2021-10-07

Cool

• Take a look inside Steam Deck!

  • Steam Deck: How to disassemble Valve's handheld gaming PC (and why you shouldn't) - Liliputing

  Unlike most companies advising against opening up your hardware, Valve notes that once your Steam Deck arrives, it is yours, and you can do whatever you want with it. But the company also says the warranty doesn’t cover any damage you do if you open the chassis to perform repairs or upgrades and something goes wrong. Interestingly, Valve notes that even the $399 Steam Deck with eMMC storage uses an M.2 connector, so if you disregard all of the company’s warnings and open the chassis, you should be able to upgrade that model by adding an SSD.

Worthy

• Contrived Spectacles of “Protecting and Caring for the People” ⋆ Brownstone Institute

• Tony Soprano's Decadent Society - by Ross Douthat - Reactions

etc

• local Wendy's customer doused with hot oil by shift manager in Huntingdon - WBBJ TV

• A Group of River Otters Is Attacking People and Dogs in Alaska

• Nice Neighborhood, Except for the Houses

• “Kids who grew up on smartphones do not know how to do anything on a computer” | Hacker News

Horseshit

• Democracy Risk Report Released

• Are you never more than 6ft away from a rat?

• 3M euros worth of Nazi memorabilia found in alleged pedophile's home

• Why the "specialness spiral" leads us to not use some ordinary objects - CNN

• In China, Even Jump-Rope Is Competitive–So Parents Pay for Lessons

• How the Nobel Prizes skew science

• 10-year-old died of COVID after teacher made her ‘class nurse’: parents

• A Bitcoin Mining Operation Started a Secret Power Plant, It Did Not Go as Plannd

• (2016) How to Use Low-Dose Atropine to Slow Myopic Progression in Kids

celebrity gossip

• A new biography explains the genius of John von Neumann

• Key US Witness Against Assange Arrested in Iceland

Obit

• Robert Schiffmann, Inventive Guru of the Microwave, Dies at 86

Culture War / Re segregation / Identdoctrination

• Nearly 40% of adults from 25-54 are unpartnered

• Experts weigh in on when the public health emergency should end

• Medical Ethicist at UC Irvine on leave for challenging Vaccine mandate

• There is an unequal human sex ratio of males to females at birth

• Ivermectin: False science created a Covid 'miracle' drug

• AG Garland’s Daughter is Married to Co-Founder of Company That Sells Critical Race Theory Materials

• Hating As a Hobby: Inside the online communities where people love to hate

Edumacationalizing

• U.S. to fine for-profit colleges for false promises about graduates' prospects

• Academia’s ableist culture laid bare

• Minnesota school no longer gives grade of ‘F’ because of ‘systemic racism’ | The College Fix

• Texas school district pulls books by acclaimed author amid critical race theory

• Anti-Vaxxer Preppers Are Offering Courses on Gardening, Chess and Urban Warfare

Media / Many Ministries of Truths / Censorship

• Twitch Fallout From Twitch Data Leak is Already Severe, & Going to Get Worse

• AT&T is partly responsible for rise of One America News Network, report alleges

• To capture the scope of COVID's toll, this photographer spent 30 hours on one photo : The Picture Show : NPR

• Snapchat publicly addresses fentanyl crisis

  Social media companies catering to young users, like Snapchat, Instagram and TikTok, have been under increased pressure to address drug sales in light of a growing number of teen deaths due to illicit drugs during the pandemic.

• Gannett and the Death of Local Newspapers

• Americans' Trust in Media Dips to Second Lowest on Record

The Frumrious Flogging of Facebook

• Financial Records Show FB ‘Whistleblower’ Less Concerned Employee, More Activist

• Facebook Political Problems

• FB 'whistleblower' was part of team that censored Hunter Biden laptop story

• Facebook Is an Addiction Treadmill Most May Never Be Able to Quit

• Facebook can’t keep its head in the sand

• Facebook’s role in Myanmar and Ethiopia under new scrutiny

• Facebook is nearing a reputational point of no return

  • explody HN thread

• The Facebook Whistleblower Is Heroic and Terribly Wrong

• For millions, the WhatsApp outage could have been a matter of life and death

  With so many lives dependent upon a functional messaging service, the Facebook outage reveals the need for a different path forward. The present challenge demonstrates the need for government and socially vital parts of the economy to encourage businesses to spread their operations across multiple platforms in order to cushion the economic shock of another outage.

• Facebook banned me for life because I help people use it less

TechSuck

• I’ve loved Wasmer, I still love Wasmer – Ivan Enderlin's thoughts

  When I’ve been declared in a severe burn-out, I had to take a break. The reaction from the CEO was… unexpected: Zero empathy, asking to never ever being sick again (otherwise I will be fired), dividing my equities, asking me to work more, saying I’ve never been involved in the company etc. That was the final straw to me. That’s the wrong way to treat an employee, a collaborator, a contributor, the co-founder.

• The naughty username checking system used by Twitch

• Is Ford about to change bicycle derailleurs forever?

• Mozilla to put ads in Firefox address bar suggestions

• Facebook ends 'WFH forever' rule after mega outage

Economicon

• Has Anyone Seen Tether’s Billions?

