2022-01-10

Worthy

• The burden of an Open Source maintainer | Jeff Geerling

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• New York fire: At least 19 killed in apartment block blaze

  + [Worst NYC fire in 30 years was caused by faulty space
    heater](https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10384341/People-seen-jumping-windows-Bronx-apartment-building-fire.html)
  

• Farmer gives cows VR headsets to reduce anxiety and increase milk production

• Archive amassed by Nazis sheds light on Masonic history

• UCLA Study Finds Laughter in 65 Species, from Rats to Cows

• With video: Pilot from crashed plane in US pulled to safety moments before train hit

  Police in Los Angeles, California, pulled the pilot from a crash-landed Cessna seconds before the aircraft was hit by a train, sending debris flying in all directions.

• Startup Retrofits a Tesla Model S with Battery That More Than Doubles Its Range

• The medieval habit of 'two sleeps'

Horseshit

• Reddit ‘antiwork’ forum booms as millions of Americans quit jobs

  • No More Working for Jerks

• Nicola Sturgeon urged to scrap census asking teenagers about anal sex

• Are we witnessing the dawn of post-theory science?

• Florida cities ask: Are there too many palms?

• LOCO: The 88M-word language of conspiracy corpus

• In 1973, ‘Soylent Green’ envisioned the world in 2022. It got a lot right

• Medieval warhorses no bigger than modern-day ponies, study finds

Obit

• Michael Lang, co-creator of 1969 Woodstock music festival, dies aged 77

• Bob Saget, Comic Who Portrayed Danny Tanner in ‘Full House,’ Dies at 65

  • 'America's Dad’ Bob Saget Dies at Orlando Hotel

  • Bob Saget Found Dead at 65

COVID / VaxCult

• Povidone Iodine Oro-Nasal Spray: Effective Shield for COV-19 Protection

• End of free lateral flow tests as country told to live with Covid

• Does COVID19 cause diabetes in kids? The CDC publishes an embarrassing study

• Massachusetts will change how it reports Covid-19 hospitalizations next week

• Biden Admin Cuts Florida's Weekly Monoclonal Shipment In Half

• CDC Director Sheepishly Admits Justice Sotomayor Issued COVID Misinformation On Hospitalized Kids | ZeroHedge

• Despite continued idiocy, Covid sense is finally winning out

• Why was there less lightning during Covid lockdowns?

• Sotomayor Covid lie is natural result of media fibs

• Is Something “Abnormal” Evolving in US Deaths

• Omicron Study in S. Africa Points to End of Acute Pandemic

• Biden’s vaccine mandates come before the Supreme Court

• T cells from common colds cross-protect against infection with SARS-CoV-2

• Covid-19 may have killed nearly 3M in India, far more than official counts show

• New‐onset autoimmune phenomena post‐Covid‐19 vaccination

  • HN thread

• Major Danish newspaper apologises for only covering government Covid narrative

• The Hill: Unvaccinated Americans Need To Be Accountable.

• AOC Is Latest Member of Congress to Get Sick With COVID.

• Massachusetts band students ordered to ‘fake play’ music

• No one died in China of Covid since April 15th 2020

• Australian Gov't Weighs Whether To Bar Djokovic For 3 Years After Judge Orders Immediate Release | ZeroHedge

  • Novak Djokovic arrested in Australia, despite winning in court case

• Closing Schools to Protect Kids Made Them Sick

• Sotomayor’s false claim ‘over 100K’ kids are in 'serious condition’ with Covid

• The puzzling mutational landscape of the SARS‐2‐variant Omicron

• COVID-19 allowed too many to pervert their power.

• We’re very Lucky

  • Every time this guy speaks i want to link this: (Oct 2020) One doctor’s campaign to stop a covid-19 vaccine being rushed through before Election Day | MIT Technology Review

  By that point Topol, a heart expert and researcher with a huge Twitter following of his own, was already weeks into a personal campaign to make sure the administration could not rush a covid-19 vaccine through regulatory authorization before Election Day on November 3.

• “As an E.R. Doctor, I Fear Health Care Collapse More Than Omicron”

• Pfizer says omicron vaccine will be ready in March

• IKEA cuts sick pay for unvaccinated staff forced to self-isolate

• More Americans are saying they’re ‘vaxxed and done’

• Mass. Wastewater Data Suggests Covid-19 Cases Substantially Higher Than Reported

• NBC’S SAVANNAH GUTHRIE ANNOUNCES POSITIVE COVID-19 TEST

• Omicron Origins – Omicron Optimism

Culture War / Re segregation / Faith Fights

• Mass Formation Psychosis. The Madness of Crowds. And The End Of Progressive America.

