2021-04-24

Cool

• Photos of Bees Sleeping in a Flower | PetaPixel

• 2006 Shop Class as Soulcraft

  A decline in tool use would seem to betoken a shift in our mode of inhabiting the world: more passive and more dependent. And indeed, there are fewer occasions for the kind of spiritedness that is called forth when we take things in hand for ourselves, whether to fix them or to make them. What ordinary people once made, they buy; and what they once fixed for themselves, they replace entirely or hire an expert to repair, whose expert fix often involves installing a pre-made replacement part.

Worthy

• The Heroic Congressional Fight to Save the Rich - TK News by Matt Taibbi

• The Mystery of AS8003 | Kentik

  The questions that started to surface included: Who is AS8003? Why are they announcing huge amounts of IPv4 space belonging to the U.S. Department of Defense? And perhaps most interestingly, why did it come alive within the final three minutes of the Trump administration?

  • What is the Pentagon doing with its formerly dormant IP space?

• The unreasonable effectiveness of print debugging

• Overcoming Bias : Explaining Regulation

• Overcoming Bias : A Zoologist’s Guide to Our Past

  bacteria have not eaten our whole planet, but life on Earth has eaten most of the biochemicals with which you can make the kinds of life on Earth. Mountains and continents mainly remain because bacteria don’t have the tech to turn those into more bacteria.

• ¡No Pasarán!: Mad Magazine Fact-Checked by Snopes, Denounced by the New York Times, Censored by Amazon, Banned by Facebook, and Slammed by SJWs

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• High bitrate audio is overkill: CD quality is still great - SoundGuys

  • I can hear past 25kHz, and I prefer 44.1kHz sample rates to 48kHz. No one knows how to record higher freqs and they just add noise when they try.

  • Someone informs me that's rare: Hearing thresholds for pure tones above 16kHz: The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America: Vol 122, No 3

• Tornadoes, hail and stunning skies make for unforgettable Texas storm chase

• Identity Theft Is Flourishing on the Back of Pandemic Aid Programs

Horseshit

• American Pravda: "Ukraine are asshole anyway, let russia have them" Dirty Dollars

  Hundreds of millions of dollars had been stolen from a Ukraine bank — the losses large enough to cripple the country’s economy — and secretly moved into the United States, where the money was used to pump up the cash reserves of Warren Steel in a money laundering scheme carried out across the country, the U.S. Justice Department alleges.

• Oklahoma woman charged with felony for not returning VHS tape 21 years ago

• Why are Hawaii visitors cruising around in U-Hauls? Blame the pandemic.

  Last month, the cheapest rental car on Maui was a Toyota Camry for $722 a day.

• Spain to give pets the same rights as humans, an animal welfare breakthrough

• Deutsche Bank Whistleblower Vanishes

• Toronto carpenter builds 'tiny shelters' for the homeless. The city isn't happy

celebrity gossip

• The multi-million dollar orgasm cult endorsed by Hollywood

• Dutch MPs in video conference with deep fake imitation of Navalny's Chief of Staff | NL Times

• Billionaire Investor Claims Mushrooms Are Key to His Success

  Angermayer said the doctor confirmed his instinct to avoid hard drugs, but suggested psilocybin mushrooms were less dangerous than other vices, like alcohol. British researcher David Nutt, for example, published a chart of drugs ranked by harmfulness, which lists alcohol at the top and shrooms dead last.

Obit

• Dan Kaminsky Has Died

  • Dan Kaminsky - Wikipedia

  • Dan Kaminsky once found a flaw in DNS that would have destroyed the internet

  • Dan Kaminsky has died | Hacker News

• Thomas Brock, Whose Discovery Paved the Way for PCR Tests, Dies at 94

Culture War / Re segregation / Identdoctrination

• Telling children 'hard work gets you to the top' is simply a lie

• (May 2020) The 2006 Origins of the Lockdown Idea – AIER

  But what is this mention of the high-school daughter of 14? Her name is Laura M. Glass, and she recently declined to be interviewed when the Albuquerque Journal did a deep dive of this history. Laura’s name appears on the foundational paper arguing for lockdowns and forced human separation. That paper is Targeted Social Distancing Designs for Pandemic Influenza (2006). It set out a model for forced separation and applied it with good results backwards in time to 1957. They conclude with a chilling call for what amounts to a totalitarian lockdown, all stated very matter-of-factly.

  In other words, it was a high-school science experiment that eventually became law of the land, and through a circuitous route propelled not by science but politics.

