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We've Lost Our Ever-Lovin' Minds Kids and Masks: Best of. Justin Hart It’s a catch phrase I’ve been using for a while. I have a lot of faith in humanity and I believe deep down that there are some great connections we can make across these deep divisions. I want to believe we share a “loving mind” at heart but it’s getting harder and harder to hold onto that notion. Let’s revisit some of the “best of” the mind-losing moments of the pandemic: Kids and Masks I suppose it’s the entrepreneurial spirit of America that makes products like these. It’s dystopian at its core but at least we can see their faces! Justin Hart @justin_hart Here it is. The hellscape of hellspaces exemplifying our insanity. We've lost our ever-lovin minds. August 18th 2020 454 Retweets 1,096 Likes Remember this poor kid? He gets home from college and his parents treat him like “bubble boy”. Good heavens. Justin Hart @justin_hart We’ve lost our ever-lovin’ minds. December 26th 2020 96 Retweets 644 Like...

American Treatment Kit Movement Begins in Hawaii? The Chloroquine Wars Part LXXIX Mathew Crawford "Ua Kuluma Ke Kanaka I Ke Aloha. It is natural for people to behave in a loving way." -Hawaiian proverb Sunday afternoon I got a call from Honolulu Fire Department Captain Ka’imi Pelekai. He shared with me that the firefighters are fighting vaccine mandates with a lawsuit (Pfizer has been added to the suit over  the use of fetal cells in vaccine testing ). Such mandates for an experimental program strike me as disturbingly dangerous and immoral---particularly given the lack of long term safety data or time for fertility studies. But the veteran firefighter also had something extremely positive to share with me---one of the best things I've heard about during the entirety of 2021. In order to keep hospitalizations and mortality down, the firefighters have banded together and established a nonprofit ( freecovidhelp.org ) organization that designed and intends to deliver their o...

Software Ate the World and Now Has Indigestion October 18, 2021 As for all those automated systems we have to navigate--do any of them work so well that those profiting from them actually use them? Of course not. In Marc Andreessen's memorable phrase,  "software is eating the world."  Unfortunately, it now has indigestion.  Software is running into limits that (non-engineer) promoters either deny or downplay. Meanwhile, back in the real world, software has a limited role in filling structural scarcities of physical goods and many services. Consider all those apps which are supposed to be the epitome of automated productivity: if software is so great, then why do the apps need thousands of ghost workers to keep the kludgy mess semi-functional?  Hidden behind the shiny happy facade of automated software wonderland, thousands of poorly paid humans have to do the hard bits that software fails to do or fails to do properly. The Ghost Workers in the Machine :  Compani...

The End of the Dream John Michael Greer There are times when the winds that shape the future blow strong enough to be heard over the jabber of everyday life, and this is one of those times. For a while now I’ve been mulling over a handful of often-repeated comments on this blog, and I find that if I look through them, into the landscape of ideas that structure them, it’s possible to glimpse some of the driving forces behind the history of our era. The comment that set off this most recent period of reflection came a couple of weeks ago. The person who wrote it complained that he’d tried to follow the advice I’ve offered for some time now—“collapse now and avoid the rush”—by trying to organize an intentional community up in the Italian mountains.  His project fell flat when unobody else wanted to join.  Having related this story, he proposed that other readers of this blog join with him to create “a meaningful, synergistic community.” I’m embarrassed to say that I lost my tempe...

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The FDA’s War Against the Truth on Ivermectin David R. Henderson   Charles L. Hooper   On July 28, the  Wall Street Journal  ran our article “ Why Is the FDA Attacking a Safe, Effective Drug? ” In it, we outlined the potential value of the antiparasitic drug ivermectin for Covid-19, and we questioned the FDA’s vigorous attack on ivermectin. Many people praised us and many criticized us. We had clearly covered a sensitive subject. It didn’t help that one of the studies we referenced was retracted the day our article was published. Within hours of learning that fact, we sent a mea culpa to the  Journal’s  editors. They acted quickly, adding a note at the end of the electronic version and publishing our letter. It’s important to address two criticisms of our work. The first is that we exaggerated the FDA’s warning on ivermectin. The second is that Merck’s stance on ivermectin proved that even the company that developed ivermectin thought that it doesn’t work f...