2021-10-23

Cool

• Jupiter hit by another space rock in rare views captured by Japanese skywatchers

Worthy

• Overcoming Bias : What Makes Stuff Rot?

etc

• The vet sterilizing Pablo Escobar’s cocaine hippos

• Line length revisited: following the research

  Although the new findings on return sweeps have gone some way towards exonerating long line lengths, I am hesitant to unreservedly recommend their use on screen to support efficient reading for a few reasons

Horseshit

• Have Sumatran fishing crews found the fabled Island of Gold?

• "Doing great so far!" Kids Are Waking Up

• In Defense of King George | History | Smithsonian Magazine

• License plate scanners tear neighborhood apart

• Performance artist is moving 50 tonnes of sand from one pile to another

• Taxes? Regulations? what's that word "Incentives" ... Legal weed industry in CA can't compete with illicit market

• Whips banned in downtown Reno area because sound resembles gunfire | KLAS

• Elon Musk Fans Bullied a Transportation Official Off Twitter

celebrity gossip

• Camera crew walked off set of Baldwin movie due to working conditions hours before shooting.

  • Alec Baldwin was given loaded weapon and told it was safe, court records show

• Elon Musk gets the greenlight to connect the Las Vegas Strip with tunnels

• Nassim Nicholas Taleb Calls Bitcoin a Tulip Bubble Without the Aesthetics

Obit

• Actor Peter Scolari, Known For Bosom Buddies, Girls, Dies At 66

• Tom Morey, Surfer Who Invented the Boogie Board, Dies at 86

COVID / VaxCult

• Yale Study: Natural Immunity Protects Against COVID Three Times Longer Than Vaccine – PJ Media

• Whitewash: Are US Government Health institutions engaged in a massive gain-of-function coverup? - by Jordan Schachtel - The Dossier

• Unvaccinated Police Officers Could Become America’s Own Insurgents

• Why Some Healthcare Workers Would Rather Lose Their Jobs Than Get Vaccinated

• (June 2021) Business Restrictions and Covid-19 Fatalities

• Mass vaccination may permanently attenuate population-wide immunity to SARS-2 - by eugyppius - eugyppius

• CDC: U.S. may change definition of “fully vaccinated” as boosters roll out

• Many Russians won’t get vaccinated against Covid-19. A dog catcher explains why

• In Major Shift, NIH Admits Funding Risky Virus Research in Wuhan

• Business group warns of layoffs and disruptions from vaccine mandate

• Sweden Suspends Moderna Shot Indefinitely After Vaxxed Patients Develop Crippling Heart Condition

  • Sweden extends pause of Moderna vaccine for younger age group

• A Python Package to Detect Anti-Vaccine Users on Twitter

• Covid Pass in Lithuania and Throughout Europe

  • HN thread

• New results on cognitive long Covid

• People vaccinated against Covid less likely to die from any cause, study finds

• Virus Gonna Virus

• Covid 10/21: Rogan vs. Gupta | Don't Worry About the Vase

• NIH acknowledges US funded gain-of-function at Wuhan lab, despite Fauci’s denial

Culture War / Re segregation / Identdoctrination

• I Was a Black Trans Leader at Netflix. Then I Was Fired

• Control the Language, Control the Masses - PatriotMusic.com

• “Politifact” Suddenly Makes ‘Okay’ Sign Great Again in Comedy Gold of a Biden ‘Fact Check.’

• 20Y study finds little evidence religiosity leads to greater life satisfaction

Edumacationalizing

• NYC schools will replace the gifted admissions exam with a lottery this year

• Dads spend time in Louisiana high school after 23 students were arrested in string of violence - CBS News

Media / Many Ministries of Truths / Censorship

• YouTube deletes rapper's 'Let's Go Brandon' song claiming medical misinformation

  • HN thread

• YouTubers fell for shady 'sponsors' who seized, then sold, accounts

• Taibbi: Cancel Culture Takes A Big "L" | ZeroHedge

• An enormous thread on alleged Google Facebook collusion | Hacker News

• Google sought fellow tech giants' help in stalling kids' privacy protections

Trump-book

• Donald Trump’s new social media SPAC, explained

• Trump's Truth Social Hacked Within Hours of Announcement

• Florida man accused of breaking Mastodon's open-source license

  "However, when you put any site on the internet licensed under AGPLv3, the AGPLv3 requires that you provide to every user an opportunity to receive the entire corresponding source for the website based on that code. These early users did not receive that source code."

