The most rigorous and comprehensive analysis of scientific studies conducted on the efficacy of masks for reducing the spread of respiratory illnesses including Covid-19 was published late last month. Its conclusions, said Tom Jefferson, the Oxford epidemiologist who is its lead author, were unambiguous. "There is just no evidence that they" masks "make any difference," he told the journalist Maryanne Demasi. "Full stop." But, wait, hold on. What about N-95 masks, as opposed to lower-quality surgical or cloth masks? "Makes no difference none of it," said Jefferson. These observations don't come from just anywhere. Jefferson and 11 colleagues conducted the study for Cochrane, a British nonprofit that is widely considered the gold standard for its reviews of health care data. The conclusions were based on 78 randomized controlled trials, six of them during the Covid pandemic, with a total of 610,872 participants in multiple countries. And they track what has been widely observed in the United States: States with mask mandates fared no better against Covid than those without. People may have good personal reasons to wear masks, and they may have the discipline to wear them consistently. Their choices are their own. But when it comes to the population-level benefits of masking, the verdict is in: Mask mandates were a bust. The mainstream experts and pundits who supported mandates were wrong.

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Genaro Garca Luna, Mexico's former top law enforcement official known as the "architect" of the Mexican side of the drug war, was found guilty in New York federal court of collaborating with the Sinaloa cartel, the biggest organized crime group in North America. For years, Garca Luna was the U.S. government's most trusted ally in the war on drugs. As public security secretary, he wielded incredible power, overseeing Mexico's Federal Police, the prison network, and a vast intelligence-gathering infrastructure, while working with the Drug Enforcement Administration, FBI, CIA, and Department of Homeland Security in the fight against Mexican cartels. The case portrayed Garca Luna and his network of corrupt officials as a handful of bad apples, and what U.S. officials knew about Garca Luna's illicit activities went mostly unexplored, despite the government's role in providing funding, equipment, and training that has fueled drug-related violence. Garca Luna was found guilty of all five charges, including drug trafficking and continuing a criminal enterprise. Prosecutors alleged that he received around $274 million in bribes from the cartel from 2001 to 2012, first as head of the Federal Investigative Agency, the Mexican equivalent of the FBI, and then as secretary of public security. Garca Luna left public office in 2012 following a change in presidency and moved to Miami where he started a security consulting company and lived a lavish lifestyle.

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Jaron Lanier, the eminent American computer scientist, composer and artist, is no stranger to skepticism around social media. The web is not a free market of information as originally envisioned. It is a gamed system being rampantly abused. [Lanier] helped create modern ideologies Web 2.0 futurism, digital utopianism, among them. But Lanier is no longer a fan of how the digital utopia is coming along. He's called it "digital Maoism" and accused tech giants like Facebook and Google of being "spy agencies". In his latest thinking Lanier draws attention to Harvard psychologist BF Skinner's theories of "operant conditioning", or behavior controlled by its consequences, otherwise known as behavior modification. In Skinner's studies, lab rats were subjected alternately to electric shocks and treats to achieve a change in response. On social media, he says, we experience something similar. Approval, disapproval or being ignored, such techniques can be manipulated online as part of what is euphemistically called "engagement" and the creation of addictive patterns for individuals and then by proxy eventually whole societies. "As we enter an era where nothing means anything because it's all just about power, intermediation and influence, it's very hard to put ideas out and very easy for them to come across not as intended," he said. "I do believe that our survival depends on modifying the internet to create a structure that is friendlier to human cognition and to the ways people really are."

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Passed in 1996, Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act sought to foster the growth of the early internet. Congress created a special form of legal immunity for websites so they could develop uninhibited by lawsuits that might suffocate the ecosystem. In the time since, companies ... have invoked Section 230 to nip user-content lawsuits in the bud, arguing, usually successfully, that they are not responsible for the content their users create. Democrats say the law has given websites a free pass to overlook hate speech and misinformation; Republicans say it lets them suppress right-wing viewpoints. The Supreme Court [is] reviewing Section 230; Congress and the White House have also proposed changes to the law. Understanding how the internet may work differently without Section 230 ... starts with one, simple concept: Shrinking the liability shield means exposing websites and internet users to more lawsuits. A Supreme Court ruling restricting immunity for recommendations could mean any decision to like, upvote, retweet or share content could be identified as a "recommendation" and trigger a viable lawsuit. One option would be to preemptively remove any and all content that anyone, anywhere could even remotely allege is objectionable ... reducing the range of allowed speech on social media. Another option would be to stop moderating content altogether, to avoid claims that a site knew or should have known that a piece of objectionable material was on its platform.

