2021-12-31

Worthy

• Ask HN: Selling framed physical art online | Hacker News

etc

• Tens of thousands of residents in Colorado told to evacuate due to wildfires

  • 30,000 Evacuated, Hundreds Of Homes Burned In Wind-Driven Colorado Wildfires

• ‘Pooh,’ ‘Sun Also Rises’ among works going public in 2022

• Meteor showers, eclipses, full moons: All of the reasons to look up in 2022

Horseshit

• Why so much Obama-era pop culture feels so cringe now

• Bugs Must Be a Bigger Part of the Human Food Chain

• The Metaverse’s Dark Side: Here Come Harassment and Assaults

celebrity gossip

• Prosecutors Quietly Dropped Case Against Epstein Jail Guards During Ghislaine Maxwell Trial | ZeroHedge

Obit

• Betty White, one of the most endearing and enduring faces on television, dies

  • Betty White Dies at 99

COVID / VaxCult

• Covid-19: Quebec brings back nightly curfew, private gatherings prohibited

• The Case for Vaccine Mandates Has Collapsed

• Government Officials Using Phony “Emergency Powers” to Impose Vaccine Passports

• Who Should Get First Dibs on Pfizer’s Covid Pill?

• Covid: Woman isolates in toilet for five hours after positive mid-flight test

• How to protect yourself from Covid-19: summary of available data by 538

• Do you have a cold, the flu or Covid-19? How to tell

• CDC Wants to Hide the Post-Licensure Covid-19 Vaccine Safety Data

• As Covid outbreak intensifies, Israel said mulling ‘herd immunity’ policy

• Airborne Transmission of SARS-CoV-2 Delta Variant in Tightly Monitored Isolation

• Texas Team Applauded for Giving What Big Pharma Refuses: A Patent-Free Vaccine

• We must make public-health authorities accountable for their COVID lies.

• South Africa lifts curfew as COVID wave peaks in fourth wave driven by Omicron

• Covid-19 Vaccine Safety in Children Aged 5–11 Years – US, Nov 3–Dec 19, 2021

• Here Come the Antivirals

• Quebec puts 10pm curfew into effect

• House Judiciary GOP: If the booster shots work, why don’t they work?

• COVID-positive Vermonters with no symptoms clog up ERs.

• Why are we vaccinating children against Covid-19?

• US children hospitalized with COVID in record numbers

• The CDC’s Defense of Its New COVID Guidelines Is Complete Nonsense

• The COVID-19 pandemic was associated with a decline in reported injuries related to high-heeled shoes among US women

• More Zvi on Omicron

• Half of the unvaccinated claim they wouldn’t take the Pfizer pill

• Early Remdesivir to Prevent Progression to Severe Covid-19 in Outpatients

• Plasma Neutralization of the SARS-CoV-2 Omicron Variant

• Researchers report Covid outbreak at isolated Antarctic station

• Omicron Doesn't Infect the Lungs Well, Animal Studies Find

• Oral Covid-19 antiviral, Paxlovid, approved by UK regulator

Media / ShowBiz / Censorship

• Silicon Valley Should Not Restrict Public Discourse About Covid Measures Which Affect Everyone

TechSuck

• Asus DDR5 to DDR4 Converter Card

• BlackBerry will die on January 4th – for real this time

Economicon / Business / Finance

• Tesla recalls almost a half-million cars over safety issues

• Spirit Airlines to triple flight attendant pay through Jan. 4

Gubmint / Poilitcks / Law Making

• Hospitals Still Not Complying with Price Transparency

• Americans seeking to renounce their citizenship are stuck with it for now

• The Third, and Last, Covid Winter Begins – Peggy Noonan

Law Breaking / Police / Internal Security

• The Pentagon has streamlined the process for sending National Guard troops into DC

External Security / Militaria / Diplomania

• ‘Serious’ talk between Biden and Putin sets stage for diplomacy

World

• China's Xi'an lockdown hits some of the largest chipmakers

Health / Medicine

• An mRNA-based anti-tick vaccine

Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda

• Winds break 100mph outside Boulder, Colorado as fires spread

• Germany shuts down half of its remaining nuclear plants

• UK has warmest New Year’s Eve on record as temperatures top 15C