2022-03-09

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• The high-tech sex parties and S&M dungeons of Silicon Valley

• "The dogma is too soft" Does X cause Y? An in-depth evidence review

• Endurance, Ernest Shackleton’s Lost Ship, Found After 107 Years

• Tinder is making criminal background checks available on your dates

• Giant spiders expected to drop from sky across the East Coast this spring

Horseshit

• Microsoft CFO says pandemic showed the importance of Windows

• Are there more wheels or doors in the world?

• Some Understaffed PetSmarts Are Dealing with Freezers Overflowing with Dead Pets

• This Today Show Segment on Gas-Saving Tips in a Ford Mustang Mach-E Is Painful

Obit

• Charles Entenmann, who helped franchise Long Island family bakery, dead at 92

COVID / VaxCult

• US Destroyer can’t deploy because CO won’t get Covid vaccine, Navy says

  • HN thread

• Remember how New Zealand went full tyranny for 2 years to keep Covid from spreading? Yeaaaah… | Not the Bee

• How did this many deaths become normal?

• Even cautious Covid experts start to lower their guard as Biden urges return to normal

• First Dog in Illinois Diagnosed With COVID-19

• Florida’s latest anti-health political stunt is to cast doubt on kids’ vaccines

• Why Vaccine Cards Are So Easily Forged

• U.S. warns against travel to New Zealand due to rising Covid-19 cases

• Masking Policy Is Incredibly Irrational

• CDC says avoid travel to New Zealand, Hong Kong andThailand as Covid cases surge

• Mainland China daily local Covid cases climb to 2-year high

• WHO announces support for COVID-19 booster shots.

• Researcher finds 'Stunning Rate of Covid among Deer' – What it means for Humans

Culture War / Tribal / Re segregation

• Abortion in the Surveillance State

Edumacationalizing / Acedemia Nuts

• How a dad became ‘Enemy #1’ to teachers in Loudoun County, Virginia

• The Pandemic Has Worsened the Reading Crisis in Schools

Media / ShowBiz / Advertising

• USA Today Owner Gave Advertisers Inaccurate Information for Nine Months

• Spotify, Discord experience widespread disruption

TechSuck

• Elementary OS is imploding | Hacker News

• Building and modding the Ploopy trackball - The Verge

Crypto con games

• Bitcoin Price Surges on Biden’s Crypto Executive Order

Economicon / Business / Finance

• 1st Look at Local Housing Markets in February

• Online-Mortgage Lender Better Fires 3k in New Round of Cuts

• WisdomTree Terminates Triple Leveraged Nickel Product After Investor Wipeout

• USA Is the World’s Largest Oil Producer. Why Is Losing Russia’s Oil a Big Deal?

• Company or Cult? Archive link

• We Need More Houses - by Eric Soda - Spilled Coffee

• Monopolies Take a Fifth of Your Wages - BIG by Matt Stoller

• Swapping laptops for hammers: ‘Great Resignation’ boosts interest in trades

• Why California Gas Prices Are Especially High

• Oil plunges as much as 17% as UAE says support output hike

Gubmint / Poilitcks / Law Making

• These Congressman Did Not Deserve What Joe Biden Said About Them During His Texas Visit

• Sensing Online: Biden begs Texas to secede

• Treasury Secretary Yellen accidentally leaks details of Biden’s crypto policy

  • Yellen on President Biden's Executive Order on Crypto

• K Street was fine taking Russian cash — until it couldn’t

• Executive Order on Ensuring Responsible Development of Digital Assets

• Biden’s inflation plan upends thinking on jobs sent overseas

Law Breaking / Police / Internal Security

• Pulitzer Prize Winning New York Times Reporter: January 6 Media Coverage ‘Overreaction,’ FBI Involved, Event Was Not Organized Despite Ongoing Narrative | Project Veritas

• Amazon Flagged to DOJ for Possible Obstruction of Congress

  • Amazon lied about using seller data, lawmakers say, urging DOJ investigation

• Lawyers: Men charged in Whitmer plot were big talkers

External Security / Militaria / Diplomania

• Cybersecurity firm says Chinese hackers breached six US state agencies

• Far from Perfect: America's Patriot Missile Battery Is Unreliable

• Saudis, UAE Refuse To Take Biden's Calls To Discuss Ukraine Situation, Talk To Putin Instead | ZeroHedge

• Venezuela releases two jailed US citizens after talks

• U.S. intelligence shows Iran threats on U.S. soil, but Blinken and Schiff say this shouldn’t derail new nuclear deal

World

• Australia floods: PM Morrison to declare a national emergency

• Germany vetoes nuclear power extension, aims for LNG terminal in 2024

Health / Medicine

• US man who got first pig heart transplant dies after 2 months

Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda

• Did we just hit peak oil? How the future of energy snuck up on us in 2020

• Carbon dioxide will have to be removed from air to achieve 1.5C, says report

• Climate crisis: do we need millions of machines sucking CO2 from the air?

