2021-03-01

Cool

Drone flies inside giant Yamal permafrost crater for first time, dipping 15 metres below the surface
Spectre exploits in the "wild"
Adding wide terminal support to the actual 1980s software: Lotus 1-2-3
How I cut GTA Online loading times by 70%
- 600+ comments: How I cut GTA Online loading times by 70% | Hacker News

Worthy

The Global Population Crisis that Never Was - The Honest Broker Newsletter
For Shits and Giggles: Optimized Sequential Sampling from Multiple Sensors (Arduino) - BabyFriendlyAir

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'We’re happier, calmer': why young adults are moving out of big cities
On The Experience of Being Poor-ish, For People Who Aren't - Resident Contrarian
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- Some of the waffle about "The PTSD of having been poor" ... having been privileged their whole life they can't conceive of "poor" being the natural state of humans?
75 Years Ago, 'War of the Worlds' Started a Panic. Or Did It?
- Ah. So propaganda campaigns have a 75 year time limit.

Horseshit

Media / Ministry of Truthy

Sir Kazuo Ishiguro warns of young authors self-censoring out of 'fear'
- HN comment:
I can't help but admit that it seems to work. From a detached and objective standpoint, an ideology that utilizes cancel culture is really good at stamping out opposition. You are free to think and believe whatever you want in private and then you self-censor in public out of fear. It takes a certain critical mass of people to affect change and cancel culture excels at keeping individuals from speaking out because the consequences have the potential to ruin your life.
- Also interesting discussion of "the return of punk" which sounds like a damned good idea.
In Defense Of Substack - TK News by Matt Taibbi

Roberts is making a “stolen valor” argument. As it’s abundantly clear she’s talking about people like myself and Greenwald in particular, she’s arguing that we made our names as reporters in the structure of traditional newsrooms, taking advantage of “norms and practices” like fact-checking and editing that, in her mind, is what first induced readers to trust us. Then we took that trust, that precious thing nurtured in the cradle of mainstream media oversight, absconded with it, and fled to Substack, to hoard unearned profits.
The AP Is NOT Happy With the 'Label,' 'Democrat Party,' Conservatives, and It Couldn't Be More ROFL Whiny About It – RedState

“The shared grammatical construction — incorrect use of the noun “Democrat” as an adjective — was far from the most shocking thing about the two men’s statements,” Smythe melodramatically wrote, “but it identified them as members of the same tribe, conservatives seeking to define the opposition through demeaning language.”

“While President Joe Biden has pledged national unity” (ROFLMAO) he said, “the other side is literally trying to make the other party sound like rodents.” “To me,” Pepper said, “that’s absurd and disturbing at the same time.”
‘The End of Conservative Books’: Amazon Quietly Bans Books They Deem Offensive

Race Baiting

There Is No Such Thing as "White" Math - Common Sense with Bari Weiss

The program argues that “white supremacy culture shows up in the classroom when the focus is on getting the ‘right’ answer” or when students are required to show their work, while stipulating that the very “concept of mathematics being purely objective is unequivocally false”. The main goal of the program is “to dismantle racism in mathematics instruction” with the expressly political aim of engaging “the sociopolitical turn in all aspects of education, including mathematics.”

So let me state the following for the record: Nothing in the history and current practice of mathematics justifies the notion that it is in any way different or dependent on the particular race or ethnic group engaged in it.
SUNY student suspended for Instagram post saying, ‘A Man Is A Man, A Woman Is A Woman.’
Minneapolis Will Pay Influencers to De-Escalate Tension During Trial
NASA Needs to Rename the James Webb Space Telescope - Scientific American

TechSuck

Economicon

Poilitcks

Biden urged to back AI weapons to counter China and Russia threats
Senate Democrats nix 'Plan B' on minimum wage hike
Flipping The Byrd: Democrats Demand The Firing Of The Senate Parliamentarian After The Minimum Wage Hike Is Deemed Out of Order – JONATHAN TURLEY

Yet, she was joined by others who dismissed the notion that such rules should matter. Rep. Ro Khanna declared “I’m sorry – an unelected parliamentarian does not get to deprive 32 million Americans the raise they deserve.” Rep. Pramila Jayapal declared “Twenty-seven million Americans are not going to be much convinced when we go back in two years and say, ‘Sorry, the unelected parliamentarian told us we couldn’t raise the minimum wage.’”
Trump railed against the ‘deep state,’ but he also built his own. Biden is trying to dismantle it
Jerry Nadler on Equality Act: ‘God’s Will Is No Concern of This Congress.’
Neil Gorsuch Pushes for Stronger Fourth Amendment Protections
The Khashoggi report, annotated
Team Biden About to Start Its First Talks With the Taliban

2021-03-01

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Media / Ministry of Truthy

Race Baiting

TechSuck

Economicon

Poilitcks

World

Health / Medicine / COVID

Climate / Green Propaganda

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