2021-07-20

Cool

• Chile peppers are growing in space, NASA says in ISS first

• The Story Behind Ohm’s Law | Hackaday

Worthy

• I *ing hate Science · Buttondown

• Haiti vs. the Dominican Republic - by Noah Smith - Noahpinion

• What’s allowed to count as a cause? – Surfing Complexity

etc

• The Strangest Encounters with Unidentified Aircraft Found in the FAA's Database

• Cargo jet does face-plant after mangled maintenance check - FreightWaves

• Harry Stine takes off the gloves regarding dicamba | Successful Farming

• Astronomers push for global debate on giant satellite swarms

Horseshit

• The German Experiment That Placed Foster Children with Pedophiles

• Loneliness Is Breaking America

• Ben and Jerry's to stop sales in Israeli settlements in occupied territories

celebrity gossip

• Bezos And Crew Become World's Newest Astronauts

  • Jeff Bezos Touches Space

Culture War / Re segregation / Identdoctrination

• Sens. Elizabeth Warren Introduce the Reconciliation in Place Names Act

• To the DC elite, only some black lives matter | Washington Examiner

• Majority of Unvaccinated Americans Believe Microchips Are in Vaccines

  One in five Americans believe that the U.S. government is using the vaccine to plant microchip tracking devices into people, the survey found. A significant number of those who reject vaccines also cite the belief that inoculation in general causes autism.

Media / Many Ministries of Truths / Censorship

• NYT gives 'water witches' the both-sides treatment

  Only a few months ago the Times asked “how to save ourselves from disinformation.” A reasonable first step would be to stop running disinformation in the Times.

• NPR's Brilliant Self-Own - by Matt Taibbi - TK News by Matt Taibbi

TechSuck

• Our lawsuit against ChessBase - Stockfish - Open Source Chess Engine

• Stopping FTP support in Firefox 90

• Square Banking

• Amazon.com's Conditions of Use – Disputes now resolved by the courts

• Microsoft Quietly Released Its Own Linux Distro | Hacker News

• A case against security nihilism – A Few Thoughts on Cryptographic Engineering

  The only people who can fix Apple devices are Apple (very much by their own design) and that means Apple has to feel responsible each time an innocent victim gets pwned while using an Apple device. If we simply pat Apple on the head and say “gosh, targeted attacks are hard, it’s not your fault” then this is exactly the level of security we should expect to get — and we’ll deserve it.

Economicon

• SoCal median home price of $680k tops the previous record of $667,000

• Americans’ Medical Debts Are Bigger Than Was Known, Totaling $140B

• The Untamed Rise of Hospital Monopolies

• Restaurant workers quit at record rate

• Amid Bitcoin’s crash, all of Tesla’s gains have vanished

Poilitcks

• "You Don't Know What You're Talking About" - Frazzled Fauci Erupts After Latest Rand Paul Grilling

• Can you afford AOC’s ‘Tax the Rich’ sweater? - The Spectator World

Security / Militaria / Crime / Police

• Gov. Whitmer Kidnapping Suspects Claim Entrapment

  An examination of the case by BuzzFeed News also reveals that some of those informants, acting under the direction of the FBI, played a far larger role than has previously been reported. Working in secret, they did more than just passively observe and report on the actions of the suspects. Instead, they had a hand in nearly every aspect of the alleged plot, starting with its inception. The extent of their involvement raises questions as to whether there would have even been a conspiracy without them.

• FBI agent in Whitmer kidnap case arrested following domestic incident

• Capitol Riot: Insurrectionist Terrorist Gets an Eight-Month Sentence | National Review

• Proud Boys leader pleads guilty to burning Black Lives Matter banner

• The Undergrad Who Found China's Nuclear Arsenal - by Ashlee Vance - Valley of Heart's Delight

World

• Two dams in China's Inner Mongolia collapse after torrential rain

• (July 3) ‘If we don’t go, will we die?’: quarantine guests perish in hotel fire

• Vaccination requirements: France is now treating its citizens like children

Health / Medicine / COVID

• North Carolina County Starts Offering Door-To-Door COVID-19 Vaccinations | ZeroHedge

• US renews 'public health emergency' due to Covid-19 pandemic

• Watch: Protesters Brutally Beaten And Arrested By Police On UK "Freedom Day"

• US State Department joins CDC in raising UK travel advisory

• Half Million Chinese Sign Letter Demanding WHO Probe US Fort Detrick Lab

• Time to assume that health research is fraudulent until proven otherwise?

Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda

• Bitcoin mining isn’t nearly as bad for the environment as it used to be

• Carbon emissions from wild pigs uprooting soil equal to more than 1M cars.

• ‘Everything is on fire’: Siberia hit by unprecedented burning