2021-04-02
Worthy
I shoulda been keeping closer tabs on mr Hanson:
aliens need a sufficient level of “slack” resources available to spend on such symbolic activities. And even with hidden motives and lazy organizations, we humans usually at least make up vague stories about practical ends served by our actions, even when such stories don’t stand up to close scrutiny. So a decent theory of aliens should explain their level of slack, and suggest some ideas for what stories aliens are telling themselves about the ends they accomplish via UFO encounters.
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Overcoming Bias : Do Foo Fighters Show Our Snafu Fubar Future?
To put this all together: what if the natural future path of a civilization like ours is much larger organizations, including a strong world government with lots of strong regulation that stifles innovation and many useful applications of available tech. It prevents war, which has long been a big driver, perhaps the main driver, of efficiency and innovation. All of which greatly amps up the SNAFU and FUBAR trends that even today burn up most all resources in huge inefficiency furnaces. Some techs improve in some ways, but in big important tech categories progress just stops or reverses.
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Dry Bean Dataset: Images of 13,611 grains of 7 different registered dry beans
A computer vision system was developed to distinguish seven different registered varieties of dry beans with similar features in order to obtain uniform seed classification.
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Deer crashes through school bus windshield, lands on a student
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Illinois police fatally shoot 13-year-old boy in 'armed confrontation'
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24-year-old ex-Nigerian beauty queen shot dead in U.S - Africa Feeds
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The Former Netflix DVD Library Is a Lost Treasure We’ll Never See Again - Paste
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The Asteroid That Killed the Dinosaurs Created the Amazon Rain Forest
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eDNAir: proof of concept that animal DNA can be collected from air sampling
Horseshit
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Deliveroo April Fools' joke backfires in France - BBC News
On 1 April thousands of customers of the delivery platform across France got confirmation emails for orders totalling over €450 (£380; $530).
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Canadian Flat Earther Ben Kohlman Busted in Freemason Arson Spree
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Biden administration launches $500k contest to improve face masks
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Feds say man broke into public water system and shut down safety processes
- in Kansas, in March 2019, but (booga booga!):
The allegations come seven weeks after authorities in Oldsmar, Florida said someone broke into the computer system of a municipal water treatment plant and tried to poison drinking water for the municipality’s roughly 15,000 residents.
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Biden admin. reassigns Interior Dept. staffer who planned 50-person indoor party
Media / Many Ministries of Truths
Identity Politics / Re segregation
TechSuck
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(April 1st) W3C re-introduces popular BLINK feature
A significant drawback of the prior version of BLINK was that it was only visual. When readers weren't looking on the screen or when the text was scrolled away from the viewport, the blinking content was not communicated. This was also an accessibility issue for people who can’t see the screen. The new BLINK feature is now also communicated via audio and vibration alerts to ensure no one is left behind. With the BLINK feature, authors can ensure that important information is communicated to the reader, whatever they are currently doing, whether they like it or not.
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Micron chief warns 'severe shortage' of DRAM expected to continue this year
Economicon
Poilitcks
Security / Militaria
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Man rams car into Capitol barrier, officer killed
+ [2 U.S. Capitol Police Injured At Capitol Checkpoint, Suspect In Custody](https://www.npr.org/2021/04/02/983861176/2-u-s-capitol-police-injured-at-capitol-checkpoint-suspect-in-custody)