2021-09-26

Cool

• Inigo Quilez :: fractals, computer graphics, mathematics, shaders, demoscene and more

Worthy

• How does progress happen? - Vox

  The progress studies movement is very small — mostly a handful of bloggers and researchers — but it’s one of the more intriguing intellectual movements out there. One of its leading figures is Jason Crawford, the author of a blog called The Roots of Progress that explores the history of important inventions and discoveries.

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• Amtrak train derails in rural Montana

  • At Least 3 Dead, Dozens Injured After Amtrak Train Derails In Montana | ZeroHedge

• Food myths busted: dairy, salt and steak may be good for you after all

Horseshit

• Congratulations, Mini, You Made The Stupidest Turn Signals Ever

  What I do know is that a turn indicator that blinks an opposite-pointing arrow from the direction indicated by the turn is insipid, and I will not stand for it.

• Smartphone Sensor Data Has Potential to Detect Cannabis Intoxication | Rutgers University

  “Using the sensors in a person’s phone, we might be able to detect when a person might be experiencing cannabis intoxication and deliver a brief intervention when and where it might have the most impact to reduce cannabis-related harm,” said corresponding author, Tammy Chung, professor of psychiatry and director of the Center for Population Behavioral Health at the Rutgers Institute for Health, Health Care Policy and Aging Research. They found that time of day and day of week had 60 percent accuracy in detecting self-reporting of cannabis intoxication and the combination of time features and smartphone sensor data had 90 percent accuracy in detecting cannabis intoxication.

• Can “Lottocracy” Save Democracy from Itself?

• Trusting science leaves people vulnerable to believing pseudoscience

celebrity gossip

• The Meaning of Yusuf/Cat Stevens

• Prince Andrew's attorneys acknowledge he has been served with US court papers

Culture War / Re segregation / Identdoctrination

• Schools without mask mandates are more likely to have Covid-19 outbreaks

• Over 3,000 Doctors and Scientists Sign Declaration Accusing COVID Policy-Makers of ‘Crimes Against Humanity’ › American Greatness

• Math Is Personal

• The Elizabeth Holmes Trial Sparks A Silicon Valley Debate: Why Not Other Tech CEOs? : NPR

  "When you see which CEOs get to continue to wreak havoc on consumers and the market, it's people who look like the venture capitalists, who are mostly white men," Pao said.

• Vaccine mandates: A new form of 'institutional segregation'

• An erroneous Canadian Covid-19 study has spread like wildfire among anti-vaxxers

• Neo-Nazis are still on Facebook. And they’re making money

• DuckDuckGo said no. But when I reapplied as a black lesbian who can’t speak English, they wanted me. – LULZ

  I’ve been working as a mobile developer for 12 years. I’m a straight white male who knows what I am doing in my occupation. But lately I’m struggling to find another place to work. I applied for a job at DuckDuckGo, and got told to go fuck myself right away. So I reapplied as a black lesbian 5 years of experience who can’t program or spell. They are moving me to the 2nd round of interviews.

Media / Many Ministries of Truths / Censorship

• Inaccuracies, irresponsible coverage, and conflicts of interest in The New Yorker · fast.ai

• Everyone Wants to Be an Influencer

• Little Outcry over Antifa's Equal-Opportunity Beatdowns of Journalists

TechSuck

• Clearview AI hits watchdog groups with subpoenas

• Remote control of ... wtf who wants that capability to exist? Volkswagen disables horn and turn signals due to credential lapse

Economicon

• Ask HN: Did you buy Etheria tiles in 2015? You are likely rich | Hacker News

• Zillow Isn’t Big Enough to Manipulate the National Housing Market (Yet)

• More than a job: the food delivery co-ops putting fairness into the gig economy

• The Cantillon Effect: How the Federal Reserve Caused a Massive Merger Wave - by Matt Stoller - BIG by Matt Stoller

• The supply-chain mystery Archive link

• Not Again. Costco Warns Of Toilet Paper Shortage

Poilitcks

• Democrats' Criticisms of Biden Are Reminder of Why GOP Is a Danger to Democracy

• Pelosi Plays Chicken With House Progressives, Schedules Three Votes For Next Week That "Must Pass" | ZeroHedge

Crime / Police

• Wisconsin teenager wins lawsuit over COVID social media post

  A Wisconsin high school student on Friday won a federal lawsuit she brought against a sheriff who threatened her with jail time early in the COVID-19 pandemic if she didn’t remove social media posts saying she had the virus.

  A second post, showing her in a hospital bed hooked up to what appears to be an oxygen mask, included the caption, “Winning the fight with Covid-19.” It was that post that the sheriff’s deputy had a screen shot of and demanded she remove, according to her attorney.

• ‘Operation Room Service': NYC Officers Bust Illicit Vans Used for Airbnb Rentals

• 'Air Rage' on JetBlue Flight: Muslim Tries to Storm Cockpit – PJ Media

• When the FBI seizes your messages from Big Tech, you may not know it for years

• Althouse: "But statements from the informant appear to counter the government’s assertion that the Proud Boys organized for an offensive assault on the Capitol intended to stop the peaceful transition from Mr. Trump to Mr. Biden."

• Times Reveals FBI Role on January 6th

Security / Militaria

• Kidnapping, assassination and a London shoot-out: secret plans against WikiLeaks

  Some senior officials inside the CIA and the Trump administration even discussed killing Assange, going so far as to request “sketches” or “options” for how to assassinate him. Discussions over kidnapping or killing Assange occurred “at the highest levels” of the Trump administration, said a former senior counterintelligence official. “There seemed to be no boundaries.”

  • CIA Reportedly Considered Kidnapping, Assassinating Julian Assange

World

• Boris Johnson to consider using army to supply petrol stations

• German election 2021: Live Reporting

• Iceland elects its first female-majority parliament

• China Is a Declining Power–and That’s the Problem

• Swiss look set to accept same-sex marriage in referendum

• Coronavirus Victoria: Cop grabs woman by throat for not wearing face mask

Health / Medicine / COVID

• OK, then? As Advisory Panel Warned, CDC Director's Anti-Science Decision Makes Boosters 'Available To Anyone Who Wants One' | ZeroHedge

• Analysis: Thousands more than usual dying – and not from Covid

• Covid-19 Panel of Scientists Investigating Origins of Virus Is Disbanded - WSJ

  “I just didn’t want a task force that was so clearly involved with one of the main issues of this whole search for the origins, which was EcoHealth Alliance,” said Dr. Sachs,

• 30 Facts You Need To Know: A COVID Cribsheet | ZeroHedge

• Never Say Neigh: FDA Lists 'Horse Drug' As Approved COVID Treatment | ZeroHedge

  "Dexamethasone commonly is used in horses to treat allergic reactions such as respiratory allergies, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (heaves), hives, itching and inflammatory diseases including arthritis."

Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda

• Should the Climate Movement Embrace Sabotage?

  • Followed with "How to Blow Up a Pipeline" (no shit).

• Bitcoin Miners Eye Nuclear Power as Environmental Criticism Mounts