2022-03-04

Worthy

• What Are We Arguing About When We Argue About Rationality?

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• Mysterious spent Rocket part about to slam into the Moon – Space Junk

  • Abandoned Rocket 'Hits the Moon'

• Ben and Jerry’s vs. Ben and Jerry's: Israeli licensee sues ice cream giant

• California's Big One just one West Coast disaster worth preparing for

• Lessons from Shipbuilding Productivity - Part I

Horseshit

• Vulva Spaceship aims to counter prevalence of phallic spacecraft

• A Risky Asteroid Was Heading Towards Earth, but Luckily Changed Its Trajectory

  astronomers from the European Space Agency (ESA) detected an asteroid—dubbed 2022 AE1—cruising towards Earth with its trajectory revealing collision in 2023. But there’s a plot twist! Luckily, the potentially hazardous asteroid mysteriously changed its course. The space rock now exhibits no risk of collision with our planet. Sigh, what a close call!

celebrity gossip

• Melinda French Gates: Epstein ‘was evil personified’

Obit

• Maple Story creator Kim Jung-ju has died age 54. Possible depression and suicide

• Australia cricket legend Shane Warne dies of suspected heart attack

Rank Propaganda / Thought Policing

• I Don't Know What This Is, But It Ain't Journalism - The Hugh Hewitt Show

• ‘Bot holiday’: Covid disinformation down as social media pivot to Ukraine

• PolitiFact | The U.S. did not double oil imports from Russia in the last year

  The U.S. did double the amount of crude oil imported from Russia last year.

COVID / VaxCult

• Antibody evasion properties of SARS-CoV-2 Omicron sublineages

• Evidence supporting a natural zoonotic origin for SARS-CoV-2 vs. a lab leak

• NFL Becomes First US Sports League To Abandon All COVID Protocols

• Breathalyze Your Way to a Covid Diagnosis

• Are Covid Deniers Stupid?

• NZ High Court upholds challenge to Police and NZDF vaccination mandates

• A living WHO guideline on drugs for Covid-19

• In Missouri, CDC director Rochelle Walensky says COVID ‘will lead to death in every season’

• What’s Holding Up the COVID Vaccines for Children Under 5?

• Restaurants Learned the Wrong Pandemic Lessons

• The Pandemic Is Following a Predictable and Depressing Pattern

• Senate votes to end Covid-19 emergency declaration, Biden threatens veto

• New Study: Covid Can Infect Men's Genitals, Cause Infertility and Dysfunction

Culture War / Tribal / Re segregation

• The Trans Swimmer Dividing America Tells Her Story

Edumacationalizing / Acedemia Nuts

• UC Berkeley prepares to slash enrollment after California Supreme Court ruling

Media / ShowBiz / Advertising

• RT America ceases productions and lays off most of its staff

• Peter Thiel Helped Fund a Transgressive, “Anti-Woke” Film Festival

• We've Reached Peak Subscription

• Hundreds of New York Times Tech Staffers Vote to Unionize

• Google Suspends Advertising in Russia

• Spotify Purges Dissident Voices In Latest Censorship Escalation

• Fantasy author Brandon Sanderson raises $20M in 24 Hours to Self-Publish

TechSuck

• Oracle creates new form of free Solaris

• Cybercriminals who breached Nvidia issue one of the most unusual demands ever | Ars Technica

  • HN thread

• Verizon Down on the East Coast

• Conti Ransomware Group Diaries, Part III: Weaponry

Economicon / Business / Finance

• The U.S. added 678,000 jobs in February

• Food Crisis Imminent: Hungary Bans All Grains Exports Effective Immediately | ZeroHedge

• Average Wages Rose by One Penny in January, Falling Behind Inflation

Gubmint / Poilitcks / Law Making

• Newsom proposes to force some homeless people into treatment

• White House backs bill requiring mandatory reporting to CISA amid Ukraine crisis

• White House asks Congress to provide $10 billion in humanitarian and defense assistance for Ukraine

• People's Convoy Is Now 70 Miles Long and Will Be 2 Hours Outside of DC Tonight

Law Breaking / Police / Internal Security

• Breonna Taylor shooting brings no convictions, with detective Brett Hankison acquitted

• Supreme Court reinstates death sentence for Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev

External Security / Militaria / Diplomania

• Navy Recovers F-35 from Deep in the South China Sea

• I’ve Dealt with Foreign Cyberattacks. America Isn’t Ready for What’s Coming

World

• Rex Murphy: Trudeau’s inexplicable use of the Emergencies Act must not be forgotten.

