September 21, 2020

• Supreme Court, federal judiciary loom as prizes in November elections
• There’ll be Hell to Pay as Republican Hypocrites Race to Replace Ruth Bader Ginsburg
• Will Democrats Pack The Supreme Court In Response To A Trump Appointment? : Death Of Ruth Bader Ginsburg : NPR
• Court Packing Could Work – LA Progressive
• Democrats Really Might Try to Pack the Courts – Mother Jones

September 20, 2020

• MIT, Harvard Researchers Say They’re Close To A New Rapid COVID Test | CommonHealth
• A Possible Deal on Ginsburg’s Replacement that Could Prevent Court-Packing
• Perspective | If McConnell pushes through a nominee, President Biden should pack the court
• The one thing Democrats can do to stop Trump from replacing Justice Ginsburg
• Regardless of what Trump and Mitch do, the Democrats will (1) Eliminate the Filibuster, (2) Grant Statehood to D.C. and maybe P.R., (3) Expand the Lower Courts, and (4) Expand the Supreme Court [Updated] – Reason.com
• Redirect Notice
• ‘Nothing is off the table’: Supreme Court fight could reshape the Senate
• How Democrats Could Pack the Supreme Court in 2021
• In the battle over the US supreme court, Democrats can still have the last laugh | US news | The Guardian
• Democrats must get angry: The attempt to ram through Ginsburg’s replacement gives them the perfect opening

September 19, 2020

• Social media disinformation on US west coast blazes ‘spreading faster than fire’ | US news | The Guardian
• For Mitch McConnell, Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s Death Prompts Stark Turnabout – The New York Times
• The winner of the Arizona Senate race could be seated in time for a vote on a Supreme Court pick. – The New York Times
• McConnell Vows Quick Vote on Trump Pick to Fill Ginsburg Seat
• Ruth Bader Ginsberg’s passing makes a scary moment even worse

September 18, 2020

• [Title not available]
• The Untold Story of the Teen Hackers Who Transformed the Early Internet
• MySpace Cofounder Tom Anderson Was A Real Life “WarGames” Hacker in 1980s | TechCrunch
• A Hacker Vanishes : Computer Whiz, Missing Since September, a Source of Mystery – Los Angeles Times
• J.K. Rowling Book Burning Videos Are Spreading Like Wildfire Across TikTok
• A huge step toward end of Arab-Israeli conflict (opinion) – CNN
• Surfaces vs Airborne: What We Know Now About Covid-19 Transmission | Elemental
• The End of the Arab-Israeli Conflict – Ottomans and Zionists
• Rise of Kevin Systrom: From Instagram CEO to possible new TikTok chief – Business Insider

September 17, 2020

• Citigroup puts man identified as QAnon site operator on leave
• Cemetery of Soviet computers
• Famous Crypto Artist Pak to Release Collection of Digital Art – Decrypt
• The Four Kinds of Side Hustles
• How COVID-19 Impacted the Travel Industry Worldwide
• Government corruption and negligence drive most wrongful convictions, report finds
• Harvard Jail House – Harvard, Nebraska – Atlas Obscura
• If you caught COVID-19, you likely ate at a restaurant, CDC report finds
• In the Country of Stones by Nicolas Blandin | by Cary Benbow | Medium
• My Trip Down the Crypto Rabbit Hole in Search of the DAO Hacker

September 16, 2020

• When you browse Instagram and find former Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott’s passport number
• ‘A giant wheezing kazoo’: Golden Gate Bridge starts to ‘sing’ after design fix
• Chinese virologist Dr Li-Meng Yan publishes report claiming COVID-19 was made in a lab
• Why You Never Truly Leave High School — New York Magazine – Nymag
• We Were a Party of Two, but Never Quite Alone – The New York Times

