2021-10-06

Cool

• Exceptional learning capacities revealed in some gifted dogs

Worthy

• Highlights From The Comments On Modern Architecture - by Scott Alexander - Astral Codex Ten

  If stonemasonry is a low-tech industry, and new high-tech industries are arising all around it, stonemason wages could get prohibitively high (compared to everything else) until nobody wants to hire them anymore. This would create pressure for architectural styles that require as little masonry (or, generalized, human labor) as possible.

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• New York Public Library ends all late fees

• Adults Need Picture Books Too

Horseshit

• Why the U.S. pandemic playbook was no match for Covid

• No Room of Her Own: Couples’ Negotiation of Workspace at Home During Covid-19

• US Department of Education Overhauls Public Service Loan Forgiveness Program

  In an announcement Wednesday, the Education Department said it will "restore the promise" of the debt relief program through a series of actions that will be implemented "over the coming months," according to an agency memo.

• Jean Shorts Send Woman To Hospital With Life-Threatening Wedgie | iHeartRadio

• Trashing the planet and hiding the money isn’t a perversion of capitalism

celebrity gossip

• An Open Letter to Dr. Anthony Fauci (1988)

• Every version of the Monica Lewinsky story reveals America’s failure of empathy - Vox

Obit

• RIP Alan Kalter, David Letterman' Late Show announcer.

Culture War / Re segregation / Identdoctrination

• The Great Barrington Declaration One Year On.

• The Smug Politics of Covid-19 Empowers the Far Right

• UCHealth Denies Kidney Transplant To Unvaccinated Woman & Donor.

Edumacationalizing

• (Aug 2021) Only 2% of US adults have high literacy

Media / Many Ministries of Truths / Censorship

• Facebook Censorship Partner Steve Hayes Defends Election Meddling On Biden's Behalf

• A new way publishers can stay financially sustainable

  As a nonprofit providing critical infrastructure and consulting service to newsrooms, the News Revenue Hub has helped more than 70 local, regional and national organizations crowdfund over $42 million since 2016. Last year, Hub newsrooms averaged a 55% increase in member revenue and a 23% increase in email subscribers.

• R. Kelly's YouTube channels removed after conviction

• YouTube’s Ban on Misinformation

• AT&T, Which Owns CNN, Helped Build Far-Right One America News

The Frumrious Flogging of Facebook

• Senators demand Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg answer questions after revelations

• As Facebook Crumbles, the Case for Breaking It Up Is Weaker Than Ever

• Statement from Mark Zuckerberg

  • HN thread

• I Designed Algorithms at Facebook. Here’s How to Regulate Them

• Human Events Exclusive: Fmr. Facebook Official Frances Haugen Plans to Testify to EU, Called Her Friend Conspiracy Theorist After Becoming a Men's Rights Advocate/Red Pill Supporter

• Democrats and Media Do Not Want to Weaken Facebook, Just Commandeer its Power to Censor - by Glenn Greenwald - Glenn Greenwald

  Agitating for more online censorship has been a leading priority for the Democratic Party ever since they blamed social media platforms (along with WikiLeaks, Russia, Jill Stein, James Comey, The New York Times, and Bernie Bros) for the 2016 defeat of the rightful heir to the White House throne, Hillary Clinton. And this craving for censorship has been elevated into an even more urgent priority for their corporate media allies, due to the same belief that Facebook helped elect Trump but also because free speech on social media prevents them from maintaining a stranglehold on the flow of information by allowing ordinary, uncredentialed serfs to challenge, question and dispute their decrees or build a large audience that they cannot control. Destroying alternatives to their failing platforms is thus a means of self-preservation: realizing that they cannot convince audiences to trust their work or pay attention to it, they seek instead to create captive audiences by destroying or at least controlling any competitors to their pieties.

• Why this Facebook scandal is different

• If Facebook is the problem, is a social media regulator the fix?

