2021-06-15

Cool

• Boundary of heliosphere mapped for the first time

Worthy

• Survey shows people no longer believe working hard will lead to a better life | Hacker News

  • comment:

    Also, total sample size is 500. Globally.

  • and:

    I mentor college students as part of a structured mentoring program. Some of the young people who come through the group have wildly pessimistic views on the world, especially as it pertains to jobs and capitalism.

    Part of our job is to defuse some of the more self-defeating views, but it’s increasingly difficult to compete against the non-stop onslaught of pessimism that comes from their subreddits and Twitter follows. When someone has been conditioned for hours each day to believe that capitalism is evil, that no one should have to work, that UBI is as simple as taxing Jeff Bezos a little more, and that jobs are “wage slavery”, it’s hard to compete with healthy mentorship advice.

    Some of these online communities are downright toxic. Some of my most difficult mentees subscribed to “NEET” (Not in Education, Employment, or Training) communities on Reddit that felt like the notorious incel communities we’ve all heard about, but with the vitriol directed at jobs and bosses.

    There are even explicit anti-work movements, like /r/antiwork on Reddit, that have a stated goal of ending work. No alternative is proposed and no one explains how society would function if no one works, but instead they complain about having to work at all. Someone consuming this material on their phone before, during, and after work every single day is obviously going to become bitter and miserable.

• MeWork | No Mercy / No Malice

etc

• Most hospitals aren't complying with price transparency rule

• Airbnb says it plans to prevent landlords from profiting off pandemic evictions

• Southwest Airlines grounds its entire fleet amid giant computer outage

• The Elemental Strangeness of Foxes: In pursuit of London’s wildlife by Zito Madu

Horseshit

• NERC Warns Energy Shortfalls Almost Inevitable This Summer

• 'Unplanned' outages hit Texas power plants in soaring temperatures

• Universities have formed a company that looks a lot like a patent troll

• Fed-Up Young Workers Fear They Need Offices to Save Their Careers

celebrity gossip

• Jon Stewart Hijacks Colbert Show With Lab-Leak Rant, Liberal Twitter Explodes | ZeroHedge

Obit

• Cosmonaut Vladimir Shatalov, who led three Soyuz missions, dies at 93

Culture War / Re segregation / Identdoctrination

• North Korean defector says 'even North Korea was not this nuts' after attending Ivy League school | Fox News

• Survey shows people no longer believe working hard will lead to a better life

• Why People Fall for Conspiracy Theories

• Amazon’s Black employees say the company’s HR department is failing them

• Handwriting nears end of line as US schools stop teaching it

• A Composer Condemned Arson. Now No One Will Hire Him. – Reason.com

• Why Jordan Peterson Is Always Wrong

TechSuck

• Windows 10 to be retired in 2025, as new OS unveils

• Voiceitt extends the voice revolution to people with nonstandard speech

• Failure in Tech Journalism: Getting the Truth about Antivirus Software | Ray Woodcock's Latest

• Freenode has imploded – unannounced full services reset, database wipe | Hacker News

  • We are moving past legacy Freenode to a new fork | Hacker News

  they are in the (slow) process of shutting down servers one at a time and bringing them up running InspIRCd with new Anope services, with none of the old channel or nick registrations.

  they no longer have staff that understands the IRCd that they're currently running (because they quit and started Libera) and they no longer are in the good graces of any of the other folks who could help them:

Economicon

• Average Age of Cars and Trucks on the Road Jumps to Record

• California offers $100M to rescue its struggling legal marijuana industry

• Rents for single-family homes just saw the largest gains in nearly 15 years

Poilitcks

• Senate confirms Lina Khan, critic of tech companies’ business practices, to FTC

Security / Militaria / Crime / Police

• Biden Administration Asks Americans to Report Radicalized Friends and Family

• Federal agents admit to falsely accusing Chinese professor of being a spy

  • full of "the newspaper said" of yesterday's: + Federal agents falsely accused Univ. of Tennessee professor of spying for China

• Putin Asks Reporter If US 'Assassinated' Ashli Babbitt by Leah Barkoukis

World

• EU court backs national data watchdog powers in blow to Facebook, big tech

• Former Chief Prosecutor Carla Del Ponte: "I Keep Telling Myself that Justice Will Prevail" - DER SPIEGEL

  Yes, that’s what we thought – fantastic. The Yugoslavia Tribunal was a success, Rwanda was as well, even though some suspects were still at large. And then came the permanent criminal court, and we thought: We have finally made it. There is an international jurisdiction, and it will have a preventative effect. But within just a few years, it started going downhill.

Health / Medicine / COVID

• The Lab Leak Theory Doesn’t Hold Up

• Researchers report progress on antibody nasal spray to treat Covid-19

• The Health Benefits of Coffee

• A Top Virologist in China, at Center of a Pandemic Storm, Speaks Out

• Five States Had Covid-19 Infections Well Before First Cases Confirmed archive link

  People in five U.S. states were infected with the Covid-19 virus well before their state’s first confirmed case, including some in December 2019

  Dr. Althoff said it wasn’t known whether any of the nine had traveled to an area where Covid-19 was circulating. The participants will be offered a chance to receive their results, the authors said.

  • NIH study offers new evidence of early SARS-CoV-2 infections in U.S.

• The Number of Small Businesses Destroyed by COVID Lockdowns Will ASTOUND You – PJ Media

• Many Post-Covid Patients Are Experiencing New Medical Problems, Study Finds

• Persistent Covid-19 symptoms are highly prevalent 6 months after hospitalization

• Scientist Opens Up About His Early Email to Fauci on Virus Origins

• COVID-19 Natural Immunity vs Vaccine Immunity

• The mechanisms of action of Ivermectin against SARS-CoV-2 | Hacker News

Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda

• Volunteer observers can help protect biodiversity

• Australia's epic mice invasion prompts farmers to burn crops