2021-05-07

Cool

• Watch out, New York? Russian space agency posts map of where Chinese rocket booster might crash — RT World News

• Cryptographic shuffle | Brain on Fire

• Mushrooms on Mars: Do These Images Show Proof of Life on Mars?

etc

• Peloton to Recall All Treadmills

• Nixing the Fix: An FTC Report to Congress on Repair Restrictions

  • FTC finds 'scant' reason for repair limits in right-to-repair report

• COVID-19 Rewired Our Brains: Time for a Mass Deprogramming | National Review

Horseshit

• From the Dept. of "No Shit" Broadband companies funded 'fake' net neutrality comments, investigation finds

• How GPS Weakens Memory—and What We Can Do about It

• Why a Shortage Has Made Computer Chips the New Toilet Paper

celebrity gossip

• 28yo earns $378,000 a year on Fiverr–and just bought a car for $50k in cash

• FBI Unearths Kurt Cobain File

• Tiger King' star Carole Baskin launches cat-themed crypto coin

Culture War / Re segregation / Identdoctrination

• Vancouver Is the Anti-Asian Hate Crime Capital of North America

Media / Many Ministries of Truths / Censorship

• What we got wrong: the Guardian’s worst errors of judgment over 200 years | The Guardian | The Guardian

• Russian Spy Team Left Traces That Bolstered CIA’s Bounty Judgment

• That Was Quick: Twitter Bans Trump's New Account – PJ Media

• Google goes nuclear against Roku by adding YouTube TV to the main YouTube app

TechSuck

• A simpler and safer future — without passwords

  Today we ask people who have enrolled in two-step verification (2SV) to confirm it’s really them with a simple tap via a Google prompt on their phone whenever they sign in. Soon we’ll start automatically enrolling users in 2SV if their accounts are appropriately configured. (You can check the status of your account in our Security Checkup). Using their mobile device to sign in gives people a safer and more secure authentication experience than passwords alone.

• How do I get authorized to publish on my Page? | Facebook Help Center

  In an effort to increase accountability of Pages, Facebook is requiring people who manage high potential reach Pages to get authorized to publish as their Page. You'll know if you need to get authorized if you receive a notification from Facebook.

  If you receive a notification from Facebook, you must get authorized by the deadline posted in the notification to continue to be able to publish posts as your Page. If you don't complete the authorizations process before the deadline, your Page's default setting for “Posting as” and “Liking and commenting as” will change from your Page to your personal profile.

• Twitter's “Tip Jar” reveals the recipient's email even when you don't send money

• Amazon Drivers Are Instructed to Drive Recklessly to Meet Delivery Quotas

• Commercial outfit "adopted" OSS project the other day; now: Basic Telemetry for Audacity | Hacker News

• Over a Billion Android Devices Are at Risk of Data Theft

• French cyber insurance provider to stop covering ransomware

• Last remnant of Solaris Illumos to drop SPARC Support

Economicon

• Amazon Drivers Are Instructed to Drive Recklessly to Meet Delivery Quotas

• U.S. adds just 266,000 jobs in April, far below expectations

Security / Militaria / Crime / Police

• Why sending criminals to prison be good for their kids

• 41 Months in Prison for Arson of Minneapolis Police Station, Theft.

• White House Says "We Support" Ukraine's Ambitions To Join NATO | ZeroHedge

• Honeywell exported technical drawings of B1 Bombers, F-35 and F22 to China

World

• Beijing faces rare May sandstorm with high wind gusts

• As U.S. Hardens Line on Beijing, Taiwan's Stock Rises in Washington

Health / Medicine / COVID

• Health Advocate or Big Brother? Companies Weigh Requiring Vaccines

• New Evidence Links Gut Bacteria and Neurodegenerative Conditions

• 9k fliers may have had reused swabs jammed up their noses in Indonesia

• True U.S. Death Toll from Covid Is More Than 900k, Study Finds

• EU reviews reports of rare nerve disorder after AstraZeneca's Covid-19 shot

Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda

• What does chipageddon have to do with climate change?

• Mexico City Is Sinking at an Alarming and Largely Unstoppable Rate

• Global rich must cut their carbon footprint 97% to stave off climate change

• New Guide for German Agrivoltaics- 4% of Arable Land Can Meet Electricity Demand