2023-10-27
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Horseshit
Rank Propaganda / Thought Policing / World Disordering
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Note to Readers: On "Project Amy" - by Matt Taibbi
Whether it’s NewsGuard slapping “anti-US” labels on Joe Lauria and Consortium News, or Drs. Jay Bhattacharya, Aaron Kheriaty, and Martin Kulldorff censored on multiple platforms for being right on Covid, or podcaster Alison Morrow fired from a state job for interviewing Kheriaty, or friend CJ Hopkins in Germany criminally convicted for a book cover, or the FBI asking Twitter to remove Aaron Mate for the Ukrainian Secret Police, or ballooning budget requests of “counter-disinformation” enforcement agencies, or the new jailing even of Owen Shroyer for having “helped create January 6th” with speech, or of course the forever-detention of Julian Assange, and above all the total indifference of legacy media to all of it, it’s over. I’ve lost patience. Time for a more focused approach.
For readers who might be concerned I’m losing my mind, you’re not wrong. What can I say? Even my dog flashes worried looks at me these days. But I was pushed. Pushed I say! And so were many, many others. A la bataille!
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Emails show how feds coalesced around Russia, QAnon to dismiss Hunter Biden laptop | Just The News
What's unambiguous, however, is the Mis-, Dis- and Malinformation (MDM) Team in the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency had settled on a narrative for the laptop by the following week: guilt by association with the Russian state and QAnon, and disinterest in its authenticity and integrity despite the FBI confirming it nearly a year earlier, according to a contemporaneous IRS memo. Other legal groups are pulling on loose threads from similar disclosures about public-private collaborations that may involve policing purported misinformation.
Musk
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The Slow Death of Authenticity in an Attention Economy | Cory Zue
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Twitter suspends MN Rep. Phillips' account ahead of 2024 presidential filing
Phillips' two other main accounts on X, his personal one and his official one as a U.S. Representative, remain active Friday morning.
Trump / War against the Right / Jan6
Pestilence / Pox / COVID / VaxCult
Religion / Tribal / Culture War and Re-Segregation
Edumacationalizing / Acedemia Nuts
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This teacher shortage solution has gone viral. But does it work?
There are an estimated 55,000 vacant teaching positions in U.S. schools, according to the tracker teachershortages.com. One possible solution has gone viral: Grow Your Own programs. According to researchers, as of the spring of 2022, an estimated 900 U.S. school districts were using these programs to try to ease their teacher shortages.
- teach while studying for the certificates required. Indentures?
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Harvard ‘doxxing truck’ parks outside homes of students who blamed Israel for Hamas attacks.
Entertainment / ShowBiz / Advertising
TechSuck / Geek Bait
Space / UFO / Boomy Zoomers
Crypto con games
Economicon / Business / Finance
Gubmint / Poilitcks / Law Making
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Judge finds Georgia's district lines violated Voting Rights Act
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Whoops! Biden Adviser Jake Sullivan Scrubs Gaza Brag From 'Foreign Affairs' Essay | ZeroHedge
"The Israeli-Palestinian situation is tense, particularly in the West Bank," Sullivan wrote, "but in the face of serious frictions, we have de-escalated crises in Gaza and restored direct diplomacy between the parties after years of its absence."
if the print edition hadn't been sent out for publication before the Hamas attack on Israel, the Ministry of Truth would have gotten away with stealth-editing Sullivan's embarrassing screed.
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Republican presidential candidate Larry Elder suspends campaign, endorses Donald Trump
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GOP-led House panel requests Biden loan documents predating his presidency.
Law Breaking / Police / Internal Security
External Security / Militaria / Diplomania
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DeSantis’s office says it is sending drones, weapons, ammunition to Israel | The Hill
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US Warplanes Conduct Major Strikes On 'Iranian Proxies' In Syria
According to a statement by Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin, "Today, at President Biden’s direction, U.S. military forces conducted self-defense strikes on two facilities in eastern Syria used by Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) and affiliated groups." The attacks were reportedly done by US warplanes, likely operating out of either the Gulf or Mediterranean areas where new US naval assets have recently been positioned, keeping a watch on fast moving events in Gaza.
World
Israel
Health / Medicine
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Study shows antibodies against PEG in 83% of the German population
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My Left Kidney - by Scott Alexander - Astral Codex Ten
This was one of the most infuriating and humiliating things that’s ever happened to me. We throw around a lot of terms like “stigma” and “paternalism”, and I’ve worked with patients who have dealt with all these issues (it’s UCSF in particular a surprising amount of the time!). But I was still surprised how much it hurt when it happened to me. Being denied the right to control your own body because of some meaningless diagnosis on a chart somewhere is surprisingly frustrating, even compared to things that should objectively be worse. I thought I was going to be able to do a good deed that I’d been fantasizing about for years, and some jerk administrator torpedoed my dreams because I had once, long ago, had mild mental health issues.