2021-05-15

Cool

• China lands rover on Mars

• Digital Nose Stimulation Enables Smelling in Stereo

• Rocket Lab Electron apparently failed to reach orbit

Horseshit

• Ford announces infotainment screens to show ads from local billboards

Culture War / Re segregation / Identdoctrination

• We’re being hunted, say Edinburgh University lecturers | Scotland | The Times

  One academic wrote: “I don’t know if senior management have any idea of the scale of censorship feminists are subject to on a daily basis at this university. It is suffocating. There are vague statements about supporting academic freedom, but nothing is done to prevent the bullying of women.”

TechSuck

• eBay sex ban June 15

• Apple said Roblox developers don’t make games, and now Roblox agrees

• Tech audit of Colonial Pipeline found ‘glaring’ problems

Economicon

• TSMC looks to double down on U.S. chip factories as talks in Europe falter

Poilitcks

• We Found Joe Biden’s Venmo

World

• Costa Rica uses vague places, distances and compass directions as addresses

• Israel’s Iron Dome keeps toll of rockets in check

• A fake Gaza invasion to lure fighters into tunnels

• Israeli airstrike in Gaza destroys building with AP bureau

Health / Medicine / COVID

• This is a lot farther than yesterday's study suggested: Anal oxygen administration may save lives

• Was cancer less likely in a pre-industrial world?

• You don’t need to panic about coronavirus variants

Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda

• Few realistic scenarios left to limit global warming to 1.5°C

• What 2050 could look like if we don’t do anything about climate change