2021-12-07

Worthy

• Misremembering Pearl Harbor › American Greatness

• Derek Lowe RNA Takes Over | Science | AAAS

• Cryptocurrencies: A Necessary Scam? - BIG by Matt Stoller

  In other words, my view is that crypto is a movement based on the theory that the existing nation-state is a system is rigged by billionaires, and the right response is to create a different and more corrupt order rigged by different billionaires, money launderers, and dictators. It will of course all end in tears. That much we know. But how much ruin this movement engenders will depend on whether and how quickly we can restore the legitimacy of our existing governing systems.

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• Bolton farm volunteer dies after being injured by sheep

• Sony Playstation SVP caught in pedophile sting video

• Iron integral to the development of life on Earth – and on other planets

• Why Retaining Walls Collapse — Practical Engineering

• Pearl Harbor forced the world’s first around-the-world commercial flight

• China’s Moon Rover – Case Closed on “Mystery House”

• Bill Gates Year In Review: Reasons for optimism after a difficult year

Horseshit

• Miami jury rules in favor of Craig Wright, who claimed to invent Bitcoin

  • Bitcoin's self-proclaimed inventor wins trial over stash worth $54B

• I Lived Off the Grid – and I’m Still Broke

• Top Ten Percent of NFT Traders Perform 85% of All Transactions

celebrity gossip

• Jamal Khashoggi: Suspect in murder of journalist arrested - BBC News

COVID / VaxCult

• AHA “regrets any confusion” and is reviewing meeting policies after outcry over Covid-19 vaccine abstract – Retraction Watch

• The eccentric scientist behind the ‘gold standard’ Covid-19 test

• (2005) Chloroquine is a potent inhibitor of SARS coronavirus infection and spread - PMC

• Blood pressure climbed during coronavirus pandemic, especially among women

• Super mild “Omicron” displacing dangerous Covid strains

• GSK Claims New Anitbody Drug Is Effective Against Omicron

• PCR Tests and the Rise of Disease Panic ⋆ Brownstone Institute

  like a powerful magnifying glass or zoom lens, if it’s powerful enough to find a needle in a haystack it’s powerful enough to make mountains out of molehills.

• Nearly 70 ICU medics at Spanish hospital test positive for Covid after party

• (Feb 2021) Variant-proof vaccines – invest now for the next pandemic

• Accelerating Covid-19 Vaccine Testing with Correlates of Protection

• Biden Vaccine Mandate for Federal Contractors Blocked Nationwide

  • Fed contractor vaccine mandate under injunction nationwide

• Time of day matters in antibody response to Covid-19 vaccine

Culture War / Re segregation / Faith Fights

• Cuba’s post-revolution architecture offers blueprint for building more with less

• Our Rulers Are Not Rational Creatures: Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix

  Allowing poverty to continue is now a choice. It's not a choice being made by you or me or any ordinary person, but it is still a choice, being made by the drivers of global capitalism. We could eliminate it, but we don't, and we accept this as normal because we're brainwashed.

  In terms of abusive systems held in place by propaganda and authoritarian force, the ones we had in place in 2019 dwarf the measures we've seen put in place since by orders of magnitude. Many just didn't notice them because they've been conditioned to accept them as normal.

• NYT runs earnest essay by woman who was literally shook when white couple violated her ‘Black space’ by looking at a book in her homemade library – twitchy.com

  What I resented was not this specific couple. It was their whiteness, and my feelings of helplessness at not knowing how to maintain the integrity of a Black space that I had created. I was seeing up close how fragile that space can be, how its meaning can be changed in my mind, even by people who have no conscious intention to change it.

• Increasing family estrangements for socio-political reasons

• I thought I was a free man: the engineer fighting Texas’s ban on Israel boycotts

Edumacationalizing / Acedemia Nuts

• Letter comparing parent protests to domestic terrorism triggers funding fallout

Media / ShowBiz / Censorship

• Listen: Unhinged NYT Journalist's Foulmouthed Voicemail for Great Lakes Gun Rights - The Truth About Guns

  Again, I am from the New York Times and I’m letting everyone in the New York Times know what kind of f@cking a$$holes you are. Congrats on being a laughing stock. You f@cking ghouls. I hope that there is a God in heaven so he judges you when you die.

