2021-02-26

Cool

• Fleets of radar satellites are measuring movements on Earth like never before | Science | AAAS

Worthy

• The Insidiousness of 'Equity Versus Equality' - Tilting At Windmills

• Why I'm Done Pretending Touchscreen Infotainment Isn't a Stupid, Hazardous Fad

• FAA Releases Statement On Airliner's Encounter With Unidentified Object Over New Mexico

etc

• Postal worker admits to not delivering more than 1,300 pieces of mail last year | News 4 Buffalo

• Photos: The Eruption of Mount Etna in Italy

• The Covid Zoom Boom Is Reshaping Sign Language

• Mysterious stripes spotted over Russia in satellite images — and NASA is perplexed | Live Science

• Overgrown sheep 'Baarack' gets epic quarantine haircut, loses 78 lbs. of wool

• NOAA Kicks Off Transition Exclusively to Electronic Navigation Charts

• Asteroid Dust Found in Crater Closes Case of Dinosaur Extinction | Jackson School of Geosciences | The University of Texas at Austin

  Researchers believe they have closed the case of what killed the dinosaurs, definitively linking their extinction with an asteroid that slammed into Earth 66 million years ago by finding a key piece of evidence: asteroid dust inside the impact crater.

  • lots of stories on that the last several days; I like the theory even; but i detest the positive dogmatic tone here.

Horseshit

• Why are conservatives losing their minds over the Mr. Potato Head rebrand?

• Here's a HuffPo article encouraging parents to support "sex-change" surgeries for their children next to another discouraging people from neutering their dog. Let's walk through them. | Not the Bee

• Why Is the U.S. Murder Rate Spiking?

• Why do men publish more papers than women? Motherhood plays key role | CU Boulder Today | University of Colorado Boulder

  women in academia still experience about a 20% drop in productivity after having a child, while their male counterparts generally do not, according to new CU Boulder research.

• Texas Desperate For Out-Of-State Plumbers Amid Broken Water Pipe Chaos  | ZeroHedge

  In response, Gov. Greg Abbott has waived regulations for some plumber apprentices to work without direct supervision to help those in need. Out-of-state plumbers are being welcomed to assist in the storm-ravaged region.

  Out-of-state plumbers can submit an application that requires them to provide their licensing information and insurance coverage that satisfies Texas state standards.

• The cognitive and perceptual correlates of ideological attitudes: a data-driven approach | Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

  Using an unprecedented number of cognitive tasks (n = 37) and personality surveys (n = 22), along with data-driven analyses including drift-diffusion and Bayesian modelling, we uncovered the specific psychological signatures of political, nationalistic, religious and dogmatic beliefs.

• FCC approves $50 monthly internet subsidies for low-income households during pandemic - CNN

  Households eligible for the program include those who use food stamps, are on Medicaid, or who have received a Pell grant. Also eligible are those who've lost their jobs during the pandemic.

Media / Ministry of Truthy

• Watch: CNN's Jim Acosta Flabbergasted After Journo Confronts Over Cuomo Media Blackout | ZeroHedge

• NYT Columnist David Brooks Blogged For Facebook’s Corporate Site

• Shockingly Real Tom Cruise Deepfakes Are Invading TikTok

• Facebook agrees to some policy changes in response to Oversight Board

• Facebook Is Launching an All-Out War on Apple's Upcoming iPhone Update

• “Dumb**s Snitch”: Washington Post Reporter Attacked For Undermining The Nomination Of Neera Tanden – JONATHAN TURLEY

• Rush Limbaugh and the echo chamber that broke American politics

Race Baiting

• Bias, disrespect, and demotions: Black employees say Amazon has a race problem

• The horrifying American roots of Nazi eugenics

TechSuck

• Clubhouse's Security and Privacy Lag Behind Its Explosive Growth

• Judge in Google case disturbed that even 'Incognito' users are tracked

• Python developers want static typing

• Twitter Is the New ClubHouse

• Google admits Kubernetes container tech is too complex

• The Google Pixel ‘Fold’ could be real, and coming this year

• Chartio is acquired by Atlassian and shutting down

Economicon

• Griddy Barred from Texas Power Market for Payment Breach

  • Griddy Is Shutting Down

• SEC Suspends Trading In 15 Companies Due To "Questionable Trading And Social Media Activity" | ZeroHedge

• (archive link) US removes stumbling block to global deal on digital tax | Financial Times

  On Friday, Yellen said at a meeting of G20 finance ministers that the US “is no longer advocating for safe harbour implementation”, a US Treasury official told the Financial Times.