• Meet Facebook whistleblower Frances Haugen

• Right-Wing Media Seeks to Discredit Facebook Whistleblower

• Facebook's own data is not conclusive about teens and mental health

TechSuck

• Konica Minolta explosion impacts toner supply

• Americans Had It Easy During the Facebook Outage

• Google is updating Maps, Search, Nest to help save energy and reduce emissions

• Google to turn on two-factor authentication by default for millions of users

• Nios V – Intel's RISC-V Processor

• Twitch source code and customer data has reportedly been leaked

  • Twitch Hack of 135 GB of Data Includes How Much Its Biggest Streamers Make

  • Twitch Confirms Leak

    • Gone in minutes, failed to get a screenshot Entirety of Twitch.tv Leaked

  Their community is also a disgusting toxic cesspool, so to foster more disruption and competition in the online video streaming space, we have completely pwned them, and in part one, are releasing the source code from almost 6,000 internal Git repositories, including:

  Entirety of twitch.tv, with commit history going back to its early beginnings Mobile, desktop and video game console Twitch clients Various proprietary SDKs and internal AWS services used by Twitch Every other property that Twitch owns including IGDB and CurseForge An unreleased Steam competitor from Amazon Game Studios Twitch SOC internal red teaming tools (lol) AND: Creator payout reports from 2019 until now. Find out how much your favorite streamer is really making! Torrent (128GB): magnet:?xt=urn:btih:N5BLZ6XECNEHHARHJOVQAS4W7TWRXCSI&dn=twitch-leaks-part-one&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Fopen.stealth.si%3A80%2Fannounce Repository listing: https://dpaste.org/MvoM Jeff Bezos paid $970 million for this, we're giving it away FOR FREE.

• Windows 11 launch event is a ‘6D musical experience’ with a free NFT

  • How to upgrade to Windows 11, whether your PC is supported or not

• GM reveals Ultra Cruise ‘hands-free’ system that covers ‘95 percent’ of driving

Economicon

• (Jul 2021) Truck parts among supply chain casualties | Commercial Carrier Journal

• Politicians created supply chain crises

• Bitcoin set to become legal payment in Brazil

• Chinese companies are suing Amazon after getting banned for paid reviews

• Over 1,000 Kellogg's US Cereal Plant Workers Go On Strike Over Cut To Benefits And Pay

• A trillion-dollar coin could be minted within hours of an emergency decision

  • The "Trillion Dollar Coin" Is Illegal | ZeroHedge

• Evergrande Is Only the Beginning | Articles

Poilitcks

• IRS would track all bank transactions over $600 under Biden plan

• Even in Republican counties, hard-liners seek more control of elections

• Andrew Yang Founds the Forward Party

• Janet Yellen defends Biden's IRS proposal

• The Conservatives Dreading–and Preparing For–Civil War

Law / Crime / Police

• Millennial mobsters are becoming the Mafia's downfall

  • Old NY mobsters fear handing over reins to phone-obsessed, soft millennials

• A teenager allegedly hit 6 bicyclists with his truck

• US Government ordering Google to provide users’ search data: report

  The US federal government is secretly ordering Google and other search engines to track and provide data on anyone who searches certain terms through “keyword warrants,” according to a new report. ... officials ordered Google to provide any information on users, including account names, IP addresses and CookieIDs, that searched the victim’s name, two spellings of her mother’s name and her address over 16 days throughout the year.

Security / Militaria

• US Navy Warship's Facebook account 'hacked' by 'Age of Empires' player

World

• Mussolini granddaughter tops votes in Rome city council election

• China Leaps Ahead in Effort to Rein in Algorithms

• European Parliament Calls for a Ban on Facial Recognition

• Taiwan and the Fight for Democracy, by Tsai Ing-Wen

• Singapore population sees biggest percentage drop since 1950

• Ex-convict programmer leak 40gb videos and photos of torture in Russian prisons

• Russia tells its space reporters to stop reporting on the space program

  • Russian Actress and Director to Start Making First Movie on Space Station

• We hanged Uyghurs from ceilings, ordered their rape, says Chinese whistleblower

Health / Medicine / COVID

• (May 2020, Merck's new drug) Emails offer look into whistleblower charges of cronyism behind potential COVID-19 drug | Science | AAAS

• Historic go-ahead for malaria vaccine to protect African children

  • First malaria vaccine approved by WHO

• Origin of new emergent Coronavirus and Candida diseases–Terrestrial or cosmic?

• Sweden pauses use of Moderna COVID vaccine for younger age groups

• Wuhan and US scientists planned to create new coronaviruses

• Increases in Covid-19 are unrelated to levels of vaccination

• Clinical trial shows that the use of Vitamin D supplement improves sleep quality

Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda

• Pig Poop Lagoons Are Huge Polluters. A ‘Green’ Solution Might Make Them Dirtier

• Clean environment could become U.N. human right. Not so fast, say U.S., Britain

• Can Nuclear Fusion Put the Brakes on Climate Change?

• Pipeline company paid Minnesota police for arresting and surveilling protesters

• Sandia Creates Global Archive of Historical Renewable Energy Documents

• The Cheap and Easy Climate Fix That Can Cool the Planet Fast