2022-02-23

Worthy

• The Meme Leak Theory

  • HN thread

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• Links For February - by Scott Alexander - Astral Codex Ten

  At long last, scientists have discovered a millipede that really does have (more than) a thousand legs, eumillipes persephone, which lives tens of meters underground in Australia and in your nightmares. Recent progress in this area inspired me to Fermi-estimate a millipede version of Moore’s Law, which suggests we should be up to megapedes by 2140 and gigapedes by 2300.

• Student brewing rocket fuel in dorm kitchen causes ‘fireball’ explosion

• A 16-year-old from India has beaten world chess champion Magnus Carlsen

• Overcoming Bias : Can We Tame Political Minds?

Horseshit

• Close the USPS, Cut 600,000 People and 31,000 Offices – 24/7 Wall St.

• The Cyber Social Contract: How to Rebuild Trust in a Digital World

• The Ultra-Introverts Who Live Nocturnally

• Sex with Neanderthals protected some from HIV made others vulnerable to Covid

• Audio is far more important than we think. George Lucas understood that. Study reveals persuasive power of headphones

• Making Good Synthetic Chocolate

celebrity gossip

• ‘Weed Slut 420’ Dishes Dirt on Hunter Biden to Grand Jury

Rank Propaganda / Thought Policing

• Fed Up with Google, Conspiracy Theorists Turn to DuckDuckGo

• The dark side of online space disinformation

• How the Pandemic Remade Science Journalism Archive link

  It’s no longer possible to separate science and politics

• How do you solve a problem like Joe Rogan?

• How the Ukraine crisis is already hitting Americans' wallets

DC Trucker Convoy

• HURRAY AND THERE SHE GLOWS – According To Hoyt

  then suddenly there is this People’s Convoy — which is totes a name we’d choose. Totes. Remember that “Descend on DC” thing they wanted us to do with Maoist imagery. Yeah. Like that — starting a week before the others.

  When things are as on edge as right now, starting a “faux riot/rebellion” is one of the stupidest things you can do. But then these people think in movie logic, and couldn’t organize a bonk in a brothel, so what do you expect, exactly? Stupid can’t be ruled out.

• DC Mayor Bowser is accused of a ‘huge overreaction’ after she approved 800 National Guard members to be deployed ahead of freedom trucker convoy arriving for Biden’s State of the Union address

• National Guard to be deployed to DC ahead of trucker protest.

Castro Jr's Canada

• 'Frozen' Bitcoin Tied to Canadian Protests Lands at Coinbase, Crypto.Com

• Regulator in Canada Warns Crypto Exchanges Not to Promote Self-Custodial Wallets

• Howard Anglin: In our cashless society, we need to take digital jail seriously - The Hub

• Most bank accounts frozen under the Emergencies Act are being released,committee

• Banks begin unfreezing accounts of Freedom Convoy supporters: finance official

• Freeze orders on protesters’ bank accounts have been halted, Ottawa says

• ‘A layer cake of constitutional violations’

  For people now to say, “We’re so happy that the occupation is over,” when hundreds of barriers have been created, with fencing, throughout Centretown, and you need to show your papers to police officers and indicate that you have an exceptional reason to be in there, or be arrested, that’s shocking to me, that people don’t see that as an occupation.

• Opinion: The Ottawa truck convoy has revealed the ugly side of freedom

• Letter From a Young Canadian: Authoritarianism, Media Propaganda and Repression

• (Feb 10) The Occupation of Ottawa is a Far-Right Assault on Labor and Democracy  – What's Left

• Justin Trudeau's Crackdown Will Make Bitcoin and Cash More Popular

• Opinion: The Ottawa truck convoy has revealed the ugly side of freedom - The Globe and Mail

• Google Maps Location Data of Freedom Convoy Donors Posted Online – Summit News

• The Fall of Canada, The Danger in the US

  At this point in a power grab, either Parliamentarians and patriotic heads of the military peacefully arrest an out-of-control leader who has sought to overthrow a democracy, or else they must be aware that history shows that their own arrests may be nigh.