September 15, 2020

• Why the Nazi Party Loved Decaf Coffee – Gastro Obscura
• Opinion | Stop Expecting Life to Go Back to Normal Next Year
• The 20-Year Hunt for the Man Behind the Love Bug Virus
• A whopping 91% of plastic isn’t recycled
• Four operating systems: One device. How the Chromebook will become the universal laptop. | InsiderPro
• BlackBerry Is Planning a Comeback. For Some, It Never Left | WIRED
• Japanese Defense Ministry unveils protocol for encountering UFOs | The Japan Times
• The boomers’ last stand – Younger Americans feel their voting weight | United States | The Economist
• Away from the bustle – Covid-19 and the end of commuterland | Britain | The Economist
• US presidential election 2020: Can Donald Trump cling on to his base?
• The Three Year Rule: How To Stay Motivated Working On A Long-Term Project | Durmonski.com

September 14, 2020

• Nikola: How to Parlay An Ocean of Lies Into a Partnership With the Largest Auto OEM in America – Hindenburg Research
• Israeli gov’t approves: Three-week lockdown beginning Friday – The Jerusalem Post
• QAnon Latest: Jason Gelinas Named as Developer Behind Qmap.pub – Bloomberg
• Oil Workers Rescued From Libya Just In Time

September 13, 2020

• Facebook removes misinformation related to Oregon wildfires
• The Forgotten Origins of the Modern Gay Rights Movement in WWI
• ‘Loose Change’ 9/11 Conspiracy Documentary History – Dylan Avery Interview 9/11 Truthers
• Twitter gaffe: US embassy announces ‘crazy bad’ Beijing air pollution | Jonathan Watts | Environment | The Guardian
• Are Aliens Real?: How UFO Culture Took Over America – Rolling Stone

September 12, 2020

• Why Goodreads is bad for books

September 11, 2020

• What to Do if a Bat Gets in Your House
• The Unbuilt Streets of California’s Ghost Metropolis
• Deep cleans and disinfecting mists might not keep us from getting the virus, but they sure make us feel better
• Smallness
• John Cleese Intends to Have His Unread Books Buried With Him
• Dentists Are Seeing an Epidemic of Cracked Teeth. What’s Going On?

September 10, 2020

• BBC – Travel – This desolate English path has killed more than 100 people
• Anduril’s New Drone Offers to Inject More AI Into Warfare | WIRED
• VC&G | » Why the Apple II Didn’t Support Lowercase Letters
• The Golden Hand Sculpture – Mansfield, England – Atlas Obscura

September 9, 2020

• ‘I’m a Coffin Confessor. I Tell People’s Secrets From Beyond the Grave’
• Experts: Shenlong May Be China’s Response to U.S. X-37B – SpaceNews
• New Chinese Space Plane Landed At Mysterious Air Base, Evidence Suggests
• Last Beautiful
• How to Make a Media Query-less Card Component | CSS-Tricks
• A Saudi Prince’s Attempt to Silence Critics on Twitter | WIRED
• Chess – macwright.com
• [Title not available]
• Bob Woodward book ‘Rage:’ Trump admits to concealing true threat of coronavirus – CNNPolitics
• Adventures in ‘Canzuk’: why Brexiters are pinning their hopes on imperial nostalgia | Trade policy | The Guardian

September 8, 2020

• Explaining the ‘Mystery’ of Numbers Stations
• Secrets and Wives — Truly*Adventurous
• The Ever-Mutating Life of Tumblr Dot Com — Fansplaining
• Video shows USPS mail being dumped in a California parking lot. A postal union says USPS employees weren’t involved
• AVIF has landed
• The Pinkertons Still Never Sleep | The New Republic
• Men of Mystery: Tom Horn, William A. Pinkerton, and Frank Canton | American Heritage Center (AHC) #AlwaysArchiving
• Asemapäällikönhovi Building – Helsinki, Finland – Atlas Obscura
• Here’s the Real Reason You Miss the Nokia 3310 | WIRED
• Escape from Creek Fire – Jaymie Shearer
• The US Army Spent Millions Developing Giant, Six-Legged Walking Trucks in the 1980s – The Drive

