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Archive for 2023
June 9, 2023
I’M NOT SAYING THAT IT’S ALIENS, BUT IT’S ALIENS: Repeated signals from the center of the Milky Way could be aliens saying hello, new study claims.
Related: Aliens!
WAIT, CHARLES PIERCE’S ESQUIRE ARTICLE SAID FLORIDA IS GOING BROKE: Florida reports record tourism numbers ahead of busy summer travel season.
METFORMIN WILL HELP YOU LOSE WEIGHT AND POSSIBLY SLOW AGING, TOO: Cheap Diabetes Drug Slashes Risk of Long COVID, Study Finds. Though to be honest, what I take from the study is that long covid is scarce even among obese people.
SO YOU’RE SAYING FAT-SHAMING SAVES LIVES? Mom loses 185 pounds after realizing she was not in any family photos.
Related: Ozempic has won, body positivity has lost. And I want no part of it.
ONLY THE N95 ONES WILL DO MUCH GOOD: COVID masks are back as Canadian wildfires fill skies with smoke. And masks have their own health problems, especially if worn for extended times.
#JOURNALISM:
Billionaire Biden campaign donor Pierre Omidyar financed the "misinformation reporting" portal used by the Department of Homeland Security to flag social media posts for removal during the 2020 election, new document shows https://t.co/P7H6yXPirw
— Lee Fang (@lhfang) June 9, 2023
#JOURNALISM:
https://twitter.com/ZaidJilani/status/1667243666929229831
REVIEW: Colt CBX Precision Rifle. “The CBX is a chassis-based rifle available in either .308 Win. or 6.5mm Creedmoor and has a host of features that make it an excellent choice for long-distance encounters.”
FLORIDA MAN FRIDAY [VIP]: Is That a Cardboard Box on Your Head or Are You Just Happy to Rob Me? “This week we have whatever is the opposite of a master of disguise, the curious case of the speeding ambulance that didn’t wail, and California Man getting busted for the (lamest) Crime of the Century.”
FATHER’S DAY GIFT: Shot King Regulation Bristle Steel Tip Dartboard Set. #CommissionEarned
FLASHBACK: Ham Sandwich Nation: Due Process When Everything is a Crime. “Prosecutors themselves understand just how much discretion they enjoy. As Tim Wu recounted in 2007, a popular game in the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York was to name a famous person—Mother Teresa, or John Lennon—and decide how he or she could be prosecuted. . . . With so many more federal laws and regulations than were present in Jackson’s day,8 a prosecutor’s task of first choosing a possible target and then pinning the crime on him or her has become much easier. If prosecutors were not motivated by politics, revenge, or other improper motives, the risk of improper prosecution would not be particularly severe. However, such motivations do, in fact, encourage prosecutors to pursue certain individuals, like the gadfly Aaron Swartz, while letting others off the hook—as in the case of Gregory, a popular newscaster generally supportive of the current administration.”
BE CAREFUL WHAT YOU WISH FOR: Where’s Kamala Harris? Democrats Want A More Public Role for the VP.
I WISH I COULD DO THAT: Octopuses rewrite their own genes to survive freezing temperatures.
HILLSDALE PROF WILFRED MCCLAY ON ‘THE DEATH OF LEARNING.’ And why we still need the liberal arts.
MORE LIKE THIS, PLEASE: Missouri joins 21 other states in protecting women’s sports.
THEY’RE SAYING IT’S ALIENS: More Sources Step Forward to Say U.S. Gov’t Is in Possession of ’12-15 Non-Human’ Spacecraft.
THERE’S BEEN A GLOBAL LOSS OF TRUST: Confidence in vaccines has plummeted in Africa since the pandemic, shows eight-country study.