2021-01-22

Cool

• Was the Wow! Signal Due to Power Beaming Leakage?

• Looking at Parler specs and their architecture - Ayende @ Rahien

• Convoy: The Future of Truck Freight

• Fine Machine Porn The Secret of the Broken Element: A Canon RF 100-500mm f4.7-7.1 Teardown

• MouSTer Brings USB To Retro Computers

etc

• Taibbi: The Echo Chamber Era | ZeroHedge

  This has been an ongoing theme of coverage in the Trump years: hyping a threat for a news cycle or two, then moving to the next panic as the basis for the first one dissipates. How many headlines were aimed out our outrage centers in the last four years that were quietly memory-holed, once they’d outlived their political utility?

• Jaime Harrison elected Democratic National Committee ...

• I tried to start a pandemic pod for my 5-year-old. Here's how it went wrong

• Covid kills Geology Dept. A department terminated | Science

• People In These Five States Say 'Get Me Outta Here' | ZeroHedge

• Climate change: US emissions in 2020 in biggest fall since WWII

• Odds 1:302.5 million Mega Millions jackpot reaches $1 billion becoming 2nd-largest ever

• 19 Year-Old Kroger Supermarket Worker Stole $1MM from Store

• Do Dogs Really Dream? ‹ Literary Hub

• Tom Brokaw retires, puts trust in 'new generation of NBC News'

Horseshit

• 100 million Musk to donate sliver of net worth for carbon capture

• To Counter Climate Change, We Need to Stop Burning Things

• The Washington Post Tried To Memory-Hole Kamala Harris’ Bad Joke About Inmates Begging for Food and Water – Reason.com

• Wait, wasn't it 4chan? then 8chan? then 8kun? that had the nazi problem? Telegram has a Nazi Problem - Rest of World

• What does "Net Neutrality" actually mean anymore? New Acting FCC Chief Jessica Rosenworcel Supports Restoring Net Neutrality

  • President Biden's FCC appointment is a big step toward net neutrality's return

• Times outgoing FCC chairman Ajit Pai made the internet worse

• Biden appears to remove Trump's Diet Coke button in the Oval Office - Business Insider

• Political unity is in the eye of the beholder

• Twitter Bots Are a Major Source of Climate Disinformation

TechSuck

• Open billing API plus viral popularity He Made a Viral Bernie Meme Site. Now He Has to Keep It Going | WIRED

• News Use Across Social Media Platforms in 2020 | Pew Research Center

• Intelligence Analysts Use U.S. Smartphone Location Data Without Warrants

  • DIA uses purchased phone location data without warrants

  • Military Intelligence Agency Says It Monitored U.S. Cellphone Without Warrant

• DDoS-Guard to forfeit internet space occupied by Parler

• FOUR accounts suspended: Twitter suspends Antifa accounts with over 71K followers

• (PDF) Defense Intelligence Agency purchased cell phone location data

Economicon

• Have seen two "Robinhood for real estate" startup announcements in the past couple days. Like real estate isnt having enough of a bubble.

• 'Spend as much as you can,' IMF head urges governments worldwide | Reuters

• Existing home sales rise in 2020 to highest in 14 years

• GameStop soars nearly 70%, trading briefly halted amid epic short squeeze

  • r/wallstreetbets set to private after increased media coverage | Hacker News

  WSB believes that there's a short squeeze imminent for $GME, and they've been hyping up/calling for people to buy and hold its shares.

  • Citron's Left: I'm Going Quiet On GameStop After "Angry Mob" Committed "Multiple Serious Crimes" | ZeroHedge

  • GameStop Record Surge Amid Tug-of-War Gives Reddit Army Win

• Samsung is reportedly building a $10B chipmaking plant in Austin

  • Samsung Considers $10B 3nm Texas Chipmaking Plant, Sources Say

BidenTime

• Biden orders review of domestic violent extremism threat

• Biden White House 'will tackle domestic extremism' - BBC News

  "If we fail to act, there will be a wave of evictions and foreclosures," he adds. "because there's nothing we can do to change the trajectory of the pandemic in the next several months."

• Combating COVID-19 | The White House

  • ooo joy "culturally competent contact tracing"

    Establish a U.S. Public Health Jobs Corps to mobilize at least 100,000 Americans across the country with support from trusted local organizations in communities most at risk to perform culturally competent approaches to contact tracing and protecting at-risk populations.

  • think trump tried this:

    Build immediately toward a future, flexible American-sourced and manufactured [masks & PPE manufacturing] capability to ensure we are not dependent on other countries in a crisis.

