2021-04-22

Cool

• NASA’s Perseverance Mars Rover Extracts First Oxygen from Red Planet

• Inkulinati Is a Serious Strategy Game Created with Absurd, Hilarious Medieval Art

• Cerebras’ New Monster AI Chip Adds 1.4 Trillion Transistors - IEEE Spectrum

  The CS-2 still takes up one-third of a standard rack, consumes about 20 kilowatts, relies on a closed-loop liquid cooling system, and has some pretty big cooling fans. Heat had been one of the biggest issues when developing a host system for the original WSE. That chip needed some 20,000 amps of current fed to it from one million copper connections to a fiberglass circuit board atop the wafer.

  • I just want to repeat 20,000 amps of current because it makes me tingle.

Worthy

• Panpsychism is crazy, but it’s also most probably true | Aeon Ideas

• From WinZips to Cat GIFs, Jacob Ziv’s Algorithms Have Powered Decades of Compression - IEEE Spectrum

etc

• Is the post office spying on you? USPS “covert operations” may monitor social media posts

• Tiny newfound 'Unicorn' is closest known black hole to Earth

• Stranded sailor allowed to leave abandoned ship after four years - BBC News

• My three-year-old has taught me the value of talking to strangers

Horseshit

• Burning Man mulling mandatory COVD-19 vaccines for August

• Surrey computer scientist who claims he created Bitcoin launches legal action

• The Obesity Era

• Beekeeping- Using Machine Learning

• Russia plans to launch its own space station after quitting ISS

  • Russia is considering leaving the ISS for its own space station

• L.A. Set to Be Largest City to Offer Guaranteed Income for Poor

• Santa Barbara County First in Nation to Offer 100 Percent Rental Assistance

• Last night Googles's domain for Argentina expired and a guy bought it for $4

• Starlink's high-speed satellite Internet: What's the catch? | APNIC Blog

celebrity gossip

• Philip Roth biographer Blake Bailey dropped by agent over ‘grooming’ allegations

• Earth Day Special: Winona LaDuke And The Women Over 50 Fighting To Save The Environment

• How Josh Hawley and Marjorie Taylor Greene juiced their fundraising numbers

• Biden's top scientist met Jeffrey Epstein twice, complicating his confirmation

• Dershowitz: Maxine Waters Used KKK Tactics to Intimidate Chauvin Jury – PJ Media

Culture War / Re segregation / Identdoctrination

• Fraternal Order Of Police Blasts LeBron James For ‘Gaslighting’ Attack On Cop Who Saved Black Girl From Stabbing Assault

• Virginia city fires police officer over Rittenhouse donation

• People of color are three times as likely to live in most polluted places, new report says

• BLM Calls Out Biden: Claims 'Our Communities...Terrorized' More Now than Under Trump | MRCTV

• Libertarian Rex ❧ Current Affairs

  How “the king” of St. Louis was defeated—for now—and how you too can topple your local hometown billionaire.

• BLM protesters rally for victim, leave after learning he was white carjacker

• Adult Online Hate, Harassment and Abuse: A rapid evidence assessment (2019)

• The Biden administration has ended use of the phrase ‘illegal alien’. It’s about time | Moustafa Bayoumi

• End the ‘Forever War’ Cliché

• On Tiger Moms, Scissor Statements, and The Permanence of Shit-List Membership - Resident Contrarian

  I’m lucky enough to not have an editor (which shows in other ways as well, I think). An editor might stop me from saying this: That’s bad! That’s bad even if the person you are doing it to is bad! And, very specifically: if you want this to be the standard for anyone on Earth who stands accused of virtually anything that carries a significant punishment, that’s a bad thing to want. If you want that, the part of you that wants it is the very worst part of you; it’s the diseased part that will accept anything bad happening to your perceived enemies, deserved or not.

Media / Many Ministries of Truths / Censorship

• Will the Times apologize for lying about Officer Sicknick’s death?

