2022-01-01

Cool

• Making a C64/C65 compatible computer: More work on HD floppies, RLL encoding, disk density auto-detection and other fun

Worthy

• Our Favorite Essays of 2021 - Common Sense

etc

• Bank accidentally deposits $176M into people's accounts on Christmas Day

• Sometimes Science Is Wrong

• Miami Herald Report on the Surfside Condo Collapse: House of Cards

• Fish rained down on a Texas town this week

• Bridgespan Group: the most powerful consultants you’ve never heard of

Horseshit

• Retired general warns the US military could lead a coup after the 2024 election

• RadioShack to rebrand as cryptocurrency exchange platform

celebrity gossip

• Elon Musk rejects mounting criticism his satellites are clogging space

COVID / VaxCult

• Chinese Omicron rule-breakers 'forced to parade through streets carry placards' in brutal ‘zero Covid’ lockdown

• Belgian scientific base in Antarctica engulfed by Covid despite strict measures

• SARS-CoV-2 Omicron causes attenuated infection and disease in mice and hamsters

• Florida breaks single-day Covid-19 record with 75,900 cases

• COVID Antiviral Pills Cause Life-Threatening Reactions When Used With Many Common Meds: FDA

• New York says it will prioritize non-White people in distributing low supply of COVID-19 treatments

  • N.Y. Rationing Covid Drugs Based on Race

• Children’s hospitals are filling nationwide amid tidal wave of omicron

• WHO vs. Science

• Fauci Goes There: Finally Admits Kids Not Being Hospitalized From COVID | ZeroHedge

  "And what we mean by that: If a child goes into the hospital, they automatically get tested for COVID and they get counted as a COVID-hospitalized individual, when, in fact, they may go in for a broken leg or appendicitis or something like that. So it’s over counting the number of children who are, quote, hospitalized with COVID as opposed to because of COVID," said Fauci.

• Unvaccinated workers who lose jobs ineligible for unemployment benefits (Canada)

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

• The view from 30,000 feet.

  It was a huge mistake for liberals to make masks, expertise, and "the science" a cultural identity marker, which then further politicized everything having to do with COVID. Anti-vaxx sentiment is fueled by distrust. And it's understandable that they wouldn't trust us.

  This was ridiculous, as anyone who remembers the beginning of the pandemic knows. The coronavirus was designated as a subject of political-cultural warfare by Donald Trump, who made rejecting the seriousness of the disease an essential test of loyalty, to try to prevent the bad news from harming his reelection campaign.

• Rich nations break pledge to vaccinate 40% of Africa against Covid by end of '21

• New data on using J&J vaccine to boost itself

• China ends 2021 with worst covid19 outbreak since pandemic start

• The Marine Corps Is Rapidly Forcing Out Vaccine Refusers, as Promised

• The Covid Insanity Has to End

Culture War / Re segregation / Faith Fights

• Climate Anxiety Is an Overwhelmingly White Phenomenon

• What if cars could stop you from driving drunk?

TechSuck

• Starlink works great until the cats find out that it gives off heat

• YYMMDDHHMM just overflowed a signed 32 bit int

  So, if you're using Microsoft Exchange and stopped getting your mail in the past couple of hours, this is why!

  • Microsoft Exchange stops passing mail due to bug on 1/1/22

Economicon / Business / Finance

• I make a fortune buying up abandoned shipping containers

• Chamath says Visa and MasterCard will be the biggest business failures in 2022

Gubmint / Poilitcks / Law Making

• USDA ditches ‘GMO’ for ‘bioengineered’ on labels

Law Breaking / Police / Internal Security

• US’s Colorado governor slashes trucker’s sentence by 100 years

• 2021 ends as Chicago’s deadliest year in a quarter century

External Security / Militaria / Diplomania

• Who Won in Afghanistan? Private Contractors

• Flaws in Pentagon Dismissals of Civilian Casualty Claims in Iraq and Syria

World

• France introduces free birth control for all women under 25

Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda

• Disaster Coming to the Great Plains: Acute scarcity drives the search for water