2021-05-09

Cool

• Chinese rocket fell into the Indian ocean north of the Maldives

  • Chinese rocket debris crashes back to Earth, plunging into Indian Ocean

• A student project is digitizing the Indian subcontinent’s community cookbooks

Worthy

• (2019) Solving the Regex of Madness - and a few thought about snarky answers on StackOverflow

etc

• Archivists Are Trying to Make Sure a ‘Pirate Bay of Science’ Never Goes Down

• The Hume paradox: how great philosophy leads to dismal politics

Horseshit

• Should the Right to Die Extend to People with Mental Illness?

Obit

• SlimVirgin, developer of core content policies for Wikipedia, has died

Culture War / Re segregation / Identdoctrination

• Kamala Harris’ Refusal of the One-Drop Rule - SAPIENS

  While many in the South Asian community, both in the U.S. and in India, excitedly claimed Harris as an Indian American success story, some news outlets downplayed or ignored her Asian heritage. Throughout her political career, she has repeatedly been portrayed in the media as Black, first and foremost.

  Why does her mixed identity matter to some people? It matters in a country such as the United States, which has based so much of its history implicitly and explicitly on racial identity—and especially on the separation of White identities from non-White identities.

• Video Shows BLM Protesters Trapping Motorists and Brandishing Guns, What Police Do Has People Talking – RedState

Media / Many Ministries of Truths / Censorship

• 'Sesame Street': From Radical Experiment to Beloved TV Mainstay

TechSuck

• Tesla increased the price of a Solar Roof project by more than $30k

Economicon

• Higher Prices Leave Consumers Feeling the Pinch

• What Happens to Stocks and Cryptocurrencies When the Fed Stops Raining Money?

• Dogecoin is crashing while Elon Musk is on Saturday Night Live

  + [Dogecoin Falls Amid Musk’s ‘Saturday Night Live’
  Appearance](https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-05-08/dogecoin-falls-ahead-of-musk-s-saturday-night-live-appearance)
  

  • Dogecoin tumbles after Elon Musk jokes about it on 'SNL'

• Ethereum Soars To Record High Above $3,800 As JPMorgan Lays Out 6 Reasons Why Explosive Move Will Continue

• Chip shortage is starting to have major real-world consequences

Security / Militaria / Crime / Police

• Three Shot In Times Square Including Four-Year-Old Girl

• NATO Allies "Take Over" Black Sea For Military Exercises

World

• ‘Are you sleeping well?’China researchers alarmed by efforts to stifle criticism

Health / Medicine / COVID

• Higher mushroom consumption is associated with a lower risk of cancer

• Lancet: Experts criticise India's complacency over Covid-19

• ICU admission linked to increased risk of future suicide and self-harm

Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda

• No evidence for widespread island extinctions after Pleistocene hominin arrival

• Walmart selling beef from firm linked to Amazon deforestation

• England is on for its Coldest May since Record-Keeping Began back in 1659