2021-04-24

Cool

• Hack an Analog TV Into a Geek TV - IEEE Spectrum

• Legends and science of bottomless pits, bogs, and lakes – SPOOKY GEOLOGY

• Why do drum sets have descending toms? – Low Volume Drumming

etc

• What gives Rice Krispies their pop and my related experiment - Peter Attia

• Society of Catholic Scientists prepares for conference on non-human intelligence

  The conference is titled “Extraterrestrials, AI, and Minds Beyond the Human” and will take place at the Hilton Hotel from June 4-6. The event will also be live-streamed.

Horseshit

• Amtrak's 2035 Map Has People Talking About the Future of U.S. Train Travel

• Florida family may get life in prison after church sold bleach as Covid-19 cure

• Government Gives Kamala Harris' Book to Migrant Kids – PJ Media

  • Kamala Harris isn't at the southern border but migrant kids are getting her book

• Boba Shortage Could Stretch into Summer, Leave Businesses in a Bind

celebrity gossip

• FBI Releases Documents On Investigation Into Death Of DNC Staffer Seth Rich | ZeroHedge

  • FBI Releases Documents Regarding 2016 Murder of DNC Staffer Seth Rich

• Neil DeGrasse Tyson Thinks Science Can Reign Supreme Again

Culture War / Re segregation / Identdoctrination

• Speaking Power to Truth - Claremont Review of Books

  We have seen the practice of stifling debate and purging dissenters on college campuses, but not the theory. Proponents of an intellectually restricted campus have been more interested in imposing than justifying those restrictions. What Snowflakes Get Right by Ulrich Baer, comparative literature professor at New York University, tries to fill that gap. Baer is not a terribly reliable guide to First Amendment doctrine or American constitutional history, but he calls, explicitly and forcefully, for sharply curtailing the scope of speech and debate on American college campuses.

• The Scholar's Stage: The Problem of the New Right

  The left never shies away from using government to make the world woke, but we have never been allowed to reply in kind. The libertarian dogmas of Milton Friedman and Frederick Hayek have handicapped conservativism. Libertarian ideals—which champion the sovereign individual unfettered by community, tradition, or obligation—are sugar coated poison pills. They promise to beat back a grasping federal government, but attempt to achieve this aim by sacralizing the same fatal lie that makes progressivism possible in the first place. There is no notion of common good, goes the lie, that can ever justify violating your right to individual self-realization.

  Do you see the common thing that strings these all together? When I read New Right writings and meet with New Righters in person I cannot help but notice how Northeastern their vision of politics is. They do not like to admit this, but it is true. They are the spiritual heirs of the New England Whigs; when they find anything sympathetic at all in the American tradition, it is in the Boston Brahmins' lost aristocracy.

• Race and Violent Crime – Reason.com

• Jim Bovard: The Feds Are Coming For Libertarians | ZeroHedge

• White women the most dangerous upholders of white supremacy in Silicon Valley

• "Weeks" Portland mayor urges residents to ‘unmask’ rioters after weeks of violence

• Telegram misogyny: 'They wanted to tie me and my child to a horse' - BBC News

• Asian American young adults only race group with suicide as lead cause of death

• ‘We are drowning in insecurity’: young people and life after the pandemic

• Paul Krugman: Antifa Riots Were a Right-Wing Fever Dream – PJ Media

Media / Many Ministries of Truths / Censorship

• "The Problem Is That Your Ideas Are Stupid" - Bill Maher Blasts "Gullible" Millennials | ZeroHedge

TechSuck

• Open letter from researchers involved in the “hypocrite commit” debacle

• Hard Drive Prices Skyrocket in Asia Due to New Chia Cryptocoin

  • Chinese flock to new cryptocurrency resulting in HDD shortages and price surges

• Archive link Global chip shortage spreads to toasters and washing machines

• Drone operators challenge surveyors’ turf in mapping dispute

• Intel CEO Gelsinger Resigns from VMware Board, Effective Immediately

Economicon

• Home Prices Soar 18% To An All Time High; A Record 58% Of Houses Sell Within Two Weeks Of Listing

• CEO Pay Remains Stratospheric, Even at Companies Battered by Pandemic

• Tampa McDonald's Exposes America's Systemic Labor Shortage, Forced To Pay People $50 To Interview

• As Shorts Go Extinct, All Market "Sell Signals" Are Now Completely Useless | ZeroHedge

Poilitcks

• Biden Admin Stops Fining Illegal Immigrants Who Don't Leave US, Cancels Debt

• Biden Labor Board Invalidates Workers' Vote to Reject Union - Washington Free Beacon

  The National Labor Relations Board overruled hundreds of Delaware poultry workers who had voted to reject union leadership. The agency said in a 3-1 ruling released Wednesday that a provision prohibiting workers from leaving a union for a set time period after a contract is signed allowed the board to ignore the workers' March 2020 vote. The decision reversed a regional NLRB director who had initially ruled in the workers' favor.

• Why lawmakers are so interested in Apple’s and Google’s “rents”

Security / Militaria / Crime

• Biden’s Afghan Exit Alarms Contractors Who Outnumber U.S. Troops

World

• Malaysia: Artist detained for allegedly insulting queen with Spotify playlist

• Indonesian navy submarine (KRI Nanggala 402) found split into three on sea bed

• What happened during the Hong Kong 2019 “protests”

• In Britain, the rich are richer but the poor far poorer than in Europe

Health / Medicine / COVID

• Moderna Pledge Not to Enforce the Patents on Their Covid-19 Vaccine Is Worthless

• Bill Gates Impeded Global Access to Covid Vaccines

• Some vaccinated Israeli women report irregular menstrual cycles, bleeding

• As pandemic surges anew, global envy and anger over U.S. vaccine abundance

• Why India’s worsening Covid crisis is a dire problem for the world

• When will India get Russia’s Sputnik V Covid vaccine?

• Biden administration denies ‘outright ban’ on vaccine raw materials

• “We Are Hoarding”: Why the US Can’t Donate Corona-Vaccines to Countries in Need

• Throat spray and hydroxychloroquine found to reduce risk of Covid-19 infection: S'pore study, Health News & Top Stories - The Straits Times

Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda

• Halting the Vast Release of Methane Is Critical for Climate, U.N. Says

• Satellites Are Littering Our Solar System at a Rapid Speed

• Score and rank of ethical and environmental record for 12 digital camera brands