2022-02-07

Worthy

• Founders Online: Home

• THE COLUMN: Sic Semper Tyrannis | The Pipeline

etc

• Bartlett fire: Access warehouse on Humbracht Circle destroyed as firefighters continue battling flames at facility - ABC7 Chicago

• What Was the TED Talk? - The Drift

  • HN thread

• Was Modern Art Secretly Financed by the CIA?

Horseshit

• Unreal demand? Irregular sales worth billions fire up wild NFT market

• The Crypto Backlash Is Booming

• Tourist in Vegas hit the jackpot, but he was never informed due to a malfunction

• The Dangerous Side of Munchausen’s

• Florida men revealed to be behind Bored Apes

• Thunderstorms and Margaritas

• The sex tech to come could offer more than ‘the real thing’

• Hawaiian couple received shocking $18,000 electric bill: 'overwhelmed and confused' | Fox News

  "Hawaiian Electric recently learned that you both own Halemaluhia Place…" the HECO said in the letter, according to the report. "Because you own the street upon which the streetlights are located, Hawaiian Electric believes that you are responsible for the payment of electric energy supplied to these streetlights."

• Biden Admin To Fund Crack Pipe Distribution To Advance ‘Racial Equity’

• Bay Area calls on homeowners to help house homeless residents

• Flat Earther Spends $20k to Accidentally Prove Earth It’s Round

• Designers spend months making custom keycaps, then the counterfeits arrive - The Verge

celebrity gossip

• Queen Elizabeth is hooked on political gossip

Rank Propaganda / Thought Policing

• Heavily Armed Tactical Police Units Move In and Confiscate Fuel from Ottawa Freedom Protest Truckers - The Last Refuge

• BREAKING: Police begin ARRESTING convoy protesters outside Parliament - Rebel News

• "This Is A Nationwide Insurrection" - Ottawa Mayor Declares 'State Of Emergency' Amid Trucker Convoy 'Occupation'

• Frozen out of GoFundMe, Canadian protest convoy raises millions on Christian site

• BREAKING: Man charged in Winnipeg car attack on convoy protest is radical far-left anarchist.

• Nigeria Is Planning A False Flag In Switzerland: Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix – Caitlin Johnstone

COVID / VaxCult

• Ezra Klein Says That Trust Is the Key to Effective Covid Policies

• A tough situation: choose between your health and your child's

• Denmark decided that Covid isn't a critical threat

• Chip able to identify asymptomatic Covid cases rapidly

• Ask HN: What was your Covid experience like?

• Experts open the door to lifting last mask mandates

• Judges Weigh More Biden Vaccine-Mandate Cases After Supreme Court Rulings

• I didn’t take Covid seriously, admits leading statistician

• Covid: Australia to reopen borders to international travel

• How Many U.S. Agencies Are Funding Peter Daszak and EcoHealth Alliance Pulling Viruses Out of Animals?

• Covid and the Brittle West – The New Atlantis

• AstraZeneca vaccine: Did politics and nationalism get in the way?

• The Covid Policy That Mattered Wasn’t a Policy

• Omicron Boosters and Original Antigenic Sin

  Macaque monkeys were dosed twice, four weeks apart, with the standard Moderna coronavirus vaccine, and then 41 weeks later one group of them got a booster of the same shot, while another got a booster of the new one with an Omicron variant sequence. Subsequent tests for neutralizing antibody levels, B-cell expansion, and response to a challenge with the Omicron virus itself showed that there was no difference between the two treatments at all.

  this is most likely due to the phenomenon known (catchily) as "original antigenic sin", or less rousingly, antibody imprinting. That's been seen in many immune responses to many different antigens over the years. A person's first exposure to a type of virus, for example, can have a noticeable effect on their later responses to similar ones.

• It's Time to End Mandatory Masks in Schools

• Riding the waves: A framework for the future of SARS-CoV-2

• The future of the pandemic is looking clearer as we learn more about infection

• Long-term cardiovascular outcomes of Covid-19

• Very comprehensive and exhaustively sourced Thunder Out of China | Yuri Deigin | Inference

  Questions about the origins of COVID-19 are, at once, matters of legal, financial, and moral concern. For the moment, researchers can do no better than to hope for an inference to the best explanation; and, for the moment, the best explanation seems to be that the virus escaped from the WIV.

