2021-01-21

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• Scott Alexander formerly Slate Star Codex Still Alive - Astral Codex Ten

• 300 comments in 10hr. 700 @ 20hr. some of them are good. few new. Ask HN: Anyone know any funny programming jokes? | Hacker News

• The pandemic is speeding up the mass exodus of men from college

• RasPi Micro controller Meet Raspberry Silicon: Raspberry Pi Pico now on sale at $4 - Raspberry Pi

• The New National American Elite - Tablet Magazine

• Renewing Trust in America’s Institutions – Pairagraph

• Fired former data scientist Rebekah Jones arrested, tests positive for Covid-19

• I moved my family from California to Austin, Texas, and regretted it

• New FAA Drone Rules: What Recreational and Commercial Pilots Need to Know

• Tucows | Retiring Tucows Downloads

• Slouching Toward Post-Journalism | City Journal

• How Cognitive Bias Can Explain Post-Truth | The MIT Press Reader

• Space station detectors spot the source of weird ‘blue jet’ lightning | Science News

• In remote U.P., ham radio helps Michiganders connect amid isolation

Real Journalism Returns

• No shit? Media trust hits new low

• 'Fact-checkers' proposed for Nobel peace prize

• 'You just can’t get everything you want': Bernie Sanders' mittens not for sale

• 'Never been more optimistic': speeches, songs and celebrations cap Biden's inauguration day –as it happened

• Chrissy Teigen lost a tooth in a Fruit Roll-Up at the inauguration

• Stephen Colbert, Trevor Noah bid adieu to Trump: ‘America just got a brand-new dad’

• Bidens watch fireworks from White House balcony

• Highlights of the star-packed concert

• Biden White House Website Aims To Be More Inclusive, Accessible : President Biden Takes Office : NPR

  The White House contact form now includes gender-inclusive pronouns and prefixes, such as "they/them" and the gender-neutral title "Mx."

• White House: Biden wore no mask as 'he was celebrating'

• Tucker Carlson stressed about Biden's war on white supremacy and Sean Hannity ...

TechSuck

• Twitter locks Chinese embassy's account over tweet about ...

• Intel outsources Core i3 to TSMC's 5nm process

• Hacker leaks data of millions of Teespring users

• Twitter sued for allegedly refusing to remove child porn

• Judge refuses to reinstate Parler after Amazon shut it down

• Google’s parent firm is shutting down Loon connectivity project

• Intel says an earnings slide may have leaked, which is why it released early

Bitcoin

• Bitcoin Slumps to $31K on Sell-Off in US and Europe

• No, There Was No Double-Spending In Bitcoin | ZeroHedge

  • Bitcoin falls 11% after report suggests a critical flaw in the cryptocurrency called 'double spend' may have occurred | Currency News | Financial and Business News | Markets Insider

• Bitcoin Blockchain Sees Two Stale Blocks in One Day - Decrypt

• "Craig Steven Wright" claims to have invented Bitcoin Regarding CSW and the Bitcoin Whitepaper

  The Bitcoin whitepaper was included in the original Bitcoin project files with the project clearly published under the MIT license by Satoshi Nakamoto. We believe there is no doubt we have the legal right to host the Bitcoin whitepaper. Furthermore, Satoshi Nakamoto has a known PGP public key, therefore it is cryptographically possible for someone to verify themselves to be Satoshi Nakamoto. Unfortunately, Craig has been unable to do this.

