2021-05-06

Cool

• US Space Command tracking out of control rocket

• Science of the Trompe (Old Technology for Compressing Air)

• (PDF) Fungi on Mars? Evidence of Growth and Behavior From Sequential Images

Worthy

• Overcoming Bias : UFOs Shows Govt. Competence As Either Surprisingly High Or Low

  (hoaxes and lies coordinated by a big central organization) is a theory of remarkable government competence. Some governments, or a consortium of them, have managed to get thousands of people to either lie and say they saw stuff they didn’t, or paid for expensive enough tech to fool them. And yet this conspiracy has remained hidden for a great many decades, even from the top levels of their own governments.

  In contrast, (aliens) seems to require a scenario of remarkable incompetence, among the aliens themselves, among our governments, and even among the UFO activists. So which is more likely: surprisingly high government competence, or incompetence?

• Thin Pipe, Part I - The Mad Ned Memo

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• Astronauts with disabilities can apply to Europe's space agency for first time

• More than half of millennials with student debt say their loans weren’t worth it

• Endangered California condors 'absolutely trash' woman's house, won't leave

• Breakthrough Listen Project Scans 60M Stars, Finds Zero Aliens

• The Grim Secret of Nordic Happiness

Horseshit

• California Recall Candidate Criticized for Campaign Featuring Live Bear

• Politician's Zoom Background Can't Hide Fact That He's Driving

• Scientific Publishing Is a Joke

• Understanding the weird Biden-Carter photo could help you take better selfies

• D.C. ban on wedding dancing gets chilly reception from couples

• Opposition to Net Neutrality Was Faked, New York Says

celebrity gossip

• Trump's New Blog Is a Trap - Galaxy Brain

• Elon Musk Is Maybe, Strangely, Going to Do This Mars Thing

Obit

• David Swensen, Yale Endowment Chief, Dies at 67

Culture War / Re segregation / Identdoctrination

• Hillary Clinton: ‘There has to be a global reckoning with disinformation’

• White students on spring break is ‘colonial violence,’ campus journalist says | The College Fix

• France Battles over Whether to Cancel or Celebrate Napoleon

• Arizona’s Election Audit Is Looking for Bamboo-Laced “China Ballots”

Media / Many Ministries of Truths / Censorship

• The Florida Deplatforming Law Is Unconstitutional

• Everything You’ve Heard About Section 230 Is Wrong

• LiveLeak shuts down after 15 years online | Tech News | Startups News

  • LiveLeak shuts down after 15 years online | Hacker News

• Facebook's Trump decision shows Big Tech is 'way too powerful': Elizabeth Warren

• Josh Hawley and Donald Trump Haven’t Been ‘Silenced’

• The misinformation crisis – why we must look to the tech that created it to reverse it | Powered By Coffee

  The way forward: restoring trust in journalism

  It’s ironic that digital technology, with its power to bring people together and unify the planet, has instead created silos, tribalism and isolationism that’s now endangering the very existence of humanity through misinformation on Covid, climate change and other subjects that fuel hate.

TechSuck

• Twitter: Introducing Tip Jar

• Shapeways announces public offering via SPAC

• Gabe Newell: 'We're Way Closer to the Matrix Than People Realise'

LKML: Kees Cook: Report on University of Minnesota Breach-of-Trust Incident

> UMN worked well within the kernel community for many years,
> submitting numerous bug-fixes that were merged into past kernel
> releases.  Last year (2020), one member of the UMN community chose
> to do a research project that involved submitting patches that
> attempted to intentionally introduce flaws in the kernel.  The
> trust between the kernel community and UMN was broken when this
> project was made public.  The UMN developers went quiet for seven
> months and then started submitting a new handful of poor quality
> patches to the community.  Many assumed that trickery was afoot,
> engendering a reaction that caused a halt to acceptance of UMN
> kernel contributions and forced us to re-review all prior
> submissions.

• This Is the NSA’s 650-Page Guide to the Internet

Economicon

• America’s welfare state is on borrowed time

Poilitcks

• Biden’s Vaccine Patent Theft

• Montana to cancel unemployment benefits to address severe workforce shortage

• Maricopa County Defies Subpoena, Won't Release Hardware For Election Audit Over 'Security Risk'

Security / Militaria / Crime / Police

• US seen as bigger threat to democracy than Russia or China, global poll finds

World

• Belgian parliament halts China Uyghur 'genocide' debate after DDoS

• New Links | Hacker News

Health / Medicine / COVID

• Covid-19: Sputnik vaccine rockets, thanks to Lancet boost

• US Backs Covid Vaccine Patent Waiver Plan Proposed by India, South Africa

• Vaccinated children at U.S. camps can remove masks outdoors, CDC director says

• Waiving the vaccine IP is a huge blunder - The Post

• Lower household transmission rates of SARS-CoV-2 from children versus adults

Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda

• magnetic poles not axis Melting glaciers have accelerated a shift in Earth’s axis

• The Paris Climate Agreement and future sea-level rise from Antarctica

• U.N. Report says methane is far worse for the climate, human health than thought