• Former U.S. President Wants to Build a 'Non-Cancelable' Internet

Facebook

• Facebook: We support updated regulations on internet’s most pressing challenges

• What Facebook knew about how it radicalized users

• Facebook Faulted by Staff over Jan. 6 Insurrection: 'Abdication'

• Inside Facebook, Jan. 6 violence fueled anger, regret over missed warning signs

• Facebook crisis grows as new whistleblower and leaked documents emerge

TechSuck

• "Hot Reload" Microsoft angers the .NET open source community with a controversial decision

  + [Can we trust Microsoft with Open Source? - Dusted
  Codes](https://dusted.codes/can-we-trust-microsoft-with-open-source)
  

  • JetBrains Rider 2021.3 EAP5 released with hot reload support

• Athira chief executive resigns as company confirms she altered research

• Raspberry Pi 3 Fastboot – Less Than 2 Seconds

Economicon

• What If a Great Crypto Crash Is Coming? – AIER

• The Geography of the Great Resignation

• Employing, not turning into.. or is that metaphysical? Restaurants prep for long-term labor crunch by turning to robots

• Think Everything’s Expensive Now? Get Ready for What’s Next

• China’s Model of Dictated Economic Growth Blew Up

• Ryan Petersen on Twitter: "Yesterday I rented a boat and took the leader of one of Flexport's partners in Long Beach on a 3 hour of the port complex. Here's a thread about what I learned."

  There are hundreds of cranes. I counted only ~7 that were even operating and those that were seemed to be going pretty slow.

  • Mayor of Long Beach Effective immediately Long Beach allowing cargo stacked up to 4 containers high

• The US is running out of cardboard and packaging materials

• OK Boomer, Who’s Going to Buy Your 21M Homes?

• You Can Now Buy Bitcoin at Some Walmart Stores Across the U.S.

• Jack Dorsey says ‘hyperinflation’ will happen soon in the US and the world

Poilitcks

• Feeding The Liberal Flock: Glenn Greenwald Exposes The Real Reasons For The Congressional 1/6 Committee | ZeroHedge

• Bipartisan legislators demand answers from Fauci on 'cruel' puppy experiments

  • Fauci Funded 'Cruel' Puppy Experiments Where Sand Flies 'Eat Them Alive'; Vocal Cords Severed

• White House delays release of JFK files “to protect against identifiable harm”

• Rep Massie video of provocateur on Jan 6

• 'catastrophic' supply chain disruptions from Biden's vaccine mandate

Law / Crime / Police

• Federal Judges or Their Brokers Traded Stocks of Litigants During Cases

• Clinton Campaign lawfirm Alec Baldwin shooting victim was wife of Latham & Watkins lawyer | Reuters

• The Supreme Court Faces a Test on Libel Law

Security / Militaria / Diplomania

• I had to take a screen shot, no download or "save image" allowed Plea: Help us get home from Afghanistan

• NATO Agrees On Plan To Caution Russia Against Increasing Hostilities

• Biden claims the US would defend Taiwan—White House walks it back

World

• Russia Strengthens Its Internet Censorship Powers

• Erdogan Declares 10 Western Ambassadors 'Persona Non Grata'

Health / Medicine

• Mystery of exotic infectious disease traced to aromatherapy room spray

Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda

• Air source heat pumps: how the costs and savings stack up

• BMW to phase out fossil-fuel burning engines from main plant by 2024

• Ivory poaching has led to evolution of tuskless elephants