2025-11-01

Horseshit

• The S&P 500 Is a Hyperstition

  The recurring pattern across these examples (light bulbs, radio, internet, AI) reveals a fundamental principle. Technological advancements are not simply enabled by belief; they are belief made manifest. Technological hyperstition is not merely a story about a future technology; it is the causal engine driving its emergence. The narrative is not a byproduct of development; it actively shapes and directs the entire process materializing the envisioned future.

• 'Dueling dinosaurs' fossil forces a radical rethink of T. rex remains

  • One of science's biggest dinosaur debates may be settled

  • Young T. rex or new species? 'Duelling Dinosaur' fossil might end 40-year debate

• For These Women, the American Dream Is in Mexico City

• Dictionary.com names '6-7' as 2025 Word of the Year. Here's what it means

• The Best Inventions of 2025

• Women Are Getting on Testosterone and They Say It’s Absolutely Awesome.

• The Economics of Culture

• The Biro turns 80: How a simple pen rewrote everyday life

• Enhanced Games are dangerous and must be stopped, says Wada head

• Aerial additive manufacturing: drones to construct remote infrastructure

• Universal basic credit would create a fair AI economy

• Cyclist falls down 130-foot ravine in France, survives 3 days by drinking wine

• Three billionaires went out for chicken and beer, and paid for everyone's meal

• Liberalism, ISIS, and Toaster Nationalism

  This is the dilemma of modernity. Life is too easy relative to any other point of our history. This has combined with the rise of smart phones and social media to make many people miserable. They develop illiberal political views in response. Fall into an internet rabbithole, and you can just deny reality and pretend like life actually is hard and there is an oppressive force worth struggling against, because you suffer from structural racism, transphobia, population replacement, or the never-ending lies of the “Cathedral.” You see it in memes about how pleasant life on one salary was in the 1950s, with a reminder to “never forget what they took from you.” A lot of this stuff is pathetic and self-pitying, if not downright pathological, but there’s also a payoff in that it has all the elements of what makes a good story: a desired end state, high-stakes, comrades-in-arms, moral certainty, and a clear enemy. The problem of course is that such worldviews are built on lies, so they can’t really solve the problems they were meant to address. There really isn’t a straightforward enemy you can blame for your problems, and to the extent that there is, it’s people like your middle class grandparents who don’t want any housing built around where they live, rather than Soros rubbing his hands together and thinking about how to trans little kids. And because they’re motivated by a need for meaning rather than approaching issues with an empirical mindset, non-liberals tend to have terrible economic ideas.

• Pickleball popularity surge serves up spike in serious eye injuries

• Latter-day Saints are having fewer children. Church officials are taking note

celebrity gossip

• JPMorgan Alerted U.S. to Epstein Transfers Involving Wall St. Figures

• Epstein and Mossad: The Trafficker Helped Israel Build a Backchannel to Russia

• Following Epstein's Money

• NASA hits back at Kim Kardashian's moon landing conspiracy

Rank Propaganda / Thought Policing / World Disordering

• Double de Blasio: Most Wonderful Journalistic Disaster of the Year | National Review

  the Times in its infinite wisdom apparently interviewed the wrong Bill de Blasio. The reporter emailed an address he believed to be the former mayor’s but that belonged instead to a random Long Islander of the same name. And the paper never bothered to confirm that its reporter was actually communicating with the real de Blasio — because after all, he was. (“I’m Bill DeBlasio. I’ve always been Bill DeBlasio.”)

  • That Times of London-Bill deBlasio Controversy Keeps Evolving - and Keeps Getting Funnier – RedState

  De Blasio, as reported, questioned the financial realities of many of the proposed plans for New York City. Most stirring was de Blasio pointing out that Mamdani was falling prey to “optimistic assumptions” about the tax revenue he could generate to support his numerous social giveaways. This caused quite a stir in the media realm and was amplified by Andrew Cuomo’s campaign. But then it was seen that the ToL rather quickly took down the entire article. This was due to Bill de Blasio going public to say those were not his words, that he never spoke with the outlet, and that he fully supports the Mamdani campaign with no qualifying critiques.

