2021-03-04
Cool
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- I like the glyphs they evolved; shows the effects of ballpoint pens on orthography.
Worthy
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The Cancellation Of Dr. Seuss Should Disturb You, Because You’re Next.
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ANE TODAY - 202103 -A Cosmic Impact and the Beginning of Farming at Abu Hureyra in Syria -
we could also see that the transition from hunting and gathering to initial cultivation of rye then wheat and legumes took place precisely at the moment when a dramatic, near-instantaneous change in climate and vegetation occurred as the warm, moist conditions of the Late Glacial gave way to a cold, dry Ice Age-like climate that persisted for over 1,200 years. This episode of Northern Hemisphere cooling is called the Younger Dryas. It was the onset of the Younger Dryas that triggered the beginnings of farming at Abu Hureyra.
The platinum traces, in particular, are important because they also occur in a contemporary, well-dated layer in an ice core from the Greenland ice sheet that independently documents this event. The meltglass was formed by melting of the silica in the subsoil at temperatures over 2,000°C that could only have been reached in an airburst explosion. At Abu Hureyra the meltglass was splattered throughout the soil samples from the impact level as minute discrete lumps and on pieces of animal bone and building clay.
Worldwide, however, the Younger Dryas comet impact not only caused massive surface burning of vegetation, it is also implicated in large-scale human population declines and, in North and South America and elsewhere, the demise of many species of megafauna that had flourished during the Pleistocene. The cometary impact was an event with significant global effects on human societies and the natural world.
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Consciousness as Compression: Implications on Feeling and AI
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Ancestral Puebloan - The Phantom Forests That Built Mesa Verde
etc
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Wales Tintern 'secret' medieval tunnel system found by accident - BBC News
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US Senators call on FCC to raise broadband definition to 100Mbs down and up
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Stunning Views Of Freight Train Derailment In California Desert | ZeroHedge
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17,000 earthquakes hit Iceland in the past week. An eruption could be imminent
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‘Hunt, Gather, Parent’: Timeless Advice for Parents - The Atlantic
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We Expect 300k Fewer Births Than Usual This Year in the US
Important to note the 300k is a hypothesis
Official birth data from the U.S. National Center for Health Statistics will not be available for many more months, but some states have already released provisional birth data. In January 2021, which would be the first month in which all full-term babies born were conceived after the lockdown began, births fell by 7.2 percent in Florida and 10.5 percent in California, after adjusting for secular trends, seasonal variation and the use of provisional birth data.
most comments however are more:
> While the demographics are interesting, the forecasts of doom > are overwrought. These authors should be celebrating a future of > increased prosperity with lower resource contention....
> I delivered wearing a mask last year, it's honestly security > theater. A little floppy surgical mask does nothing to contain > the breathing of a laboring woman. I was more upset I couldn't > kiss my baby when he was first put in my arms. -
Studio Ghibli: Netflix buys rights to iconic animated films
With the films now accessible to anyone with a Netflix account outside of the US, Canada and Japan, Jake thinks lots of people will see just how ahead of their time the Studio Ghibli catalogue was. "They're promoting messages - like environmental comments and self-identity - that I think Western studios are only getting into 20 years later."
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How To Build a Radio That Ignores Its Own Transmissions - IEEE Spectrum
- Even perfect self-cancellation will not "enable mesh networks" or be as transformational as is suggested here. Nifty stack of tricks tho.
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Angry Cat Attacks Pilot Forcing Boeing 737 Diversion - Simple Flying
The clawful situation arose after a cat, thought to have stowed away during cleaning, woke up and became terrified by his new surroundings. He attacked the captain, causing the plane to return to Khartoum and giving passengers a hiss-terical story of a flight gone wrong. Some aviation stories are pawsitively unbelievable, but in this case, we’re not kitten around.
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Traffic deaths rose in 2020 despite unprecedented decline in road travel | Autoblog
Horseshit
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FBI's Elite Hostage Rescue Team Is Now Flying Gloss Black UH-60 Helicopters
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Ooo we can say "China" now? China and Russia's Spying Sprees Will Take Years to Unpack
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Utah House and Senate Pass H.B. 72: Mandatory “Porn Filter” Bill
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"It's the Sun!" Scientists locate source of hazardous, high-energy solar particles.
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Governor Cuomo Announces Pilot Program Testing “Excelsior Pass” With IBM
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Unit That Conducts Drone Strikes Bought Location Data from Ordinary Apps
- Where's the line? Should our military not be able to buy data? How about other countries?
