2021-05-28

Cool

• Mars Helicopter Lands Safely After Serious In-Flight Anomaly

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• Architects believe communal living is the way of the future

• Americans are on the move, but their stuff doesn’t always follow

• Wrigley and others are suing over look-alike THC treats

Horseshit

• US Soldiers Expose Nuclear Weapons Secrets via Flashcard Apps

• Step aside burnout, it's toxic productivity's time to shine

Culture War / Re segregation / Identdoctrination

• Reflections on Black in Computing – April 2021 – Communications of the ACM

• Mendocino cafe owner says he’ll add an extra $5 fee for mask-wearing patrons

• Effort to stem online extremism accidentally pushed people toward an anarchist

Media / Many Ministries of Truths / Censorship

• How the media covers its tracks when proven wrong

• The Covid-19 Lab Leak Theory Is a Tale of Weaponized Uncertainty

TechSuck

• Twitter lists new 'Blue' subscription service

• Vizio makes nearly as much money from ads and data as it does from TVs

• Despite Low-Power Cores, Intel's Alder Lake Mobile Could Push Up to 115W TDP

• Have I Been Pwned Teams Up with the FBI on Password Leaks

• Over 10k women are suing Google over gender pay disparity

Economicon

• Judge Clears Purdue Pharma Restructuring Plan for Vote by Thousands of Claimants

• Costco is seeing inflation abound, impacting a slew of consumer products

• US inflation accelerates – Biggest year-on-year rise since the 1990s

Poilitcks

• Biden says every single hospital bed in America will be filled with Alzheimer's patients in 15 years | Not the Bee

• Biden Unveils $6T Spending Plan

• Taibbi: So Much For "Transformational" Joe Biden | ZeroHedge

Security / Militaria / Crime / Police

• Chicago PD automated policing program got this man shot twice

• Russian SolarWinds hackers launch email attack on government agencies

• Newly released radar footage shows UFOs swarming Navy ship, filmmaker claims

  • Just released Navy UFO radar data and footage from 2019

World

• British Cops Thought They Were Raiding a Weed Farm, but Found Bitcoin Instead

Health / Medicine / COVID

• Number of smokers has reached all-time high of 1.1B, study finds

• Scientists at Wuhan lab in Covid probe admitted being bitten by bats

• The Economist: 'Assessing the theory that Covid-19 leaked from a Chinese lab'

• "I Don't Know of a Bigger Story in the World" Right Now Than Ivermectin: NY Times Best-Selling Author | naked capitalism So why are journalists not covering it?

• WHO says Covid origin investigation is being ‘poisoned by politics’

• Panel loosens rule on how long human embryos can be grown in lab

• Overwork killed more than 745k people in a year, WHO study finds

Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda

• First Tasmanian Devils born in the wild of Australia mainland in 3k years

• Exxon Shareholder Green Revolution has started

• The Week That Shook Big Oil

• (Australia) Court rules climate change “duty of care” to future generations exists