  So what took place? It seems that after de Blasio claimed that it was a fraudulent report/interview, the belief was that the outlet had been on the receiving end of a hoaxer. It was detailed that the reporter had been duped by an individual claiming to be the former mayor. The paper declared in a statement, “Our reporter had been misled by an individual falsely claiming to be the former New York mayor.”

  And now that explanation may also be in trouble of being inaccurate. At Semafor, Max Tani has an exclusive that his outlet has tracked down the source of this “fraudulent” interview – and it was from Bill DeBlasio. If you are twisting your head at this revelation, there is a very subtle difference: the spelling of the last name. Semafor sent a reporter to the home of Bill DeBlasio – a wine importer, who lives on Long Island. Yes, there are, in fact, two such named individuals in the metroplex. While speaking from his location in Florida, the non-former-mayor conducted an interview with Semafor reporter Brendan Ruberry through his Ring doorbell camera. He explained that he did not deceive Bevan Hurley; he simply did not take the effort to clarify things.

  • British newspaper spoke to the wrong Bill de Blasio, not an ‘imposter’ | Semafor

  The man at the heart of a high-stakes mix-up that rippled through global political journalism in the final days of the New York mayoral campaign was neither “falsely claiming” to be former Mayor Bill de Blasio — as the Times of London suggested — nor, as The New York Times wrote, a “de Blasio impersonator.” He is, instead, a 59-year-old Long Island wine importer named Bill DeBlasio, who merely responded to an email from a journalist seeking his views on Democrat Zohran Mamdani’s policies.

  “I’m Bill DeBlasio. I’ve always been Bill DeBlasio,” DeBlasio said in an interview conducted Wednesday evening through his Ring doorbell in Huntington Station, Long Island, from his current location in Florida. “I never once said I was the mayor. He never addressed me as the mayor,” DeBlasio told Semafor. “So I just gave him my opinion.”

• One third of all journalists are creator journalists, new report finds

Musk

• Elon Musk's SpaceX Set to Win $2B Pentagon Satellite Deal

• Elon Musk on data centers in orbit: "SpaceX will be doing this"

• Judge sanctions Tesla for 'willful' and 'deliberate' violations in crash lawsuit

• What If You Spent Every Waking Moment Taking on Elon Musk?

Electric / Self Driving cars

• Ford to End Production of Failed F-150 Lightning

  Ford will stop making its electric vehicle (EV) flagship, the F-150 Lightning. The New York Times reports this could be attributed to both the fire and flagging sales. In the first three quarters of the year, Lightning unit sales were up only 1% to 23,034. The extent to which Ford is entirely a gasoline-powered car company shows up in overall F-Series sales, which rose 12.7% to 620,580. Ford’s management shows wisdom in shutting down Lightning production. The electric pickup never sold well, suggesting its launch was a terrible mistake. Additionally, the U.S. EV market is dying and will not bounce back soon. The $7,500 EV tax credit expired at the end of the third quarter. People who wanted an EV rushed to buy one before the deadline.

• Rivian to cut over 600 jobs as EV demand flags after tax credits expire | Reuters

• GM to take $1.6 billion charge related to EV pullback

• Making EVs takes big energy, but after 2 years, they're cleaner than gas cars

• Waymo acknowledges its vehicle hit a San Francisco corner store cat

Religion / Tribal / Culture War and Re-Segregation

• Transgender identification in college youth is at an all-time high

Edumacationalizing / Acedemia Nuts

• hackers have taken over the University of Pennsylvania computer systems, calling the college a “dogshit elitist institution full of woke retards”

  • UPenn GSE email account compromised

Info Rental / ShowBiz / Advertising

• Canonical announces it will support and distribute Nvidia CUDA in Ubuntu

• Disney content to go dark on YouTubeTV amid contract dispute

  • ESPN, ABC cut off for millions as Disney channels go dark on YouTube TV

• Google makes first Play Store changes after losing Epic Games antitrust case - Ars Technica

• Think Big, Print Bigger: Introducing the Prusa CORE One L

  The print volume is 300×300×330 mm – plenty of space for large, durable models in a single piece. The chamber goes to 60°C. All in all, CORE One L is only 10% larger than the CORE One AND 0,5 kg lighter.