  • (strained expression)

    Establish a COVID-19 Racial and Ethnic Disparities Task Force, as proposed by Vice President Harris, to provide recommendations and oversight on disparities in the public health and economic response. At the end of this health crisis, it will transition to a permanent Infectious Disease Racial Disparities Task Force

  • some people cannot wear masks

    Every American to wear a mask when they are around people outside their household. Every Governor to make that mandatory in their state. Local authorities to also make it mandatory to buttress their state orders.

  • "new pre-existing contition"

    we must ensure that the millions of Americans who suffer long-term side effects from COVID don’t face higher premiums or denial of health insurance because of this new pre-existing condition. The Biden-Harris Administration will work to ensure that the protections for those with pre-existing conditions that were won with Obamacare are protected.

• Statement by Acting Secretary of Defense Christopher Miller on Operation Warp Speed Vaccine Doses Delivered Today > U.S. DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE > Release

• Janet Yellen Will Consider Limiting the Use of Cryptocurrency

• Senate Confirms Austin in Historic Vote, Installing First Black Defense ...

• Without Trump to blame, coronavirus turns the corner

• Biden’s militarized inauguration showcased Democrats’ insecurity

• Governors order National Guard soldiers home amid outrage over being moved to Capitol ...

  • National Guard Allowed Back Into Capitol After Eviction To Parking Garage; Trump Offers DC Hotel Rooms | ZeroHedge

  • National Guard: President Biden apologises over troops sleeping in car park

  • comment: "I was shocked to learn today that there are parking garages in DC that are unheated!"

• *DR Jill Jill Biden brings cookies to National Guard outside Capitol

  • but they're giving out chocolate chip Recipe: Jill Biden's favorite cookies are big, chunky ...

• EFF Transition Memo to Incoming Biden Administration | Electronic Frontier Foundation

• After hack of U.S. government, Biden enlists 'world class' cybersecurity team

Trumpoline

• comment:

  The story: 147 Republican lawmakers who opposed certification of the presidential election have been cut off from 20 of their 30 biggest corporate PAC donors.

  The WaPo lede: "Nine companies have taken no action to cut off donations to the campaign funds of lawmakers who objected to certifying the election."

• MeWe Fast-Growing Alternative to Facebook and Twitter Finds Post-Trump Surge 'Messy

• Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Skipped Biden's Inauguration...And The Reason Is Beyond Idiotic by Matt Vespa

  "I think we also had very real security concerns," Ocasio-Cortez admitted. "We still don’t yet feel safe around other members of Congress."

• Embedding with Pentagon Leadership During Trumps Chaotic Last Week

• MSNBC Host Admits: Trump Would've Been 'Crushed' for Holding 'Super-Spreader' Inaugural | Newsbusters

• Prospects of convicting Trump erode as GOP grows vocal against Senate impeachment proceedings - CNNPolitics

• US lawmakers ask FBI to investigate Parler app's role in Capitol attack

• A prominent lawyers' group filed an 18-page ethics complaint calling for Rudy ...

• Trump plays cards close to his chest when asked about future plans

• The Complete List of Trump’s Twitter Insults (2015-2021)

• Real estate agent charged in Capitol riot blocked from using PayPal for donations

• How the QAnon Cult Stormed the Capitol.

World

• report i cant chase down yet of a column of US forces entering Syria today. Jack Probosec tweet on it.

• When Historical Fiction Is a Crime | The New Republic

• FSB warns of US cyberattacks after Biden administration comments | ZDNet

• Iranian supreme leader's website shares threatening image of Trump

• Social Media Platforms Delete Russian Posts Promoting Navalny Protests

• iTWire - Memo to Google and Facebook: please pack your bags and go

• Italy orders TikTok to block underage users after 10 year old girl dies

• Facebook shuts down major left wing group in Britain

• Former Vatican bank chief sentenced to 9 years for embezzlement

COVID

• Covid-19 could affect the ability of the embryo to implant into the womb

• An Untested Source of Pandemic Data? The Sewer

• How U.S. CDC missed chances to spot Covid's silent spread

• Coronavirus Is Surging: How Severe Is Your State's Outbreak?

• Fauci says Covid vaccines appear to be less effective against some new strains

• People Are Photoshopping Covid Test Results to Bypass Travel Restrictions

Obit

• Mira Furlan Dead: 'Babylon 5,' 'Lost' Actress Dies at 65 – Variety

• Someone pointed out a story from Jan 6 about his COVID Vaccination Atlanta Braves legend Hank Aaron dies at age 86, daughter says

• Computational Complexity: Alan Selman (1941-2021)

  Alan drove a car with a "P NE NP" license plate. One day someone came up to him in a parking lot and said "Yes, but can you prove it?" Possibly the one thing in complexity he couldn't do.

• Jan 2 Dr. Brad J. Cox Ph.D. Obituary

  Dr. Cox was a computer scientist known mostly for creating the Objective – C programming language with his business partner, Tom Love,