2022-02-03

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• Photographer Reveals the Architecture Inside Musical Instruments | PetaPixel

• Oil tanker capable of carrying 2M barrels explodes off coast of Nigeria

• New Research Tracks Ancient Artifacts Looted by the Nazis

• At least 130k customers lose power in the brutal cold in the South and Midwest

• Dürer drawing bought at a yard sale for $30 is worth more than $10 million, experts say - CNN Style

• Next-gen USPS mail trucks are only capable of 8.6 MPG, EPA says

• Thousands of Texans are without power as arctic cold front hits state

Horseshit

• Harold Bloom on Cormac McCarthy, True Heir to Melville and Faulkner

• ‘I made $100k in passive income–in one day’

  I formed an LLC on June 15, 2020.

  By October [2020], I had grown my social media audience to 300,000 followers.

  in October 2021, I crossed a major milestone: I made $100,000 in sales — in just one day.

• Owning cryptocurrency may make you more desirable on the dating scene

• Web3 is the future, a scam, or both: The crypto and NFT rebrand

• A16Z in talks to invest in Bored Apes creator

celebrity gossip

• A Historic Bridge Must Be Dismantled to Get Jeff Bezos' $540M Yacht Out of Dock

Obit

• John Koss, Headphones Pioneer, Has Died

Rank Propaganda / Thought Policing

• Freedom Convoy: Organisers pledge to stay 'as long as it takes'

• Facebook Removes ‘Convoy to D.C. 2022’ Group, Claiming It Violated ‘Policies Around QAnon’.

• Opinion: Canada's trucker protesters aren't who Americans might think

• Freedom Convoy: GoFundMe pauses donations to Canada truckers

  • GoFundMe freezes Canadian ‘Freedom Convoy’ page after it raises $10 million.

• A butterfly conservatory is shutting down due to right-wing harassment

COVID / VaxCult

• Study: Covid-19 lockdowns in US and Europe had little to no public health impact

• U.S. Army Will Begin Dismissing Unvaccinated Soldiers

• Did China benefit from Covid-19?

• Increase in Home Delivery Service Usage During Covid Pandemic Unlikely to Last

• Quebec Dumps Plans to Tax Unvaccinated.

• Sweden drops all restrictions against COVID-19

• In New York City Sewage, a Mysterious Coronavirus Signal

• South Korea’s nose-only ‘kosk’ mask for Covid-safe eating raises eyebrows

• What the Omicron wave is revealing about human immunity

• Safety, tolerability and viral kinetics during SARS-CoV-2 human challenge

• Deliberate infections give unique Covid insight

• One in 5 patients exhibit cognitive impairment several months after Covid-19

• Saskatchewan to remove all public health measures

• The Covid Vaccine We Need Now May Not Be a Shot (Nasal Vaccines)

• Covid-19 Vaccines Linked to Menstrual Cycle Changes Archive link

  research confirms that the shots can affect menstrual cycles, with one recent study linking vaccination to a slight increase in menstrual-cycle length. The study’s findings seem to show that the disruption of cycles was temporary, Dr. Edelman said, adding that more research was needed to confirm that. The findings raised no health concerns about vaccination, she said.

• Mechanism behind loss of smell with COVID-19 revealed.

• Lockdowns only reduced Covid deaths by 0.2 per cent

• The great gaslighting: how Covid longhaulers are still fighting for recognition

Culture War / Tribal / Re segregation

• Whoopi Goldberg's 2-Week Suspension From The View Is Idiotic

• Can riots be just? - by Thomas Prosser

• The charm of cryptocurrencies for white supremacists

Edumacationalizing / Acedemia Nuts

• Why isn't there a replication crisis in math?

  Many papers have errors, yes—but our major results generally hold up, even when the intermediate steps are wrong! Our errors can usually be fixed without really changing our conclusions. Since our main conclusions hold up, we don’t need to fix any downstream papers that relied on those conclusions. We don’t need to substantially revise what we thought we knew.

