Links 7-13/2024

If you have AT&T phone service, or interacted via phone call/text with someone with AT&T phone service, your call/text records have gone public.

Cyber attacks on: Health Care Payments, Auto Dealership systems

GM cuts ties with 2 data firms amid heated lawsuit over driver data

A Deepfake Nude Generator Reveals a Chilling Look at Its Victims

Call 911 for help, get charged with the crime because of junk science.

First study to measure toxic metals in tampons shows arsenic and lead, among other contaminants

A new German publication compares two conditions in adolescent females: gender dysphoria and anorexia

Excessive alcohol deaths surged 29% during COVID pandemic, CDC data reveals (I coulda told them this would happen, and I’m not even a scientist!)

Chronic fear has physical effects identical to those reported w/CovidLongHaul

FDNY boss hunts down staffers who booed NY AG Letitia James, cheered for Trump at promotion ceremony

Climate Change Committee’s chief executive admitted privately to scientific malpractice in a modeling study underlying the ability of wind power to meet net zero goals. The CCC study used only 1 year of data

Remember several years ago, the FBI raided a safe deposit box setup and took all the contents? Twitter thread update on the lawsuits.

Ranchers Face Prison Time, Millions in Fines for Tampering with Rain Gauges

Twitter thread: Stories of hell from folks in the service industries (read not only the comments, but also the re-tweets)

Twitter thread: Back in March one of the big Haitian gangs released a propaganda video including some high end vehicles. The USA might have bought them for the gang.

Supreme Court of Washington: Examinees of color are too stupid to pass this test.

Woke doctors thought a tool that accounts for ethnic differences in kidney function was racist, so they removed it and screwed up the entire kidney transplant database

This team of “Squatter Hunters” uses squatting laws to reacquire homes for their owners because the authorities are useless

A NYC company fraudulently overvalued its building to obtain a mortgage and has defaulted. NY AG Letitia James is taking the side of the company preventing the lender from foreclosing on the building

80-year-old Montana man pleads guilty to using cloning to make giant, mutant bighorns

5 women aged 50+ fight off a Mountain Lion

Students at one of New York City’s top screened public high schools recently protested how they were being taught pre-calculus/trigonometry. Not only did they win their case, but they taught some adults a lesson.

This man changed his name to “Literally Anybody Else” and he’s running for president of the United States