2021-04-29

Cool

• Colgate's New Toothpaste Tubes Are High-Tech

Worthy

• Bayesian and frequentist results are not the same, ever – Probably Overthinking It

etc

• FCC reveals sign-up date and website for $50-per-month broadband subsidies

• Ingenuity helicopter failed to lift off from Martian surface for its 4th flight

• Asteroid Impact Simulation Is Currently Underway and Its Terrifying

• China launches first segment of new Space Station

• Psychedelics and Religion: Entheogens and Spiritual Experiences

Horseshit

• Vegan cheese has quietly but steadily infiltrated mainstream supermarket shelves

• Megastudy of Text-Based Nudges Encouraging Patients to Get Vaccinated

• Chia surpasses 1 exabyte of hard drive space

• Elon Musk’s Starlink satellites caught astronomers by surprise

celebrity gossip

• Jack Ma Taunted China. Then Came His Fall

• Navalny network disbands as gaunt Kremlin critic appears in court

  • Navalny Calls Putin a 'Naked, Thieving King'

Culture War / Re segregation / Identdoctrination

• Everywhere – According To Hoyt

• People of Color Breathe More Hazardous Air. The Sources Are Everywhere

• Vaccine Skepticism Is Rooted in Beliefs, Not Ignorance

Media / Many Ministries of Truths / Censorship

• Disney's writer wage-theft is far worse than reported

• Social media algorithms threaten democracy, experts tell senators

• Can We Do Better Than Deplatforming? - Galaxy Brain

  Putting my cards on the table, I think that Facebook is a better place without Donald Trump polluting it with garbage. After his election denial and the events of January 6th, I think there’s an extremely solid case for his permanent ban. But I also agree with Ovadya that we can have a more sophisticated conversation going forward around what we expect of world leaders online and how to make sure to hold them accountable before they destabilize our politics any further. Mostly though, I think conversations like this one are proof that we are still in the early days of understanding and governing the platforms. The limited array of enforcement options we have to balance speech and mitigate harms doesn’t feel adequate. I think we can, eventually, do better.

  • "we can have a more sophisticated conversation going forward around what we expect of world leaders online and how to make sure to hold them accountable before they destabilize our politics any further." ... Opens the question, who should be allowed to destabilize our politics; and who is stabilizing them?

• Official documents reveal officials colluded with a PR firm working for the Biden campaign pressuring social media to suppress posts - American Thinker

• Facebook temporarily blocks posts with hashtag ResignModi

  • Hashtag calling for PM Modi’s resignation blocked ‘by mistake’, says Facebook

• Iran is flooding Clubhouse with propaganda

TechSuck

• The Erosion of Personal Ownership

• Union's evidence in Amazon vote 'could be grounds for overturning election'

• Fortnite’s cash cow is Playstation, not iOS, court documents reveal

• Microsoft to reduce Windows store cut to 12 percent

• An update on the UMN affair

• Nvidia Updates GeForce RTX 3060 Ethereum Throttle

• Instagram Live takes on Clubhouse with options to mute and turn off the video

Economicon

• Trading Stock Tips on TikTok, Newbies Are Deeply Invested in Learning

• Digital currency ether hits a record high, stealing Bitcoin’s limelight

• U.S. will launch $3.2b temporary broadband subsidy May 12

• US Labor Secretary: Most Gig Workers should be classified as employees

• California's White Gold Rush: Lithium in Demand Amid Surge in Electric Vehicles

  • Mining? In California? But there might be environmental impact!

• More Americans Are Leaving Cities, but Don’t Call It an Urban Exodus

Poilitcks

• Biden’s $4T Economic Plan, in One Chart

• Joe Biden's Speech Was A Declaration Of War On America | ZeroHedge

• Supreme Court wary of giving schools broad authority over off-campus speech

• JEDI news: Judge won’t dismiss Amazon’s claim that Trump interfered with $10B cloud contract

• Raising the Capital Gains Tax Would Be Un-American

• Whitmer Makes Michigan First State To Tie Reopening To Vaccination Rates

Security / Militaria / Crime / Police

• Biden DOJ "Actively Considering" Domestic Terrorism Law To Target White Supremacists | ZeroHedge

• NYPD cancels use of robotic dog after backlash

• Cyber-attack hackers threaten to share US police informant data

• Newsweek Exclusive: U.S. Capitol Police to Be Sued for $10 Million for Killing Unarmed Rioter.

• US investigating attacks with hallmarks of ‘Havana syndrome’ near White House

  • White House investigating ‘unexplained health incidents’

• Before Jan. 6, FBI collected information from at least 4 Proud Boys

World

• Twenty French generals implore the government to take a firm hand against chaos.

  • Paris mayor says she AGREES with military chiefs who warned of the 'disintegration' of France | Daily Mail Online

• (Apr 24) China National Space Administration (CNSA) on Twitter: "With great ceremony we announce the confirmation of intelligent life!" / Twitter

• 'Dog Biting Dog': China's Online Fight Could Further Empower Beijing

• British Carrier Strike Group to sail through South China Sea

• US-backed assassination attempt on Belarus president failed | Cosmos Chronicle

Health / Medicine / COVID

• India’s Covid Crisis Could Reach You Too

• Flu Has Disappeared Worldwide During the Covid Pandemic

• Mask study was “misleading” and misquotes citations, says Elsevier – Retraction Watch

• U.K. Deploys Thousands of Ravers to Test Relaxing of Covid Rules

• Excess Deaths February Update - kieranhealy.org

• De Blasio says New York City plans to “fully reopen” on July 1

• Brazil Rejects the Gamaleya (Sputnik-V) Vaccine

  • Brazil rejects Sputnik vaccine for presence of live Adenovirus

• (Mar 30 2021) It's Time To Talk About Ivermectin | naked capitalism An extremely cheap, safe and widely available off-patent medicine appears to be saving the lives of covid-19 patients across Latin America and beyond. Yet hardly anybody's talking about it. 

Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda

• Are our pets gobbling up the planet?

• Seaspiracy Harms More Than It Educates | Hakai Magazine

• German climate law is partly unconstitutional, top court rules

  + [Constitutional complaints against the Climate Change Act
  partially
  successful](https://www.bundesverfassungsgericht.de/SharedDocs/Pressemitteilungen/EN/2021/bvg21-031.html)
  

  • Germany must tighten climate law to protect young people's future, court rules

• Declassified Satellite Images Show Glaciers Are Melting Faster Than Ever