2022-01-11

Cool

• Michigan DOT Snowplow Names

Worthy

• Phenomenological Introduction to PID Controllers

• Orion Magazine - The Righteousness Fix

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• Gruesome Viking “blood eagle” ritual is anatomically possible, study finds

• Female dolphins have a clitoris much like humans’

• Horned Helmets Falsely Attributed to Vikings Are Nearly 3k Years Old

• Pluto should be reclassified as a planet, scientists argue

• Magawa, the landmine-sniffing hero rat, dies aged eight

Horseshit

• Are Musk’s Starlink Satellites Overcrowding Space? Why China, Rivals Say So

• Petition for $2k monthly stimulus checks has 3M signatures

• Economists Pin More Blame on Tech for Rising Inequality

• Intel removes Xinjiang references from shareholder letter

celebrity gossip

• Neal Stephenson Thinks Greed Might Be the Thing That Saves Us

Obit

• Robert Durst, A Murderer And The Subject Of HBO's "The Jinx,” Has Died At 78

• EU Parliament President David Sassoli dies at age 65

COVID / VaxCult

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

• CDC Director Makes Stunning Admission About COVID Deaths – PJ Media

  “The overwhelming number of deaths, over 75 percent, occurred in people who had at least four comorbidities. So really these are people who were unwell to begin with,” CDC Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky replied.

• Omicron vaccine is coming, but ‘everybody’s going to be infected’

• Flu shots and measles vaccines could also help 'flatten the curve' for Covid-19

• Massachussetts wastewater data suggests exponential uncounted Covid

• Again: What Do You Want Us to Do About Covid That We Aren't Doing Already?

• CDC director says 75% of Covid-19 deaths 'had four or more comorbidities'

• Doctors fear health care collapse amid omicron surge

• 62,000 Los Angeles students and staff test positive for Covid

• Senate Bill Would Force States To Pair Voter ID With Vaccine Passports

• Austria Makes Skiers Wear Face Masks Outdoors In New COVID Crackdown

• It Is Time to Face Reality about the Vaccines

• Covid Vax Quadruple in Quebec After Province Requires Them to Buy Booze, Weed

• Covid Test Misinformation Spikes Along with Spread of Omicron

• Nurses Struggle Through a New Covid Wave with Rage and Compassion

• Predominance of antibody-resistant Covid variants in Bay Area breakthrough cases

• Covid-19 Vaccines for Moderately or Severely Immunocompromised People–Jan 7 2022

  Limited information suggests that immunocompromised people who have low or no protection after two shots of mRNA vaccines may have an improved immune (antibody) response after an additional primary dose of the same vaccine.

• Cross-reactive memory T cells associate with protection against SARS-CoV-2

• Mocking anti-vaxxers’ COVID deaths is ghoulish, yes — but may be necessary

• 5 reasons you should not deliberately catch Omicron to 'get it over with' - CNN

• Home Covid-19 tests must be paid for by health insurers

• US Sets COVID-19 Records Stoked by Omicron Variant

• Mexico’s President Obrador tests positive for COVID again

• CDC weighs recommending better masks against omicron variant

• Omicron Concerns Rise in China as Olympics Approach

• CDC Director: Covid vaccines can't prevent transmission anymore

  The director for the CDC publicly acknowledged in a CNN interview that the COVID-19 vaccine is not effective at preventing transmission of the virus.

• (Dec 2021) The misunderstood—and misrepresented—Zero COVID policy in China - World Socialist Web Site

• Spain is calling for Covid-19 to be treated as an endemic disease

• Covid: Half of Europe to be infected with Omicron within weeks – WHO

• U.S. Covid hospitalizations hit new record high, raising risks for patients

• (PDF) Covid loses 90% of ability to infect within five minutes in air

• Evidence on face masks in schools 'inconclusive'

• How Can Anyone Still Believe in Covid Policy?

• (PDF) Lab Leak Emails Released Showing Fauci Knew

• Were the Results of a Positive PCR Test Manipulated?

• Hong Kong’s Covid Strategy Has Failed

Culture War / Re segregation / Faith Fights

• Mozilla: We need more than deplatforming

  as reprehensible as the actions of Donald Trump are, the rampant use of the internet to foment violence and hate, and reinforce white supremacy is about more than any one personality. Donald Trump is certainly not the first politician to exploit the architecture of the internet in this way, and he won’t be the last. We need solutions that don’t start after untold damage has been done.

• Imagine another American Civil War, but this time in every state

• Web3 can't fix the internet. What we need is socialism.

