2021-06-12

Cool

• Particle seen switching between matter and antimatter at CERN

Worthy

• Your Book Review: How Children Fail - Astral Codex Ten

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• Federal government will maintain expansive work-from-home policies post-pandemic

• A popular household fern may be the first known eusocial plant | Hacker News

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Horseshit

• New York’s $15 affordable internet bill goes into limbo

• City of Brooksville Florida accidentally sells its water tower

Culture War / Re segregation / Identdoctrination

• Scary anecdata Fewer young men are in the labor force, more are living at home | Hacker News

• What are you legally allowed to say at work? A group of fired Googlers could change the rules. - Vox

• Campus Reform | UPDATE: Second resignation this year at presitigious medical journal after editor questions woke anti-racist narratives

• As religious faith has declined, ideological intensity has risen

TechSuck

• Apple Isn’t Just a Walled Garden, It’s a Carrier

• Nvidia to drop Windows 7 and Windows 8 driver support in October

• AT&T CEO seems confident industry can kill Biden’s municipal broadband plan

Economicon

• El Salvador passes its Bitcoin Law – and it's a Tether scam

  • El Salvador’s Bitcoin plan: take your USD and turn them into worthless tethers

• Wall Street isn’t to blame for the chaotic housing market

Poilitcks

• President Biden and first lady boot BBC crew from pub table

• Pentagon Boss 'Clarifies' Russia & China Pose Biggest Threats After Biden Says It's Climate Change | ZeroHedge

• Apple says it didn't know Trump's DOJ was asking for Democrats' data

• Judge halts loan forgiveness program for farmers of color after lawsuit alleges it discriminates against white farmers

  The program pays up to 120% of direct or guaranteed farm loan balances for Black, American Indian, Hispanic, Asian American or Pacific Islander farmers. President Joe Biden’s administration created the loan forgiveness program as part of its COVID-19 pandemic relief plan.

Security / Militaria / Crime / Police

• Media Converges On The Narrative That UFOs May Be Russian/Chinese Threat | ZeroHedge

• Bitcoin and Encryption: A Race Between Criminals and the FBI

• EXCLUSIVE: Defector Provides Evidence That the Chinese Military Orchestrated the Creation of COVID-19 and Lab Leak – RedState

World

• The politics of Japan’s Taiwan vaccine donation

• Mounting pressure on China about Covid “lab leak” could backfire

Health / Medicine / COVID

• Dr. Joel Perlmutter says FDA decision was so egregious he resigned

• Anti-vaxxers are weaponizing Yelp to punish bars that require vaccine proof

• Vit D deficiency strongly exaggerates the craving for and effects of opioids

• The Drug That Could Break American Health Care

Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda

• Climate scientists: concept of net zero is a dangerous trap