Archive for April, 2023
J&J to Pay $8.9 Billion to Settle Talc-Cancer Lawsuits
April 5th, 2023Via: Bloomberg: Johnson & Johnson said it agreed to pay $8.9 billion to resolve all cancer lawsuits tied to its talc-based powders and will make a fresh attempt to contain the liability within a bankruptcy filing by one of its units.
Twitter Labels NPR “State Affiliated Media”; Elon Musk Says “Seems Accurate”
April 5th, 2023Via: Summit News: Twitter placed a label on NPR’s account Tuesday describing the outlet as “State-affiliated media,” with owner Elon Musk commenting that the description “seems accurate.” Twitter’s guidelines state “Labels on state-affiliated accounts provide additional context about accounts that are controlled by certain official representatives of governments, state-affiliated media entities, and individuals associated with […]
Well-Known Crypto Tech Exec Murdered In San Francisco Stabbing
April 5th, 2023Via: ZeroHedge: Well-known crypto tech executive Bob Lee was stabbed to death early Tuesday morning near downtown San Francisco. The 43-year-old Lee was perhaps best known for starting Cash App, and as former CTO of Square. He was the chief product officer of San Francisco-based crypto startup MobileCoin. … San Francisco police responded at around […]
AstraZeneca Clot Shot Is No Longer Available In Australia
April 5th, 2023In other news from Australia: ‘Excess Deaths’ Are the Highest Since World War II Via: Dr. John Campbell:
The Decades of Evidence That Antidepressants Cause Mass Shootings
April 4th, 2023Via: The Forgotten Side of Medicine: Prior to the Covid vaccinations, psychiatric medications were the mass-prescribed medication that had the worst risk-to-benefit ratio on the market. In addition to rarely providing benefits to patients, there is a wide range of severe complications that commonly result from psychiatric medications. … There are many serious issues with […]
Live: Trump Circus in New York
April 4th, 2023Via: Al Jazeera:
Finland Joins NATO
April 4th, 2023Via: Reuters: Finland formally joined NATO on Tuesday, its flag unfurling outside the military bloc’s Brussels headquarters, in a historic policy shift brought on by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, drawing a threat from Moscow of “counter-measures”. Finland’s accession, ending seven decades of military non-alignment, roughly doubles the length of the border that the North Atlantic […]
Robert Maxwell Goes to Texas: The Story of Bluebonnet
April 4th, 2023Via: Unlimited Hangout: Understanding Bluebonnet requires unpacking a tangled and diffuse web of fraudsters, intelligence assets, bankers and real estate developers who together rampaged across Texas and surrounding states during the mid-1980s, bilking and crashing a near-limitless number of thrifts and related lending institutions in a then-unprecedented spree of brazen financial crime. Much of this […]
Trump Leaves Florida for New York Ahead of Expected Surrender and Arraignment
April 3rd, 2023Update: Trump to be Charged Tuesday with 34 Felony Counts: Donald Trump will be placed under arrest on Tuesday and informed that he has been charged with 34 felony counts for falsification of business records, according to a source who has been briefed on the procedures for the arraignment of the former president. A New […]
Eliezer Yudkowsky: Dangers of AI and the End of Human Civilization, “I Hope There’s Nobody Inside There”
April 3rd, 2023I haven’t been posting much because I’ve been reading, watching and listening to things like this all weekend. Via: Lex Fridman: Related: They Don’t Know How It Works In the Battle Between Microsoft and Google, LLM Is the Weapon Too Deadly to Use
