2022-02-14

Worthy

• Why we at $FAMOUSCOMPANY Switched to $HYPEDTECHNOLOGY

• Yesterday I Was Levi’s Brand President. I Quit So I Could Be Free.

  In the fall of 2021, during a dinner with the CEO, I was told that I was on track to become the next CEO of Levi’s—the stock price had doubled under my leadership, and revenue had returned to pre-pandemic levels. The only thing standing in my way, he said, was me. All I had to do was stop talking about the school thing.

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• Pedestrian Deaths Spike in U.S. as Reckless Driving Surges

• Why the world will soon enter an era of mass flourishing

• Sewage Sampling Already Tracks Covid. What Else Can It Find?

• Two Trains Collide In Germany, Dozens Injured | ZeroHedge

Horseshit

• NFT marketplace Cent has suspended most transactions because NFTs are mostly garbage.

• The internet turned “money” into a hobby

• HMRC seizes NFTs for first time amid fraud inquiry

• $3,375 Electromagnetic Gun Declared "A Serious Weapon" During Expert Range Report

  due to the magnetic charge the GR-1’s coils produce, the rifle should not be used within 50 feet of anyone with a pacemaker or similarly sensitive medical device.

• Bitcoin has become a lifeline for sex workers

• OpenSea’s product chief is out after insider NFT flipping accusations

celebrity gossip

• The Right’s Would-Be Kingmaker

• Et tu, Larry? Why so many celebrities are shilling for crypto

• Deep Dive: Is Fidel Castro the Father of Justin Trudeau?

Obit

• Ivan Reitman, producer, Ghostbusters director, dies at 75

Rank Propaganda / Thought Policing

• CNN says Joe Rogan using the N-word is ‘another January 6 moment.’

Freedom Convoy

• GiveSendGo: Ontario Court Order Won’t Stop Us Processing Freedom Convoy Donations.

• Police filter Brussels traffic to dilute trucker protests

• Ambassador Bridge reopens after police clear Windsor blockade

• What Canada’s Truckers Know: It’s no longer a liberal constitutional state. A coercive Ottawa rules over daily life.

• Why the word ‘freedom’ is such a useful rallying cry for protesters

  The word has become common among far-right groups, experts say.

• Leak site says it has list of Canada truck convoy donors after reported hack

  • Names of Canada truck convoy donors leaked after reported hack

    • HN thread

  • Hackers Just Leaked the Names of 92,000 ‘Freedom Convoy’ Donors

• Trudeau plans on invoking the Emergencies Act: sources

  + [Trudeau To Unleash Never-Before-Used 'Emergency Powers Act' To
  Counter Protests As US-Canada Bridge Reopens |
  ZeroHedge](https://www.zerohedge.com/political/trudeau-unleash-never-used-emergency-powers-act-counter-protests-us-canada-bridge-reopens)
  

  • Canada's Trudeau to invoke emergency powers to end protests

• New Zealand Police Arrest Covid Protestors As ‘Freedom Convoys’ Spread Beyond Canada

COVID / VaxCult

• Transmissibility from vaccinated people not different compared to unvaccinated

• Ask HN: If California Is in a State of Emergency Why Is the Super Bowl in LA?

• Next Covid strain could kill many more, warn scientists ahead of restriction end

• Here we go again: LeBron James, Magic Johnson and other celebrities spotted maskless at the Super Bowl – twitchy.com

• Study finds older people are less likely to fall for Covid-19 scams

• Newsom wants to end school masks, but teachers say not yet

• Covid’s Great Uncoupling: Gap Widens Between Cases and Deaths

• The US is letting China off the hook over its COVID-19 coverup.

• Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall tests positive for Covid-19

• 'Catastrophic' surgical backlog in Ontario will take years to clear, doctors say

• People are going out again, but not to the office

• Underdispersion in the Covid19 case/death numbers may suggest data manipulations

• The CDC Data Nobody Is Talking About Raises Urgent Questions for Bureaucrats – PJ Media

  The blood donor study estimates the combined recovered and vaccinated immunity nationwide at almost 94% as of Feb. 8, 2022. Once again, the estimates for immunity in the population never decline.

• Why Covid-19 vaccines are a freaking miracle

• Microsoft to reopen Washington offices this month

• Pandemic Protests in Germany Grow Violent as Police Try to Enforce COVID Restrictions

• Ontario to end COVID-19 vaccine passport system March 1

Culture War / Tribal / Re segregation

• Biden says NFL needs to live up to its words on hiring more Black coaches

• THE COLUMN: 'The Whole World is Watching' | The Pipeline

• Our Greatest Domestic Threat: Pro-Government Extremists › American Greatness

• YouTube’s algorithm seems to be funneling people to alt-right videos

Edumacationalizing / Acedemia Nuts

• Why won’t anyone teach her math? | Quomodocumque

  as for those exam scores, well — a median in the 30s is too low, that would mean I’d made the exam much too hard. A median in the 60s, on the other hand, seems fine to me, an indication that I’d written a test with real challenges but which people could mostly do. But you know what? Our students, especially our first year students, don’t know that unless we tell them! A student who got into Princeton, or for that matter a student who got into UW-Madison, has probably never gotten a 60/100 on a test in their entire life. No wonder it’s demoralizing!

