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Wes is on vacation next week, so enjoy this early episode!
News discussed:
Farmers don't want to reuse GMO seeds
Audacity has a new privacy policy
Anti-aging researcher Aubrey de Grey accused of sexual harassment by two colleagues
Bipartisan infrastructure bill passed the Senate!
Zvi estimates 2-3 weeks until it peaks
American Academy of Pediatrics tells FDA to hurry the F up
WHO is still telling people covid is spread primarily by droplets and contact
New York tries vaccine passports, proves David right
France also tries vaccine passports, sparks massive protests
Around 8,600 people in Germany could have received the saline solution instead of the vaccine cuz of antivax nurse.
Australia’s FDA is even worse than ours
Also, their lockdown seems inspired by their neighbors to the North
Biden extended eviction moratorium by 60 days
A safe deposit box company in LA was the victim of a $85 million heist… perpetrated by the FBI
Noah Smith: “China just grabbed a random Canadian dude and threw him in prison as retaliation for Canada arresting a Chinese tech executive.”
Michael Spavor was convicted of espionage and sentenced to 11 years
UK supply chain faces collapse
Apple is replacing its industry-standard end-to-end encrypted messaging system with an infrastructure for surveillance and censorship, “for the children”
Teen suicide rates drop by 15-20% in summer months
Hackers have stolen some $600 million in cryptocurrency from the decentralized finance platform Poly Network, in what it says is the largest theft in the industry's history.
Happy News!
Comic book creators moving to substack, worrying the big publishing houses (which is a good thing)!
New book by Emily Oster! About early school aged kids!
The percent of these households that had at least one homeschooled child was 5.4% in spring 2020, 11.1% during fall 2020, and 19.5% by May of 2021.
Unvaccinated to pay the full cost of their COVID hospitalizations?
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