2021-06-08

Cool

• Underwater avalanche continued for two days - BBC News

• PGP Marks 30th Anniversary

• Happy 42nd Anniversary to the Original Intel 8086 and the x86 Architecture - ExtremeTech

• Crop Yields - Our World in Data

Worthy

• The Quickest Antenna Design of the Year

  I started with the 2.6" recommendation from online calculators which showed the frequency was a tad bit too high. Two more iterations showed that 3" was the ideal length to extend from the coaxial connector. I pulled the bare center conductor from a piece of RG6 that was sitting on my bench, inserted it into the RTL-SDR, measured my 3" and cut.

• Don't let Social Media Think for You

• The Aducanumab Approval | In the Pipeline

  As the world knows, the FDA approved Biogen’s anti-amyloid antibody today, surely the first marketed drug whose Phase III trial was stopped for futility. I think this is one of the worst FDA decisions I have ever seen, because – like the advisory committee that reviewed the application, and like the FDA’s own statisticians – I don’t believe that Biogen really demonstrated efficacy. No problem apparently.

• A Project of One's Own

  A few days ago, on the way home from school, my nine year old son told me he couldn't wait to get home to write more of the story he was working on. This made me as happy as anything I've heard him say — not just because he was excited about his story, but because he'd discovered this way of working. Working on a project of your own is as different from ordinary work as skating is from walking. It's more fun, but also much more productive.

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• Simulation Reveals How Magnetism Helps Form Planets | Quanta Magazine

• Animal survived 24,000 years frozen in the Siberian permafrost

• Sustainable Leadership: Sabbath Sundays and Slow Mondays

• Do Psychedelics Just Provide Comforting Delusions?

• Ford unveils Maverick, a compact hybrid pickup truck for under $20k

  • Ford builds an affordable, efficient small truck: The new Maverick | Ars Technica

Horseshit

• Microsoft Excel Esports Tournament Is Real and Happening

• Horse males became over-represented in archaeological assemblages during the Bronze Age - ScienceDirect

• Nobody Understands the Internet Until It Breaks

• there's a bright side? The darker side of hustle culture

• Your Tax Return Is Confidential Until It Isn’t

celebrity gossip

• Virgin Galactic’s Richard Branson Aims to Fly to Space Before Jeff Bezos

Culture War / Re segregation / Identdoctrination

• Response To Fauci's Emails Proves Everything Is Fake, Narrative Management Trumps Reality, And Those In Power Want It That Way | ZeroHedge

• What Really Happened When Google Ousted Timnit Gebru

• For Black kidney patients, an algorithm may perpetuate racial disparities

• How California Homelessness Became a Crisis | Hacker News

  "It is my opinion that we need to go back to locking people up and forcing them into treatment for their own good. It is inhumane to leave helpless people out on the street because of some abstract concept of personal rights."

  • How California Homelessness Became a Crisis

• Reason Seen More as Weapon Than Path to Truth

Media / Many Ministries of Truths / Censorship

• What Happened When Trump Was Banned on Social Media

TechSuck

• U.S. House Email System Vendor Hit with Ransomware Attack

• Fastly Outage

  • Internet outage illustrates lack of resilience at heart of critical services

  • Websites begin to work again after major Fastly outage

• If this title doesn't scare one off, nothing will: How to Learn Nix, Part 39: How to Install Python

• Rich and insane: Thats is how you make IRC go to a whole new level | Hacker News

• Continued from yesterday's drama: How did Replit respond to this blog post?

• MoviePass changed some users' passwords so they couldn't use the service

• Hard work and poor pay stresses out open-source maintainers

Economicon

• Trove of Never-Before-Seen Records Reveal How the Wealthiest Avoid Income Tax

• Poor Homeowners Will Pay Less After Flood Insurance Overhaul

• SEC.gov | SEC Announces Removal of William D. Duhnke III from the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board; Duane M. DesParte to Serve as Acting Chair

Poilitcks

• Senate passes sweeping China competition bill in rare bipartisan vote

• Google Should Be Treated as Utility, Ohio Argues in New Lawsuit

• Supreme Court Asked To Halt CDC Eviction Moratorium | ZeroHedge

• Biden sets up "supply chain trade strike force" to combat unfair trade

• Response To Fauci's Emails Proves Everything Is Fake, Narrative Management Trumps Reality, And Those In Power Want It That Way | ZeroHedge

• Why a Judge Has Georgia Vote Fraud on His Mind: ‘Pristine’ Biden Ballots That Looked Xeroxed | RealClearInvestigations

• Senators ask Marshals Service for info on past Supreme Court justices' travel

Security / Militaria / Crime / Police

• Games with serious impacts: The next generation of serious games

• Encrypted Chat An0m was a FBI honeypot Used to take down global criminal network

  • The underworld thought its phones were safe. They fell for an encrypted app trap

  • Hakan Ayik: The man who accidentally helped FBI get in criminals' pockets - BBC News

  • and dozens of other stories. Very big push.

• Bowser's DC Police, Not Trump, Sprayed Tear Gas At Rioters Near White House Last June

• The Colonial Pipeline Hack, The 'Russians', & The FBI's Ransom-Grab - What Really Happened? | ZeroHedge

World

• US asks Taiwan to fill void as Confucius Institutes close - Nikkei Asia

• Russia to U.S. -Lift sanctions on space sector or we'll exit space station

• Russia Puts the Squeeze on Social Media to Police Its Critics

• Former diplomat Craig Murray seeking UK Supreme Court appeal over jail sentence

• France President Emmanuel Macron slapped in the face

  The man reportedly shouted "Down with Macron-ism" as he slapped the president, as well as "Montjoie, Saint-Denis" - the battle-cry of the old Kingdom of France, in reference to the banner of King Charlemagne.

Health / Medicine / COVID

• Millions of J&J Covid-19 Vaccines Are at Risk of Expiring in June

• ‘Spermageddon’ Has Been Canceled, Says New Study

• A Breakthrough in the Physics of Blood Clotting

• Linux Foundation Readies Global Covid Vaccine Certificate Network

• Lock it down, now - Taipology

  Remember that thing last year where people in the US went home for Thanksgiving despite being told not to and predictably caused a huge spike in dead grandmas? Well we are on track for a replay of that in Taiwan if things don’t turn around very soon.

• Fake Covid Vaccine Cards Are Being Sold Online. Using One Is a Crime

• COVID Origins Report From Lawrence Livermore "Z Division" Concluded In May 2020 Lab Leak 'Plausible' | ZeroHedge

• I'm a Pediatrician. Get Your Child Vaccinated

Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda

• Banks tested on climate crisis risks

• Carbon dioxide peaks near 420 parts per million at Mauna Loa observatory

• What the Ottoman Empire can teach us about the consequences of climate change

• Fossil fuels are definitively the new tobacco

• Why Lab-Grown Meat the Most Impactful Step to Reverse Climate Change

• ‘Climate Gentrification’ and the Rising Prices of Higher Ground

• Synthetic Messenger: A botnet scheme for climate news

  Synthetic Messenger is a botnet that artificially inflates the value of climate news. Everyday it searches the internet for news articles covering climate change. Then 100 bots visit each article and click on every ad they can find.

  This project has been supported by the Goethe-Institut's New Nature Program (2020) and by the 2021 STRP Festival.