• Tim Berners-Lee believes it's time to build the intention economy online

• The Microsoft Azure Outage Shows the Harsh Reality of Cloud Failures

• Fire TV: Amazon to block piracy apps in the future

• Bluesky hits 40M users, introduces 'dislikes' beta

• FCC to rescind ruling that said ISPs are required to secure their networks

• Will Paramount Cancel Jon Stewart?

TechSuck / Geek Bait

• The Arduino Uno Q is a weird hybrid SBC | Jeff Geerling

  Arduino even tried it before with their old Yún board, which had Linux running on a MIPS CPU, married to an ATmega microcontroller. The Uno Q isn't quite a Raspberry Pi, but it looks like one when you squint at it. And it's not quite an Uno, but it does a pretty good job masquerading as that, too.

  The lone USB-C port being the only connection right now is a blessing and a curse. One intention is for the Q to be an educational board: students plug one in at a table and work on robotics. Except if you don't have a display with a built-in USB-C hub, now you need a: USB-C power supply, USB-C hub with HDMI, monitor and a keyboard.

  I guess I just don't see this thing lighting the world on fire. It's nice that it exists, especially if you have an Arduino-centric course or robotics pipeline already, and you want the convenience of Linux for remote access or running a tiny ML model. But after using it for a couple weeks, I just don't see the value for my own work. And I can't find many reasons to recommend it unless you're already in the Arduino ecosystem.

AI Will (Save | Destroy) The World

• Big Tech Is Spending More Than Ever on AI and It's Still Not Enough

• You Can't Opt Out of Sam Altman's Erotica

• AGI became the most consequential conspiracy theory of our time

• Federal judge in Mississippi admits staff used AI to draft inaccurate order

• The Next Era of Social Media Is Coming

• OpenAI Uses Complex and Circular Deals to Fuel Its Multibillion-Dollar Rise

  • Deals that would be considered fraud if real people engaged in them. But when you're big enough its merely "sparkling finance."

• "Unexpectedly, a deer briefly entered the family room": Living with Gemini Home

• Ex-McKinsey consultants are training AI models to replace them

• Big Tech's A.I. Spending Is Accelerating (Again)

• AI scrapers request commented scripts

  It turned out that I accidentally committed and deployed a commented-out script tag that I'd included in the page while prototyping a new feature. The script was never actually pushed to the server - hence the 404 errors - but nobody should have been requesting it because that HTML comment should have rendered the script tag non-functional. The robots.txt for the site in question forbids all crawlers, so they were either failing to check the policies expressed in that file, or ignoring them if they had. A charitable interpretation for this behaviour is that the scrapers are correctly parsing HTML, but then digging into the text of comments and parsing that recursively to search for URLs that might have been disabled. The uncharitable (and far more likely) interpretation is that they'd simply treated the HTML as text, and had used some naive pattern-matching technique to grab anything vaguely resembling a URL.

• Big Tech Needs $2T in AI Revenue by 2030 or They Wasted Their Capex

  To be clear, everybody is losing money on AI. Every single startup, every single hyperscaler, everybody who isn’t selling GPUs or servers with GPUs inside them is losing money on AI. No matter how many headlines or analyst emissions you consume, the reality is that big tech has sunk over half a trillion dollars into this bullshit for two or three years, and they are only losing money.  So, at what point does all of this become worth it?  Actually, let me reframe the question: how does any of this become worthwhile?Today, I’m going to try and answer the question, and have ultimately come to a brutal conclusion: due to the onerous costs of building data centers, buying GPUs and running AI services, big tech has to add $2 Trillion in AI revenue in the next four years. Honestly, I think they might need more.

