2021-02-10

Cool

• China’s Tianwen-1 spacecraft achieves orbit at Mars.

• Preparing to Issue 200 Million Certificates in 24 Hours - Let's Encrypt - Free SSL/TLS Certificates

• Stranded trio lives on coconuts on deserted Bahamian island - South Florida Sun-Sentinel

  Two men and a woman were rescued from a deserted island on Tuesday after surviving on coconuts, conch and rats for 33 days, the U.S. Coast Guard said.

• 120,000-Year-Old Cattle Bone Carvings May Be World's Oldest Surviving Symbols | Smart News | Smithsonian Magazine

Worthy

• Why tech cannot escape expensive housing - Works in Progress

• Second to None in the Creation of Extraordinary Wealth | Notes On Liberty

• Michael Crichton, 2003 Aliens Cause Global Warming « Roy Spencer, PhD

  I want to pause here and talk about this notion of consensus, and the rise of what has been called consensus science. I regard consensus science as an extremely pernicious development that ought to be stopped cold in its tracks. Historically, the claim of consensus has been the first refuge of scoundrels; it is a way to avoid debate by claiming that the matter is already settled.

• Who Really Created the Marvel Universe?  | The New Yorker

• How to Record Great Sounding / High Quality Audio at Home — Nick Janetakis

• GitHub - philpem/freebee: FreeBee - AT&T 3B1 / 7300 UNIX PC emulator

etc

• 26 Minnesota fisherman rescued from drifting ice

• Google tool lets you 'hear' colors just like famed painter Vassily Kandinsky did

• France reveals results of unordered seeds investigation | Food Safety News

  Officials believe it is an internet “brushing scam,” where sellers send unsolicited items to unsuspecting consumers and then post false reviews to boost sales. The current hypothesis of how European addresses were targeted is the sale of mailing lists by Internet platforms following purchases made over the web.

• Ilhan Omar Accused Of Appropriating Alabama Culture By Marrying Relative

• Here's AOC claiming she never said Ted Cruz tried to have her murdered, along with her tweet saying Ted Cruz tried to have her murdered | Not the Bee

• We Must Confront Anti-Asian Racism in Science - Scientific American

• A Trident Submarine-Launched Ballistic Missile Test Has Occurred Over The Atlantic (Updated)

Horseshit

• The greatest security threat of the post-truth age - BBC Future

• Cops talked to the guy, told him they were chasing a dangerous suspect through the area, then more cops come by and find him with a gun, and shoot him. Idaho Falls Police Fatally Shoot Man Mistaken For Suspect

  The incident began shortly at around 12:03 a.m. on Monday when a Bonneville County sheriff's deputy tried to make a traffic stop for a broken taillight of a car in Idaho Falls.

  The victim turned out to be the resident whom a different officer had spoken to earlier during the search for the suspect. The man had then gone out to his backyard with a gun and that's when the officers encountered him, Johnson said.

• Border agents can search phones freely under new circuit court ruling

• FBI and Secret Service join hunt for Florida water system suspect

  • Per yesterday's stories; this was someone hitting an open TeamViewer session; so have they checked the logs?

• Tipping Is a Legacy of Slavery

  • The Racist History of Tipping

• 36 @ just under $5k each. Customs agents seize $158k worth of counterfeit guitars, including fake Gibsons, Fenders and Martins, at Washington DC airport | Guitar World

• How the Media Cracks Down on Critics of Israel

• Reining in the Techno-Oligarchy

• Mavericks Forced To Reverse Ban After NBA Orders Teams To Play National Anthem

• Does Outreachy and a Code of Conduct increase diversity? Case study from Debian

• Gina Carano Fired From Star Wars: The Mandalorian

  “Gina Carano is not currently employed by Lucasfilm and there are no plans for her to be in the future. Nevertheless, her social media posts denigrating people based on their cultural and religious identities are abhorrent and unacceptable.”

TechSuck

• Python cryptography, Rust, and Gentoo

  Eventually, things boiled over and commenting was disallowed from anyone other than project contributors. Gaynor, in particular, felt that the problems were unavoidable for these, largely ancient, platforms. Once the thread had closed, he summarized what had been discussed and reiterated that the cryptography developers are not going to be held back by platforms that do not support Rust.

