2021-04-15

Cool

• Pentagon Confirms 'Pyramid-Shaped' UFO Video Footage Is Authentic

  • Leaked footage of ‘pyramid-shaped’ UFOs is real, Pentagon says

• Much more reminiscent of the old style UFO story: The KGB Had a Classified Information Exchange Program With an Extraterrestrials

• “2.5B T. Rexes Roamed North America over the Cretaceous Period”

• Dude. Watch this Florida driver blast through a gate at high speed and successfully jump an opening drawbridge | Not the Bee

Worthy

• GCC removing toxic emailers

  You face a choice between being a community that is about shipping code and one that is embroiled in perpetual controversy over who gets to play here and on what terms. Choose wisely.

• Stallman vs de Blanc

  We believe the open letter is a coordinated attack on the Free Software community. Among the signatories of Open letter are many for-profit organizations and license issuers. Corporations want to dissolve Free Software Foundation and take over Free Software. A lot of Free Software is licensed under GPLv3-or-later, which means that if FSF is replaced and the new board of directors updates the General Public License, free software may become a synonym to open-source, allowing its use without disclosing sources.

etc

• The Crow Whisperer, By Lauren Markham | Harper's Magazine

• Coinbase gifted $25,000 in stocks to all 1700 employees ahead of IPO

• (PDF, 2005) Social Structure, Robustness, and Policing Cost in a Cognitively Sophisticated Species. - 429277

• On Common Core Math, Individual Variation, and Things You Can't Teach - Resident Contrarian

• Empathy | Interactive Storytelling Tools for Writers | Chris Crawford

• Archaeologists Unearth Sprawling Roman Ruins Unlike Any Found in the U.K

Horseshit

• Renting Is Terrible. Owning Is Worse

• Biden Admin Wins ‘Immediate Possession’ Of Private Land To Expand Border Wall | The Daily Wire

• Higher quality audio makes people sound smarter

• Hygiene Theater: Deep Cleaning Isn’t a Victimless Crime

• Embryos That Are Part Monkey, Part Human Raise Ethical Concerns

  • Scientists Have Created Human-Monkey Embryos, and That's Ethically OK

celebrity gossip

• The Ultimate ‘Florida Woman’? It’s Everybody Blog About Rebekah Jones Day : The Other McCain

• What happened to Bernie Madoff's family? Where Ruth Madoff and others are now

• Colton Underwood is gay. Will this help 'The Bachelor' finally join the 21st century?

• Liz Cheney says she won't support Trump if he runs in 2024

• Matt Gaetz takes out political ad attacking CNN as he fights sexual misconduct allegations

  • Rep. Matt Gaetz's Woes Deepen As New Report Details Associate's Shady Venmo Payments

• Ivanka Trump Gets the Pfizer Jab. Her Anti-Vax Fans Are Not Happy.

• Canadian MP apologizes after appearing naked during video meeting

Obit

• Frank Jacobs, Mad Magazine Writer with a Lyrical Touch, Dies at 91

Culture War / Re segregation / Identdoctrination

• Content Of Our Character – Professor Ornery Dragon

• Can The Great "Awokening" Succeed? | ZeroHedge

• Chauvin chooses not to testify

• Demonstrators assemble outside home of soldier charged with assaulting a Black man

  • Soldier charged after video of confrontation with Black man

• JPMorgan is deploying $2.5 trillion to fight the climate crisis and inequality

• Florida’s GOP-Controlled House Passes Anti-Trans Bill Targeting Young Athletes

• The Sun Never Set on the British Empire’s Oppression

• Politically Sound: What Schoolhouse Rock didn't teach you

• What are “ghost guns”, and can Joe Biden stop their spread?

• How medicine discriminates against non-white people and women

• Reparations for US slave descendants gains momentum

• Officer wounded in raid that killed Breonna Taylor gets book deal

Media / Many Ministries of Truths / Censorship

• Substack offering up to $100,000 advances to local journalists

• Reuters website goes behind paywall in new strategy

• Big Tech Is Pushing States to Pass Privacy Laws and Yes You Should Be Suspicious

• "This Is Insanity": Twitter Suspends James O'Keefe Hours After CNN Exposé

• Facebook, Instagram Censor New York Post Story On BLM Co-Founder Buying Million-Dollar Luxury Homes

TechSuck

• Google Becomes the First Visionary Sponsor of the Python Software Foundation

• Verizon announces Hyper Precise Location service for more than 100 U.S. markets

• Facebook urged to scrap Instagram for children plans

• Hackers Use Software Cracks and BitTorrent Client to Steal Cryptocurrency

• Accenture’s Facebook content moderator quit with a blistering internal note

• The looming software kill-switch lurking in aging Playstation hardware

• 11th Circuit Reverses Winn-Dixie- What It Means to You - Converge Accessibility

  It was also the first decision in which a court stated that redesigning a site to comply with the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) was an appropriate remedy.

Economicon

• There’s Nothing to Do Except Gamble

  • comment:

  Our job in life is to engage in value creation. When money is decoupled from value creation, your long-term bet is that it will lose its value, as value creation is what actually matters in the “real” world.

  This is also why “crypto” (the asset class, not technology) is so corrosive, because it makes people who have done approximately nothing to create value in society, but who’ve enjoyed a massive boost in monetary value, think they’ve “won” or accomplished something real. This doesn’t work long term, and will eventually collapse on itself like all false religions.

