2021-07-26

Cool

• Simulating worlds on the GPU: Four billion years in four minutes

Worthy

• Brin’s UFO Questions

  • CONTRARY BRIN: What's really up with UAPs / UFOs?

• (2014) The Revenge of the Circulating Fan - LOW-TECH MAGAZINE

• When Pubs Briefly Replaced Banks — Beervana

• A Butt-Hurt Liberal Snowflake Makes a Case Against Defunding the Police - by Stacey Eskelin - Cappuccino

etc

• Historical language records reveal a surge of cognitive distortions in recent decades | PNAS

• More than 250 convicted of child sexual abuse while they were UK Scout leaders

• Delta-8 THC: The Latest Cannabis Conundrum – Points: short and insightful writing about a long and complex history

Horseshit

• Polytetrafluoroethylene (Teflon) as a Way to Increase Food Volume and Satiety

• 6x6 Ram TRX With 37-Inch Tires and 702 HP Sounds Like a Lot of Math

• American SUVs are now bigger than the TANKS that fought in World War II

• S.F. is considering downtown 'congestion pricing.' for those making $46K

• The effect of open-plan offices on our mental health – World Economic Forum

celebrity gossip

• In asking NASA to accept his billions for the Moon, Bezos admits his mistake

• Why does Jeff Bezos’s rocket look like that? An inquiry

Obit

• Shtetl-Optimized » Blog Archive » Steven Weinberg (1933-2021): a personal view

  As arguably the central architect of what we now call the Standard Model of elementary particles, Steve was in the ultra-rarefied class where, had he not won the Nobel Prize, it would’ve been a stain on the prize rather than on him.

Culture War / Re segregation / Identdoctrination

• Minimum Viable Governance: lightweight community structure for FOSS projects

• Tech giants to target attacker manifestos, far-right militias in database

  A counterterrorism organization formed by some of the biggest U.S. tech companies including Facebook and Microsoft is significantly expanding the types of extremist content shared between firms in a key database, aiming to crack down on material from white supremacists and far-right militias, the group told Reuters.

  • Facebook and tech giants to target attacker manifestos, far-right in database

• I’m a Parkland Shooting Survivor. QAnon Convinced My Dad It Was All a Hoax

• PayPal to research transactions that fund hate groups, extremists

Media / Many Ministries of Truths / Censorship

• Colorado is paying social media influencers to tout Covid-19 vaccines

• Journalism's Two Americas

• Why does NBC make it so difficult to watch the Olympics? - by Branko - Machine Learning Everything

• Report: Biden Administration Officials “Unmasked” Tucker Carlson – JONATHAN TURLEY

  Now, Fox News (who I work for as a legal analyst) is condemning reports in The Record that Carlson was “unmasked” at the request of Biden Administration officials. The NSA had previously denied Carlson’s claims. Now, two sources are being cited as saying that Carlson’s communications were discussed in intercepts and then his identity was unmasked. There remain very serious questions. Who unmasked Carlson’s name and why was there an unmasking? Moreover, how would such information be discussed with reporters or third parties, if the original allegations are true?

TechSuck

• Facebook Trials Religious Group Monetization, $10 Church Subscription

• Tesla AutoPilot – I give up, it's downright lethal | Hacker News

• Announcing Project Pangea: Helping Underserved Communities Expand Access to the Internet For Free

Economicon

• Housing boom is over as new home sales fall to pandemic low

• Did People Use their Stimulus to Start a Business? The Spike in New Businesses, one of the Mindblowers of the Pandemic | Wolf Street

• After Slashing 33% of Workers in 6 Years, Railroads Complain about Labor Shortages, amid Uproar over Slow Shipments | Wolf Street

• World’s Food Supplies Get Slammed by Drought, Floods and Frost

• Why worker loyalty is at a breaking point

• Young investors say they were 'played' by influencer-endorsed cryptocurrency

• Washington today ignores that saving and investing must precede consumption

• Tether Executives Said to Face Criminal Probe into Bank Fraud

• Normally Astute American Car Buyers Just Pay Whatever: AutoNation, Largest Auto Dealer in the US | Wolf Street

• America’s Investing Boom Goes Far Beyond Reddit Bros

• 6M renters face eviction in 8 days

• Low car supply forces wealthy to buy used Rolls-Royces, Bentleys

Poilitcks

• Democrats, double standards, and the Capitol riot committee.

• 'Health Freedom' Is The Hottest Global Political Issue, And Our World Will Never Be The Same After This | ZeroHedge

Security / Militaria / Crime / Police

• FBI Discovers Building Full Of Dangerous Extremists Organizing Acts Of Terror Across Country | The Babylon Bee

• Police Are Telling ShotSpotter to Alter Evidence from Gunshot-Detecting AI

  Motherboard’s review of court documents from the Williams case and other trials in Chicago and New York State, including testimony from ShotSpotter’s favored expert witness, suggests that the company’s analysts frequently modify alerts at the request of police departments—some of which appear to be grasping for evidence that supports their narrative of events.

World

• Vaccine center in France vandalized with symbols of French Resistance

• China sets goal of running single-stack IPv6 network by 2030, orders upgrade

• Another Coup? Violent Protests Erupt In Tunisia As President Suspends Parliament

Health / Medicine / COVID

• Here we go again - by Alex Berenson - Unreported Truths

  You know how I know public health authorities are lying? Their own data

  In fact, data show that the vaccines can cause an increase in infections and deaths for up to two weeks after the first dose, possibly because they temporarily suppress immunity by recruiting so many white blood cells to the area of the injection.

• Philip Morris International CEO Said Cigarettes Should Be Banned

• NYC Will Require City Workers to Be Vaccinated by Mid-September

• Boy, 16, had cardiac arrest after exercise following Pfizer vaccine first dose

• Maker of dubious $56K Alzheimer’s drug offers cognitive test no one can pass

• AstraZeneca and the EU probably ruined Africa’s best chance out of the pandemic

• More Variants Are Coming, and the U.S. Isn’t Ready to Track Them

• Johns Hopkins Study Found Zero Covid Deaths Among Healthy Kids

• “Don’t You Work with Old People?”: Many Elder-Care Workers Still Refuse Vaccine

• Covid-19 antibodies detected in 67% of India's population

Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda

• The Insect Apocalypse That Never Was

  • The insect apocalypse: ‘Our world will grind to a halt without them’

• The argument for switching off lights at night

• PC can't be shipped to CA, CO, HI, OR, VT or WA due to power consumption

  • PC can't be shipped to CA, CO, HI, OR, VT or WA du...

  • among other gems: the law in the states mandates ACAPI S3 sleep mode. If you have ever worked with the "power management BIOS" and successors, this will probably amuse you.

• This isn’t a heatwave, it’s a dying planet

• Emissions will hit record high by 2023

• The rise of space tourism could affect Earth's climate in unforeseen ways

• Learning to Love G.M.O.s

• ‘Record-shattering’ heat becoming much more likely, says climate study

• Thieves Steal California’s Scarce Water to Supply Illegal Marijuana Farms