2021-01-24

Cool

• Examining a technology sample kit: IBM components from 1948 to 1986

  Each (11x12cm) TCM had 1800 pins so it could be plugged into a printed circuit board and connected to the rest of the system. Each board held 9 TCMs and was powered with an incredible 1400 amps.

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• Why do we live in a world where libraries are illegal? An interview with Alexandra Elbakyan | Biblioteket tar saka

• Lack of sleep, stress can lead to symptoms resembling concussion

• Avi Loeb Harvard’s top astronomer says our solar system may be teeming with alien technology

• Ex-CIA engineer and Vault 7 leaker tells judge he's incarcerated like an animal

• California man blasts Texas 'dystopia' in Op-Ed after moving to Austin

• A Short History Of How Anthony Fauci Has Kept Failing Up Since 1984

National Guard in DC

• I went hunting. The original Emergency Declaration extended until today; but (shock) guess what? They're keeping some. These stories say 5k to 7k, some others go as low as 2k and as high as 12k.

• (Jan 24 10p CST) Thousands of Guard troops to stay in Washington as threats target lawmakers ahead of impeachment trial

  Though much of the security apparatus around Washington set up after the riot and ahead of Biden’s inauguration — it included scores of military checkpoints and hundreds of additional law enforcement personnel — is no longer in place, about 7,000 members of the National Guard will remain to assist federal law enforcement, officials said.

  The Guard Bureau said that the number of Guard members in D.C. is less than 20,000 as of Sunday. All but about 7,000 of those will go home in the coming days. The Guard Bureau said that the number of troops in D.C. would then continue to decline in the coming weeks to about 5,000. They are expected to stay in D.C. until mid-March.

• (Jan 21) 26,000 National Guard troops came to DC and protected the inauguration without incident. Now the drawdown begins

  On Jan. 6, then-acting Defense Secretary Christopher Miller approved up to 6,200 National Guard troops to support civil authorities in the District of Columbia for up to 31 days under Title 32, 502(f) authority

  “The planning and process may take several days, but arrangements are being made to return close to 15,000 troops as soon as possible and should conclude within a five to 10-day period,” Murphy said. “Demobilization is involved with equipment turn-in and accountability, travel arrangements, COVID screening and mitigation. Troops will leave by ground transportation, airlift provided by the Air National Guard and contracted commercial air as necessary.”

  But about 7,000 troops will remain through the end of the month, he said.

• Jill Biden’s PR stunt -- 2 baskets of cookies for tens of thousands of troops

Horseshit

• The Viral Vasectomy: Covid’s Silver Lining.

  If Cemile Seymen is right, a huge chunk of those infectees won’t even know they’ve been hit until, to their surprise and dismay, they find they can’t have kids any more. It’s like Zika only better, because it doesn’t rely on scaring people into reforming their behavior. It’s like “The Screwfly Solution” without the femicidal misogyny. It’s like “Children of Men” without the Hollywood cop-out ending.

  • The other side of COVID‐19 pandemic: Effects on male fertility - Seymen - - Journal of Medical Virology - Wiley Online Library

• Chicago teachers won't return to in-person classes without more vaccinations

• US police vehicle ploughs into crowd watching 'burnouts'

• New Defense secretary orders assessment of sexual assault prevention programs | TheHill

• Disney+ blocks under-sevens from watching 'racist' Peter Pan, Dumbo and The Aristocats | Daily Mail Online

  Three other long-standing family favourites – The Aristocats, Swiss Family Robinson and Dumbo – have also been removed from children’s accounts for breaching ‘content advisories’ that were recently put in place.

• CBS Medical Editor Says Americans Should Wear Two Face Masks | ZeroHedge

  wearing two masks has become a preferred method of virtue signaling on Twitter, with leftists posting selfies to prove they’re a ‘doubleplusgood person’ for social media clout.

• The third in the line of presidential succession has been in five Batman movies

• Comments on "Rural areas are sick"

  These areas that are both economically depressed and depopulating slide into poverty, drug dependency, and most recently pointless, embarrassing, and dangerous political radicalization. Industry is not coming back to these place, the oil is dried up, the mill has shut down, the mine is all dug out, and so on. People stay because of memories and family and sometimes "history and heritage". In the case of my father they chose to shame him for decades for abandoning them. It's kind of cult-like in a way.

  We pay people to stay where they are, even if there's no long-term prospect, but I would support a "Move America!" program that offered some kind of incentive for people to move to areas with better economic outlook. This means cities for the most part.

• This Ain’t Your Grandfather’s Conservative Military Anymore - Revolver

  Wild conjecture, from both the liberal media and “Q”, about a pro-Trump “coup” was always ridiculous, not because the military is so non-ideological that they would never dare intervene in partisan politics, but because they are now hyper-partisan ideologues of the anti-Trump side. This is almost certainly why Trump was unable to use them help preserve law and order during last Summer’s George Floyd riots; they would not cooperate.

