID / VaxCult

• MUST READ All Hail Covid – The Covid Physician

  What has been witnessed in the last two years is not medical science. It is the death of reason and the birth of a religious cult. The Church of Covid fathered illegitimately by the financial elite and delivered from the womb of governments. Its Holy Trinity, the Pfizer, the Moderna, and the Aztec-Zeneca. Baptism is by experimental vaccination. Its priesthood (SAGE), itself controlled by the papal WHO. Pope WHO mediates between the people and the Viral Gods mostly through belief systems of fear and disgust. The cult even possesses strange triplet mantras, ritual ablutions and symbolic headgear. Fit, healthy children are being sacrificed at its altars. Those who willingly joined are too scared to leave, many were coerced, a minority resist hoping for a saviour and a promised land. It is more effective and covid-safe to believe in garlic, silver bullets and wooden stakes.

• The forgotten Covid jab that might have no side effects in kids: Novavax vaccine made in Teeside set to become fourth approved shot and UK has 60million on order

• The Unvaxxed Lefties Hiding in Plain Sight

• Cinema & Co Swansea told to close by Welsh government - BBC News

  Anna Redfern did not turn up at Swansea Magistrates' Court after the city council told her to close Cinema & Co for refusing to ask for Covid passes. Covid passes are a legal requirement, and the cinema remained open despite being told to close.

• 26 More Cases Of Heart Inflammation Linked To Pfizer Jab

• SARS-CoV-2 escape in vitro from highly neutralizing Covid-19 convalescent plasma

• Scotland Sturgeon’s 70-page dossier finds no evidence for vaccine passports

• State of Emergency issued in NY to help boost hospital capacity

• A Possible Role for Anti-Idiotype Antibodies in Covid Infection and Vaccination

• Swiss vote on easing Covid restrictions

• German clinics are now requiring the Covid vaccine in order to get euthanized

  • Euthanasia clinics refusing unvaccinated customers

• Germany’s current Covid-19 crisis is mainly driven by the unvaccinated

• Big Three US Automakers Agree To Not Mandate Vaccines For UAW Union Members

• German Health Minister calls for ‘massive contact restrictions’ to fight Covid

• Immunity from Covid-19 Infection May Be as Strong as from Vaccination Archive link

  Evidence is building that immunity from Covid-19 infection is at least as strong as that from vaccination. Scientists are divided on the implications for vaccine policy.

  • HN thread

• Watch: Heavily Armed German Police Raid Crowded Cafe Over "COVID Rule Violations" | ZeroHedge

• We need to take back our lives from the permanent Covid panic-mongers Archive link

• (Sep 2021) Suppression of Delta-Specific Vaccines – Iowa Climate Science Education

Omicron

• (Also linked yesterday) B.1.1 decendant associated with South Africa with high number of Spike mutations

• New Concerning Variant: B.1.1.529

  • HN thread

• HN on: Classification of Omicron (B.1.1.529): SARS-CoV-2 Variant of Concern

• Deep and copies relevant twitter threads in detail: Omicron Variant: Early Analysis

  I was almost finished with this post when the WHO decided to go with Omicron instead of Nu (or even Xi) and then I had to go through and replace Nu with Omicron about 25 times. We could have just said ‘the Nu variant’ a lot but the WHO hates both efficiency and fun even more than it hates freedom, it seems. Sad.

  The large decline in Crypto is especially interesting, because we saw a similar thing in 2020 that at the time clearly didn’t reflect long term prospects and was based on the flows that happen in such situations. At the time I was too distracted to pull the trigger, which is quite sad. If the current move gets much bigger, then to the extent that one wants to be long, it seems like a potential opportunity to buy cheap (Not Investment Advice!).

  That market reaction was motivating to get me to look at this quickly and take it seriously, and is definitely influencing my probability of this being ‘for real’ quite a bit.

  • HN Thread wherein someone declares this is invalid because the authour is a "Magic The Gathering developer" ... its a blog post collecting other reporting.

• Ask HN: Do you suggest to sell stocks after Omicron discovery?

• Covid: US joins EU in restricting flights from S Africa over new coronavirus variant

• Travel restrictions start Monday

• Fauci says there is no indication the new coronavirus variant found in southern Africa is in the US

• Omicron shares many key mutations of Alpha, Beta, Gamma and Delta, & more

• Covid: World races to contain new Omicron variant

• Novavax developing vaccine that targets new COVID-19 variant | Reuters

• Omicron Variant: NY Declares State of Emergency Ahead of Potential Spike – NBC New York

  • NY Gov. Kathy Hochul orders halt on elective surgery amid COVID spike, Omicron

• Omicron cases are mild so far

• UK bringing in new Covid restrictions

• Ask HN: Is Booking a Xmas vacation now the best way to profit off Omicron news?

