2022-03-10

Worthy

• Lessons from Shipbuilding Productivity – Part II

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• Virgin Hyperloop axes half its staff to focus on freight

• Inside Bangladesh village YouTube cooking channel AroundMeBD - Rest of World

• Several interesting themes in the thread Some tiny personal programs I've written | Hacker News

Horseshit

• Globalism Is Good

• Why inject botox into kids? Do clowns attenuate pain and anxiety during botox injections in children?

• PC builder that drew fury of small Twitch streamers shuts down indefinitely | PC Gamer

celebrity gossip

• Musk claims he was coerced into settling with the SEC over ‘funding secured’

• Hawking Hawking: The Selling of a Scientific Celebrity

Rank Propaganda / Thought Policing

• Russia is having less success at spreading social media disinformation (for now)

• America Has No Allies, Only Hostages

• ‘The Memo has Gone Out’: The Left, ABC News Puppet Biden’s Claim That High Gas is ‘Putin’s Price Hike’

• How Fact-Finding Fauci Led To My Cancellation At Forbes

COVID / VaxCult

• The Coronavirus’s Next Move

• Will coronavirus evolve to become less deadly?

• Pandemic signals from the sewer–what virus levels in wastewater tell us

• California Officials Raid Preschool & Interview 2-year-olds Over Covid Mask Compliance.

• Austria suspends law forcing all adults to have Covid jabs and admits the ‘encroachment of fundamental rights’ is not justified

• Two Years Into the Pandemic, Americans Inch Closer to a New Normal

• How much of the covid death toll is a function of peer pressure?

• Coronavirus: Chinese state-owned firm signs deal with Pfizer to supply pill to treat Covid-19

• Architect of Sweden’s no-lockdown Covid strategy resigns

• The NFL Has Been Using an Unproven Measure to Get Players With Covid Back on the Field Fast

• Treatment with Ivermectin Is Associated with Decreased Mortality vs. Remdesevir

• A surge in cases is challenging China's zero Covid approach

• We Will Forget Much of the Pandemic. That’s a Good Thing

• United Airlines to Let Unvaccinated Workers Return

• Boston rescinds COVID public health emergency declaration nearly 2 years after it started.

• Uber, Lyft drivers clash with riders over masks as states lift mandates

• Why Do Some People Never Get Covid?

• The origins of SARS-CoV-2: still to be determined

• Travel / TSA Biden administration to extend federal mask mandate

Culture War / Tribal / Re segregation

• Disney Censors Same-Sex Affection in Pixar Films

Edumacationalizing / Acedemia Nuts

• Campus Speech Cancel Culture

• Advice For Unwoke Academic? - by Scott Alexander

  An academic recently asked me for advice. A lucky career development has now made him almost un-fire-able, and he wants to join the fight for academic freedom.

Media / ShowBiz / Advertising

• Meta’s head of youth product initiatives departs the company

• Google Deletes Oliver Stone Documentary “Ukraine on Fire”

• HBO Accused of Sharing Subscriber Data with Facebook

TechSuck

• The Apple-TSMC Partnership - by Pushkar - Bits and Bytes

• Nvidia repositions as a software and services company

• No other profession trivialises their profession to the degree of software

  • HN thread

Crypto con games

• Biden order floats US-issued digital currency as safer alternative to Bitcoin

• Intel Bitcoin Bonanza Chips to Double Giant Mining Farm's Hashrate

• The untold tale of how Facebook’s cryptocurrency dream fell apart

• LimeWire Returning as an NFT Marketplace

• Muslims debate whether Bitcoin, dogecoin are allowed

• What Happened to the Dream of Private Cryptocurrency?

Economicon / Business / Finance

• UAE says it wants OPEC to Increase Oil Production

• An LME Member Has Defaulted On Billions In Margin Calls, But The LME Doesn't Want To Declare Default | ZeroHedge

  • JPMorgan Bails Out Chinese Nickel Giant Facing Billions In Losses From Record Margin Call | ZeroHedge

  • LME forced to halt nickel trading, cancel deals, after prices top $100k

  • Chinese Tycoon Who Faces $8 Billion In Margin Calls Tells Bank He Wants To Keep Shorting Nickel | ZeroHedge

• Amazon announces 20-for-1 stock split, $10B buyback

• (Jan 2022) The Seven Trumpets? | Michael Hudson

• The Coming Food Crunch: Hoarding and the Hunt for Self-Sufficiency

• Inflation rose 7.9% in February, led by food and energy

  • U.S. Inflation Hit Fresh 40-Year High of 7.9% Before Oil Spike

Gubmint / Poilitcks / Law Making

• Kamala Proves the Peter Principle - American Thinker

• Kamala Harris Heads to Eastern Europe Amid Rising War Tensions

• "It's Appalling": In Hilarious Reversal, Biden Admin Now Slams Shale For Not Raising Output | ZeroHedge

• Jen, Joe… Is it 9,000 leases or 9,000 permits that oil companies are allegedly sitting on? – Watts Up With That?

