…will be flying New Shepard in half an hour.
Category Archives: Technology and Society
Mars Perseverance
Bob Zimmerman has an analysis of the landing ellipse next month.
Don’t Be Shiftless
A list of new cars that you can still buy with a stick shift. I don’t know how much longer they’ll survive, but it will be an end of an era.
[Via Glenn, who points out that they make excellent anti-theft insurance, since most young people don’t know how to drive them]
Nanoparticle Immunization Technology
…shows promise against a range of coronaviruses.
I wonder if it would provide immunity against colds?
An Ascendant Left
…silences and excludes its political enemies.
An Abusive Relationship
Fifteen ways to know you’re in one.
Just wow.
The Great Unraveling
Depressed, and depressing thoughts from Bari Weiss.
mRNA
More things to do with it. It’s not just for coronavirus.
I’m pretty sure I predicted months ago that this pandemic was going to give us new tools that would be useful far beyond Covid. Like telework, telemedicine, and telelearning, it’s one of the silver linings.
Disrupting The Disruptors
Google, Facebook, et al are going to hate this: Tim Berners Lee is reinventing the Internet to give people control over their own data.
It can’t happen soon enough.
Fighting Back
Spengler has a plan to defeat the Democrats.
I think that the reason that the fraud largely only benefited Biden is because it’s much easier to do it for a single race that was their focus than for hundreds of them all over the country. Most of it occurred in swing states, where it did in fact also benefit local races (e.g., AZ and MI).
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Political reprisals and the death of the Republic.
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Republicans have to fight. And if they won’t, we need a new party that will.
A lot of good suggestions here, but step one is, as he says, to recognize that we are at war (and have been for over a decade).
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Second link is fixed now, sorry.
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It’s 1984. This is what real fascism looks like: Coordination between academia, the media, megabusiness, and the dominant political party.