2021-03-19

Cool

• Volcano has erupted in Iceland near Reykjavik

Worthy

• Collections: Clothing, How Did They Make It? Part III: Spin Me Right Round… – A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry

etc

• The Ghislaine Maxwell Case And The Ongoing(?) Investigations Of Epstein's Co-Conspirators | ZeroHedge

• Louisiana Derby tops weekend horse racing cards

• Ghost ships and circle spoofing - Big Think

• What testing 17 butter brands told us about the science behind 'buttergate'

• One of the lockdown's greatest casualties could be science

• Just one day after completing CPR training, a teen saves her friend's life

• Photovoltaic retinal prosthesis restores high-resolution responses

• The Pizza Lab: We Test KettlePizza and Baking Steel's New Joint Pizza Oven | Serious Eats

Horseshit

• Two states tax some drivers by the mile. Many more want to give it a try

• Sublet your home broadband to strangers

• Vaccine delay in Britain stirs equity debate in India

• This memory foam pillow is a hit with everyone I know - it can be customized to support many sleeping positions

  "MyPillow" guy is a Trump supporter, was in the news again the other day... Today there's two BI stories like this, 3 from CNN, and a couple in other sources.

• Biden's White House reportedly pushed out and sidelined staffers who disclosed past ...

• NYT reporting on this can't not be horse shit, right? Carmakers Strive to Stay Ahead of Hackers

• Dozens change name to 'salmon' to get sushi deal

• I’ve Spent $60k to Pay Back Student Loans and Owe More Than Before I Began

• Australia: Sex consent app proposal sparks backlash

• UK police warn students to avoid science website

  The City of London's Intellectual Property Crime Unit says the Sci-Hub website could "pose a threat to their personal information and data". The police are concerned that users of the "Russia-based website" could have information taken and misused online.

  • Sci-Hub: Police warn students and universities against 'Pirate Bay of science'

• Young female Japanese biker is 50-year-old man using FaceApp

• Bill Gates Does Reddit AMA, Dodges Questions About Meetings With Jeffrey Epstein

• The Penitent Pope: Francis Seeks Forgiveness for the US Invasion of Iraq

Media / Ministry of Truthy

• Twitter blog: Calling for public input on our approach to world leaders

• Greenwald: Journalists, Illustrating How They Operate, Spread A Significant Lie All Over Twitter | ZeroHedge

• Indiana AG Threatens Legal Action After Amazon Removed Book Warning Against Transgenderism.

• Media trust hits new low

• Twitter suspends GOP Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene as Democrats push to ...

  • Twitter Admits "Error", Un-Freezes Marjorie Taylor Greene's Account

• For Political Cartoonists, the Irony Was That Facebook Didn’t Recognize Irony

• Mayor de Blasio Tells NYPD To Pay People Home Visits For "Hurtful" Comments | ZeroHedge

  “I assure you, if an NYPD officer calls you or shows up at your door to ask you about something you did, it makes people think twice,” he said. “We need that.”

Identity Politics / Race Baiting / Re segregation

• Beware of Books! - Persuasion

  The Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Viet Thanh Nguyen, who is chair of English at the University of Southern California, has pressed fellow authors to repurpose their writing into progressive advocacy. The only respectable goal of contemporary literature, he suggested in a New York Times essay last December, is to bring change through “the kind of critical and political work that unsettles whiteness and reveals the legacies of colonialism.” Poetry and fiction that fail to advance politics (specifically, his politics) descend from a legacy of whiteness, conquest and genocide, he said, and they amount to little more than ditties about flowers and the moon.

  • comment:

  This article is ridiculous. The current wave of book burning, censorship and denunciation is completely different from previous ones, because I support the positions of the mob. I know that this wave of book burnings, censorship and denunciation will lead to a brighter tomorrow. I should point out that I don't support 100% of the positions of the mob, but I won't say which ones I disagree with because I don't want to be next. The differences I have are minor, and I'm willing to change them immediately if necessary.

• SF School Board Member Accused Asians of Using ‘White Supremacy’ to ‘Get Ahead’

• College’s ‘white terrorism’ talk criticizes ‘narrative of white woundedness.’

• Judge denies request to delay, move Derek Chauvin trial

• Scientific Taxonomy Constructed the Myth of Race

• “It’s good to be white when you’re doing crimes” writes “journalist” about Capitol rioter … not realizing the subject of his article was in fact black.

• Are You Asexual? 15 Signs You Might Be Somewhere On The Asexuality Spectrum.