• We Knew From His Campaign Joe Biden Would Set Foreign Policy On Fire

• House Passes $1.5 Trillion Spending Bill With $13.6 Billion For Ukraine | ZeroHedge

  The spending bill still needs to be passed by the Senate. Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) has said he hopes to pass the legislation before Friday to avert a government shutdown.

• Biden Restores California’s Power to Set Stringent Tailpipe Rules

• oopsie Texas election commissioner resigns after 10,000 uncounted ballots found in last week’s primary.

Law Breaking / Police / Internal Security

• Republican county clerk indicted in voting-machine breach, arrest warrant issued

• New Yorkers with Marijuana Convictions Will Get First Retail Licenses

• FBI waited more than year to probe sources over Jan. 6 pipe bomb incident | Just The News

External Security / Militaria / Diplomania

• Sweden’s PM says push to join NATO would destabilise northern Europe

• Wearing Combat Uniforms, already rescinded: NEW REPORT: US Military Personnel Have Entered a “War Time” Posture

• I was a nuclear missile operator.Have been more near-misses than the world knows

• U.S. VP – Announces delivery of Patriot missile-systems to Poland

World

• Australia floods: PM Morrison to declare a national emergency

• North Korea's – Spy Satellites Plan to Monitor Actions by US and Its Allies

• Philippines to proceed with deal to buy Russian helicopters

• Conservatives win back power in South Korea's presidential election

• Middle East faces severe wheat crisis over war in Ukraine

• Yoon Suk-Yeol, South Korean Conservative Leader, Wins Presidency

Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda

• Washington Post and NPR Ignore the Rural Backlash Against Renewables

• 2 Billion Modified Mosquitoes Cleared for Release in California and Florida

• Relocating farmland could turn back clock twenty years on carbon emissions

• Grappling with environmental risks in the fog of war

• At bioenergy crossroads, should corn ethanol be left in the rearview mirror?

• UN ocean treaty is ‘once in a lifetime’ chance to protect the high seas

Ukraine War

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

• U.S. $13.6B Aid package for Ukraine

• Victoria Nuland: Ukraine Has "Biological Research Facilities," Worried Russia May Seize Them

• Zelensky Calls Putin's Nuclear Threats A "Bluff" & "Show Of Weakness" | ZeroHedge

• George Papadopoulos on Twitter: "Biological weapons discovered in Ukraine in the middle of a war. What’s the worst that could happen?"

• Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, March 8

• Kamala Harris heads to Poland amid Nato fighter jet rift - BBC News

• Germany's Military Is Back

• Russia-Ukraine War: What Happened March 9

• Warning Update: Russia May Conduct a Chemical or Radiological False-Flag Attack

  • Warning of chemical or radiological false-flag attack

• The United States does not have chemical and biological weapons labs in Ukraine

  • HN thread

• (Feb 25) US official: Russian invasion of Ukraine risks release of dangerous pathogens

• WHO Highlights Pattern of Russian Strikes on Ukrainian Medical-Facilities

• High-level Talks between Russia and Ukraine end with no-breakthrough

• Someone needs to explain why there are dangerous biological weapons in Ukraine

• As of 10a CST Mar 10 2022; Vladimir Putin still has a Twitter Account

• DuckDuckGo to begin censoring search results

• No Ceasefire Progress: All The Latest News And Developments From The Ukraine War - March 10

• EU Bans Russian State-Owned Media from Search Results, Social Reshares

• Russia says its businesses can steal patents from anyone in unfriendly countries

• Ukraine Post 2: Options | Don't Worry About the Vase

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• Russia will nationalize assets of foreign firms that leave

• Cardiff Philharmonic removes Tchaikovsky from program in light of Russian invasion of Ukraine

• Putin Has No Good Way Out, and That Scares Me

• Amazon Halts Shipping, Prime Video Services in Russia

• BNP Paribas bars Russia-based staff from computer systems as cyber fears grow

• The Ukraine War and the price of bread

  Of course, different foods are fairly substitutable, especially in a country like the U.S. with well-stocked grocery stores. Even if you’re used to eating bread every day, if the price went up by 1000% you’d learn to eat rice pretty quick. So the price of food isn’t going to go up as much as the price of wheat — we’re not looking at mass starvation here. Still, it’s something we need to worry about.