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Bitcoin and the Three Marks of Existence According to Buddhism
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Drug Lobby Asks Biden to Punish Foreign Countries Pushing for Low-Cost Vaccines
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Portland protests: Feds quietly dismiss dozens of cases | kgw.com
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150 missing kids found safe after massive search | Tennessee | wsmv.com
- Is this "we lost track of kids we're supposed to have responsibility for; and have managed to find some of them"? They were "lost" in the sense that a burrocrat somewhere didn't have their latest contact info?
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A Feminist Perspective on Principles of Consent in the Age of Embodied Data
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Law firm associated with Donald Trump leaks confidential information
Media / Ministry of Truthy
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What's popular on Facebook? Extreme far right political views and lies
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Amazon Bans “Capitalism on a Ventilator”
The book surveyed the role of capitalism in exacerbating the pandemic and contrasted China's effective response with the US failure
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NEW: YouTube deletes all videos of President Trump’s CPAC speech, suspends RSBN for two weeks
Identity Politics / Race Baiting
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Twin sisters worth millions thanks to female gamers - BBC News
Someone says the games are like pulp romance novels not up to the "game" level of flash ads; not as a criticism but explaining its more like they're breaking ground in interactive manga / comic books.
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Lawmakers opposed to trans girls in sports unable to cite local examples
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Google approach to HBCUs accounts for Silicon Valley's lack of Black engineers
TechSuck
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Actual information Troy Hunt: Gab Has Been Breached
James is spot on in that there is a very strong political leaning implied by a presence in the data, and likewise a strong religious affiliation to Christianity. It differs from place to place but for the most part, both political and religious views are classified as sensitive information and it's only fair for me to treat the data with that level of respect. There's also the risk of incorrectly assuming that a presence in the breach implies your views have some degree of alignment with those regularly expressed on the site, yet clearly based on the presence of my own email address, that assumption is incorrect.
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Samsung Has Troubles Restarting Texas Fab: Chip Shortages to Get Worse
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Amazon accused of copying camera gearmaker’s top-selling item
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Alphabet’s moonshot lab is working on a device to give people superhuman hearing - The Verge
The team is looking to build a successful business with multiple devices and models, so if they’re successful, you might start wearing Google-owned hearing aids.
and if not; they'll shut down the servers in a year or so...
Economicon
Poilitcks
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Readout of Vice President Kamala Harris Call with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel
why is Kamala being put on the phone with foreign leaders? Usually the VP talks to officials lower down the chain, if at all, and are sent to all the foreign funerals. Biden dealt himself into some of Obama's foreign policy discussions so he could get bribes and kickbacks, built on a career of getting bribes and kickbacks. But the only reason I can imagine Kamala handling foreign leaders is because Biden isn't competent to have such conversations.
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Republican Sen. Ron Johnson forces Senate to read all 628 pages of Biden’s COVID bill aloud.
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Capitol Police ask National Guard to stay at the Capitol for 2 more months
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Capitol rioter 'QAnon Shaman' claims in new interview that ...
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Feb 15 New York Times quietly updates report on fire extinguisher striking Capitol Police officer
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House Democrats Pass Bill To Change American Voting Forever | ZeroHedge
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Justice Dept. Backs Away From Trump Era but Is Still Expected to Test Garland
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(Video) No-Show Joe: White House bizarrely cuts feed to stop Biden taking questions
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Elaine Chao Used DOT Resources For Personal Errands, Family Business: Inspector Says
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A Swamp Tale: The Bizarre Final Hours of ‘Impeachment Fail 2.0’
The Senate voted 55-45 to allow Raskin’s witness—and subsequently descended into chaos because nobody could answer the simple question of what they had just voted on. Were both sides allowed to call witnesses or just the House managers? If only one side was allowed, it would be a direct assault on due process and paint the entire trial in an even more illegitimate light than already illuminated it. If both sides could call witnesses, the trial, potentially, could have dragged on for months and crippled the ability of Congress to pass any meaningful legislation in the meantime. The Senate was called into recess while the leadership tried to sort things out.
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The expanded $3,000 child tax credit would help 10 million kids living in poverty. Democrats ...
World
Health / Medicine / COVID
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Newsom Urges Double-Masking For All Californians, Will Not Make "Terrible Mistake" Like Texas
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Brazil’s Covid Crisis Is a Warning to the Whole World, Scientists Say
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EU blocks export of AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccines to Australia
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Darknet marketplaces are selling Covid-19 vaccines for $250 to $1,200
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US health agency will invest $1B to investigate 'long Covid'