• Dungeons And Dragons Introduces New 100-Sided Die For Determining Your Character's Gender | The Babylon Bee

• Lee Smith Nails It Again, The US Postal Service Surveillance Scandal is Targeting Trump Supporters Not All Americans - The Last Refuge

• Math Suffers from White Supremacy, According to a Bill Gates-Funded Course

• Another Leftist Hit-Piece: WaPo’s Sen.Tim Scott Fact Check - The Lid

• "Taking A Knee" Banned By International Olympic Committee

• Stunning Chauvin Juror Confession: I Was Worried About ‘Rioting And Destruction’

• The school that rules Britain

• Decades After Police Bombing, Philadelphia Sickened by Handling of Victim Bones

Media / Many Ministries of Truths / Censorship

• Coding experts tell Salon Mike Lindell's botched social site was doomed to fail

  Speaking to Salon on Thursday afternoon about Lindell's site, one "Acquia Certified Drupal Grand Master," who oversees a technology firm that employs numerous other "grandmasters," said that Lindell's site was set up for failure from its inception,

  The team of "grandmasters" were granted anonymity by Salon due to the sensitive nature of their employment and the risk of being doxxed by Lindell's supporters.

• When Is Online Nastiness Illegal?

• Twitter censored tweets critical of India’s handling of the pandemic

  • India orders Twitter to pull tweets criticizing its Covid-19 response

• ‘Divisive’: How Corporate Media Dismiss Ideas Unpopular with Elites

• The Slander Industry

TechSuck

• Twitter refuses to say whether LeBron James violated terms of service.

• Humble are capping charitable donations at 15% starting in May

• 800 Tech patent lawsuits assigned to one Waco, TX, judge in the past year

• Google supercharges YouTube with a custom video chip

  • Reimagining video infrastructure to empower YouTube

Economicon

• Home ownership unaffordable despite 95% mortgages, analysis shows

• There Is a Lot of Fungus Among Us: Investors Are Paying Attention

• The 'Capitalism is Broken' Economy - Culture Study

  In Waterville, Ohio, for instance, there’s this sad, sad song about the difficulties finding workers at Dale’s Bar & Grill — which somehow fails to mention that the owner is a Covid hoaxer (he believes that doctors have been falsely labeling deaths as Covid-related) and has brazenly violated masking rules, and did not require employees to wear masks.

  We should ask ourselves, our communities, and our government: if a business can’t pay a living wage, should it be a business? If it’s too expensive for businesses to provide healthcare for their workers, maybe we need to decouple it from employment? If childcare is a market failure, but we need childcare for the economy to work, how can the government build that infrastructure? If the pay you provide workers doesn’t allow them to live in the community, what needs to change? Collectively, we should be thinking of different funding models, different ownership scenarios, and different growth imperatives. Failure to do so is simply resigning ourselves to another round of this rigged game.

• We will be needing ignorant serfs again? Low-Skill Workers Aren’t a Problem to Be Fixed

• "That's How Crazy The Market Is" - A "Virtually Unheard Of Trade" Spotted In Lumber | ZeroHedge

  On Wednesday, his company brokered another OSB sale involving a US East Coast lumberyard selling to another one in Arkansas at $1,500 per 1,000 square feet, surpassing a record $999 that was reached at the end of March, based on Random Lengths pricing.

Poilitcks

• Hedge and Private Equity funds may not hate Biden's capital gains tax plan

• Senator Amy Klobuchar says that Apple's App Store is a “literal monopoly”

• Republicans and Democrats increasingly agree: Big Tech is too powerful

• US recognises Armenian genocide for first time

• Drug lobby asks Biden to punish foreign countries pushing for low-cost vaccines

Security / Militaria / Crime

• The U.S. Military Needs Citizen-Soldiers, Not Warriors

World

• Watch: Chaos In Jerusalem After Jewish Settler Groups Chant "Death To Arabs" During Ramadan

• Indonesia Navy Declares Missing Submarine "Sunk," Says All 53 Aboard Dead

  • Missing Indonesian submarine believed sunk as debris is found, Navy says

• Turkish Crypto Exchange Goes Bust as Founder Flees Country

Health / Medicine / COVID

• The Failure of Imperial College Modeling Is Far Worse Than We Knew

• Could fluvoxamine keep Covid patients out of hospitals and intensive care units?

• India's Descent into Covid Hell

• Covid-19: Highest death rates seen in countries with most overweight populations

• A guideline to limit indoor airborne transmission of Covid-19

  By synthesizing available data from the best-characterized indoor spreading events with respiratory drop size distributions, we estimate an infectious dose on the order of 10 aerosol-borne virions. The new virus (severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 [SARS-CoV-2]) is thus inferred to be an order of magnitude more infectious than its forerunner (SARS-CoV), consistent with the pandemic status achieved by COVID-19.

• FDA says N95 face masks should no longer be reused

• FDA, CDC lift pause on J&J Covid vaccinations

Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda

• Bacteria from a Brazilian copper mine work a striking transformation on an essential metal - The Academic Times

• Polar Drift in the 1990s Explained by Terrestrial Water Storage Changes - Deng - 2021 - Geophysical Research Letters - Wiley Online Library

  The accelerated terrestrial water storage decline resulting from glacial ice melting is thus the main driver of the rapid polar drift toward the east after the 1990s. This new finding indicates that a close relationship existed between polar motion and climate change in the past.

• Why Bitcoin Is Bad for the Environment

• U.S. Commits to Greater CO2 Reductions, China and India Do Not