2021-02-13

Cool

• This fuss is a year in the making or more Statement on New York Times Article - Astral Codex Ten

  I don’t want to accuse the New York Times of lying about me, exactly, but if they were truthful, it was in the same way as that famous movie review which describes the Wizard of Oz as: “Transported to a surreal landscape, a young girl kills the first person she meets and then teams up with three strangers to kill again.”

  • A Grand Anticlimax: The New York Times on Scott Alexander

Worthy

• The original Stonehenge? A dismantled stone circle in the Preseli Hills of west Wales | Antiquity | Cambridge Core

Horseshit

• Biden DOJ Files Appeal To Extradite Julian Assange, Ignoring Rights Groups | ZeroHedge

• Wait baffles family of man killed in South Dakota AG crash

TechSuck

• DoorDash Spent $5.5M to Advertise Their $1M Charity Donation

Politickles

• Opinion | Trump Is Guilty - The New York Times

• David Axelrod: This was no triumph for Trump (opinion) - CNN

• Trump Acquitted in Second Impeachment Trial Despite 7 Republicans Voting To ...

• UPDATE: House Impeachment Managers FOLD - Back Off On Witnesses After Trump Legal Team Announces Pelosi Will Be Called In -- Closing Arguments Begin!

• Biden urged to replace USPS board by Democrats, who said postmaster general DeJoy's polices ...

• If Republican senators acquit Trump, they will own the violence that follows

• Senate votes in favor of calling witnesses in Trump impeachment trial

• Georgia prosecutors will scrutinize Trump allies like Graham and Giuliani.

• Capitol Police issues no confidence vote in leaders

World

• 7.1 Strong Earthquake Hits Off Japan’s Fukushima, No Tsunami Threat

• Landslide; but im sure that the earlier articles blaming "climate change" still do so. Satellites Reveal Cause of Uttarakhand Flood That Devastated Hydroelectric Dams

• White House cites 'deep concerns' about WHO COVID report, demands early data from China | Reuters

• Fuel tanker blast at Afghan-Iran border causes massive fire :: WRAL.com

  injuring at least seven people and causing a massive fire that consumed more than 500 trucks carrying natural gas and fuel, according to Afghan officials and Iranian state media.

Health / Medicine / COVID

• California to expand vaccine eligibility to millions with pre-existing conditions

Obit

• Alex Trebek's final five-time Jeopardy! champ has died at age 24

• Isadore Singer, Who Bridged a Gulf from Math to Physics, Dies at 96