2022-03-05

Worthy

• Putin Receives Nobel Prize In Medicine For Ending COVID Pandemic | The Babylon Bee

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• Turnspit Dogs: The Rise and Fall of the Vernepator Cur

• On decentralized prediction markets, or the lack thereof

Horseshit

• If you’ve rented a car from Hertz, there could be a warrant out for your arrest

• Elon Musk, head of world’s largest EV company, now says we need more oil and gas

  • We need to increase oil and gas output immediately

Rank Propaganda / Thought Policing

• Covid disinformation down as social media pivot to Ukraine

COVID / VaxCult

• "We Want To See The Faces Of Our Children": NYC Lifts Indoor School Mask Mandate, Suspends Vaccine Requirements | ZeroHedge

• Pre-infection vitamin D3 levels association with severity of Covid-19 illness

• New research suggests a causal link between blood group and severe COVID-19.

• More evidence that Covid-19 started in a market, not a laboratory

• Why Can’t Kids Just Get Bigger Doses Of The COVID Vaccine?

• White House Demands Tech Companies Turn in Covid Critics

• COVID-19 Delta variant confirmed in house cat in Pennsylvania.

Culture War / Tribal / Re segregation

• Nathan Bedford Forrest: One of the Worst Military Leaders in History

  Despite whatever untutored tactical genius and magnetic personal attraction Forrest may have possessed, he undoubtedly failed at the operational and strategic levels of war, and his brutal treatment of his captured opponents, coupled with the damaging legacy he left for future military leaders, make him a strong contender for the title of worst military commander ever.

• A gripping yarn: inside the Knitting.com drama

Media / ShowBiz / Advertising

• YouTube Suspends the Hill for Playing Clip of Trump Denying Election Results

• How Angry Should Other Writers Be About Brandon Sanderson’s $22M Kickstarter?

• The Daily Wire says it's a $100M a year business

• Starlink has been told by some governments to block Russian news sources. We will not do so unless at gunpoint.

• Ex-Fox News Producer Broke Law with Work for Russian Oligarch, U.S. Says

• The Emptiness Inside Donald Trump’s New Social Media Platform

TechSuck

• Leaked stolen Nvidia cert can sign Windows malware

• Nvidia hackers leak employee credentials

• SpaceX reprioritized to cyber defense and overcoming signal jamming | Hacker News

Crypto con games

• Doing shots with true believers at Ethereum’s biggest party

Economicon / Business / Finance

• Metals Traders Hit With "Hundreds Of Millions" In Erroneous Margin Calls | ZeroHedge

• Buyer Finally Emerges For Russian Oil Offered At A Record $28 Discount | ZeroHedge

• Undocumented day laborers face harsh work prospects due to immigration spike

• Americans should get ready for $5 a gallon gas, analyst warns

• Strong Hiring, Low Unemployment Point to Economy Making Post-Pandemic Pivot

• The Price of Wheat

  With Russia and Ukraine accounting for roughly 30% of the world’s wheat exports, conflict in the region affects crucial supply from an already tight market. prices up 48% this month, 75% this year.

Gubmint / Poilitcks / Law Making

• Biden Called to Unleash Shale

• ‘People’s Convoy’ Truckers Are Still Very Confused About Their D.C. Plans

• GOP wants to end Russian oil imports to US, boost production

Law Breaking / Police / Internal Security

• Capitol rioter from Idaho gets 4 years for attacking police with pipe

• California jogger Sherri Papini staged own violent kidnapping, FBI says

World

• China’s Yuan Becomes Unlikely Haven as Geopolitics Roil Markets

• North Korea Fires Suspected Ballistic Missile Off Eastern Coast

• Finland buying Israeli air defence weapons

Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda

• Covid lockdowns triggered record rainfall in China

• Climate activists deflate tyres of SUVs in rich London neighbourhoods

• Giant parachuting spiders will cover entire East Coast, experts say

• Climate Change Is Taking a Big Bite Out of Our Food Supply

Ukraine War

• Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, March 4

  The Russian military has concentrated considerable combat power around Mariupol to encircle and ultimately seize or destroy it. The purpose of this effort is not entirely clear. The capture or destruction of Mariupol will not likely materially affect the outcome of the war, whose decisive operations are more than 600 kilometers northwest around Kyiv. Russian forces have also renewed their ground offensive west from Crimea toward Odesa, currently focusing on advancing from Kherson to Mykolayiv, and seized the Zaporizhya Nuclear Power Plant north of Crimea. The continued pursuit of objectives along three diverging axes by the same group of forces in Crimea has hindered the Russian military’s ability to generate decisive effects on any of the three.

