Category Archives: Off Topic

The Record by Recorded Future gives exclusive, behind-the-scenes access to leaders, policymakers, researchers, and the shadows of the cyber underground.
— Read on therecord.media/wp-content/themes/therecordmedia/

In the past two weeks, Covid-19 infections have surged among airport screeners.
— Read on www.forbes.com/sites/suzannerowankelleher/2022/05/04/tsa-covid-infections-jumped-50-percent-mask-mandate-lifted/

The case comes amid concerns that a continuing outbreak among US birds could lead to more human infections.
— Read on www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/4/29/us-reports-first-human-case-of-h5n1-bird-flu

Analyze any Twitter account to uncover an estimated percentage of inactive, spam, bot, & other fake followers
— Read on sparktoro.com/tools/fake-followers-audit

We’re facing 25 years of prosperity, freedom, and a better environment for the whole world. You got a problem with that?
— Read on www.wired.com/1997/07/longboom/

A new bill will stop the plastic industry from putting the “chasing arrows” symbol on plastic that can’t be recycled.
— Read on grist.org/politics/california-bill-bans-recycling-label-on-products-that-arent-recyclable/

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If these are the practices that Cambridge University Press is willing to tolerate from journals such as Contemporary European History, we may safely conclude that their “rigourous peer-review system” is not so rigorous after all.
— Read on www.aier.org/article/how-activist-academia-destroyed-scholarly-peer-review/

When it comes to getting rid of an annoying pest, sometimes subtlety just won’t cut it. Sometimes you just have to throw everything or anything within reach, pelting the offender with shells and debris until they scuttle off back to their hole.
— Read on www.sciencealert.com/female-octopuses-throw-things-at-irritating-males-and-that-s-so-relatable

Facebook Inc on Tuesday said a recently reported data leak affecting potentially 530 million users stemmed from a misuse of a feature in 2019 and that the company had plugged the hole after identifying the problem at the time.
— Read on www.reuters.com/article/us-facebook-breach/facebook-says-data-on-530-million-users-scraped-before-september-2019-idUSKBN2BT307

Analysis reveals that strange turns of phrase may indicate foul play in science.
— Read on www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-02134-0

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