2021-02-17

Cool

• Visualization of 40M Cell Towers

  • I have doubts about the data, but the visualization trick is excellent.

Worthy

• The False and Exaggerated Claims Still Being Spread About the Capitol Riot - Glenn Greenwald

  None of this was seriously questioned until a relatively new outlet called Revolver News on February 9 compiled and analyzed all the contradictions and lack of evidence in the prevailing story, after which Fox News’ Tucker Carlson, citing that article, devoted the first eight minutes of his February 10 program to examining these massive evidentiary holes.

  and

  All this matters because it inherently matters if the media is recklessly circulating falsehoods about the most inflammatory and significant news stories. As was true for their series of Russiagate debacles, even if each “mistake” standing alone can be dismissed as relatively insignificant or understandable, when they pile up — always in the same narrative direction — people rightly conclude the propaganda is deliberate and trust in journalism erodes further.

  ... welcome to the last 4 decades, Mr Greenwald.

  from one of the comments:

  By allowing so much inaccurate and false info to be propagated unresponded to in your comments, you are becoming a journalistic outlet that spreads false information. Whether you like it or not, you are ultimately ethically responsible for your site, including the comments. No, one racist comment wouldn't mean you are a bigot, but when the overwhelming content of your comments section has become a sewer of right-wing bias and misinformation, you may want to figure out how to course correct. I hope you're willing to hear this from a longtime supporter and friend.

• BBC - Travel - The Himalayan peak off limits to climbers

• Marcuse-Anon: Cult Of The Pseudo-Intellectual | ZeroHedge

etc

• Mount Etna erupts in spectacular fashion

• Reining in the Chicago Teachers Union | City Journal

• Vertical farming does not save space

• Attorney: Ghislaine Maxwell 'withering to a shell of her former self' in jail

Horseshit

• Tough-guy Texas mayor tells residents 'fend for themselves' and resigns

• Kroger to launch pilot for self-checkout store

• Three North Korean Military Hackers Indicted in Wide-Ranging Scheme to Commit Cyberattacks and Financial Crimes Across the Globe | OPA | Department of Justice

  • "Expands 2018 Case that Detailed Attack on Sony Pictures and Creation of WannaCry Ransomware"

• Scott Siskind isn't being honest about his history with the far-right

• Twitter Just Created a Custom Font to Better Reflect Its Brand Identity

Ice Weasel Armageddon

• 'Ice everywhere' as Texans brave cold, 2.7 million homes lack power | Reuters

• Natural gas, not wind turbines, main driver of Texas power shortage

• I’m Freezing Cold and Burning Mad in Texas

• The Latest: 150K without power as outages persist in Oregon

• Is Texas Facing A Humanitarian Crisis? | ZeroHedge

  • AERIAL PHOTOS: Downtown Austin Office Buildings, Parking Garages Stay Lit Up While Citizens Shiver in the Rolling Blackouts

• Texas’ natural gas production just froze under pressure

• Here’s how to avoid carbon monoxide poisoning when you’re trying to stay warm.

• Texas woman, child dead from carbon monoxide poisoning; 13 kids treated overnight in state

TechSuck

• North Dakota votes down bill that would have regulated app stores

• Facebook Saving Journalism?

• Sennheiser says it’s open to selling its consumer audio business

• YouTube removes 3000 China and Russia state coordinated influence channels

• Tesla’s next business: Turning your solar roof and EV into Bitcoin miners

• Amazon changed traffic light timing during union drive, county officials say - The Verge

Economicon

• Household Debt Climbs to Record in U.S.

• ‘Roaring Kitty’ Sued for Securities Fraud over GameStop Rise

• Millions of jobs probably aren’t coming back, even after the pandemic ends

• With Bitcoin Breaking $50k, Even Wall Street Skeptics Must Pay Attention

• U.S. retail sales rose more than 5% in January, smashing expectations

• U.S. industrial production climbs 0.9% in January

• SEC Data Shows $359M of GameStop Shares Failed to Deliver

  “Fails-to-deliver can occur for a number of reasons on both long and short sales,” reads a disclaimer on the SEC website. “Therefore, fails-to-deliver are not necessarily the result of short selling, and are not evidence of abusive short selling or ‘naked’ short selling.”

  • Unprecedented - Millions Of Gamestop Shares Failed To Deliver During Historic Squeeze | ZeroHedge

• Here Are The Prepared Remarks For Tomorrow's "Game Stopped" Hearings | ZeroHedge

Politickles

• Fact check: Biden makes at least four false statistical claims at CNN town hall - CNNPolitics

• President Kamala Harris? VP Has Been Taking Calls with World Leaders on Behalf of Biden

  • Biden Dementia So Bad Kamala Harris Taking Foreign State Calls

• "Where The Hell Are We?" - Biden's CNN Townhall Disaster Ignored By Mainstream Media | ZeroHedge

• Analysis: The most ridiculous claim in Trump's statement slamming McConnell

• Accused Capitol Rioter Brent Bozell IV Comes From Right-Wing Royalty

• Woman charged in Capitol riot says Proud Boys recruited her

• Explainer: What is the Ku Klux Klan Act cited in lawsuit against Trump

• Jason Chaffetz: Speaker Pelosi, when will you answer these 13 security questions? | Fox News

• President Biden: Fact-checking his first month in office - BBC News

• Hacker claims to have stolen files from law firm tied to Trump: WSJ | TheHill

World

• Russia, China to sign agreement on international lunar research station

• UK Queen's Husband, Prince Philip, 99, Admitted to Hospital

• Guinea declares Ebola epidemic: First deaths since 2016

• Okonjo-Iweala is 1st woman, African to lead world trade body

• Estonia warns of “silenced world dominated by Beijing”

Health / Medicine / COVID

• N.Y. Restaurant Fires Waitress Who Wouldn’t Get Covid-19 Vaccine

• Peter Diamandis Apologizes After Dozens of Event Attendees Contract Covid-19

• World’s first coronavirus human challenge study gets green light in UK

  • In first for the world, Britain OKs challenge trial exposing volunteers to COVID-19 | Reuters

• They launched a website to register covid vaccinations, but it only lasted one week – Rukshan's Blog

• Amazon sued by New York over 'deficient' Covid-19 response

• Big multinational firms are considering 'no jab, no job' contracts that make COVID-19 vaccines mandatory for staff, ...

• New CDC reports warn variants could lead to 'rapid rise' in cases

Green Propaganda

• Climate change may be behind the massive craters forming in Siberia - CNN

• Climate change, not humans, killed off North America's mammoths, sloths, megafauna - UPI.com

  "Humans also aren't completely off the hook, as it remains possible that they played a more nuanced role in the megafauna extinctions than simple overkill models suggest," said Groucutt, who leads the Extreme Events research group at Max Planck.

Obit

• Conservative Radio Legend Rush Limbaugh Dead At 70

  • Rush Limbaugh: Remembering A Conservative Messenger Who Changed the Dialogue | National Review

    • Rush Limbaugh Has Died

  • Conservative radio personality Rush Limbaugh has died at age 70

  • Rush Limbaugh, conservative talk show host, dead at 70

    • Rush Limbaugh, Conservative Radio Titan, Dies At 70 : NPR