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HEALTH
- Drug Reverses Age-Related Mental Decline Within Days, Suggesting Lost Cognitive Ability is Not Permanent
- Drug Reverses Age-Related Mental Decline Within Days
- Drug Reverses Age-Related Mental Decline Within Days, Suggesting Lost Cognitive Ability is Not Permanent
Charles Darwin set out to the Galapagos Islands where he would develop his theory of evolution 189 years ago today. Americans who don’t wear masks aspire to prove his theories were correct.
True Patriotic Origin Story of legal/health
You didn’t always get asked if you are #allergic before you get a any shot like the #covid #vaccine. It wasn’t always this way. Why it’s now a law that Changed the world.
Irish man leaves funny recording for his funeral
Fake ‘Dominatrix’ Lures Slaves for Farm Work
Several sadomasochists eagerly responded to an advert posted by an Austrian woman farmer seeking clients. But they didn’t get the punishment they had hoped for. Instead, they found themselves doing farm labor in fetish gear, while paying for the privilege.
ELECTION
Elizabeth Warren reintroduces bill to bar lawmakers from trading stocks
Trump has signed the $900 billion relief bill, but only after forcing his own party to vote against $2,000 stimulus checks, thereby proving that it was Republicans, not Democrats, who are opposed to delivering adequate relief to Americans.
50-year study of tax cuts on wealthy shows they always fail to “trickle down” It’s a total lie. Total bullshit. Never True. Never Will Be True. #MoneyFail #Republican Lie Debunked. There is no #tickledown “trickle down” it’s just word salad bullshit.
She Noticed $200 Million Missing, Then She Was Fired
Alice Stebbins was hired to fix the finances of California’s powerful utility regulator. She was fired after finding $200 million for the state’s deaf, blind and poor residents was missing.
K16 EDUCATION
Dr. David Boyce — Follow this thread
To be clear I am all for students choosing their own teams and such and I am aware of the false dichotomy of the situation. But generally due to sports, boarding houses etc my crew are quite used to boys as one gang and girls as another. So, my experience of this is normally allowing 5 or so classes do this activity in any given year, always with the same set up and always with me observing just how it goes. In total I must now have observed the experiment about 60 times.
<https://twitter.com/DrDavidBoyce/status/1341316411344482304>
If I finish all of the physics a lesson or two before the end of term, I like to use those spare lessons to do something fun. For the last 12 years I have done a boys vs girls engineering challenge and the girls nearly always win. Here is why…
— Dr David Boyce (@DrDavidBoyce) December 22, 2020
Pennsylvania student sued the school district, winning a sweeping victory in the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, in Philadelphia. The court said the First Amendment did not allow public schools to punish students for speech outside school grounds. Mahanoy Area School District v. B.L., No. 20-255. Administrators around the nation needed a definitive ruling from the Supreme Court on their power to discipline students for what they say away from school. “The question presented recurs constantly and has become even more urgent as Covid-19 has forced schools to operate online,” a brief for the school district said. “Only this court can resolve this threshold First Amendment question bedeviling the nation’s nearly 100,000 public schools.”
NYC K12 kids taken from in-person class over COVID-19 testing consent form
Biden no different than Reagan. Biden won’t cancel student loans.
SECURITY
THE GUY WHO BLEW HIMSELF UP IS A SUICIDE BOMBER – OWN THE LANGUAGE. The media continues to avoid calling the Nashville bombing exactly what it is: A domestic terrorist attack.
Zhang Zhan’s firsthand accounts from crowded hospitals and empty streets painted a more dire picture of the pandemic epicenter than the official narrative.
Control shift: why newspaper hacks are switching to Substack
An online platform where journalists sell content directly to subscribers is luring eminent voices away from traditional media https://substack.com/
Russia Admits to ‘World’s Largest’ Arctic Oil Spill – The Moscow Times
Serious Concerns of Potential Fraud in Economic Injury Disaster Loan Program Pertaining to the Response to COVID-19 REPORT NUMBER 20-16| JULY 28, 2020
Chinese Intel Asset Describes His LinkedIn Addiction: Every Day It Served Up New Targets
On July 24, Jun Wei Yeo (aka Dickson Yeo), a Singaporean living in Washington D.C., pleaded guilty for actively recruiting intelligence sources on behalf of China’s intelligence apparatus (People’s Liberation Army – PLA and Ministry of State Security – MSS). Yeo took advantage of the LinkedIn algorithm to aggressively target and build contacts for Chinese intelligence. He used a fake consulting company to solicit and engage intelligence targets, and the LinkedIn platform made it easy.
Solar Flare They got the Nukes: Just a reminder that John Bolton eliminated the position of White House cybersecurity coordinator in 2018.
fact check NYT and NBC and FORBES
Hacked networks will need to be burned ‘down to the ground’
It’s going to take months to kick elite hackers widely believed to be Russian out of the U.S. government networks they have been quietly rifling through since as far back as March.
ETHICS
I made a playlist of 11 short videos (most are 7-13 mins long) on Ethics in Machine Learning This is from my 2 hrs ethics lecture in Practical Deep Learning for Coders v4. I thought these short videos would be easier to watch, share, or skip around
BITCOIN
Do Your Own Research: Not Financial Advice
Bitcoin IRA https://bitcoinira.com/
“The value of a universal hard money (doesn’t exist, but would be at least $200 trillion” ~ Eric Wall @ercwl
Stephen Palley
Let’s also acknowledge that the fact that Bitcoin price is manipulated isn’t an argument against it. Name a commodity whose price hasn’t been manipulated? Hell, we have an entire statute devoted to Onions in the US, just for this reason.
Ponzi as a legal theory, standing alone, against “Bitcoin” doesn’t work in the U.S. Other theories that might against individual defendants (or groups of them). But you can’t successfully paint the asset writ large as “a Ponzi”, that’s as dumb as claiming it’s not manipulated.
“Bitcoin is “literally” not a Ponzi scheme. Ponzis are an investment fraud where fraudsters pay old investors w/ new investor $$, unknown to either. Also, $25 million a day in investor cash “literally” does not go to miners. Maybe dumb for you to spend $$ on, but not a Ponzi.”
Dem lawmaker says he owes hammers apology after calling DeVos ‘dumb as a bag of hammers’