#Argentina proposes to cancel long-distance train service to Bahía Blanca, Rufino, and General Pico/Santa Rosa (which last is already suspended), leaving only service to Mar del Plata, Rosario, Córdoba, and Tucumán. #Trains to Chascomús are still suspended, if I understand correctly.
NASA’s post about the Babylonian #history of the Zodiac and orbital precession and whatnot
Oculus Rift founder Palmer Luckey, under the name /u/NimbleRichMan, funding a shitposter army to construct anti-Hillary memes through super PAC Nimble America. #politics
apparently 4chan trolls are going to try to troll #Google’s Project Jigsaw AI through #racism: they’ll use the word “Google” as a new racist slur against black people and the word “Skype” as a new racist slur against Jews, echoing the kind of word-replacement games people have been using to escape #censorship in #China for years
almost all non-Africans trace our descent to a single emigration from Africa 50 000 years ago, with near-immediate divergence; there’s a competing hypothesis by Mait Metspalu of an earlier dispersal, 120 000 years ago. But that would be before the #Toba catastrophe, 75 000 ± 900 years ago. #archaeology
#Toba catastrophe theory “dismissed”
“Police have warned individuals against dressing up in clown costumes, adding it could lead to criminal charges.”
#Toba ash found in lake Malawi, but doesn’t support catastrophic genetic bottleneck
new long-range #radio #hardware "LPWAN" technologies (“Sigfox”, “#LoRa”, “Ingenu”) transmit at kilobits per second over unlicensed spectrum to (in the case of Beep Networks’s LoRa test) a kilometer or two, or 16 km in rural areas with towers.
The #Chan-Zuckerberg initiative announcement to cure all disease
Another copy of the #Chan-Zuckerberg initiative announcement to cure all disease
today’s KrebsOnSecurity #DoS #censorship via #IoT #malware overwhelmed #Akamai with 620 Gbps. #security