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Caleb Kenyon, a defense attorney in Florida, saw a geofence warrant was when a new client received an alarming email from Google in January 2020. Police were requesting personal data from the client, Zachary McCoy, and Kenyon had just seven days to stop Google from turning it over, the email said. The geofence warrant included a map and GPS coordinates, and instructed Google to provide identifying information for every user whose device was found within the radius of that location at a certain date and time. "It was so bizarre that I just didn't even have a concept for what I was dealing with," he said. Kenyon is not alone. As tech firms build ever more sophisticated means of surveilling people and their devices technology that law enforcement is eager to take advantage of the legal community is scrambling to keep up. The National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers (NACDL) ... recently created the Fourth Amendment Center, named for the constitutional right against unreasonable searches. The center is one of the few resources available for helping attorneys better understand how new technology is being used against their clients. It can be years before the defense community catches wind of the newest surveillance tools. Unlike other search warrants, geofence warrants don't require probable cause or a specific suspect in mind; they gather information on anyone within the vicinity of an alleged crime. Advocates argue this violates the fourth amendment.

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The Lancet medical journal this month published a review of 65 studies that concluded prior infection with Covidi.e., natural immunityis at least as protective as two doses of mRNA vaccines. "Immunity acquired from a Covid infection is as protective as vaccination against severe illness and death, study finds," NBC reported on Feb. 16. The study found that prior infection offered 78.6% protection against reinfection from the original Wuhan, Alpha or Delta variants at 40 weeks, which slipped to 36.1% against Omicron. Protection against severe illness remained around 90% across all variants after 40 weeks. These results exceed what other studies have found for two and even three mRNA doses. This comes after nearly three years of public-health officials' dismissing the same hypothesis. But now that experts at the University of Washington have confirmed it in a leadingand left-leaningjournal, it's fit to print. The Lancet study's vindication of natural immunity fits a pandemic pattern: The public-health clerisy rejects an argument that ostensibly threatens its authority; eventually it's forced to soften its position in the face of incontrovertible evidence; and yet not once does it acknowledge its opponents were right. The concept of natural immunity isn't scientifically controversial, yet it was disparaged by public-health officials who associated it with opposition to lockdowns and the Great Barrington Declaration in autumn 2020.

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Consider a recent study from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention that claims to find that nearly 36% of Covid cases among students, faculty and staff at George Washington University resulted in "long Covid." The study suggests ... that the unvaccinated were at more than twice as high a risk of developing long Covid as those fully vaccinated who had gotten boosters. This sounds plausible. But drill down, and it becomes clear that the evidence is too thin to draw any conclusions. The study ... doesn't include a control group. The finding that nearly 36% reported long Covid symptoms is meaningless without such a sample to determine how common such symptoms were among people who never had Covid. Long Covid in general isn't well-defined, but the study defines it expansively to include problems common among college studentsdifficulty making decisions, fatigue, anxiety, sadness, trouble sleeping and the catch-all "other symptoms." If a student reported at least one physical or psychological problem, he was classified as having long Covid. A CDC survey in January 2021 reported that 57% of respondents between 18 and 29 had experienced anxiety or depression within the previous seven days. A November 2021 study ... found that many people with persistent physical symptoms that are commonly ascribed to long Covid didn't test positive for antibodies. A belief that one had Covid was more strongly associated with physical symptoms than a lab-confirmed infection.

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With the recent news that the Biden administration will end the COVID-19 public health emergencies this spring, it is time to take stock of the different policies and adaptations that came out of the lockdowns. Initially ... the lockdowns meant that courts were shut down in most states, creating long waits and lack of access to vital judicial proceedings. But the courts quickly pivoted. Despite initial technological challenges, the switch to remote family court hearings saved time and money, increased participation in court proceedings, improved legal representation for families living in rural areas, and created a more welcoming environment for children. This week, the American Enterprise Institute is releasing a report, authored by Maura Corrigan, former director of Michigan Health and Human Services, explaining what we can learn from how these courts operated and what practices we should use in the post-pandemic era. Major studies done on remote hearings found benefits to the practice, particularly in terms of participation. Parties to these hearings appreciated the end of "cattle call" docketing, which forced participants to wait (in person) until their case was called a significant waste of time and resources for parties, attorneys, witnesses, the public and the judges. Under the new remote system, the times for these hearings were precise, wasting neither the time nor the resources of any parties to the case. There were also many anecdotal reports that children felt more comfortable in remote hearings.

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Since U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Commissioner Dr. Robert Califf began his second tenure as the agency's head in February 2022, he has made combating "misinformation" one of his top priorities, arguing it is "a leading cause of preventable death in America now" though "this cannot be proved," he said. In an interview ... Califf, who also headed the FDA between 2016 and 2017, reiterated his pledge to "save lives" by policing online content. The FDA may be facing an uphill battle, as multiple factors are combining to foster public mistrust toward the agency. For instance, in January, Frank Yiannas, the FDA's deputy commissioner for food policy and response, resigned over concerns about the FDA's oversight structure. A 2022 study by The BMJ found that the FDA gets 65% of its funding for drug evaluation from industry user fees, while another 2022 study found that 95% of the members of an HHS committee that establishes dietary guidelines for Americans have one or more conflicts of interest with industry actors. Members of the FDA's Vaccines and Related Biological Products Advisory Committee have also been found to have conflicts of interest with the very pharmaceutical companies and vaccine manufacturers they are meant to be regulating. And while public health authorities in other countries have begun to come forward with admissions that the COVID-19 vaccines resulted in cases of myocarditis and death, no such admissions appear to be forthcoming from the FDA at this time.

