2022-02-08

Worthy

• Gen X marks the spot - by Antonio García Martínez

  Not only are Gen Xers the last good generation, but also one in the uniquely weird situation of getting spit-roasted by the power and moral opprobrium of its bracketing generations (as Rogan is now). Gen X went from flipping off the censorious Boomers to losing their jobs thanks to the even more inquisitorial Millennials, a sandwich generation of freedom between slices of pious sermonizing. We went from Tipper Gore wanting to censor lyrics and a chorus of warnings about the evils of video games and Dungeons & Dragons, to blue-haired Twitter blue-checks wanting to cancel podcasts and while going on about the society-ending threat of ‘misinformation’ like North Korean apparatchiks.

  the Millennial-and-below generations have had their brains so warped by Internet time, they live in an amnesiac Eternal Present. Whether it be the Iraq War, the Nixon Administration, the First French Republic, or the ancient Carthaginians….everything before the Viral Right Now happened in the same undifferentiated blob of The Before Times.

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• Italian woman found dead seated at table in mummified state

Horseshit

• Why teenagers aren't what they used to be

• World-leading measures to protect children from accessing pornography online

  • UK to require porn sites to verify users are 18 or older

• Made $200K from selling farts in Mason jars, pivoting to selling them as NFTs

• When the Stagnation Goes Virtual

  The crowd was nodding along. At this point, the second founder piped up. “Plus, we will need clothes for the metaverse!” The metaverse comment struck a nerve. People started clapping, louder and louder until the café was ringing. The DressX girls giggled and took their seats as the applause continued.

• Bay Area calls on homeowners to help house homeless residents

• Crypto Fanboys Are Mad the Men Behind Bored Ape Yacht Club Have Been Revealed

• The counterfeit NFT problem is only getting worse

• ‘NFTs are a scam,’ says indie game store Itch.io

• Jack Dorsey's Cash App Integrates Bitcoin’s Lightning Network | ZeroHedge

  all Cash App users can also leverage Lightning to send small payments instantly and for free. However, it seems that Cash App cannot yet receive Lightning transactions itself — only send them.

celebrity gossip

• Thiel to step off Facebook’s board

  + [Peter Thiel to Step Down from Facebook Parent Meta’s
  Board](https://www.wsj.com/articles/peter-thiel-to-step-down-from-facebook-parent-metas-board-11644268545)
  

  • Billionaire Peter Thiel To Leave Facebook Board To Help "Advance The Trump Agenda" | ZeroHedge

  • HN thread

• Peng Shuai says there was "misunderstanding" over her allegations, retires

• MacKenzie Scott Has Given Away Billions and Just Made a Record-Breaking Donation

Trucker Convoy

• Ottawa Shifts to Aggressive Gear in Policing ‘Freedom Convoy’

• Court grants injunction to silence honking in downtown Ottawa for 10 days

• Canada pushes back against GOP support for COVID protests

• Removing trucks could be almost ‘impossible,’ say heavy towing experts

• "I'm Here For My Kids" - Truckers Block Key US-Canadian Border Crossing As Anti-Mandate Protests Go Worldwide | ZeroHedge

• Canadian ‘Freedom Convoy’ forces Ambassador Bridge to shut down

Rogan / Spotify

• Joe Rogan Shouldn't Be Silenced (Sal Rodriguez, Los Angeles Daily News)

• After pulling songs, Neil Young is telling Spotify employees to quit their jobs

• Reasons to Abandon Spotify That Have Nothing to Do with Joe Rogan

• How to transfer playlists from Spotify to other music streaming services

COVID / VaxCult

• White House keeps encouraging masks in schools as some states move toward lifting mandates

• Were Masks a Waste of Time?

• Biden officials trying to recalculate U.S. Covid-19 hospitalizations

• Rapid and ultrasensitive electromechanical detection of SARS-CoV-2 RNA

• Calif. will lift mask mandate for indoor public places next week

• Vitamin D could be a piece of Covid's 'complex puzzle,' Israeli scientists say

• Charted: America’s divide on ‘moving on’ from Covid-19

• Omicron BA.2 variant to become dominant worldwide – WHO regional director

• I compiled a list—as exhaustive as possible—of all peer-reviewed & published research articles that evaluate the effectiveness of nonpharmaceutical interventions, specifically lockdowns on COVID-19

  Papers finding NPIs effective outnumber, by 8 to 1, those finding the opposite

• Long-term cardiovascular outcomes of COVID-19

• Clinical predictors of acute cardiac injury and normalization of troponin after hospital discharge from COVID-19

• Staten Island white-tailed deer found with omicron variant, study says

• Commentary: ‘Zero-COVID’ is no longer the real goal for China

• China locks down southern city as Omicron variant surges

• California joins other states saying mask mandates will end in coming weeks

• Covid-19 Vaccines Linked to Menstrual Cycle Changes

• UK Health Security Agency: Changing the Covid-19 Case Definition

  positive tests belonging to the same person are grouped together and considered one episode if they are within 90 days. Positive tests results that are 90 days apart (regardless of negative tests in between) will be considered as a separate episode of infection, and therefore the person is counted as a case more than once. These subsequent episodes are called ‘possible reinfections’.

