December 2021 Archive
4381.
Facebook: Fake scientist used to spread anti-US propaganda (techxplore.com)
4382.
Reddit Goes 'Real Time' with Typing Indicators, Comment Pills, More (pcmag.com)
4383.
PostgreSQL at Scale: Saving Space (Basically) for Free (medium.com)
4384.
Giant black hole inside a tiny satellite galaxy of ours defies explanation (space.com)
4385.
Web2 vs. Web3 (twitter.com)
4386.
‘It's misinformation at worst.’ Weak health studies can do more harm than good (science.org)
4387.
Our Rulers Are Not Rational Creatures: Notes from the Edge of Narrative Matrix (caitlinjohnstone.substack.com)
4388.
The Lab Leak Fiasco (tabletmag.com)
4389.
Sony Playstation SVP caught in pedophile sting video (cnet.com)
4390.
The Age of Digital Divination (sapiens.org)
4391.
Cloudflare acquires Zaraz to enable cloud loading of third-party tools (blog.cloudflare.com)
4392.
EU draft rules for gig workers target Uber, Deliveroo, online platforms (financialpost.com)
4393.
China enforcing replacement of .com domains with .cn for in-country HTTP traffic (old.reddit.com)
4394.
Julian Assange can be extradited to the US (telegraph.co.uk)
4395.
Django 4.0 Released (docs.djangoproject.com)
4396.
All Belarusian Banks Are Prepared for Disconnection from Swift (charter97.org)
4397.
Thinking vs. Feeling Is a False Dichotomy (dimensional.me)
4398.
Dan Ammann (CEO of Cruise) is leaving the company (cnbc.com)
4399.
Apple Builds New Team in Southern California to Bring Wireless Chips In-House (bloomberg.com)
4400.
Amazon driver was warned she’d be fired for not delivering during a tornado (theverge.com)
4401.
Anti-5G necklaces found to be radioactive (bbc.com)
4402.
Japan has all the answers you need (themacrocompass.substack.com)
4403.
Amazon scraps new ban on phones in warehou ses 'until further notice' (engadget.com)
4404.
Teaching Machines: A History (insidehighered.com)
4405.
Zopfli is *really* good at compressing PNGs (smitop.com)
4406.
Facebook will prevent, not create, the ‘metaverse’ (mikeelgan.substack.com)
4407.
Apple to Apple RAM Comparison: M1 Max vs. Intel MacBooks vs. $50K Server (unum.cloud)
4408.
Evgeny Morozov: 'We are abandoning all the checks and balances' (2013) (theguardian.com)
4409.
No, 73% of US Covid-19 cases aren’t Omicron yet: how the press got it wrong (theprepared.com)
4410.
Mormon billionaire leaves faith, rebukes LGBTQ rights stance (sfgate.com)