September 7, 2020

• Tips for How to Search For a Job During a Pandemic
• Phones for low-income users hacked before they’re turned on, research finds
• How I made the front page of Hacker News on my first try

September 6, 2020

• Academics Are Really, Really Worried About their Freedom
• With a Simple Piece of Paper, Engineers Create Self-Powered, Wireless Keyboard
• Attention is your scarcest resource
• Tech Workers Flee Belarus as IT Haven Takes Authoritarian Turn
• Most of the World’s Bread Clips Are Made by a Single Company | Atlas Obscura
• Inside the Russian Short Wave Radio Enigma
• The ghostly radio station that no one claims to run
• The Stowaway
• Hong Kong mourns the end of its way of life as China cracks down on dissent

September 5, 2020

• A Second Chance
• The Mystery of the Missing Portrait of Robert Hooke | Atlas Obscura

September 4, 2020

• Evidence slowly building for long-term heart problems post-COVID-19
• DNA testing is easy. It can also turn your family upside down | Psyche Ideas
• The Photographer Peeking at Your Phone
• How Juicero’s Story Set the Company Up for Humiliation
• The Pentagon has ordered Stars and Stripes to shut down for no good reason
• How we sleep today may forecast when Alzheimer’s disease begins
• Islamic State: Giant library of group’s online propaganda discovered

September 3, 2020

• The Citicorp tower design flaw that could have wiped out the skyscraper: 99% Invisible by Roman Mars.
• A Supercomputer’s Covid-19 Analysis Yields a New Way to Understand the Virus | Elemental

September 2, 2020

• Controversial law allows police to seize and sell cars of non-lawbreakers, keeping the proceeds
• How Israel’s violent protests risk going beyond Covid-19 unrest
• U.S. Election Priced as Worst Event Risk in VIX Futures History – Bloomberg
• SR-71 Blackbird Pilot Tells the Story of His Famed Ground Speed Check | The National Interest
• Jet Pack Sighting at 3,000 Feet Over Los Angeles Prompts Investigation – The New York Times
• How To Write A Letter of Recommendation for Yourself · Josh Thompson

September 1, 2020

• A Navy officer’s sudden mission meant carrying a flag 9,000 miles and standing up his fiancee on date night
• The Economist – World News, Politics, Economics, Business & Finance
• The conflict in Mozambique is getting worse
• The Democrats need a plan to stop Donald Trump from stealing the election
• Airline Pilots Landing At LAX Report “A Guy In Jetpack” Flying Alongside Them
• A Community Theater Leader Disappears And Leaves A Trail Of Deception In His Wake
• The Oysters That Knew What Time It Was | WIRED
• Exclusive: The Saga Of ‘Star Citizen,’ A Video Game That Raised $300 Million—But May Never Be Ready To Play
• How Do You Decode a Hapax? (Also, What’s a Hapax?)
• Why Doctors Hate Their Computers

August 31, 2020

• What is QAnon? A not-so-brief introduction to the conspiracy theory that’s eating America
• Twitter
• Taking a look at Gerät 32620 — The Postface
• North Korea Revives Coded Spy Broadcasts After 16-Year Silence – The New York Times
• Northern Spy Lifts Cloak on Koreas’ Deadly Rivalry – The New York Times
• The Mystery of Ellen DeGeneres – The Atlantic
• The Rise and Fall of the Bombshell Bandit
• After a decade of tech rule, is San Francisco about to return to its Bohemian roots?
• Personal freedom is still limited in most of the Islamic world
• Sputnik IV Crash Site – Manitowoc, Wisconsin – Atlas Obscura
• Don’t get stuck – stitcher.io
• The Big Tesla Hack: A hacker gained control over the entire fleet, but fortunately he’s a good guy – Electrek
• FOX TWO: The Story of the AIM-9 Sidewinder, by Don Hollway
• Today’s Webcams Are Boring, so I Brought Back a Classic | by Max Braun | Aug, 2020 | OneZero
• Leon Theremin – Wikipedia
• Desert Bus: The Very Worst Video Game Ever Created | The New Yorker
• Valmont Butte – Boulder, Colorado – Atlas Obscura

