What I saw on the web on 2020.12.28
Dec. 29th, 2020 08:05 am- Russia’s SolarWinds Attack
by Bruce Schneier
https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2020/12/russias-solarwinds-attack.html
explaining what all happened
via rss - How Weird Is My Audience? I Polled 15,408 People To Find Out
by Tom Scott
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dcuNq3Bw9Xs
But what does Ban Ki Moon think?
via rss - The Year the ‘Third World’ Came in First
by Will Doig
https://reasonstobecheerful.world/developing-countries-covid-pandemic-success/
because at least some less-wealthy countries are dealing with covid fairly well
via rss - Effects Of The New 60% More Infectious Covid Strain
by Ian Welsh
https://www.ianwelsh.net/the-new-60-more-infectious-covid-strain/
so that you don't get too chipper about things
via rss - Jesus Piece + Fever 333 + Creeping Death cover Rage Against the Machine's "Killing In The Name”
by Two Minutes to Late Night
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y37grYuY0a0
excellent cover, still relevant
via boing leading to a playlist - Coheed and Cambria + Mastodon + Primus + Tool + Mutoid Man Cover RUSH’s “Anthem”
by Two Minutes to Late Night
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fULwDbZ4iSU
Les and Danny are a dream rhythm section
via boing leading to a playlist - In promoting the “myth of white self-sufficiency,” the “Little House” books rewrite history
by Lizzie Skurnick
https://www.pbs.org/wnet/americanmasters/in-promoting-the-myth-of-white-self-sufficiency-the-little-house-books-rewrite-history/16545/
in which some missing context is supplied
via FB - Why Folklorists Hate Joseph Campbell’s Work
by Jeana Jorgensen
https://www.patheos.com/blogs/foxyfolklorist/why-folklorists-hate-joseph-campbells-work/
in which a simplistic approach is complexified
via FB - Facebook Is a Doomsday Machine
by Adrienne LaFrance
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2020/12/facebook-doomsday-machine/617384/
when will we get around to killing it with fire?
via boing - Three Different Ways of Calling Math “Dry”
by Ben Orlin
https://mathwithbaddrawings.com/2020/12/28/the-pleasing-dryness-of-mathematics/
cuz sometimes dryness is the point
via rss - Neoliberal Champion Larry Summers Opens Mouth, Inserts Both Feet
by Matt Taibbi
https://taibbi.substack.com/p/neoliberal-champion-larry-summers
yup
via rss - Tina Weymouth Tribute Film
by Connecticut Women's Hall of Fame
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rY_BfWwbCrw
a nice little biopic of a great bassist
via boing