2021-04-07

Cool

• 'Strong' evidence found for a new force of nature - BBC News

  + [First results from the Muon g-2 experiment at
  Fermilab](https://theory.fnal.gov/events/event/first-results-from-the-muon-g-2-experiment-at-fermilab/)
  

  • Particle mystery: physicists confirm the muon is more magnetic than predicted

Worthy

• Fan-tastic Misuse Of Raspberry Pi GPIO

• The “Lavet”: A Sink, Bathtub, Shower, and Washing Machine on 1m2 of Space

etc

• Particle mystery: physicists confirm the muon is more magnetic than predicted

• State Department denies joint Olympics boycott is under consideration

• 700+ comments in 8hr Ask HN: What tech job would let me get away with the least real work possible? | Hacker News

• Horses can recognise themselves in a mirror – new study

• 1996 event Chilling details of Aussie UFO mystery | Observer

• Giving EV batteries a second life for sustainability and profit

Horseshit

• Elk Grove Paying Homeless People to Clean Up After Themselves, and It’s Working

• Is It Possible to Create an Ethical Psychedelics Company?

• Beverly Hills store let criminals stash guns, drugs, cash in vault at strip mall

• Screw it, I'll host it myself • Marko Živanović

  • "Host it myself" is $55/mo+ from 6+ "cloud" providers.

• The New Shortage: Ketchup Can’t Catch Up

• The US government will pay you up to $500K to design a less annoying face mask

• Former BitMEX CEO Arthur Hayes Surrenders to Face Charges

• America Is About to Go Botox Wild

celebrity gossip

• Robert Heinlein Libertarian sci-fi author predicted current progressive-induced cultural failures over 60 years ago | The College Fix

Media / Many Ministries of Truths

• (Jun 2020) The Gas Industry Is Paying Instagram Influencers to Gush over Gas Stoves

• Analysis: '60 Minutes' gave Ron DeSantis a massive gift

  • Botched '60 Minutes' DeSantis story latest mainstream media hit piece on potential 2024 GOP contender

• Meet the Censored: The U.S. Right to Know Foundation - TK News by Matt Taibbi

• Why Hasn't the Mainstream Media Pilloried 60 Mins for Spreading Misinformation?

Identity Politics / Re segregation

• FB recruiter quit after 11 mo; claims FB discriminates against Black applicants

• Government audit of AI with ties to white supremacy finds no AI | VentureBeat

TechSuck

• Et tu, Signal?

  • Signal Adds Cryptocurrency Support - Schneier on Security

  I think this is an incredibly bad idea. It’s not just the bloating of what was a clean secure communications app. It’s not just that blockchain is just plain stupid. It’s not even that Signal is choosing to tie itself to a specific blockchain currency. It’s that adding a cryptocurrency to an end-to-end encrypted app muddies the morality of the product, and invites all sorts of government investigative and regulatory meddling: by the IRS, the SEC, FinCEN, and probably the FBI.

• Signal Server code on GitHub is up to date again

  • Comment consensus is "hiding the cryptocoin integration," was the reason for a year's gap in public releases.

• Chip shortage may continue into 2022

• IBM COBOL for Linux on x86 1.1 brings COBOL capabilities to the Linux on x86 environment

• Intel should not rename their processes - SemiAccurate

• Intel’s Latest Hail Mary Is a $20B Bet on American Manufacturing

• You can now turn on Nvidia's excellent noise cancellation with any GeForce GPU | PC Gamer

  This isn't actually RTX Voice's first outing on non-RTX cards. While short of official support, not long after launch it was discovered a simple code change would enable the RTX Voice feature on non-RTX cards.

• Let's Just Agree That Stadia Is Fine

• Microsoft is now submerging servers into liquid baths

Economicon

• Peter Thiel calls Bitcoin a Chinese financial weapon

• Rare Superman comic sells for $3.25M

• Uber and Lyft ‘throwing money’ at US drivers to ease shortage

• 34% of remote workers would quit rather than return to full-time office work

• BlackRock Borrows Against Diversity

• Middle Class Shrinks Around the World for First Time in Decades

• Billionaire Mark Cuban Reveals Why He Thinks Ethereum Will ‘Dwarf’ Bitcoin As Crypto ...

• Plaid pulled plug on Visa deal over price, not antitrust concerns

• Debt and Climate Change Pose ‘Systemic Risk’ to World Economy

Poilitcks

• (PDF) The Made in America Tax Plan

• Biden exceeds expectations on vaccines — so far

• Election Fraud Prosecution At An "All-Time High": Texas Attorney General's Office | ZeroHedge

Security / Militaria

• Navy hospital corpsman wounded 2 sailors before being killed at Maryland's Fort Detrick, officials say

World

• Italy Abolishes Film Censorship, Ending Government Power to Ban Movies

• (Canada) Conservative delegates reject adding 'climate change is real' to the policy book

• Rabo: There Is Strangely Little Coverage Of The Major Russian Military Mobilization Underway | ZeroHedge

• Is Myanmar the new Syria? Rising violence threatens a repeat tragedy

• China warns of “robust” response if U.S. boycotts Beijing Olympics

• Massive Crowds Reported At Wuhan Cemeteries, Raising Questions About Actual Death Toll | ZeroHedge

• Chinese Christians Held in Secretive Brainwashing Camps: Sources — Radio Free Asia

• China researchers face abuse, sanctions as Beijing looks to silence critics

Health / Medicine / COVID

• Scientists call for new probe into Covid-19 origins: with or without China

• New Study Finds Covid Spikes After NFL Games with Fans

• Women under 60 at far greater risk of rare clotting after AstraZeneca shot

• Most kids with serious inflammatory illness had mild Covid-19

• 246 "Fully Vaccinated" Michigan Residents Catch COVID-19, 3 Die | ZeroHedge

• EU agency to confirm AstraZeneca blood clot link

  + [EMA finds possible link for AstraZeneca and rare cases of blood
  clots,
  platelets](https://www.ema.europa.eu/en/news/astrazenecas-covid-19-vaccine-ema-finds-possible-link-very-rare-cases-unusual-blood-clots-low-blood)
  

  • EMA finds possible link to rare cases of unusual blood clots

• CDC tells businesses to 'end the hygiene theater' | Daily Mail Online

• South Korea suspends AstraZeneca shots for people under 60 amid European review

• A third of Covid survivors suffer neurological or mental disorders

Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda

• We Must Help Farmers Prepare for a Transformed Climate

• Breach continues but evacuation orders lifted near Florida reservoir

• Left-wing party opposed to rare earth mining project wins Greenland election

• Something Is Killing Trees, Creating 'Ghost Forests' Along The Atlantic Coast

• A glimpse into the past: the penguin oil industry | The Travelling Cheetah

• Drought-breaking rains more rare, erratic in US West