2021-07-30

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One Tenth of a Second - by Venkatesh Rao - Ribbonfarm Studio
Are COVID Restrictions the New TSA? - by Richard Hanania - Richard Hanania's Newsletter

Given how we’ve reacted to school shootings and what has happened to public education since COVID-19 started, it is not difficult to imagine children, who have the least to fear from the novel coronavirus, being the ones that will end up changing their lives the most. We’re going to have large portions of an entire generation who went through at least half of high school now either locked in their homes or without seeing other people’s faces for most of the day. And while the health risk to kids from COVID-19 is practically non-existent, children aren’t the best at understanding cost-benefit analysis (as we’ve seen, even adults are terrible), and I’m imagining most kids think that if you’re making them take extreme precautions for years and rearranging their lives, there’s probably a good reason for it. Between the decline in socialization and the fear created by hygiene theater, it’s little wonder that stress and anxiety are increasing among kids.
- flamewar: Are Covid Restrictions the New TSA? | Hacker News
Meet the Censored: Hitler - by Matt Taibbi - TK News by Matt Taibbi

A Liberal Michigan Town Struggles to Move Past ‘Defund the Police’
Cultural Biases Impact Native Fish, Too | UC Davis
Killing The SAT Means Hurting Minorities - by Andrew Sullivan - The Weekly Dish

Instead, many on the left want to get rid of the SAT altogether. They insist, against all the evidence, that the nuclear family is irrelevant to success. They are telling black and minority kids that things like perfectionism, hard work, and turning up on time are just “white supremacy culture,” and standards are racist. They are setting up black kids for failure, while telling them that failure is actually success, and then discriminating against Asian kids to cover up for the racial imbalance these policies create.

Communism never looked so good: China cracks down on pop-up ads
Whistleblower Craig Murray Will Surrender Himself for Prison

The High Court in Edinburgh in Scotland convicted Murray of contempt on March 25 after concluding that he published several blog posts, which they believe led people to identify witnesses in the sexual assault trial against former Scottish Minister Alex Salmond.
Top German court strikes down Facebook rules on hate speech

"Fact Check: This story is apocryphal, as ruled by First Council of Nicaea in 325" Facebook’s Next Target: The Religious Experience
Honeypot.net | The Itanic Has Sunk

Intel was contractually obligated to keep Itanium limping along but it was apparent their heart wasn't in it. In 2019 they accepted the inevitable and announced that Itanium would be officially dead as of today. The final batch of CPUs was built on a 32nm process when everyone else was on to 10nm, 7nm, and 5nm designs.
Open Sourcing Direct3D 9 on 12 and the Release of the DXBC Signer NuGet Package | DirectX Developer Blog
Intel's New Xeon W-3300 Workstation CPUs Get Decimated By AMD's Threadripper Pro, 32 Core Threadripper Beats 38 Core Xeon
Freenode Is Dead. (Again.)

Phantom Warships Are Courting Chaos in Conflict Zones

According to analysis conducted by conservation technology nonprofit SkyTruth and Global Fishing Watch, over 100 warships from at least 14 European countries, Russia, and the US appear to have had their locations faked, sometimes for days at a time, since August 2020. Some of these tracks show the warships approaching foreign naval bases or intruding into disputed waters, activities that could escalate tension in hot spots like the Black Sea and the Baltic. Only a few of these fake tracks have previously been reported, and all share characteristics that suggest a common perpetrator.
The Cost of a Prison Phone Call