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Chicago Boyz

• Exaggerated Automation Claim Story of the Week

  In 2016, a prominent computer scientist–a pioneer in artificial intelligence, he would be a winner of the 2018 Turing Award–said: We should stop training radiologists now, it’s just completely obvious within five years deep learning...

  4 hours ago

• When the Rule of Law Fails: A Reprise Post

  So, reading the story of this numbskull (link found through Instapundit) bloviating on MSNBC about the fierce urgency of abolishing the police reminded me of a long post that I did some years ago about what happens in a lawless, politically...

  4 days ago

• Septoplasty, Part Two, Surgery Day

  Part One, Pre-Op, is here. Surgery day had finally arrived and of course I was a bit nervous. A few things had to be done before the surgery, or not done, as the case may be. I was on Advil for a pre-existing back issue, and that had to be halted a week...

  6 days ago

Centinel2012

• Is Russia on the Defensive?

  Armstrong Economics Blog/War Re-Posted Jun 2, 2022 by Martin Armstrong Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov is warning the US that they have become instigators in the Russia-Ukraine war. “We believe that the U.S. is deliberately pouring oil...

  9 hours ago

• Americans Blame Biden for Inflation

  Armstrong Economics Blog/Inflation Re-Posted Jun 2, 2022 by Martin Armstrong Unfortunately for Biden, the Great Unwashed is not gullible enough to accept his explanation that Putin is to blame for inflation. A Convention of States Action/Trafalgar...

  10 hours ago

• The Rise in Violence – Who to Blame?

  Armstrong Economics Blog/Civil Unrest Re-Posted Jun 2, 2022 by Martin Armstrong While the Texas school shooting is a politician’s dream, for they suddenly can pretend to care and look authoritative, the real culprit here, I fear, has been...

  10 hours ago

The BRAD BLOG

• Marcy Wheeler Explains It All For You, Again: 'BradCast' 6/1/2022

  It's NICOLE SANDLER back with you, guest hosting the BradCast once more this week. [Audio link to full show follows this summary.] On Tuesday, a jury in DC acquitted Michael Sussman, an attorney whose firm worked for Hillary Clinton during...

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• Just When You Need a George Carlin Fix: 'BradCast' 5/31/2022

  It's NICOLE SANDLER, back again to guest host a couple of episodes of The BradCast. [Audio link to full show is posted below this summary.] One thing I think we can all agree on is that the last 2-3 years have been really rough. (OK, it's more like...

  2 days ago

• Sunday 'Tipping Point' Toons

  Lalo Alcaraz was awarded the prestigious Herblock prize for editorial cartooning. Clay Jones won the 2022 Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Cartoon Award. And Nick Anderson discussed the creation of a syndication division by his company, Counterpoint...

  5 days ago

bluebird of bitterness

• Find the potato!

  One of these woodchucks is an imposter — a potato pretending to be one of the gang. See if you can find it. The solution will appear in the comments section later today.

  10 hours ago

• Today’s cultural moment

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• You have been warned

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BlackListed News

• President of European Pharma Giant charged for falsifying COVID Vaccination Record & purchasing fake Vaccine Passport

  Spanish police carried out an investigation – Operation Jenner – which uncovered a vast network of celebrities and “elites” who paid money to have their names fraudulently entered into the National Immunisation Register, despite...

  a day ago

• What Happened to This Small Village Told to Accept 1500 'Refugees'?

  The locals weren't happy!

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• Poll Finds Most Americans Reject Idea Of Kids Choosing ‘Preferred Pronouns’

  A Harvard-Harris poll has revealed that close to two thirds of Americans reject the idea that children should be led to believe they are free to choose what gender pronouns they use.

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Research Digest

• Robot touch makes people feel good — especially when accompanied by robot small talk

  By Matthew Warren. People get biggest boost in mood when robots stroke their back and talk to them simultaneously.

  3 days ago

• American politicians are becoming increasingly rude and disrespectful on Twitter

  By Matthew Warren. Finding highlights the perverse incentives driving the way we communicate with each other on social media.

  4 days ago

• Stigmatisation of yawning could be a strategy to avoid disease, study argues

  By Matthew Warren. Study provides preliminary evidence that we interpret yawning as a disease cue - but further work is needed.

  8 days ago

Atlas Obscura - Latest Articles and Places

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  Resurrecting Virginia's Forgotten 'Caramel' Pie

  In January of 1959, a Virginia woman wrote to her local newspaper’s food editor in search of a pie recipe. “I’ve looked in all my cookbooks for a caramel pie which my husband tells me is made with damson preserves. There just ‘ain’t...

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  In Algeria, Ancient Cave Art May Show Psychedelic Mushroom Use

  A Land Rover speeds across an almost lunar landscape, sending plumes of dust skyward in its wake. Knocking around in the back seat, Giorgio Samorini snaps photos of eerily eroded sandstone formations. The year is 1988 and the place is Tassili...

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  Bølgen (The Wave) in Vejle, Denmark

  Some of Denmark's most expensive and luxurious apartments can be found in a Vejle waterfront residential building called Bølgen (The Wave), where the flats cost between €400,000 and €1,800,000. However, it's not the price tags that...

  12 hours ago

Accidental Deliberations

• #SKNDPLDR Roundup

  The Saskatchewan NDP's leadership campaign has followed a highly unusual path, with very little official activity (and only a few unofficial events and announcements) preceding last month's membership deadline. And it's only in the last...

  9 hours ago

• Thursday Morning Links

  This and that for your Thursday reading.- Richard Sima examines how the steps needed to limit the spread of COVID-19 in indoor workplaces would also help address longstanding air quality issues. But Robert Pearl notes that rather than taking...

  10 hours ago

• Wednesday Morning Links

  Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading.- Benjamin Mueller and Eleanor Lutz discuss the increased number of deaths among the elderly caused the Omicron COVID-19 variant as compared to previous ones, while WorkSafeBC's updated...

  a day ago