• Adobe struggles to assure investors that it can thrive in AI era

• The AI bubble has reached its 'Fried chicken' phase

• A.I. Is Making Death Threats More Realistic

• Meta to sell $30B in bonds to build AI datacenters

  Zuckcorp will gladly pay you in 2065 for the eyewatering sums it is borrowing today

Space / Boomy Zoomers / UFO

• Two Comets Are Moving into Your Night Skies in October: How to Watch

  • Where to find comets Lemmon, SWAN and 3I/ATLAS in the Halloween sky

• Interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS: Evidence for Galactic Cosmic Ray Processing

  provides direct evidence for galactic cosmic ray (GCR) processing of the outer layers of the interstellar comet nucleus. Laboratory experiments demonstrate that GCR irradiation efficiently converts CO to CO2 while synthesizing organic-rich crusts, suggesting that the outer layers of 3I/ATLAS consist of irradiated material which properties are consistent with the observed composition of 3I/ATLAS coma and with its observed spectral reddening. Estimates of the erosion rate of 3I/ATLAS indicate that current outgassing samples the GCR-processed zone only (depth ~15-20 m), never reaching pristine interior material.

Crypto con games

• Coinbase’s Armstrong Shakes Up Predictions Markets in Q3 Call

  Coinbase boss Brian Armstrong shook up two prediction markets in the final seconds of Thursday’s third-quarter earnings call by dropping a list of crypto buzzwords that Kalshi and Polymarket users bet would be mentioned in the call, resolving all markets to a “yes.” “I was a little distracted because I was tracking the predictions market about what Coinbase will say in their next earnings call, and I just want to add here, the words Bitcoin, Ethereum, blockchain, staking, and Web3, make sure we get those in before the end of the call,” said Armstrong. The “What will Coinbase say during their next earnings call” markets from Kalshi and Polymarket saw $80,242 and $3,912 worth of bets placed. That included 24 punters on Polymarket, where fortunately, no one lost more than $12 on a single bet.

  Armstrong later on X said it happened “spontaneously when someone on our team dropped a link in the chat.”

• The Western Union Company - Western Union Announces USDPT Stablecoin on Solana and Digital Asset Network

Economicon / Business / Finance

• Amazon says it didn’t cut 14,000 people because of money.

• Fiserv's Only Bear Is a 26-Year-Old Analyst Who Beat Wall Street

• US candy makers haunted by Halloween discounts as retailers scare up sales

• Navan IPO tumbles 20% after historic debut under SEC shutdown workaround

• Why the Price of Electricity Is Spiking Around the Country

• Palantir sues former employees for allegedly stealing company secrets

• A ‘war room’ mentality: How auto giants are battling the Nexperia chip crunch.

• The Secret Electricity Superusers Revealed: Industrial Gas Sector

• Only 28 Out of Every 1k U.S. Homes Changed Hands This Year

• Premium Butter Sales Surge Even as US Shoppers Cut Back Elsewhere

• Amazon cloud records 20% sales growth, topping estimates

• Fed 'Chorus' Comes Out Against Latest Cut, Citing Inflation

Gubmint / Poilitcks / Law Making

• Firefighters were ordered to leave smoldering Palisades burn site - Los Angeles Times

  a firefighter who was at the scene on Jan. 2 wrote that the battalion chief had been told it was a “bad idea” to leave the burn scar unprotected because of the visible signs of smoldering terrain. “And the rest is history,” the firefighter wrote in recent weeks.

• Time to Privatize U.S. Air Traffic Control–Copy Canada's Model

  Canada fixed this in 1996 by spinning off air navigation services to NAV CANADA, a private, non‑profit utility funded by user fees, not taxes. Safety regulation stayed with the government; operations moved to a professionally governed, bond‑financed utility with multi‑year budgets.

