2022-03-01

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• Henry Rymer: Harry Potter’s real lesson is guns and libertarianism

• Prediction markets: Ukraine Warcasting - by Scott Alexander - Astral Codex Ten

• These Hilarious Pet Photos of Dogs Doing Homework Do Not Disappoint

• Elon Musk Says SpaceX Can Keep the ISS Flying If Russia Won't

• Supercar-Carrying Cargo Ship Felicity Ace Sinks Following Fire

Horseshit

• 'Windowless bunker': First reviews of Disney's $5k 'Star Wars' hotel are in

Obit

• David Boggs, Co-Inventor of Ethernet, Dies at 71

• Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella's Son Zain Nadella Passes Away

  He was 26 years old and had been born with cerebral palsy.

Rank Propaganda / Thought Policing

• Vulnerable U.S. electric grid facing threats from Russia and domestic terrorists

• People’s Republic of Florida? How Republicans’ rhetoric echoes that of Russia and China

COVID / VaxCult

• Nearly half of President Joe Biden’s 500 million free COVID tests are still unclaimed.

• Pfizer vaccine's protection against Covid wanes quickly in kids 5-11, study says

• Public Health Erred on the Side of Catastrophe

• Poison Control Centers Warn About Toxic Chemical In At-Home COVID-19 Test Kits | ZeroHedge

• California says even unvaccinated can now unmask indoors

• What Is a Vaccinated Person’s Risk of Dying from Covid?

• Lack of association between pandemic chilblains and SARS-CoV-2 infection

• Are Vaccine Passports About to Go Totally Global? | naked capitalism

  as countries around the world drop almost all of their COVID-19 public health measures, it looks like digital vaccine passports are going to be made not just universal but permanent

• New CDC Covid Guidance Caves to Great Barrington, Is Not Science-Based, Finagles the Metrics, and Destroys Masking as a Public Health Measure (Just in Time for the SOTU) | naked capitalism

• Possible case of deer-to human Covid infection identified in Canada

• "Covid found replicating in testes nearly a month after death"

• Moderna faces new lawsuit over lucrative coronavirus vaccine

• Hong Kong's Covid Death Rate Is Now One of the Highest

• Covid Arithmetic for Anxious Parents

• How Covid-19 immunity holds up over time

• Queen Celebrates COVID Recovery by Hanging Out with Her Great Grandchildren

• Are Americans ready to ditch Covid restrictions? It's complicated

Culture War / Tribal / Re segregation

• The Pushback Effects of Race, Ethnicity, Gender, and Age in Code Review

Media / ShowBiz / Advertising

• Reddit has quarantined r/Russia subreddit due to misinformation

TechSuck

• HN Jobs:

  • Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2022)

  • Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (March 2022)

  • Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (March 2022)

• RIPE NCC Executive Board Resolution on Provision of Critical Services — RIPE Network Coordination Centre

  The Executive Board of the RIPE NCC believes that the means to communicate should not be affected by domestic political disputes, international conflicts or war. This includes the provision of correctly registered Internet numbering resources. The Executive Board of the RIPE NCC is committed to taking all lawful steps available to ensure that the RIPE NCC can provide undisrupted services to all members across our service region and the global Internet community. The RIPE NCC will publicly document all its efforts to ensure that the registry is not negatively affected by laws, regulations or political developments.

• Nvidia DLSS Source Code Leaked

  • Nvidia Hackers Threaten to Release Mining-Limiter Killer

• Free Software Foundation announces new executive director, Zoë Kooyman

Crypto con games

• Major crypto exchanges refuse to freeze all Russian user accounts

Economicon / Business / Finance

• NYSE, Nasdaq halt trading in stocks of Russia-based companies

• Consumer watchdog fires warning shot to lenders over abusive auto repos as used-car prices soar

• Car Dealerships Don’t Want Your Cash–They Want to Give You a Loan

• Carbon, Crypto, & Corn - Some Non-Energy Commodity Observations | ZeroHedge

• UPS slashes pay for part-time workers as profits grow

• U.S., allies agree oil reserves release as oil prices soar

Gubmint / Poilitcks / Law Making

• Biden’s State of the Union speech needs to show the US a clear map out of economic trouble even as he deals with Ukraine, Democratic strategists say

• Stacey Abrams: Americans Should ‘Legitimately Question’ the Election System.

