2021-05-27

Worthy

• Your Book Review: Addiction By Design - Astral Codex Ten

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• Graffiti Artists Defaced Soviet-Era Buran Space Shuttle At Russian Space Center

• Collusion rings threaten the integrity of computer science research

• Everyone Thinks Americans Are Selfish. They're Wrong.

• Will Births in the US Rebound? Probably Not

Horseshit

• On the impending deletion of Charlie Bit My Finger (Interconnected)

• Is deference to supernatural beings present in infancy?

• LA pays $2600 per homeless tent, per month

• Ohio Woman Wins a Million Dollars for Being Vaccinated

• USPS trucks don’t have air bags or air conditioning. They get 10 mpg

• 'Unbelievable' Video Shows Two Bees Work Together to Unscrew a Soda Bottle

• Your Grandma's Tube TV Is the Hottest Gaming Tech

celebrity gossip

• Stephen Hawking’s office and archive gifted to UK to settle tax bill

• In ‘Languages of Truth,’ Salman Rushdie Defends the Extraordinary

• (PDF) The evolution of extremism in the first 100 days of the Biden Administration

• Influencers Say They Were Urged to Criticize Pfizer Vaccine

• A Culture of Fear at the Firm That Manages Bill Gates's Fortune

Obit

• Samuel E. Wright, the Voice of Sebastian in ‘The Little Mermaid,’ Dies at 72

• Eric Carle, Creator of 'The Hungry Caterpillar,' Has Died

Culture War / Re segregation / Identdoctrination

• 'No-vax tax' increases concert ticket prices fifty-fold for unvaccinated

• Lockdowns Need to Be Intellectually Discredited Once and for All – AIER

• A look behind the “White Men as Full Diversity Partners” re-education program

• For Native Americans, Harvard and other colleges fall short

• Deep-rooted racism, discrimination permeate US military

• Geoff Marcy Removed From National Academy Of Sciences

  Marcy, whose groundbreaking work studying planets outside of our solar system made him a contender for the Nobel Prize, was admitted to the prestigious group in 2002. In 2015, BuzzFeed News reported that an investigation at the University of California, Berkeley, had found Marcy had sexually harassed students in several cases between 2001 and 2010. Marcy had also been accused of sexual harassment by students at his former employer, San Francisco State University. Several of those students cited Marcy's harassment as part of the reason why they left science altogether.

  • US science academy expels astronomer Geoff Marcy following harassment complaints

Media / Many Ministries of Truths / Censorship

• Facebook Stops Removing Posts Claiming COVID-19 Man-Made After Lab-Leak Hypothesis Finally Goes Mainstream

  • Facebook will no longer remove claims that Covid-19 was man-made

  • Facebook Ends Ban on Posts Asserting Covid-19 Was Man-Made

  • Facebook no longer treating 'man-made' Covid as a crackpot idea

• Facebook is going after misinformation superspreaders

• Instagram lets users hide likes to reduce social media pressure

TechSuck

• Microsoft president: Orwell’s 1984 could happen in 2024

• Facebook refuses to appear before South Africa's parliament

• No-code/low-code: Why you should be paying attention | VentureBeat

• Amazon’s ad revenue is now twice as big as Snap, Twitter, Roku and Pinterest

• ITrapped: All the things Apple won’t let you do with your iPhone

Economicon

• Nebraska passes bill to allow banks to hold cryptocurrencies

• Eric Jang: Sovereign Arcade: Currency as High-Margin Infrastructure

• Cars Are About to Get a Lot More Expensive

World

• Russia reports 'unprecedented' hacking campaign aimed at government agencies

• ‘Bomb Threat' That Justified Belarus Hijacking Came 24 Minutes After Hijacking

• Israel's operation against Hamas was the first AI war

Health / Medicine / COVID

• Had Covid? You’ll probably make antibodies for a lifetime

• Johns Hopkins Prof: Half Of Americans Have Natural Immunity; Dismissing It Is "Biggest Failure Of Medical Leadership"

• Immediate skin-to-skin contact with unstable newborns improves survival chances

• Resistance to Vaccine Mandates Is Building. A Powerful Network Is Helping

• Single-Cell Study Offers New Clue into Causes of Cystic Fibrosis – NIH Director's Blog

Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda

• Major climate study: World at risk of hitting temperature limit soon

• Satellites may have been underestimating the planet's warming for decades

• Dead Forests Release Less Carbon into Atmosphere Than Expected

• Climate Change Activists Notch Victory in Exxon Mobil Board Elections

• World Now Likely to Hit Watershed 1.5 °C Rise in Next 5 Years