2021-03-18

Cool

• Hanson finally got this together: The Grabby Aliens Website

• New Part Day: Onion Tau LiDAR Camera | Hackaday

Worthy

• Immanentize the Eschaton! – The Smallest Minority

• Newly Uncovered NASA Reports Reveal Pilot Encounters with UFOs - The Debrief

etc

• Double bongcloud: why grandmasters are playing the worst move in chess | Sport | The Guardian

• Blood Sisters: Menstrual Cups Help Keep Kenyan Girls in School

• Dogs orient and move in synchrony with family members

• ongoing book promo Why Extraterrestrial Life May Not Seem Alien

• Ming Dynasty bowl spotted at yard sale fetches $720k

• Touch of gray: The Air Force can’t retire the Boeing 707

Horseshit

• College degree becoming main factor for the difference in expected lifespans

• I Looked Through All 5,000 Images in Beeple's $69 Million Magnum Opus. What I Found Isn't So Pretty | Artnet News

  We’ve passed through a racial uprising and a reckoning with sexism, and the cultural project of the moment is… innovating new ways to worship decade-old, BroBible-level brain farts? During a time of immiseration, investors are competing to throw tens of millions of dollars… at this?

• Ford plans to move future vehicle production out of Ohio and to Mexico

• If You Look at Your Phone While Walking, You’re an Agent of Chaos

  • People Who Text While Walking Do Ruin Everything

• Texas Utility Commissioner Pledged to Help Banks Keep Blackout Profits

• Daring Fireball: Intel Goes Long

Media / Ministry of Truthy

• New York Times abandons control over its own Cooking Community Facebook group

• Conspiracy Theories and the Problem of Disbelief - The Atlantic

  Indiscriminate belief is worrying, but indiscriminate doubt can be even worse.

• Wow: The Beigeness, or How to Kill People with Bad Writing: The Scott Alexander Method | Eruditorum Press

Identity Politics / Race Baiting / Re segregation

• Paris Commune: The revolt dividing France 150 years on

• House Judiciary panel to hold hearing on rise of violence and discrimination against Asian Americans during Covid

• Kansas Senate Bans Trans Athletes From Women’s Teams, But Not Men’s

• Democrats Rush to Blame ‘White Supremacy’ for Atlanta Massage Parlor Shootings.

TechSuck

• Gitlab licences its product, brand to independent Chinese org for China market

• The End of Applets

• Google’s plan to block cookies draws U.S. antitrust scrutiny

• AT&T whines about Calif. net neutrality law as ISPs’ case appears doomed

• What the U.S. Missed with Google

• Apple Bent the Rules for Russia–and Other Countries Will Take Note

• Google to spend $7B in data centers and office space in 2021

Economicon

• The truth is that many of us have had a good pandemic

• Everywhere you look, the supply chain is a mess

• Morgan Stanley offers access to Bitcoin for clients with more than $2Ms

Poilitcks

• Aaugh! A Brief List Of Official Russia Claims That Proved To Be Bogus - TK News by Matt Taibbi

• FBI facing allegation that its 2018 background check of Brett Kavanaugh was ‘fake’ | US news | The Guardian

  Sheldon Whitehouse, a Democratic senator and former prosecutor who serves on the judiciary committee, is calling on the newly-confirmed attorney general, Merrick Garland, to help facilitate “proper oversight” by the Senate into questions about how thoroughly the FBI investigated Kavanaugh during his confirmation hearing.

• Biden blocks press access at border, constructs false narratives.

• The Bangladeshi Experience Confirms the Effectiveness of Biden's Stimulus Plan

• MSNBC's Barnicle: Trump's 'Language,' 'Behavior' Make Him 'Responsible' for Atlanta Shootings

• U.S. Intelligence Agencies Warn Of Heightened Domestic Extremism Threat

• Pelosi, Capitol Police: Oh By the Way, There's No Actual Threat to the Capitol | Frontpagemag

World

• Denmark To Limit "Non-Western" Residents In Neighborhoods To 30% | ZeroHedge

• U.S. subpoenas Chinese communications firms in probe of national security risks

• Australia: Sex consent app proposal sparks backlash

• Africans Mourn Death of Tanzania’s President John Magufuli

Health / Medicine / COVID

• Paris region to enter month-long coronavirus lockdown

• First baby in U.S. born with antibodies against Covid-19

• New Brunswick monitoring more than 40 cases of unknown neurological disease

• Europe’s rush for a Covid-19 ‘digital pass’ stirs concerns

• Norwegian Doctor Claims To Find Link Between AstraZeneca Vaccine And Rare Blood Clots | ZeroHedge

  + [Norwegian experts say blood clots were caused by the AstraZeneca
  Covid
  vaccine](https://sciencenorway.no/covid19/norwegian-experts-say-deadly-blood-clots-were-caused-by-the-astrazeneca-covid-vaccine/1830510)
  

  • EU to send letter to AstraZeneca in possible first step of legal action

  • UK reports five cases of rare blood clots in AstraZeneca rollout

Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda

• Climate-friendly, but antisocial | ETH Zurich

  Making agriculture climate-​neutral has a high cost – which some rich countries might be willing to accept, ETH Zurich researchers find.

• In The Atlantic Ocean, Subtle Shifts Hint at Dramatic Dangers

• Reddit investors adopt 3,500 gorillas in six days

  • "Just to put this in perspective, the global population of mountain gorillas is 1,063, so this represents the symbolic adoption of over 3 times the mountain gorillas alive in the wild!"