2021-07-31

Cool

• Open Source Machine | Open source, Open design, Open ideas, Open minds.

  • The Multimachine – an Open Source one-machine metal shop

• Crescent Software Archive

Worthy

• Where has all the productivity gone?

  Technology calls our bluff. Improvements in technology show us that technology wasn’t the obstacle that we thought it was.

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• Has the Lead-Crime Hypothesis Been Debunked? – Kevin Drum

Horseshit

• Watch: NHS Nurses Demand To COVID Test Newborn Baby, Claim It's Not Mother's Property Once Outside Of Womb | ZeroHedge

• Facial expression software confirms bronze medalists happier than silver

• Corporations aren’t going to save America

• The Dommes Who Are Demanding Their Submissives Get Vaxxed

• I’m a Furry. Netflix’s Sexy Beasts Misses the Entire Point of Dressing Up Like an Animal

• From the Dept of "No shit, Sherlock" Chronic pain might impact how the brain processes emotions

  • Living with Chronic Pain Can Disrupt Your Emotions at a Chemical Level

• As well Opinion: Pandemic Memories Will Stay with Our Children

celebrity gossip

• Osama bin Laden was found because his family hung their clothes out to dry

• Couple harassed by eBay execs tell their story for the first time

• A Brief History of Freud's Love Affair with Cocaine

• Jeff Bezos loses attempt to block the Moon-landing contract NASA gave to SpaceX

  • HN comment

  Why can't they cooperate instead of compete? It's not like they don't already have all the money they'd ever need or could use, and wouldn't the world be better off if they worked together than against each other?

• Did a terrorist actually just win an Olympic gold medal? | Not the Bee

Culture War / Re segregation / Identdoctrination

• Chelsea Mitchell on the unfairness of trans women at the Olympics

• Pulse oxygen monitors work less well on darker skin

• Bronx teacher fired for refusing to make Black Panther salute

• Forget morality: reasons to reject it

• Get Ready for the 'No-Buy' List - by David Sacks - Common Sense with Bari Weiss

• "White Supremacist Attacks, Nearly Kills Innocent Protester" Man Hit by Toppled Confederate Statue Last Year Suffering From Traumatic Brain Injury

Media / Many Ministries of Truths / Censorship

• Craig Murray’s jailing is the latest move in a battle to snuff out independent journalism

• Twitter Suspends Science Writer After He Posts Results Of Pfizer Clinical Test | ZeroHedge

Economicon

• Employee shortages: Where have all the workers gone?

  • Employee shortages: Where have all the workers gone? | Hacker News

• As lockdowns lift, media firms brace for an “attention recession”

• Moderna Reports 237x Increase in Revenue over Last Year

Poilitcks

• Countdown To The Next Lockdown: Biden Says "In All Probability" US Will See More Restrictions | ZeroHedge

• Joe Biden gets aide's note: 'Sir, there is something on your chin'

Security / Militaria / Crime / Police

• Daniel Hale Receives 45-Month Sentence for Releasing Drone Documents

• Disband The FBI | ZeroHedge

• Archive link FBI probe shows nitrate amount in Beirut blast was a fraction of shipment

  The amount of ammonium nitrate that blew up at Beirut port last year was one fifth of the shipment unloaded there in 2013, the FBI concluded after the blast, adding to suspicions that much of the cargo had gone missing.

• FBI and Detroit police groomed 14 year old informant for years before conviction

• After 20 Years of Wars, America Is More Alienated from Its Military Than Ever

• What Philadelphia Reveals About America’s Homicide Surge

• Navy Quietly Decommissions Littoral Combat Ship Independence

World

• Thai PM Orders Internet Block for Anyone Spreading Info That May Frighten People

Health / Medicine / COVID

• ‘The war has changed’: CDC document urges new messaging, warns delta more severe

• Fentanyl deaths soaring in Texas, officials aren't taking key steps to stop them

• Plexiglass Is Everywhere, with No Proof It Keeps Covid at Bay

• Mayor Cantrell announces mask mandate reinstated for New Orleans

  Avegno says the delta variant is more contagious and more deadly than the original strain. She added it is also more dangerous than smallpox and polio.

• Study: Recovered Covid-19 Patients Possess Robust Immunity to Virus

• CDC study shows 74% of people infected in MA Covid outbreak were vaccinated

• CDC: Vaccinated People Should Be Tested After Exposure Even Without Symptoms

• 67.6% of Indians over Six Have Covid Antibodies: Sero Survey Results

• Data shows how many vaccinated Americans have tested positive

Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda

• ‘Climate change has become real’: extreme weather sinks prime US tourism site

• A Century of Science Fiction That Changed How We Think About the Environment

• The recycling myth: A plastic waste solution littered with failure

• Male fertility declining – studies show environmental toxins could be a reason