2021-06-24

Worthy

• Effective immediately: You need a drone license before you fly in the US

• The Chump Effect | City Journal

etc

• Literally pancaked': Condo building partially collapses near Miami

  • 51 People Unaccounted For In Massive Miami Condo Building Collapse ​​​​​​​

• Is education no longer the ‘great equalizer’?

  • Is education no longer the ‘great equalizer’? | Hacker News

• NASA Can't Figure Out What's Causing Computer Issues on the Hubble Telescope

• Half of UK university students think degree is poor value for money

Horseshit

• Language use across centuries reveals sexual orientation

• One in twenty workers are in bullshit jobs – far fewer than previously thought

• DeJoy USPS slowdown plan will delay the mail. What’s it mean for your Zip code?

celebrity gossip

• How Billionaire Rebekah Neumann Put the Woo-Woo in WeWork

• Giuliani Suspended From Practicing Law In New York

• Peter Thiel turned a Roth IRA into a $5B tax-free piggy bank

Culture War / Re segregation / Identdoctrination

• After Repeatedly Promising Not To, Facebook Keeps Recommending Political Groups

Media / Many Ministries of Truths / Censorship

• US ranks last among 46 countries in trust in media

• MSNBC Admits Maddow Not a Real Source of Information

TechSuck

• Introducing Windows 11

  • Microsoft is bringing Android apps to Windows 11

• Amazon Prime Day Is Dystopian

• Bye, Freenode – Phanes' Canon

  A couple of months ago, Freenode was the world’s FOSS IRC hub. Today its identity is heading towards a more general purpose network. While the new identity is one rooted in freedom of expression, if you’ll recall when I first joined the effort it was to empower the targets of serial defamation and to eventually disempower and remove the people and structures in FOSS communities that participate in it, enable it, cover it up, and propagate it, often in serial fashion. That included some of the ex-staff at Freenode prior to things blowing up earlier in the year, as well as some of the current staff at OFTC.

  This is regrettable to me, as, in response to things completely beyond my control, I have observed that the majority of the FOSS community has relocated to either OFTC or Libera; effectively unifying and emboldening the network of abusers I sought to remove, who are continuing even today to engage in vicious targeting of the staff at Freenode (as well as other people who they choose to target) in a cyclical arrangement, and with a convenient cover narrative about what happened. Instead of the real reason, which is that their repeated behaviour over years caught up to them and dislocated the majority of the open source world as a result, they now can cite events that they themselves antagonized and orchestrated in some cases, which just adds further insult to injury.

• Complaints against mobile payment apps surge 300% as consumers get scammed

Economicon

• Cutting off unemployment benefits early is not pushing people to find work

• U.S. Home Prices Push to Record High, Slowing Pace of Purchases

• Americans are quitting their jobs in droves

• Hedge Fund That Shorted GameStop Shuts Down

• Some used vehicles now cost more than original new-car sticker price

Poilitcks

• Congress demands investigation into 2019 Wuhan Military Games where athletes 'showed COVID symptoms' | Daily Mail Online

• Biden's Widely Mocked 'F-15s And Nukes' Speech Is Latest In String Of Gun Control Blunders

• White House Says Republicans, Not Democrats, Tried To Defund Police

• YouTube removed 3.9M dislikes for White House

Security / Militaria / Crime / Police

• Hellfires Wanted: It’s Time to Start Tasking Armed Drones as Combat Aircraft

• Juror Criticizes DOJ for Charging Scientist with Hiding Ties to China

  “I walked in assuming the government had some reason to be there, assuming that they were coming at it with honesty and integrity,” she told The Intercept in the first interview given by a juror in the case, United States v. Anming Hu. “I assumed the best for them.”

• Police Have Been Quitting in Droves in the Last Year

• FBI tears innocent New Yorker’s life into shreds after Jan. 6

  Yes, he attended then-President Donald Trump’s rally in Washington, DC, on Jan. 6, but he never entered the Capitol. He was in a friend’s room at the JW Marriott a 30-minute walk away when the Capitol breach occurred.

  Nonetheless, he was raided in February by the FBI anti-terrorism task force, handcuffed, paraded and detained for three hours while his apartment was ransacked and all his devices confiscated. Four months later, he hasn’t been charged and doesn’t have his devices back, but his neighbors are shunning him, and he’s had two strokes from the stress.

Health / Medicine / COVID

• Claim that Chinese team hid early SARS-CoV-2 sequences to stymie origin hunt sparks furor | Science | AAAS

• WHO estimates Covid-19 boosters needed yearly for most vulnerable

• Sydney enters ‘scariest’ phase of pandemic as delta variant spreads, leader says

• FDA to add warning about rare heart inflammation to Covid vaccine fact sheets

• China disease expert says Covid-19 origins probe should shift to U.S.

• Musical Chairs? Swapping Seats Could Reduce Orchestra Aerosols

• Colleges want students to get a vaccine. But they’re split on requiring shots

• Stress Does Turn Hair Gray, and It’s Reversible

Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda

• Climate change anxiety: Young people 'feel hopeless'

• Climate watchdog says Britain lacks a strategy to meet its goals

• ‘Vegan spider silk’ provides sustainable alternative to single-use plastics

• NASA Helps Map Impact of COVID-19 Lockdowns on Harmful Air Pollution