2022-01-04

Cool

• Goldfish can learn to navigate a small robotic vehicle on land

etc

• NASA hired 24 theologians to study reaction to aliens: book

• Ball lightning witness accounts, illustrated in comics

• Motorists have been stranded on a major interstate in Virginia since last night

Horseshit

• How NFTs became a $40bn market in 2021

• Netgear is turning its connected picture frame into a display for NFTs

• I had £1.6milion worth of ape NFTs stolen in the worst night of my life

• "Public Safety Drones" Drones may be used to help protect vulnerable women

• How do I open the Mercedes EQS's hood? - Alt Car news

  “Only the specialist personnel of a qualified specialist workshop should open the hood. Access by the customer is not permitted.”

  Yes, anyone can open the hood to a Mercedes EQS. According to a Mercedes Technician, “The lever to open the hood is still down there, Mercedes put a plastic cover over the hood release. Anyone can pull the cover out and open the hood if they really wanted to. But, there’s no gas struts or prop, so something has to be jammed in there to prop the hood up.”

celebrity gossip

• WeWork Co-Founder Adam Neumann Is Becoming an Apartment Mogul

COVID / VaxCult

• LA County Teachers Now Have To Wear 'High-Quality' Masks: Health Department

• What If The Largest Experiment On Human Beings In History Is A Failure? | ZeroHedge

• Omicron Cases Are Hitting Highs, but New Data Puts End in Sight

• Saliva test is best for Omicron detection

• New Covid-19 variant named ‘IHU’ discovered in France

• Graphic: Tracking the Vaccine Race

• Has COVID Run Its Course? This Chart Suggests The Answer Is Yes – Issues & Insights

• Omicron Has Potential to Stop the Pandemic, but That's Not the End of the Story

• When Three Shots Are Not Enough

• FDA authorizes Pfizer booster dose for 12 to 17 year-olds

• NY COVID Hospitalizations Top 2021 Surge Levels; Omicron Quintuples Risk of Breakthrough Cases

• Covid: Vaccines for all every four to six months not needed, says expert

• Covid Science: Virus leaves antibodies that may attack healthy tissues

• A Community of German Anti-Vaxxers on the Black Sea Coast

• US sets global record with over 1M Covid cases in one day

Culture War / Re segregation / Faith Fights

• How Science is Being Undermined - by Nicholas Wolfwood

• The Reality They Invent to Feed the Power They Crave ⋆ Brownstone Institute

• Women 32% more likely to die after operation by male surgeon, study reveals

Edumacationalizing / Acedemia Nuts

• Student receives praise for bogus paper on how milk is a ‘colonizer’ of coffee

Media / ShowBiz / Censorship

• YouTube takes down Joe Rogan interview with Dr Robert Malone

• Those Who Support Internet Censorship Lack Psychological Maturity

• Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene says Facebook blocked her account for 24 hours

• Facebook reverses course after 'permanently' locking account of conservative children's book publisher | Fox Business

TechSuck

• AT&T/Verizon reject plea for 5G delay; airlines threaten mass flight cancelation

  • Verizon and AT&T Agree to Delay 5G Plans over Airline Safety Concerns

• Thousands of websites taken offline in Brexit domain name change

• ASML reports fire at its Berlin factory

• Long division - tavianator.com

• BlackBerry pulls life support for once-indispensable business smartphone

• Why glibc 2.34 removed libpthread | Red Hat Developer

  so even though libpthread is gone as a separate object, all the public functions it used to provide (such as pthread_create) are still available. In this consolidation effort, glibc follows the pioneering work of the musl C library, which provides absolutely everything (including the dynamic linker) in a single shared object.

Economicon / Business / Finance

• Apple becomes first U.S. company to reach $3T market cap

• Car shortage could change buying behavior forever

• Ford will build 150k F-150 Lightnings per year due to demand

• Nurses ratify new contract, end nearly 10-month strike

Law Breaking / Police / Internal Security

• Elizabeth Holmes verdict: Former Theranos CEO is found guilty on 4 counts

  • Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes found guilty of conspiracy

  • HN thread

Jan 6

• Extremism in the U.S. shifted after Jan. 6

• Poll Finds Majority in US Consider Democracy Threatened

• If American democracy is going to survive, media must make this crucial shift

• Exclusive: Secret Commandos with Shoot-to-Kill Authority Were at the Capitol

External Security / Militaria / Diplomania

• U.S. Catches Kremlin Insider Klyushin Who May Have Secrets of 2016 DNC Hack

World

• Popeyes Chicken Announces Agreement to Launch in South Korea

• Five of world’s most powerful nations pledge to avoid nuclear war

• Taliban orders shop owners in Afghanistan to behead all mannequins.

• The UK is in danger of becoming a police state masquerading as a democracy

• Ukrainian neutrality: a ‘golden bridge’ out of the current geopolitical trap

• South Korean ruling party to issue NFTs for fundraising in presidential election

• Taiwan ‘buys 20,400 bottles of Lithuanian rum rejected by China’

Health / Medicine

• People Have Been Having Less Sex–Whether They’re Teenagers or 40-Somethings

Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda

• Biggest change to trash since the ’80s. Hint: It’s all about composting

• Future hurricanes will roam over more of the Earth, study predicts