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On June 18, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) officially recommended Pfizer and Moderna COVID-19 vaccines for all children between the ages of 6 months and 5 years. While the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is the agency responsible for authorizing emergency use of vaccines, it's the CDC that crafts subsequent messaging, makes specific recommendations, and prioritizes who can, should, or should not get vaccinated. In her briefing, CDC Director Rochelle Walensky strongly urged all parents of the nearly 20 million American children in this age group to vaccinate them as soon as possible. There remains ... no solid consensus among physicians about the importance of vaccinating healthy children against COVID-19. In a Food and Drug Administration (FDA) meeting on June 28, Pfizer Vice President for Viral Vaccines Kena Swanson even acknowledged that "there is no established correlate" between antibody levels and protection from disease. Approval for the COVID vaccines in infants and toddlers is based on two trials that used changes in antibody levels as an estimate of efficacy, but did not assess protection from severe disease, hospitalization, or multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children (MIS-C), important outcomes that parents worry about. Additionally, neither trial met the 50% efficacy requirement established by the FDA for approval of adult COVID vaccines. More puzzling is the fact that ... the pediatric vaccines now being administered target an outdated variant.

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Minecraft has established itself as a cultural phenomenon for many reasons: it's creative, collaborative, and sufficiently facile as to be considered accessible to almost anybody. These benefits ... form the perfect vehicle for Reporters Without Borders' Uncensored Library, a virtual hub housing a collection of otherwise inaccessible journalism from all over the world, with specific sections devoted to Russia, Egypt, Mexico, Saudi Arabia, and Vietnam. "In Egypt there's no free information," Reporters Without Borders media and public relations officer Kristin Bsse tells me. Mexico is the country where journalists are most at risk, she adds, with governmental and cartel interference often culminating in the death of those voices deemed dissident. "It's a different form of censorship," Bsse explains. "People don't want to publish because they're scared." "In the Mexico room we built memorials to 12 Mexican journalists who have been murdered," [said Blockworks managing director James] Delaney. Delaney tells me that the forms of censorship in Egypt are more blatant. "The articles you see in this room are actually banned," he explains. "If you live in Egypt you're unable to access them unless you come to our Minecraft server." This is the case for the Russian, Vietnamese, and Saudi Arabian sections, too. "The content you find in these rooms is illegal, but we can see from the server logins that we've already had people from all five of these countries join and read up on this information," he says.

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Those debating the future of Twitter and other social-media platforms have largely fallen into two opposing camps. One supports individuals' absolute freedom of speech; the other holds that speech must be modulated through content moderation, and by tweaking the ways in which information spreads. Both sides are peddling an equally dismal vision. My purpose here is to point out a logical third option. In this approach, a platform would require users to form groups through free association, and then to post only through those groups. This simple, powerful notion could help us escape the dilemma of supporting online speech. Platforms like Facebook and Reddit have similar structuresgroups and subredditsbut those are for people who share notifications and invitations to view and post in certain places. The groups I'm talking about, sometimes called "mediators of individual data" or "data trusts," are different: Members would share both good and bad consequences with one another, just like a group shares the benefits and responsibilities of a loan in microlending. This mechanism has emerged naturally ... on the software-development platform GitHub. Whatever its size, each group will be self-governing. Some will have a process in place for reviewing items before they are posted. Others will let members post as they see fit. It will be a repeat of the old story of people building societal institutions and dealing with unavoidable trade-offs, but people will be doing this on their own terms.

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Avery Smith ... and LaToya, a podiatrist, tied the knot in 2008. A year and a half into their marriage ... she was diagnosed with Stage 2A Melanoma. A minor surgical procedure is usually enough to cure it. But the following 18 months were revealing for Smith; on December 9th, 2011, LaToya died. He was left scarred by the experience: "I learned about going through illness while being Black," he says. Today, over a decade later, Smith is putting his skills as a software developer to work in an effort to end the racial bias and inequity in skin care that contributed to his wife's death. In 2021, he launched Melalogic, a Baltimore-based startup that provides skin health resources to people with dark skin. A 2016 study shows that the five-year survival rate of Black people with skin cancer is 65 percent, compared to 92 percent for white people. The problem is rooted in racial inequities and biases in medical research and technology. In skin cancers, for instance, AI systems have been used to drastically improve diagnosis. However, these are mostly helpful to white people because diagnostic AI datasets are trained with images of white skin. Smith teamed up with dermatologist Dr. Adewole Adamson to conduct a research project, endorsed by the American Medical Association, on machine learning and health care disparities in dermatology. It was from the research's findings that Smith conceived Melalogic, an app ... dedicated to providing Black people with skin health resources.

