Afternoon Tea 9.27.21 - Vigilante Treatments

The NSA & CIA use ad blockers, vigilante treatment regimens are a thing, the UK might need to use the military to supply gas stations, a Russian “insider” was confirmed to have breached the Capital on 1/6, and if you traveled to Thailand in the last decade, your data leaked. Today’s vibe is the first in the week’s series of “wait, they listen to hip hop too?” to give you some non-R. Kelly rap to listen to.

Details of some 100 million visitors to Thailand exposed online (SCMP) If you visited Thailand in the last decade, there’s a good chance your info might have been exposed online in a data leak a week ago. Stay wary of charge weirdness in accounts and such.

Jan. 6th Video Suggests ‘Russia Insider’ Entered Capitol (SPLC) Remember the people who got called paranoid for saying those events would give access to non-US agents? SPLC has the receipts. So, that is now 3 for the paranoiacs and 0 for the “they were just trying to hug democracy extra hard” centrists.

The NSA and CIA Use Ad Blockers Because Online Advertising Is So Dangerous (Motherboard) & Five French Ministers Possibly Targeted by Israeli NSO’s Pegasus Spyware (Haaretz) The whole thing about weapon proliferation is eventually those weapons are pointed at you.

‘Vigilante treatments’: Anti-vaccine groups push people to leave ICUs (NBC News) & Americans who relied most on Trump for COVID news among least likely to be vaccinated (Pew Research) The vigilante regimen will cause the deaths of thousands, and long COVID for just as many. Given how many believe the “Big Lie” and want Trump restored to power, this should be more worrying than surprising.

Boris Johnson to consider using army to supply petrol stations (Guardian) There are now not enough truck (lorry) drivers for the UK shipping system to work. Mostly because 25,000 non-UK citizen lorry drivers left the UK in the last 2 years. So now they’re giving out visas/immigration non-bootings for lorry drivers. Could there be some event that happened recently that accelerated their departure. The world will never know.

California 1st to set quota limits for retailers like Amazon (SFGate) While this pushback on Amazon warehouse hazing-for-bucks is long needed, the big thing is about algorithmic review. Amazon having to defend its algorithms to the state is a first-in-class regulation, so expect thicker resistance to this.

Lab-grown meat is supposed to be inevitable. The science tells a different story. (The Counter) & Faux Meat Falters at the Drive-Thru (Businessweek) The darling of the eco-capitalist market sector, non-meat meat was going to save us all from a vegan future. Not only is it not getting the traction needed as a fast food commodity ingredient, the science behind the technological expansion required for it to be our savior is…worryingly bleak.

It was a perfectly nice summer down the Shore. Why did people spend so much time complaining? (Philadelphia Inquirer) So much complaining on social media from people during a lovely three months at the Jersey Shore. It’s so shocking that no one wants to work in retail or food services for zero bucks per hour and no healthcare.

A hamster has been trading cryptocurrencies in a cage rigged to automatically buy and sell tokens since June - and it's currently outperforming the S&P 500 (Business Insider) Can we get shares in Hamtaro Crypto Worldwide? Gotta get in on the ground floor of this one.

Watch a raven take out a Google drone mid-air as tech giant is forced to ground its home delivery service due to bird attacks (Business Insider) & Drone Photo Awards 2021 Gotta love drone photography, as a pairing with the Australian delivery drones being harassed out of the sky by ravens.

Poem of the Tea: Short hope from RM Drake.

Yours,