2021-03-31

Cool

• absorptions: Speech to birdsong conversion

• Teardown of a logic chip from a vintage IBM ES/9000 mainframe

  • 1991 IBM mainframe innards

Worthy

• FTL NTP

  NTP is a clock synchronization protocol, but as soon as relativistic effects become non-negligible the whole notion of synchronicity needs to be abandoned; thus it needs to be carefully stated what NTP is even trying to accomplish.

etc

• NOAA’s Weather Forecasting System Just Got a Major Update

• Gov. Cuomo signs bill legalizing recreational marijuana in New York

• The Mysterious Case of the F*cking Good Pizza

  A few hours later, I got a call back from Ziad Lobbad, the owner of Devil’s Pizzeria in Durham. He confirmed that the brands I had traced back to his restaurant were part of a collaboration with Future Foods, and walked me through how it worked. In a nutshell, Future Foods takes different kinds of offerings on a restaurant’s existing menu and markets them as separate restaurants; in a crowded delivery marketplace, there’s a better chance you’ll cut through the noise if you show up eight times instead of once.

• Major Liability? Biden's Dog Bites Another Employee After Returning From Delaware Seclusion

• Filmmakers Call Out PBS for Over-Reliance on Ken Burns

• Military and spy agencies accused of stiff-arming investigators on UFO sightings

  Some military and spy agencies are blocking or simply ignoring the effort to catalog what they have on "unidentified aerial phenomenon," according to multiple current and former government officials. And as a result, the Biden administration will likely delay a much-anticipated public report to Congress.

Horseshit

• YouTube to Remove Dislikes

  • YouTube Unveils Hide Feature After Americans Mass-'Dislike' Biden Videos

• Robinhood day trader looking at $800,000 tax bill even though he only made $45,000 trading stocks. Yes, this can really happen. | Not the Bee

• “VC Lives Matter”: Silicon Valley Investors Want to Oust San Francisco’s DA

• The feminist was a spook: Gloria Steinem and the CIA (2015)

• Police bust 'world's biggest' video-game-cheat operation

  The gang designed and sold cheats to popular video games, including Overwatch and Call of Duty Mobile. Kunshan police found and destroyed 17 cheats and arrested 10 people in connection with the ring.

• Hasbro Looking to Hire a Nerf “Chief TikTok Officer” for $10k/Month

• The Stuck Container Ship on the Suez Canal Was a Metaphor

• Super Mario Bros fans are panicking over rumors that Mario is going to die

• Supermarket puts GPS-trackers in pork chops

• Parents Fighting for in-Person School Outraged San Diego Teachers Are Personally Instructing Kids Who Just Snuck Over Border – PJ Media

Media / Many Ministries of Truths

• (Nelson Voice: Ha ha) Volkswagen will not change name of U.S. operations: sources

  • An unwelcome prank: Volkswagen purposely hoodwinks reporters

• 'Section 230' and the Fair Speech Crusade

• Facebook tweaks its news feed with new controls

• Facebook removes video of Trump interview with daughter-in-law Lara Trump

• Clubhouse, the Shift to Spoken Social Media and the Voices That Will Be Silenced

Identity Politics / Re segregation

• AOC: Calling The Border Crisis A 'Surge' Pushes 'White Supremacist Philosophy' | ZeroHedge

• Everything is racist, including not being racist, as Merriam-Webster expands the definition of the word “color-blind.” | Not the Bee

• CNN Blows Minds With 'Hard News' Report About Assigning Sex – RedState

  “It’s not possible to know a person’s gender identity at birth, and there is no consensus criteria for assigning sex at birth.”

• Race report: 'UK not deliberately rigged against ethnic minorities' - BBC News

• Student journalist finds photo of Harvard KKK, writes about school’s racist past

TechSuck

• Discord “Stage Channels”

• Microsoft wins $21.9B contract with U.S. Army to supply AR headsets

• Apple's Cooperation with Authoritarian Governments

• Malicious Docker Cryptomining Images Rack Up 20M Downloads

• Gaming mods, cheat engines are spreading Trojan malware and planting backdoors

• If You Care About Privacy, It’s Time to Try a New Web Browser

• Facebook now lets users and pages turn off comments on their posts

• Whistleblower: Ubiquiti Breach “Catastrophic” | Hacker News

  Maybe putting your network control plane in 'the cloud' isn't such a good idea after all...

• Trust in Tech Craters

• Long-running age discrimination case against IBM enters discovery

• Libreboot – Defend Richard Stallman!

Economicon

• Biden to Let Trump’s H-1B Visa Ban Expire in Win for Tech

• 'People believed it': the rise and fall of WeWork, a $47bn unicorn

• Iran Touts Russia-Iran-India 'North-South Trade Corridor' As "Alternative" & Challenge To Suez Canal

• Hitachi to buy U.S. software developer GlobalLogic for $9.6B

Poilitcks

• "The Moment America Won The Future" - Biden Unveils Multi-Trillion Infrastructure-Taxation Plan | ZeroHedge

• Rita Hart drops attempt to overturn Iowa congressional election - Washington Times

• Trump Is Back Online

  • Trump launches new social website

• An FBI So Corrupt It Lets Mass Shooters Rampage Needs To Go

• Matt Gaetz says he's under federal investigation for sexual misconduct - Axios

Security / Militaria

• Austin Bay's On PointSen. Cotton Challenges the Left's Psy-War Assault on the U.S. Military

• Democrats' "Terrorist Insurrection" Narrative Collapses As Most Capitol Rioters Likely Won't Face Jail Time | ZeroHedge

• OPM Issues Memo Requesting that Feds Assist at Southern Border — FEDmanager

  On March 25, 2021, the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) issued an urgent memorandum for current GS-9 to GS-15 federal employees to volunteer for 120-day details to the southern border. The OPM memo reads, “HHS is seeking interested candidates to serve up to a 120-day voluntary deployment detail as part of the HHS, Administration for Children and Families (ACF), Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR), Unaccompanied Children (UC) Program. OPM and HHS are calling upon our Federal Agency family of exceptional public servants to lend support to this humanitarian effort through this detail opportunity."

• U.S. Special Operations Command Paid $500,000 to Secretive Location Data Firm

World

• A billion for every chip-maker who 'makes in India,' sources say

• Potentially toxic masks distributed in schools and daycares in Quebec | CBC News

  Some daycare educators had been suspicious of these grey and blue masks for a while because they felt like they were swallowing cat hair while wearing them, Radio-Canada has learned.

• US Evacuates All 'Non-Emergency' Embassy Staff & Families From Myanmar As Death Toll Hits 500

• A pediatric HIV outbreak in a remote Pakistan city

Health / Medicine / COVID

• Russia claims to be the first country to develop coronavirus shots for animals

  • "claims"... this is the NYT, the paper of record; the source of Truth about all that Russian Election Interference since 2016, right? "Claims"?

• New problems erode confidence in AstraZeneca's vaccine | Science

• Canada suspends use of AstraZeneca Covid vaccine for those under 55

• Pfizer Says COVID Jab "100% Effective" On Children Aged 12 To 15

• Do microbes affect athletic performance?

Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda

• Google Maps will soon default to the route with the lowest carbon footprint

• Japan's cherry blossom 'earliest peak since records began'

• 74% of economists agree “immediate” action warranted to curb emissions (pdf)

• The human right that benefits nature

• Climate change: China absent from key UK meeting

• Herpesvirus Triggers Cervical Cancer Affecting Nearly 1 in 4 Adult Sea Lions

Obit

• G. Gordon Liddy, architect of the Watergate burglary, dead at 90