2021-07-22

Cool

• Astronomers make first clear detection of a moon-forming disc around an exoplanet | ESO

etc

• Unlike Florida, California leaves the safety of high-rises in owners’ hands

• Google turns AlphaFold loose on the entire human genome

  • AlphaFold Protein Structure Database | Hacker News

  • AlphaFold Protein Structure Database

Horseshit

• A Hot Fitness Trend Among Olympians: Blood Flow Restriction

  • see also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erotic_asphyxiation

celebrity gossip

• Eric Clapton refuses to play venues that require proof of vaccination

Culture War / Re segregation / Identdoctrination

• Why won’t Americans get vaccinated? | YouGov

  • flamewar Why won’t Americans get vaccinated? | Hacker News

• A priest was outed for using Grindr, experts say it’s a warning sign for privacy

Media / Many Ministries of Truths / Censorship

• Why A YouTube Chat About Chess Got Flagged for Hate Speech

• Twitter tests Reddit-style upvote and downvote buttons

• On Facebook, quoting 'Dune' gets you suspended

• Anti-vaccine groups changing into ‘dance parties’ on Facebook to avoid detection

TechSuck

• Old GTA Mods Are Being Removed By Take-Two

• 'Bugs are 100x more expensive to fix in production' study might not even exist

• Akamai Edge DNS Down | Hacker News

• Google pushed a one-character typo to production, bricking Chrome OS devices | Ars Technica

  Chrome OS automatically downloads updates and switches to the new version after a reboot, so users who reboot their devices are suddenly locked out them. The go-to advice while this broken update is out there is to not reboot.

Economicon

• Bitcoin Is Failing Its First Inflation Test as Selloff Deepens

• Crypto Volumes: Something May Be Rotten In China | Seeking Alpha

Poilitcks

• Joe Biden Arranges Words Into Odd Cringe-worthy Sequence During Heavily Structured CNN Townhall Event, The Picture is Priceless - The Last Refuge

• Senators target Section 230 to fight Covid-19 vaccine misinformation

Security / Militaria / Crime / Police

• Did the FBI promote the plot to kidnap Gov. Whitmer? | Power Line

• Judge forces US Capitol rioter to unlock laptop seized by FBI

  The felony gun charge was added last month, and undercuts false claims from Trump and prominent Republican lawmakers that the rioters weren't armed and that they had "no guns whatsoever."

  • claims the rioters weren't armed? Who claims that? Many were carrying openly.

• Two-thirds want BLM riots probed, more than Jan. 6.

• CIA officer from bin Laden hunt to lead Havana Syndrome probe as cases rise

• FBI: Cybercriminals Eyeing Broadcast Disruption at Tokyo Olympics

World

• Cuba Jamming Ham Radio? Listen For Yourself - IEEE Spectrum

• The Home Office wants to reform Official Secrets law by pretending journalism does not exist – The Law and Policy Blog

• Home and office routers come under attack by China state hackers, France warns

• Room for 10k: Inside China’s largest detention center

• How China Exports Repression Using a Network of Spies Hidden in Plain Sight

• Russia disconnects from internet in tests as it bolsters security

• The Donbasization of Belarus. A Test For Europe | CEPA

• Syria has become a narco-state

Health / Medicine / COVID

• Many Have the Worst Summer Cold Ever

• The great vaccination farce: Twice vaccinated Boris Johnson ordered to self-isolate - American Thinker

• Schizophrenia linked to marijuana use disorder is on the rise, study

• CDC Director Warns U.S. Is at ‘Another Pivotal Point’ in Pandemic

• Excess Deaths in India

  Each estimate indicates that excess mortality is more likely around 4 million than the official figure of 400,000. These figures accord with what everyone on the ground has been telling me.

• An estimated 1.2 million people died from snakebites in India between 2000 and 2019, the equivalent of more than 58,000 a year, according to a recent paper.

• Pulitzer-winning LA Times writer: Ivermectin 'bogus', cites 'conspiracy-mongers'

Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda

• First lethal attacks by chimpanzees on gorillas observed

• PG&E will bury 10k miles of power lines so they don't spark wildfires

• Farms are wasting 1B tons of food. That's a disaster for the climate

• Why dozens of baby birds jumped to their deaths in US heatwave