2021-02-23

Cool

• Over 200, and counting Monolith Tracker | Monolith Tracker

Worthy

• Wiktenauer, the world's largest library of HEMA books and manuscripts ~☞ Insquequo omnes gratuiti fiant

  an ongoing collaboration among researchers and practitioners from across the Western martial arts (WMA) community, seeking to collect all of the primary and secondary source literature that makes up the text of historical European martial arts (HEMA) research and to organize and present it in a scholarly but accessible format.

• Greenwald House Democrats, Targeting Right-Wing Cable Outlets, Are Assaulting Core Press Freedoms - Glenn Greenwald

  what did the Trump administration do in the way of attacking press freedoms that remotely compares to Democrats abusing their majoritarian power to force the removal of conservative cable outlets from the airwaves, just days after doing the same with dissident voices online?

  + comments are saying this proves how dangerous Right Wing
  Disinformation (TM) is; see how they've brainwashed Glen
  Greenwald, who was a laudable liberal until a few years ago.
  

  • Taibbi I Can't Stand Fox News, but Censoring It Might Be the Dumbest Idea Ever

  • (PDF) House Democrats Demand Cable Providers to Censor Misinformation

  • House Democrats Press Cable Providers on Election Fraud Claims

  • Heartening, at least at the first 100 comments Letters from House Democrats to Cable Providers | Hacker News

  • STILL DON’T THINK DEMOCRATS ARE IN LOVE WITH CENSORSHIP?

    You get that? Those “dodgy purveyors of disinformation” are sadly, protected by the First Amendment, and wouldn’t you just know, the First Amendment is now a right-wing thing. It can be laughed off, but I don’t think it’s funny. Much like those with experience in the Second Amendment sphere, genuine defenders of the First Amendment are more and more going to be understood by the public as “right-wing nuts”, “insurrectionists” and “purveyors of disinformation.” Be advised that failure to condemn them will brand you a “fellow traveler.”

• Big Tech "Deplatforming" Becomes Ever More Audacious — Manhattan Contrarian

• Making Covid about Climate - The Oasis

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• USPS Selects Oshkosh Defense for Next Generation Delivery Vehicle Fleet

• American Airlines Confirms: UFO Contact over New Mexico on Sunday

• Tiger Woods Pulled from Car Crash with ‘Jaws of Life,’ Currently in Surgery for Leg Injuries

• The Decline of Computers as a General Purpose Technology | March 2021 | Communications of the ACM

• Australia: Oldest rock art is 17,300-year-old kangaroo

• in 1998 How Canadians Derailed a Train and Drove It to City Hall for Power After a Brutal Ice Storm

• New Jersey legalizes recreational marijuana use, regulates sales

• Disney Warns Viewers That The Muppet Show Is From A Different Era When Comedy Was Culturally Acceptable | The Babylon Bee

• 'Dare mighty things': hidden message found on NASA Mars rover parachute

• 60 Years After Eisenhower's Warning, Signs of a 'Digital-Intelligence Complex'

• Mt Etna's latest eruptions awe even those who study volcanos

• Wife Of "El Chapo" Arrested In U.S. On Drug Charges

• Four board members of Texas' power grid operator ERCOT resign

• The Victims of the Eviction Moratorium – Reason.com

  Gao has never met the squatter now living in his house and is afraid to contact this person out of fear that he'll be sued for harassment. The squatter, who is a dropout from an elite private university, has never offered to pay rent. (Reason was unable to reach him for comment, so we're not including his name in this story.)

• Case Study Shows Cannabis Led To Remarkable Improvement In Childhood Autism Symptoms | ZeroHedge

Horseshit

• Indiana Senate Passes Bill To Let Government Steal Stuff From People Suspected of ‘Unlawful Assembly’ – Reason.com

• Elon Musk no longer world’s richest person as Tesla shares fall

• Texas Repeatedly Failed to Protect Its Power Grid Against Extreme Weather

• Family seeks $100 million from Texas energy officials for death of 11-year-old boy in frigid cold – Crime Online

• There Has Been a Mind-Boggling Amount of Unemployment Fraud Since Cares Act

• Gender-reveal device explosion kills father-to-be

  • Gender Reveal Device Explodes, Killing Man in Upstate New York

• What HBO's documentary gets wrong about open relationships

• MassHealth employee fired after Facebook posts about masks, Nazi Germany

• Hillary Clinton to publish State of Terror novel

Race Baiting

• Bitcoin and the Black Community

• Cherokee Nation chief wants Jeep to stop using tribe's name

• SPLC: 160 Confederate monuments taken down last year

• Native Americans Finally Have a Cabinet Nominee. Will an Adopted Tlingit Take Her Down?

• Stop Destroying African American Cemeteries

• Merrick Garland defends DOJ nominee Kristen Clarke, who called Blacks superior | Fox News

• Opinion | Merrick Garland teaches the country about racism - The Washington Post

TechSuck

• Firefox is reviving “Sponsored Tiles”

• Disney Keeps 80% of Streaming Revenue by Calling It ‘Home Video’

• Apple CEO staged a virtual talk show with a 22-year-old Chinese influencer

• "LinkedIn is Down" for ~30min generates a dozen headlines.

• Samsung now updates Android for longer than Google does

• Tech Censorship Is Accelerating

• Musk: Starlink will hit 300Mbps and expand to “most of Earth” this year

• Epic Settles Fortnite Loot Box Lawsuit In V-Bucks

  “Whether you were a fan of random item Loot Llamas or not, with preliminary approval for a class action settlement, we’re awarding 1,000 V-Bucks to anyone that purchased a random Loot Llama,” Epic wrote. “While this settlement was for U.S. players only, we have decided to make this benefit available to players globally.