Health / Medicine

• Telehealth visits now available through Amazon Alexa

• Non-profit drug maker will provide insulin for no more than $30 a vial

Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda

• NASA researchers retract Nature paper on climate change and evapotranspiration

• The cold hard truth about electric vehicles in winter

Ukraine War

• Ukraine Conflict Update 14

• How the weak can win – A primer on protracted war

• The Universal Boosting of Putin

  it had always been in the interest of MI6, the Defence Intelligence Service, the British armed forces, of their American counterparts, and of all their NATO counterparts, massively to exaggerate the strength of the Red Army. Because the greater the perceived enemy, the more we needed to throw money at MI6, the Defence Intelligence Service, the British armed forces, their American counterparts, and at all their NATO counterparts.

• Full text: Putin’s declaration of war on Ukraine

• (Mar 2, PDF) FAA NOTAM banning Russian citizens from flight

• Statement from Meta on the Russian decision to block access to Facebook

• 'We are not part of this': NATO rejects Ukraine no-fly zone

• Belarusian forces will not take part in Ukraine war, Lukashenko says

• Putin reportedly blocks Russians’ access to Facebook, Twitter, app stores

• Russia Bans Facebook In Retaliation For Freezing RT, Sputnik -- Ukraine Readies For Black Sea Assault | ZeroHedge

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• Russian airlines jets seized at international airports by leasing companies

• Musk: Probability of Starlink being targeted is high. Please use with caution

  • SpaceX chief Musk warns that its Starlink system could be 'targeted' in Ukraine

• U.S. vs. Russia for the Future of the Internet

• A Russian businessman has put a $1M bounty on Vladimir Putin's head

• China-based AIIB freezes lending to Russia and Belarus over Ukraine war

• S&P drags Russia's rating deeper into junk territory

• Russian forces surround Ukraine’s biggest nuclear plant, sparking UN concerns

• Cryptocurrency Is No Fix for Russia’s Sanctions Woes

• Turkey airlifts additional TB2 UCAVs to Ukraine

• Telecoms blackout hits northeast Ukraine; large power outages also reported

• When War Hits, Even Crypto Can't Stay Neutral

• Analyst on Russian TV drinks to the 'death' of the stock market, stuns host

• When Vladimir Putin escalates his war, the world must meet him

• This is how journalists figure out if all those Ukraine videos are real

• BBC is now blocked in Russia

• Ukrainians ask the west to stop buying Russian oil

• Google suspends all ad sales in Russia as censorship demands grow

• Internationale Féline has banned all Russian born cats from their cat registry

• What Russia is stirring up at Chernobyl

• Russian troops take control of Zaporizhzhya nuclear plant in Ukraine

• War brought Vladimir Putin to power in 1999. Now, it must bring him down

• Pelosi supports halting Russian oil imports to US: ‘Ban it’

• Russia Invokes Trump's Stolen Election Claim in U.N. Speech

• Fire at Ukrainian nuclear plant outside perimeter

  • HN thread

• Russian troops shelling nuclear power station

• Russia's credit rating is cut to junk and the dollar hits new high vs. the ruble

• BBC resurrects shortwave broadcasts as Russia blocks news of Ukraine invasion

• Fearing martial law or conscription, some Russians try to flee abroad

• Germany‘s biggest newspaper: NATO must join ground war, hit Russia with cyberwar

• 4 Chinese students, 1 Indian killed by Russian attack on Kharkiv college dorm

• Tanker of Russian gas diverted after Kent dockers refuse to unload it

• Thousands in France lose internet in suspected Russian cyberattack

• Experts say Russia can use satellite signals to locate Starlink users in Ukraine

