2021-06-18

Cool

• Blowing A 5000 A Fuse Takes Some Doing | Hackaday

• The Darvaza Crater: The USSR's top-secret desert mystery - BBC Travel

• Tanning an Animal Skin

Worthy

• Questions About the FBI's Role In 1/6 Are Mocked Because The FBI Shapes Liberal Corporate Media | ZeroHedge

  But all the mockery in the world does not make these questions disappear. Of course the FBI was infiltrating the groups they claim were behind these attacks. There may be good reasons why that did not enable the FBI to stop this riot or why they have not yet indicted these ringleaders. But those answers are not yet known. And gullible conspiracists are not the ones who want answers to these questions but, instead, are the ones doing everything possible to protect the FBI from having to provide them.

• Why Has “Ivermectin” Become a Dirty Word?

• Adafruit interviews Siemens – SupplyFrame, the future of Hackaday, Tindie, and more « Adafruit Industries – Makers, hackers, artists, designers and engineers!

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• We Write, Therefore We Are Cyborgs

• The Mystery of Betelgeuse's Dimming Has Finally Been Solved | WIRED

• Human Evolution Led to an Extreme Thirst for Water - Scientific American

• Oregon Has Legalized Human Composting

Horseshit

• Texas Power Companies Remotely Raise Temps Amid Energy Shortage

  • Some Texans shocked to find their smart thermostats were raised remotely

• America Almost Made a New Route 66 with 22 Nuclear Bombs

• Shark Attacks in Maine Were Unthinkable – Until Last Summer

Obit

• Janet Malcolm has died

Culture War / Re segregation / Identdoctrination

• NYPost – What CRT is really about

• IRS Denies Tax Exemption to Texas Religious Group Because Prayer, Bible Reading Boost the Republican Party.

• Campus Reform | U of Ottawa professor: ‘Sex work’ is ‘the best thing young people can do early in their careers’

Media / Many Ministries of Truths / Censorship

• Can Disinformation Be Stopped?

• Facebook, YouTube Erred in Censoring Covid-19 ‘Misinformation’

• How TV dramas informed and misinformed perceptions of the war on drugs

• Rebekah Jones Tried to Ruin Florida Academic's Career | National Review

• Bot Clicking Ads on Climate Articles Shows the News Is Broken

TechSuck

• “Thermal Shutdown” – Heat Wave Knocks Beta Starlink Users Offline | Hacker News

• Licenses Alone Do Not Govern Behavior in Open Source – Michael Weinberg

• Most DDoS attacks originate from fewer than 50 hosting companies

• PornHub parent company MindGeek faces US lawsuit over exploitation allegations

• Buyers of Amazon Devices Are Guinea Pigs. That’s a Problem

• Roku’s unique culture is being tested by a surge of new employees

Economicon

• New Harvard Data (Accidentally) Reveal How Lockdowns Crushed the Working Class While Leaving Elites Unscathed - Foundation for Economic Education

Security / Militaria / Crime / Police

• BREAKING: Chinese Defector's Identity Confirmed, Was Top Counterintelligence Official – RedState

World

• HK's Apple Daily raided by 500 officers over national security law

• Ukraine arrests ransomware gang in global cybercriminal crackdown

Health / Medicine / COVID

• Some vaccine experts having second thoughts about rushing to inoculate kids

• New Indian Covid variant is going crazy around the world

• AstraZeneca ordered to deliver millions of Covid-19 vaccine to EU by September

• In hunt for Covid’s origin, new studies point away from lab leak theory

• mRNA vaccine yields full protection against malaria in mice

Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda

• How the U.S. Made Progress on Climate Change Without Ever Passing a Bill

• Public urged to stop feeding birds as scientists hunt cause of bird ailment

• A Modest Proposal: Let's Change Earth's Orbit - Scientific American

• Colorado’s ‘rebel’ farmers – ‘I’d like to see industrial farming go extinct’