• Businesses are running out of pennies in the US

• Oh SNAP: Judges Order Trump Admin To Use Emergency Funds For Food Assistance | ZeroHedge

  Two judges have stepped in over the federal government suspension of food-aid benefits for tens of millions of Americans set to end on Nov. 1 amid the shutdown. On Friday, US District Judge John McConnell of Rhode Island announced that he would order the US Department of Agriculture to distribute a pool of contingency funds "as soon as possible." While minutes before, Boston US District Judge Indira Talwani ruled that the US government must announce by Nov. 3 whether they would authorize at least partial funding for the program using around $6 billion in contingency funds - and if so, when will they do it. McConnell's order is related to a case brought by Democrat-led cities and nonprofits who sought to keep federal funds flowing the the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), while Talwani's case was brought by over two dozen Democratic states and the District of Columbia. Which, of course, completely takes pressure off Congress to find a speedy resolution to the ongoing shutdown. We're sure judges will simply order federal employees to be paid, effectively un-shutting-down the government.

  • Judge orders administration to distribute SNAP contingency money amid shutdown

Trump

• Trump tells Senate Republicans to use "nuclear option" to end shutdown

  President Trump called for the end of the Senate filibuster on Thursday, urging Republicans in a post on Truth Social to "initiate the 'nuclear option.'" Ending the filibuster would allow the GOP to pass legislation — such as a government funding bill — with just 50 votes in the Senate. It currently takes 60 votes. The GOP has only been able to get three of the (at least) seven Democratic votes they need to reach the 60 vote threshold and pass a funding bill. Democrats have been withholding their votes for government funding in an attempt to get Republicans to negotiate on extending Affordable Care Act tax credits.

• U.S. and China agree on one-year tariff truce, including semiconductor and rare earth breakthroughs — future of Nvidia AI chip sales to the nation remains murky

  In momentous news for the global trade war and the global semiconductor industry, President Trump and China's Xi Jinping have reportedly agreed on a one-year tariff truce that could pave the way for a lasting easing of tensions between the two nations.

Democrats

• Miranda Devine: Biden's autopen presidency inked a legacy of failure and coverups

  It wasn’t just the opportunity cost of a commander in chief who was asleep at the wheel but the sum total of catastrophic judgments over four years of a man whose manifest flaws were only magnified by his cognitive decline. Even though everyone on the planet saw Biden’s deterioration with our own eyes and knew what it meant, having it laid out forensically in a 100-page report by the House Oversight Committee is still shocking, especially with the accompanying video interviews of various members of Biden’s inner circle.

• Eleanor Holmes Norton Has 7 No Show Jobs.

  Eleanor Holmes Norton, the District of Columbia’s 88-year-old congressional delegate, has more than one no-show job, according to her most recent financial disclosure. We contacted the half dozen boards she claims to sit on at elite institutions, and found that three of them hadn’t heard from her in years, and two of them don’t exist anymore. Two congressional sources who spoke with Deeper States confirm that Holmes Norton is largely absent from committee meetings and planning sessions. The same is true of the committees and boards Norton lists on her disclosures. These include the executive committee of the Yale Law School Association, the board of trustees for Antioch College, the lawyers committee for civil rights, the advisory boards at the Women’s Law & Public Policy Fellowship Program at Georgetown, the Women and Politics Institute at American University, and the Sewall Belmont House. We reached out to each of these boards to ask what exactly Norton does in these roles. After repeated attempts, not a single one could confirm Norton’s attendance. Norton was a founding member of the Georgetown Women’s Law & Public Policy Fellowship Program and as a board member used to regularly host the program’s fellows for lunch-ins on Capitol Hill. But according to a spokesperson, she hasn’t done so since 2019. American University seemed genuinely confused by our inquiry. “The Women & Politics Institute no longer has an advisory board,” they wrote.

Left Angst

• Are we losing our democracy?

• Man released a month after arrest for reposting Trump meme

• Trump's Baffling Call for Resuming U.S. Nuclear Tests

  • What Nuclear Testing Does to the Earth–and Us

• Will We Miss the Ivory Towers When They're Gone?