• Call “Latinx” What It Is: Lexical Imperialism

Edumacationalizing / Acedemia Nuts

• DOJ Refuses To Withdraw Memo Activating FBI Counterterrorism Division Against School Parents | ZeroHedge

• DEI takeover of STEM hinders ability ‘to produce the best science’

• Harvard Went Woke

• Chicago Schools Close For 4th Day As Anti-Science Teachers' Union Refuses To Budge

• Top Major Schools Illegally Collude to Limit Student Financial Aid, Lawsuit Says

Media / ShowBiz / Censorship

• NYT Reporter Can’t Handle The Truth About Media Imbalance In Covering J6 And Shoot-Up Of Republican Baseball Game

• Take-Two to buy gaming group Zynga in $12.7bn deal

TechSuck

• Open source developer corrupts widely-used libraries, affecting tons of projects

  • Dev corrupts NPM libs 'colors' and 'faker', breaking thousands of apps | Hacker News

  • Apparently he's had his Github account suspended now; and people are talking about lawsuits and criminal charges.

• Why AT&T and Verizon are feuding with the FAA over a last-minute delay to 5G

• Radeon RX 6500 XT is bad at cryptocurrency mining on purpose, AMD says

Economicon / Business / Finance

• Ford doesn’t want the F-150 Lightning’s launch to be plagued by scalpers

• Why Tesla Soared as Other Automakers Struggled to Make Cars

• Google Had Secret Project to ‘Convince’ Employees ‘That Unions Suck’

Gubmint / Poilitcks / Law Making

• The Hunter Connection? Kazakh Security Chief Arrested For Treason Was "Close Friends" With Bidens | ZeroHedge

• Democrats are trying to scare America over a civil war they're trying to start – HotAir

• Tech Startup Wants To Gamify Suing People Using Crypto Tokens

• The Vaccine Mandates: The Supreme Court Considers a Trip To “Major-Questions-Land” – JONATHAN TURLEY

• Washington, D.C., Has an Insider-Trading Problem

• Biden shied away from news conferences, interviews in Year 1

• Fauci’s NIH Division Paid $205K for Researchers To Study Transgender Monkeys

Law Breaking / Police / Internal Security

• Insurrections and Double Standards: Reveling in the anniversary of the Capitol riot, Democrats and the media dubiously brand it a right-wing “insurrection”—while ignoring the urban anarchy that began in May 2020.

External Security / Militaria / Diplomania

• Rise of rightwing extremism in US military sparks fears over democracy

World

• Putin, after Kazakh unrest, says Russian-led bloc will stymie any coups

• Kazakh Leader Says Order Restored: "Coup" Thwarted & 164 Killed - 8,000 Arrests

  • NATO Prepared For "New Armed Conflict In Europe" With Russia If Talks Fail | ZeroHedge

• Danish Intelligence Chief Jailed After Surveillance Scandal

• Lithuania wins microchip windfall from Taiwan in China clash

• French Navy ATL2 MPA: Someone Just Lasered the Wrong Aircraft - Naval News

Health / Medicine

• Study reveals how triclosan, found in toothpaste, is triggered to harm the gut

• Health care is turning into a consumer product

Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda

• One farmer's seaweed discovery could help slow methane emissions

• Nuclear Power Gets a Fresh Look as Nations Chase Climate Goals

• Last 7 years were hottest on record

• Lyme-carrying ticks live longer, could spread farther–thanks to warmer winters

• Only a culture change can end this state of climate inaction

• They're stealing our oxygen! Ancient Air Bubbles Trapped in Antarctic Ice Point to Cause of Oxygen Decline

  We know atmospheric oxygen levels began declining slightly in the late Pleistocene, and it looks like glaciers might have something to do with that,” said Rice University’s Yuzhen Yan, corresponding author of the geochemistry study published in Science Advances. “Glaciation became more expansive and more intense about the same time, and the simple fact that there is glacial grinding increases weathering.”

  When you expose fresh crystalline surfaces from the sedimentary reservoir to O2, you get weathering that consumes oxygen,” said Yan, a postdoctoral research associate in Rice’s Department of Earth, Environmental and Planetary Sciences.

  ... used air bubbles in ice cores to show the proportion of oxygen in Earth’s atmosphere had declined by about 0.2% in the past 800,000 years.

• Earth is 73% of the way to critical threshold scientists warn should be avoided

• Invasive Bradford (Callery) Pear Tree Is Banned in Pa