• Whale buys $1.6B worth $BTC within 5 minutes

• Hollywood Stagehands Vote Overwhelmingly For Authorization To Strike

• Vaccine tycoons debut on Forbes’ list of 400 richest Americans

• Housing is at the root of many of the rich world’s problems

• 'Evolved Apes' NFT Creator Evil Ape Disappears with $2.7M

• America is running out of everything

• Gas Prices Hit 7-Year High.

Poilitcks

• Algorithms shouldn’t be protected by Section 230

• REVEALED: Pfizer Lobbying Hits Decade High as DOZENS of High-Profile Political Appointees Become Big Pharma Reps.

• Progressives' mobilization delusion - by Matthew Yglesias - Slow Boring

• Facebook whistleblower to speak to January 6 select committee

• Debt ceiling: Is the US about to overshoot its debt limit?

  + [The debt ceiling: can the US avert a disastrous
  default?](https://www.ft.com/content/2b5bd5e8-2662-48e4-b40f-f33b7d59ea66)
  

  • SEC chair warns U.S. debt default would shock markets

    • U.S. faces a recession if Congress doesn’t address the debt limit within 2 weeks

  • Senate's Short-Term Deal Raises Debt Ceiling By $480 Billion, Extending Deadline To Dec. 3 | ZeroHedge

• ‘F*** Biden’ signs outside Michigan presidential visit were embarrassing, says congresswoman - mlive.com

Law / Crime / Police

• Cloudflare doesn’t have to cut off copyright-infringing websites, judge rules

• Government orders Google to track anyone searching certain keywords

• 4 hurt in Texas school shooting, suspect arrested

• US High Court Asks Why Guantanamo Detainee Cannot Testify

  • In which the justices learn that a Guantanamo detainee has had a habeas petition pending for 14 years

• The Mob Attacking Trump's Lawyer Is More Dangerous Than Anything John Eastman Is Accused of Doing – PJ Media

• Key takeaways from the fifth week of the Elizabeth Holmes trial

Security / Militaria

• Leaked US spy plane footage shows ‘rubber duck shaped UFO flying at 200mph’ while being tracked for 40 minutes

• California students still stuck in Afghanistan after the Taliban takeover

• U.S. Troops Have Been Deployed in Taiwan for at Least a Year

  • US Marine Special Ops Forces Have Been In Taiwan For Over A Year, Report Confirms | ZeroHedge

• Senator Cotton Warns Hundreds Of “Unknown Afghans” Escaping Into U.S. From Military Bases – Summit News

  “The State Department has raised concerns about child trafficking by older Afghan men. Even previously-deported criminals — including an Afghan who had previously been convicted of rape in the United States, and another who had previously been convicted of aggravated robbery — were airlifted back to the United States,” Cotton added.

  • Wisconsin military base turns into a small city as Afghans await resettlement

• The Afghan War: A Photographer’s Journal

• State Department discloses number of nukes in US stockpile

  The number of U.S. weapons, including those in active status as well as those in long-term storage, stood at 3,750 as of September 2020, the department said. That is down from 3,805 a year earlier and 3,785 in 2018.

• Why Nothing (Even the Air Force) Can Kill the A-10 Warthog

World

• M6.1 Earthquake in Chiba/Tokyo(no deaths)

• Securing Critical Infrastructure: New Regulations Mandate Control | RIPE Labs

• Fears of a ‘Bottleneck Recession’: How Shortages Are Hurting Germany

• Brexit is ‘going badly,’ say Brits in new poll

• WHO employees took part in Congo sex abuse during Ebola crisis

• Canada announces Covid-19 vaccine mandate for travelers on trains and planes

• Pakistan earthquake: at least 20 dead after powerful 5.7 magnitude tremor

• China's debt fuelled ghost cities

• U.S. Set Out to Hobble China’s Huawei, and So It Has

Health / Medicine / COVID

• Malaria Vaccine Endorsed for Wide Distribution by WHO

  • WHO endorses use of world’s first malaria vaccine in Africa

• The Quest for Covid’s Origins

• Leaked Emails Reveal Pfizer Execs Sought To Conceal Use Of Aborted Fetal Cells In Covid-19 Vaccine Program | ZeroHedge

• Learning to Protect Communities with Covid-19 Home Testing Programs

• Pfizer, BioNTech ask U.S. regulators to OK Covid-19 vaccine for kids

  • Pfizer Asks FDA to Authorize Its Covid-19 Vaccine for Children Aged 5 to 11

• Science Closes in on Covid’s Origins

• White House will spend another $1 billion on rapid at-home COVID tests : Shots - Health News : NPR

• Slovenia temporarily suspends use of Johnson and Johnson Covid-19 vaccine

• Scandinavians curb Moderna shots for under 30

• A Report on Myocarditis Adverse Events in the U.S. Vaccine Adverse Events Reporting System (VAERS) in Association with COVID-19 Injectable Biological Products - ScienceDirect

• Myocarditis After Pfizer–BioNTech mRNA Vaccine Against Covid-19 in Israel

Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda

• California is shutting down its last nuclear plant

• Shareholders use AGMs to demand climate action from ASX-listed companies

• Norway to hit 100% electric vehicle sales by early next year

• Find flights with lower carbon emissions

• Fossil fuel industry gets subsidies of $11m a minute, IMF finds

• Changing behaviour for net zero 2050 | The BMJ

• IAEA publishes the detailed, global energy data we all need, but behind paywalls

• Revived architectural landmark could be the first net-zero hotel in the US

• (PDF) U.S. Department of Defense Climate Adaption Plan