• Internet backbone Cogent cuts Russia connectivity

• Bloomberg to Temporarily Halt Work of Its Journalists in Russia

• CNN will stop broadcasting in Russia while we continue to evaluate the situation and our next steps moving forward.

• Bloomberg, CNN and BBC Suspend Reporting in Russia

• PayPal shuts down its services in Russia

• Ukraine and Russia Agree to Open Corridors for Civilians to Evacuate Mariupol

  • Ukraine Update: Russia Said to Violate Evacuation Ceasefires

• Putin says Western sanctions are akin to declaration of war

• Ukraine Says Russia Is Shelling Promised Humanitarian Evacuation Corridors

• US quietly prepare for a Ukrainian government-in-exile and a long insurgency

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• Russia to punish ‘fake’ war reports with 15 years in prison

• Switzerland triggers wide range of sanctions against Russia

• Why are Kansas City’s airwaves filled with pro-Putin ‘Radio Sputnik’ propaganda?

• It feels that Russia and its army are about to collapse

• Cost of Ryanair flights from countries bordering Ukraine up to 13 times higher

• One of the top contributors to coding language Python lives in Ukraine

• Russian crypto volume across major exchanges plunges by 50%

• High Above Ukraine, Satellites Get Embroiled in the War

• Elon Musk’s SpaceX sent Ukraine Starlink satellites. Does the country need them?

• If Russian Currency Reserves Aren’t Money, the World Is in for a Shock

• Sky News team’s harrowing account of their violent ambush in Ukraine this week

• Hundreds of people are booking Airbnb rentals in Ukraine

• State of Kentucky's Teachers Retirement was the 2nd-largest Sberbank shareholder

• Hackers stoke pandemonium amid Russia’s war in Ukraine

• How Zelensky Made Peace with Neo-Nazis

• Ukraine accepted to NATO cyber defence centre

• Russia-Ukraine War – What Happened on March 4

• Starlink in Ukraine been jammed briefly

• The Lithuanian ‘Elves’ Fighting Russian Disinformation

• The Dangerous Allure of the No-Fly Zone

• Putin says Western sanctions are akin to declaration of war

• Gazprom continues supplying gas for transit to Europe via Ukraine as normal

• Russian ministry recommends fertilizer producers halt exports

• Putin is NOT crazy and the Russian invasion is NOT failing. The West’s delusions about this war – and its failure to understand the enemy – will prevent it from saving Ukraine, writes military analyst BILL ROGGIO

• The Weapon the West Used Against Putin

• Elon, SpaceX and Ukraine - SatPost by Trung Phan

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

• Hacktivists, cybercriminals switch to Telegram after Russian invasion

• Yandex warns of bond repayment and supply risks

• Why doesn't Ukraine attack the Russian convoy?

• As Ukrainians Slow Russia’s Advance, Putin Threatens Loss of Statehood

• Russia Says It Has American Basketball Player in Custody

• The EU says it wants to accept Ukraine as a member as soon as possible

• Russians are trying to flee Putin’s chaos

• Can We Have an Intelligent Adult Conversation About Russia?

• Germany agonises over Merkel’s legacy: did she hand too much power to Putin?

• Russians are trying to flee – data from Google Trends

  • HN thread

• Britain urges its nationals to consider leaving Russia

• Ukraine Buys Military Gear With Donated Crypto, 40% of suppliers accepted crypto

• Russia Keeps Stock Trading Shut in Nation’s Longest Closure