2021-03-16

Cool

• Photographer Spends 12 Years, 1250 Hours, Exposing Photo of Milky Way

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  • Astro Anarchy

• Chicken-story/README.md at main · eyal0/Chicken-story · GitHub

  • Clickfarm scripter is inspired to delve into computer science

• Rockstar pays $10k to modder who fixed GTA Online loading times

• Missed linking this for Pi day, somehow OctaPi: calculating Pi - Introduction | Raspberry Pi Projects

Worthy

• Sleep Is The Mate Of Death - Astral Codex Ten

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• Polyamorists and Polygamists Are Challenging Family Norms

• Musicians Organize Global Protests at Spotify Offices

• US Air Force says it will test bizarre 'hypersonic' weapon this month

• Burst pipe shuts National Data Buoy Ctr, no time estimate to restore service

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Horseshit

• Adobe Goes After 27-Year Old ‘Pirated’ Copy of Acrobat Reader 1.0 for MS-DOS

• Meritocracy is bad - Slow Boring

  . So doctors are quite a bit smarter than the average American, which seems reasonable. Nobody wants a dumb doctor. But you also don’t really want a shrewd doctor who is putting his smarts to use figuring out how to take advantage of his asymmetrical information vis-a-vis his patients to buy unnecessary services. You want healers who, yes, earn a comfortable living, but also comport themselves according to a code of honor and offer legitimate medical advice. But this concept of honor and virtue is consistently at odds with the merit principle.

  The Bush family are aristocrats whose political ambition is tempered by a sense of noblesse oblige and concern for the dignity of the family name. McCain, always more popular and widely-admired than Bush, was part of a longstanding military family and had a demonstrated record of making personal sacrifices on behalf of doing the right thing. Trump and his kids are total scumbags. I’m really glad he didn’t make some of the foreign policy errors Bush did. But governance-by-scumbag is an alarming trend.

• Pandemic burnout is rampant in academia

• The Age of Automation Is Now: Here's How to 'Futureproof' Yourself

  • “We call it the Boomer Remover”

Media / Ministry of Truthy

• Disqus’ De-Platforming of Frontpage | Frontpagemag

• The free-speech crisis is not a right-wing myth - spiked

• Moderation in Infrastructure – Stratechery by Ben Thompson

• Finland starts its fight against fake news in primary schools

• Rewriting Intermediary Liability Laws: What EFF Asks – and You Should Too | Electronic Frontier Foundation

• Facebook official Investments to Fight Polarization - About Facebook

Identity Politics / Race Baiting

• What to know about the House immigration bills being voted on this week

• Capitol police officer suspended after anti-Semitic material found near ...

• Columbia University hosting 6 separate graduation ceremonies based on income level, race, ethnicities

• GitHub employee fired for saying ‘Nazi’ declines to take his job back

  A Jewish GitHub employee who was fired for warning co-workers in Slack to stay safe from Nazis during the January 6th attack on the US Capitol has declined to take his job back after an offer from the company, GitHub told TechCrunch.

  GitHub fired the employee two days after he wrote “stay safe homies, Nazis are about” to colleagues in Slack on January 6th, as first reported by Business Insider. Approximately 200 of the company’s 1,700 employees signed an open letter asking the company for an explanation, and employees began using the word “Nazi” in Slack to describe the Capitol rioters.

• Here it is: The worst tweet of the day. And possibly one of the worst of all time. | Not the Bee

TechSuck

• Twitter Hacker Pleads Guilty in Florida Court

  • Teen Hacker Who Hacked Several Twitter Accounts Agrees to 3 Years In Prison

• Nvidia confirms it accidentally unlocked RTX 3060 Ethereum mining

  “A developer driver inadvertently included code used for internal development which removes the hash rate limiter on RTX 3060 in some configurations,” says an Nvidia spokesperson in a statement to The Verge. “The driver has been removed.”

• How Washington fumbled the future: The antitrust case against Google

• Russia: Apple Agrees to Offer Government-Approved Pre-Installed Apps for Devices

• Desperate Nominet chairman claims member vote to fire him would spark British government intervention • The Register

• Tinder will soon let you run a background check on a potential date

• Researchers Find Google Play Store Apps Were Government Malware

• Waterfront Toronto releases new vision for 12 acres abandoned by Google

• Pandemic Drives Phone, Computer ‘Right-to-Repair’ Bills

• Instagram cracks down on adults messaging teens

  • Instagram will no longer let adults message teens who don’t follow them

• On the Insecurity of ES&S Voting Machines’ Hash Code - Schneier on Security

  • the discussion is of course about how 2020 was the most secure election ever, and all these vulnerabilities must be safeguarded against exploitation by Republicans.

• Google cutting Play Store commission to 15% on first $1M in annual revenue

  • Google will cut Play Store fees for the majority of Android developers

Economicon

• VW Surges 29% After Laying Plans to Dethrone Tesla by Mid-Decade

• Nokia to cut up to 10k jobs worldwide

• Qualcomm Completes Acquisition of Nuvia

  • Qualcomm now owns Nuvia, aims new CPU design resources directly at Apple

Poilitcks

• HAPPY ANNIVERSARY AMERICA! It’s One Year After 15-Days To Slow The Spread (And A Year Of Democratic Lies And MSM Coverup)

• White House Blames Trump Amid 'Worst Border Crisis In Modern American History' | ZeroHedge

• Washington D.C. Falls Under Permanent Military Occupation | Frontpagemag

• Congressman Brings National Guard To Confront Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene Over Guam Status Gaffe

• NC 'domestic terrorist' sentenced over failed fire attack on police SUV during George Floyd unrest

• Althouse: This is a Washington Post headline: "Biden and allies launch stimulus campaign focused on competitive battleground states."

World

• China Appears to Block Signal, One of Last Popular Encrypted Messaging Apps

• Kim Jong Un's powerful sister sends warning to Biden administration as Blinken, Austin arrive ...

• Prince Philip, Queen Elizabeth II's husband, leaves hospital and returns ...

• Bolivia's ex-interim president arrested as political tensions reach new highs

Health / Medicine / COVID

• What is Going on With the AstraZeneca/Oxford Vaccine? | In the Pipeline

  The next problem is a regulatory one. The EMA and the World Health Organization continue to endorse the vaccine, but that seems to mean little or nothing as one European country after another shuts down its use. I understand that the EMA does not have supranational authority in these matters, but there must be people there wondering what good their recommendations and regulatory approvals do, if this is how they can be dealt with.

  this fear and uncertainty can spill over into hesitancy for all the vaccines, of course, and that’s the last thing we need.

• Unthinkable? EU considers getting a vaccine boost from Russia's Sputnik

  • AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine now recommended for those 65 and older in Canada

  • Italy Launches Manslaughter Investigation As Teacher Dies Hours After Getting AstraZeneca Jab

• Former State Dept Lead Investigator Says COVID-19 Escaped From Wuhan Lab, May Have Been Bioweapons Accident | ZeroHedge

• Covid shelter-in-place orders reduced the odds of a non-natural death by 14.4%

• The EMA Covid-19 data leak, and what it tells us about mRNA instability

• Why consuming ginger is great for your immune system

Climate / Green Propaganda

• Greenland ice sheet melted once before, and could again

Obit

• Yaphet Kotto, Jewish actor who was first Black Bond villain, dies at 81

  • Yaphet Kotto, Star of ‘Alien’ and ‘Homicide: Life on the Street,’ Dead at 81