2022-01-24

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• Stowaway found in South Africa plane wheel at Amsterdam airport

• 500 years after Luther and the Diet of Worms the ecumenical movement is strong

• What are NFTs, how do they work, and why do they suck?

Horseshit

• Or you could take off the mask, but hey cool thing: Display Your Speech In Realtime To Help Lipreaders In The Mask Era

• Surgeon faces legal action for trying to sell Bataclan victim X-ray as NFT

• Hedonism Is Overrated

celebrity gossip

• Julian Assange wins right to ask Supreme Court to consider US extradition

COVID / VaxCult

• What's Holding Up New Omicron Vaccines?

• Exercise Is Good for You, Even If You Have a Mild Case of Covid

• Attention and memory deficits persist for months after recovery from mild Covid

• New rapid test could detect coronavirus and flu simultaneously

• Two cannabinoids have opposing effects on SARS-CoV-2 in culture

• Covid: “The Narrative Is Crumbling”

• Police fire water cannon, tear gas at Brussels COVID protest

• German Covid protests turn nasty in row over rules and vaccinations

• Thousands of anti-vaccine mandate protesters flaunt mask rules to descend on DC where they blast songs by anti-mandate singer Meat Loaf and listen to speech from Robert F. Kennedy

• The media blackout on Fauci’s damning emails

• FBI Sought Documents Related To U.S.-Funded Coronavirus Research In China

• Severe shortage of nurses in UK children’s intensive care units

• In Hospital Strained by Omicron, Weary Nurses Treat Too Many Patients

• Two-thirds of anti-vax propaganda online created by just 12 influencers

• A Covid Origin Conspiracy? Newly released emails make more plausible the contention that Anthony Fauci and Francis Collins presided over the suppression of the lab-leak theory for political reasons.

• Integrity. Dignity. Community. - by Robert W Malone MD, MS

• What Japan Got Right About Covid-19

• On Covid - AVC

  It is time to stop obsessing about Covid. It is time to stop politicizing Covid. It is time to stop tweeting about Covid. It is time to stop reading about Covid. It is time to start healing and it is time to start moving on.

• There will never be a post-Covid world: Michael Dell

• New Research Suggests High-Purity CBD May Block Covid-19 Virus from Replicating

• Covid State of Affairs: Jan 24

• Stealth omicron: New Covid-19 variant seen in 40 countries

Culture War / Re segregation / Faith Fights

• A white supremacist website got hacked, airing all its dirty laundry

Edumacationalizing / Acedemia Nuts

• School accused of installing litter boxes for students who identify as cats hits back after parents' outrage

• School Board Apologizes Over "Taped Mask" Incident; School’s Parents Not Satisfied With Explanation | ZeroHedge

• University language guide says ‘grandfather,’ ‘housekeeping,’ ‘spirit animal’ are ‘problematic’ words.

• SCOTUS to Consider Challenges to Race-Conscious Admissions at Harvard, UNC

Media / ShowBiz / Censorship

• Microsoft's Activision Blizzard deal is bad for privacy rights

• Bob Dylan sells recorded music catalog to Sony Music Entertainment

TechSuck

• Faker.js guy wants unban from GitHub, claims it was a programming mistake | Hacker News

  • I'd heard reports his ban was rescinded, apparently not?

• Ask HN: Gmail account security

• Troy Hunt: How I Got Pwned by My Cloud Costs

  Over and above normal usage for that period, it cost me over AU$11k. Ouch! For folks in other parts of the world, that's about US$8k, GB£6k or EU€7k. This was about AU$350 a day for a month. It really hurt, and it shouldn't have happened. I should have picked up on it earlier and had safeguards in place to ensure it didn't happen. It's on me. However, just as I told earlier stories of how cost-effective the cloud can be, this one about how badly it can bite you deserved to be told.

• Latest Windows 11 update changed Chrome config, switched default browser to Edge

• The 5G Airline Controversy: What Is It About?

  • Did the FAA cry wolf on 5G?

Economicon / Business / Finance

• Toyota Confirms Four-Year Wait List for New Land Cruiser

• Crypto.com Finally Admits It Lost $30M in Hack

• The Case for Strategic Price Policies

• $130B wiped off crypto markets in 24 hours

• Bitcoin value tumbles almost 50% since record November

Gubmint / Poilitcks / Law Making

• NASA leasing bill morphs into 'freedom to vote' legislation

• Biden Administration to Release Executive Order on Crypto

• Venmo, PayPal, other payment apps must report to IRS about $600+ transactions

• On student loans, Biden doesn’t have an answer yet

• As Immigration Plummeted, Conservatives Falsely Accused Biden of Fueling a Crisis

Law Breaking / Police / Internal Security

• Secret of ‘microwave weapons’ targeting US diplomats revealed

External Security / Militaria / Diplomania

• Anonymous Officials Claim There's An Evil Russian Plot Again But The Evidence Is Secret Again

• Biden Weighs Deploying Thousands of Troops to Eastern Europe and Baltics

  • U.S. weighs sending 5k troops to Eastern Europe to counter Russia

• Epidemic of insanity strikes America’s leaders

World

• China hires western TikTokers to polish its image during 2022 Winter Olympics

• Belarusian group claims hack on railway system after Russian troop moves

Health / Medicine

• Why humans are losing the race against superbugs

Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda

• The humble heat pump could improve San Francisco’s CO2 emissions profile