2021-04-05

Cool

• Predictive Coding has been Unified with Backpropagation

• U.S. Supreme Court sides with Google in major copyright dispute with Oracle

  • (PDF) Google’s copying of the Java SE API was fair use

• A 5700 year-old human genome and oral microbiome from chewed birch pitch

Worthy

• Bruce Perens on RMS: On Non-Judicical Punishment of Individuals – Bruce Perens

  • Removed from HN outright within 60 seconds. not flagged, not dead, gone.

etc

• 'Zombie' genes? Research shows some genes come to life in the brain after death: Post-mortem changes may shed light on important brain studies -- ScienceDaily

• Extinction at the end-Cretaceous and the origin of modern Neotropical rainforests | Science

• The New York Times Crossword Puzzle Is Getting Easier. Is That a Good Thing? - Paste

  However I might wax poetic about the good old days, when the puzzle was a sterner test, the proof is in the pudding. It’s simply more accessible when it’s faster and easier, and the fact that some of the very good solvers agree shows, at the very least, that we’re in a new era. Call it a concession to the digital age, or call it evolution, but Will Shortz’s Great Easing has done what it was meant to do.

• NASA's helicopter survives first freezing night on Mars

• In Push For Diversity, Military Canine Units To Give Equal Opportunities To Chihuahuas | The Babylon Bee

• For 2M years, humans ate meat and little else: study

• Wave of new hobbies during the pandemic mirrors trend during Great Depression | CTV News

• Women's voice has dropped by 23 Hz over five decades

• This Guy on YouTube Actually Cooked Meat by Slapping It... a Lot

• Second St. Louis Jail disturbance in two months brought under control, city official says

• Magnitude 4.0 and 3.3 earthquakes rattle Los Angeles

• One killed, five wounded in Easter shooting at Alabama park

Horseshit

• U.S. military closes Guantanamo Bay's Camp 7 prison unit

• People Are Stealing Legos. Here's Why

• 'Godzilla vs. Kong' tops the North American box office with $32.2M

• String theorist Michio Kaku: 'Reaching out to aliens is a terrible idea'

• Poll Finds Almost Half Of Americans Want Vaccine Passports

• State senator who sponsored no-cash bail law in Illinois outraged that suspect who threatened him was released on low bail

celebrity gossip

• The William Fucking Shatner story – WIL WHEATON dot NET

• At 60, Tim Cook Doubts He’ll Be at Apple for 10 More Years

Media / Many Ministries of Truths

• Mea Culpa: Oregon's Largest Newspaper Admits Defunding Police Was A Terrible Idea As Homicides Skyrocket | ZeroHedge

• Beijing Is Getting Better at Disinformation on Global Social Media

• With News of Hunter Biden's Criminal Probe, Recall the Media Outlets That Peddled the "Russian Disinformation" Lie - Glenn Greenwald

• YouTube Appears to Be Covering for Joe Biden. Here's The Proof.

• Justice Thomas grumbles over Trump's social media ban

  + [Justice Thomas argues for making Facebook, Twitter and Google
  utilities](https://www.protocol.com/bulletins/thomas-scotus-twitter-trump-ban)
  

  • When Will Supreme Court Have to Consider Social Media's Deplatforming Power

• Supreme Court rules to dismiss case against Trump Twitter use as moot

  At issue, was a Second U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals 2019 ruling that upheld a lower court ruling that Trump violated the First Amendment when he used Twitter's block feature to block his critics on Twitter.

