2021-07-16

Cool

• Analog Camera Goes Digital | Hackaday

• 'Hubble is back ' Computer swap appears to fix glitch

Worthy

• All Possible Views About Humanity's Future Are Wild

• Lockdown Effectiveness: Much More Than You Wanted To Know - by Scott Alexander - Astral Codex Ten

  • Quick summary: "Its complicated"

• Direction Finding Points To Cuba Jamming Ham Radio Frequencies - K0LWC

etc

• No ovaries required: viable eggs grown in a dish

• Natural gas companies were paid to turn off power during Texas winter storm

• Setting Claw Strength on Crane Machine | Arcade Crane Machines | CandyMachines.com

Horseshit

• Soldiers speak out about being blocked from repairing equipment by contractors

• Counterfeit wireless earbuds are being seized in record numbers at US border

celebrity gossip

• Prosecutor Delayed Hunter Biden Probe To Shield 2020 Election

• MOVIE PRODUCER DILLON JORDAN ACCUSED OF RUNNING ‘EXTENSIVE’ PROSTITUTION RING

• Kremlin papers appear to show Putin’s plot to put Trump in White House | Vladimir Putin | The Guardian

• How Did the Sacklers Pull This Off?

• Bill Clinton Took 2 Previously Undisclosed Trips Abroad With Ghislaine Maxwell

• "Scheduling Conflicts" - Person Who Paid $28 Million For Space Trip With Jeff Bezos Backs Out  | ZeroHedge

Culture War / Re segregation / Identdoctrination

• Facebook axes team over far-right data | News | The Times

Media / Many Ministries of Truths / Censorship

• Biden administration ‘flagging problematic posts for Facebook,’ Psaki says

• Disinformation is coming for your business - Axios

  Recent examples of companies that have been harmed include election equipment makers Smartmatic and Dominion, which were caught up in 2020 election lies, and online furniture mart Wayfair, which was falsely tied to a QAnon child sex conspiracy theory.

• Google Drive bans distribution of “misleading content” | Hacker News

  • Abuse Program Policies and Enforcement - Docs Editors Help

  Misleading content related to civic and democratic processes: Content that is demonstrably false and could significantly undermine participation or trust in civic or democratic processes. This includes information about public voting procedures, political candidate eligibility based on age / birthplace, election results, or census participation that contradicts official government records. It also includes incorrect claims that a political figure or government official has died, been involved in an accident, or is suffering from a sudden serious illness.

  Misleading content related to harmful health practices: Misleading health or medical content that promotes or encourages others to engage in practices that may lead to serious physical or emotional harm to individuals, or serious public health harm.

  Manipulated media: Media that has been technically manipulated or doctored in a way that misleads users and may pose a serious risk of egregious harm.

• On the internet, nobody knows you’re a dog – or a fake Russian Twitter account

TechSuck

• Intel in talks to buy GlobalFoundries for about $30B

• What Ever Happened to IBM’s Watson?

• Google parts with Cloud VP after uproar over his manifesto renouncing his antisemitism

• U.S. regulator sues Amazon to force recalls of dangerous products

Economicon

• Minimum wage workers can't afford rent anywhere in America

• The case for banning non-competes - by Matthew Yglesias - Slow Boring

• Yellen sees ‘several more months of rapid inflation’ before easing

• Union Pacific Halts Shipments From West Coast To Chicago To Ease "Significant Congestion"

• Demand for $100 bills illustrates the increasingly underground use of cash

Poilitcks

• Rand Paul seeks Tucker Carlson NSA-spying investigation.

• New White House Executive Order Is a Game Changer for Entrepreneurs

• US democracy: The threat in 2024 is 'completely uncharted territory'

• Senate Democratic Leader Charles Schumer embracing approach to marijuana reform

• Biden: Social media platforms 'killing people'

Security / Militaria / Crime / Police

• Israeli Firm’s Spyware Used Against Dissidents, Microsoft Says

• Illinois first state to tell police they can't lie to minors in interrogations

• US Air Force to send dozens of F-22 fighter jets to the Pacific amid tensions

World

• In Chiapas the poorest Mexico state, people drink on avg 2L of Coca-Cola per day

  According to the Cimsur study, among the reasons why Coca-Cola and other refrescos are so popular in Chiapas are marketing campaigns in indigenous languages – mainly Mayan – and limited access to clean drinking water.

• Woe, Canada: U.S. lawmakers lament skilled immigrants moving north

• South African President Says Social Unrest Was "Planned"; Violence Recedes As Military Deployed

Health / Medicine / COVID

• The Pandemic Might Have Killed Off Some Flu Strains for Good

Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda

• Science failed to predict flood and heat intensity

• Heat waves and hot air | Climate Etc.

• Greenland suspends oil exploration because of climate change