TechSuck

• Facebook purges left-wing pages and individuals - World Socialist Web Site

  Since the 2016 election, the US intelligence agencies have advocated internet censorship in the name of fighting “fake news.” While these actions have been presented as targeting far-right conspiracy theories, they have, in fact, disproportionately affected left-wing, antiwar and socialist organizations.

• 'It's ugly': Verizon 5G data boxes appear without notice on Houston front lawns - HoustonChronicle.com

• Smart watches can detect symptoms of Covid-19

• Zuckerberg's Biden problem - BBC News

• its like 1998 again! DDoSers are abusing Microsoft RDP to make attacks more powerful

Economicon

• Covid-19’s Financial Toll Mounts as Homeowners Keep Postponing Mortgage Payments

• A third of all small business owners say they can't pay rent

• China Overtakes US as World’s Leading Destination for Foreign Direct Investment

• Oyster Prices Plummet as Diners Stay Home Amid Pandemic

• Ethereum Hits New All-Time High

• Opinion: Believe it or not, Bitcoin has become a good long-term investment

• Insurers 'funding organised crime' by paying ransomware claims

• Pandemic aftershocks overwhelm global supply lines

BidenTime

• HOT MIC: Biden Says 'I Don't Know What I'm Signing,' Signs Executive Order Anyway - National File

• President Joe Biden attends first church service since inauguration

  • NYTimes ripped for labeling Biden 'most religiously observant' ...

• Biden 2020 Run Backed By $145 Million In 'Dark Money' | ZeroHedge

• Exclusive: Biden to impose South Africa travel ban to combat new COVID-19 variant - CDC | Reuters

  Biden on Monday is also reimposing an entry ban on nearly all non-U.S. travelers who have been in Brazil, the United Kingdom, Ireland and 26 countries in Europe that allow travel across open borders.

Trumpoline

• Ohno now there's 2 hitlers! Josh Hawley’s rise included warning signs of radicalism | The Kansas City Star

• OK WTF? "freedom of association" anyone?

  • Pretrial Release Condition: Can’t Speak About “the Capitol Protest or the Matters Related to the United States Government” – Reason.com

  • Judge: Kenosha shooter can't associate with supremacists

• Trump adviser claims former president has no plans for third ...

• Rep. Madison Cawthorn, who sought to overturn Biden's win, admits that the election 'was not fraudulent' on CNN

• (Jan 11) The 'Shared Psychosis' of Donald Trump and His Loyalists - Scientific American

• What Will the Guy Who Built an Archive of Trump’s Tweets Do Now?

• Deborah Birx says there were 'definitely' COVID-19 deniers in the Trump White ...

• After Capitol riot, police chiefs work to root out officers with ties to extremist groups

• Dozens of Capitol Police test positive for coronavirus after ...

• Trump pressed DOJ to go to Supreme Court in bid to overturn election: ...

• "A four-year Fact Checker project comes to an end." Trump’s false or misleading claims total 30,573 over 4 years

• (Archived link) Self-styled militia members planned Capitol storming in advance of Jan. 6 - The Washington Post

• Tennessee man with zip ties at Capitol could face charges of sedition, other felonies after riot, prosecutors say - The Washington Post

• Birx: Someone was delivering a 'parallel set of data' on coronavirus to Trump

• Trump Fumes in His First Weekend Out of Office as Fauci Clowns on Him

World

• Biden reportedly bonded with UK leader Boris Johnson over their mutual love of trains, as the ...

• The Takedown of a Dark-Web Marketplace | The New Yorker

• U.S. carrier group enters South China Sea amid Taiwan tensions | Reuters

  • U.S. carrier strike group enters South China Sea amid Taiwan tensions

• Putin Has Created the Ultimate Bond Villain's Lair

  • Atlantic Council paying Nalvany for all his help? Much media push behind him the last week.

COVID

• Biden nominee tries to clean up president's 'nothing we can do' claim about pandemic trajectory

• CDC director: federal government does not know how much Covid vaccine the US has

• Five million vaccinated Britons told to carry on 'as if you have the virus'

• Miami Heat to use coronavirus-sniffing dogs to screen fans at games

• Surge of Student Suicides Pushes Las Vegas Schools to Reopen

• How the Coronavirus Will Reshape Architecture

• Does Vitamin D combat Covid?

• Autumn Covid-19 surge dates in EU correlated to latitudes, pointing to Vitamin D

• Colchicine Quebec researchers say they have found the first effective tablet drug to fight the coronavirus | CTV News

• Czech trainers teach dogs to sniff out Covid: 95-percent success rate

Obit

• (Jan 18) Goodbye, Michael Jones, the man who gave the power of maps in our hands

• Walter Bernstein, Celebrated Screenwriter, Is Dead at 101

• The Magical Genius of Peter Huber – Reason.com

• George Carruthers, Whose Telescopes Explored Space, Dies at 81