• Panasonic Nicobo robot is supposed to be a cat that can fart

• Amazon Is Paying Employees to Quit Right Before Critical Union Vote

• Clubhouse confirms data spillage of its audio streams

• Google struggles to fix its new Stadia game after shutting down own studios - The Verge

• The bitcoin blockchain is helping keep a botnet from being taken down | Ars Technica

• NBCU to stop selling commercials based on TV ratings; will use impressions

Economicon

• Steak 'n Shake Avoids Bankruptcy, Pays Off Loan, Sues Lender Fortress | ZeroHedge

• Goldman Sachs proclaims the dawn of a new commodity supercycle

• The smallest businesses are getting extra PPP attention. What to know

• Texan didn't lose power during the storm. But his electricity bill hit $16.8K

• Long Blockchain Shares Delisted by SEC

• Lucid Motors strikes SPAC deal to go public with $24B valuation

  • Lucid Motors SPAC Continues Its Plunge After Deal Announcement

  • SPAC Investors Don’t Love Lucid

• NYAG Ends Virtual Currency Trading Platform Bitfinex’s Illegal Activities

  + [Bitfinex, Tether Settle with New York's Attorney General for
  $18.5M](https://www.theblockcrypto.com/post/95207/bitfinex-tether-new-york-ag-settlement-lawsuit)
  

  • NY AG’s $850M Probe of Bitfinex, Tether Ends in an $18.5M Settlement

• Square buys $170M worth of bitcoins

• Bitcoin tumbles 17% as doubts grow over valuations

• Tesla’s share price is now directly tied to the value of Bitcoin, analyst says

  • TSLA briefly rallied after announcing a BTC purchase and since then its down 14%

  • Tesla has made $1B profit on its Bitcoin investment

• SoftBank would buy about 25% of Adam Neumann's stake in WeWork for $480 million under proposed ...

Politickles

• Former Capitol Police Chief Blames Intel Breakdown For Jan. 6 Breach | ZeroHedge

• Security officials cast blame for Jan. 6 failures at Capitol

• Ron Johnson uses Senate hearing on January 6 insurrection to push absurd conspiracy theory

• Watch live: Senate panels start investigation into U.S. Capitol attack

• US Capitol attack: Security officials point fingers over disastrous riot response - CNNPolitics

• Al Jazeera to launch rightwing media platform targeting US conservatives

• Dissidents Beware, FBI Continues Searching for January 6th DC Protestors - Federal Charges Include 'Assault on Media' - The Last RefugeThe Last Refuge

Helath secretary pick Xavier Becerra braces for contentious Senate hearings

• "Kids in cages" US reopens Texas surge facility to hold immigrant teenagers

  • First migrant facility for children opens under Biden

• Officials with ties to Biden have reportedly been meeting with Iran to ‘undermine’ Trump

• Gravy Train Keeps Rolling for Second Stepdaughter Ella Emhoff - Washington Free Beacon

• National Security ‘Experts’: Republican Party ‘Like a Terror Group’

World

• An Indian Stand Up Comic Found Himself Arrested for a Joke He Didn't Tell

• Myanmar Anti-Coup Protesters Return to Streets After Observing General Strike

• China's spyware copy-pasted the NSA's spyware from 2017

• Life Inside North Korea’s Hacker Army

Health / Medicine / COVID

• Private equity's nursing home killing spree - Cory Doctorow

• Chicago’s emergency travel order now requires 31 states to quarantine or negative test | WGN-TV

• AstraZeneca to miss second quarter EU vaccine supply target by half

• Pfizer and Moderna pledge boost to U.S. supply after sluggish rollout

• Fauci said new CDC rules are coming for people who've been fully vaccinated

• Educators may be more central drivers of Covid-19 in schools than students, CDC study finds

• A Berkeley lab's deadly mistake has been fodder for anti-vaxxers for 50 years

• Anti-Vaxxers Won’t Stop Harassing Nurse They’re Convinced Is Dead

• Michigan woman dies after receiving COVID-infected lungs in transplant | WKRN News 2

• How to Know When the Pandemic Is Over

• WHO Said What About Wuhan?

Climate / Green Propaganda

• NGOs Press Biden for Immediate Action Curbing Super Pollutants in First 100 Days

• Falling sperm counts, declining egg quality, and endocrine disruptors

• We haven’t seen a quarter of known bee species since the 1990s

• There Is No Impending 'Mini Ice Age'

• Cloud-Making Aerosol Could Devastate Polar Sea Ice

• Privileged Ports Cause Climate Change

• Noise Pollution Hurts the Heart

• Why the Shipping Industry Is Betting Big on Ammonia - IEEE Spectrum

  Ammonia has only half the energy density of traditional fuel,

  No vessels of any size today are equipped to use the fuel. Even if they were, the supply of renewable, or “green,” ammonia produced using carbon-neutral methods is virtually nonexistent. Most ammonia is the product of a highly carbon-intensive process and is primarily used to make fertilizers and chemicals.

Obit

• Lawrence Ferlinghetti, literary citadel of San Francisco, dies at 101

• Aleksander Doba Has Died

  Polish kayaker known primarily for his long voyages crossing oceans. In 2010 and again in 2013 he kayaked across the Atlantic Ocean westward under his own power.

  • (2018) Why he kayaked across The Atlantic at 70 (for the third time)

• Passed last month, but none of those articles even knew what TDD was Paul Taylor Opened The Lines Of Telecommunication For The Hearing-Impaired