Culture War / Re segregation / Identdoctrination

• Is Society Coming Apart?

• The Weirdly Political Legacy of ‘Ghostbusters’

• American Medical Association Wokes Up, Cancels Terms Such as ‘Morbidly Obese’ and ‘Inmates.’

• Salvation Army Embraces Critical Race Theory: White People Must ‘Sincerely Apologize’ For Racism

• Canada moves to criminalize gender critical feminism over transphobia claims

• Study shows believers in astrology are less intelligent and more narcissistic

Edumacationalizing / Acedemia Nuts

• Universities Try to Force a Consensus About Kyle Rittenhouse Archive link

  Instead of using his acquittal to promote vigorous discussion, many administrators sent out statements decrying the verdict.

• Cognitive distortions predict safetyism-inspired beliefs in college students

• Computer Science was always supposed to be taught to everyone, and it wasn’t about getting a job: A historical perspective | Computing Education Research Blog

Media / Many Ministries of Truths / Censorship

• ‘Bitter,’ ‘Angry,’ ‘Enraged’: Reality Winner Blasts the Intercept After 4 Years in Jail

• Don Surber: Erasing the Waukesha Massacre in real time

• Judge dismisses Steam antitrust case for lack of factual support

TechSuck

• Lessons on the Future of the Metaverse from the Creator of Second Life

• The metaverse is just the latest incarnation of Las Vegas

• India tells public to shun Musk-backed Starlink until it gets licence

Economicon

• California port truckers ‘drowning’ in supply chain inefficiencies

• Most cryptocurrency trades may be people buying from themselves

• Buy Now, Pay Later: Red Friday | No Mercy / No Malice

• Pennsylvania electricity prices will be rising by as much as 50% next week.

• Zillow did not have metallic balls | Steven Buccini

  So what lessons can we learn from Zillow Offers’ collapse? Mark my words: they are only the first company to go under. The algorithmic underwriting sector is the new Hot Thing in Silicon Valley, and many of these companies are taking shortcuts as they try to outrun the competition. Yet, in the end, these shortcuts will be their downfall.

  The activity in the algorithmic risk underwriting space is frenetic, to say the least. Unfortunately, it is inevitable that we will see many more companies, of all shapes and sizes, make these same mistakes. Because when you have a hammer, everything tends to look like a nail and when you have TensorFlow, everything tends to look like an ML problem.

• Informative: Bank transfers as a payment method

• OPEC considers lowering production to account for oil reserve releases.

• The current inflation run is similar to other episodes in history

Gubmint / Poilitcks

• Biden administration proposes oil and gas drilling reform but stops short of ban

• "RussiaGate" It Wasn’t a Hoax

Law / Crime / Police

• Flash mob smash-and-grabs continue at high-end stores in Los Angeles

• Man arrested for defrauding Walmart of $1.3M in PC return scheme

• After Murders ‘Doubled Overnight,’ the N.Y.P.D. Is Solving Fewer Cases

Security / Militaria / Diplomania

• NATO chief warns Russia against invading Ukraine

• U.S. stonewalls probe into security firm that allegedly spied on Assange for CIA

• Russian T-80 Tank With Improvised Anti-Drone Armor Reportedly Appears In Crimea

World

• Students awarded $19k for rescue quantum computer from water leaking at 2am

• China Evergrande soccer stadium taken over by government -source

• Cultural Revolution was a catastrophe and Mao was responsible, China’s Communist Party upholds in landmark statement.

• Taiwan is making democracy work again. It's time the UK paid attention

Health / Medicine

• The “disappearing” human microbiome – and the fraught push to preserve it

Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda

• Humans have broken a fundamental law of the ocean

• How Your 401(K) Is Helping Destroy the Amazon Rainforest

• Veteran anti-consumerist crusader Reverend Billy takes aim at climate change

• People buying SUVs are cancelling out climate gains from electric cars

• New York Times won’t ban fossil fuel advertisers

• The UK Will Finally Officially Recognize Octopuses and Crabs as Sentient Beings

• It’s Time to Fear the Fungi

• The Forest People - by Stone Age Herbalist - Grey Goose Chronicles

  In particular the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) has been lobbying to convert the Messok Dja, a particularly biodiverse area of rainforest in the Republic of Congo, in a National Park, devoid of human presence. This aggressive act of clearance is rooted in the idea that a ‘wilderness’ area should not contain any people, thus rendering the original inhabitants of the forests as intruders, invaders and despoilers of ‘Nature’. The charity Survival – an organisation dedicated to indigenous and tribal rights – has been campaigning for WWF to stop their activities. In particular Survival has successfully documented numerous abuses committed by the Park Rangers, whose activities are funded by WWF and others:

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