2021-03-30
Cool
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SpaceX loses another Starship prototype as landing sequence fails | Ars Technica
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Starship SN11 Launch Attempt Ends in Rapid Unscheduled Disassembly
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https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1376889786762428421
At least the crater is in the right place!
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DotSwarm: Exploring Slime-Mould-Inspired Shaders / Jonathan Whitaker / Observable
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Hershey Fonts: Not Chocolate, The Origin Of Vector Lettering | Hackaday
Worthy
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Overnight Pizza and The Consistent Unreliability of Expert Guidelines - Resident Contrarian
Remember, we want to know if it’s safe to eat such-and-such food after such-and-such time; the USDA tells us no, but what they actually mean is something like “some foods might be a significant risk after several hours, but we can’t trust you to sort out which ones, or to keep close track of your cut-off time, so we are saying two hours is the limit for virtually all foods to keep your dumb ass safe and our smart asses covered”.
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Breakthrough for ‘massless’ energy storage
- The story itself is moderately interesting, the HN thread is exemplary "redditization" with just a couple "hey there's cool shit here too despite the usual hype".. but those are still there.
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Earliest South American Migrants Had Indigenous Australian, Melanesian Ancestry
Horseshit
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The Antiscience Movement Is Escalating, Going Global and Killing Thousands
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Nu-Bullying Breeds Extremist Violence – Trolling Is the New Punk
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Rupert Murdoch's News Corp buys Lord of the Rings and G. Orwell in $349m deal
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Fraudsters steal (100k+) posing as NCA officers – National Crime Agency
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SolarWinds hack got emails of top DHS officials
Suspected Russian hackers gained access to email accounts belonging to the Trump administration’s head of the Department of Homeland Security and members of the department’s cybersecurity staff whose jobs included hunting threats from foreign countries, The Associated Press has learned.
The Biden administration has tried to keep a tight lid on the scope of the SolarWinds attack as it weighs retaliatory measures against Russia. But an inquiry by the AP found new details about the breach at DHS and other agencies, including the Energy Department, where hackers accessed top officials’ schedules.
Media / Many Ministries of Truths
Identity Politics / Re segregation
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Highest number of migrant children in border facilities since government ...
The number of unaccompanied migrant children in border facilities reached its highest point on Sunday since the federal government began releasing data last week.
TechSuck
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AT&T lobbies against nationwide fiber, says 10Mbps uploads are good enough
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FTC to close down mobile banking app Beam, pending District Court Judge approval - FinLedger
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Amazon loses effort to install camera to watch counting of ballots in union vote
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Google launches Stack, an app that digitizes personal docs and extracts key info
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Spotify is launching its own Clubhouse competitor
- Am i wrong, the basic product here is fucking CONFERENCE CALLS, right?