2021-04-18

Cool

• Linux veteran Slackware rides again with a beta of version 15

Worthy

• THE POWER AND THE SILENCE - Unbound

  After my vigil ended, back in town, I resumed obeying the rules, which had multiplied and tightened in my absence. People were cracking. Couples were breaking up. I spoke to a bartender who’d lost his job and I heard suicidal echoes behind his words. I spoke to a trembling parent whose school-age child, having failed to adapt to online learning, had trashed his own bedroom and now refused to leave it. The spectacle of my crumbling community frightened me more than the virus, but I stayed quiet, aware that the solemn voices of cable news who carried Gates’ message to the masses considered such qualms heretically off-script. If saving the village from the virus required destroying the village, then so be it. And the village was certainly burning – I smelled the smoke. I smelled it through my mask.

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• Why We Chose to Try Ingenuity Helicopter’s 1st Flight on Mars on Monday

• Mystery of disappearing drone swarms in the US Midwest

• 3 people were killed and 2 others injured in a shooting in Kenosha, Wisconsin, ...

• The 19-year-old shooter bought two weapons used in the recent killings legally last year despite FBI concerns

• Western US States Prepare For 1st-Ever Water Shortage Declaration; Hoover Dam Hydroelectric Generation At Risk

• Two people killed in fiery Tesla crash with no one driving

• What Should We Do If Extraterrestrials Show Up?

Horseshit

• Drug Discovered to Regenerate Lost Teeth

• One Way to Get People Off the Streets: Buy Hotels

• Parents Are Sacrificing Their Social Lives on the Altar of Intensive Parenting

• Public-ownership rental as a third option to renting or owning a house

• Mice fed fast food get noticeably stupider, scientists warn

celebrity gossip

• Debian will not issue a public statement on the Richard Stallman/FSF issue

• Putin critic Navalny could 'die within days', say doctors

• The 19-year-old shooter bought two weapons used in the recent killings legally last year despite FBI concerns

Culture War / Re segregation / Identdoctrination

• Least Vaccinated U.S. Counties Have Something in Common: Trump Voters

• 'Get More Confrontational': Maxine Waters Crosses State Lines To Incite BLM Protesters | ZeroHedge

• Black Lives Matter Activist Charged With Anti-Asian Hate Crime | ZeroHedge

• Cops Kill White People as Easily as They Kill Black People

• Protests erupt in US cities after Daunte Wright and Adam Toledo killings ...

• Minneapolis and other US cities are beefing up their security and shutting down schools ahead of the verdict in the Derek ...

• Chicago Prosecutor Placed On Leave After Suggesting Adam Toledo Was Armed When Shot

• A Recipe for More Tragedy | City Journal

• Utah paramedic investigated for donation to Kyle Rittenhouse defense

• Antifa "Panicking" About Police Informant Inside Network: Andy Ngo | ZeroHedge

Media / Many Ministries of Truths / Censorship

• Mark Zuckerberg, the modern Bond villain, is now coming for your children

  • Kids are competent to decide to take hormones during puberty now, but not competent to decide who they talk to online? Anyone think Facebook et al haven't already got profiles that know how our kids feel about their sexuality better than we do?

• The U.S. military takes UFOs seriously. Why doesn't Silicon Valley or academia?

• The coronavirus has closed more than 70 local newsrooms across America

• Roblox Struggles with Sexual Content, Hopes Ratings System Will Address Problem

• WashPost Submerges Kamala's Border Duties, Promotes Her 'Mark' on the 'Crochet Scene' | Newsbusters

• Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis Joins YouTube Alternative 'Rumble' Following ...

• Sex Workers Explain Why the Safe Tech Act Will Break the Internet

• Radio host mocked Trump by claiming Seattle is peaceful, then rioters torched his apartment building | The Post Millennial

TechSuck

• (PDF) Stealthy Dopant-Level Hardware Trojans

Economicon

• Clubhouse closes new round of funding that would value app at $4B

• Bitcoin Crashes As Much As 15% Amid Unsubstantiated Report Of Money Laundering Crackdown | ZeroHedge

  Whereas this account traditionally blasts Reuters or Bloomberg headlines, in this case there was no such underlying report from either Reuters or Bloomberg, and Bloomberg even said that "several online reports attributed the plunge to speculation the U.S. Treasury may crack down on money laundering that’s carried out through digital assets."

• Bitcoin Mining Hash Rate Drops as Blackouts Instituted in China

• Bitcoin price crashes 14% sending cryptocurrency market into tailspin

• $7.6B in crypto long positions liquidated in 1 hour as Bitcoin plunges to $52k

• Robinhood can’t handle the Dogecoin rally

• Small cities in America’s Mountain West are booming

Poilitcks

• New York State just passed a law requiring ISPs to offer $15 broadband

• Marjorie Taylor Greene Backs Off Extremist America First Caucus After ...

• Sullivan: White House 'absolutely committed' to raising refugee cap

• Blinken pushes back on criticism to Afghanistan withdrawal: 'We achieved the objectives that we set out to achieve'

• US sanctions cryptocurrency addresses linked to Russian cyberactivities

  The US government sanctioned this week twenty-eight cryptocurrency addresses allegedly associated with entities or individuals linked to Russian cyberattacks or election interference.

  The US government introduced these sanctions in an executive order by President Biden that formally announced that the Russian SVR, and its hacking division, commonly referred to as APT29, The Dukes, or Cozy Bear, were behind the recent SolarWinds supply chain attack.

Security / Militaria

• Uncharted waters: Judges weigh banning Capitol riot suspects from the internet

World

• Russia might withdraw from ISS in 2025

• China’s Dystopian “New IP” Plan for a New Internet

• Pope Calls on Russia, Ukraine to Seek Reconciliation

• Pakistan PM: Insulting Islam’s Prophet Should Be Same as Denying Holocaust

Health / Medicine / COVID

• How Safe AreYou from Covid When You Fly?

• Why Britain missed the link between the AstraZeneca jab and rare blood clots

• Fauci: ‘I Doubt Very Seriously’ We’ll Cancel Johnson & Johnson Vaccine

• Vaccine tourism: Maldives to offer holidaymakers vaccines on arrival

• The serotonin reuptake inhibitor Fluoxetine inhibits SARS-CoV-2 in lung tissue

• The genetic mistakes that could shape our species - BBC Future

• Pathologic Antibodies to Platelet Factor 4 After ChAdOx1 NCoV-19 Vaccination

Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda

• The humble shrub that’s predicting a terrible fire season

• U.S.-China Joint Statement Addressing the Climate Crisis

• John Kerry's 'full speed' mission to restore American leadership on the climate crisis

• Brown bears are expanding, and watchers wonder why