January 2021 Archive
3841.
Talk-radio owner orders conservative hosts to temper election fraud rhetoric (washingtonpost.com)
3842.
Big Tech’s assault on Parler proves it’s gone full cartel (nypost.com)
3843.
Silicon Valley is building a Chinese-style social credit system (fastcompany.com)
3844.
President Elect Biden sending messages encoded in binary (twitter.com)
3845.
The Unreasonable Ecological Cost of CryptoArt (memoakten.medium.com)
3846.
Google takes action against another outspoken A.I. ethics researcher (fortune.com)
3847.
SparseDNN: Fast Sparse Deep Learning Inference on CPUs (Stanford) (arxiv.org)
3848.
Tory party illegally collected data on ethnicity of 10m voters, MPs told (theguardian.com)
3849.
Biden to order DOJ to end private prison contracts (cnbc.com)
3850.
GameStop Gains for One Redditor (reddit.com)
3851.
Why Interacting with a Woman Can Leave Men “Cognitively Impaired” (scientificamerican.com)
3852.
Show HN: I built a product to write your technical resume for you for free
3853.
“HighLevel”Uber Executive Arrested After Allegedly Stabbing Daughter with Pencil (lawandcrime.com)
3854.
Cryptography Dispatches: The Most Backdoor-Looking Bug I’ve Ever Seen (buttondown.email)
3855.
On the Metal: John Graham-Cumming (oxide.computer)
3856.
Microcode-Level Calculator Simulation (2004) [pdf] (nonpareil.brouhaha.com)
3857.
Twitter Bans over 70k QAnon Accounts in Conspiracy Crackdown (bloomberg.com)
3858.
The Unsettling Truth About the ‘Mostly Harmless’ Hiker (wired.com)
3859.
MIT professor arrested for hidden China ties (boston.com)
3860.
Alexey Navalny detained on return to Moscow five months after being poisoned (cnn.com)
3861.
Reflections on 2020 as an Independent Researcher (andymatuschak.org)
3862.
Show HN: Repository.surf – see metrics for all repositories in a GitHub org (repository.surf)
3863.
Incremental Perturbation: How to Know Whether You've Got a Plot or Not (1999) [pdf] (unm.edu)
3864.
Tesla's new steering yoke isn't retro, it's a safety risk (cnet.com)
3865.
Contra Weyl on Technocracy (astralcodexten.substack.com)
3866.
Why does changing 0.1f to 0 slow down performance by 10x? (stackoverflow.com)
3867.
Gen Z Sexuality: “The Kids Are Not Alright” (theflamingeyeball.wordpress.com)
3868.
Hong Kong Police Arrest Dozens of Opposition Politicians over Alleged Subversion (wsj.com)
3869.
Video of police allowing terrorists into Capitol (twitter.com)
3870.
Remove Trump Tonight (theatlantic.com)