2021-05-25

Cool

• Insentricity :: A Multi-Format Cross-Platform Floppy for 5.25" Floppy Day ::

• The Hopkinsville Goblins - Marlene’s Newsletter

• Getting Started With Aluminum Extrusions | Hackaday

Worthy

• 31 Laws of Fun - LessWrong

• As Anger Toward Belarus Mounts, Recall The 2013 Forced Landing Of Bolivia's Plane To Find Snowden | ZeroHedge

etc

• Texas to allow unlicensed carrying of handguns

• USA Math Team Olympiad beats China for the first time in 30 years

• The rural happiness paradox in developed countries - ScienceDirect

  The higher subjective well-being among rural residents in developed countries could be termed the rural happiness paradox for two reasons. First, rural-to-urban migration has been a megatrend ever since 1900 (UN, 2006, 2019). Second, rural residents in developing countries consistently report lower subjective well-being than urban residents (Easterlin et al., 2011; Requena, 2016). Only a few studies have examined the possible reasons behind the rural happiness paradox (Sørensen, 2014; Piper, 2015; Morrison and Weckroth, 2018; Okulicz-Kozaryn and Mazelis, 2018). These few studies have examined various socioeconomic, environmental, and psychological factors that might explain the rural happiness paradox, but none of the studies have managed to completely explain the rural happiness paradox by the proposed explanatory factors.

Horseshit

• Why Billionaires Like Bill Gates Can’t Fix the Problems They Helped Create

Culture War / Re segregation / Identdoctrination

• Does correcting online falsehoods make matters worse? | MIT News | Massachusetts Institute of Technology

  Not only is misinformation increasing online, but attempting to correct it politely on Twitter can have negative consequences, leading to even less-accurate tweets and more toxicity from the people being corrected, according to a new study co-authored by a group of MIT scholars

• The Rise of Righteous Online Bullies

• EXCLUSIVE: Leaked State Department Memo Indicates Official Support for BLM Agenda | Human Events

  all U.S. “Diplomatic and Consular posts” are being encouraged to display shows of support for Black Lives Matter on Tuesday, May 25, the one-year anniversary of George Floyd’s death. The memo reads in part, “The Department supports the use of the term ‘Black Lives Matter’ in messaging content, speeches, and other diplomatic engagements with foreign audiences to advance racial equity and access to justice on May 25 and beyond

• ‘I am being investigated by my university for saying women have vaginas’ - spiked

  Lisa Keogh, a law student at Abertay, is currently being investigated by the university authorities for comments she made in seminars. She says her fellow students complained after she said that women are born with female genitalia, and that trans women should not compete in women’s mixed martial arts. For uttering such heresies she could even face expulsion — the university is reportedly deciding her fate later today.

Media / Many Ministries of Truths / Censorship

• Facebook “Vaccine Hesitancy” Score

• The Supply of Disinformation Will Soon Be Infinite

• Florida governor signs bill to ban Big Tech 'deplatforming'

  • Florida Man Signs Blatantly Corrupt And Unconstitutional Social Media Bill, Cementing Florida As Tech Laughing Stock | Techdirt

  The bill has a few different unconstitutional provisions, but the one getting the most attention is that it bans non-theme park associated websites from removing content or accounts from people running for office. There are also the ridiculous transparency clauses that have become stupidly popular of late, and which really serve as a smokescreen to allow users to sue websites for being moderated.

• YouTube approves ad by Belarusian gov with journalist from hijackd Ryanair plane

TechSuck

• Siemens acquires Supplyframe, owners of Hackaday and Tindie

• Google now lets you password-protect the page that shows all your searches

• Consumer Reports Slams Tesla's Full-Self Driving Capability

• Insiders say Oracle Cloud is led with a 'culture of fear' and execs are leaving

• Are children ‘dying like dogs’ in effort to build better batteries?

Economicon

• Fed Drains $351B in Liquidity from Market via Reverse Repos

• That $100M New Jersey deli sold just $5,305 of food in first quarter

• Peloton to invest $400M to build its first U.S. manufacturing facility in Ohio

Poilitcks

• Biden could let federal employees work from home permanently

• Senate Preparing $10B Bailout Fund for Jeff Bezos Space Firm

• Florida governor signs law to block ‘deplatforming’ of Florida politicians

World

• EU bans Belarusian airlines from European skies

• Another Coup Erupts In Mali As Military Arrests President And Other Top Officials

• Shepherd hailed for saving six runners in deadly China ultramarathon

• Russia threatens to slow down Google over 'banned content'

Health / Medicine / COVID

• CDC Will Not Investigate Mild Infections in Vaccinated Americans

• FDA In Brief: FDA Authorizes Longer Time for Refrigerator Storage of Thawed Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 Vaccine Prior to Dilution, Making Vaccine More Widely Available | FDA

  Yahoo: With little fanfare, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration gave Pfizer permission this week to store its COVID-19 vaccine in a typical refrigerator for one month — freeing the vaccine from the need to be shipped in cumbersome boxes stuffed with dry ice.

• COVID-19 Vaccine Breakthrough Infections Reported to CDC

• France blasts 'pathetic' attempts to discredit Pfizer vaccine online

• China vaccine effectiveness “not high”, requires 3rd dose

• Don't Let The Media Get Away With U-Turning On The Lab Leak Theory | ZeroHedge

• What to make of the COVID-19 lab leak theory - The Dossier

  • MIT Study Confirms Anti-Maskers Understand Data Better Than Their Opponents

• COVID-19: Just 15 people test positive among nearly 60,000 who attended trial mass gatherings, figures show | UK News | Sky News

• Poland launches $273,000 lottery to encourage people to get vaccinated

• Why some people can deal with the cold

Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda

• Biodiversity decline will require millions of years to recover

• �a surprise’ as giant river otter feared extinct in Argentina pops up