What I saw on the web on 2020.12.28

1. 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
   
   
2. 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
   
   
3. 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
   
   
4. 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
   
   
5. 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
   
   
6. 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
   
   
7. 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
   
   
8. 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
   
   
9. 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
   
   
10. 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
    
    
11. Neoliberal Champion Larry Summers Opens Mouth, Inserts Both Feet
    by Matt Taibbi
    https://taibbi.substack.com/p/neoliberal-champion-larry-summers
    yup
    via rss
    
    
12. 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