• Gab Has a ‘Porn Bot’ Problem. and Its CEO Blames MAGA Rivals

Facebook

• Instagram, ahead of U.S. Senate hearing, tightens teen protection measures

• Rohingya sue Facebook for $150bn over Myanmar hate speech

TechSuck

• Microsoft Office prices going up 20% for some business clients

• Nintendo Switch modder will pay 10M in damages to Nintendo

• NASA awards additional astronaut flights to SpaceX

• AWS us-east-1 outage | Hacker News

• Former Tesla employees say 2016 ‘Full Self-Driving’ video was staged

Economicon / Business / Finance

• Toyota will build a $1.29B electric vehicle battery factory in North Carolina

• Why the Hell Is There a Christmas Tree Shortage?

• A new way of understanding the high but elusive worth of intellectual property

• U.S. Weighs New Rules for All-Cash Real-Estate Deals

• Let the “Great Delisting” Begin

• The Great Resignation? More Like the Freelance Revolution

• Ratings agency says Evergrande default ‘inevitable’

Gubmint / Poilitcks / Law Making

• Body of Late Senator Bob Dole to Lie in State at Capitol

  • Bob Dole Switches To Democrat Party.

  Former Senator and presidential candidate Bob Dole has passed away at 98, marking his transition from a lifelong Republican to a reliable Democrat voter.

• I Battled Rhode Island's Cookie Police | RealClearPolicy

• Emails show what happened before Missouri gov. called journalist a “hacker”

• DEVIN NUNES TO RETIRE FROM CONGRESS, BECOME CEO AT TRUMP MEDIA GROUP

• "Absolute And Unmitigated Liars": Former DC National Guard Official Says Generals Fabricated January 6th Account | ZeroHedge

• Elon Musk says Biden's “Build Back Better” plan shouldn't pass

• Biden misses congressional deadline to disclose Afghan airlift details | Washington Examiner

Law Breaking / Police / Internal Security

• Justice Department Closes Emmett Till Investigation Without Charges

• Hacked Cryptocurrency Platform Begs Hacker to Please Return $119M

• Your Face Is, or Will Be, Your Boarding Pass

External Security / Militaria / Diplomania

• (2015) That Awkward Moment When One Nobel Peace Prize Winner Bombs Another

• Domestic cop, International incisent: LAPD Chief Just Became the ‘Ugly American’ in France

• Biden To Warn Putin US Is Prepared To Move More Troops Near Russia's Border

• U.S., Taiwan discuss semiconductor chips, agree to cooperate under new framework

World

• UAE to change to a 4½-day week, starting Monday and ending on Friday at noon

• Russia has banned the Tor network (including bridges)

• China threatens the US with retaliation over diplomatic boycott Winter Olympics

• Putin To Biden: 'Finlandize' Ukraine, Or We Will | ZeroHedge

  Either the U.S. and NATO provide us with “legal guarantees” that Ukraine will never join NATO or become a base for weapons that can threaten Russia — or we will go in and guarantee it ourselves. This is the message Russian President Vladimir Putin is sending, backed by the 100,000 troops Russia has amassed on Ukraine’s borders.

• China ‘modified’ the weather to create clear skies for political celebration

• Military's former head of HR charged with sexual assault, indecent acts | CBC News

Health / Medicine

• NIH director on why Americans aren't getting healthier, despite medical advances

• Viagra Is Linked to Almost 70% Lower Risk of Alzheimer's

• So much for ‘the tragedy of the treadmill delayed’ in supply chain crisis — FDA warns of 100 vital drug shortages

Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda

• A “Mini-Ice Age” Could Hit Earth by 2030, Scientists Warn

• Union Pacific Announces Climate Action Plan and Commits to Net Zero Target