• House passes bill to make lynching a federal hate crime

• DeSantis rejects request to send Florida National Guard to DC for Biden's State of the Union

• Videos: US troops deployed, fence built for Biden State of the Union Address | American Military News

• FACT SHEET: Background on President Biden's Remarks on the Economy During His First State of The Union Address | The White House

• Facebook whistleblower Frances Haugen to join Jill Biden at State of the Union address

Law Breaking / Police / Internal Security

• Waupaca County sheriff testifies reports are routinely altered

• Tech Guru Who Worked With Clinton Campaign Pleaded the Fifth in Durham Probe

External Security / Militaria / Diplomania

• New Chinese hacking tool found, spurring U.S. warning to allies

• As Russia Wages War, US Army Trains Officers on Gender Identity

• Democratic congressmen float deportation of Russian students.

  Congressman Eric Swalwell said that the deportation of Russian students should be “on the table” when it comes to retaliation against Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

• Former US Defense Officials in Taiwan to Signal Washington's Support

• British Gas owner abandons Russia as all Nord Stream 2 staff sacked

• Russia holds drills with nuclear subs, land-based missiles

Ukraine

• Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, February 28, 2022

• Army prepositioned stocks in Europe activated

• Greater Russia is now a full-spectrum commodity superpower, less vulnerable to sanctions than Europe itself

• Erdogan calls for immediate Ukraine-Russia ceasefire, supports NATO enlargement

• Canada closes ports, territorial waters to Russian ships

• Namecheap: Russia Service Termination

  • Namecheap extends termination for customers from Russia | Hacker News

• Maersk, MSC halt container shipping to and from Russia

  • Maersk suspends container shipments to and from Russia

  • Russia / Ukraine update | Maersk

• YouTube bans Russia Today, Sputnik and related Russian media channels in Europe

• Miles-Long Russian Infantry & Tank Convoy Bears Down On Kiev As Next Ceasefire Talks Expected Wednesday | ZeroHedge

• Beyond sanctions: An off-ramp for post-Putin Russia

• War - Pirate Wires

• The Crowded Road to Kyiv - VDH’s Blade of Perseus

• The War in Ukraine, and One of Them Is a Consequence of American Imperialism

• Why the Russian air force has been so poor

• “Yes, He Would”: Fiona Hill on Putin and Nukes

• Netflix refuses to comply with new Russian rules

• Putin Accidentally Revitalized the West's Liberal order

• Shell to sever Gazprom links in Ukraine crisis

• SpaceX shipment of Starlink satellite internet dishes arrives in Ukraine

• Russian bonds tumble as new sanctions trigger default fears

• What are thermobaric rockets? New weapon ‘Putin could unleash on Ukraine’

• Heat Pumps for Peace and Freedom. Joe Biden Could Damage Putin Badly

• Can Russia's Ukraine invasion prompt China to attack Taiwan?

• Ukraine's ambassador to U.S. says Russia used a vacuum bomb on Monday

• Why hasn't Russia gained control of the air?

• Vladimir Putin's Black Belt Revoked by International Taekwondo Organization

• US Expels 12 Russian "Intelligence Operatives" From UN Mission In New York | ZeroHedge

• Disney pausing film releases in Russia over Ukraine invasion

• Twitter will label, reduce visibility of tweets linking to Russian state media

• Ukrainian pilots arrive in Poland to pick up donated fighter jets

• Russia Warns Nations of ‘Consequences’ for Sending Weapons to Ukraine and Wonders if Germany Was Ever “De-Nazified.”

• Why Russia is highly unlikely to use nuclear weapons

• Belarus leader says Minsk won't join Russian operation in Ukraine, Belta reports

• Belarus joins Russia’s war on Ukraine

• Half of Russians say it would be right to use military force in Ukraine

• Ukraine invasion: Would Putin press the nuclear button?

• Big Tech caught in information war between west and Russia

• Will the current sanctions push Russia to withdraw from Ukraine?