Culture War / Tribal / Re segregation

• 'We conclude' or 'I believe?' Study finds rationality declined decades ago

• Memphis BLM founder Pamela Moses sentenced for illegally voting

• Black Lives Matter is imploding in scandal

• America’s Liberal Social Climate and Trends | Public Opinion Quarterly | Oxford Academic

  The United States is a more liberal country now than 50 years ago, as liberal trends far outnumbered conservative ones. Recent cohorts were more liberal than early ones on 60 percent of GSS variables of all kinds and 62 percent more liberal on opinions and attitudes (see table 2). They were more conservative on only 5 percent of variables (7 percent of variables did not change and 26 percent had no political lean). In recent years, Americans had more liberal opinions and attitudes; half (51 percent) of the GSS’s opinion and attitude variables moved in a liberal direction, and just 11 percent became more conservative (12 percent of variables did not change and, again, 26 percent had no political lean).

• Not everyone is male or female – the growing controversy over sex designation

Media / ShowBiz / Advertising

• Canadian player on China's hockey team not allowed to speak English in interview

• Kids are flocking to Facebook’s ‘metaverse.’ Experts worry predators will follow

TechSuck

• Domestic abuser busted in the act of putting an AirTag on a car

• Thank You, Valve | Hacker News

Economicon / Business / Finance

• US investigates potential short selling abuses

• Time For a Victory Lap Archive link

  I am sorry to see the @nytimes taking MMT seriously as an intellectual movement. It is the equivalent of publicizing fad diets, quack cancer cures or creationist theories. -- Larry Summers

  • The NYT article on MMT is really bad - by Noah Smith

    In other words, there was no conceivable state of the Universe in which MMT people would not have taken a victory lap. They always take victory laps, all day long, rain or shine. When you have an unfalsifiable meme complex instead of a concrete and falsifiable theory, it’s easy to claim that your ideas cannot fail, they can only be failed.

• Jobs recovery far more rapid in right-to-work states

• KPMG adds Bitcoin, ether to corporate treasury

• Wall Street was the real winner of the GameStop saga

• Landlords in a bind as Manhattan's old office buildings lose their appeal

Gubmint / Poilitcks / Law Making

• Map: See Which States Have Restricted/Expanded Voter Access

• Andrew Cuomo Plans Comeback Months After Resigning Amid Sexual-Harassment Claims

• Are the Democrats in trouble? Gallup editor explains why the real story is that Americans hate both parties

• ‘He never stopped ripping things up’: Inside Trump’s relentless document destruction habits

  • Trump White House staffers frequently put important documents into ‘burn bags’ and sent them to the Pentagon for incineration, report says

• IRS to End Use of Facial Recognition for Identity Verification

• Ted Cruz Calls For FTC Probe Into GoFundMe For Shutting Down Convoy Fundraiser

Law Breaking / Police / Internal Security

• Judge declines to block seizures of pot store cash from armored cars

  • California Sheriff Free to Rob Armored Cars Money of Legal Marijuana Businesses

• NRA Silent as Amir Locke Slain by Police for Having a Gun He Legally Owned

External Security / Militaria / Diplomania

• Russia Might Invade Ukraine "As Soon As Tomorrow": White House | ZeroHedge

• Russia accelerates movement of military hardware towards Ukraine

• Ukraine & NATO Agree Threat of Russian Invasion 'Low' - But US Continues "Apocalyptic" Rhetoric | ZeroHedge

• Newly leaked video shows F-35 crashing in flames on aircraft carrier

World

• Original 'Fight Club' Ending Restored in China After Censorship Backlash

• Shock in France after giant trawler sheds 100k dead fish off coast

• Nine killed in three days as a hundred avalanches hit Austria

• Pegasus scandal is a can of worms about to erupt all over Israel’s elites

  • "about to?" this has been going on for 6 months now, and now it's about to erupt?

Health / Medicine

• Low-protein diets promote health in humans, but sex and genetics maters

• Mrs. J wanted a blanket in the emergency department. Saying no chips away at my soul

Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda

• Can winter sports survive on a warming planet?

• Decades of Climate Mitigation: Why Haven't We Bent the Global Emissions Curve?

• Plants are flowering a month earlier – here’s what it could mean for pollinating insects

• A Married Undercover Cop Having Sex with Activists Killed a Climate Movement

• Nissan to end most development of new gasoline engines

• Mountain glaciers may have less ice than estimated, straining freshwater supply