2021-06-10

> > everything you say can be interpreted in bad faith.
>
> You're only saying that to absolve yourself from understanding
> that people's criticism of whatever stupid or evil thing you're
> into is valid.

Cool

• Was Venus once a good home for life? NASA missions aim to find out | Science | AAAS

• Automatic Chessboard Lets Online Players Move The Pieces

• Dog ejected from car during Sunday crash found on sheep farm, herding sheep

etc

• South African woman gives birth to 10 babies in Pretoria

• A robot to replace the need for farmers to go inside the grain bin

• Blinded by Brighter Headlights? It’s Not Your Imagination

• Sunsetting Secret Santa and Reddit Gifts

• DNA Jumps Between Animal Species. No One Knows How Often. | Quanta Magazine

Horseshit

• Alcor Position Statement on Aldehyde-Stabilized Cryopreservation – Fight Aging!

• NASA doesn’t need to test SLS anymore, but the Senate mandates it anyway | Ars Technica

• Yes, Your Employer Can Require You to Be Vaccinated

• What would you pay for autonomous driving? Volkswagen hopes $8.50 per hour

  • comments insist its a great idea, buying things then renting the ability to use them. It'll be especially good for poor people who can benefit from the "upscale features" at lower cost.

• Jeff Bezos and Other Space Tourists Will Enter Sparse Regulatory Territory

  • OMG! someone might exist for hours in a place where every possible behavior is not constrained by written law!

celebrity gossip

• Jeff Bezos Claimed $4k in Tax Credits for His Children

Culture War / Re segregation / Identdoctrination

• Authors Facing Increasing Pressure To Retroactively Edit Their Work To Appease Critics – JONATHAN TURLEY

• Althouse: "I teach students who recoil from a poem because it was written by a man. I teach students who approach texts in search of the oppressor."

Media / Many Ministries of Truths / Censorship

• Yet Another Media Tale -- Trump Tear-Gassed Protesters For a Church Photo Op -- Collapses - Glenn Greenwald

  Over and over we see the central truth: the corporate outlets that most loudly and shrilly denounce “disinformation” — to the point of demanding online censorship and de-platforming in the name of combating it — are, in fact, the ones who spread disinformation most frequently and destructively. It is hard to count how many times they have spread major fake stories in the Trump years. For that reason, they have nobody but themselves to blame for the utter collapse in trust and faith on the part of the public, which has rightfully concluded they cannot and should not be believed.

TechSuck

• Several Magic Leap Executives Set to Depart in Leadership Shake-Up

• For an extra 0.5% feee per transaction Automate taxes on your Stripe transactions

• The actual work of FOSS, is politics: Fastest String Search Algorithm.

• EA hacked and source code stolen - BBC News

Economicon

• Developer Abandons Keystone XL Pipeline Project, Ending Decade-Long Battle

• Coinbase Teams Up with 401(k) Provider to Offer Crypto – The Wall Street Journal

• Consumer Prices Rose 5% in May

  + [Core Consumer Prices Surge At Fastest Rate Since 1992 |
  ZeroHedge](https://www.zerohedge.com/economics/core-consumer-prices-surge-fastest-rate-1992)
  

  • comment:

    Year-over-year comparisons reflect the abysmal economic conditions during the pandemic. It's like comparing your current net income to one year ago but one year ago you were unemployed and paying off student loans while today you have a job at Google. The comparisons to watch are month-over-month (MoM). The BLS reports MoM CPI increased 0.6%, after a 0.8% MoM increase in April: https://www.bls.gov/news.release/cpi.nr0.htm

    So the rate of CPI change is negative MoM.

Poilitcks

• The case for prosecuting Donald Trump

• Upscale Residents Protest as Biden Converts Scottsdale Hotel into ICE Detention Center – Ricochet

Security / Militaria / Crime / Police

• Here We Go Again: JBS "Paid" "Russian" "Hackers" $11 Million In Bitcoin To Resolve "Ransomware" Attack | ZeroHedge

  Here things get downright surreal: according to the official narrative, the company brought back operations at its plants using those backup systems, but "JBS’s technology experts cautioned the company that there was no guarantee that the hackers wouldn’t find another way to strike, and JBS’s consultants continued negotiating with the attackers." So even though the company had regained control, it decided to... pay the hackers?

  • JBS Foods pays $14.2M ransom to end cyber attack on its global operations

• A Russian fighter jet has intercepted a U.S. spy plane over the Pacific Ocean

World

• China's youth are 'lying flat' in protest of their bleak economic prospects

Health / Medicine / COVID

• Hospital suspends 178 health care workers for failing to get Covid vaccine

• Covid-19 Deaths This Year Have Already Eclipsed 2020’s Toll

• Ivermectin | COVID-19 Treatment Guidelines

• CDC plans “emergency meeting” on rare heart inflammation following Covid vaccine

• FDA approves drug to treat smallpox

Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda

• China Tempers Climate Change Efforts After Economic Officials Limit Scope

• Hoover Dam reservoir hits record low, in sign of extreme western U.S. drought

• Solar assets are underperforming and modules degrading faster than expected