2022-02-22

Worthy

• Convoy Crackdown - Don't Worry About the Vase

  • HN thread

  • the "narrative shapers" are out in force. "no one is talking about retroactive" ... except the officials who've said it. etc.

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• Beekeepers turn to anti-theft technology as hive thefts rise

• Tonga volcano: Internet restored five weeks after eruption

• Is there new evidence of Jewish Temple treasures in the Vatican?

• Evaporation Rate of Water as a Function of a Magnetic Field and Field Gradient - PMC

  • field strengths of 8, 12, and 16T ... not quite garage scale i guess.

Horseshit

• 54% of terrorists were radicalized offline, 18% online

• The vaccine that spreads immunity by passing itself on like a virus: Researchers investigate potential for self-spreading, needle-less inoculations in wake of Covid pandemic

• Medina Spirit's Kentucky Derby win has been nullified. Trainer Bob Baffert has been fired

Rank Propaganda / Thought Policing

• The Neoliberal War on Dissent in the West

• Study shows that online privacy has become a cause of inequality

Castro Jr's Canada

• Ottawa Mayor Proposes To Sell Confiscated 'Freedom Convoy" Trucks | ZeroHedge

• Motion to extend Emergencies Act approved in House of Commons: The NDP voted in favour alongside the minority Liberals, with some expressing concerns a ‘no’ vote would have toppled the government.

• New York Times reporter stands by her account of gunpoint arrests in Ottawa

• Canada’s increasingly autocratic government.

• The Gathering Storm in the West › American Greatness

• Canada parliament backs Trudeau on emergency powers

• Don Martin: An emergency about nothing as tow trucks become the excuse to act

• When Boring People Turn Dangerous: Canada’s Insane Power Grab

• Canadian Parliament Votes To Extend Trudeau’s Emergency Powers . . . After the Protest Has Ended – JONATHAN TURLEY

• Ottawa convoy protest organizer Tamara Lich denied bail | CBC News

• Democrats overwhelmingly approve of Trudeau’s crackdown on freedom protestors, freezing of bank accounts

• (Feb 21) Statement on the freezing of financial accounts - Blockades news

  Under the Emergency Economic Measures Order (Emergencies Act), the list that was provided to financial institutions included identities of individuals who were influencers in the illegal protest in Ottawa, and owners and/or drivers of vehicles who did not want to leave the area impacted by the protest. At no time, did we provide a list of donors to financial institutions. We are now working with the banks to build a process to address the accounts that were frozen.

• The Ottawa Trucker Protest Was Disruptive. The Hysterical Reaction to It Was Worse

  Trudeau’s extreme rhetoric does have an audience. In fact, it’s very much in tune with the apocalyptic narrative about the protest that’s been crowdsourced over the last few weeks by thousands of influential Canadian public figures. Many journalists, in particular, have convinced themselves that the Ottawa protest signalled a sort of white supremacist political revolution. And it is this social panic, not the question of whether an increasingly discredited Trudeau cobbles together another minority government in the next election, that concerns me most.

  If those imaginary “insurrectionists” ever do show up, it’s hard to imagine they could do more to harm this country than the progressive hysterics who claim to be protecting it.

• Canadian Lawmaker Claims Single Mom Had Bank Account Frozen After Donating $50 To Freedom Convoy | ZeroHedge

• OSC flags Emergencies Act tweets by Kraken, Coinbase CEOs to RCMP - The Logic

  after they appeared to offer advice on how crypto users could evade emergency restrictions

• (Feb 16) ADL Finds 1,100 People Donated to Both Canada Freedom Convoy and Jan. 6 Demonstration | Anti-Defamation League

COVID / VaxCult

• Survey reveals health impacts of home working during Covid-19

• Hamsters’ Testicles Shrink After Being Infected with Covid, Study Finds

• Communicate hope to motivate the public during the Covid-19 pandemic

• Ivermectin fails another Covid trial

• Public Health Scotland to stop publishing Covid data due to antivax misuse fears

• Activists build tool to report anti vaxxers (German)

• Kotok: What Long Covid Means for Financial Markets

• As US cases drop, Hawaii is lone remaining state sticking with indoor mask mandate. Latest COVID-19 updates

• Why One-Way Masking Isn’t a Very Good Public Health Solution

• Most Americans Say They’ll Keep Masks on Even If Mandates Go Away: Poll

• Tip of the iceberg: erectile dysfunction and COVID-19

• Hong Kong finds COVID in samples from packaging of pork, beef imports

• there shall be no data but "the data™" - bad cattitude

  Another reason is fear that the information might be misinterpreted, Ms. Nordlund said.

  there is a name for an alleged science and health body suppressing information because “it might be misinterpreted.” it is not “open and honest scientific inquiry.” this is the action of a clerisy or a cabal seeking to suppress analysis.

• SARS-CoV-2 variants of concern as of 17 February 2022

• Hong Kong Will Require Its Residents to Get Tested in March

Culture War / Tribal / Re segregation

• Am I Paranoid Enough? « Lawrence Person's BattleSwarm Blog

Edumacationalizing / Acedemia Nuts

• I Advised a Student to Not Publish Evidence of Reverse Racism

• Harms and possibilities of schooling - LessWrong

Media / ShowBiz / Advertising

• Banned from Twitter, Trump returns with a new platform

• How China ghosted Hollywood: Studio slavishness to the CCP was for nothing

• Instagram quietly bumps up the minimum daily time limit | Engadget

  Instagram has increased the minimum daily time limit setting to 30 minutes, up from 10 or 15 minutes.