• The American adoptees who fear deportation to a country they can't remember

• Unmarked, Plate-Less Vehicles Seen in ICE Arrests Across U.S., Report Finds

• Push for Deregulated 'Freedom Cities'

• Palantir communications chief calls the company's political shift 'concerning'

• Terence Tao focused on fundraising after federal funding to UCLA was suspended

• Convicted would-be Trump assassin Ryan Routh requests imprisonment in state with assisted suicide.

• How the 19th-Century Opium War Shapes Xi's Trade Clash with Trump

• ICE has powerful facial recognition app Illinois cops are barred from using

• The Feds Who Kill Blood-Sucking Parasites

• This Is How the Right Dies - Yehuda Teitelbaum

  For decades, Heritage represented the intellectual spine of the right. It was built by men and women who believed in faith, freedom, and the moral clarity that came with knowing the difference between good and evil. That Heritage now finds itself defending Tucker Carlson’s interview with Nick Fuentes, a man who has praised Hitler, denied the Holocaust, and mocked Jewish suffering, is a symptom of a moral rot spreading through the American right. Kevin Roberts says, “Christ first, then America always.” He frames this as courage, as standing up to “the globalist class.” But listen closely to what he’s actually saying. It's not faith or patriotism. It's the language of power cloaked in religion and stripped of any guardrails. Roberts says Heritage “won’t cancel our own people.” But that phrase, “our own people,” is doing a lot of work here. Because who exactly does that include now? Are neo-Nazis now “our people”? Is Nick Fuentes, a man who preaches venomous hate against Jews, women, and Black Americans, now under the Heritage tent? The conservative movement once knew how to draw lines. William F. Buckley exiled the John Birch Society from the mainstream right when it crossed into conspiracy and antisemitism. Ronald Reagan called the Soviet Union an evil empire because he understood that evil is not relative. It must be named and it must be confronted. Now, men like Kevin Roberts call evil a “debate partner.”

  • Buckley and the Heritage foundation are both examples of Atlantic / Globalist / Machine "outreach" towards conservatives: They proclaim a new "respected institution" and decree what the movement is now; and all the rest of the faithful join in the chorus. They may differ from the rest of the professional managers in detail; but they're right alongside the rest of the Machine in the deep faith that there must be a well managed world order, and they're the ones to dictate what that is.

• Kennedy Center Ticket Sales Have Plummeted Since Trump Takeover

• The U.S. government is divesting from mRNA vaccines

Law Breaking / Police / Internal Security

• FBI stops 'potential terrorist attack,' arrests multiple suspects in Michigan

  According to Patel, the suspects were allegedly plotting a violent attack over Halloween weekend. A spokesperson for the FBI Detroit office said agents in Michigan were in Dearborn and Inkster conducting law enforcement activities on Friday morning.

  On Friday morning, the Dearborn Police Department released the following statement to 7 News Detroit:

  "The Dearborn Police Department has been made aware that the FBI conducted operations in the City of Dearborn earlier this morning. We want to assure our residents that there is no threat to the community at this time.

External Security / Militaria / Diplomania

• National Guard ordered to create quick reaction forces trained in civil unrest

  • Pentagon Orders National Guard to Establish Forces for Civil Unrest, Riots

• A narrow Pacific waterway at the heart of U.S. plans to choke China's Navy

• Oil Spikes On Reports US Military Attacks On Venezuela Imminent, Just 'Hours' Or 'Days' Away | ZeroHedge

  New Friday morning reporting says that President Trump has made the decision to attack Venezuela, ahead of which has seen an unprecedented US military build-up in the South Caribbean, and has included redeploying the USS Gerald R. Ford carrier group from the Mediterranean to join operations off Venezuela. The planned attacks against Venezuelan military installations are being reported in The Miami Herald and The Wall Street Journal, both which describe the impending assault as imminent. "The Trump Administration has made the decision to attack military installations inside Venezuela and the strikes could come at any moment, sources with knowledge of the situation told the Miami Herald, as the U.S. prepares to initiate the next stage of its campaign against the Soles drug cartel," Miami Herald writes. The will "seek to destroy military installations used by the drug-trafficking organization the U.S. says is headed by Venezuelan strongman Nicolás Maduro and run by top members of his regime," the report continues.

