2022-01-20

Cool

• Webb Mirror Segment Deployments Complete

• GitHub - Linbreux/wikmd: A file based wiki that uses markdown

etc

• The Texas Electric Grid Failure Was a Warm-Up

• Using marijuana may affect your ability to think and plan, study says

• Cultivated Meat Passes the Taste Test

• I can only promise you that it's going to get weirder

  We’ve eliminated many of our burdens through the magic of technology — carrying water all day, washing laundry by hand in the river, chopping firewood to heat our homes — but pregnancy remains.

• How to Grow Monosodium Glutamate (MSG) Crystals - Crystalverse

  on a quest to grow the five Flavor Stones – crystals that taste sweet, salty, sour, bitter and umami respectively. Salt and umami is done. Bitter is next.

• What scientists know about the Tonga volcano explosion

• US Federal Government Bought a Ton of Marijuana for Research for First Time Ever

Horseshit

• Oscar Mayer bologna-inspired face mask hydrates and horrifies - CNET

• Blockchain Removes Need for So-Called Rulers and Decaying Archaic Systems

• Not One Corpse Has Been Found In The ‘Mass Grave’ In Canada

• Facebook and Instagram are reportedly exploring plans to sell NFTs

• Researcher discovers signs of ancient civilization in Antarctica

  A curious UFO researcher has found what he believes is a secret base in Antarctica set up by ancient aliens on Google Earth. Of course, it is also possible that this is an artifact of an ancient human civilization.

• NBA Metaverse Partner Terminates Relationship, Threatens Reporters Covering Deal

• Why Is Everyone Smoking Toad Venom?

celebrity gossip

• Kristen Bell Being Canceled For Controversial Photographs

• 'View' Veers from Idiotic to Borderline Dangerous - Hollywood in Toto

  “This is part of the big plan to control what happens in America, I believe,” Goldberg said of the GOP. “You take those voting rights away, people are gonna be so angry, but there will be nothing they can do about it because we’re in charge. Next thing comes the women. We’re gonna take your rights away, just like we’re taking X, Y and Z, because they’ll be nothing you can do.”

COVID / VaxCult

• Plan B Covid restrictions to end in England, Boris Johnson announces

  • England Ends All COVID Passports, Mask Mandates, Work Restrictions

• Those who'd had Covid-19 less likely than vaxxed to be infected in Delta wave

• Djokovic has 80% stake in biotech firm developing Covid drug

• Was Peter Daszak Working for the Central Intelligence Agency?

• Discovering Paxlovid

• Nocebo responses explain up to 76% of Covid vaccine side effects

• Europe considers new Covid-19 strategy: accepting the virus

• Corbevax, a new patent-free Covid-19 vaccine, could be a pandemic game changer

• Marines Granted First Military Religious Exemptions from Covid-19 Vaccine Mandate

  The Marine Corps has granted two service members a permanent religious exemption from the COVID-19 vaccine mandate, the first military branch to do so, the service announced Thursday in a regular update.

• Why Science™ Authorities Flip-Flopped to COVID Positions That Got People Banned Five Minutes Ago

• Booster longevity: Data reveals how long a third shot protects

• The Last Days of the Covidian Cult – Consent Factory, Inc.

  That is what happens to totalitarian movements and death cults once the spell is broken and their official narratives fall apart. When they go down, they try to take the whole world with them. I don’t know about you, but I’m hoping we can avoid that.

• Facebook versus The BMJ: when fact checking goes wrong

  • HN thread

• Covid-19 will continue but the end of the pandemic is near

• Zvi post 15 Omicron Has Fully Taken Over

• After Omicron, This Pandemic Will Be Different

• Natural immunity more potent than vaccines during US Delta wave: study

• How does Omicron spread so fast? A high viral load isn’t the answer

• Spain says Covid-19 is here to stay, and plans to handle it like the flu

• Hey folks, there’s an exciting new Flu Manchu side effect: ‘agonizing penis pain.’

