2021-02-25

Cool

• We Finally Know The True Age of These Huge, Mysterious Jars Scattered in Laos

  According to their analysis – using a technique called Optically Stimulated Luminescence (OSL) to date the ancient stone – the jars were positioned potentially as early as the late second millennium BCE.

• Here’s why we don’t understand what electricity is

Worthy

• Let's Do A Quick Design Evaluation Of This New Postal Vehicle

• What If I Never Make Version Two? | Hackaday

etc

• Skipper: Puppy born with six legs is a 'miracle,' vet hospital says - CNN

• Internal Divisions Are America’s Greatest Vulnerability.

• Semiconductors Demand 30% Above Supply, 20% Year-on-Year Growth

• American Airlines pilot reports seeing 'long, cylindrical object' fly ...

Horseshit

• Body of missing San Francisco man discovered in crawl space of own home

  Police found the body of a man reported missing five weeks ago in a crawl space at his own home. During a second search of the man's residence Monday, San Francisco police found the body of Christopher Woitel, 50, in a three-foot high space above the bathroom of his home on Guerrero Street in the city's Mission District.

• Opinion: It's time to confront the dark postscript to America's role in defeating the Nazis - CNN

• The U.S. Needs a Cyber State of Distress to Withstand the Next SolarWinds

• US military budget: What can global bases do vs. Covid, cyber attacks?

• If Aliens Exist, Here’s How We’ll Find Them

• Lady Gaga's French bulldogs stolen after dog walker is shot

Ministry of Truthy

• The worldwide web as we know it may be ending

• Disclosing networks of state-linked information operations

• Facebook Reported 20M Instances of Child Sexual Abuse in 2020

• US lawmakers mull how to tame giga-corps Amazon, Apple, Google, Facebook

• Facebook deleted a video of Rep. Marie Newman installing a transgender flag in front of her office but Rep. ...

• A proposed cure for media angst about Substack - Substack Blog

Race Baiting

• Waitlist policies may contribute to racial disparities in kidney transplant

• Show HN: I make a package just for printing “support blacklivesmatter”

• Black, Hispanic Americans twice as likely as whites to need Covid stimulus checks just to 'get by': ...

• Secretary Pete Buttigieg Makes Fight Against 'Systemic Racism' Centerpiece of Transportation Department

TechSuck

• cf CentOS fluff a month or two ago Red Hat Announces Free “RHEL for Open-Source Infrastructure”

• Twitter announces paid Super Follows to let you charge for tweets

• Amazon Sends ‘Vote No’ Instructions to Unionizing Employees

• Nvidia Closes Out Q4 and FY2021 with Another Round of Record Earnings

• Apple helps Encircle expand its support for LGBTQ+ youth and their families - Apple

• Shopify says remove Stripe billing or get booted from their app store

  Pretty ironic too when you've got Shopify's CEO tweeting about the unfair 30% cut Apple wants: https://twitter.com/tobi/status/1362411841943711744

Economicon

• Dow retreats 300 points from a record high, tech stocks get hit again amid rising rates

• Orders for U.S. durable goods climb 3.4% in January

• Tesla has reportedly temporarily halted production on its Model 3 line in California

• Costco To Raise Minimum Wage To $16 An Hour: 'This Isn't Altruism'

• Judge orders Valve to provide some Steam sales data to Apple

• SEC Investigating Elon Musk Over Dogecoin Tweets | ZeroHedge

• Coinbase S-1

• DigitalOcean S-1

• Working from home? Then maybe you should be paid more to get a bigger place

  • Working from home now? Your 2020 state tax situation could suck

• Connected pet collar company Fi raises a $30M Series B

• Affirm to launch buy now, pay later debit card | Reuters

  • Catch debit card; its actually a credit account but without all the legal protections and consumer's rights that credit cards have.

• Afterpay and Stripe Partner to Offer 'Buy Now, Pay Later' Payments for Merchants

• Why Amazon Is Flooding the Country with $15 Minimum Wage Ads

  • McDonald’s Secretive Intel Team Spies on ‘Fight for $15’ Workers

• Sneakerheads Have Turned Jordans and Yeezys into a Bona Fide Asset Class

• Why people are buying crypto art and sports memorabilia for thousands of dollars

• Most Major Retail Brokerages Suffer Outages As 'Meme Stock'-Mania Continues | ZeroHedge

  • GameStop Stock Explodes Following Board Member's McDonald's Ice Cream Cone Tweet

    • GameStop shares surge in premarket as Reddit favorites rally again

• McKinsey partners sacrifice leader in ‘ritual cleansing’

• Zillow will now make cash offers for homes based on its 'Zestimates' - CNN

Poilitcks

• Jennifer Granholm approved by Senate to head Energy Department.

• US carries out airstrike against Iranian-backed militia target in Syria - The Jerusalem Post

  + [Biden approves US airstrike on Iran-backed militias in
  Syria](https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-56205056)
  

  • US carries out air strike targeting ‘Iranian-backed’ militia in Syria

• Biden tosses Trump's classical architecture order - POLITICO

  Former President Donald Trump’s attempt to favor classical architecture got the ax on Wednesday as part of a sweeping scrapping of Trump-era executive orders by President Joe Biden.

  • feel that triumphal joy from the leftist press...

• Biden declares major disaster in Oklahoma

• Biden Administration: Here Are His Cabinet Members And Key Advisers

• Analysis: Where the stimulus bill stands in Congress, and what comes next

• Marjorie Taylor Greene posts anti-transgender sign across hall from lawmaker with ...

• Chief says Capitol response not based on race

• House Dems Want Biden's Finger Off the Nuclear Button – PJ Media

• Biden report to blame Saudi crown prince for 2018 killing of Jamal Khashoggi

• Biden Reopens Gateway for Green Cards, Work Visas Reversing Trump Covid Freeze

• Senators revive bill to combat Chinese censorship of U.S. companies

• Study Finds Facebook Most Used Social Media by Capitol Hill Rioters

World

• Facebook Takes a Side, Banning Myanmar Military After Coup

• Turkey jails pilots, airline official over Ghosn escape

• US to sanction Russia for SolarWinds hacks and poisoning of Alexei Navalny

• Chipmakers in drought-hit Taiwan order water trucks to prepare for 'the worst'

• Iran’s Khamenei issues fatwa saying women in cartoons must wear hijab

Health / Medicine / COVID

• Covid vaccine passports are being considered. And health experts and rights groups are deeply concerned

• How Covid-19 Is Changing the Cold and Flu Season

• America’s Disastrous Vaccine Rollout Is Finally Recovering. What Went Wrong?

• Coronavirus Reinfection Will Soon Become Our Reality

• African Union backs call to waive intellectual property rights on Covid-19 drugs

• California’s coronavirus strain has the ability to evade antibodies

Climate / Green Propaganda

• Will technology save us from climate change?

• Attenborough gives stark warning on climate change to UN

• Falling sperm counts could threaten the human race

• Atlantic Ocean circulation at weakest in a millennium

Obit

• Olympic Gymnastics Coach Dies By Suicide Following Accusations Of Human Trafficking, Sexual Assault | ZeroHedge

• Peter Gotti, considered by law enforcement to be Gambino crime boss, dies at 81