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Germanys energy crisis continues to worsen and power cuts are coming. The country could face an electricity shortage in the next two years as its own energy resources become increasingly insufficient and demand rises.

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Not to mention, the Nord Stream pipeline destruction that devastated the already hammered energy supply. Welt am Sonntag reported on Sunday, citing a local McKinsey study, that by 2025 the country will lack some four gigawatts of power capacity, while by 2030 the deficit will increase to 30 gigawatts, according to a report by RT.

So were heading toward a significant shortage: 30GW corresponds to the capacity of about 30 large thermal power plants, the study warned. Analysts claim the country will not be able to cover its energy needs with its own resources at peak loads, and by 2030 up to 100 power outages may occur, with the longest phase lasting about 21 hours. The analysts also warned that Berlin will not be able to give up gas in the next ten years.

Our scenario analysis shows that natural gas will have to play a role in the electricity mix in the future. It is therefore important to reduce import dependency by diversifying suppliers. Part of the strategy must also be to make more green hydrogen available for power generation, analysts stated, adding that Germany must also ensure it can obtain electricity from neighboring European countries, which requires innovation and expansion of networks.

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The McKinsey study contradicts a recent report by the countrys Federal Network Agency (funded by the ruling class), which said the power supply would be secure for the next decade even if electricity consumption increases significantly.

Bloomberg reported that by 2030 Germany will have to spend at least $1 trillion to increase energy production from renewable sources. The German grid regulator and think tank Agora Energiewende estimates that Germany will face a one-third increase in demand by 2030, which means the countrys power plants will need to generate about 250 gigawatts of additional electricity by that time.

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In his first solo exhibition since his graduation from the Frankfurt Stdelschule last year, the Amsterdam-based painter W. Rossen presents five new works. While compact, the show is rich with art

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Van Dyck Painting Bought for $600 Sells for $3 Million at Auction

In the late-20th century, someone discovered a mysterious, beautiful painting in a farm shed in Kinderhook, New York. The oil on wood work depicted a slouched, nude man. Purchased originally for $600, the painting was later identified by scholars as an early study by Anthony van Dyck in preparation for his work St. Jerome. With this recognition, it recently sold for an impressive $3.1 million at a Sotheby's auction.

The person who found [the painting], Albert B. Roberts, was a passionate collector of lost' pieces, describing his collection as an orphanage for lost art that had suffered from neglect,' said Sotheby's. Art historian Susan J. Barnes identified it as a surprisingly well preserved work by Van Dyck, the Flemish Renaissance painter who lived from 1599 to 1641. The work is a rare early study between 1615 and 1618. At the time, the young artist was working alongside the incredible Peter Paul Rubens in Antwerp.

Put up for auction by Robert's estate, the painting's profits gave back to the artistic community. Part of the proceeds was donated to the Albert B. Roberts Foundation Inc, which supports artists. Works by Agnolo Bronzino, Titian (who influenced Van Dyck), and Melchior de Hondecoeter also sold at the auction.

The final painting for which the Van Dyck was a study can be viewed at the Museum Boijmans van Beuningen in Rotterdam. Van Dycks' other works, including richly detailed...

Norway is putting on a major Bitcoin conference with high-signal speakers, topped off with an otherworldly rave running on Lightning.

This is an opinion editorial by Erik Dale, an organizer of the upcoming Northern Lightning Conference and host of a Scandinavian Bitcoin podcast.

Scandinavia may not be the first region that comes to mind when you think of Bitcoin, but tiny Norway has become the biggest bitcoin mining hub in Europe.

With less than 0.07% of world population, the Norwegians churn out nearly 3% of Bitcoins global hash rate, mostly thanks to cheap, stranded and renewable hydropower in the north.

And now, Norway is hosting the worlds most Bitcoin experience (sic): Northern Lightning 2023.

A Pure-Signal Conference

Northern Lightning 2023 will take place in Bergen, Norway from March 17 to 19, from the 17th to the 19th of March, and the Norwegians are going all out, it seems.

Everything has been designed for and by Bitcoiners, from the keynotes, to the food, to the parties, to the merch. Merch will be limited to 21 numbered copies, of course. Our vision is to create an annual, intimate experience bringing Bitcoin to a new Nordic city each year, until hyperbitcoinization is achieved and beyond.

This first edition will be a three-day Bitcoin conference in a historical setting among the dramatic scenery and wooden harbors of Bergen, headlined by the greatest minds in Bitcoin, with the opportunity to orange pill hundreds of no-coiners at a massive party running on the Lightning Network.

Hodlonaut, Knut Svanholm and Peter Todd are just some of the great Bitcoiners who will be joining, covering topics like monetary liberation, Bitcoin...