• Only US and Ukraine voted against anti-nazi resolution at UN in 2020

• Russian forces seize Ukrainian nuclear plant after fire blamed on shelling

• Residents of Ukraine’s fallen cities regroup under Russian occupation

• War Crimes – How Putin Could Be Tried in the International Criminal Court

• Why Vladimir Putin has already lost this war

• Ukrainian Heritage is in Peril – The Smithsonian hopes to rescue what it can

• Russia-Ukraine war: Fire at Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant put out

• Ukraine’s Military Has Resisted Russia So Far

• How and why the U.S. Government Perpetrated the 2014 Coup in Ukraine

• Airbnb is suspending operations in Russia and Belarus

• China should step forward and become a peacemaker on Ukraine

• Fact and Mythmaking Blend in Ukraine’s Information War

• Ukraine Viasat terminals were rendered permanently unusable by CyberAttack

• Republican South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham called for the assassination of Russian President Vladimir Putin

• Putin’s Petro Problem

• My city is being shelled, but my mum in Russia won’t believe me

• World War III has already started – Gary Kasparov

• NATO will 'discuss no-fly zone' over Ukraine – FT

• Russia's second biggest oil company calls for an end to Putin's war

• BBC News 'dark web' Tor-mirror in Ukrainian and Russian

• Hacktivists Stoke Pandemonium Amid Russia’s War in Ukraine

• Russia is dropping cluster bombs on Ukraine, NATO's Stoltenberg says

• Yandex – Russia's answer to Google warns it may not be able to pay its debts

• Lindsey Graham Calls for Russians to Assassinate Putin

• So Many Holes in SWIFT Sanctions on Russia, those Sanctions are Useless

• Putin Thought Ukraine Would Fall Quickly. An Airport Battle Proved Him Wrong.

• Microsoft suspends new sales in Russia

• The US Government finally realizes that cars kill people outside the vehicle too

• Coinbase, Binance resist calls to kick Russians off crypto platforms

• Putin Must Be Removed by 'Whatever Means Necessary'

• 'Ukrainians are built different': The coders still working under Russian bombing

• Ukraine war: 'My city's being shelled, but mum won’t believe me'

• Putin’s ‘Cornered Rat’ Story Might Be a Warning About His Next Move

• Russia's offer to foreign firms: stay, leave or hand over the keys

• The Worst Is yet to Come for Russia’s Economy

• Russia "Recommends" Fertilizer Makers To Halt All Exports

• A World War of Economic Attrition

• The war in Ukraine: The questions that must be asked

• Reddit now blocks ALL domains under Russian ccTLD (.ru)

• Russia Makes Calling Ukraine War an 'Invasion' a Criminal Offense

• The word Russia is being erased by the west

• Germany switches off black hole telescope on Russian satellite

• BBC Pulls All Reporters From Russia After Moscow Criminalizes "Disinformation"

  • BBC suspends its journalists' work in Russia

• Documenting and Debunking Dubious Footage from Ukraine’s Frontlines

• Ukraine conflict: Before and after images reveal Russian destruction

• International students trapped in Ukraine appeal for urgent evacuation

• Ukraine says it is fighting first 'hybrid war'

• Propaganda war has eclipsed cyberwar in Ukraine

• Ukraine war is economic catastrophe, warns World Bank

• Volunteer Hackers Converge on Ukraine Conflict with No One in Charge

• Russian anger as Senator Lindsey Graham calls for Putin's assassination

• Russia stock market remains closed

• Russia's Plan C - Comment is Freed

• U.S. firm Cogent cutting internet service to Russia

• Why a Russian convoy remains stalled north of Kyiv Archive link

• EA follows Microsoft in halting all sales in Russia

• Ukraine: The race to save the country's artistic treasures

• What American Pundits Get Wrong About Ukraine

• Train tickets for the short trip from St. Petersburg to Helsinki cost over 9000 euros yesterday

• Why Does the U.S. Buy Russian Oil?