2022-01-08

Cool

• Webb Deployment Complete

  • NASA’s Webb Telescope Reaches Major Milestone as Mirror Unfolds

Worthy

• Moxie Marlinspike >> Blog >> My first impressions of web3

  • HN thread

• (2009) My Favorite Liar - A Shrewd and Cunning Teacher

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• Astronomers discover a strange galaxy without dark matter

• Dogs know when you're speaking a different language – and talking nonsense

Horseshit

• PayPal Explores Launch of Own Stablecoin in Crypto Push

COVID / VaxCult

• Chicago Public Schools chief says Monday classes are canceled

• A national strategy for the “new normal” of life with Covid

• False-Positive Results in Rapid Antigen Tests for SARS-CoV-2

• Supreme Court signals federal vaccine mandates are too broad

• Covid-19 tests are so hard to find that console trackers are stepping in

• Study: COVID-19 vaccines may cause small, temporary increase in menstrual cycle.

• Supreme Court justices spread Covid-19 misinformation

  Sotomayor, who claimed the omicron variant is just as deadly as the delta variant and that more than 100,000 children have been hospitalized by COVID-19, with “many” on ventilators

  The current national pediatric COVID-19 census from the Department of Health and Human Services shows 3,342 children with COVID-19 in hospitals. And, as Anthony Fauci admitted last week, there is a huge difference between children hospitalized by COVID-19 and those hospitalized with COVID-19. The vast majority of pediatric cases are from children hospitalized with COVID-19,

• What went wrong:Omicron decimates airline workforces;not travelers desire to fly

• STOP ME IF YOU’VE HEARD THIS BEFORE: Connecticut is asking nursing homes to take in Covid-positive patients

  • CT asks nursing homes to accept Covid-positive admissions from hospitals

• Citigroup to fire unvaccinated employees this month

• Texas teacher put son with Covid-19 in car trunk to prevent exposure, warrant says

  The woman (a high school English teacher who has been with the Cypress-Fairbanks Independent School District, northwest of Houston, since 2011,) faces a charge of child endangerment after she arrived at a Covid-19 testing site with the 13-year-old boy in the back of the vehicle, according to an arrest warrant filed Wednesday in Harris County District Court.

• In the nation’s hospitals, this Covid wave is different

• Amazon shortens Covid paid leave time for US employees

• The Vaccine Mandate 'Work-Around' May Run Aground

• The time has come to get on with our lives

Culture War / Re segregation / Faith Fights

• The next wave of extremist cults will make QAnon look tame

• Welcome to the End of Democracy

Edumacationalizing / Acedemia Nuts

• School closures led to more sleep and better quality of life for adolescents

• I Am a New York City Public High School Student. The Situation Is Beyond Control

  Third period I had a normal class period. Hooray! First thing the teacher did was pass out COVID tests because we had all been close contacts to a COVID-positive student in our class. 4 more teachers would pass out COVID tests throughout the day, which were to be taken at home. The school started running low on tests, and rules had to be refined to ration.

Media / ShowBiz / Censorship

• YouTube takes down music video critical of Joe Biden

TechSuck

• Interim Toner - Canon Europe

  Due to the ongoing global shortage of semiconductor components, Canon is currently experiencing challenges in procuring specific electronic components that are used in our consumable products for our multifunction printers (MFP). These components perform such functions as detecting remaining toner levels. To ensure you enjoy a continuous and reliable supply of consumables, we have chosen to supply consumable products without the semiconductor component until normal supply resumes.

• Why Apple’s iMessage Is Winning: Teens Dread the Green Text Bubble

• John Deere will start selling autonomous tractors later this year

• FAA Statements on 5G

Economicon / Business / Finance

• Wall Street Is Using Tech Firms Like Zillow to Eat Up Starter Homes

• National Tire Shortage Emerges As Snowstorms Pound US | ZeroHedge

• What the Great Ammunition Shortage Says About Inflation

Gubmint / Poilitcks / Law Making

• The CIA May Be More Useful Than the CDC in Next Pandemic

• Legal Cannabis Is Coming. Better Now Than Later

Law Breaking / Police / Internal Security

• Murders in U.S. Cities Near Record Highs in 2021

Jan 6

• Could an Algorithm Predict the Next Insurrection Like Jan. 6?

• A Tale of Two Authoritarians - TK News by Matt Taibbi

  All those things Trump is rumored to be, Dick Cheney actually is. That’s why it’s so significant that he appeared on the floor of the House yesterday to be slobbered over by the Adam Schiffs and Nancy Pelosis of the world. Dick Cheney did more to destroy democracy in ten minutes of his Vice Presidency than Donald Trump did in four years

External Security / Militaria / Diplomania

• Kazakhstan unrest: Blinken questions Russian troop deployment

World

• France opens terror investigation after Dakar rally vehicle is hit by blast

Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda

• Customers shun red meat after carbon footprint added to weekly shop receipts

• Weather and climate disasters are declining globally

• How Bad Are Plastics, Really?

• The happiest number I've heard in ages - by Bill McKibben

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

• Washington digs out from avalanches, reeling from record-breaking winter weather

• Critics of “Don’t Look Up” Are Missing the Entire Point