2021-03-27

Important

• (linked yesterday as well) Congress, in a Five-Hour Hearing, Demands Tech CEOs Censor the Internet Even More Aggressively - Glenn Greenwald

  Words cannot convey how chilling and authoritarian this all is: watching government officials, hour after hour, demand censorship of political speech and threaten punishment for failures to obey. As I detailed last month, the U.S. Supreme Court has repeatedly ruled that the state violates the First Amendment’s free speech guarantee when they coerce private actors to censor for them — exactly the tyrannical goal to which these hearings are singularly devoted.

  We are taught from childhood that a defining hallmark of repressive regimes is that political officials wield power to silence ideas and people they dislike, and that, conversely, what makes the U.S. a “free” society is the guarantee that American leaders are barred from doing so. It is impossible to reconcile that claim with what happened in that House hearing room over the course of five hours on Thursday.

Cool

• Louvre makes its entire collection available online

• SIMD-friendly algorithms for substring searching (2016)

  • Great results but I can't help but suspect there's even quicker means and better approaches. Because the subject is basic doesn't means its not worthy of study. Imagine how vast the accumulated impact of small gains at the most fundamental operational levels like this can be.

• 5G as a wireless power grid | Scientific Reports

• CERN approves two new experiments to transport antimatter | CERN

  • Has anyone actually banned the private production and use of antimatter yet? Purely for sporting purposes, I swear... Logically it should fit in under the BATF's "binary agents" rules.

  Mixing binary components together constitutes manufacturing explosives. Persons manufacturing explosives for their own personal, non-business use only (e.g., personal target practice) are not required to have a federal explosives license or permit.

• Exploring The Maurer Rose - Joie.De.Vivre

• Using 8-inch diskette drives with a PC – BOGIN, JR.

Worthy

• (PDF) The Night Watch - Nov 2013

  Despair is when you’re debugging a kernel driver and you look at a mem-ory dump and you see that a pointer has a value of 7. THERE IS NO HARDWARE ARCHITECTURE THAT IS ALIGNED ON 7. Furthermore, 7 IS TOO SMALL AND ONLY EVIL CODE WOULD TRY TO ACCESS SMALL NUMBER MEMORY. Misaligned, small-number memory accesses have stolen decades from my life.

  Pointers are real. They’re what the hardware under-stands. Somebody has to deal with them. You can’t just place a LISP book on top of an x86 chip and hope that the hardware learns about lambda calculus by osmosis. Denying the exis-tence of pointers is like living in ancient Greece and denying the existence of Krackens and then being confused about why none of your ships ever make it to Morocco, or Ur-Morocco, or whatever Morocco was called back then.

• From the "Am I high or are they?" department: Science is War - The Questioner

  I had no intention of letting the narcissistic elites at the top of the scientific hierarchy destroy or discredit me the same way they did to so many other innocent people, so I knew that I needed a plan to take them out first. Before I went public with my findings, I would need to have overwhelming evidence that my sciences could get results that theirs could not.

  I knew that the moment I went public with my findings, the knives would come out, and an intense battle for the future of science would begin, so I needed a politician who hated the elites every bit as much as I did. But where could I find a political candidate with such unique qualifications?

  Then, like a miracle, Donald Trump announced that he was throwing his hat into the presidential race, and I knew that it was Game On.

• Taibbi: The Death Of Humor | ZeroHedge

etc

• Much-feared asteroid Apophis won't hit Earth for at least 100 years, Nasa says | Science | The Guardian

  Davide Farnocchia of Nasa’s center for near-Earth object studies, said in a statement: “A 2068 impact is not in the realm of possibility any more, and our calculations don’t show any impact risk for at least the next 100 years.”

  • NASA Analysis: Earth Is Safe from Asteroid Apophis for 100-Plus Years

• 2 Dead, 10 Shot In Virginia Beach During "Chaotic Night Of Violence" | ZeroHedge

• 9-year-old girl drowns attempting to cross U.S.-Mexican border

• Milwaukee County reduces marijuana fine to $1

• Ancient genomes trace the origin and decline of the Scythians

• Shitty software kills people – Paolo’s Weblog

Horseshit

• Oh look! Timeshares! What You Need to Know About Buying Properties with Friends

• Martin Nowak Sanctioned for Jeffrey Epstein Involvement

• Glock 19 Disguised As Nerf Gun Seized In North Carolina Drug Raid  | ZeroHedge

• The Growers, Bakers and Beekeepers Embracing American Cities’ Terroir

Media / Many Ministries of Truths

• CNN's Jeff Zeleny says press access to Biden border facilities 'largely irrelevant' due to image leaks

• Facebook freezes Venezuela president Maduro's page over Covid-19 misinformation

• Parler Users Furious That Site Sent Violent Posts to FBI Ahead of Capitol Riot

• The Young Political Spaces of the Internet

Identity Politics / Re segregation

• San Francisco to give $1k a month to artists in basic income program

• Elite philanthropy mainly self-serving

• USA Today Fires Race and Inclusion Editor After Tweeting 'Its Always a White Man' During Boulder Shooting

  • USA Today fires race and inclusion editor who falsely claimed Boulder shooter was an ‘angry white man.’