Culture War / Re segregation / Faith Fights

• The cross and the rainbow - by Thomas Prosser

Edumacationalizing / Acedemia Nuts

• School Closures Were a Catastrophic Error. Progressives Still Haven’t Reckoned With It.

• Jordan Peterson: Why I'm no longer a tenured professor at the U. of Toronto

• Syracuse punishes student for asking man at party if he’s a Canadian sex offender

Media / ShowBiz / Censorship

• (Sep 2021) Bad News, by Joseph Bernstein

• Social Media Bans of Scientific Misinformation Aren't Helpful, Researchers Say

  • Social media sites should not ban misleading content, UK scientists say

• Anti-Vaxxers, QAnon Influencers and White Nationalists Are Flocking to Substack

  Recent history has shown that utopian visions of untrammelled speech online leading to robust, respectful debate rarely survive contact with reality. That moment of reckoning is coming up fast for Substack. The platform will have to decide what to do about it – and hopefully before any readers take Mercola’s advice published on Substack about inhaling bleach.

TechSuck

• The 5G Snafu Was Avoidable

  • 5G Clashed with an Aviation Device Invented in the 1920s

• Intel Urges Aid to Chipmakers: ‘Let’s Not Waste This Crisis’ - Bloomberg

• Intel’s Bitcoin-Mining 'Bonanza Mine' Chip Bags First Big Customer | Tom's Hardware

• Google to free G Suite users: Pay up or lose your account

• A whole bunch of games just got Steam Deck verified

Economicon / Business / Finance

• Doing laundry is about to get more expensive

• Libor, long the most important number in finance, dies at 52

Gubmint / Poilitcks / Law Making

• “It Is False”: Justices Sotomayor and Gorsuch Disclaim NPR Story as “False”

• Democrats Fail to Kill Filibuster – Killing 'Voting Rights' Bill with It

• Biden’s press conference was an utter disaster

• Elizabeth Warren Claps Back at Elon Musk

• The power of negative thinking – and why you should always expect the worst

Law Breaking / Police / Internal Security

• Figure at center of pro-Trump Jan. 6 theories to speak with select committee Friday - POLITICO

• FBI probe targets Rep. Cuellar’s home, campaign HQ in Laredo | MyRGV.com

• EXCLUSIVE: Arrest Warrants Count As ID For Illegal Migrants At Airport Security, TSA Says | The Daily Caller

External Security / Militaria / Diplomania

• CIA says 'Havana Syndrome' not result of sustained campaign by hostile power

  + [Reports: CIA finds “Havana Syndrome” unlikely caused by foreign
  campaign](https://www.axios.com/cia-havana-syndrome-unlikely-foreign-campaign-report-2d02d6bf-2b27-45e3-9477-cc8efdd535cf.html)
  

  • Most ‘Havana Syndrome’ Cases Unlikely Caused by Foreign Power, CIA Says

• Joe Biden admits Russia 'will prevail over time' if it invades Ukraine

• Bellingcat: ‘CIA sidekick’ gives £2.6M to U.K. media groups | Hacker News

• US releases video of Afghanistan drone strike that killed 10 civilians

• The Afghanistan Withdrawal’s Smoking Gun Emerges - Noah Rothman, Commentary Magazine Archive link

World

• Germany’s Pivot from America

• Chinese satellite in near collision with debris from Russian explosion by 14.5m

• ‘His family robbed the country’: personality cult of ex-Kazakh leader crumbles

• Russia’s central bank proposes ban on crypto trading and mining

Health / Medicine

• Apparently it has been decreed that "health news other than COVID" is desirable

• Antimicrobial resistance now a leading cause of death worldwide, study finds

• Pill derived from human feces treats recurrent gut infections

• The MMR Vaccine and Autism

• Daily Glass of Wine Is Bad for You, Heart Federation Says in New Policy

• When Is the Best Time to Exercise?

Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda

• Scientists Warn That Sixth Mass Extinction Has ‘Probably Started’

• People haven't just made the planet hotter. We've changed the way it rains