2021-02-06

Cool

• New quantum receiver the first to detect entire radio frequency spectrum

Worthy

• You Can’t Say ‘Rigged’ : The Other McCain

• The War on Disinformation Is a War on Dissent. | Human Events

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• The Cultification of the American Right

• Saharan dust: Orange skies and sandy snow in southern Europe

• Ford Makes $29B Commitment to Electric and Self-Driving Cars

Horseshit

• Jamaica May Have A Marijuana Shortage, Report Says | The Daily Wire

• Abolish the Racist, Sexist Subminimum Wage

• These S.F. streets are named for people who were morally suspect, or worse, by school board standards

• Supreme Court Rules Against California Ban On In-Person Worship Amid The Pandemic

• Making Vaccine | Hacker News

  • Lots of rage against the Hubris of someone who would make and use a vaccine for and on themself. Watch as everyone who thinks "my body my choice" might apply to this guy prefaces their questions with "of course he's a fool" etc...

• Goldman Sachs joins Linux Foundation Push for Open Source Climate Data - Linux Foundation

• The latest thing on Zoom meetings: A live goat

TechSuck

• Parler Offered Trump Organization a Stake If He Joined

• They Stormed the Capitol. Their Apps Tracked Them

Economicon

• How the Pandemic Blew Up Rents

  • the CDC saying "no evictions" for the last year, and only honest people paying rent because of that?

Politickles

• The ISIS used a Judas Goat; a normal unthreatening guy to calm their hostages and give them assurance that they would be ok, to keep them calm before they were beheaded. That is what Q is.

• L.A. Times: . What do you do about the Trumpite next door?

• Biden Says Trump’s “Erratic Behavior” Is Enough to Cut Off His Classified Intelligence ...

• Smerconish: GOP's fear of their base is warranted

• Republican lawmakers say Pelosi skirted by House metal detectors ...

• Surge of unaccompanied immigrant minors at border poses challenge for ...

• Trump Pal Roger Stone Caught Hanging With Oath Keepers Before Capitol ...

World

• Indonesia bans forced religious attire in schools

• US to Revoke Terrorist Designation of Yemen's Houthis Due to Famine

  • iirc these are the folks with the text "Death to America" on their flag.

Health / Medicine / COVID

• Coronavirus Mutations In Boston Patient May Hold Clues To Variant Origins : Goats and Soda : NPR

• Italian Births Fall 22% In December - Exactly Nine Months After Lockdowns Began | ZeroHedge

• A Woman Who Stood Between America and a Generation of ‘Thalidomide Babies’

• Astra Vaccine Is Less Effective Against South Africa Variant

Green Propaganda

• Charlie Baker climate official blasted for comments to 'break your will' over emissions

  Ismay’s direct quote is: “So let me say that again, 60% of our emissions that need to be reduced come from you, the person across the street, the senior on fixed income, right … there is no bad guy left, at least in Massachusetts to point the finger at, to turn the screws on, and you know, to break their will, so they stop emitting. That’s you. We have to break your will. Right, I can’t even say that publicly.”