2021-07-06

Worthy

• No More Movies | Jay Riverlong

etc

• Eraser Men: censoring the roads of the Tour de France – Rouleur

celebrity gossip

• 'Getting older is terrifying': William Shatner on turning 90

Culture War / Re segregation / Identdoctrination

• ‘Orwellian’: Facebook faces backlash for ‘harmful extremist content’ alerts

• Kiwi Farms killed one of our own. Cloudflare is protecting them. | BK-Teal.com

• An assumption made in a study in 1999 is delaying treatment for Black Americans

Media / Many Ministries of Truths / Censorship

• Twitter has lost liability protection in India, government says

• Ivy League Study Shows How US Media Created a Climate of Fear Over COVID-19 - Foundation for Economic Education

TechSuck

• “I wish I could have licensed the Id source code releases as BSD”

  The recent discussions around copilot are a good opportunity to say this: I wish I could have licensed the Id source code releases as BSD. The GPL virality wound up being a net negative, and more value would have come from BSD. My partners would never have gone for it, though.

Economicon

• Didi shares tumble 25% in pre-market trading after China crackdown

• A Silicon Valley tactic – losing money to crush rivals – comes in for scrutiny

Security / Militaria / Crime / Police

• Killer Flying Robots Are Here. What Do We Do Now?

World

• Russia Says US Engineered June's Black Sea Provocation, "We'll Sink" Any Threat Next Time

Health / Medicine / COVID

• Juul Is Fighting to Keep Its E-Cigarettes on the U.S. Market

• The Case Against the Covid-19 Lab Leak Theory

Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda

• 'Supertrees' engineered to capture more carbon stir anti-GMO backlash

• An Exxon lobbyist thought he was in a job interview. Instead, it was recorded