2021-03-08

Cool

• Sea Level: How Do We Measure Global Ocean Levels And Do Rising Oceans Change That Benchmark? | Hackaday

• People are starting to use Lefties' nonsensical language against them and it’s absolutely beautiful | Not the Bee

  Are people telling you to be antiracist? Then say you identify as super-antiracist, where you believe all ethnic groups are equally capable of racism, and it's all bad!

Worthy

• (Nov 2020) The Unstoppable Momentum of Outdated Science - The Honest Broker Newsletter

  The challenges for climate research are significant. Consider that in contrast to the 900 articles that misused a skin cancer line as a breast cancer line, our literature review found almost 17,000 peer-reviewed articles that use the now-outdated highest emissions scenario. That particular scenario is also by far the most commonly cited in recent climate assessments of the IPCC and the U.S. National Climate Assessment. And every day new studies are published using outdated scenarios.

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• Emails: FBI was looking for gold at Pennsylvania dig site

  The Paradas and Getler have previously said they had an agreement with the FBI to watch the excavation. Officers instead confined them to their car for most of the dig, then, at the end of the second and final day, escorted them to the site — by that time a large, empty hole.

  The FBI has long been adamant that whatever the agents were looking for, they didn’t find it.

  Residents have told of hearing a backhoe and jackhammer overnight — when the excavation was supposed to have been paused — and seeing a convoy of FBI vehicles, including large armored trucks.

• Furious AI researcher creates a list of non-reproducible machine learning papers

• A rant on change, and the good old times. - DEV Community

  in the process of wiping away elitism and gatekeeping in the software world, it seems to me, that in our excitement we are also throwing out valuable barriers that keep our world stable and nice

• Portland Public Schools headquarters vandalized in ‘malicious act of arson and property destruction’ - oregonlive.com

  • Arsonists Torch School Vehicles, Leave Antifa 'Mantra' – PJ Media

• Whatever Happened to the War Against Terrorism? – Kevin Drum

• We Were Very Wrong About Testosterone | Daniel Miessler

  > Prolactin makes people lazy
  > Testosterone makes effort feel good
  > Estrogen makes emotion feel good
  > Serotonin makes us generally feel good
  > Dopamine makes achieving goals feel good
  

Horseshit

• Reporter Robbed at Gunpoint While Covering Car Break-Ins in San Francisco

• Biden German Shepherd has aggressive incident and is sent back to Delaware - CNNPolitics

  Major, who was adopted by Biden in November 2018 from a Delaware animal shelter, had what one of the people described as a "biting incident" with a member of White House security. The exact condition of the victim is unknown, however, the episode was serious enough that the dogs were subsequently moved to Wilmington, Delaware, where they remain.

• Ohio college student dies after alleged hazing incident

• Laser Strikes Increase Even with Fewer Planes Flying

  In 2020, pilots reported 6,852 laser strikes to the FAA. This is an increase from 6,136 laser strikes reported in 2019 and is the highest number reported to the agency since 2016.

• Oprah's Meghan and Harry Interview a Pure Master Class in Emotional Intelligence

• MacKenzie Scott marries Seattle teacher after Bezos ...

• Dropbox headquarters selling for $1.08B in SF's 2nd largest sale ever

Media / Ministry of Truthy

• Twitter Sues Texas AG over content moderation citing 1st Amendment Rights

• A Social Network Without Ads? Discord Defies Convention

• So This Conservative Comic Goes on Social Media and ... | RealClearInvestigations

• US journalist arrested while covering protest goes on trial

  A journalist went on trial Monday on charges stemming from her coverage of a protest against racial injustice in Des Moines last year, after Iowa prosecutors defied international pressure to drop a rare effort to punish a working reporter. Des Moines Register news reporter Andrea Sahouri, who was pepper-sprayed and jailed while reporting on a clash between protesters and police in May, is charged with failure to disperse and interference with official acts.

Identity Politics / Race Baiting

• California bill would eliminate “boys” and “girls” toy sections in stores

• Apple TV+ announces programming partnership with Nobel laureate Malala Yousafzai

• George Floyd Trial: Judge Postpones Jury Selection As Murder-Charge Question Looms

• "Women belong in the kitchen" Burger King's 'Woke' Viral Tweet Backfires Horrendously | ZeroHedge

TechSuck

• Google HR reportedly advised mental health leave in response to complaints of racist or sexist behavior - The Verge

• US plans attacks on Russian networks in retaliation for SolarWinds hack

• European Banking Authority Hit by Microsoft Exchange Hack

  • Microsoft was warned months ago — now, the Hafnium hack has grown to gigantic proportions - The Verge

• Game of drones: DJI US operations crushed since being added to US Entity List

• Taiwan Says Semiconductor Industry Has Enough Water to Operate Until Late May

Economicon

• Taco Bell just launched and sold out a collection of taco-themed NFTs

• Hertz, the Original Meme Stock, Is Turning Out to Be Worthless

• Big short on Treasuries spills over to yen as hedge funds pounce

• Food Prices Are Soaring Faster Than Inflation and Incomes

• Rescue Package Includes $86B Bailout for Failing Pensions

• 'Why Us?': A Year After Being Laid Off, Millions Are Still Unemployed

Poilitcks

• ENTIRE STAFF OF NEVADA DEMOCRATIC PARTY QUITS AFTER DEMOCRATIC SOCIALIST SLATE WON EVERY SEAT.

• In Embarrassing Senior Moment, Biden Forgets What Pentagon's Called, Blanks On Secretary Of Defense Name | ZeroHedge

• New York Times Is Having An Embarrassing Meltdown Over Josh Hawley

• President Joe Biden to sign executive orders for gender equity, women's rights

• Joe Biden Blames Capitol 'Insurrection' for Executive Order Expanding Federal Registration

• Supreme Court Tosses Trump's Last Election Appeals | ZeroHedge

• Essential Republicans and Conservatives: This Isn’t an Ideological Debate - This Is a Political War – RedState

World

• Brazil: Lula has convictions quashed, leaving him free to challenge Bolsonaro

• 17 dead, hundreds injured in Equatorial Guinea explosion

• Israel, Cyprus and Greece agree to link power grids via subsea cable

• Syria's Bashar Assad And His Wife Test Positive For Coronavirus

Health / Medicine / COVID

• More people in US fully vaccinated than people who have had Covid-19, CDC says

• CDC: When You’ve Been Fully Vaccinated

  If you’ve been fully vaccinated:

  You can gather indoors with fully vaccinated people without wearing a mask.

  You can gather indoors with unvaccinated people from one other household (for example, visiting with relatives who all live together) without masks,

• Stay-at-home policy is a case of exception fallacy: an internet-based ecological study | Scientific Reports

• Covid's Unlikely Offspring: The Rise of Smartwatch as Illness Detector

• BMI and Risk for Covid-19-Related Hospitalization, ICU Admission, and Death

• Late-Stage Pandemic Is Messing with Your Brain

Climate / Green Propaganda

• Question of the century: will tech solve the climate crisis – or make it worse?

• Biden Sued By 12 States Over Climate Executive Order

• Saudi Arabia’s Bold Plan to Rule the $700B Hydrogen Market

• Mexico’s Vast Tree-Planting Program Ended Up Encouraging Deforestation

• Bill Gates Says that Bitcoin is bad For the Planet

• How scientists scrambled to stop Donald Trump’s EPA from wiping out climate data

• The Chemicals That Might Be Leading Us to Our Extinction