• Tennessee governor signs transgender sports bill into law requiring students to prove their sex at birth

• Pelosi taps head of DC National Guard to lead House security

  Maj Gen William Walker will be the first African American sergeant-at-arms in the House of Representatives.

TechSuck

• It turns out you can put terminal escape sequences in the Git commit email field

• Intel 'Bleep' Software Filters Out Toxic Slurs in Voice Chats as You Game

• Windows 95 Easter egg discovered after being hidden for 25 years

RMS / FSF

• On the reappointment of Richard Stallman as a director of the Free Software Foundation (FSF) | KDE e.V.

• https://twitter.com/n4of7/status/1375122533431795723

  If you have software released under GNU GPLv3 or later, relicense it to GPLv3-only. Do it now. You'll thank me later. If these bastards win, GPLv4 will be coming out soon and it won't be the GPL.

• Cancelling Richard Stallman? | eerielinux

Economicon

• Nissan cancels production at Smyrna, Canton plants for April first, 5th

• Goldman Sold $10.5B of Stocks in Block-Trade Spree

• China boycotts Western clothes brands over Xinjiang cotton

Suez

• Live Updates: Scramble Against Time to Free Ship Stuck in Suez Canal

• Ship remains stuck in Suez Canal for fifth day after effort to free it failed

• Russia Pitches Frosty Arctic Sea Route As Superior Alternative To Blocked Suez Canal | ZeroHedge

• Stuck in Suez: Thousands of Animals Packed Tight in Ship Hulls

  • At least 20 livestock ships caught in Suez canal logjam

• Suez Shows Civilization Is More Vulnerable Than We Think

• Over 300 Ships Now Stranded As Suez Canal Authority Chairman Says "Human Error" Contributed To Crash | ZeroHedge

Poilitcks

• Religious fervour is migrating into politics

• DHS Secretary Fires Majority of Homeland Security Advisory Council by Beth Baumann

Security / Militaria

• Former US Military Translator Pleads Guilty of Espionage

• U.S. fears China attack on Taiwan

• Classified US military war game set to take place

World

• More than 90 killed in Myanmar in one of bloodiest days of protests

  • Images from a ‘Day of Shame’ in Myanmar, with Scores Shot Dead Image

• China accused of forcing 570k people to pick cotton in Xinjiang

  • China accused of forcing 570k people to pick cotton in Xinjiang | Hacker News

  • interesting comments; a dozen "another Zenz hit peice", prepared quotes suitable for any china article, etc make up 12 of the 14 comments in the first half hour.

• US Makes Large Military Hardware Delivery To Ukraine's Army After Biden Pledged "Crimea is Ukraine" | ZeroHedge

• Assassinations Silence Afghanistan’s Intellectuals

Health / Medicine / COVID

• Brazil’s mismanagement of Covid-19 threatens the world

• A rare clotting disorder may cloud the world's hopes for AstraZeneca's vaccine

• How the AstraZeneca vaccine became a political football – and a PR disaster

• CDC ‘deeply concerned’ about rising Covid cases as vaccinations accelerate

• Covid-19 Variant Rages in Brazil, Posing Global Risk

• Humans, Not Animals, Likely Took the COVID Virus to Wuhan, Contrary to China's Claims

• Director of China's CDC names lab leak as one of four possible Covid origins

• Ex-CDC director says he believes coronavirus originated in Wuhan lab

  + [Ex-C.D.C. Director Favors Debunked Covid-19 Origin
  Theory](https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/26/science/redfield-coronavirus-wuhan-lab.html)
  

  • Fauci: Idea COVID-19 Originated in Lab, Just Another Theory

Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda

• Climatologist Michael E Mann: 'Good people fall victim to doomism.'

• DoD is poisoning communities across the US with toxic chemicals

• Yes, Other Countries Do Housing Better, Case 1: Japan - Sightline Institute

• How to Help Save Pollinators with Citizen Science

• Hydrogen production is a ‘climate killer’ says Enel boss - Power Engineering International

• New study says the Earth could see six month-long summers

• Simon Winchester: how land ownership shaped the modern world | RNZ