2021-03-21

Cool

• The biggest asteroid to visit Earth in 2021 zooms by our planet unusually fast today | Space

• Video Ram Transplant Doubles RTX 3070 Memory To 16 GB

• Indiana Bell Building Move, 1930

• Jeep Wrangler Engine Explodes After 50,000 RPM Rev

• Richard M Stallman Is Back on the FSF Board He Founded 35 Years Ago

Worthy

• This lady asked people what their "woke breaking point" was. Here are 55 of the best and most eye-opening responses. | Not the Bee

  • "when i realized that the wokes are angry note because they think oppression is bad, but rather because they don't get to be oppressors."

• Polycube: eBPF/XDP network functions framework for bridges, routers, firewalls

  • Includes eBPF clone of iptables

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• Earthquake: 3.0 quake reported in Ontario

• London pub rebuilt brick by brick after illegal bulldozing

• As U.S. schools shuttered, student mental health cratered, Reuters survey finds

Horseshit

• Companies using Twitter likes as part of background checks

• Miami Beach Imposes Curfew on Spring Break Crowds

• One dead, 12 injured in separate Texas nightclub shootings

• SF can build homeless housing cheaper and faster, if city supervisors allow it

• SF poop-testing startup, once compared to Theranos, charged in $60M fraud scheme

Media / Ministry of Truthy

• Non-English editions of Wikipedia have a misinformation problem

• The Rise of Junk Science | The Walrus

• MyPillow, MyMovie, MyFascistAmerica: Mike Lindell's upbeat, incoherent "Absolute Proof"

• The Buzzy, Chatty, Out-of-Control Rise of Clubhouse

Identity Politics / Race Baiting / Re segregation

• New study finds conservatives are more confident in their judgments

• GEORGIA OFFICER RELIEVED AS SPOKESMAN AFTER MEDIA FALSELY SUGGEST HE SYMPATHIZED WITH SUSPECTED ATLANTA SHOOTER

• How Evangelicalism's racist roots and purity culture teachings catalyzed the Atlanta killings

• Hundreds in Atlanta Rally Against Hate After Spa Shootings

• Anti-Asian Activity Online Set the Stage for Real-World Violence

• Job-Killing Technologies Liberated Women

• Why Black Parents Aren’t Joining the Push to Reopen Schools – Mother Jones

TechSuck

• Microsoft halts rollout of Windows 10 KB5001649 emergency update

  Unless you are experiencing printing issues, it may be wiser to hold off on these optional non-security updates until Microsoft can provide further information.

• Amazon Keeps Getting Sued for Paying Drivers Less Than Minimum Wage

• Brazil fines Apple $2M for choosing not to ship chargers with iPhone 12

• Other challenges to SV’s preeminence are more fundamental than the tech diaspora

Economicon

• Welcome to the age of Modern Monetary Theory: It's turning conventional economics upside down

• Monty Python’s John Cleese Sells the Brooklyn Bridge as an NFT

  • George C. Parker - Wikipedia

• Opinion | How to Collect $1.4 Trillion in Unpaid Taxes - The New York Times

  The core of Mr. Rossotti’s clever proposal is to obtain that information from banks. Under his plan, the government would require banks to produce an annual account statement totaling inflows and outflows, like the 1099 tax forms that investment firms must provide to their clients.

• The IRS Is Letting Rich People Fleece Everyone Else

• Recast as ‘Stimmies,’ Federal Relief Checks Drive a Stock Buying Spree

• House-Flipping Lenders Are Throwing Cash at a Red-Hot U.S. Market

• New Houses Are Costing More as Prices Jump for Wood, Bricks

Poilitcks

• Idaho legislature shuts down after six House members test positive for coronavirus

• DHS chief says the US border is closed

  • Mayorkas blames migrant surge on Trump admin, not Biden policies

• Pelosi: Don’t Believe Your Lying Eyes — Biden Has Border ‘Under Control’ (Video) - The Lid

Security / Militaria

• U.S. Defense Secretary Makes Secret Visit to Afghanistan

World

• With Eye on China, India and US Pledge Deeper Strategic Partnership

• UK Extension to foreign holiday ban 'not ruled out'

Health / Medicine / COVID

• Novel Chinese coronavirus likely was circulating in October 2019, U.S. researchers say.

• Did Covid-19 leak from a lab? These scientists say we shouldn’t rule it out

• Covid-19 cases are rising again in much of the world

• A string of vaccine bungles on the Continent threatens health, global economy

• The EU reveals Travel Green Pass’ main features

Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda

• Summers could last for half the year by 2100

• Is this the end of forests as we've known them?

• Billions of Day-Old Chicks Are Shredded, Gassed, and Suffocated

• Our abuse of nature makes pandemics like Covid-19 more likely

Obit

• Glynn Lunney Has Died