2022-02-12

Worthy

• In Praise of 'Line Goes Up'

etc

• Hemp research starting out again

• SpaceX’s monstrous, dirt-cheap Starship may transform space travel

Horseshit

• NFT marketplace shuts, citing 'rampant' fakes, plagiarism problem

celebrity gossip

• Sarah Palin craters in her testimony in New York Times defamation case

Rank Propaganda / Thought Policing

• The Town That QAnon Nearly Swallowed

• NYC Mayor Eric Adams Calls On Tech Companies To Police “Alarming” Drill Music

• Jon Stewart: “Who Gets to Decide” What’s ‘Misinformation’? – Summit News

• Anti-vaxxers making ‘at least $2.5m’ a year from publishing on Substack

• New Zealand tries old earworm hits to flush out protesters

Ottowa Truckers

• Bill Maher on Canada's 'Freedom Convoy': They're 'Not Wrong'

• Freedom Convoy: Canada court orders end to trucks’ bridge blockade

• Canada protesters dig in with military-style proficiency

• Trudeau’s empty threats: Freedom Convoy truckers are STILL on US-Canada bridge after both a 7 pm court AND midnight deadline from Ontario police to forcibly remove them came and went

• French Police Prevent ‘Freedom Convoys’ From Blockading Paris

• ‘Splintered realities’: How NZ convoy lost its way

• Governor General's office inundated by protest supporters demanding the PM be fired | National Post

• When the Trucker Convoy Came for Me

COVID / VaxCult

• Amazon is taking away paid Covid-19 leave for unvaccinated workers

• Computer model shows the best ways to slow the spread of Covid-19

• Antihistamines show promise in treating long Covid-19 symptoms

• Follow the science? If only it were so easy

• California legislators push to mandate vaccines for employees of all businesses

  • Covid: Sweeping new bill would require vaccine for every California worker

• Japanese reporter describes agonizing long-term effects of Covid-19

• Waning 2-Dose and 3-Dose Effectiveness of mRNA Vaccines Against Covid-19

• Coronavirus can destroy the placenta and lead to stillbirths

• UK Treasury pushes to end most free Covid testing despite experts’ warnings

• Twitter no longer calls my final tweet “misleading.”

Culture War / Tribal / Re segregation

• The Road to Terfdom: Mumsnet and the Fostering of Anti-Trans Radicalization

Edumacationalizing / Acedemia Nuts

• Bot-Generated Shooting Threats Are Terrorizing Schools

TechSuck

• Best Buy's GPU restock gets locked behind pricey membership

• Valve bans 'Cities: Skylines' modder after discovery of major malware risk

• CAD files for the external shell (surface topology) of Steam Deck | Hacker News

Economicon / Business / Finance

• Coffee Reserves Plunge to Lowest in More Than Two Decades

• IBM Emails Show Millennial Workers Favored over ‘Dinobabies’

• Empty baby formula shelves have families scrambling.

• After the Great Resignation, Tech Firms Are Getting Desperate

• Samsung doles out 11 months' bonus pay as talent war heats up

Gubmint / Poilitcks / Law Making

• Durham: Clinton allies spied on the Executive Office of the President

Law Breaking / Police / Internal Security

• Shoplifting reaches crisis proportions

• Department of Homeland Security is ‘surging additional staff’ in California this weekend and utilizing ‘extensive air resources’ in anticipation of a US Freedom Convoy forming at the Super Bowl.

External Security / Militaria / Diplomania

• Blinken: Russian invasion of Ukraine 'could begin at any time'

• US believes Putin has decided to invade Ukraine, Biden tells NATO leaders

• ​​​​​​Russia Blasts White House's Fresh Friday Ukraine Panic Porn As "Distraction & Disinformation" | ZeroHedge

• U.S. Warns of Risk That Russia Attacks Ukraine Next Week

• Germans Advised to Leave Ukraine

• All UK troops to withdraw from Ukraine as Russia could invade ‘at no notice’

• US to evacuate Ukraine embassy amid Russian invasion fears

  • US Embassy in Kiev is to be evacuated as Russia mobilizes for ‘invasion of Ukraine on Wednesday.’

• Why mud could play a big part in Vladimir Putin's decision to invade Ukraine

• The TikTok buildup: Videos reveal Russian forces closing in on Ukraine

• (Video) National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan on Potential for Russian Invasion of Ukraine

• Army of Ukraine lobbyists behind unprecedented Washington blitz

• Is Putin bluffing?

• New satellite images show troops and equipment massing ever-closer to Ukraine

• ​​​​​​​​​​​​Both US & Russia Evacuate Embassies In Ukraine As Crisis Enters Uncharted Territory | ZeroHedge

• Pentagon Pulls Forces From Ukraine For "Safety & Security" As Biden Phones Putin | ZeroHedge

• The amateur drone pilots defending Ukraine’s border with Russia

• Russia could hit U.S. chip industry, White House warns

World

• Estonia warns against traveling to Ukraine, urges citizens to leave

  + [Russia-Ukraine crisis: UK nationals told to leave
  Ukraine](https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-60355311)
  

  • Belgium Advises Nationals to Leave Ukraine

  • Russia has begun withdrawing its diplomatic staff from Ukraine

• Russia’s government and central bank agree to treat cryptos as currency

• Canada's population surges from 2016-2021 on immigration-official data

• 'Human activity' behind Svalbard cable disruption

Health / Medicine

• He Donated His Kidney and Received a $13,064 Bill in Return

Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda

• Worst-Case Climate Change Scenarios Are Highly Implausible, Argues New Study

• Rack of squirrel, anyone? The chefs putting invasive species on the menu

• US judge strikes down Biden climate damage cost estimate