2021-07-23

Cool

• NASA Perseverance Mars Rover to Acquire First Sample

Worthy

• Edison was better than Tesla in every way | Locklin on science

• Five Hundred Pound Peep: What Happened to the Left? Ableist Statists Who Demand Compliance

etc

• The Pros and Cons of America’s (Extreme) Individualism (Ep. 470) - Freakonomics Freakonomics

• No Science Is Ever Settled – AIER

• It doesn't take much public creativity to stand out as a job candidate

Horseshit

• Institutional Authority Has Vanished. Wikipedia Points to the Answer

• Panpsychism gains steam in science communities

celebrity gossip

• Fact check: False claims that Jeff Bezos is an alien, reptile draw on conspiracy theories

• Jack Dorsey Thinks Bitcoin Can Bring ‘World Peace’

• Huawei hiring former Democratic super lobbyist Tony Podesta

Culture War / Re segregation / Identdoctrination

• Cleveland changing name from Indians to Guardians after 2021 season

• More than 50 nooses have shown up on U.S. construction sites since 2015 - The Washington Post

• Who Are The Real COVID Vaccine Refuseniks? Hint: It’s Not What You’ve Been Told – Issues & Insights

  Then there’s this: The “dirty dozen” of anti-COVID vaccine influencers compiled by one research group is made up of people such as: a Nation of Islam member, a regular columnist at the left-wing Huffington Post, the head of the Urban Global Health Alliance, a “holistic psychiatrist,” a former owner of an organic farm, several alternative medicine quacks, and long-time anti-vaxxers including … Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

Media / Many Ministries of Truths / Censorship

• Facebook Says ‘Death to Khamenei’ Posts Are OK for the Next Two Weeks

TechSuck

• Mark Zuckerberg is betting Facebook’s future on the metaverse - The Verge

• Judges reject Viasat’s plea to stop SpaceX Starlink satellite launches

• Google is finally doing something about Google Drive spam | Ars Technica

• Gamasutra - The Microsoft Game Development Kit is now available for free on GitHub

  Writing on the Game Stack Blog, the Xbox maker said it wants to "enable any creator, anywhere on the planet, to make games for our ecosystem."

• Tumblr users lash out against its beta subscription feature

• Vidme forgets to renew domain, embeds turned into porn

Economicon

• U.S. Farmers can't find a way to ship their stuff

• Billions wiped from Chinese education companies; Beijing suggests banning profit

• Meme Stocks Are Mired in Longest Losing Run Since Frenzy Began

• Mercedes-Benz to build eight battery factories in push to become electric-only

Poilitcks

• White House Plans More Assistance For Troubled Mortgage Borrowers At Risk Of Foreclosure | ZeroHedge

• Biden tells fleeing Cubans to get lost while flooding the southern border

• States Weigh Bans on Ransomware Payoffs

Security / Militaria / Crime / Police

• Techdirt Has Been Released From A Gag Order Regarding A Federal Investigation Into A Silly Comment | Techdirt

• Senate panel votes to make women register for draft

Health / Medicine / COVID

• When do vaccine incentives become coercive?

• Coronavirus: Was US money used to fund risky research in China?

  Did the US fund virus research in China? Yes, it did contribute some funds.

• Organs From Deceased Recipients of AstraZeneca Vaccine May Pose Problems

• Cognitive deficits in people who have recovered from Covid-19

• Daily Covid Deaths in Sweden Hit Zero, as Other Nations Brace for More Lockdowns

Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda

• A sudden stratospheric warming affected the Northern Hemisphere

• Marijuana farmers blamed for water theft as drought grips American west

• A 3°C world has no safe place