• YouTube to block channels linked to Russia's RT and Sputnik across Europe

• DocumentFoundation suspends Russian company RusBITech from its advisory board

• Many predicted NATO expansion would lead to war. Those warnings were ignored

• The West Is Sleepwalking into War in Ukraine

• Ukraine invasion: Russians feel the pain of international sanctions

• Microsoft: Russia invasion of Ukraine ‘unlawful, unjustified’

• Statement from the Walt Disney Company in Response to the Crisis in Ukraine

• Why Vladimir Putin has already lost this war

• The Ukraine War Is Testing the Myth of Elon Musk

• Russia’s Money Is Gone

• Russian news agency in Berlin faces staff exodus over Ukraine invasion

• Tracking the Battle for Kyiv

• Hungary will not allow lethal weapons for Ukraine to transit its territory

• Bulgarian defence minister sacked over Ukraine rhetoric

• Netflix Declines to Carry Russian Propaganda Channels

• Visa, Mastercard block Russian financial institutions after sanctions

• The U.S. has solid intelligence that Putin is expressing unusual bursts of anger

• Russians face the anxieties of a costly war

• Putin’s ‘thugs for hire’ militia with orders to kill Zelensky: Shadowy Wagner mercenaries who have been flown in from Africa with 23-strong hit list including Ukraine’s president and the Klitschko brothers.

• Big Tech’s Russia Problem

• Ukraine Pushes to Unplug Russia from the Internet

• Missile hits center of Ukraine’s second-biggest city

• Putin has Gambled Everything on His Snap-Invasion of Ukraine, Now His Political Survival in Russia is in Doubt

• The Consequences of Humiliating Russia

• Zelensky’s Saakashvili Moment

• Russian invasion could change the world order

• Putin’s Nuclear Threat

• Could Putin be exploring cryptocurrencies to bypass western sanctions?

• Experts Warned for Years That NATO Expansion Would Lead to This

• Belarus hackers attack train systems to disrupt Russian troops

• Russian defence ministry warns Kyiv residents to leave

• Poland decided not to give fighter planes to Ukraine

• Valery Gergiev, a Putin Ally, Fired as Chief Conductor in Munich

• The European Parliament has approved Ukraine's application to join the EU

• Nord Stream 2 owner considers insolvency after sanctions

• Russia, Ukraine, Nato, the EU - and a Few Good Men

• U.S. looking closely at possible war crimes in Ukraine – White House

• Russia strikes at TV tower in Kyiv

• Huge Russian convoy approaches Kyiv as fears of all-out assault on the city grow

• Photos: Shelling, blasts as Russia steps up Ukraine attacks

• After Ukraine recruits an “IT Army,” dozens of Russian sites go dark

• Putin’s Strategic Failure and the Risk of Escalation

• Metropolitan Opera is among those severing ties with Putin-allied artists

• Russia will ban Western companies from exiting investments

• SSL certificate of Russian banks got revoked by Thawte (DigiCert)

• Ukraine official confirms urgent request for Western satellite data

• Nuclear war warning: Unhinged Vladimir Putin tipped to drop bomb near Britain | World | News | Express.co.uk

• Ukraine: Putin's miscalculations could see him strike harder

• Independent Russian radio station and TV channel have been disconnected

• Arnaud Bertrand on Twitter: "Most fascinating thing about the Ukraine war is the sheer number of top strategic thinkers who warned for years that it was coming if we continued down the same path. No-one listened to them and here we are. Small compilation of these warnings, from Kissinger to Mearsheimer." / Twitter

• Three big military decisions the Ukrainians will have to make soon.

• Russian Ruble Is Now Worth Less Than 1 U.S. Cent After Swift Bank Sanctions

• Russia's 40-mile convoy has stalled on its way to Kyiv, a U.S. official says

• Ukrainians Are Taking It Upon Themselves to Take Russian Military Vehicles

• Radio Related News Occurring in the Russia-Ukraine Conflict

World

• Turkey Closes the Dardanelles and Bosphorus to Warships

  • Turkey warns countries not to pass warships through straits

• Chancellor Scholz Takes the Plunge: Germany Completes Historic Foreign Policy About-Face

• Saudi Arabia Mohammed Bin Salman Defends China Concentration Camps for Muslims

• Telstra says 2 of 3 Tasmanian fibre cables cut, explaining Internet outage

Health / Medicine

• Muscle strengthening lowers risk of death from all causes, study shows

• Fentanyl-related overdoses are leading cause of death for Americans age 18 to 45

• Young, Male and Infertile: The Men Struggling to Have Kids:

Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda

• 'Atlas of Human Suffering': New UN Climate Report Is Shockingly Grim

• Climate Scientists Are Fed Up and Ready to Go on Strike

• Climate change is hitting the planet faster than scientists originally thought