• Federal contracts poised to deliver 100M vaccine doses annually for years

• COVID infection may boost antibodies for up to 20 months.

Culture War / Tribal / Re segregation

• Women's Tears Win in the Marketplace of Ideas

  There’s a funny Hillary Clinton quote that couldn’t demonstrate the point more clearly: “Women have always been the primary victims of war. Women lose their husbands, their fathers, their sons in combat.” If the gender ratio of COVID were reversed and women were more at risk than men, all we would ever hear about would be the “femdemic.”

• Prison-Gang Politics | Frontpagemag

  frightening parallels exist between the racialist logic of the prison yard and the racialist pedagogy of many public schools. First, schools that have adopted critical race theory reject individualism and colorblindness; to achieve an authentic identity and gain collective power, individuals must identify first and foremost with their racial group. Second, as in the prison yard, some public schools have begun segregating teachers and students for training sessions, classroom exercises, field trips, and even playground activities.

• 18 Fundraisers Aiding Riots, Crime, Abortion, And Genital Mutilation That GoFundMe Didn’t Shut Down

• TikTok Explicitly Bans Misgendering, Deadnaming, Promotion of Conversion Therapy

Edumacationalizing / Acedemia Nuts

• Why are certain school books being banned in US?

Media / ShowBiz / Advertising

• 2022 Winter Olympics look like a dystopian hellscape

• Why comedians aren't funny anymore

• ‘America’s Army’, The Pentagon’s Video Game, Shuts Down After 20 Years

TechSuck

• SoftBank's Sale of Arm to Nvidia Collapses, Arm to IPO

• As Automakers Add Technology to Cars, Software Bugs Follow

• Finding the average of two unsigned integers without overflow

• Intel's Optane Business Haemorrhaged over Half a Billion Dollars in 2020

Economicon / Business / Finance

• Bitcoin rises to its highest level in a month, bouncing from January lows

• Fed Scandal Bigger Than Watergate?

• The Federal Reserve Is About to Give US Workers the Shaft

• Oil prices hit $90 a barrel, the highest since the Obama administration.

• Should PayPal Buy Robinhood?

• Two Years into Pandemic, Shoppers Are Still Hoarding

• Spirit and Frontier Airlines to Merge

• Peloton fired 2,800 employees and gave them free Peloton memberships

• "tenancy-in-common" A controversial home-ownership model is gaining steam again

Gubmint / Poilitcks / Law Making

• Free Community College Is Out Of The Spending Bill, Jill Biden Says

• Biden can't save us from Trump's Big Lie: Why the fight for democracy has to be a grassroots effort

• Biden officials say those questioning US approach to Ukraine are spouting Russian disinformation | Fox News

• Cali. county recalls top official, militia-aligned group has path to government

• White House science adviser resigns for 'disrespectful and demeaning' behavior

• Supreme Court Sides With GOP in Alabama Election Map Case

• House Plans Stopgap Spending Bill as Government Shutdown Approaches

Law Breaking / Police / Internal Security

• Second defendant to plead guilty in Whitmer kidnapping plot

• Texas butterfly centre targeted by conspiracies closes over security concerns

• U.S. arrests couple related to $4.5 bln Bitfinex hack

  + [US Officials Seize Bitcoin from 2016 Bitfinex
  Hack](https://www.coindesk.com/policy/2022/02/08/us-officials-seize-bitcoin-from-2016-bitfinex-hack/)
  

  • Feds arrest couple, seize $3.6B in hacked Bitcoin funds

  • Two arrested for alleged conspiracy to launder $4.5B in stolen cryptocurrency

External Security / Militaria / Diplomania

• Commerce Dept. adds 33 Chinese companies to red flag list

• How to punish Russia for Ukraine

World

• Exclusive – Senior separatist urges Russia to send 30k troops to east Ukraine

Health / Medicine

• The Epstein-Barr virus causes multiple sclerosis. So what?

• Red Cross faces worst blood shortage in a decade.

Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda

• Scientists Conclude Dire Climate Change Models Were Wrong, Now What?

• What’s the hottest the Earth’s ever been?

• Scientists raise alarm over ‘dangerously fast’ growth in atmospheric methane

• No silver-bullet solutions for saving used planet