2021-07-15

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New spring-loaded 'Sound Screw' makes drywall noise-dampening
Sports Families: The Hungry System of Club Sports | Institute for Family Studies

We didn’t sign him up for the tryouts. Everything we were learning about competitive soccer confirmed our hostility—weekly practices on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday coinciding with both rush hour and dinner hour; games every weekend; the threat of regular tournament schleps looming over the whole deal; the prospect of doing all this for almost the whole year and paying nearly $3,000 for the privilege. There was no way. He was in second grade.
The most important century (roadmap)
Luxury Surveillance — Real Life

More people die of cold: Media’s heat-death climate obsession
"the widespread belief in Russian Twitter bots is itself deliberate propaganda spread by academics who are trying to delegitimize social trends they disapprove of." HN Comment

There is a well funded effort across the entire political left (academics, left wing journalists, a small number of tech workers) to create the illusion that such bots are rife and that non-left wing political outcomes are not genuinely "real" as a consequence, but when actual evidence is demanded the claims evaporate.

Ethereum London Mainnet Announcement
I am often asked if I will “return to cryptocurrency”
- Co-Creator of Dogecoin Slams Cryptocurrencies | Tom's Hardware
"After years of studying it, I believe that cryptocurrency is an inherently right-wing, hyper-capitalistic technology built primarily to amplify the wealth of its proponents through a combination of tax avoidance, diminished regulatory oversight, and artificially enforced scarcity," said Palmer. " Despite claims of “decentralization,” the cryptocurrency industry is controlled by a powerful cartel of wealthy figures who, with time, have evolved to incorporate many of the same institutions tied to the existing centralized financial system they supposedly set out to replace."
Millennials Are Running Out of Time to Build Wealth

Justice Department Sought Reporter Records from Security Firm Proofpoint, in Bid to Unmask Leak Sources - by Kim Zetter - Zero Day

News that the Trump administration’s Justice Department secretly sought the phone and email records of reporters to uncover the identity of their sources caused a stir in recent months when the Justice Department began disclosing the information to targeted journalists and publications under the Biden administration.

Biden has said he would not allow his Justice Department to seek reporter records, calling it “simply wrong.” And in the last few months at least four media outlets have received notification that the previous administration had sought the records of their reporters.
Rank and Vile - Stunning Inspector General Report Shows FBI Facilitating Predator Coach Larry Nassar Rape of U.S. Gymnasts - Worse, The FBI Lied to Investigators and Then The DOJ Refused to Prosecute - The Last Refuge