What I saw on the web on 2021.1.9

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1. Doctors heard music when checking a man's pulse. Here's why.
   by Rachael Rettner
   https://www.livescience.com/music-pulse-radio-signal.html
   I was not expecting this. No one was expecting this
   via googlery after TYWKIWDBI
   
   
2. On fantasy politics
   by Stumbling and Mumbling
   https://stumblingandmumbling.typepad.com/stumbling_and_mumbling/2021/01/on-fantasy-politics.html
   three reasons for the rise of post-truth politics
   via rss
   
   
3. some thoughts on the deplatformization of Parler
   by Cory Doctorow
   https://people.well.com/conf/inkwell.vue/topics/510/State-of-the-World-2021-page04.html#post82
   doctor o raises several good points here, about hate speech, free speech, modern internet tech, and monopoly
   via cory's blog
   
   
4. Freefall #1379 and subsequent
   by Mark Stanley
   http://tangent128.name/depot/toys/freefall/freefall-flytable.html#1379
   a curious contextualization of MLK
   via a comment on Charlie's blog
   
   
5. Conservatives are good at preaching about personal responsibility, bad at following it
   by Max Fawcett
   https://www.nationalobserver.com/2021/01/06/opinion/conservatives-good-preaching-about-personal-responsibility-bad-following
   peresonal responsibility for thee, but not for me?
   via reddit