2021-08-04

Cool

• Possible link between Earth’s rotation rate and oxygenation | Nature Geoscience

• (2020) AGI: GEO Satellites don’t decay in 38 years, do they?

Worthy

• Math for game designers who dont know math but need it: A Bestiary of Functions for Systems Designers | Bruno Dias’ Personal Website

• Where Are The Robotic Bricklayers? - by Brian Potter - Construction Physics

• What Should We Make Of Sasha Chapin's Claim That Taking LSD Restored His Sense Of Smell After COVID? - by Scott Alexander - Astral Codex Ten

etc

• Why medieval city-builder video games are historically inaccurate - Leiden Medievalists Blog

  A notable exception to this genre trope is the game Banished (2014) in which high mortality rates and bad weather do seriously stifle any kind of linear growth.

• Australian mathematician discovers applied geometry on 3,700-year-old tablet

• Was Olympic Skateboarding as Unimpressive as It Seemed?

• NASA science chief says it’s OK to be “worried” or “terrified” about Webb | Ars Technica

• Machu Picchu is older than previously thought

• Russia blames software glitch for misfired engines that shoved ISS

• US dealers see ammunition shortage as sales surge

Horseshit

• Next: the impact of pocket calculators and wristwatches! Assessing the impact of drones in the global Covid response

• Man arrested in mistaken identity case locked in mental hospital for two years

• Coming soon: America’s own social credit system

• A New State Of Segregation: Vaccine Cards Are Just The Beginning | ZeroHedge

• My own country of Canada just kicked me out because my Covid immunity was acquired naturally and not from a vaccine — RT Op-ed

• Every Car Made After 2027 May Have Drunk Driving Monitoring System

• Due to the extreme heat, Oregonians can pump their own gas until midnight tonight.

• Has Technology Made Global Cooperation Impossible?

celebrity gossip

• Email Appears to Show CNN’s Chris Cuomo Drafted Sexual Harassment Statement for His Brother

• Barbie launches six new dolls celebrating female scientists — including an Australian doctor - ABC News

• Julian Assange: peering through the murk | Opinion | Law Gazette

Culture War / Re segregation / Identdoctrination

• Unvaccinated People Belong on the No-Fly List

Media / Many Ministries of Truths / Censorship

• A moment that changed me: I realised I had become a masochist – and quit Twitter

• Doc Who Backed Hydroxychloroquine Files $100M Defamation Suit Against CNN

• Twitter unlocks JTN reporter's account after CDC said his COVID vaccine tweet was correct | Just The News

TechSuck

• Amazon’s anti-union conduct made free election “impossible,” NLRB officer finds

  • Amazon Unlawfully Confiscated Union Literature, NLRB Finds

• Square to acquire Afterpay for $29bn as ‘buy now, pay later’ booms

  • Are “Buy Now, Pay Later” Retail Loans a Rip-Off?

• Statement on the Return of 3dfx

• AdObserver Blocked by Facebook | Hacker News

  • Facebook Cannot Justify Its Opposition To Accountability

  • NYU, Knight Institute Condemn Facebook’s Effort to Squelch Research on Misinfo

• Windows 365 paused due to high demand

Economicon

• The Political-Economic Causes of the Soviet Great Famine, 1932–33

  The paper represents a significant advance in terms of basic data, and the core hypothesis of ethnic favoritism is strongly validated.

• Household debt jumps by the most in 14 years to nearly $15T

• Miami Launches 'MiamiCoin' to Make Millions and Fund the Police

• The robot apocalypse is hard to find in America's small and mid-sized factories

Poilitcks

• CDC issues new ban on evictions of most US renters after protest

  • President Biden Announces on Live TV That He Intends to Break His Oath of Office | National Review

  • 'Biden Took An Oath To Uphold The Constitution, Not Violate It': Turley Opines On CDC's Revised Eviction Moratorium | ZeroHedge

  • Eviction Moratorium Extended

• Biden Calls On Cuomo to Resign | National Review

• Congress Is Slashing a $30B Plan to Fight the Next Pandemic

Crime / Police

• Apple AirTags Used to Prove That Contractor Illegally Trashed People's Property

  A lawyer in Portland, Oregon, suspected that a city contractor was illegally trashing property belonging to people living at an encampment for people experiencing homelessness, so he covertly attached Apple AirTag tracking devices to some of the items. Sure enough, the items ended up in a landfill, and now there may be enough legal evidence to stop the city from sweeping these camps indefinitely.

World

• Lebanon: Worst economic collapse in 150 years

• General’s call to surrender sparks calls of treason

• How social media became a deadly trap for a minority group in Pakistan - Rest of World

Health / Medicine / COVID

• Long-lasting Covid-19 symptoms rare in children

• Now almost 80% of 16 to 24 year olds in England have Covid antibodies

• A Doomsday Covid Variant Worse Than Delta and Lambda May Be Coming

• The CDC Needs to Stop Confusing the Public

• Microsoft will require proof of COVID19 vaccination to enter buildings in the US

• Teacher sues Phoenix School District over mask mandate

• Fears Influence Coronavirus Transmission

• Covid cases and hospital admissions down – is it over?

• Are our immune systems out of practice?

• Biden Administration Exaggerates Risk Posed by Covid-19 Breakthrough Infections

• The Oxford–AstraZeneca Covid vaccine makers tell all

  A book from the Oxford–AstraZeneca team, and a documentary, go behind the scenes in the race to vaccinate the world.

Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda

• Can we save the planet by shrinking the economy?

• The infrastructure deal could create pipelines for captured CO2

• Democrats Seek $500B in Climate Damages from Big Polluting Companies

• Can Hard Drives Be Recycled? Google Is Trying to Find Out

• AHA! these little bastard might be biting me Oak Mite Bug Leaving Gross Bites on DC People | Washingtonian (DC)

  • Oak Itch Mites