• Bitcoin not for me, says Bill Gates

• The GameStop Mess Exposes the Naked Short Selling Scam – The American Prospect

• Jobless Americans can keep collecting unemployment benefits even if they turn down work for pandemic safety concerns

• If you received unemployment benefits this year, you could owe thousands to the IRS

Poilitcks

• Marijuana use no longer automatic disqualification for Biden appointees

• Texas weather: Biden visits state amid recovery from deadly cold snap

• Administration preparing another tent facility to cope with border influx

• House Appropriations Committee prepares to restore limited version of earmarks

• Federal judge rules eviction moratorium is unconstitutional

• U.S. Attorney John Durham Announces His Departure from Office, No Details of Special Counsel Role Continuing - The Last RefugeThe Last Refuge

• The Memo: Biden faces first major setback as Tanden teeters

• Rand Paul accused of 'transphobic attack' in confirmation hearing

• Senate parliamentarian rules against $15 minimum wage in COVID-19 relief ...

• Militia Groups Want to ‘Blow Up the Capitol,’ a Police Chief Testifies

• Once-secret FBI informant reports reveal wider-ranging operation to spy on Trump campaign | Just The News

  • In Final Days, Trump Gave Up On Forcing Release Of Russiagate Files, Nunes Investigator Says | ZeroHedge

• Someone From the Biden Administration Bombed Syria - White House Silent - The Last RefugeThe Last Refuge

  + [Moscow Blasts "Extremely Outrageous" Strike On Syria As Biden
  Stays Silent |
  ZeroHedge](https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/moscow-blasts-extremely-outrageous-strike-syria-biden-stays-silent)
  

  • Biden Strikes Back: What We Know About The Bombing Raid On Iran's Militias (Updated)

    • Middle Easterners Begin Painting Transgender Flag Colors On Doorposts To Avoid Biden Drone Strikes | The Babylon Bee

  • Opinion: The tough message Biden just sent Iran

    In a single stroke on Thursday, President Joe Biden did far more than destroy a few support facilities for Iranian-backed Syrian militias. Unlike his two predecessors, Biden has drawn a new red line in the Middle East and shown he is prepared to defend it.

World

• Amazon rainforest plots sold via Facebook Marketplace ads

• Malaysian Grandfather Is Facing Death for Weed

• Russian diplomats leave North Korea on hand-powered rail trolley

• Zimbabwe’s Vice President refuses to resign over sex scandal

• Putin May Have Triggered an Attempted Coup in Armenia After PM Insulted His Missiles

• The signs and symbols of Asia’s new democracy movement

• Hundreds of schoolgirls abducted in Nigeria, government official says

• US says Saudi prince approved Khashoggi killing

  + [US Intel report finds Saudi prince approved Khashoggi
  murder](https://www.politico.com/news/2021/02/26/intel-report-finds-saudi-prince-tktk-khashoggi-471756)
  

  • Jamal Khashoggi: How intelligence report could dent US-Saudi ties for years

Health / Medicine / COVID

• Retail store customer flow and COVID-19 transmission | PNAS

• Why Opening Restaurants Is What the Coronavirus Wants Us to Do

• Are nut butters bad for your health?

• CDC estimated decline in life expectancy in 2020 is wrong. It's only 5 days.

• FDA Panel Unanimously Endorses J&J Covid Vaccine | ZeroHedge

  While it was so widely expected the announcement was merely a formality, just after 5pm on Friday the FDA Advisory Panel voted unanimously (22-0) to endorse the (one-shot, no mRNA) J&J vaccine,

Climate / Green Propaganda

• Death of diesel looms as carmakers accelerate to electric future

• Florida lawmakers reveal their 'most robust agenda' on flooding, sea-level rise

  • We forbid the sea to rise, and have outlawed hurricanes as well.

• The Potato Park of Peru ✓ All about Commons

  • There's such a thing as liking potatoes too much

Obit

• Papua New Guinea's Michael Somare, 'Father of the Nation,' Dies at 84