TechSuck

• The kernel has 6 separate ASN.1 parsers

• Telegram adds “Radio” channels and conferencing features

• Victoria University of Wellington accidentally nukes files on all desktop PCs

Economicon

• "Things Are Out Of Control" - There Is A Shortage Of Everything And Prices Are Soaring: What Happens Next | ZeroHedge

• What Is The Shipping Container Shortage Telling Us About The Economy?

• Metakovan, mystery buyer of Beeple's $69.3 million NFT art, reveals identity - The Economic Times

• Penny Stocks Are Booming, Which Is Good News for Swindlers

• Virtual Land Prices Are Booming, and Now There’s a Fund for That

• Justice Department Investigating Visa over Debit-Card Practices

• If taxes don't fund the government, why do we need taxes?

Poilitcks

• White House Tries To Snuff Out Report On Staffers Who Were Let Go For Pot Use

• Biden urges Congress to pass Covid-19 Hate Crimes Act

• 'Down Goes Biden' - Watch President Fall-Up The Stairs To Air Force One | ZeroHedge

• Biden’s DHS Secretary: If Parents Send Children To Border ‘We Will Not Expel’ Them, ‘Will Care For’ Them.

• Senate confirms William Burns as CIA director after Sen. Ted Cruz lifts ...

• Biden nominates ex-Florida senator Bill Nelson to NASA

  • Five questions we would ask the nominee for NASA administrator

• Witch Hunt? Calif. Bill May Exclude Conservative Christians From Police Departments.

• Trump wax figure removed from San Antonio museum after customers kept ...

• House Democrats Reject Removing Swalwell From Intelligence ...

• US Senators Urge Attorney General to Prosecute Pirate Streaming Services

• A diplomatic disaster in Alaska - The Spectator - news, politics, life & arts

Security / Militaria

• SecDef Austin Warns North Korea: US "Ready To Fight Tonight"

• Some U.S. military view BLM protests, Capitol attack equally | McClatchy Washington Bureau

• From Soft Liberalism to Iron-Fisted Leftism in Today’s U.S. Military.

• White Supremacists, Conspiracy Theorists Are Targeting Cell Towers, Police Warn

  Conspiracy theorists, joined by far-right white supremacist groups, “increasingly target critical infrastructure to incite fear, disrupt essential services, and cause economic damage with the United States and abroad,” the report states. Blaming “the current contentious domestic political environment,” the document, issued on January 20 by the NYPD Intelligence Bureau and marked as “law enforcement sensitive,” describes a rash of attacks, some of which involved strikingly sophisticated planning.

  The most detailed case depicted by the report is that of Anthony Quinn Warner, who carried out the bombing in front of an AT&T building in Nashville, Tennessee, on December 25, 2020 — the largest vehicle-borne improvised explosive device attack since the Oklahoma City bombing in 1995. While Warner was not associated with any white supremacist group, the report refers to “initial accounts that Warner was paranoid about 5G cellular networks, an important element which may take on greater significance given the apparent target.”

• FBI releases new Capitol attack footage as it seeks to identify 10 suspects

• U.S. Air Force Drone Washes Up on Boynton Beach

World

• Egypt prepares to start move to new capital, away from the chaos of Cairo

• Spain passes law allowing euthanasia

• More Protesters Killed As Myanmar's Junta Intensifies Crackdown On Dissent

• Malaysia gives North Korea 48 hours to close embassy

• Gunmen ambush police convoy near Mexico City, killing 13

• Ghana will no longer sell cocoa to Switzerland

• Chinese military banned Tesla cars from military complexes on camera concerns

• China gets German children's book about Covid withdrawn

Health / Medicine / COVID

• Youth in hospital for suicide attempt tripled over 4-month period under lockdown

• Florida won’t require Covid-19 ‘vaccine passports,’ governor says

• Rand Paul Torches Anthony Fauci's Double Mask Theatrics - Victory Girls Blog

• The Clearest Sign the Pandemic Could Get Worse

• AstraZeneca: German team discovers thrombosis trigger

• Brazil stares into the abyss as Covid intensive care units fill up everywhere

• Here's what experts say is needed for US to return to normal. But these barriers stand in the way - CNN

• FBI is investigating whether Cuomo undercounted Covid nursing home deaths

• Low-dose aspirin can reduce the risk of ICU admission and death of Covid-19

• In a Phase III trial, Proxalutamide reduced mortality of Covid patients

Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda

• Once called crazy, Indonesian eco-warrior turns arid hills green

• EPA relaunches climate change website

• Bottom trawling releases as much carbon as air travel, landmark study finds

Obit

• Dick Hoyt, Who Ran Marathons While Pushing His Son, Dies at 80