2021-02-24

Cool

• Old standards never die, they just get buried deep Linux SCSI Target - Main Page

• Rare bird: 'Half-male, half-female' cardinal snapped in Pennsylvania - BBC News

Worthy

• The Last Cassette Player Standing | The American Conservative

  Vital intellectual property around the technicalities of cassette-deck manufacturing was discarded or forgotten. Companies folded or decisively moved on. The industrial ecosystem in which exemplary equipment could be made evaporated. And it’s virtually impossible to bring that back, especially with only a small hobbyist market remaining today.

• Nickel-Iron The battery invented 120 years before its time - BBC Future

• Launch HN: GreaseBoss (YC W21) – Real-time system to manage industrial greasing | Hacker News

etc

• Has pix... its a JohnnyCab from Total Recall USPS picks a new mail truck—and no, they won’t all be electric | Ars Technica

  • It looks functional from the pix, but I wanna know more about the super common parts they've chosen to make it out of that will be widely available to small mechanics 30 years from now...

• Buttergate: Why are Canadians complaining about hard butter?

• per new book by James Woolsey, and Ion Mihai Pacepa Soviets ordered Lee Harvey Oswald to kill JFK: ex-CIA chief

  • Ex-CIA chief releases new theory on JFK assassination

• Is the Western way of raising kids weird? - BBC Future

• The Smear Campaign Against ‘Hogwarts Legacy’ Developer Troy Leavitt - diabolical

• Berkeley ends 100-year-old, mandatory single-family zoning policy

• Police sieze over 20k kg of cocaine in Europe's largest drug bust

• The Otherworldly Sounds of the Long String Instrument

Horseshit

• Oklahoma man released early from prison accused in three deaths

  Anderson is accused of killing Andrea Lynn Blankenship, 41, and cutting out her heart. Authorities say Anderson brought the heart to his aunt and uncle's house, cooked it with potatoes and tried to serve it to them before killing Leon Pye, 67, wounding the aunt and killing Kaeos Yates, the pair's 4-year-old granddaughter.

• Illinois Becomes First State to Eliminate Cash Bail

• Work-from-Home Uniform: A Business Suit That’s Pajamas, Too

• Chicago Faces 135% Increase In Carjackings... So Dem Lawmakers Plan To Ban "Grand Theft Auto" | ZeroHedge

• Exploring Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020's Research Potential

• Clop ransomware gang leaks online what looks like stolen Bombardier blueprints

• Campus Reform | Academics called breastfeeding 'ethically problematic' because it endorses 'gender roles.' Their view is gaining traction.

• Student Surveillance Vendor Proctorio Files Slapp Lawsuit to Silence a Critic

• Texas Pays the Price of the Culture War

• Why the future of work will look like a video game

MinTruthy

• Twenty-Six Words Created the Internet. What Will It Take to Save It?

• California can finally enforce its landmark net neutrality law, judge rules

• Reuters, BBC, participated in covert UK Foreign Office-funded programs

• Twitter is now adding a controversial 'hacked materials' warning label to tweets

• The New York Times paints a grim picture of its own workplace culture

• Twitter bans 'Russian' accounts it says are 'undermining confidence in NATO'

Race Baiting

• LinkedIn Takes Down Coca-Cola's 'Be Less White' Employee Training Videos

• Amazon quietly ends sales of books it labels 'hate speech' | Just The News

TechSuck

• Fry's Electronics is closing all stores

  + [Fry’s Electronics going out of business, shutting down all
  stores](https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2021/02/frys-electronics-is-no-more-and-all-30-stores-will-soon-close/)
  

  • “Funky electronics chain Fry’s is no more

• LinkedIn is building a gig marketplace

• Spot: Boston Dynamics condemns robot paintball rampage plan

• Hackers Tied to Russia Targeted the US Grid for Years

• Google fires second AI ethics researcher following internal investigation

• NYPD’s new robotic dog in action in the Bronx

• The Fed Is Down

  • The Fed's system that allows banks to send money back and forth is down

  • US central bank payment system down for 'hours'

  • The entire Federal Reserve system crashes

Economicon

• Biden administration may undo certain Trump-era mortgage rules

• Social media postings about Nikola Corp. more than tripled in the past half hour

• Lumber Prices Are Soaring. Why Are Tree Growers Miserable?

• Nyan Cat / NFT crap Beeple Mania

• Bill Gates all but admits that he was shorting Tesla (TSLA)

• Money Creation: 344% in the Last 12mo (Fed, M1, $)

• Swedish alt-milk brand Oatly seeks $10bn US stock market listing

• LinkedIn co-founder's SPAC bets on flying taxis

  • Puff persona pieces on gamblers? No, worse: Persiflage pertaining to their individual wagers, now.

Poilitcks

• People are mentioning that there's been no "State of the Union" address yet; which makes this the latest "ever"; which means back to 1934 at least, before which they were given in December

• Why Durham Report Is Becoming Highly Unlikely | ZeroHedge

• Pentagon report reveals disturbing details about White supremacists in the ranks

• Mother Of Cop Who Died After Capitol Riot Believes It Was Stroke, Not Trump Supporter, That Killed Him | ZeroHedge

• 'A wake-up call': FBI's intel failure ahead of Capitol riot goes beyond a missed email, experts say

  • Did Intelligence Failure Lead to US Capitol Attack?

• With Ashli Babbitt Killing Shrouded in Mystery, Capitol Officer Who Shot Her Is in Hiding for His Own Safety | RealClearInvestigations

  • If shooting one was justified, then emptying the clip and killing as many as he could would have been the correct action. If the shooting wasn't justified, then silence and shielding of what might have been an understandable mistake in the heat of the moment is queer, too.

• White House to Meet with Lawmakers About Chip Shortage

  + [Biden To Sign Executive Order On Alarming Computer Chip Shortage
  That's Thrashed
  Carmakers](https://www.zerohedge.com/technology/biden-sign-executive-order-alarming-computer-chip-shortage-thats-thrashed-carmakers)
  

  • Biden will review tech supply chains to reduce dependence on China

  • Biden rushes to address global computer chip shortage via latest executive order

• COVID is 'Best Thing That Ever Happened' to Biden, Campaign Aide Reportedly Says in Book

• Biden Seeks More Control Over Postal Service With New Appointments

• North Dakota House Passes Anti-Mask Mandate Bill

• More than 700 unaccompanied kids held at U.S. border without parents

World

• Ukraine says Russia hacked its document portal and planted malicious files

• Amnesty Move To Strip Navalny Of 'Prisoner Of Conscience' Status Sparks Outcry

  • Amnesty strips Alexei Navalny of 'prisoner of conscience' status

• Charges stayed in large Ont. Mob bust, alleged illegal conduct by investigators

  • Laws apply to law enforcement? Quaint notion.

Health / Medicine / COVID

• The Vaccine Is Not a Competition

• Novavax Nears Covid-19 Vaccine Game Changer–After Years of Failure

• FDA review confirms safety and efficacy of single-shot J&J coronavirus vaccine

  • FDA endorses Johnson and Johnson’s single-shot Covid vaccine for emergency use

• Apple just revealed the future of health and it's a little sick

• Wearable Bioelectronics: Detecting Covid-19 with a Sticker on Your Skin

• Common asthma drug cuts Covid-19 hospitalization, recovery time – Oxford study

  the steroid budesonide, sold as Pulmicort by AstraZeneca Plc and also used for treating smoker’s lung.

Climate / Green Propaganda

• How should economists think about biodiversity?

  • The Economics of Biodiversity

• The Great Climate Bill of 2021 Is Being Shaped Now