kravietz 🦇 @kravietz@social.privacytools.io

The whole McKeigue & WGSPM scandal brings echoes of similar debates from the past, such as British scientists who were also communists - such as Bernal - defending Trofim Lysenko. Basically, what happens when people turn from scientists into activists.

https://sci-hub.do/10.1080/03085147900000017

Hans Kristian Gaarder, 60, a Norwegian conspiracy theorist, who believed #covid was a hoax, has died from the virus just days after hosting two illegal gatherings at his property.

When I lived in Poland and still was on Facebook, some mums were organising "pox parties" which was a very dumb way to expose their children to chickenpox. I guess Gaarder tried the same with Covid... 🤔

https://www.insider.com/norway-top-covid-19-denier-dies-from-virus-after-hosting-house-parties-2021-4

"A group of British academics was secretly in contact with Russian diplomats in four separate embassies as they worked to undermine evidence that Bashar al-Assad was using chemical weapons against his own people"

#syria #assange #russia

https://www.thedailybeast.com/syria-chemical-attack-deniers-admit-links-to-wikileaks-and-russia

Staffers at One America News said they felt responsible for spreading misinformation that led to the Capitol riot. But they had bills to pay, they said, and no other job options. "We're not Nazis," one producer told me. "Just, like, everyday people." 🤷

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/18/business/media/oan-trump.html

There's only one EU country that recently celebrated 50% wind and solar installed capacity.

Installed.

This is what it means in practice:

GNU Taler seems to be very active in the e-Euro consultations

https://taler.net/en/news/2021-03.html

European Central Bank (ECB) is running industry consultations on creation of e-Euro digital currency. 🇪🇺

https://www.ecb.europa.eu/pub/pdf/other/Eurosystem_report_on_the_public_consultation_on_a_digital_euro~539fa8cd8d.en.pdf

Guardian talking about... Bayes theorem 🤦‍♂️

Clear message in Czech newspapers today - "Russian terror", "who were the Russian killer agents" etc. The GRU sabotage was to prevent delivery of some weapons Ukraine purchased in Czechia - and it kind of worked, that batch was blown up. Was it worth it? Rosatom is now being kicked out from the Dukovany nuclear power plant tender and Kremlin seems to have very seriously antagonized yet another country in EU.

Fascinating insight into how brain separates sensory information from memories in neurons by a clever encoding trick

https://www.quantamagazine.org/the-brain-rotates-memories-to-save-them-from-new-sensations-20210415/

Wow - Mishkin and Chepiga, the two GRU officers of Salisbury fame, are now linked to 2014 ammunition depot explosion that in Czechia that killed two people

https://www.reuters.com/world/czechs-expel-russian-embassy-staff-pm-says-suspected-russian-link-ammunition-2021-04-17/

Milford at Sea today. Temptation to do a swim disappeared after I submerged my feet 😬

APT29 top five exploits:

-CVE-2018-13379 in FortiGate VPN
-CVE-2019-9670 in Zimbra
-CVE-2019-11510 in Pulse Secure VPN
-CVE-2019-19781 in Citrix ADC
-CVE-2020-4006 in VMware

Interesting, all are proprietary software from respected vendors, no FOSS on the list 🤔

https://therecord.media/cisa-fbi-nsa-reveal-five-enterprise-bugs-exploited-by-russias-apt29-group/