2022-02-26

Worthy

• Time to Step Back - The Tao of Mac

Horseshit

• Looking at Energy Use in US Residential Buildings

  The data comes from ResStock, a simulation designed to model US residential energy use at a much greater level of detail than had been done previously.

• 5 ways to cope with the stressful news cycle

• Opinion: Our world's chilling return to authoritarianism

Rank Propaganda / Thought Policing

• A State of Emergency for Democracy – Hillary Rodham Clinton and Dan Schwerin

• People's Convoy hits 8 miles long as vehicles join up

Castro Jr's Canada

• Convoy supporters' bank accounts still frozen | The Post Millennial

• The trucks have left Ottawa, but ‘phantom honking’ lingers for many downtown

COVID / VaxCult

• More evidence Covid was tinkered with in a lab?

• CDC advises some people wait longer between COVID-19 vaccine doses over heart inflammation risk | Fox News

• CDC says Americans can now go unmasked in many parts of the country

• Growing Number Of Experts Call On US Govt To Recognize Natural Immunity | ZeroHedge

• First evidence of divergent COVID lineage in deer and deer-to-human transmission

• New US Covid guidelines allow most Americans to go mask-free indoors

  • New CDC Covid-19 metrics drop strong mask recommendations for most of the country

• If He Weren't A Lefty, Francis Collins Would Be Banned For Misinformation

• Canada Approves World’s First Plant-Based Covid-19 Vaccine

• UK government has abandoned its own Covid health advice, leak reveals

• Op-Ed: The anti-vax movement was already getting scary. COVID supercharged it

• We found the science behind Democrats’ COVID flip-flop

• Intracellular Reverse Transcription of Pfizer BioNTech Covid-19 mRNA Vaccine

  We also show that BNT162b2 mRNA is reverse transcribed intracellularly into DNA in as fast as 6 h upon BNT162b2 exposure.

• New Research Points to Wuhan Market as Pandemic Origin

Culture War / Tribal / Re segregation

• Feds: Saying you’re ‘colorblind’ is racist.

Edumacationalizing / Acedemia Nuts

• Rochester Michigan schools monitor parents’ social media posts, twice contacted critics’ employers

Media / ShowBiz / Advertising

• Twitter accounts sharing video from Ukraine are being suspended when needed most

• Meta to bar Russian state media from running ads, monetizing on platform

• Applebee’s apologizes and blames CNN for placement of very light-hearted ad that aired during live coverage of the Ukraine invasion — and says its pulled ads from them

• Netflix to be forced to broadcast Putin propaganda

• Porn companies switch to Chromecast and FireTV after Roku deletes adult channels

• RT was Russia’s answer to CNN. Now its pro-Putin spin on Ukraine sparks outrage

• YouTube blocks RT, other Russian channels from generating revenue

TechSuck

• Nvidia confirms it’s investigating an ‘incident,’ reportedly a cyberattack

  • Chipmaker Nvidia investigates potential cyberattack

• Intel energizes decades-old real-time Linux kernel project

• Intel's Second-Gen Bitcoin Miner's Performance and Pricing Listed, Leads Market

Crypto con games

• 50% of Steam Bitcoin transactions were fraudulent when Steam accepted Bitcoin

• Associated Press continues to mishandle NFT fiasco with mass Discord bans

Economicon / Business / Finance

• PwC fined over exam cheating involving 1,100 of its auditors

• A New Brand of Sticker Shock Hits the Car Market - WSJ

  With vehicles in short supply, prices are skyrocketing. Last month, 82% of new-car buyers paid more than sticker price.

Gubmint / Poilitcks / Law Making

• Libs Blame Ukraine on... Ron DeSantis?!?

• Biden battles Putin in Ukraine — and Trump’s GOP in America

• 62 percent of voters say Putin wouldn’t have invaded Ukraine if Trump were president: poll

• US lobbying firms rush to cut ties with Russian businesses hit with sanctions

• The Post says: Sleepy Joe must stop dreaming & face facts

Law Breaking / Police / Internal Security

• FCC to probe domestic Russian-owned media and telecom companies

External Security / Militaria / Diplomania

• Russia now threatens Sweden, Finland – are they next?

• Russian vessel reportedly seized in the English Channel

• Why Europe can’t shut off Russian gas

• China shared U.S. intelligence on Ukraine crisis with Russia

Ukraine

• Update on Russia and Ukraine

• ISW Blog: Russia-Ukraine Warning Update: Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, February 25, 2022

• Putin’s Attack on Ukraine Is a Religious War

• 2019. Historical Photos of the Pripyat Marshes - Jacob Shell: Visual Work + Short Essays

• A moment of clarity - by Noah Smith - Noahpinion

• Russia deploys mobile crematoriums to follow its troops into battle

• Anti-tank advice from an American tank mechanic

• Russian ICBM being moved in Moscow

• Photos show the growing toll of Russia's invasion of Ukraine

• Guardian: real sanctions against Russia impossible, thats economic suicide

• Crypto, Silicon Valley, and Ukraine

• Chernobyl isn't biggest nuclear risk. Ukraine's active nuclear power plants are

