2021-03-22

Cool

• Pulling Bits From ROM Silicon Die Images: Unknown Architecture | by Ryan Cornateanu | Mar, 2021 | Medium

• Two dies in one package: Teardown of a vintage ROM with double the storage

• Why do we call these “DuPont” connectors? – Matt's Tech Pages

• UFO Reports: Pentagon Reports Explain Mysterious UFO Sightings

Worthy

• Nadine Strossen, former ACLU president, on canceling RMS (2020) | Hacker News

  • Good News Richard Stallman Is Back at Free Software Foundation

  • FSF patrons urged to quit after Stallman returns to board

etc

• High school football player in California collapses during game and dies

• Microsoft will allow Seattle-area workers to return to the office

Horseshit

• Anti-socialism memorial vanishes overnight.

• Supreme Court to decide whether death penalty should be reinstated for Boston ...

• Why teenage terrorism is on the rise — and what to do about it

• Want a vaccination appointment? It helps to know a Python programmer

• FBI Warns That Deepfakes Will Be Used Increasingly in Foreign Influence Ops

• In the U.S. market for human bodies, almost anyone can dissect and sell the dead

Media / Ministry of Truthy

• YouTuber David Dobrik parts ways with disposable camera app amidst controversy

• Sovereign Writers and Substack – Stratechery by Ben Thompson

• Trump: America No Longer Has a 'Free Press'

Identity Politics / Race Baiting / Re segregation

• Number of unaccompanied migrant children held more than 10 days quadruples in past week: report

• More Than $3 Million Raised For Families Of Atlanta Shooting Victims As ...

TechSuck

• Chip-starved automakers shudder at Renesas plant's 1-month halt

• Super Seducer 3 ban highlights Steam’s fuzzy “adult content” rules

• Facebook Helped the FBI Hack a Child Predator via 0-Day in Tails (2020)

• OVH writes off another data centre – SBG1 – and reveals new smoking battery incident • The Register

• Substack's UI and 1Password just cost me $2,023 | Timmy O'Mahony

  Disclaimer: this has been refunded and sorted with Substack via the publisher in question (who was very quick to follow up thankfully). It's still a good story.

Economicon

• Fed Chairman Powell Says Bitcoin Is “A Substitute for Gold” at BIS Conference

• US Government Just Admitted It Doesn't Try to Collect Rich People's Taxes

• In January, there were more real-estate agents than homes for sale in the U.S.

• Rents for the rich are plummeting. Rents for the poor are rising. Why?

Poilitcks

• The Reason Republicans Couldn’t Kill Obamacare, Dems Did the Work, Repubs Didn’t

• Ed Markey’s ahistorical attack on the filibuster

  The earliest use of the filibuster can be traced to 1790, 1837 or 1841. Contrary to Markey's tweet, none of these involved slaveowners’ issues

• Border Facility Photos Leak Revealing Hundreds Of Children Huddled In "Terrible Conditions" | ZeroHedge

• Tribal police drag messy Indian sovereignty cases back to the court - SCOTUSblog

Security / Militaria

• Evidence in Capitol riot 'trending towards' sedition charges, prosecutor says

World

• Turkish lira crashes as much as 14% after the firing of the head of the central bank sparks market turmoil

• Protesters injure police and set vehicles ablaze in English city, as tensions over new crime ...

• Congolese Presidential Opposition Candidate Dies of COVID-19

Health / Medicine / COVID

• MIT Technology Review: Did the coronavirus leak from a lab?

• Microsoft and Salesforce to launch standards for Covid-19 vaccine verification

• Psychedelic science in post-Covid-19 psychiatry

• Why the Wuhan lab leak theory shouldn't be dismissed

• Attributes and Predictors of Long Covid

• Covid-19 Live Updates: AstraZeneca Vaccine Is 79% Effective in U.S. Study

Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda

• Beyond Happiness Index: Climate Researchers Offer "YoGL Index" To Assess Individual's "Empowered Condition" | ZeroHedge

• It’s Water Vapor, Not the CO2

• Feeding beef steers with algae reduces enteric methane by over 80%

• VW brand joins Audi in ending combustion engine development

Obit

• Texas Roadhouse CEO Kent Taylor dies amid COVID-19 struggle

  • Texas Roadhouse CEO Suicide: Post-Covid-19 Tinnitus Contributed

• Elgin Baylor, Lakers legend, dead at 86