2022-01-05

Cool

• The James Webb Space Telescope successfully deployed its sunshield

Worthy

• Real-life Rupees: How to Grow Green Potassium Ferrioxalate Crystals From Iron Rust

etc

• PG&E power lines started enormous Dixie Fire, investigators say

• Suburban Chicago McMansions Follow a Dark Logic Even I Do Not Understand

• How to design a house to last 1000 years

Horseshit

• Psychogenic death the phenomenon of “thinking” yourself to death

• The story behind California State Treasurer Fiona Ma's 'gloriously weird' Christmas card

• What We Got Wrong About Tech

• Lufthansa Could Be Forced to Fly 18,000 Empty Planes to Keep Slots

celebrity gossip

• Nirvana's Nevermind baby cover art lawsuit dismissed

COVID / VaxCult

• Sheep, goats join in German efforts to encourage vaccination

• (Nov 202) Pfizer and Moderna’s “95% effective” vaccines

• Crimes against Our Country | Kunstler

• Small study suggests pandemic may slow babies’ development

• Birth During Covid-19 Pandemic and Neurodevelopmental Status 6 Months in Infants

• Covid microchip developer says there's no stopping roll-out

• 'We can't vaccinate the planet every six months,' says Oxford vaccine scientist

• Macron on unvaccinated people: “I want to piss them off”

• China’s Locked Down City Thrown into Chaos After Covid App Crash

• CDC updates Covid-19 isolation recommendations with guidance on testing

• Say it with sheep? Flock forms syringe shape in COVID jab push

• Nationwide study finds no significant link between in-person schooling and COVID infection rates

• Restaurants Are Price Gouging Rapid Tests on Food Delivery Apps

• (German) Even mild Covid-19 course leaves traces on organs

• Macron rebuke to unvaccinated citizens incurs anger in parliament

• Melatonin drugs inhibit SARS-CoV-2 entry into the brain and virus-induced damage

• U.S. Vaccination Program: How Many Deaths and Hospitalizations Were Averted?

Culture War / Re segregation / Faith Fights

• Tracking Facebook connections between parent groups and vaccine misinfo

• Netflix memo encourages recruiters to avoid talking about Dave Chappelle

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

  • Female patients more likely to die if surgeon is male

Edumacationalizing / Acedemia Nuts

• Half of the female STEM faculty in the US were hired over more qualified men

TechSuck

• 5G cellular service will go forward as U.S. reaches deal with carriers

• At CES 2022, John Deere tractors break new ground with full autonomy

Economicon / Business / Finance

• Toyota bestselling automaker in the US beats GM for the first time since 1931

• Chrysler previews its all-electric future, only electric vehicles by 2028

• A Record 4.5 Million Americans Quit Their Jobs In November

• Biden asks student-loan borrowers to ‘do their part’ in preparing for payments to resume on May 1 as pressure for broad cancellation ramps up again

• Supply Chain Delays Prompt a New Push to Revive U.S. Factories

Gubmint / Poilitcks / Law Making

• ‘He looks like a badass’: Video of Biden emerging from snowed in Air Force One goes viral

• FTC Issues Biennial Report to Congress on the National Do Not Call Registry

Jan 6

• Trump cancels Jan. 6 press conference

• Biden to speak ‘truth’ on Capitol attack anniversary as Trump cancels his event

• Since Jan. 6, the pro-Trump internet has descended into infighting over money and followers

External Security / Militaria / Diplomania

• GOP war drummers demanding action against Russia

World

• Russia’s Military Buildup Near Ukraine Is an Open Secret

• Traders Puzzled By Bizarre Mystery As Turkish Central Bank Inexplicably Posts "Unprecedented" $10 Billion Profit On Last Day Of 2021

• Kazakhstan: Statement of the President responding to mass riots across the country

  • Kazakhstan protests: government resigns amid rare outbreak of unrest

  • Kazakhstan Shuts Internet as Government Offices Burn in Protests

• Evergrande has been ordered to demolish 39 buildings in Chinese resort

Health / Medicine

• Europe's tattoo artists fear for future after EU ink ban

Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda

• Beavers support freshwater conservation and ecosystem stability

• Spent Fuel: The risky resurgence of nuclear power

• Zoos and aquariums shift to a new standard of ‘animal welfare’