COVID / VaxCult

• Covid infections plummet 90% from U.S. pandemic high, states lift mask mandates

• Long Covid could be linked to the effects of SARS-CoV-2 on the vagus nerve

• Apple Stores Drop Mask Mandates, Plan Return of In-Store Classes

• Fort Worth invention filters coronavirus particles from air

• The smallpox pandemic response was eerily similar to COVID

  Briefly, the original smallpox vaccine was an unusually harmful vaccination that was never tested before being adopted. It increased, rather than decreased smallpox outbreaks. As the danger and inefficacy became known, increasing public protest developed towards vaccination. Yet, as smallpox increased, governments around the world instead adopted more draconian mandatory vaccination policies. Eventually, one of the largest protests of the century occurred in 1885 in Leicester (an English city). Leicester‘s government was replaced, mandatory vaccination abolished, and public health measures rejected by the medical community were implemented. These measures were highly successful, and once adopted globally ended the smallpox epidemic, something most erroneously believe arose from vaccination.

• Study finds brain changes similarly to Alzheimer’s following COVID-19 infection

• Chicago will drop mask and proof-of-vaccine mandates at the end of the month; Cook County follows suit

• Why Is This Group of Doctors So Intent on Unmasking Kids?

• Safety and Efficacy of the Use of High-Dose Ivermectin in Covid-19 Patients

• Delayed care, that accounts for it! Rise in Non-Covid-19 Deaths Hits Life Insurers Archive link

• Social Media Echo Chambers Spread Vaccine Misinformation

• CDC says waiting longer between Pfizer, Moderna doses may reduce rare myocarditis risk

• Wuhan lab leak theory ‘accepted as likely behind closed doors at No 10

• Will the world run out of COVID vaccines?

Edumacationalizing / Acedemia Nuts

• Once mundane, school-board meetings have become battlegrounds

• How the Redneck Intellectual Discovered Educational Freedom—and How You Can, Too

  All of the essays in the series will head toward a twofold conclusion: first, government schooling is immoral and incompatible with a free society; and, second, a free market in education is the only moral system for educating children and the only one compatible with a free society.

• Recalled San Francisco school board members blame ‘white supremacy’ for ouster.

Media / ShowBiz / Advertising

• My Dependence on Facebook cost me my startup, $100M, and 110 jobs

  if they can give it, they can take it

• Twitter admits it mistakenly removed Ukraine open-source intelligence accounts

TechSuck

• AT&T 3G Shutdown Today Will Kill Connected Features for Millions of Cars

• Is it time to remove reiserfs?

• FAA says 5G could impact radio altimeters on most Boeing 737s

Crypto con games

• (Feb 25) + A fake Ethereum mining fix for Nvidia GPUs was actually malware

  + [Nvidia's RTX 30-series Ethereum mining limiter might've just gone
  

  up in smoke](https://www.pcgamer.com/nvidias-rtx-30-series-ethereum-mining-limiter-mightve-just-gone-up-in-smoke/)

  + [GitHub - BySergeyDev/NvidiaRTX-LHRv2Unlocker: The first fully
  automated BIOS modifier for RTX cards with LHR v2
  lock.](https://github.com/BySergeyDev/NvidiaRTX-LHRv2Unlocker)
  

• Tether Assets Show Cut in Commercial Paper, Certificates of Deposit

• The case for Bitcoin as ‘digital gold’ is falling apart

Economicon / Business / Finance

• Inside “Project Tinman”: Peloton’s plan to conceal rust in its exercise bikes | Ars Technica

• Delivery orders are making restaurants mad. Now they're fighting back

• LG Electronics Shutters Alabama Solar Factory Amid "Rising Commodity Costs"

• Global logistics giant Expeditors suffers cyberattack, shuts down operations

Gubmint / Poilitcks / Law Making

• Answers: Trump Transition data was passed to the CIA

• Biden's Ukraine Response After-Party Produces Some Horrific Optics – RedState

• Tim Scott, only Black Senate Republican, hints he could be Trump running mate

• Biden's "Milquetoast" Russia Sanctions Defanged After Berlin Says Nord Stream 2 Halt Not Permanent | ZeroHedge

Law Breaking / Police / Internal Security

• NYC Begins Plan to Move Homeless from Subway as Crime Surges

• 'Livid:' Small town shook up after woman charged with 18 counts of child rape in McMinn Co | WTVC

• Accused of extortion, Louisville’s top prosecutor drops charges – but keeps cash

• Survivors of a Deadly Attack on a Portland Protest Were Victimized Twice: First by the Gunman, Then by the Police

• Who are the jurors in the federal trial over Floyd killing?

