2021-07-28

Cool

• Manning Equation - The Details Behind this Highly Versatile Formula

• Introducing Triton: Open-Source GPU Programming for Neural Networks

• Orbiter Space Flight Simulator is now open source

Worthy

• The homevoters and the haut precariat - by Noah Smith - Noahpinion

  I don’t have evidence that this is why there are so many young Left-NIMBYs out there. But if it’s true, it suggests a rather depressing future evolution for much of the haut precariat — moving back to the suburbs and morphing into their homevoter parents. That would be a sad end to a generation screwed over by recession and student loans and the vicissitudes of the American economy.

• Now that scientists can manipulate dream content, advertisers want in - by Erik Hoel - The Intrinsic Perspective

  Now these ancient techniques for meeting your gods have given way to the scientific and the capitalistic. Given the easy means to track sleep stages with smart devices, and how Targeted Dream Incubation has had some big headline recent papers, advertisers and corporations have picked up on TDI. As an example, consider the collaboration between Coors beer and Harvard sleep scientist Deirdre Barrett, who has been on a media whirlwind after her project to track pandemic dreams

etc

• One Lost Methyl Group = Huge Amounts of Food Production | In the Pipeline

• Furries are making virtual reality worth visiting

• Break Dancing Will Be An Olympic Sport In 2024 : NPR

• Hobby Lobby’s $1.6M Gilgamesh tablet has been forfeited to the US

• Avi Loeb’s Galileo Project Will Search for Evidence of Alien Visitation

• First Ever High Octane Unleaded Avgas Approved by FAA | Aviation Pros

Horseshit

• Woman Will Be Tried Again for Shaken Baby Case from 1984

• I've got a broken combine harvester – manufacturer won't give me software key

• BBC Radio 4 - Limelight, The House That Vanished - How can a house just disappear?

  After a dramatic court case, a judge would eventually find that there was no proof that either the defendant or anyone acting for him had set fire to the house. However, the judge decided that the defendant did have the most to gain from the disappearance of the house and that his digger, whether driven by him or not, was most likely involved in the house’s destruction. The judge awarded Neville £54,000 in damages

celebrity gossip

• Julian Assange stripped of citizenship by Ecuador

  • Julian Assange Loses Ecuadorian Citizenship

• Gov. Newsom Panics, Pulls Kids From Summer Camp After Maskless Photo Of Son Surfaces

• Man facing federal charges for threatening to kill Dr. Fauci, NIH Director

Culture War / Re segregation / Identdoctrination

• The Revolt of the Unwoke

• The Pittsburgh Steelers are making unvaccinated players wear yellow wristbands | Not the Bee

• Equal Rights to Scam! Cryptocurrency has a 'bro' problem. Women say they can disrupt the Bitcoin bros

• Costa Rican gymnast adds Black Lives Matter tribute to Olympic routine

• The Moment in 1986 When Critical Race Theory Ousted the Civil Rights Movement | RealClearInvestigations

Media / Many Ministries of Truths / Censorship

• Normal People are Beginning to Acknowledge Their Loss of Free Speech on the Internet

  The one good thing that I see possibly coming from this is that normal people may finally wake up and realize that when we take away free speech from even one person, we take it away from everyone. The reality of this situation is that when we give a group of people--in this case social media platform owners--the power to take something away from one person, they can and probably will eventually take it away from everyone. Armed with this knowledge that past generations learned the hard way through hundreds of years of political oppression, perhaps we will be wise enough soon enough to reverse what we have done to ourselves. I believe our window of opportunity has not yet closed during which we may still recover from this without enduring the kind of suffering that past generations have endured.

• Techdirt Is Now Without Any Google Ads or Tracking Code

TechSuck

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

• Facebook recalls 4M Quest 2 VR face liners over “rashes and hives”

• Google postpones return-to-work until October, will require vaccinations

  • Vaccines and our return to office plans

Economicon

• HN comment:

  I have invested in cryptos, stock markets, startups… and probably the most profitable assets ever were several ripe ipv4 prefixes that we owned for years. Insane.

• Cannabis Part of the Future Says Tobacco Giant

Poilitcks

• Judges Say Web Design Is ‘Pure Speech’ and That the State Can Compel It Anyway – Reason.com

Security / Militaria / Crime / Police

• DOJ quietly acknowledges there was no sedition at the US Capitol

• Capitol Police Officer Who Gave Emotional January 6 Testimony Is Anti-Trump, Defended Kenosha Riots | ZeroHedge

• Major cyber attack could lead to a 'real shooting war'

  • Biden warns cyber attacks could lead to a “real shooting war”

World

• China expanding its nuclear capabilities, scientists say

• France Gave Teenagers $350 for Culture. They’re Buying Comic Books

Health / Medicine / COVID

• The Noble Lies of Covid-19

  One thing is beyond a doubt, however: One of those two statements did not accurately reflect the evidence as Fauci saw it. Such high-profile mixed messages in a short time frame, without substantive new data to justify the change, generated confusion and a backlash from politicians, other experts, and the general public.

  We worry that vaccine policy among supporters of vaccines is increasingly anchored to the irrational views of those who oppose them—by always pursuing the opposite. Exaggerating the risk of the virus in the moment and failing to explore middle ground positions appear to be the antithesis of the anti-vax movement, which is an extremist effort to refuse vaccination.

• USA Today Scrubs Passage Suggesting Vaccinated Individuals May Spread COVID With 'Higher Levels' Of Virus | ZeroHedge

• Texas Children's Confirms It Has Some Covid Kids on Ventilators

• Defining Away Vaccine Safety Signals - by Mathew Crawford - Rounding the Earth Newsletter

• CDC mask reversal: Vaccinated should wear masks in many settings amid surge

• How a Psychic Healer Blog Convinced the Government to Fund “Long Covid” Research – AIER

• Health expert: Covid-19 will be a part of life for decades, possibly centuries

• Severe Increase in Coronavirus Cases in Israeli Hospitals

• France issues moratorium on prion research after fatal brain disease strikes

• Dr. Fauci Insists CDC "Didn't Flip Flop" As He Tries To Shift Focus To Children | ZeroHedge

  "The data are clear ... that when a person gets infected who has been vaccinated ... and they get infected with the Delta variant, that the level of virus in their nasopharynx is about 1,000 times higher than with the Alpha variant."

Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda

• Scientists who declared climate emergency say Earth’s vital signs have worsened

• Wildfires in Canada are creating their own weather systems, experts say

• Crawler Hints: How Cloudflare Is Reducing the Environmental Impact of Web Search

• Bolsonaro’s 1,000km Amazon railway will cause climate chaos. It must be stopped

• We should build for wildlife as well as people

• Climate tipping points are now imminent, scientists warn