2021-07-12

Cool

• Longest known continuous record of the Paleozoic discovered in Yukon wilderness

etc

• Death toll rises to 90 in Surfside condo collapse

• Archaeologists “flabbergasted” to find Cerne Giant’s origins are medieval | Ars Technica

celebrity gossip

• Richard Branson Has Completed a Historic Trip to the Edge of Space on Virgin Gal

• An Ugly Truth“ gives sneak peek as Zuckerberg becomes wartime leader

Culture War / Re segregation / Identdoctrination

• Ashli Babbitt as the 21st-century Horst Wessel: Symbolic martyr to the fascist cause | Salon.com

Media / Many Ministries of Truths / Censorship

• Black Widow makes $60M+ via streaming on opening weekend

• Interview with Eric Nelson of Broadside Books, a conservative imprint at HarperCollins.

• Tucker Carlson Gets Contacted by Brian Stelter and Pure Savagery Follows – RedState

TechSuck

• Rodents chow down on Teslas, causing thousands in damage

• CPU-GPU-NIC PCIe Card Realized with NVIDIA BlueField-2 A100

Economicon

• Super Mario 64 game sells for record-breaking $1.5m at auction

• More than 8% of American adults are millionaires

• Organic and regenerative agriculture are revitalizing rural Montana economies

• The Crypto Movement Is Destroying Itself - by Concoda - Concoda

• Ethereum's 'London' Hard Fork: What You Need To Know And What To Expect | ZeroHedge

Poilitcks

• Biden’s real estate tax plan may hit smaller property investors

• The Hunter Biden Laptop Is Real.

• CTRL-ALT-Delete? The internet industry’s D.C. powerhouse vanishes. - POLITICO

• Mississippi Claims Memphis Is Stealing Its Groundwater, Supreme Court To Decide | ZeroHedge

• Report: Biden, DNC Want SMS Carriers to Monitor Private Text Messages for Vaccine Lies

Security / Militaria / Crime / Police

• People Staring at Computers

  In 2011 I published a series of photos taken with the laptops in two New York City Apple Stores, as part of my ongoing exploration of surveillance, face analysis, and computer-mediated interaction. In response, Apple contacted the Secret Service and they raided my apartment. After censoring the work online, Apple did not pursue a civil case against me. And after a few months long investigation by the Secret Service, Assistant United States Attorney Judith Philips declined to prosecute me.

• (PDF) Rand Paul Letter to the NSA Demanding an Investigation on the Spying and Unmasking of Tucker Carlson

  (PDF) Rand Paul Asks NSA about Tucker Carlson

World

• "Down With Dictatorship" - Tens Of Thousands Of Cubans Take To Streets

  • Internet outages in Cuba following widespread anti-government protests

Health / Medicine / COVID

• The Kids Were Safe from Covid the Whole Time

• FDA Will Attach Warning of Rare Nerve Syndrome to Johnson and Johnson Vaccine

• Covid-19 in South Africa: outbreak despite interventions

• Dutch reinforce Covid-19 measures after spike in cases

• Temozolomide Is Explosive | In the Pipeline

Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda

• Europe's climate masterplan aims to slash emissions within a decade

• Just 25 mega-cities produce 52% of the world's urban greenhouse gas emissions

• U.S. Pacific Northwest heat wave bakes wheat, fruit crops

• California wildfires outpacing 2020, the worst on record

• California Wildfires Are So Intense, They’re Sparking Firenadoes