2021-07-18

Cool

• Younger Dryas impact hypothesis - Wikipedia

etc

• What Went Wrong? - ACM Queue

  In total, around 700 people have been prosecuted based on the "evidence" from a single IT system installed by the UK Post Office, and while some of them probably did embezzle money, it looks like the majority of them did not. They were sentenced based on evidence from an IT system, which... ehhh... to be honest, we don't actually know what that IT system did, except we know it did it really, really badly.

• Cannabis first domesticated 12,000 years ago

• Studebaker Still Advertises Its Defunct Company with 8k-Tree Monument

• Different Cultures Define Happiness Differently

Horseshit

• The design of 'anti-sex' beds for athletes of the olympic games

• Half of the US believes a deadly conspiracy theory - CNNPolitics

  The two most monumental events of the last year in the US were the election of Joe Biden to the presidency and the introduction of Covid-19 vaccines. Yet there are those who falsely believe Biden won only because of fraud or that they shouldn't get a vaccine. Having either belief is dangerous -- for either the health of society or the health of the republic. It turns out that about half the people in this country either have doubts about Biden's legitimacy or have not gotten the vaccine.

celebrity gossip

• John McAfee Died Broke, Spent Millions on Wacky Mansions

• A Reporter’s Fight to Expose Epstein’s Crimes – and Earn a Living

• Jamal Khashoggi’s wife targeted with spyware before his death

Culture War / Re segregation / Identdoctrination

• Ranked-Choice Voting Helped Wreck Minneapolis

• Black Blogger Talks About Racism in Geocaching

Media / Many Ministries of Truths / Censorship

• How NSO's Pegasus Is Used to Spy on Journalists

  + [What is Pegasus spyware and how does it hack
  phones?](https://www.theguardian.com/news/2021/jul/18/what-is-pegasus-spyware-and-how-does-it-hack-phones)
  

  • Leak uncovers global abuse of cyber-surveillance weapon

• Right or Left, You Should Be Worried About Big Tech Censorship -Cory Doctorow

TechSuck

• Why the Steam Deck won’t flop like Valve’s Steam Machines - The Verge

• Tesla is charging owners $1,500 for hardware they already paid for

  This weekend, Tesla started offering their long-awaited Full Self-Driving subscription package for $199/month. Along with the package, Tesla is offering a $1,500 hardware upgrade for early owners who have old hardware that is not capable of full self-driving tasks. The problem is, Tesla previously told those same owners that their cars were capable of full self-driving tasks, and isn’t allowing those owners to take advantage of the new subscription scheme without paying again for a hardware upgrade that they already paid for.

Economicon

• Ethereum Co-Founder Says Safety Concern Has Him Quitting Crypto

• Collectors are just as confused about $1.56M Super Mario 64 sale

• Adding Climate Risk in Investment Assessments Is No Passing Trend

• Tahoe's hiring crisis is unraveling its small businesses during busiest season

  • comment:

  Is it possible a reason behind the lack of people is also that a ton of our essential workers (aka service people) have died during the pandemic? Seriously, line cooks was one of the most fatal job positions during this time…

Poilitcks

• Biden Voting Rights Demagoguery Made More Sinister by Domestic Terror Plan | Opinion

• Facebook Tells Biden: ‘Facebook Is Not the Reason’ Vaccination Goal Was Missed

• States and insurers resurrect barriers to telehealth, putting strain on patients

• Now They Are Saying That The Republican Party Is The #1 "National Security Threat To The United States Of America" | ZeroHedge

• "The bible teachings are typically affiliated with the Republican party and candidates. This disqualifies you from exemption"

Security / Militaria / Crime / Police

• The toppling of Saddam’s statue: how the US military made a myth

World

• Haiti president’s assassination exposes shady world of Colombian mercenaries

• Malaysian authorities crush 1,069 crypto mining rigs with a steamroller | Engadget

Health / Medicine / COVID

• An ER Doctor in Arkansas Told Us What Its Like to Work in Unvaccinated America

  I don’t get any excuses at all. They just shrug their shoulders and say they didn’t need it. It’s just part of their psyche now. Sun rises in the east, Jesus will return to judge the quick and the dead, you just don’t get vaccinated.

• Top Biden Officials Now Embracing COVID Lab-Leak Theory

• Study supporting ivermectin Covid treatment withdrawn over ethical concerns

• Vaccine inequity: Inside the cutthroat race to secure doses

• Covid-19's Effects on Kids Are Even Stranger Than We Thought

• FDA revokes authorization of Covid-19 test given to hundreds of thousands in LA

• Server shortchanged on tip because of vaccination status

• Africa’s Covid Crisis Deepens, but Vaccines Are Still Far Off

• Treating the Unvaccinated

• The ‘Occam’s Razor Argument’ Has Not Shifted in Favor of a Lab Leak

• Canada's vaccination rate overtakes US

• Why Crash Weight Loss Programs Don't Work: Clues from Hunter-Gatherer Societies

Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda

• NOAA: Plant growth surging as CO2 increases

• Poll: Unvaccinated Americans least concerned about Delta variant

  Sun rises in the east, Jesus will return to judge the quick and the dead, you just don’t get vaccinated.

• Giant, football-size goldfish found in a Minnesota lake

• How data could save Earth from climate change

• Climate change fueled the devastating floods in Germany and northwest Europe

• Germany knew the floods were coming, but the warnings didn’t work

• The Case for Climate-Change Realism

• Scorched, Parched and Now Uninsurable: Climate Change Hits Wine Country

• Pacific Northwest Heat Wave Killed More Than One Billion Sea Creatures

• (2008) Enjoy life while you can: in 20 years global warming will hit the fan