2021-02-04

Cool

• Golf on the moon: Apollo 14 50th anniversary images find Alan Shepard's ball and show how far he hit it - BBC Sport

Worthy

• Immediately unpopular for some reason Large Study Reveals Prevalence, Health Benefits of Brown Fat – NIH Director's Blog

• Science Betrayed | City Journal

• Bad Astronomy | Venus phosphine and Betelgeuse dust news updates

• Overcoming Bias : Experts Versus Elites

  Finally, consider that recently I went into clear expert mode to release a formal preprint on grabby aliens, which induced almost no (< 10) comments on this blog or Twitter, in contrast to far more comments when arguable-elites discuss it in panelist/elite mode: Scott Aaronson (205), Scott Alexander (108), and Hacker News (110). People are far more interested in talking with elites in elite mode on most topics, than in talking with the clear relevant experts in expert mode.

• How DJT Lost the White House, Chapter 4: The Christmas Doldrums (December 23- noon January 6) – Deep Capture

etc

• Del.icio.us bookmarks is back in read only mode

• Open Insulin Can Actually Be Stored at Warm Temperatures For Weeks, Scientists Find

• No Secret Evidence in Our Courts | Electronic Frontier Foundation

• Klobuchar unveils sweeping revamp of antitrust enforcement, laying out vision as new subcommittee ...

• In Effort To Shake Off Abuse Allegations, Marilyn Manson Runs For Office As A Democrat | The Babylon Bee

• Powerpaste, the hydrogen technology for small vehicles

  “POWERPASTE stores hydrogen in a chemical form at room temperature and atmospheric pressure to be then released on demand,”

  Onboard the vehicle, the POWERPASTE is released from a cartridge by means of a plunger. When water is added from an onboard tank, the ensuing reaction generates hydrogen gas in a quantity dynamically adjusted to the actual requirements of the fuel cell. In fact, only half of the hydrogen originates from the POWERPASTE; the rest comes from the added water

• Association Between Egg Consumption and Risk of Cardiovascular Outcomes

  Conclusions: Our analysis suggests that higher consumption of eggs (more than 1 egg/day) was not associated with increased risk of cardiovascular disease, but was associated with a significant reduction in risk of coronary artery disease.

• UC Berkeley Library acquires FBI records of surveillance of Black leaders

• Apple Watch can help track Parkinson's disease symptoms: study

• Substack’s Curious Views on Content Moderation - Lawfare

Horseshit

• Africans begin to take the reins of research into their own genomes

• Opinion – The Economy Does Much Better Under Democrats. Why?

• Not The Onion: CDC Warns Against Shouting, Cheering During Sunday's Super Bowl | ZeroHedge

• Critical Race Theory Is Coming for the Dogs: Katja Guenther's "The Lives and Deaths of Shelter Animals" - Areo

• 11 Iranians arrested in Arizona after jumping U.S.-Mexico border.

  • US Border Agents Nab Group Of Iranians  | ZeroHedge

• Fox News Is Sued by Election Technology Company for over $2.7B

  • Smartmatic sues Fox News and others for $2.7bn

• How Bellingcat uncovered Russia’s secret network of assassins

  • In fact Bellingcat seems to have been instrumental in almost all the coverage of Russian misdeeds and threat for the last 5 years at least.

• Catholic dioceses took taxpayer aid while sitting on billions

• McKinsey to pay $573M to settle claims over opioid crisis role: source

• Citizen Sleuths Take to Facebook to Find Their Stolen Rides

• B8ta closes SF Store due to crime

• Chrissy Teigen Told A Story About Accidentally Ordering A $13,000 Bottle Of Wine, And It Did Not Go Over Well

• U.S. Should Slow Withdrawal From Afghanistan, Bipartisan Panel Urges

• 3 Ways HBO Max is failing the classic Tom and Jerry | FanFare

• Top baby foods contain toxic heavy metals, congressional panel finds

• US Senator introduces ‘baby bonds’ bill to give newborns a $1K savings account

• Couple who faked Everest summit pictures hit with 10y ban from climbing in Nepal

TechSuck

• Disqus, the dark commenting system

• Reverso's AI thinks “Black History Month” is “possibly inappropriate content”

  • teach AIs to flag "Racial prejudice" and be shocked when it doesn't realize that its ok for some races.

• Gee, there's no parallels to recent US events here. Signal >> Blog >> Help users in Iran reconnect to Signal

  + [Help users in Iran reconnect to Signal | Hacker
  News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26026994)
  

• Taken over by malicious maintainer last November Why Great Suspender Was Removed from the Chrome Web Store

• Instagram disables hundreds of accounts tied to hacking of 'OG' usernames

  • Instagram Bans Hundreds of Accounts with Stolen User Names

• Gaming Sites Are Still Letting Streamers Profit from Hate

• Pornhub Announces 'Biometric Technology' to Verify Users

  verification will be done by Yoti, a digital identity verification company, "by providing a current photo and government-approved identification document." "Yoti will check the validity of the ID document and match the user’s ID document to their photo using secure biometric technology," according to the statement.