  If you’re planning to be alive in 20 years, you’re better off making sure you have a work ethic and skills that generate value, than obsessing over any sort of wealth-hoarding instrument at all, because it is the only true protection against change.

• Stock futures are flat in overnight trading after Dow closes above 34,000 for the first time

• Why rental cars are suddenly so hard to find

• Robinhood sues to invalidate Massachusetts fiduciary rule

• SpaceX raises $1.16B in equity financing

• ​​​​​​​Corn Prices Rally To Highest Since 2013 On Cold Blast Slowing US Seeding

• US Unemployment Benefit Claims Drop to Lowest Level in Over a Year

• Retail sales explode in March as consumers use stimulus ...

• Mexico’s War on Obesity Sends Global Junk-Food, Sugary-Drink Giants Scrambling

• Texas Froze and California Burned. To Insurers, They Look Similar

Poilitcks

• Unusual Stock Trading by Whales in US Congress

  • Unusual Stock Trading by Whales in US Congress | Hacker News

• Nunes Blasts Dems For 'Hijacking' Intelligence Community To Target Republicans

• Gretchen Whitmer Falsely Claims 'There Have Never Been Travel Restrictions in Michigan'

• House panel advances bill to study reparations

• Democrats to introduce legislation to expand Supreme Court

• Imposing Costs for Harmful Foreign Activities by the Russian Government

  • Treasury Sanctions Russia with Sweeping New Sanctions Authority

  • Biden Administration to Impose Tough Sanctions on Russia

  • US Government Sanctions Crypto Addresses Linked to Russian Election Fraud Scheme

  Following the publication of this article, the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) published a list of addresses and entities accused of participating in the scheme. bitcoin, bitcoin cash, litecoin, ether, zcash, dash and verge addresses are all included, with 28 total addresses on the list.

  + [US imposes sanctions on Russia over
  

  cyber-attacks](https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-56755484)

  + [US imposes sanctions against Russia, expels diplomats and targets
  

  national debt](https://www.rt.com/russia/521127-us-sanctions-new-round/)

  • Biden blames and sanctions Russia for the SolarWinds hack

Security / Militaria

• DNI’s Annual Threat Assessment - Schneier on Security

• How the FBI managed to get into the San Bernardino shooter’s iPhone

  • The true story of how the FBI cracked the San Bernardino shooter’s iPhone

• He Was Convicted of a Bombing Plot. Was It a Setup?

• Biden aide: Ability to collect daily intel in Afghanistan 'will diminish'

  • As Biden Pulls Out of Afghanistan, How Much Do Americans Care?

  • Taliban Promises 'Nightmare' For US Troops If They Stay Past May 1st

• The Officer Who Shot And Killed A Woman During The Capitol Riot Won't Be Charged

• Capitol Police inspector general to testify about lapses in planning ahead of Capitol ...

• Capitol rioter accused of beating officer to be jailed until trial

• "I'm A Street Fighter": Pelosi Says Capitol Insurrectionists Would Have "Had A Battle On Their Hands" If They Found Her

• US Air Force war game shows what it needs against China in 2030

• Drone attack at Iraq airport aimed at U.S. troops, officials say

World

• Why has Somalia’s president extended his mandate?

• Who Leaked a Nude Image of a Canadian Lawmaker? His Colleagues Want to Know.

• Germany stops recognizing special UK passport for Hongkongers

• China is working to undo global norms in its favor, says U.S. intelligence community

• A Diplomat Who Disappeared

• Japanese official says canceling Tokyo Olympics still a viable option

• Tsai Ing-wen signals cooperation during meeting with Biden’s emissaries in Taiwan

• France Advises Citizens to Leave Pakistan for Security Reasons

• Florida’s GOP-Controlled House Passes Anti-Trans Bill Targeting Young Athletes

• Indigenous and Environmental Groups Warn Biden Not to Trust Bolsonaro

• Car Bomb Blast Kills 4 in Baghdad's Sadr City, Police Say

• Beijing engulfed in yellow dust as authorities issue blue alert for sandstorms in central China

Health / Medicine / COVID

• 99.992% of fully vaccinated people have dodged Covid, CDC data shows

• Does CDC Mask Mandate for 2-Year-Old Children Make Sense? A Look at the Science

• Risk of Clots Higher with Covid Than After Vaccine, Study Says

• Merck ends studies for experimental MK-7110 drug to fight severe COVID-19

• 1 million people have died from COVID-19 in Europe, a top World Health Organization doctor said

• Psilocybin: Magic mushroom compound 'promising' for depression

• What is capillary leak syndrome and is it linked to the AstraZeneca vaccine?

• Susuk - Black Magic Exposed “White” by Dental Radiographs

Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda

• US Renews Call for All Nations to Raise Climate Ambitions

• The Nation's Corn Belt Has Lost a Third of Its Topsoil

• NFTs Are Shaking Up the Art World. They May Be Warming the Planet, Too

• Apple creates fund for 'working forests' as part of carbon-removal efforts

• New Google Earth feature shows chilling effect of climate change

  • Time flies in Google Earth’s biggest update in years

• Google and NASA release timelapse showing Earth changes over 30 years

• The ecological disaster that is Bitcoin

• Facebook reaches its target of using 100 percent renewable energy

  • Facebook hits renewable energy goal ahead of Earth Day