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A supernova witnessed by Chinese astronomers in the year 185 A.D. has been captured by the Dark Energy Camera telescope.

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The first thing we see upon entering Pablo Ferrers exhibition of paintings Repetitions is a text by the artist in which he reflects on the value of repetition as reiteration and rehearsal. What

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Never let it be said that prime minister Rishi Sunak isnt down with the kids.

Just to prove how much he knows and cares about innovation because Brexit Britain is at the cutting edge of all things innovative, right? he, er, shared a QR code on Twitter.

Innovation means growth pic.twitter.com/eFuXUMdc9O

Rishi Sunak (@RishiSunak) March 6, 2023

And you dont have to be a Year 7 student to point out his unfortunate schoolboy error we reckon a Year 5 or 6 student could tell him.

But just in case he didnt have any of those available, there were plenty of people on Twitter only too happy to put him right. And deliver exactly the amount of ridicule he deserved.

1.

Could you fax this over to me so I can scan it on my phone?

Moose Allain (@MooseAllain) March 6, 2023

2.

How exactly is it innovation when I now have to go and get my wifes phone and then point it at my own one to see where this QR code leads to? You lot really couldnt organise a sausage roll in a Greggs.

Simon Harris Man Behaving Dadly (THATS DADLY) (@simonharris_mbd) March 6, 2023

3.

I scanned this at the self checkout in sainsburys and now I owe twenty seven pounds eighty two pence for shallots who at the Treasury do I contact about it

mutable joe (@mutablejoe) March 6, 2023

4.

The PM's QR code tweet is about UK tech innovation and to illustrate this it uses 3D animation that is at the level of your local pub's website circa 1996.

Michael Spice...

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Discover how AI crypto coins enable decentralized AI and ML networks for the secure, transparent exchange of data and value.

Hong Kong-based crypto lender Babel Finance wants to roll out DeFi platform and stablecoin. (Unsplash)

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San Projects, a highly regarded production company, has partnered with Stems Gallery to produce an awe-inspiring art installation in Dubai. Featuring the works of renowned French multidisciplinary artist, Julien Boudet, the installation includes two thought-provoking sculptures, Explosion, 2023 and Pressure, 2023, which challenge visitors perceptions of reality.

Inspired by Boudets passion for car culture in Dubai, the two sculptures pay tribute to the iconic Mercedes G Wagon, the citys most popular car. Drawing on Boudets passion for basketball and the iconic AMG logo, the sculptures explore the concepts of accumulation and compression, creating a giant counterfeit AMG basketball and playing with logos and bootleg culture, which is prevalent in Dubai.

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Mind-Bending Gate Design Is an Optical Illusion Extending Back Into Space

A gate in Vienna, Austria, is an optical illusion. Utilizing a one-point perspective, it appears to extend back into space and makes it look like the actual wrought iron gate is much farther down the path. But thanks to its clever use of line and scale, it all sits on a flat plane.

The mind-bending gate leads to the grounds of the Theresianum Academy, a private boarding and day school founded in 1746 by Empress Maria Theresa of Austria. It has more than 100 students ranging from elementary school to upper school (high school).

The trompe-l'il embedded within the gate is a great lesson in perspective for the students. It demonstrates how one point can trick our eye into thinking that something is farther away than it actually is. They can see this in practice when the gate opens; the extended landscape is not protruding into the distance. It's right in front of them, all at once.

A mind-bending wrought iron gate design in Vienna, Austria, uses a one-point perspective to create the illusion of depth.

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At the risk of sticking our neck out, this might be the most satisfying video you watch all week (and very possibly all year).

Its from the rather fabulous TikTok account called @unclogging_drains and it went even more viral after it was shared by @ScottNover over on Twitter.

the people who want to ban tiktok would think differently if they followed my favorite account, which is called @unclogging_drains pic.twitter.com/UQITvURxdN

Scott Nover (@ScottNover) March 5, 2023

Heres the original over on TikTok (and you can follow them here!).

@unclogging_drains #uncloggingdrains #cleaningtiktok #relax #drains #satisfying #fyp original sound Unclogging Drains

And here are our favourite things people said about it.

Thank you for sharing this! You unclogged my heart and drained away my boredom.

Blair Dulder CPA (@runaway_vol)...

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• A recent research article indicates that children with ASD and GI symptoms have an immune system response imbalance that manifests in their circulating plasma cytokine levels. The author, Paul Ashwood, Ph.D., suggests that children with ASD and GI symptoms may be a subgroup of the disorder and that targeted treatments could be developed to help this distinct group. His team believes that two areas of potential treatments for this subgroup should be explored, either decreasing inflammatory cytokines or increasing immune regulation.  
• The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) awarded UC Davis MIND Institute researchers $1.35 million to study the effects of wildfire smoke exposure on pregnant mothers and their developing babies. The research team is gathering birth and health records along with data concerning wildfire smoke exposure in California. The team will search for links between pollution from wildfire smoke and low birth weight, developmental delays, and autism. 
• According to a new American Network of Community Options and Resources (ANCOR) report, the nations disability service system is on the brink of collapse. The report details how programs are closing, leaving people with developmental disabilities with nowhere to go, and how providers are failing to meet federal requirements. Specifically, the report shows that over 481,000 people were on waiting lists for home and community-based services at the end of 2021. Survey data from last year showed that more than 60% of provi...

