2022-01-31

Cool

• DIY Trackball with Scroll Ring

Worthy

• Reflections on six months of fatherhood

• Plain Geology (1921)

etc

• Home generator sales are booming with mass outages, climate change and Covid

• Did eating meat make us human?

• Brain size found to have decreased in domesticated cats

• Saving Democracy From the Pandemic - Tablet Magazine

• Anarchists Are Building DIY Heaters to Keep Unhoused People Warm

Horseshit

• The Rising Human Cost of Sports Betting

• The new hire who showed up is not the same person we interviewed

celebrity gossip

• Why do so many pop stars die young?

• Picasso's Descendants to Sell More Than 1k NFTs of Never Seen Ceramic Works

Obit

• Howard Hesseman, Star of ‘WKRP in Cincinnati,’ 'Head of the Class', Dies at 81

Rank Propaganda / Machine Thunk / Voluntary Censors

• Spotify Publishes Content Policy, Cov19 Hub in Response to Joe Rogan Controversy

  + [Spotify to Add ‘Content Advisory’ Warnings to Podcasts with
    Covid
    Discussion](https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/spotify-content-advisory-podcast-joe-rogan-neil-young-1292626/)
  

  • Spotify: Streaming giant announces plans to clamp down on Covid misinformation

  • Spotify CEO responds to critics following Joe Rogan boycotts

  • Spotify Responds to Complaints About Covid Misinformation

  • Watch: CNN Labels Rogan's Millions Of Listeners As "Less Enlightened" Than Their Few Thousand Viewers

• Trudeau moved to secret location as thousands in Canada protest vaccine mandates

  • We Are All Canadian Truckers Now

  • Elites Vs. Blue collar, or Maybe Canada’s Yellow Vest Day: Here’s What the Media Won’t Say About the Truckers Convoy – Watts Up With That?

  • Smearing the Truckers | Power Line

  • Canadian truckers send Trudeau into hiding — and just might help end COVID mandates.

  • 'Coward-19?' Trudeau Tests Positive For COVID While Hiding Out From Canadian Truckers | ZeroHedge

• The BBC Quietly Censors Its Own Archives

COVID / VaxCult

• Doctors forced to work while Covid+

• Speech Therapist: 364% Surge In Baby And Toddler Referrals Thanks To Mask Wearing

• UK U-turn on mandatory Covid vaccinations for NHS and social care workers

• Scientists on alert over rising cases caused by Omicron cousin BA.2

• Race-Based Rationing Is Real–and Dangerous

• Do Lockdowns Work? The Numbers Say No | Power Line

• Japan's Kowa says ivermectin has 'antiviral effect' on Covid-19 infections

• More Americans died of Covid in the past 2 weeks than died of flu in past 3 yrs

• New Clues about Who Develops Long Covid

• Behind the Scenes of a Covid ‘S–Tshow’ China Doesn’t Want You to See

• App and lab kit turns your smartphone into a Covid-19 and flu detection test

• LA schools to require students to wear non-cloth face masks

• What We Can Learn from How the 1918 Pandemic Ended

• How Covid Stole Our Privacy

• It’s a delusion to think mass spread of Omicron will end the pandemic

Culture War / Re segregation / Faith Fights

• Google and search engines are making us more racist

• Germany’s White Supremacist Problem–and What It Means for the United States

• The Atheist War Against Quantum Mechanics

Edumacationalizing / Acedemia Nuts

• Book Ban Efforts Spread Across the U.S.

• Royal Society cautions against censorship of scientific misinformation online

  • HN thread

• Microschools Have a Big Future

• The weird, wild world of dodgy academic research

Media / ShowBiz / Advertising

• "A Rock ... — the More Mass, the Faster It Falls"

TechSuck

• Iso.org outage hits day 3

• “My dishwasher won’t start until I let it update its firmware over the WiFi”

• Micron to close DRAM design operations in Shanghai, move engineers to US, India

Economicon / Business / Finance

• Please Make A Dumb Car.

• IDC: Chip shortages due to lack of investment in right fabs • The Register

• Rents are up 40 percent in some cities, forcing millions to move

• Farming Insider Warns The Coming Food Shortages Are Going To Be Far Worse Than We're Being Told | ZeroHedge

• Public accountants are deducting themselves from their jobs - The Verge

• Libor Was Made Up Anyway

Gubmint / Poilitcks / Law Making

• Fixing the Electoral Count Act Is the Most Popular Policy Idea in Washington

• Kamala Harris drove within yards of pipe bomb at DNC during Capitol riot

• GOP Congressman Quotes Infamous Neo-Nazi In Attempt To Slam Dr. Fauci

Law Breaking / Police / Internal Security

• Catholic cop wins $75K settlement after suspension for praying at abortion clinic.

External Security / Militaria / Diplomania

• The Battle for the Future of the West

World

• UK: Tax woes force a million to abandon the self-employed dream

Health / Medicine

• A hyperactive cell in the brain might trigger Alzheimer's disease

• U.S. diabetes deaths top 100k for second straight year

• Can delta-8 THC provide some of the benefits of pot, with less paranoia, anxiety

Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda

• Driverless cars won’t be good for the environment if they lead to more auto use