• Learned Stupidity - Taki's Magazine - Taki's Magazine

• Psy-Ops are a crucial weapon in the war against misinformation Archive link

  The results are alarmingly obvious. Disputes about Covid-19 and the vaccines to fight it are already dividing populations. And just as the minority of people who refuse vaccines undermine wider efforts to stamp out the virus, a minority of citizens can ruin their countries’ resilience against adversaries by believing the damaging falsehoods spread by the other side. The rumour unleashed by Russia’s KGB in the 1980s that the US army created HIV — which is still in circulation now — shows the lasting harm of an eye-catching campaign. The Covid pandemic has been fuelled by the fact many people believe anti-vax disinformation and distrust messaging from their own governments. Just imagine the effect that incendiary disinformation could have on the current stand-off between Russia and Nato.

Edumacationalizing / Acedemia Nuts

• Kids Need School - by Pablo Antonio - Contemporary Idiot

  late last night (and after the time of this writing) the Chicago Teachers Union voted to return to classes on Wednesday after a week of holding out.

Media / ShowBiz / Censorship

• 'The Matrix Resurrections' estimated to lose Warner Bros. $100M

• Trumpworld's Anti-Big Tech App Gettr Still Tracks Users for Facebook

TechSuck

• New Year, New CEO

• Canon can’t get enough toner chips, so it’s telling customers to defeat its DRM

• Microsoft posts its own teardown and repair video for the Surface Laptop SE

• Norton “Antivirus” Installs Cryptomining Software and Then Skims a Commission

• FAA Decrees 50 Airports Will Have 5G Buffers

Economicon / Business / Finance

• Ford dealers able to add no-resale provision to 22MY F150 Lighting | Hacker News

• Companies on a hiring spree for remote workers this year

• BareShelvesBiden Trends As Alarming Number Of People Report Empty Stores | ZeroHedge

• Billionaire supermarket CEO warns of potential meat, egg shortage as omicron disrupts US supply chain

• Fed will hike rates four times this year, more than previously expected

• Issue #38: Milton Friedman’s Interest Rate Fallacy

• Federal Reserve Vice Chair Richard Clarida Third to Resign After Trading Scandal

• Truck driver shortage is adding to the world’s supply chain woes

Gubmint / Poilitcks / Law Making

• Bernie Sanders: “The Democratic Party Has Turned It's Back on the Working Class”

• Defending OSHA's Vaccine Mandate, Sonia Sotomayor Says 'I'm Not Sure I Understand the Distinction' Between State and Federal Powers

• Yet ANOTHER Democrat announces he won’t run again: Pressure piles on Pelosi as Colorado’s Ed Perlmutter becomes the 26TH to drop out of the midterms with chances of a GOP bloodbath growing

Law Breaking / Police / Internal Security

• The Data Are Pointing to One Major Driver of America’s Murder Spike

• Dominic Black, Friend of Kyle Rittenhouse, Reaches Plea Deal

• GPUs stolen in California truck heist turn up in Vietnam retailer

External Security / Militaria / Diplomania

• Mystery Surrounds FAA Order to Halt W. Coast Air Traffic After N. Korean Missile

  As it sits now, we cannot confirm that the North Korean launch did indeed spur this nearly unprecedented move by the FAA, but the timing is highly suspect. Initial reports indicate that the missile was launched at 2:27 PM PST (7:27 AM Korea Standard Time), almost simultaneous with the ground stop order.

  • Full ground stop in western U.S. came around same time as North Korea's apparent missile launch

  • Suspected North Korea missile test hit speed of Mach 10

• The Soldiers Came Home Sick. The Government Denied It Was Responsible

World

• China’s population is shrinking, fast

• Erdogan playing with economic and political fire

• Kazakhstan: Russia-led troops to start leaving in 2 days

• The return of big government sparks questions for Europe

Health / Medicine

• In a First, Man Receives a Heart from a Genetically Altered Pig

  • In first, US surgeons transplant pig heart into human patient

• Using vaccines to harness the immune system and fight drugs of abuse

Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda

• U.S. Saw Its 4th-Warmest Year on Record, Fueled by a Record-Warm December

• Parents more climate conscious under their children’s watchful eye

• Why Canada loves climate change

• Hottest ocean temperatures in history recorded last year

• Coldest air in three years coming to parts of the country

• Cuba Shows How to Take Action on Climate Change

• China Made Solar Cheap with Coal, Subsidies, and “Slave” Labor – Not Efficiency