Media / ShowBiz / Advertising

• Facebook shares plunge on weaker-than-expected earnings

  + [Facebook loses users for the first
    time](https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/02/02/facebook-earnings-meta/)
  

  • HN thread

  • Facebook Shares Plummet 23%

  • Meta Set for $195B Wipeout, Biggest in Market History

  • Where are the users? Why Facebook's stock is imploding

  • Zuckerberg tells staff to focus on video products

• Gee, I wonder how Apple Podcasts suddenly became a five-star app

• Why is trust in media plummeting? Just look at what’s happening at CNN | Arwa Mahdawi

• Netflix paid just 1.1 percent in Federal Tax

• Star Citizen will limit its roadmap, as players are getting upset over delays | Hacker News

TechSuck

• GitHub introduces sponsor-only repositories

• I took down Starlink (but I haven't cancelled) | Jeff Geerling

• Signal users can give a recurring monthly contribution

• Steam will start showing actual download size

• 'Silent AirTags' with Speakers Removed Pop Up on Etsy, eBay

• Nearlyfreespeech.net Turns 20

Economicon / Business / Finance

• Google parent Alphabet announces 20-for-1 stock split

• Where Have All the Flowers Gone?

• January's payrolls report on Friday could be rough, with as many as 400,000 jobs lost by one estimate

  + [Companies unexpectedly cut 301,000 jobs in January as omicron
    slams labor market, ADP
    says](https://www.cnbc.com/2022/02/02/adp-jobs-report-january-2022.html)
  

• Why It Could Be Years Until We See a Normal Housing Market

  Just imagine you’ve owned your home for 5 years or more. By now you’ve certainly refinanced at least 2-3 times and likely have a borrowing rate of 3% or less. You’re also sitting on some nice equity through a combination of principal payments and rising prices.

• Warehouse Space the Next Supply Chain Constraint

• (Jan 2022) Electricity Prices Are a Lie - by Steve - Climateer

• PayPal Gets Stung by ‘Bad Actors,’ Shuts 4.5M Accounts

Gubmint / Poilitcks / Law Making

• Jan. 6 Panel Examining Trump’s Role in Proposals to Seize Voting Machines

• Biden administration urges against U.S. Postal Service plan to spend billions on gas vehicles

• Tennessee State Senator Expelled From Office Over Conviction

• Biden blocked the first Black woman from the Supreme Court

• When was the last time I heard about Kamala Harris? (A Study in 8 Graphs) — Tom Grainger

  For every 4 articles written about Harris, there were 5 written about Pence. Likely because of Pence’s association with Trump, who garnered disproportionate media attention during his time in office (In fact, where Pence gets 25% more coverage than Harris, Trump got 80% more than Biden).

• Amazon is ramping up its push for legalizing marijuana

Law Breaking / Police / Internal Security

• FBI launches hate crime investigation after HBCUs targeted in 'nationwide series of bomb threats'

  • Juveniles investigated in bomb hoaxes against black colleges

External Security / Militaria / Diplomania

• Civilian deaths reported in U.S. Special Forces raid in Syria

  + [Civilians reported dead after US conducts counterterrorism raid
  in
  Syria](https://www.cnn.com/2022/02/03/world/syria-us-special-forces-raid-intl-hnk/index.html)
  

  • U.S. special forces kill ISIS leader in Syria raid, Biden says

• External energy source may explain ‘Havana syndrome,' panel finds

  • Havana Syndrome may be caused by ‘directed energy’

• U.S. Exposes Russian Effort to Fabricate Pretext for Invasion Using Fake Video

  • U.S. says new Intel shows Russia plotting false flag attack

World

• Natural Gas Shipments, Mostly from U.S., Ease Europe’s Energy Crunch

• Press stunned as Ukraine leader points finger at West - Pearls and Irritations

• Cuba has been under US embargo for 60 years. It’s time for that to end

• Russia shuts DW's Moscow bureau, withdraws staff credentials

  • Kremlin bans Deutsche Welle from operating in Russia

• China’s Takedown of Pro-Democracy Newspaper Apple Daily

• Russia has halted the export of ammonium nitrate - DatamarNews

  “This is a temporary measure; the remaining volume can be exported beginning on April 2nd. By that time, Russian companies will have received enough ammonium nitrate to meet their demand,” said vice-prime-minister- Andrey Belousov.

  • Russia stops the export of ammonium nitrate

Health / Medicine

• Viagra associated with reduced risk of Alzheimer’s disease

Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda

• “Wilderness” Was Invented Without Indigenous Peoples

• Global Warming’s Endless Scroll

• How the video game industry is reducing its impact on climate change

• The Post Office Is Buying Gas-Powered Trucks, Despite Biden Climate Order