  • Remove bitcoin.pdf by laanwj · Pull Request #740 · bitcoin-core/bitcoincore.org · GitHub

  • (PDF) Kicking the Hornet’s Nest – The Complete Writings of Satoshi Nakamoto

Economicon

• BlackRock Takes First Step into Crypto Exposure in Two Funds

• Yellen says U.S. must 'act big' on next coronavirus relief package

• Unemployment data shows worrisome trends

• New York City renters hold more than $1B in back rent

• Facebook's Undervalued Stock May Fall Following Quarterly Results

BidenTime

• NASA Lends Moon Rock for Oval Office Display | NASA

  At the request of the incoming Biden Administration, NASA loaned the Moon rock that was put on display in the Oval Office Jan. 20. It is from the Lunar Sample Laboratory Facility at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston

• Anti-government protesters in Portland smash windows, vandalize buildings

• Biden Plans to Forgive Some Federal Student Loans | Voice of America - English

  Under Biden’s plan, individuals making $25,000 or less per year would not have to make loan payments, and interest would not accrue on these loans. ... After 20 years, those “who have responsibly made payments through the program will be 100% forgiven,” the site said. It is not explained what “responsible” means in this instance.

• Oregon Democratic Party offices vandalized amid post-inauguration protests

  Protesters in Portland and Seattle smashed windows and graffitied buildings hours after President Joe Biden was sworn into office.

• Michael Yon Washington, D.C. — Now Effectively Under Martial Law

• "National Guard troops turns their backs to Biden Motorcade" https://youtu.be/_xmSYk_dOlA

• Photo Op Over - National Guard Kicked Out of Capitol to Cold Parking Garage

• Former White House Stenographer: Joe Biden Unfit to Become President - Politicrossing

Capitol Riot

• FBI ups reward to $75,000 for suspect who placed pipe bombs during Capitol riot

• Man Charged With Assault On Officer, As Seen In Viral Video From Capitol Riot

• Site Published Every Face from Parler's Capitol Riot Videos

  • Faces of the Riot

Trump and Trumpism

• It’s Time for Justice, Not Healing

• Referring Trump’s Suspension from Facebook to the Oversight Board

• Biden inauguration leaves QAnon believers in disarray

  • QAnon believers in disarray after Biden takes office

• EXPLAINER: What's next after US accused China of genocide

  • Trump’s Last-Minute Moves Against China Complicate Biden’s Agenda

• Loser Trump's last financial disclosure docs reveal Tim Cook gave him $5,999 Mac Pro, the 'first' made in Texas • The Register

• How is This Legal?! Multiple Banks Close Donald Trump's Accounts

• Tech Firms Profited from Far-Right Militia Content Despite Ban on “Three Percenters” – The Markup

• Qanon reports have latched onto things like this: TRUMP ODE TO THE CORPORATION! – THE MARSHALL REPORT

  • and this:

  The real Constitutional inauguration date was set to March 4th; FDR declared bankruptcy and restructured the corporate government in 1933 (est. 1871 seditiously), moving the date to Jan 20th instead. Fraudulent president controlled by the Chinese puts us under foreign occupation, and the military will not have that (See chapter 11.1-11.5 in the link to the Law of War Manual linked below); no current president puts the military under control of the government, temporarily until a new president (Trump, who actually won the election) is inaugurated on March 4th.

World

• Brexit: Lamb exporter to EU 'making virtually nothing' - BBC News

• The world must not accept the jailing of Alexei Navalny

• Novichok Nerve Agent Poisoning

  • HN comment thread Novichok Nerve Agent Poisoning | Hacker News

COVID

• "Toxic Maskulinity" STUDY: Long term mask use breeds microbes that infiltrate the lungs and contribute to advanced stage lung cancer – NaturalNews.com

• Loss of smell drives Covid-19 survivors to get creative in the kitchen

• Covid: The effect of treatment with ivermectin on viral load and symptoms

• Current U.S. Coronavirus Surge Has Peaked, Some Experts Say

• Trader Joe's, Dollar General And Others Are Paying Workers To Get Vaccines

• Covid-19 Herd immunity may not be achievable even with high vaccine uptake

• Right On Cue For Biden, WHO Admits High-Cycle PCR Tests Produce COVID False Positives | ZeroHedge

• Rogue antibodies could be driving severe Covid-19

• CDC officials urge Biden team to dump Palantir's Covid tracker