2021-10-17

Cool

• A λ-calculus interpreter written in C preprocessor macros

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• The Case for File Cabinets

• It's been 42 years since 'The Hitchhiker's Guide' answered the ultimate question

• Were You Scanned By A Laser Beam From The Sky In California Recently? Here's What Did It (Updated)

Horseshit

• (Oct 12) The Reason Southwest Airlines Had an Epic Meltdown This Weekend

• DC Changes Superman’s Motto: No Longer Fights for “The American Way”

• Californians, please move if you can

  Any place in the state will do. It would be great if you could relocate to a city near yours. Even better: stay in your own neighborhood and find a new place nearby. Why am I asking you to go through the hassles and emotions of leaving one place for another? Because our state, which once prided itself on perpetual motion, is stuck in neutral.

• A Mach 5 passenger plane is a crazy idea that might just work

• A herd of ‘cocaine hippos’ from Pablo Escobar’s private zoo are being sterilized

• Teen Hacked Dutch Telco KPN before being found dead in South Korea

celebrity gossip

• Robert Durst is on a ventilator with Covid-19 days after being sentenced to life in prison

• Vince Neil hurt in fall from stage at Tennessee rock festival

• Simon Roper: the 23-year-old reconstructing the past for millions of viewers

• Bill and Melinda Gates walk daughter Jennifer Gates down the aisle as she marries Nayel Nassar | Daily Mail Online

• Don Surber: I just checked. Jonah Goldberg is still stupid

• Jeffrey Epstein Bragged Bill Barr Was in Charge, Not Trump

• Lauded Spanish female crime writer revealed to be three men

COVID / VaxCult

• Dozens of Scientists Could Be Fired After Judge Won't Halt Vaccine Mandate

• HCA posts stories of anti-vaxxers dying, scaring fence-sitters into the shot

• Electronic Covid Test Tear Down Shows Frustrating Example Of 1-Time-Use Waste | Hackaday

• Breakthrough infections might not be big transmission risk. Here's the evidence

• (Oct 7) Israel Health Ministry to consider asking newly vaccinated to avoid working out

Culture War / Re segregation / Identdoctrination

• Why Wokeism Will Rule the World

• Why the Salesforce CEO wants to redefine capitalism by pushing for social change

Edumacationalizing

• Network blackout on ‘gender fluid’ rape claim in Loudoun school.

• When Will They Learn Algebra? - by Alex Power - Yevaud (Newsletter)

  If you can’t pass Algebra I by the end of tenth grade, you are bad at math. You should not be sent through the educational system to become an engineer. You probably shouldn’t become a lawyer or a business executive. You definitely shouldn’t become a philosopher. You should be able to go to art school, assuming you are good at art. Ergo, we need ability tracking and need an algebra requirement for many of those tracks.

Media / Many Ministries of Truths / Censorship

• Governments are finding new ways to squash free expression online

• TikTok drives new nostalgia economy

Facebook

• Facebook is researching AI systems that see, hear, remember everything you do

• Facebook Says AI Can Enforce Its Rules, but the Company’s Engineers Are Doubtful

TechSuck

• Pirate Party member: GDPR-compliant Whois will lead to 'doxxing and death lists'

• How did Jeff Bezos’s Blue Origin fail to dominate the billionaire space race?

• "Metaverse" is someone's PR campaign the last week or so. Apparently, it's the next big thing. What is the metaverse?

Economicon

• Michael Burry says he’s not shorting crypto, but does believe it’s in a bubble

• 78% of community bank executives expect the housing market to crash by 2026

• New wave of strikes will test worker power

• More Americans are considering retirement

• Are You Prepared For The Mass Repricing Of Goods And Services? | ZeroHedge

• The booming business of knitting together the world’s electricity grids

• Tesla's Musk invited to a video call into Volkswagen executive conference

• $2.7T in Crisis Savings Stay Hoarded by Wary Consumers

Poilitcks

• Matthew McConaughey for Governor of Texas

• Biden’s trillion-dollar spending spree will lead to financial collapse

• 'Democracy Survived' Capitol Riot Because of Police, Biden Says

• Pete Buttigieg and 12 Other Biden Cabinet Officials to Attend U.N. Climate Summit as Supply Chain Crisis Continues

Law / Crime / Police

• After the Jan. 6 riot, police departments confront the mental health toll of the job

Security / Militaria / Diplomania

• China Tested Suborbital Bombardment System with a Hypersonic Glide Vehicle

  • Financial Times: China tests new space capability with hypersonic missile (archive)

• US Offers Rare 'Condolence Payments' To Family Of 10 Afghans Killed In Drone Strike

World

• UK Home Secretary considering removing right to anonymity on social media

• The University of Hong Kong Takes a Page From the Taliban’s Playbook - by Eli Lake - Common Sense with Bari Weiss

• The ‘lying flat’ movement standing in the way of China’s innovation drive

• As Afghanistan Sinks into Destitution, Some Sell Children to Survive

• UK spies incited mass murder of Indonesia’s communists

• Is Delhi’s Heavy Surveillance Making Women Safer?

• (Aug 2020) Selective abortion in India could lead to 6.8m fewer girls being born by 2030

Health / Medicine

• Polygenic screening of embryos is here, but is it ethical?

Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda

• Is Nuclear Power Our Best Bet Against Climate Change?

• The climate disaster is here – this is what the future looks like

• Our underwater future: What sea level rise will look like around the globe

• Climate change will turn coastal Antarctica green

• Remote sensing shows Antarctic green snow algae is important terran carbon sink

• Website uses AI to show the potential impact of climate change on any address

• Critics question the climate crisis benefits of deep seabed mining

• Growth dynamics of wind/solar compared to required global climate targets