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A Higher Rate of Parkinsons Disease Also Discovered in Older Adults with ASD

Researchers from the University of Singapore have recently published a systematic review evaluating the clinical and genetic associations between autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and parkinsonian features. The team discovered that individuals with ASD have a higher prevalence of parkinsonism, including Parkinsons disease (PD) for older adults, than age-matched controls. Parkinsonism is a set of brain conditions that cause slowed movements, rigidity (stiffness), and tremors. The researchers identified several genes, most notably PARK2, that are linked with both ASD and PD, including individuals carrying specific rare genetic variants presenting with autistic behavior and parkinsonism. They also found that other PD-related gene loci, such as RIT2, CD157/BST1, GPCR37, and the SLC gene family could result in autistic behavior and parkinsonism. Rare genetic mutations (such as ATP13A2, CLN3, and WDR45) could also contribute to the same outcome. The review highlighted that sex differences might play a role in the presentation of parkinsoni...

We hesitate to direct you towards GB News but in this case well make an exception (and an extremely worthwhile exception it is too).

Its layer Jonathan Coad who went on GB News to talk about Matt Hancock, Isabel Oakeshott and all those WhatsApp messages.

He was furious when he was introduced by presenter Steve N Allen as the lawyer who was actually asked to represent Matt Hancock.

Coad paused for a moment before saying: Yes, Im going to have to say, thats disappointing. Because I made it absolutely clear to your programme I asked them not to disclose that, and that is very, very poor journalism.

And, well, best have a watch for yourself. And when we say watch to the end, you really do have to watch to the end.

guys this bloke has had an absolute NIGHTMARE On GB news wow it really is quite spectacular pic.twitter.com/62VZZT76qO

Ava-Santina (@AvaSantina) March 5, 2023

Mega ooof!

And here are just a few of the many things people were saying about it.

Matt Hancocks lawyer just performed the most spectacular self-own since, well, Matt Hancock. This is a masterpiece. pic.twitter.com/16zEsIgn27

Count Binface (@CountBinface) March 5, 2023

What if all your worst anxiety dreams just happened

Ross McCafferty (@RossMcCaff) March 5, 2023

What a week for Matt Hancock. It looks like the wily operator has secured himself the services of the best lawyer since Lionel Hutz!

"I was watching Matlock in a bar last night. The sound wasn't on but I got the gist of it." https://t.co/k48QfWSItY

THE SECRET TORY CBE (@secrettory12) March 5, 2023

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Children of Hispanic Heritage Are More Likely to Receive a Late Diagnosis 

The Centers of Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has recently released their first autism spectrum disorder (ASD) surveillance report focusing exclusively on adolescents. This research investigated diagnostic patterns, co-occurring conditions, and transition planning for 816-year-olds on the spectrum. The report used longitudinal population-based surveillance data from the Autism Developmental Disabilities Monitoring Network (ADDM) during 2002-2018 in five different catchment areas within the United States. Participants included 3148 children born in 2002 whose records were first reviewed for ASD surveillance in 2010. Results showed that of the 1846 children identified as an ASD case, 11.6% were first identified after age 8, far later than the average diagnostic age of 4 years and 4 months. The report determined that children more likely to receive a later diagnosis were either Hispanic, born with low birth weight, verbal, had high intelligence quotient or adaptive scores, or had certain co-occurring neuropsychological conditions by age 8. It also discovered that certain neuropsychological conditions masked ASD symptoms, making diagnosing more difficult. Additionally, the report found that 1 in 7 participants had ASD ruled out at an earlier time. It also showed that by age 16, neuropsychological conditions (i.e., attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder and anxiety) were common in more than half of adolescents with ASD. Further, by age 16, females with ASD were more likely to have anxiety, depression, and epilepsy compared to males. Intellectual disability (ID) status remained unchanged for the majority of participants (>80%) from ages 8-16. On a positive note, transition planning was completed for over 94% of adolescents, but disparities were observed by ID status.  

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The Supreme Court of Nigeria says no to redesigning the naira, ruling that the old banknotes will remain in circulation.

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The sound of war drums is getting louder all over the globe.  In this article, I want to give you an update on the three major conflicts which will define World War III.  In the years ahead it is inevitable that smaller regional conflicts will erupt at various times, but for this piece, I am going to focus on the three big ones.

