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Thu, 21 Jan 2021

Current U.S. Coronavirus Surge Has Peaked, Some Experts Say: "We are coming down, slowly. This is very good news — very good news."

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Sun, 10 Jan 2021

Bitcoin Miners Saw 33% Revenue Increase in December

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Ticketmaster fined $10 million for breaking into rival’s systems: "Ticketmaster employees repeatedly accessed a competitor’s computers without authorization using stolen passwords to unlawfully collect business intelligence..."

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Wed, 06 Jan 2021

Brexit freezes 81,000 UK-registered .eu domains – and you've all got three months to get them back • The Register

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Wed, 30 Dec 2020

Washington’s Secret to the Perfect Zoom Bookshelf? Buy It Wholesale.

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Sun, 27 Dec 2020

Old is Solid; New Gets Talked About.

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Wed, 23 Dec 2020

Ripple CEO Warns SEC May Sue Company Over XRP Sales - CoinDesk

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Tue, 22 Dec 2020

BioNTech has 'scientific confidence' vaccine will work on UK COVID-19 variant, says CEO [“Scientific confidence” 😐]

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Thu, 10 Dec 2020

YouTube: “...we will start removing any piece of content uploaded today that misleads people by alleging that widespread fraud or errors changed the outcome of the 2020 U.S. Presidential election, in line with our approach towards historical U.S. Presidential elections.”

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Agents raid home of fired Florida data scientist who built COVID-19 dashboard: “‘Once they are no longer associated with ESF-8 they are no longer authorized to access the multi-user group,’ the FDLE affidavit said. All authorized users use the same user name and password.” 😳

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Sun, 06 Dec 2020

Antiviral drug 'Molnupiravir' blocks COVID-19 virus within 24 hours: Study | Business Insider India

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Fri, 20 Nov 2020

A majority of young adults in the U.S. live with their parents. The first time this has happened since the Great Depression | Pew Research Center

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Wed, 18 Nov 2020

Britain to ban new petrol cars by 2030 on road to net zero emissions [Lol. No way this happens. This is just the cover story for spending govt money on carbon capture, which is the end-around.]

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Tue, 17 Nov 2020

More good coding music:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2hkCSR9wV04

...this time from the very talented Swede @mitch_murder

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Sun, 15 Nov 2020

Trump’s new Sec of Defense: "We are not a people of perpetual war - it is the antithesis of everything for which we stand and for which our ancestors fought," Miller said in the memo, and emphasized that "All wars must end." [Wow!]

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Mon, 02 Nov 2020

YouTube-dl takedown: "...this whole mess could have been avoided in the first place if GitHub did not act upon a DMCA infringement notice that had nothing to do with the use of copyrighted material."

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Fri, 30 Oct 2020

Glenn Greenwald On His Resignation From The Intercept [If great journalists keep going independent on Substack I’m going to go broke, because I’ll support every one of them. 🤑]

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Thu, 29 Oct 2020

“The task group writing the face mask standard has not yet come to a consensus on how effective the masks should be at trapping particles...” [Never forget how slow and inefficient standards bodies are.]

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Wed, 28 Oct 2020

That Hideous Strength - 1946

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Mon, 26 Oct 2020

PG&E is preparing for another round of Public Safety Power Shutoffs across California [But, they want all electric cars by 2035? Lol. Ok.]

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