2021-06-30

Cool

• Astronomers Thrill at Giant Comet Flying into Our Solar System - Scientific American

Worthy

• "A Half-In, Half-Out Regime": Justice Thomas Slams Continued Criminalization Of Marijuana In Little Noticed Opinion | ZeroHedge

etc

• How Champlain Towers South fell and what it reveals about possible causes

Horseshit

• ”Note that I wouldn’t pass the listed minimum requirements” | Hacker News

celebrity gossip

• Bill Cosby to Be Freed as Court Overturns His Sex Assault Conviction

• Tim Berners-Lee sells web source code NFT for $5.4m

Obit

• Donald Rumsfeld, Defense Secretary Under 2 Presidents, Is Dead at 88

Culture War / Re segregation / Identdoctrination

• Man Crowned Miss Nevada USA, First In Pageant History

• Amazon's Woke Smokescreen - Common Sense with Bari Weiss

• Not neutral: Black and White readers associate yellow emoji with White ethnicity

• Religion in India: Tolerance and Segregation

Media / Many Ministries of Truths / Censorship

• Iranian Disinformation Effort Went Small to Stay Under Big Tech’s Radar

TechSuck

• Leaked print spooler exploit lets Windows users remotely execute code as system on your domain controller • The Register

• The Internet Is Rotting

• A foreign seller has hijacked Cliff Stoll's Amazon Klein bottle listing | Hacker News

  • Cliff Stoll's comments in thread are quite nice

Poilitcks

• NY Mayoral Candidate Eric Adams Demands Explanation After 150K Vote 'Irregularity' Narrows Lead | ZeroHedge

  • New York City Mayor's Race "Plunges Into Chaos" As 130,000 'Test-Run' Votes Lead To Unprecedented "Discrepancy" | ZeroHedge

World

• El Salvador Is Printing Money with Bitcoin

Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda

• Nintil - Wildfires in California (I)

  Be that as it may, what the authors find is that half2 of the increase in aridity of the fuels present in US forests (and presumably, California) was due to anthropogenic climate change, with the rest being natural variation (possibly the oscillations described earlier)