Media / ShowBiz / Advertising

• Facebook's African Sweatshop

TechSuck

• BBC Ending support for RSS Podcasts

• Ford Releases Blueprint Files for Tons of 3D-Printable Maverick Accessories

  • Links to specs of 2 actual notches comprising the "system" How Do I Use 3D Printing to Customize My Ford Maverick Pickup?

Economicon / Business / Finance

• Should the government control the price of food and gas?

• My Wife Was Dying of Brain Cancer. My Boss at Amazon Told Me to Perform or Quit

• Printers warn on growing paper shortages

• Billionaire Soros buys stake in EV startup Rivian

• What’s Good for Generac is Bad for America.

• Economist Paul Krugman says hot inflation is not a crisis

Gubmint / Poilitcks / Law Making

• Trump's unorthodox phone habits complicate January 6 investigation

  • Rudy Giuliani may be testifying before the Jan. 6 Committee

• Pelosi says 'defund the police' is 'not the position of the Democratic Party

• Harris heads to Munich at pivotal moment

  Vice President Harris will get a new opportunity to burnish her foreign policy credentials when she attends the Munich Security Conference this week.

• Now even Democrats call for Hillary Clinton to be investigated after Special Counsel Durham revealed her camp hacked Trump’s White House servers to link him to Russia

  • Eyes turn to Hillary Clinton, not Trump in the Russiagate scandal

    Russiagate, the collective delusion that Donald Trump was secretly a Russian agent aided and abetted by the Kremlin, the topic of uncountable inches of Washington Post and New York Times copy and the entire prime-time lineup of MSNBC, was a dirty trick by the Hillary Clinton campaign. Not just part of it. All of it. One of the most diabolical, successful misinformation campaigns ever concocted.

• Pelosi’s Private Police Force – Splendid Isolation

• The curious incident of the co-endorsement in the Capitol | Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

• Bill that would give the US Postal Service a major overhaul moves to the Senate

Law Breaking / Police / Internal Security

• 11 stabbed in string of attacks by suspect on BMX bike, Albuquerque police say

• Hunter Biden Mocked Over 'Dumpster Gun' After ATF Asks People To Snitch On Ex-Lovers | ZeroHedge

• Kentucky mayoral candidate survives being targeted by a gunman

External Security / Militaria / Diplomania

• Russian GPS jamming on going affecting flights over the Eastern Med

• Swastika discovered at U.S. embassy in Bulgaria

Ukraine

• Zelensky Invites Biden To Visit Ukraine In "Coming Days" In Pushback Against 'Imminent' Invasion Fears | ZeroHedge

• U.S. Battles Putin by Disclosing His Next Possible Moves

• "Nothing will happen as long as Ukraine doesn't invade Donbas" ... Don't recall seeing that particular take before but now ive seen it mentioned 2 places in 30 min.

• Ukraine the Powderkeg Story: Always Smoking, Never Quite Exploding

• ‘Nothing More Grotesque Than a Media Pushing for War,’ Says Edward Snowden

• Article by V. Putin ”On the Historical Unity of Russians and Ukrainians“, 2021

• Pelosi Just Gave The Game Away Over Ukraine | ZeroHedge

  if Russia doesn’t invade, it’s not that he never intended to. It’s just that the sanctions worked.”

• Zelensky Addresses Nation As Ukraine Officials Say "No Full-Scale Attack" Expected In "Coming Days" | ZeroHedge

• U.S. Is Closing Kyiv Embassy

  • U.S. closes its embassy in Kyiv, citing 'dramatic acceleration' of Russian troops

• Some global airlines are avoiding Ukrainian airspace as the US warns of imminent war

World

• Mob Kills Alleged Blasphemer in Pakistan

• Mauritius formally challenges Britain’s ownership of Chagos Islands

• Post Office scandal: Public inquiry to examine wrongful convictions

• The Race to Reconnect Tonga

Health / Medicine

• Why Does the US make it so hard to be a doctor?

• Association of Occupational Exposure to Formaldehyde and Cognitive Impairment

Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda

• Billions in Infrastructure Funding Could Worsen Global Warming

• Learning to correct climate model biases

• Less than 16% of the world's coastal regions remain intact

• Opinion | The Outrageous Story About the Postal Service Too Many Know Nothing About | Thom Hartmann

  DeJoy just told Biden to go screw himself: he’s going to buy fossil-fuel vehicles for 90% of the fleet instead of electric.

• Four-story high rogue wave breaks records off the coast of Vancouver Island

• The Enduring Appeal Of Nuclear Power Makes Little Economic Sense

• Study finds Western megadrought is the worst in 1,200 years

  + [How Bad Is the Western Drought? Worst in 12 Centuries, Study
  Finds](https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/14/climate/western-drought-megadrought.html)
  

  • The US Southwest is hitting megadrought status

• The Staggering Ecological Impacts of Computation and the Cloud

• Climate and Punishment