• The Trial For The Ex-Cop Charged Over The Breonna Taylor Raid Has Begun. But It Won't Focus On Who Is Responsible For Her Death.

External Security / Militaria / Diplomania

• Marco D'Eramo, Mithridatisation — Sidecar

  Why is it that atrocities hardly appear as an issue in the fifty preceding centuries? Because atrocities were taken for granted. It was common knowledge that power kills, tortures, sweeps away.

• Four Dead in Helicopter Crash at U.S. Naval Facility in Hawaii

• 2 Black Hawk helicopters crash near Utah ski resort

• OSINT Via Satellite - Payload

• Chinese Cybersecurity Company Doxes Apparent NSA Hacking Operation

Ukraine

• Russia Evacuates Diplomats From Ukraine In Ominous Sign

• Russian Forces Are Now Authorized To Use Force In Ukraine (Updated)

• Blinken Abruptly Cancels Lavrov Meeting As Ukraine's President Calls Up Reserve Forces | ZeroHedge

• A Brief Update on Russia and Ukraine - by kyla scanlon

• Twitter seems to be systematically locking accounts reporting on Ukraine

• Ukraine urges citizens to leave Russia 'immediately': ministry

• Russia controls the supply chain of western technology, so who is bluffing?

• The Internet Is Debunking Russian War Propaganda in Real Time

• Ukraine Calls For State Of Emergency "To Ensure Calm Remains" | ZeroHedge

• Putin recognizes Donbas republics: what comes next?

• Biden’s First Salvo of Russia Sanctions Hits With Thud, Not Roar

• The day Russia’s patience ran out

• Perhaps The US Should Shut The Fuck Up About Respecting Other Countries’ Sovereignty

• Putin Chooses a Forever War

• Some Additional Comments on Russia's Ukraine Surprise | naked capitalism

• (Feb 9) Harari argues that what’s at stake in Ukraine is the direction of human history

• Stocks Slide As Ukraine Reports Major Cyberattack, Multiple Ministry Websites Down | ZeroHedge

• Analysis: RU forces battle readiness will quickly degrade, limit Putin's choices

• "On 2/23/22 at 9:35 AM EST" U.S. Warns Ukraine of Full-Scale Russian Invasion Within 48 Hours

• Mysterious Symbols Are Appearing On Russian Military Vehicles Near Ukraine

• Latvia Says Russian Tanks Entering Donbas As Australia Warns Of "Large-Scale Invasion" In "24-48 Hours" | ZeroHedge

• Cyberattack hits Ukrainian banks and government websites

• Disturbing Mass Text Operation Terrorizes Ukraine as Russian Troops Move In

• DDoS affecting Ukrainian sites, foreign ministry and state security service down

World

• UK asks regulator to review licence of Russian channel RT – Johnson

• Japan court awards damages to victims of forced sterilisation for first time

• China Vows To 'Eradicate' Taiwan's 'Secessionist Regime' - Calls US 'Culprit' For Ukraine Tensions | ZeroHedge

• UK Government proposal to return to Imperial Units

Health / Medicine

• Malawi finds Africa’s first wild polio case in five years

• MAJOR SQUICK warning: fetal lambs. Excellent summary tho. The Lamb Paper

• Mu opioid receptor gene variant modulates subjective response to smoked cannabis

• Pandemic Baby Bump Shines a Spotlight on the Nordic Welfare Model

• The FDA needs to reevaluate laser-based ‘vaginal rejuvenation’

• Pentagon Says ‘Nintendo Generation’ Has Weak Skeletons

Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda

• Milkweed species proves beneficial for monarch conservation

• Louisiana's $2B Gamble: Flood the Land to Save the Coast

• Wildfires will increase and worsen globally, U.N. warns

• Sharp drop in flower abundance will leave pollinators searching further for food

• Global warming is real. It is also – so far – mostly beneficial

• Astrophysicists Say ‘Planetary Intelligence’ Exists… But Earth Doesn’t Have Any

• Buy the Coal Plant to Stop It