  • dev-python.cryptography to use rust, effectively killing alpha, hppa, ia64, m68k, s390 - gentoo-dev - Gentoo Mailing List Archives

• Stack Overflow Users Rejoice as Pattern Matching is Added to Python 3.10 • Stephen Brennan

• Viral 'I'm not a cat' filter is decades-old software - BBC News

• Facebook bans misinformation about all vaccines after years of controversy

• 90-year-old man spends $10,000 on 2 ads in WSJ to tell AT&T CEO about his slow internet service

• Competitor Reported Our No-Buckle Belts as Containing a DEA Controlled Substance and Got Us Removed from Amazon. | by Josh Wexelbaum | Feb, 2021 | Medium

• Trump plan to force the sale of TikTok has been shelved indefinitely

• CD Projekt Red Hackers Allegedly Already Auctioning Leaked Source Files

  • CD Projekt RED's Gwent source code is online, others up for auction

• Facebook vs. Apple: Here's what you need to know about their privacy feud

• Should we be so enthusiastic about Clubhouse?

• Nvidia’s US$40B deal to buy Arm is all but dead

Economicon

• For all of 2020, Uber’s net losses amounted to $6.77B

• The Fed says US unemployment is actually about 10% - nearly double the official rate and matching the worst of the Great Recession

• Corn Tumbles From 7-1/2 Year High As USDA Projects Supply Woes  | ZeroHedge

• Samsung Foundry: New $17B Fab in the USA by Late 2023

• Robinhood, Melvin, Citadel executives expected to testify in Congress on GME

• Reddit forums turn to cannabis sector as stocks hit new highs

• Electric aircraft maker Archer to go public in $3.8B deal

Politickles

• House Sergeant at Arms says Pelosi will not be fined for violating her own security rules | Disrn

• Questioning the military’s loyalty: Who in uniform qualifies as ‘extremist’?

• Troop Deployments in Washington Are a Disaster Waiting to Happen | Mises Wire

• Most people arrested for Capitol riot had a history of financial trouble

• Impeachment Prosecutor: Trump Was 'Inciter in Chief'

• Twitter’s Trump ban is permanent, even if he runs for office again

World

• Biden announces U.S. sanctions against leaders of Myanmar military coup

• A day after its coup, the Myanmar military ended the world’s longest internet blackout - Rest of World

• Twitter suspends over 500 accounts in India after government warning

  • Twitter Ridiculed For Saying It Won’t Suspend Accounts On Orders of Indian Government Follow Due to “Free Expression” – Summit News

    • Indian govt mulls arrest of Twitter officials over non-compliance

• China bans Clubhouse app as thousands share stories about Xinjiang and Tiananmen

Health / Medicine / COVID

• WHO to end research into 'unlikely' theory Covid started in Wuhan lab

• CDC Begins Recommending Wearing Two Masks | ZeroHedge

• NIH calls for more pregnant and lactating people in Covid-19 vaccine research

• WHO recommends use of Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine for all adults

• Sweden to develop 'vaccination passports' that allow you to meet friends

• Iceland's 'Covid-19 passport' offers preview of debate over post-vaccine travel

• As Covid-19 Vaccines Raise Hope, Cold Reality Dawns That Illness Is Here to Stay

• White House looks at domestic travel curbs as Covid variant surges in Florida

  • White House looks at domestic travel restrictions

• My Generic Medications Failed Me. I’m Not Alone

Green Propaganda

• Ozone layer 'rescued' from CFC damage

• Illegal CFC emissions have stopped since scientists raised alarm

• NASA's Climate Communications Might Not Recover

• EPA Takes Action to Protect Scientific Integrity | U.S. EPA News Releases | US EPA

  • EPA alleges Trump officials interfered in toxic chemical assessment - Axios

• Elon Musk wants clean power. But Tesla's carrying Bitcoin's dirty baggage

  • Tesla’s $1.5B Bitcoin purchase clashes with its environmental aspirations

• Bitcoin now uses more electricity than Argentina

  • Bitcoin consumes 'more electricity than Argentina'

  • What Bloomberg Gets Wrong About Bitcoin’s Climate Footprint

Obit

• Hustler founder and free-speech activist Larry Flynt dies aged 78

• Jerome Boateng’s ex-girlfriend commits suicide after splitting from him