2023-08-09

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Bring on the Counterrevolution | City Journal

Conservatives today rarely appeal to Richard Nixon for inspiration, allowing the Watergate narrative and Nixon’s own ideological and policy inconsistencies to obscure the potential of his vision for resisting the Left’s cultural revolution. This is a mistake—but what would Nixon’s blueprint for counterrevolution look like today?
The actual facts are interesting but the reporting sucks many small scattered stones. Planetary defense test deflected an asteroid but unleashed a boulder swarm | Hacker News
I Was Wrong About Trigger Warnings

Gay, bisexual men can donate blood as revised FDA rules take effect.
- Some people have viewed the restriction as repression, and made a point of donating blood anyway; it all has to be tested regardless, right? ... maybe avoiding arguments of "blood purity" and sources was a good idea.
Evolution of the Black Leader Myth - by Juliette Ochieng
The Legal Assault on Corporate Diversity Efforts Has Begun

Downfall Attacks | Hacker News
Good lord. $300 is cheap for what it says it does. Jumperless breadboards are a real thing now | Hacker News
Intel's GPU Drivers Now Collect Telemetry, Including 'How You Use Your Computer' | Hacker News
The time SUSE, the German Linux company, banned mentioning Jewish holidays.
Fork Yeah! Examining open source history after Red Hat's move | Jeff Geerling
SanDisk Portable SSDs Are Failing So Frequently, We Can No Longer Recommend Them

If there were so many issues with Extreme Pro drives, why did SanDisk continue to sell them and mark them down to push even more potentially faulty drives out into the world? Clearing inventory is one thing, but if a company has reason to believe that the stock it is peddling is faulty, that reeks of malfeasance. That might not be what happened. However, Western Digital downplayed the issue when it spoke to The Verge earlier this year and, like with PetaPixel, has failed to answer some very basic questions.