Ukraine War

• We do not believe Poland’s proposal is a tenable one

  • Poland's proposal on jets not 'tenable,' Pentagon says

  • US rejects Poland’s offer to send MiG-29 fighter jets to Ukraine

• Biological Threat Reduction Program

• Russia-Ukraine War: What Happened March 8

• Ukraine Thoughts And Links - by Scott Alexander

• Russia demands U.S. explain alleged bio labs with plague and anthrax in Ukraine

• Full Transcript Of Putin’s Remarks On 3/5/22: Includes Comments On Why He Ordered The Military Operation In Ukraine, Why It Went Beyond Donbas, Whether He Plans To Declare Martial Law, Etc.

• Nuland: US Working With Ukraine to Keep US ‘Biological Research Facilities’ Out of Russia’s Hands

• Russo-Ukrainian War Update for March 8, 2022 « Lawrence Person's BattleSwarm Blog

• U.S. stunned by Poland's fighter jet offer

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• CERN suspends Russias observer status and all future collaboration over invasion

• Britain to phase out Russian oil imports by end of 2022

• McDonald's to close all 847 restaurants in Russia

• The Coca-Cola Company Suspends Its Business in Russia

• McDonald’s, Starbucks and Coca-Cola Suspend Russian Operations

• What is the Wagner Group, Russia’s mercenary organisation?

• PepsiCo suspends production and sale of Pepsi in Russia

• Russian central bank imposes $10k limit on foreign cash withdrawals

• The bank run in Russia could become a run on the country’s central bank itself

• I’ve studied the possible trajectories of the Russia-Ukraine war. None are good

• Ukraine successfully attacked Russian vehicles in Kyiv thanks to Telegram tip

• Russia has suspended the sale of foreign currencies until September 9

• Fitch says default 'imminent' on Russian debt

• Montreal orchestra drops Russian piano prodigy from concerts amid backlash

• Ukraine Nuclear Plant Attack Shows Bigger Is Safer

• The curious case of Russia’s missing Air Force

• Planes Leased to Russia Airlines Now Out of Reach of Owners

• No Power at Chernobyl

• Russia to 'disconnect from global internet' on March 11

• US looks to keep Ukrainian 'biological research facilities' from Russian control

• Lumen Technologies, part of the backbone of the internet, pulls out of Russia

• New York Times withdraws all correspondents from Russia

• Ukraine war: Why has 'Z' become a Russian pro-war symbol?

• China to provide 5 mln yuan worth of humanitarian assistance to Ukraine

• Russian Police Arrest 13K Protesters as Ukraine Invasion Opposition Surges

• Western nations cut ties with Russian science, as some projects remain neutral

• Sanctions on Russia Will Fail Without Diplomacy

• Putin originally planned to seize Kyiv in two days – CIA chief

• Concern Rising That Putin Could Use Nuclear Weapons

• THERE WILL BE NO LANDSCAPE AFTER THE BATTLE (Words by the EZLN on the invasion of the Russian army into Ukraine)

• Chernobyl power supply cut completely after Russian seizure, warns Ukraine

• CIA director says he anticipates ‘ugly next few weeks’ in Ukraine

• Russia and Ukraine: The Distraction, Warmongering Propaganda & Censorship

• China's state media buys Meta ads pushing Russia's line on war

• War in Ukraine: Russia soon unable to pay its debts, warns agency

• Why U.S. Spies Can Watch Russian Troops but Not Guess Putin’s Next Move

• Putin's military failures force bitter Russian reckoning

• Cloudflare refuses to pull out of Russia, says Putin would celebrate shutoff

• Nurse Speculates Putin Has Symptoms of Parkinson's in Viral Video

• The Propaganda War over Ukraine - Areo

  These are all lies—and not just exaggerations, but the exact opposite of the truth. Despite his efforts to plant a false flag operation, we know that Putin launched this invasion unprovoked. He is now salting the earth in Ukraine, resorting to Grozny and Aleppo style tactics. He is massacring civilians. In Kherson, brave Ukrainians protested in front of tanks and even climbed on top of them, waving their flags.

• Russia’s Oldest University to Expel Students Detained at Anti-War Protests

• Russian Soldiers Looting Chickens

• ‘Catastrophic’ cyber war between Ukraine and Russia hasn’t happened (yet)

• Ukrainians have won the information war: historian Margaret MacMillan

• It’s not too late to free ourselves from this idiotic addiction to Russian gas

• Russia Headed for One of Biggest Inflation Shocks in Decades

• Lessors face legal quagmire as Russian plane repos stall

• Russia is restricting social media. Here's what we know

• Video: U.S. Intelligence Officials Warn Putin Could NUKE A Ukrainian City – Summit News

• Iconic Russian Car Maker, Known for Cold War Self-Reliance, Halts Production

• Tracking Sanctions Against Russia

• Russia admits conscripts have been fighting in Ukraine, despite previous denials

• Russian MoD has confirmed the use of the TOS-1A weapon system in Ukraine

• “Absolutely convinced that Putin will fail” – Blinken

• The Blob Wants a War - CDR Salamander

• Children buried in rubble after Russian airstrike on Mariupol hospital

• Ukraine's first-lady, says Russia is waging mass-Murder of Civilians

• Putin 'destroyed' the ruble and brought Russia to the brink of default

• Will Russia’s Isolation Last?