All of the participants have been preparing for war for many years, and now tensions have reached a boiling point.  And once all three of these wars fully get going, none of our lives will ever be the same again.  The following are the 3 wars of the apocalypse

#1 The United States and Russia

The conflict in Ukraine has evolved into a full-blown proxy war between the United States and Russia.

Russian authorities have made it very clear who they believe their real enemy is, and U.S. officials are not even trying to hide the reality of the situation any longer.

Our politicians in Washington keep telling us that we are in it to win it, and on Friday another gigantic package of military aid was announced

The Biden administration announced its newest military aid package for Ukraine on Friday worth an estimated $400 million and mainly consisting of ammunition for the weapons it has already provided.

Secretary of State Antony Blinken announced the package, which is the 33rd drawdown of U.S. stockpiles for Ukraine since August 2021, saying in a statement, We are again reminded of the boundless courage and steadfast resolve of the people of Ukraine as well as the strong support for Ukraine in the international community.

The U.S. is providing more funding for the war in Ukraine than anyone else, more military equipment than anyone else, more ammunition than anyone else, and more military intelligence than anyone else.

Oh, and now we are actually bringing Ukrainian pilots to the United States to train them how to fly F-16 fighter jets

Two Ukrainian pilots are currently in the United States undergoing an assessment to determine how long it could take to train t...

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The possibility of a national TikTok ban continues to grow as U.S. Senators push a bill that will help "ban or prohibit" foreign technology such as the Chinese-owned video app.

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By Greg Hunters USAWatchdog.com  Award-winning journalist Alex Newman, author of the popular books Deep State and Crimes of the Educators, predicted at the beginning is this year that the Deep State demons will have one crisis after another to keep people confused and afraid.  The latest crisis is the economic and ecological disaster in East Palestine, Ohio.  Newman says expect many more disasters and explains, All across the country we are seeing very bizarre things happen.  Factories and chemical plants going up in flames, food processing facilities blowing up, airplanes crashing in mysterious ways, and I think we are heading into an era of really serious crisis.  Last summer, I was putting together the wave of crises that the Deep State was preparing for us, and one of the terms I used was polycrisis.  Then, right before the World Economic Forum meeting this year, they actually put on their website is 2023 the year of the polycrisis?  Of course, it will be the year of the polycrisis.  I think we are prepared and being groomed for cyber-attacks, currency crisis, economic crisis and, of course, Russia/Ukraine and China/Taiwan.  I think all of this is going to be used for a series of never-ending crises until we are ready to give up our freedoms, give up our national sovereignty and self-government, and move towards this crazy totalitarian, technocratic system they want. Newman says its not going to be a kind transition for most people.  Newman says, The thing that is so hard for people to understand is that there are very powerful people that are working together, and they absolutely want to kill you.  That is not speculation.  These people have been openly saying for a century that they believe there are too many people on this planet. . . .  The eugenics movement never died.  Margaret Sanger, the Rockefellers, Dr. Joseph Mengele was funded by the Rockefeller dynasty.  These people are very much still around.  Bill Gates is the perfect example.  His dad was on the board of Planned Parenthood, the largest butcher of unborn babies in America. . . . Bill Gates say...

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Bitcoin mining is centralizing, but how real is the risk of network censorship? And can a protocol called Stratum V2 save the industry?

This is an opinion editorial by Federico Rivi, author of the Bitcoin Train newsletter.

Bitcoin mining within everyone's reach: household appliances, wearable devices such as smartwatches and smart glasses, all capable of mining with specialized microchips. This is the future that many Bitcoiners hope for.

While such a scenario might not be so far from the reality that awaits us, today we are still in Bitcoins genesis chapter and the reality is not yet as Antonopoulos predicted. In fact, mining is centralizing.

Last month, Foundry USA coordinated 34% of the hash rate alone. If we add Antpool, whose share is 18.2% of total hash rate, we have 52% of Bitcoin's global computational power in the hands of just two mining pools.

Pointing out the problem with this centralization recently was the well-known Bitcoin developer Peter Todd:

Bitcoin is dead. Mining is over. They will regulate Bitcoin. Censorship will come.

I can hear you already, but we should remain calm. To understand what the implications are and what the solutions are we need to take a step back and review the concept of pool mining.

The Evolution Of Pool Mining

Would you rather receive $100,000 once every five years or $20,000 once a year? The answer to this question by most explains the emergence of mining pools.

In the long run, the payout is the same, what changes is the frequency with which the payment is received. In a highly-competitive environment like mining, this is crucial. It can determine the survival or bankruptcy of mining farms that regardless of the change in the price of bitcoin must keep machines running by paying for electricity, as well as any loans taken out to purchase hardware or other expenses.

A mining pool is a server, usually run by a company, that unites mining farms and individual miners located in different areas, pooling their computing resources and combining them as the product of a single team, participating in the competition that is bitcoin mining. The high comp...