• Absent UK soldiers may have travelled to Ukraine, British Army says

• Backlash against Russian-branded gas stations hits Americans

• The Case for a No-Fly Zone in Ukraine

• Sony suspends all Playstation sales in Russia over Ukraine war

• Tesla will pay conscripted Ukrainian employees up to 3 months

• British American Tobacco to continue selling cigarettes in Russia

• ‘Pure genocide’: civilian targets in Mariupol ‘annihilated’ by Russian attacks

• Under a foreign flag: Canadian veterans explain why they're fighting for Ukraine

• Far-Right Militias in Europe Plan to Confront Russian Forces

• Silicon Valley tech worker was the Ukrainian mom lying dead on street in photo

• Over 300 Companies Have Withdrawn from Russia – But Some Remain

• A tech executive privately funding hundreds of soldiers to fight for Ukraine

• Putin’s Strategic Error

• Ordinary Ukrainians are resisting Vladimir Putin’s occupying force in Kherson

• EU unveils plan to end reliance on Russian gas

• Two weeks of War have revealed Cracks in Putin's master-plan for Ukraine

• Russia to Disconnect from Global Internet

• E.U. sanctions demand Google block Russian state media from search results

• The war in Ukraine may cause a global financial crisis

• Ukrainian Hospital Bombing Increases Pressure on US and Allies to Stop Russia

• Zelensky – Russia's Bombing of Maternity and Childrens Hospital an 'Atrocity'

• Europe’s Sleeping Giant Awakens

• Pausing Google Play's billing system for users in Russia

• Sony Suspends Playstation Store in Russia

• Secret US mission to bolster Ukraine’s cyber defenses ahead of Russia’s invasion

• Why Russians Are Fleeing Russia

• TikTok Was Designed for War

• Chinese smartphone shipments to Russia plunge as rouble collapses

• Russia's New T-14 Armata Tank Is A Terror (It Just Has One Giant Problem) - 19FortyFive

• Understanding Europe’s response to Ukrainian refugee crisis

• Why Lying in Russia Has Become a National Pastime

• The Stalinisation of Russia

• Russia Denies Bombing Maternity Hospital In Mariupol, Calling It 'Fake News' | ZeroHedge

• UK says Russian commanders will be held to account for war crimes

• NATO Says It Didn't Notice Ukraine Soldier's Apparent Nazi Symbol in Tweet

  • Outlines the "Nazi Symbol" NATO posts image of Ukrainian soldier wearing Nazi insignia; deletes it later

• Russia says China refuses to supply aircraft parts after sanctions

• US colleges cut partnerships, financial ties with Russia

• A Russian antiwar view on things

• The Case for a No-Fly Zone in Ukraine

• Russia’s ‘warning’ of Ukraine’s biological weapons sounds just like Syria

• Fact Check-TikTok video showing how to work Russian military tanks predates invasion

• Meet the photojournalists behind the powerful images of war in Ukraine

• Ukraine: Did China Have a Clue?

• The Crackpot Realism of America, Russia, and Ukraine

• The container logistics implications of war in Ukraine

• US colleges cut partnerships, financial ties with Russia

• Nuclear war? Russia's Lavrov says: I don't believe so

• Analyzing Weapons of the War in Ukraine

• Vladimir Putin Lost Interest in the Present

• Where’s the Russia-Ukraine Cyberwar?

  Near as I can tell, the only thing that worked was the disabling of regional KA-SAT SATCOM terminals.

• A Family Died by a Bridge in Ukraine

• Ukraine invasion: We should consider internet sanctions, says ICANN ex-CEO

• App Store and iTunes Purchases Reportedly 'Turned Off' in Russia

• Facebook Allows Accounts from Sanctioned Russians, in Violation of Sanctions

• The Resilience of the Internet in Ukraine

• For the West, the Worst Is yet to Come

• Moscow retaliates against Western sanctions with export bans

• Images from Ukraine, Questions Are Western Countries Are Doing Enough

• I Watched Russian TV So You Don’ Have To – On Russian TV Putin Is the Good Guy

• The Russians using emojis to evade censors

• Russia says China refuses to supply Russian airlines with aircraft parts

• Vladimir Putin is pushing Russia into past: Maybe a generation, maybe a century

• Ukraine prepares potential move of sensitive data to another country

• Ready to Die? Why Most People Flunk the Zelenskyy Test

• Lukashenko says Belarus army must prevent any attack on Russia from the rear

• The Collapse of Putin’s Disinformation Machinery

• Panicked Russians flee West before fall of new Iron-Curtain descends on Russia

• Twitter removes Russian embassy tweet on Mariupol bombing

• A Waiter. A Cab Driver. An Engineer: The U.S. Fighters Bound for Ukraine

• Russia’s Economic Blackout Will Change the World