2021-10-24

Cool

• The origins and spread of domestic horses from the Western Eurasian steppes

  Here we pinpoint the Western Eurasian steppes, especially the lower Volga-Don region, as the homeland of modern domestic horses. Furthermore, we map the population changes accompanying domestication from 273 ancient horse genomes. This reveals that modern domestic horses ultimately replaced almost all other local populations as they expanded rapidly across Eurasia from about 2000 bc, synchronously with equestrian material culture, including Sintashta spoke-wheeled chariots. We find that equestrianism involved strong selection for critical locomotor and behavioural adaptations at the GSDMC and ZFPM1 genes.

• Slo-mo footage of running engine with clear cylinder is mesmerising

Worthy

• Archiving Bullshit

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• The horse bit and bridle kicked off ancient empires – a new giant dataset tracks the societal factors that drove military technology

• NASA chief Bill Nelson on UFOs

• ZIM Kingston on Fire Off Victoria, BC After Losing Containers in Heavy Seas

  • Cargo Ship on Fire Near Victoria BC

• Why Germany is building risk into its playgrounds

celebrity gossip

• Palantir’s Peter Thiel thinks people should be concerned about surveillance AI

• Total Disaster: We Know What Happened Prior to Alec Baldwin’s Accidental Shooting of Cinematographer

COVID / VaxCult

• Lockdowns' High Costs and Murky Benefits: Review of “Economics in One Virus”

• NIH admits Fauci lied about funding Wuhan gain-of-function experiments

• The SARS-CoV-2 main protease Mpro causes microvascular brain pathology by cleaving NEMO in brain endothelial cells | Nature Neuroscience

  • There have been voices saying "this is primarily a vascular disease" since quite early.

• The Real Scandal About Ivermectin

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

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

• Assessment of Cognitive Function in Patients After Covid-19 Infection

• EU scientists reveal long-term brain damage caused by Covid

• Toronto students told not to talk at lunch to reduce the spread of Covid-19

• Singapore hospitals risk being 'overwhelmed' after record daily Covid deaths

• "Emergency Mode" - China Warns Covid Outbreak To Worsen In Coming Days

• Africa tries to end vaccine inequity by replicating its own

• Covid Vaccine Makers Prepare for a Variant Worse Than Delta

• EcoHealth Throws NIH Under The Bus Over Wuhan Gain-Of-Function Report; Researcher Claims 'Massive Cover-Up' | ZeroHedge

  According to the article, the leaked documents 'struck a number of scientists and researchers as significant for one reason' - namely that a distinctive segment of SARS-CoV-2's genetic code is a 'furin cleavage site' which makes the virus more infectious because of its ability to enter human cells - exactly the feature EcoHealth proposed modifying in the leaked proposal.

• First evidence of micro clots in blood of individuals suffering from Long Covid

Culture War / Re segregation / Identdoctrination

• Linked yesterday too but it got flagged then re-enabled and blew up again. whee! YouTube deletes rapper's 'Let's Go Brandon' song claiming medical misinformation | Hacker News

• Citigroup Becomes First Wall Street Megabank To Commit To "Racial Audit"

• Who needs a romantic partner when it’s friends who help us get through life?

• Cancel Culture Takes a Big "L" - by Matt Taibbi - TK News by Matt Taibbi

  You can definitely infer from that bit that Dave Chappelle does, in fact, think it’s worse to shoot and kill a person than to make homophobic remarks. That regularly came out translated in op-ed pages as “defending DaBaby.” Such blithely insane, proudly dishonest mischaracterizations have become a regular feature of national media commentary

• Some other race is #2

Media / Many Ministries of Truths / Censorship

• Twitter Suspends GOP Congressman for Saying Rachel Levine Is a Man

  • Rep. Jim Banks Suspended from Twitter

Trump-book

• Trump SPAC Becomes GameStop-Like Meme Stock

• Trump media SPAC stock doubles, bringing 2-day gains to 800% in trading frenzy

• Trump's social network is built on a platform it didn't properly license

Facebook

• Amid the Capitol riot, Facebook faced its own insurrection

• Historical context Facemash Creator Survives Administration Board (2003)

• Internal Alarm, Public Shrugs: Facebook’s Employees Dissect Its Election Role

• Frances Haugen: ‘I never wanted to be a whistleblower. But lives were in danger’

• Facebook is promoting civil war in Myanmar

• Haugen: If Facebook surrenders ability to spy it cannot protect users

• In India, Facebook Grapples with an Amplified Version of Its Problems

TechSuck

• Microsoft reverses controversial .NET change after open source community outcry

  + [.NET Hot Reload Support via
  CLI](https://devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/net-hot-reload-support-via-cli/)
  

  • HN thread

• Google has a secret deal with FB called “Jedi Blue” that they knew was illegal

  • Google had a plan called “Project NERA” to turn the web into a walled garden

  • Checked the HN threads too and no mention of the stuff Project Veritas has been trying to push for a year or more about, afailk, the same facts.

• Percentage of Hacker News job postings that mention a remote option 2017-2021

Economicon

• More than 100,000 people have had their eyes scanned for free cryptocurrency.

• Jack Dorsey says ‘hyperinflation’ will happen soon in the U.S. and the world

• If China's economy will collapse, the whole world will follow

Poilitcks

• Biden Job Approval Steady at Lower Level

• Biden delays release of JFK assassination records, blaming COVID-19 pandemic

• Biden to host Manchin in Delaware to discuss finalizing spending bill

• Firing Dr. Fauci Now May Help Joe Biden Manage His Poll Numbers

  • Anthony Fauci Facing Quiz over NIH Funding for 'De-Barking' Beagle Puppies

  • ‘Utterly disgusting’: Fauci caught up in ‘cruel’ experiments on puppies

Law / Crime / Police

• Massive Shibu Inu YouTube LiveStream Scam Network, $320k Stolen

World

• A Covid pass protest sparked a debate in Italy on its fascist past

• Spain Will Reimburse Those Fined for Violating Covid-19 Lockdown Rules

• The European Council hands leaders too much power

• Russian mercenaries leave trail of destruction in the Central African Republic

Health / Medicine

• CNN Investigation: Tens of Millions of Filthy, Used Medical Gloves Imported Into the US - CNN

Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda

• A series of storms could ease California drought, but also unleash flood hazards

• Saudi Arabia targets net zero emissions by 2060

• US west coast braces for ‘atmospheric river’ as storm brews

• Fossil fuel, meat producing countries lobbying against IPCC report

• Young Climate Activists Hunger Strike Outside the White House

• Plastic industry pollution to overtake coal in US by 2030, report says

• Norfolk sand: Has a colossal experiment worked?