• Kyle Rittenhouse To Sue Whoopi Goldberg, Other 'Celebrities, Politicians And Athletes' For Calling Him A Murderer | ZeroHedge

TechSuck

• No Privacy: Cloning The AirTag

• Facial recognition Clearview AI will identify 'almost everyone in the world'

• AT&T is shutting down its 3G network

Economicon / Business / Finance

• Rents reach 'insane' levels across US with no end in sight

• For most Americans, owning a home is now a distant dream

• (Feb 18) March 2020: How the Fed Averted Economic Disaster Archive link

• Apple: Thief | No Mercy / No Malice

  For the wealthiest billion people on earth, iOS is the operating system of their life. When presented with a “smart” television, home, car, or retail store, they don’t want to learn a second language.

Crypto con games

• Former owner of a stolen Bored Ape files million-dollar lawsuit against OpenSea

• Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies sink on mounting Russia-Ukraine tensions

• Crypto enthusiasts are trying to raise $4B to buy Denver Broncos

Gubmint / Poilitcks / Law Making

• Executive order prohibiting certain transactions re: Russian activity in Ukraine

• The Grumpy Economist: Drowning in paperwork

• Exclusive — Biden’s Ambassador to Germany Returns to US after Just Days on Job; Kamala Refused to Let Her Fly on Air Force Two

• Contrarian Democrat Tulsi Gabbard to headline CPAC.

• FTC Received 2.8 Million Fraud Reports From Consumers in 2021, Up 70% vs. 2020

• IRS to adopt Login.gov as user authentication tool

• The Supreme Court will hear a big case about whether religion is a license to discriminate

  • US Supreme Court Takes Up Clash Between Religion and LGBT Rights

Law Breaking / Police / Internal Security

• 300 Cars Converge In Attempt To Take Over Virginia City: Police | ZeroHedge

  “Their entire point was to come to Richmond, specifically Richmond, to do ‘burnouts,’ ‘donuts,’ and other illegal activities on the streets of Richmond,” Richmond Police Chief Gerald Smith said at a news conference.

• Here’s What We Know So Far About Possible Trucker Convoy Protests Coming To D.C. Soon

  • Trucker convoys aim to shut DC’s Capital Beltway this week, organizer says

  • DC National Guard 'Scrambling' To Secure Tow Trucks As Freedom Convoy Descends | ZeroHedge

• Flaw that exposed teacher data existed since 2011

  • Report: Missouri Governor’s Office Responsible for Teacher Data Leak – Krebs on Security

• Ahmaud Arbery’s Killers Found Guilty of Hate Crimes

• Palo Alto City Council: Get Rid of Police Encryption

External Security / Militaria / Diplomania

• Washington Must Prepare for War With Both Russia and China

• The Air Force Went Woke, Its Planes Won't Fly

• U.S. diplomatic staff relocate from Ukraine to Poland.

Ukraine

• Live updates: World reacts to Putin recognizing separatist-held regions in Ukraine

• US response: Biden plans to impose new sanctions on trade and financing in two pro-Moscow territories

• Putin orders Russian peacekeepers to eastern Ukraine's two breakaway regions

  • HN thread

• Putin Orders Peacekeeping Operation In Ukraine's Breakaway Regions | ZeroHedge

• Putin orders forces to 'maintain peace' in eastern Ukraine

• Putin Orders Troops into Ukraine

• Ukraine crisis: Russia orders troops into rebel-held regions

• Recognition of Donbass and warning to Kiev — Putin’s address to nation

• Russia now has right to build military bases in eastern Ukraine – treaties

• Ukraine is getting pummeled with cyberattacks. What’s the West to do?

• Syria This Is The First Country To Back Russia's Recognition Of Breakaway Ukraine Regions | ZeroHedge

• Russia's Senate approves troop deployment to breakaway Ukrainian regions

• Ukraine-Russia Crisis: Cyberattacks could affect U.S.

• The Russia-Ukraine Conflict

• NATO sees 'every indication' Russia still planning full-scale assault on Ukraine

• Romania prepared to accept 500K Ukrainian refugees, official says

• EU sanctions 351 Russian lawmakers who voted to recognise Ukraine's separatists

• EU deploys cyber rapid-response team to Ukraine

• Ukrainian scientists fear for their lives and future amid Russian threat

• Watch Live: Biden Addresses Russia-Ukraine Escalation, 'Significant' New Sanctions Expected | ZeroHedge

• Live updates: White House describes Russia's moves as 'beginning of an invasion' in Ukraine

• "The latest move escalating tensions" Putin formally deploys Russian combat forces into Ukraine

• Ukraine's ambassador to the UN said his country's borders will remain 'unchangeable' in spite of Russia's actions

• ‘Is This Really It?’: CNN’s Jim Sciutto Is Not Impressed With Biden’s Response To Putin | The Daily Wire

• Biden says U.S. will sanction Russian financial firms, sovereign debt and individuals after Ukraine incursion

• Punishing Putin: How Biden could cut Russia off from world tech

World

• Ukraine-Russia: Germany suspends Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline

• China resists taking sides between Russia and Ukraine despite pressure from US

• Canada’s Real Estate Market Is a Giant Pyramid Scheme

• Police use of Pegasus malware not illegal, Israeli inquiry finds

Health / Medicine

• The Mystery of the Declining U.S. Birth Rate

• ‘In my 30 years as a GP, the profession has been horribly eroded’ | GPs | The Guardian

• New study identifies link between household air pollution and child pneumonia

• Ask HN: Why did US flu cases plummet US from 38 MM to less than 2k this season?

Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda

• The Poison Papers: Hidden history of chemical and pesticide hazards in the U.S

• Animal rights revolutionary weaves a creature safety net, law by law

• Government filters in Flint are failing and people are still poisoned by water

• Climate activists spend millions for friendly Associated Press ‘news.’

• What are the hurdles to electrifying a home?… | Canary Media

  What will it take to switch every home in America from fossil-fueled heating and cooking to electric heating and cooking?