• Ukrainian leader calls on Tim Cook to block Russian users from the App Store

• Computer chip industry begins halting deliveries to Russia due to US sanctions

• Chernobyl radiation spike probably from Russian tanks disturbing dust

• Ukraine's Volodymyr Zelenskyy: From comedian to national hero

• As Ukraine crisis deepens, China lifts all wheat-import restrictions on Russia

• Russia’s Credit Cut to Junk Rating

• Russia says its attacks aren't hitting civilians. Cities see a different story

• Ukraine says it has inflicted one of Russia’s heaviest ever day of losses with more than 1,000 casualties: Putin’s losses now stand at 2,800 troops, 80 tanks and 516 armoured vehicles as fightback continues.

• Portugal announces immediate granting of visas for Ukrainian refugees

• Ukraine’s Gay Combat Volunteers Are Ready to Fight Against Anti-LGBTQ Putin

• Military gap between Russia and Ukraine

• "If Ukraine manages to hold the Russians off for 10 days, then the Russians will have to enter negotiations"

• How is Beijing Portraying Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine for the Chinese Public?

• U.S. Officials Repeatedly Urged China to Help Avert War in Ukraine

• Ukraine’s President Zelensky discussing ‘time and place’ for possible talks with Russia

• Ukraine Conflict Update 8

• Russian offensive unexpectedly slowed by fierce Ukrainian resistance

• NATO rushing to resupply Ukraine by land; no-fly zone all but ruled out

• The Coming Ukrainian Insurgency

• Op-Ed: The CIA has backed Ukrainian insurgents before. Let’s learn from those mistakes

• ‘Ultimate test of brinkmanship’: US preps for high-stakes proxy war against Russia in Ukraine

• Ordinary Russians Don’t Want This War

• Some Of The Most Popular ‘Ukraine Footage’ Is Actually A Video Game

• Missile, shelled, or bombed? Report: Russian missile hits Japanese freighter in Black Sea

• Ukraine Update: Back of the Envelope Calculations, Digital Evidence, Maps, Scenarios | naked capitalism

  I’m seeing lots of pictures of Molotov cocktails being prepared in Kyiv. So I find an interesting tweet of a guy driving around Kyiv talking to people about that, and it turns out…. He’s from the Atlantic Council.

• Russia Used Beatings and Tricks to Forcibly Send Soldiers to Ukraine

• EU Edges Toward Supporting Expulsion of Russia from Swift System

• A letter to the Western Left from Kyiv | openDemocracy

• Internet in Ukraine disrupted as Russian troops advance

• Cutting Russia off from SWIFT a “matter of days” – euro zone central banker

• Twitter restricted in Russia amid conflict with Ukraine

• Rejecting US evacuation offer, Zelensky says: I need anti-tank ammo, 'not a ride' | The Times of Israel

• Russia’s Energy Dominance Ties West’s Hands in Ukraine War.

• Ukraine Says It "Derailed" Russian Attack Plan As Kiev Offensive Resumes | ZeroHedge

• Russian propaganda speculates Ukraine preparing to attack Russia with dirty bomb

• How Russia's invasion of Ukraine could impact you

• What's up with Russia's internet - by Vicki Boykis

• Russia Is Now Blocking Twitter

• Ukie Anti-air missile? Residential building struck by a missile in southwestern Kyiv Saturday morning

  • HN thread

• Advice to civilian resistors in Ukriane, especially Kyiv

• Biden seriously weighing whether to support expelling Russia from SWIFT

• Kazakhstan to Putin: Pound sand – HotAir

• Germany to deliver 1000 anti-tank weapons and 500 Stinger missiles to Ukraine

• Putin’s Historic Miscalculation May Make Him a War Criminal

• Opinion: Welcome to the new age of the 'Big Lie'

• Germany softens stance on curbing Russian access to SWIFT

• Russia’s assault in Ukraine slows

• BBC interviewed the mother of captured Russian solider

• Ukrainian “Snake Island” Troops Reportedly Alive

• Ghost of Kyiv Ukraine Video Is a Fake Made Using Digital Combat Simulator Game

• In "Devastating" Move, US Weighs Sanctions On Russia's Central Bank As Germany Backs "Targeted" Removal Of Russia From SWIFT | ZeroHedge

World

• Russia bans ammonium nitrate exports until April to support domestic farmers

• Arabs fear for wheat supplies after Russia invades Ukraine.

• The Ukraine crisis is a major challenge for China

• Russia pulls out of European spaceport, abandoning a planned launch

• Ukraine conflict: Protests held around UK in support of Ukraine

Health / Medicine

• Against alcohol, #6437

Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda

• America’s Love-Hate Relationship with the Bald Eagle

• Feds rescind license extension for Florida nuclear plant

• Forget ‘Reduce, Reuse, Recycle’

• U.S. Plans New Safety Rules to Crack Down on Carbon Monoxide Poisoning from Portable Generators

• Ask HN: How much gas we could save in EU if we reduce our heating temp by 3°?