• Streaming subtitled box sets is the new Eurovision

  "How Netflix is creating a common European culture"

• “The Vaccine Is Killing Me!” Facebook Fact-Checks Woman’s Post About Covid Vaccine Adverse Reaction… She DIED A WEEK LATER

Identity Politics / Re segregation

• Prosecutors Ask Jurors To Dismiss George Floyd Autopsy Findings

• Football club founded by Turkish immigrants causes stir in Germany

TechSuck

• Google will stop using Oracle’s finance software and adopt SAP instead

• Yahoo Answers to shut down May 4, 2021

  • Yahoo Answers will be shut down forever on May 4th

• Tesla hacker unveils what the Model 3/Y cabin camera can see

• Facebook Analytics is Going Away after June 30, 2021

• Amazon Illegally Fired Activist Workers, Labor Board Finds

• 802.11bf Wi-Fi Devices as Physical Object Sensors

• LG is getting out of the mobile phone business

  • LG confirms it’s getting out of the smartphone business

• Hong Kong Customs Busts GPU Smugglers

Economicon

• Don’t Let China Mint the Money of the Future

• Coinbase Independent Directors Have Close Company Ties

• Yellen calls for global minimum corporate tax rate

• McDonald's, Other CEOs Tell Investors $15 Minimum Wage Won't Hurt Business

• 'Mars House' just sold for over $500k. first crypto real-estate sale

• Could Index Funds Be ‘Worse Than Marxism’?

• U.S. Forges Ahead on $1B Tariff Plan over Digital Taxes

Poilitcks

• Keep McKinsey Away from Biden's Infrastructure Push - BIG by Matt Stoller

• McConnell Slams "Outrage Industrial Complex" As Corporations Behave Like "Woke Parallel Government"

• Biden Looks to Raise US Corporate Taxes, with Dozens of Companies Now Paying Nothing

• Jill Biden Wearing Fishnets Somehow Became About Melania Trump

• Texas governor refuses to throw first pitch over MLB stance on ...

• Senate Parliamentarian Sets Dangerous Precedent, Grants Schumer Permission For Second Reconciliation Vote | ZeroHedge

Security / Militaria

• Satellite images show large Russian military build up in Arctic

  + [Biden Administration "On Alert" Over Russian "Saber Rattling In
  Eastern Europe &
  Arctic"](https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/biden-administration-alert-over-russian-saber-rattling-eastern-europe-arctic)
  

  • Russia is amassing unprecedented military might in the Arctic

• Here’s what we know about the man behind Friday’s attack on Capitol Hill.

• The Capitol Rioters Weren’t ‘Low Class’

• Half of Republicans believe false narratives about the Capitol riot, poll says

  • More Than Half Of Republicans Believe Voter Fraud Claims And Most Still Support Trump, Poll Finds

  • SPLC Predicts 'Violence' From GOP Views on Capitol Riot – PJ Media

World

• Jordanian FM Accuses Prince Hamzah of Plotting to Destabilize the Country

• Myanmar's junta releases 8 of 11 people arrested after communicating with CNN

• Netanyahu's corruption trial opens as Israel grapples with fourth stalemate election

• Flooding, Landslides In Indonesia And E. Timor Kill More Than 110 People

• Turkey police nab 50 terror suspects because they used Bylock app

Health / Medicine / COVID

• The Deadly Lung Disease You've Probably Never Heard Of - Scientific American

  After diagnosis, PF significantly affects the quality of life for patients, who may become breathless while taking part in everyday activities, such as showering, getting dressed, speaking on the phone or even eating.

  • before diagnosis, they're just lazy people who lie about their smoking.

• In 2020, deaths by suicide were lower than in the previous three years

  • The Leading Causes of Death in the US for 2020 | Cardiology | JAMA | JAMA Network

• Rural bar event leads to 46 Covid cases, a school closure and a hospitalization, CDC ...

• White Evangelical Resistance Is Obstacle in Vaccination Effort

• Argentina’s President Tests Positive for Coronavirus Despite Vaccination

• FDA OKs first new ADHD drug in over a decade for children

Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda

• Japan's cherry blossom 'earliest peak since 812' points to larger climate crisis

• Piney Point: Emergency crews try to plug Florida toxic wastewater leak

  • 'Imminent' reservoir wall collapse threatens polluted flood of Tampa Bay

• (Mar 31) We sampled tap water across the US – and found arsenic, lead and toxic chemicals

• Running on Empty: There's a Lot to Like About Hydrogen, If You Can Find It