August 30, 2020

• Airbnb Has a Hidden-Camera Problem
• Evangelicals are looking for answers online. They’re finding QAnon instead.
• The Crazy-Tiny Next Generation of Computers
• All Circuits are Busy Now: The 1990 AT&T Long Distance Network Collapse
• The Tech My Dad Banned From Our House
• The (Literally) Unbelievable Story of the Original Fake News Network
• Meet the “menu engineers” helping restaurants retool in the pandemic

August 29, 2020

• Design Tip: Never Use Black by Ian Storm Taylor
• I Thought I Would Have Accomplished a Lot More Today and Also by the Time I Was Thirty-Five
• The Bizarre Mystery Of Unexplained Aerial Incursions Over Loring Air Force Base
• She persisted, he resisted – The Republican Party in Congress could become even more male | United States | The Economist
• Childish things – Santa Claus ain’t coming to town: is childhood innocence worth preserving? | 1843 | The Economist
• Every single step I took to get my side project to $1k/month
• Expert overclockers successfully push DOOM Eternal past 1,000 frames per second! | Bethesda.net

August 28, 2020

• Opinion | America’s Coronavirus Reopening Choice: Schools, Bars or Disney World? – The New York Times
• US teen accused of ‘cultural vandalism’ after writing half the entries on Scots Wikipedia page | Daily Mail Online
• Missing Fort Hood soldier Elder Fernandes found dead, lawyer says – The Washington Post
• Missiles are advancing so quickly that their names need to change, report finds – The Washington Post
• James Lomax · Diary: In Ashgabat · LRB 30 July 2020
• China Secretly Built A Vast New Infrastructure To Imprison Muslims

August 27, 2020

• Confessions of an ID Theft Kingpin, Part II — Krebs on Security
• Confessions of an ID Theft Kingpin, Part I — Krebs on Security
• Apple showing signs it may soon launch a search engine to compete against Google Search
• The Protectors of Cascadia Prepare for a Massive Earthquake
• Death of the office
• The Republican convention is unlikely to save Donald Trump
• Voices from Belarus: “The situation is like a boiling cauldron”
• Most voters don’t love Biden, but he has built a coalition of the non-woke and it’s working for him
• From Belarus to Lebanon, the US to Thailand, righteous moral outrage is sweeping the globe
• Do not be fooled by the polling. Donald Trump could very well win a second term
• Schlitterbahn’s Tragic Slide
• Why Alyssa Edwards Is Forever a Texan

August 26, 2020

• Lessons From Clayton Christensen’s ‘How Will You Measure Your Life?’
• For Schopenhauer, happiness is a state of semi-satisfaction | Aeon Essays
• What Blind People Dream About – Safe Space
• Why Facebook Is Bad, Twitter Might Be a Little Bit Good, and Social Media Is Rotting Our Brains | GQ
• A Street-Wise Philosopher Explains What It Means To Be Homeless Amid the Pandemic
• How this ends. – Real Science
• How to Leave Work at Work
• Preparing For the Vaccine Results
• How Full-Stack Are You? Here’s How to Chart It Out
• Why Every City Feels the Same Now
• Why One Expert Predicts a Major Hurricane Hitting Houston Would Be “America’s Chernobyl”
• Google’s Plan to Disrupt the College Degree Is Absolute Genius
• Kim Jong Un’s sister now said to control North Korea party nerve center
• What’s it like as a Senior Engineer?
• Rethinking the App Store
• US Indictments and Raids of Piracy Group Members in ‘The Scene’ Throw Top-Tier Piracy World Into Chaos * TorrentFreak