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"Intellectuals hate progress. Intellectuals who call themselves 'progressive' _really_ hate progress." --- Steven Pinker, _Enlightenment Now_

NYC employees get paid to procrastinate. https://nypost.com/2021/10/21/nyc-workers-fume-over-500-offer-to-unvaccinated-employees/

Did some checking on today's Jesus & Mo cartoon and found there are _still_ Muslim fundies who claim drinking camel urine is good for you.
https://www.jesusandmo.net/comic/drink/
https://answering-christianity.com/urine.htm

Under a new bill, buses, highways, and bridges would all be considered COVID relief and eligible for federal money as such. https://www.unionleader.com/news/politics/granite_status/granite-status-bill-would-give-cities-towns-more-leeway-with-covid-funds/article_e2aef085-174b-5b6f-846a-c8914e61f4e0.html

The heckler's veto strikes again. "We were concerned that individuals from outside our community might inadvertently distract from the insights and perspective that she intended to share." https://www.boston.com/news/schools/2021/10/20/journalist-nikole-hannah-jones-was-invited-to-speak-to-concords-middlesex-school-then-she-wasnt/

NH legislative committee rejects a marijuana legalization bill. The 9% sales tax was part of the reason. https://www.unionleader.com/news/politics/state/committee-rejects-legal-pot-bills-but-chairman-working-on-his-own/article_0ec6ba83-65f1-5046-984a-57889cbc50b8.html

Twitter decides that @DPRK_News , which has been running for years and has hundreds of thousands of followers, is an "impersonation" account and gives it the boot. https://www.foxnews.com/politics/twitter-suspends-12-year-old-popular-north-korea-parody-account-for-violating-impersonation-rules

It's that time of year again, so here's why I don't give money to Salvation Army bell-ringers. https://medium.com/@gmcgath/why-i-dont-support-the-salvation-army-f48021b0bb87

Salem, Mass., requires practicing psychics to be licensed. This has nothing to do with making sure you have "real" psychic abilities; it's all about restricting competition. https://news.yahoo.com/news/salem-residents-fight-over-limiting-psychics-20110408-132034-345.html

New on my blog: Working from home doesn't make you or your work "virtual." https://garymcgath.com/wp/virtual-people/

UK schools introduce face recognition, using fast lunch payments as the carrot and COVID as the stick. https://www.engadget.com/uk-school-facial-recognition-cafeteria-canteen-200457972.html

I was going to delete the tweet which Twitter falsely called "targeted harassment" just so I could post a thread of "goodbye and good riddance" tweets. But in order to delete it, I have to make a confession of violating the rules. Twitter's appeals process is specifically designed to punish the innocent

A look at universities' abandonment of education as a goal. https://theweek.com/education/1006028/academic-freedom-attacked-left-and-right

Stories of administrative bullying like this one from Yale have become routine. The educational system is in ruins. https://www.newsweek.com/campus-diversity-menace-comes-yale-opinion-1639222

Rep. Jim Banks voted to compel women to register for military slavery because "the good outweighs the bad." In other words, human freedom is secondary to sending troops into lots of countries. https://www.yahoo.com/now/defense-bill-women-register-draft-152400958.html

Calling someone "selfless" is a devastating insult. Obedient storm troopers and screaming mob rioters are selfless. They've discarded their personal identity and values for group conformity.

Using the new investment domain that allegedly belongs to Federated Hermes may be a bad idea. https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn%3Ali%3Aactivity%3A6854769052229894144?lipi=urn%3Ali%3Apage%3Ad_flagship3_profile_view_base%3B7tj4rykiRlm4Wexn6U4nng%3D%3D