World

• Australian influencer family move to UK to avoid social media ban

• Denmark surprisingly abandons plans for Chat Control

• Pornhub says UK visitors down 77% since age checks came in

• Japan to Send Troops to Help Stop Bear Attacks

• German Activist Seeks Asylum in the United States After Antifa Death Threats – JONATHAN TURLEY

  a leading young German advocate, Naomi Seibt, known as the “Anti-Greta,” is seeking political asylum in the United States after years of Antifa threats. At one time, the idea of someone seeking asylum from a Western democracy would have been considered material for the Onion. Today, it is credible given the rising intolerance for opposing views in countries like Germany.

• Korea's cardboard drones address UAV shortages and climate crisis

• Gen Z used Discord to overthrow governments

• How entrepreneurship is rising in India's small cities

• French lawmakers vote against wealth tax on super-rich

Iran / Houthi

• Iran's president calls for new capital to replace Tehran

Russia Bad / Ukraine War

• Ukraine Gamifies the War: 40 Points to Destroy a Tank, 12 to Kill a Soldier

• Russia uses missile in Ukraine that led Trump to quit nuclear treaty

China

• China Raced Ahead of the U.S. on Nuclear Power

• Why China Built 162 Square Miles of Solar Panels on the World's Highest Plateau

• Nexperia halts chip supplies to China in threat to global car production

• How China Powers Its Electric Cars and High-Speed Trains

Health / Medicine

• Scientists may have found a panacea for snake bites

• Consolidation in Hospital Sector Leading to Higher Health Care Costs, Study Find

Pox / COVID / BioTerror AgitProp

• New Covid virus found in wild Brazilian bats

• Measles outbreak investigation in Utah blocked by patient who refuses to talk

  County health officials said that a health care provider in the area contacted them late on Monday to tell them about a patient who very likely has measles. The officials then spent a day reaching out to the person, who refused to answer questions or cooperate in any way. That included refusing to share location information so that other people could be notified that they were potentially exposed to one of the most infectious viruses known. “The patient has declined to be tested, or to fully participate in our disease investigation, so we will not be able to technically confirm the illness or properly do contact tracing to warn anyone with whom the patient may have had contact,” Dorothy Adams, executive director of Salt Lake County Health Department, said in a statement. “But based on the specific symptoms reported by the healthcare provider and the limited conversation our investigators have had with the patient, this is very likely a case of measles in someone living in Salt Lake County.”

  • saw comments ranging from "this justifies torture" to "naw just solitary confinement"... many of the folks holding forth such positions undoubtedly have "my body my choice" in their reflexive repertoire of chants.

Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda

• ‘Dimming The Sun’ Is Not Safe, Scientists Warn. It’s Also Impractical.

• 'The White House Effect' and the Value of Letting Footage Speak for Itself

• Rising heat kills one person a minute worldwide, major report reveals

• Tests show highest levels of PFAS in those living near New Mexico plume

• Deadly storm shatters NYC rainfall records

  New York City is recovering from extensive flooding after Thursday's storm soaked the city with record rainfall.Central Park saw its highest rainfall total in more than 100 years, while LaGuardia and Newark airports also topped their previous records. The powerful storm was blamed for at least two deaths in Brooklyn and Upper Manhattan after two men were found in flooded basements. The rainfall proved to be record setting for several locations, including Central Park, where the 1.83" total broke the daily record of 1.64" from back in 1917.

• Hurricane Melissa Was So Strong That It Shook the Earth Miles Away

  • How hurricane hunters flew into the eye of Melissa

  • Hurricane Melissa Maxed Out What Scientists Thought Was Possible

• Wildlife recovery means more than just survival of a species

• Bamboo Tissue Paper May Not Be as Eco-Friendly as You Think

• First climate tipping point reached, coral reefs facing 'widespread dieback'