Favorites May 31 2021

Lina Hidalgo @LinaHidalgoTX

Texas House Democrats have killed SB7, the most suppressive voter suppression bill in the nation. The midnight deadline is 30min away and all together they have walked out and broken quorum—a remarkable, difficult action & the only one that would have kept this bill from passing

Interesting use of procedure here, well done, the bill was pretty bad.

Sarah McLaughlin @sarahemclaugh

Potential for life in prison. For organizing an unofficial primary.

au.news.yahoo.comHong Kong prosecutors seek up to life in prison for ‘subversive’ activistsDozens of leading Hong Kong democracy activists could face up to life in prison for organising an unofficial primary election, prosecutors confirmed Monday, ...

Situation in Hong Kong continues to be bad, if you're wondering

Charlie Stross @cstross

That thing where huge tech breakthroughs seem to happen during world wars? What actually happens is stuff already in the pipeline gets rushed out, and sticks around afterwards. COVID19 seems to be doing the same for mRNA vaccines that WW2 did for jet engines and nuclear power.

John Gordon @jgordonshare

COVID’s gifts: a flurry of RNA vaccines in development. https://t.co/nwpYtCLTAk. Science.

Article mentions that one of the things they're testing is a more effective flu vaccine. I didn't realize previous vaccines were only 40-60% effective.

Steve Stewart-Williams @SteveStuWill

Wow, amazing animation: Population growth from 10,000 BCE to today. Credit:  @RARohde

It's interesting to me how stable Mexico is in the rankings

Santa Cruz, 2017

That’s an Espresso Tonic, they’re really quite cool looking. James Hoffman has an in depth video about them if you’re interested.

I’m sorry to say that I really couldn’t stand the taste. You’ve gotta stay curious about the world, right?