Michellejean Pinuhan, an Indigenous Higaonon, completed her bachelors degree in agriculture entrepreneurship in 2022. Then, instead of working in the city after graduation, she chose to return to her roots in the Mount Sumagaya region, in the southern Philippines. The 23-year-old is part of a cohort of Indigenous youths known as basbasonon (second-liners): volunteers keeping alive an ancient forest monitoring practice known as panlaoy that helps protect ecosystems on the slopes of this biodiversity-rich mountain in Misamis Oriental province. Elders prepare the basbasonon to be the next cultural bearers and forest vanguards, and expose them to panlaoy and other cultural traditions. Panlaoy requires immersion in the forest, where participants observe, document and assess the condition of the ecosystem and any threats to it. Its preceded by a pagbala (foretelling) ritual that involves predicting the  permissibility of panlaoy through a bottle containing oil infused with medicinal herbs. Indigenous Community Conserved Territories and Areas (ICCAs) are territories of life conserved by Indigenous peoples due to their customary laws and governance systems. The Higaunon Indigenous community conserved area in Misamis Oriental, Philippines, is known by its local term Pina daw Bahaw-bahaw. Photo by Archie Tulin / NTFP-EP Philippines. Pinuhans father, Mantundaan Perfecto, is a datu (traditional leader), responsible for performing pagbala to seek their guardian spirits consent for the annual conduct of panlaoy. Pinuhan says she can vividly recall the ceremony her father conducted ahead of her first panlaoy in 2021: The 67-year-old datu tied a string around the bottles tip, suspendedThis article was originally published on Mongabay

Its fair to say this dog wasnt intending to go on this slide and his reactions as he goes down, while eliciting no end of sympathy, obviously, is also todays funniest thing.

He fought a good fight, but at the end he made a heckin mistake, said St0pX who shared it over on Reddit.

He fought a good fight, but at the end he made a heckin mistake

Noooooooooo!

It was posted by @DoTheDartman over on Imgur and here are our three favourite things people said about it.

Its the cartoonish reaction and trying to escape fate movements for me. Classic.
Chakka_kuru

That gets funnier every time I watch it .
ReadingGlasses

The smaller black and white dog near the tree almost joined in, then thought better and noped out.
braddamit

And just in case you want it, here it is again with sound (we prefer it without)

With sound

Source Reddit u/St0pX Imgur @DoTheDartman @DoTheDartman

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At a conference on herpetology the branch of zoology studying reptiles and amphibians at the end of the 1980s, researchers from numerous countries began to tell of disappearing and shrinking frog and toad populations. It was found not to be an isolated situation: the same phenomenon was happening in many forests and mountains across the American continent. After a number of analyses, the scientists found that thousands of amphibians were becoming victim to a lethal fungus originating in Asia called Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis, or Bd, which causes a disease called chytridiomycosis. Asian amphibians are resistant to the fungus, but not those on the other continents. Among the many amphibian species decimated in recent decades by Bd are those in the genus Atelopus, commonly known as harlequin frogs. The Atelopus spumarius harlequin frog lives in the Amazon Rainforest, with populations in Brazil, Peru, Ecuador, Colombia and the Guianas. Photo courtesty of Jaime Culebras/ASI. Found in a region stretching from Costa Rica to Bolivia and from Ecuador to French Guiana, including the Brazilian Amazon, these frogs measure a mere 2-3 centimeters (0.8-1.2 inches) in length. Their colors, however, can only be described as showy. They are covered in some of the most vibrant found in nature hot pink, orange, neon yellow and purple earning themselves the moniker jewels of the neotropics. The fungus has been horrible, devastating to the Atelopus. Of the 99 species we know, four are extinct in nature and [as many as] 40 may also beThis article was originally published on Mongabay

Its been a while since we had a spa day, and next time we have one, we want to enjoy it as much as this dog.

Its a video thats just gone viral in the corner of Reddit called oddly satisfying and we reckon theres nothing odd about it.

Please dont stop

The first frame with the person watching and smiling outside looks like a Norman Rockwell paintingthe shop window, street scene, old timey apron on the dog washer, the dog in bliss.
BeanLives

No worries. Just vibes.
TealBlueLava

I want to be a pet dog.
knoldpold1

I aim to experience that kind of bliss one day.
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Amen to that.

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Hide-and-Seek Zoo is free on this website for one week only. Its an excerpt from 70+ Things To Do with a Hundred Chart, available as an ebook at my bookstore (Thank you for cutting out the middleman!) and in ebook or paperback through many online retailers. Read more about my playful math books here.

Many parents remember struggling to learn math. We hope to provide a better experience for our children.

And one of the best ways for children to enjoy learning is through hands-on play.

This game builds familiarity with the patterns in 2-digit numbers as players search for the secret squares on a hundred chart.

Hide-and-Seek Zoo

Math Concepts: hundred chart, strategy.

Players: two players.

Equipment: printed gameboard, pencils or felt-tip markers.

Set-Up

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