• TikTok, Facebook tamp down false rumor about 'National Rape Day'

• Internal Report Shows How Facebook Failed to Prevent “Stop the Steal” Movement

• Twitter Helped the Divisions That Derailed Nigeria EndSARS Anti-Police Movement

TechSuck

• Torvalds says submitting known buggy kernel patches is a breach of trust

• Intel Wins Trial over Chips, Dodging $1B-Plus Blow

• Samsung Allows You To Turn an Old Galaxy Phone Into a New IoT Device

• Bugs Allowed Hackers to Dox All John Deere Owners

Economicon

• Venmo releases cryptocurrency trading on the platform

• Welcome to the YOLO Economy

• How Dogecoin is like a Cabbage Patch Doll

• Bitcoin could plunge 50% from current levels after rising too much, too fast, says ...

• In new deal, Wisconsin slashes controversial Foxconn subsidies 30-fold

• Wirecard employees removed millions in cash using shopping bags

• $100M New Jersey deli company Hometown International delisted from an OTC market

• Turks Suspect Big Crypto Losses as Thodex CEO Goes Missing

• Ethereum Surges To Record Highs As Bitcoin Dominance Tumbles

• US to propose almost doubling capital gains tax rate for the wealthy to 39.6%

Poilitcks

• Biden inaugural committee raised $62M with big sums from billionaires, corporations

• The fight for DC statehood gets its best chance yet

• Officials Say Biden Preparing to Recognize Armenian Genocide

• Senate Republicans Shun Earmarks, Embracing Spending Restraint Anew

  With a Democratic president in the White House, Senate Republicans have a newfound zeal for austerity,

• Democrats trying to turn FCC 'into an arm of the DNC,' commissioner warns

• Supreme Court Cuts Federal Trade Commission Powers to Recover Ill-Gotten Gains

• Colorado counties pushing back against Biden’s extreme plan to lock up 30% of U.S. land.

Security / Militaria / Crime

• Judges are banning some Capitol riot suspects from the internet

• US Capitol Police officer allegedly told units to only monitor for ...

• The Incredible Rise of North Korea’s Hacking Army

• A 'Relic' And 'Burden': Manhattan District Attorney To Stop Prosecuting Prostitution

• Portland state of emergency extended after arrests, property damage

• GOP lawmaker demands review over FBI saying baseball shooting was 'suicide by cop'

World

• Russian Defense Minister Orders Partial Pullback From Ukraine Border Region

• Putin, Addressing Russia, Warns West Not to Cross Red Line

• Indonesia Searches for Missing Submarine With 53 on Board

• Deadly Blast Hits Pakistan Hotel, Missing China’s Envoy by Perhaps Just Minutes

• Syrian missile explodes near Israeli nuclear reactor, Israel retaliates

• China facing economic crisis as population peak nears, PBOC adviser says

Health / Medicine / COVID

• Let’s end the stigma of psychosomatic illness

• British regulator says AstraZeneca Covid shot clots rise to 168

• Vaccine Hesitancy for Covid-19: State, County, and Local Estimates

• CDC: Limited, mild COVID-19 cases seen among vaccinated people.

• Everyone in England to be offered twice-weekly Covid tests

• EU preparing legal case against AstraZeneca over vaccine shortfalls – sources

• The predicted apocalypse in ‘Neanderthal’ Texas never happened

• Israel: Doctors urge government to hold off vaccinating children

• As pace of vaccinations appears to slow, Joe Biden urges paid time off for shots; 'Joints for Jabs' a hit in DC: Live ...

• The Suicide Wave That Never Was

Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda

• The destructive green fantasy of the Bitcoin fanatics

• Greta Thunberg to testify before Congress as Biden kicks off climate summit – live

• Idaho Senate OKs bill to kill up to 90% of wolves in state

• The Culture of Whales

• How to save coffee from global warming

• The U.S. Has a New Climate Goal. How Does It Stack Up Globally?

• Biden pledges to cut greenhouse gas emissions by up to 52% by 2030

  • US will aim to cut carbon emissions by as much as 52% by 2030

• American Honey Still Contains Nuclear Fallout from the 1950s

• Show HN: I made an API to calculate the C02e footprint of credit card purchases

• Amazon collaborates with ESGF to increase access to climate model dataset

• A European snowstorm was caused by climate change