2021-06-07

Cool

• A 1970s disk drive that wouldn't seek: getting our Xerox Alto running again

etc

• Farmers Deserve the Right to Repair Their Tractors

• Montana Med School Clash Revives For-Profit Vs. Nonprofit Flap | Kaiser Health News

• Covid changed the rules – now Americans want some to be the norm

Horseshit

• Elon Musk says Tesla officially canceled the Model S Plaid Plus

• Hawaii-bound kayaker rescued by Coast Guard helicopter near Santa Cruz

celebrity gossip

• Amazon Founder Jeff Bezos to Be on Blue Origin’s First Human Space Flight

  • Jeff Bezos and Brother Mark to Fly into Space on July 20th with Blue Origin

• Congressional rep takes pic of his computer, reveals Gmail password on postit

Obit

• David Dushman, last surviving Auschwitz liberator, dies aged 98

Culture War / Re segregation / Identdoctrination

• No, Critical Race Theory Isn’t a New Civil Rights Movement. (Just the Opposite)

• History Is Cancelled

Media / Many Ministries of Truths / Censorship

• Why graphic novels could be an antidote to 'doom scrolling'

• “The Atlantic” employees unionize

• Twitter Suspends Mike Davis For Defending CNN Comparison To 'Pulp Fiction'

TechSuck

• How Replit used legal threats to kill my open-source project | Intuitive Explanations

• Sorry everybody, I failed with you · Issue #1634 · pedronauck/docz · GitHub

  So, after a time working a lot here and on my business, I was with my healthy compromised and needed to choose between "keep my open source project" or "keep my mental and physical health". And for me the choice was very clear, I choose me. This gave a very bad way to the project that stays without people to maintain it.

• Amazon is about to share your Internet connection with neighbors. Turn it off

• Apple pays out millions to student after repair techs shared her personal images

Economicon

• Why are American workers becoming harder to find?

• How the booming US used car market is driving inflation

• Built to Rent Suburbs Poised to Spread Across America

• Food Inflation Spikes Globally

Poilitcks

• Senate Poised to Pass Huge Industrial Policy Bill to Counter China

• "Do Not Come": Kamala Goes Full Trump, Tells Guatemalans To Stay Away | ZeroHedge

Security / Militaria / Crime / Police

• Justice Dept. Claws Back $2.3M Paid by Colonial Pipeline to Ransomware Gang

• How the Biden Administration Is Confronting a Surge in Cyberattacks

World

• As Dictators Target Citizens Abroad, Few Safe Spaces Remain

• Tennessee Scientist Is First to Go on Trial on Charges He Hid Work in China

Health / Medicine / COVID

• U.S. Report Found It Plausible Covid-19 Leaked from Wuhan Lab

• Two distinct genomic lineages of SARS-CoV-2 suggests a natural origin

• Life Expectancy Could Rise a Lot. Here's What It Means

• Was mask-wearing pointless, after all? Fauci must be forced to answer.

• Antibody-laden nasal spray could provide Covid protection – and treatment

• Few antibiotics under development – How did we end up here? – ReAct

Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda

• Avocado tree wait times smashed thanks to world-first rootstock trial

  • Meristem propagation comes to avacados!

• A 20-Foot Sea Wall? Miami Faces the Hard Choices of Climate Change