2022-01-07

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• Pope: Opting for pets over children is selfish and 'takes away our humanity'

• Dog leads police to serious crash that injured owner

• Sonoma County farm strikes black truffle gold after 9 years of waiting

  • ~6 ounces of $1k/lb truffle.

• Elite Capture of Foreign Aid

• Our fondness for narratives is driving us mad

Horseshit

• Why Jack Dorsey Went to War with Andreessen Horowitz

• The End of Cyber-Anarchy?

Obit

• Sidney Poitier, African American acting pioneer, dies aged 94

COVID / VaxCult

• China rushes to develop an mRNA vaccine as doubts grow over local jabs

• Judge Rejects FDA's 75 Year Delay On Vax Data, Cuts To Just 8 Months

• Whoopi Goldberg in ‘shock’ over positive COVID-19 test.

• Coronavirus-positive but asymptomatic nurses who have received a vaccine and booster are directed to return to work immediately with no period of isolation, according to Inova guidelines dated Dec. 28.

• (PDF) mRNA Covid-19 vaccine boosters induce neutralizing immunity against Omicron

• When a health-care system crumbles, this is what it looks like

• Covid vaccines may briefly change menstrual cycle, but you should still get one

  A survey conducted by anthropologists found numerous reports of unusually heavy flows and even breakthrough bleeding among some people who hadn't menstruated in years.

  • Association Between Menstrual Cycle Length and Coronavirus D... : Obstetrics & Gynecology

• Vaccinated patients outnumber unvaccinated, but it doesn't mean shots don't work

• How long different face masks protect you from omicron variant symptoms

• Judge orders FDA to hasten FOIA release of Pfizer vaccine docs

Culture War / Re segregation / Faith Fights

• Is America headed for a civil war?

• The Radical Young Intellectuals Who Want to Take over the American Right

Edumacationalizing / Acedemia Nuts

• Wait, There’s Torture in Zootopia?

Media / ShowBiz / Censorship

• How Lego Built a Social Network for Kids That's Not Creepy

• Why Steam Games Are Getting Mysterious Sale Spikes in Argentina

• Lawsuit: Facebook recommendations helped extremists meet and plan murder

• NPR’s losing top talent – everyone has a theory why

TechSuck

• Craig Wright to face forgery claim over his Bitcoin proof • The Register

• Marak's GitHub account suspended after he erased his faker project

• Computers as I used to love them

• Intel completely disables AVX-512 on Alder Lake after all - Questionable interpretation of “efficiency” | News / Editorial | igor'sLAB

• I found a one-char typo in the docs for Python's typing_extensions library | Hacker News

• Norton includes etherium miner that's not easily uninstalled

Economicon / Business / Finance

• Number of Nasdaq Stocks Down 50% or More Is Almost at a Record

• Bitcoin price tumbles and 'no signs of a decisive reversal in sight'

• Bitcoin slumps to a three-month low as cryptocurrencies extend losses

• More on Fed trading

Gubmint / Poilitcks / Law Making

• Democrats explore barring Trump from holding office over Jan. 6 riot.

Jan 6

• The Histrionics and Melodrama Around 1/6 Are Laughable, but They Serve Several Key Purposes

  The Huffington Post's White House reporter S.V. Date said that it was wrong to compare 1/6 to 9/11, because the former — the three-hour riot at the Capitol — was “1,000 percent worse.”

• Victor Davis Hanson: Who Are The Real Insurrectionists? | ZeroHedge

• One Year After the Capitol Riot, Americans Still See Two Different Facebook

• Federal judges in D.C. have gone below the government recommendation in 49 out of 74 sentencings held for Capitol riot defendants one year after the attack, about two-thirds of the cases.

• America was on the edge of disaster long before Trump

External Security / Militaria / Diplomania

• Pentagon and CIA shaped thousands of Hollywood movies into effective propaganda

World

• US backs Lithuania in spat with China

• Kazakhstan internet shutdown blow to global Bitcoin mining

  • comment:

  The people of Kazakhstan barely rate a mention. The effects of massive civil unrest on Bitcoin's price, though, that's important.

  + [Kazakhstan unrest: Troops ordered to fire without
  warning](https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-59907235)
  

  • What Kazakhstan Isn't - Craig Murray

  The narrative on the right is that Putin is looking to annex Kazakhstan, or at least the majority ethnic Russian areas in the north. This is utter nonsense. The narrative on the left is that the CIA is attempting to instigate another colour revolution and put a puppet regime into Nur-Sultan (as the capital is called this week). This also is utter nonsense.

  • Kazakhstan: Why are there riots and why are Russian troops there?

  • Kazakh president gives shoot-to-kill order to quell protests

• Beijing fines 7-Eleven for calling Taiwan a country

Health / Medicine

• Have we got the science of obesity back to front?

• Hedgehogs had MRSA superbug long before antibiotics use, research finds

• CDC Reports Increase in Human Rabies Cases Linked to Bats in the U.S.

• Cannabis poisoning in young children increased nine times after legalization

Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda

• No, California Is Not Going to Take Your Generator Away

• Dangerous humid heat extremes occurring decades before expected

• The Western drought is revealing America's 'lost national park'