Archive for September, 2019
‘The Neoliberal Takeover of the Human Body’
September 8th, 2019Via: MarketWatch: Biometric mobile wallets — payment technologies using our faces, fingerprints or retinas — already exist. Notable technology companies including Apple and Amazon await a day when a critical mass of consumers is sufficiently comfortable walking into a store and paying for goods without a card or device, according to Sinnreich, author of “The […]
Mystery Surrounds Lost German Sea Data Station
September 7th, 2019Via: BBC: A massive environmental monitoring station off Germany’s Baltic coast has disappeared from the seabed, baffling police and researchers. The seabed “observatory”, worth about €300,000 (£270,000), weighed more than half a tonne. It could not have been dragged off by a storm, tide or large animal, German experts say. Divers only found a torn […]
Driving an Ambulance in the Age of Narcan
September 7th, 2019Some days everyone is just dying and coming back left and right like junkie whack-a-mole. Via: Hazlitt: It’s pretty common in my city to have a dose of Narcan drawn up and rubber banded onto the rearview mirror of the ambulance. We keep the rest of our gear all the way in the back of […]
MIT Concealed Its Relationship with Jeffrey Epstein, Anonymized His Donations
September 6th, 2019Via: The New Yorker: The M.I.T. Media Lab, which has been embroiled in a scandal over accepting donations from the financier and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, had a deeper fund-raising relationship with Epstein than it has previously acknowledged, and it attempted to conceal the extent of its contacts with him. Dozens of pages of […]
2018: Decorated Former Palm Beach Detective Who Led Epstein Investigation Dies at 50
September 6th, 2019Via: Palm Beach Daily News: Joseph Recarey, a former Palm Beach detective who had a knack for making others smile, who tackled the island’s largest and most important investigations, and who cared deeply for his family and friends, died Friday, May 25, 2018, after a brief illness. He was 50. … Recarey was one of […]
Shift to Electric Vehicles Will Radically Change Auto Factories
September 6th, 2019Via: The Detroit News: The flood of electric vehicles rolling out over the next decade will have many fewer parts and assemblies than today’s gas-powered cars and trucks. And that will radically change the auto factory floor, with fewer jobs and the real possibility that the batteries and electric motors that power the new vehicles […]
Feds Order Apple and Google to Hand Over Names of 10,000+ Users of Gun Scope App
September 6th, 2019Via: Forbes: Apple and Google have been ordered by the U.S. government to hand over names, phone numbers and other identifying data of at least 10,000 users of a single gun scope app, Forbes has discovered. It’s an unprecedented move: Never before has a case been disclosed in which American investigators demanded personal data of […]
Social Credit Score USA
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The Silicon Valley Heavyweights Who Want to Settle the Moon
September 5th, 2019The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress by Robert A. Heinlein Via: Bloomberg: The moon is all the rage these days. China wants to send people there. So too does the United States and NASA. In fact, just about every country with a space program has some sort of lunar ambition that they hope will play […]
Island of 50,000 People in the Bahamas Is 70% Under Water
September 5th, 2019Via: Bloomberg: An island in the Bahamas that’s home to 50,000 people is 70% under water after Hurricane Dorian battered it with record force for two days, according to the government. There are “still many outstanding rescue missions,” on the island of Grand Bahama, Finance Minister and Deputy Prime Minister Kevin Peter Turnquest said, in […]