• Hackers Lurked in SolarWinds Email System for at Least 9 Months, CEO Says

• Chromium cleans up its act and daily DNS root server queries drop by 50B

• Ford cuts F-150 pickup truck production due to semiconductor chip shortage

• Semiconductor shortages are spreading, warns smartphone chip giant Qualcomm

• Facebook's anti-Apple campaign uses misleading figures, marketers claim

• 23andMe to Merge with Virgin Group’s VG Acquisition Corp

• Josh Hawley proposes "preemptive" ban on Big Tech mergers - Axios

• Two Google engineers resign over firing of AI ethics researcher

Economicon

• Panasonic Is Quitting The Solar Panel Business | ZeroHedge

• Rising Inflation Will Force the Fed's Hand

• From GOAT To Scapegoat: Redditor Who Made Millions During Gamestop Chaos Already Being Set Up To Take The Fall | ZeroHedge

• again with the 0.03 to 0.05 bump Elon Musk tweeted. Dogecoin surged more than 50% - CNN

• UK banks given six months to prepare for negative interest rates

• U.S. weekly jobless claims total 779,000 vs. 830k estimate

• Fed's Mester doesn't see policy changes coming from GameStop saga

  • Wall Street worries about regulatory fallout from the GameStop saga

• PayPal reported its strongest-ever quarterly growth in payment volume in Q4 with $277 billion as the pandemic fueled online transactions

Unity

• Parler's former CEO says he was fired for wanting to moderate right-wing extremism on the platform

• Wisconsin Prosecutors Seek Rittenhouse Arrest, Higher Bond

• Tucker Carlson Launches Yet Another Ugly Attack On Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

• Defense secretary orders military-wide stand down to combat extremism

• DHS: Domestic violent extremism a concern for Super Bowl

• Market Rips After Romney Pitches Up To $4200 Handouts For Kids | ZeroHedge

• Voting machines didn’t steal the election. But most are terrible technology

BidenTime

• McConnell and the GOP are preparing a barrage of budget amendments to water down Biden's COVID-19 stimulus package

• EPA nominee Michael Regan pledges to focus on environmental justice

• Biden to signal commitment to US diplomats and allies with State Department visit

• Biden weighing direct shipments of masks to Americans: report

• Biden Commerce Pick Sees ‘No Reason’ to Lift Huawei Ban

Trumpoline

• Key questions still loom ahead of Trump's second impeachment ...

• Florida town completes legal review of Trump's residency at Mar-a-Lago

• Trevor Noah Brutally Mocks MyPillow Guy and ‘Alt-Right Mario’ Mike Lindell’s Wacky Newsmax Appearance

• Bizarre new details emerge about how Patrick Byrne, former Overstock.com CEO, bluffed his way into the White House to press Donald Trump to keep fighting the election result.

• Tracking QAnon: how Trump turned conspiracy-theory research upside down

Capitol Riots / Fortification

• Check out the rating Snopes is giving stories that point out AOC's lie about nearly dying at the Capitol | Not the Bee

  "What's True: Ocasio-Cortez wasn't in the main Capitol building where the House and Senate Chambers are located."

• Facing influx of Capitol siege cases, DOJ issues 'urgent' internal plea for help

• Here’s What a Ton of Capitol Rioters Had in Common

• Proud Boys may have deliberately planned the Capitol siege as revenge against law enforcement, ...

World

• Russian doctor who treated Navalny after poisoning has died

  • Doctor in charge of treating Alexei Navalny in Russia after Novichok poisoning dies suddenly | Daily Mail Online

• US, UK governments condemn reports of systematic rape in Uighur camps

• Facebook blocked in Myanmar after users protest military coup

• International Criminal Court Convicts Uganda Warlord

• Belgian Court Sentences Iranian Diplomat to 20 Years for Bomb Plot

• Prominent Hezbollah Critic Killed in Southern Lebanon

• Biden Announces End Of US Operations In Yemen War | ZeroHedge

COVID

• LGBTQ Americans at heightened risk for severe coronavirus symptoms, CDC says

• Johnson and Johnson Applies for Emergency Use Authorization for COVID Vaccine

• Social Distancing Decreases an Individual’s Likelihood of Contracting COVID-19

• Gloucester resident dies within hours of receiving Pfizer vaccine

• Covid-19 Ended Flu Season Before It Started

  • Lockdowns and health habits help number of flu sufferers fall to 130 year low

• The pandemic is getting better all across the U.S.

• $1,944 for a Coronavirus Test? Readers Helped Us Spot an Unusual Trend

  The full article (https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/10/upshot/covid-testing-doctor-fees.html) suggests that this doctor alone has run 60,000 covid tests. Billing $2k a pop. That's $120 million (ok, maybe revenue, but you don't need to skim much off $120 million to be very wealthy).

• Burned by Low Reimbursements, Some Doctors Stop Testing for Covid

• Millions of Counterfeit Masks Flooded U.S. Customs Facilities Last Year

• Coming Soon: The ‘Vaccine Passport’

Climate

• John Kerry's private jet use shows how hard it is to actually cut emissions: Climate author

Obit

• Robert A. Altman, ZeniMax Founder and CEO, Dies - IGN