2022-03-18

Worthy

• Collections: The Roman Dictatorship: How Did It Work? Did It Work? – A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry

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• 6 Dead in Missouri interstate pileup involving 47 vehicles

• "Looks Like Volcano" - Smoke From Massive Walmart Fire Seen From Space  | ZeroHedge

  • Indiana Walmart fire seen from space

Horseshit

• How Brexit squashed the UK’s edible bug industry

• Utilitarianism Casts Doubt on The Simulation Hypothesis, AI Doomsday and Substrate-Independence

• Court affirms imported beef still allowed to be labeled "Product of USA"

Rank Propaganda / Thought Policing

• YouTube Flags Tulsi Gabbard’s Criticism of “War Machine” as “Offensive” Content – Summit News

• Criticizing Ukraine Is Free Speech, Too

• Facebook 'Fact-Check' Calls Video Citing Biden on Oil as Misleading

• The War on Free Speech: Politicians and Commentators Label War Critics “Traitors” – JONATHAN TURLEY

COVID / VaxCult

• Biden COVID Coordinators Leaving in April, Doctor Jha to Take Over

• Shenzhen Reopens Factories As COVID Cases Retreat

• Another Covid Wave Is Looming

• Manufacturers license generic Paxlovid for supply to lower income countries

• Ivermectin Didn’t Reduce Covid-19 Hospitalizations in Largest Trial to Date

• Meet the hard-core maskers who never leave home without an N95

• Dems search for next steps on Covid aid as headaches pile up

• Opinion: Memo to Democrats: If there’s another covid surge, you’ll get the blame

• Covid-19: Is the world ready for a great reopening?

• Hong Kong Covid crisis: why is the death rate so high?

• CDC Removes 24 Percent Of Child COVID-19 Deaths, Thousands Of Others | ZeroHedge

Culture War / Tribal / Re segregation

• Unmasking the Campaign Against “White Supremacy Culture” in Science

• America Has a Free Speech Problem

Edumacationalizing / Acedemia Nuts

• Academe Is a Hotbed of Craven Snitches

• Teachers union president misspells Ukraine on Twitter after posing with upside-down Ukrainian flag | Fox News

• Syracuse U. investigating pro-Russian graffiti found on bulletin board as a ‘bias incident.’

Media / ShowBiz / Advertising

• Wordle Archive taken down after NY Times demand

• The Succession Drama at Scholastic

• TV, merchant media and the unbundling of advertising — Benedict Evans

• Valve reportedly halts Steam payments to developers in Ukraine

TechSuck

• Intel Financialized and Lost Leadership in Semiconductor Fabrication | Hacker News

• AEG combi microwave unusable after update: device thinks it is a steam oven | Hacker News

• (Nov 2021) Global Chip Shortages Cast a Long Shadow with No End in Sight

• RIPE: EU Sanctions and Our Russian Membership

Crypto con games

• The Man Behind Ethereum Is Worried About Crypto's Future

Economicon / Business / Finance

• Over 70 Percent of 2023 Acura Integra Reservations Are for the Manual

• St. Louis Fed’s Bullard says central bank should raise rates above 3% this year

• How to Prepare For a Recession

  • HN thread

• (Feb) How Zillow's homebuying scheme lost $881M

Gubmint / Poilitcks / Law Making

• Largest Federal Utility Chooses Gas, Defying Biden’s Clean Energy Goals Archive link

• Dem Offices on Cap Hill Remain Closed After Biden’s Call for Return to Normalcy

• Hacking group Anonymous puts 'Russian asset' Marjorie Taylor Greene on notice

• White House: Developing a Bold Decadal Vision for Commercial Fusion Energy

• Cherokee Nation expects delegate in House of Representatives by 2023

Law Breaking / Police / Internal Security

• After George Floyd protests ended, police system watching protesters continued

• Police Officer Kills Dog for Walking Toward Him with Tail Wagging

• Declassified NSA oversight report shows illegal surveillance continues unimpeded

External Security / Militaria / Diplomania

• US Pacific Command to Build Anti-China Missile Network on First Island Chain

• U.S. consulate in Mexico to temporarily close following gunfire after gang boss arrest

• Joe Biden to warn Xi Jinping of US retaliation if China actively supports Russia

• Xi Tells Biden US "Misjudged" China's Intentions, Warns "Subversive" Impact If Taiwan Not Handled Properly | ZeroHedge

  • Biden's Call with Xi Jinping has Ended – Here are Reasons it could be Critical

• The False Promise of Arming Insurgents: US' Spotty Record Warrants Caution in UA

World

• Parts of Spanish Economy Grind to a Halt After Five-Day Nationwide Truckers’ Strike

• Iran’s clandestine banking & finance system handles 10s of billions in trade

Health / Medicine

• Dentist broke his patients’ teeth to make millions installing crowns, jury finds

Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda

• Western Megadrought to Persist, Worsen

• Could super-sized heat pumps make gas boilers extinct?

• Timber Company Sold Millions of Dollars of Useless Carbon Offsets

• The market for carbon credit lemons

• US Army plan to combat climate change lacks the fighting spirit

Ukraine War

• Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, March 17

• “Pentagon Estimates Putin Has Committed 75% of Forces to Ukraine”

• Here Are All The Latest News And Developments From The Ukraine War: March 18

• Syrians join Russian ranks in Ukraine as Putin calls in Assad’s debt

• EASA publishes a warn of intermittent GNSS outages near Ukraine conflict areas

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• Putin's Ukraine Agenda Evokes the Spirit of Mein Kampf

• Russia Bombed a Mariupol Theater with 'Children' Sign Outside – Shelter Survived

• ECB puts Russians in EU, even residents, under bank scanner

• Coding in a war zone: A Ruby developer's life in Kharkiv

• Putin's Chilling Warning of 'Traitors' 'Scum' Signs Things Aren't Going to Plan

• U.S. President Biden Calls Putin a “Murderous Dictator” and “A Pure Thug”

• The internet forgot about Clubhouse. Anti-war Russians didn’t

• Ukrainian influencers bring the frontlines to TikTok

• Mounting Russian Casualties in Ukraine – Questions about Its Military Readiness

• Putin calls pro-Western Russians 'traitors,' threatens 'self-cleansing'

• Hospitals Bombed – Apartments Destroyed – Mapping Civilian-Harm in Ukraine

• Stories of the War in Ukraine

• Putin Likely to Make Nuclear Threats If War Drags, U.S. Says

• Only NATO Intervention in Ukraine Can Save Putin

• Ukrainian bat research spun into a false tale of bioweapons

• A Ukrainian Photographer Documents the Invasion of His Country

• An American who owns a MiG-29 isnt sure the fighter jets would help Ukraine much

• Russian Biologists: Russia Is Lying About Evidence of Bioweapons Labs in Ukraine

• Russia has confirmed that it is behind cyber attacks on Ukraine.

• Ukrainian Disinformation? ‘Destroyed’ Russian Warship Vasily Bykov Seen Unscathed In Crimean Port

• Big Tobacco’s future in Russia goes up in smoke

• Secret CIA training program in Ukraine helped Kyiv prepare for Russian invasion

• Ukraine war: Ben Wallace and Priti Patel targeted by hoax calls

• Turkey’s Russian Missiles Could Defend Ukraine

• Russia tells Google to stop spreading threats against Russians on YouTube

• Putin says Russia must undergo a 'self-cleansing of society' to purge 'traitors'

• Hackers, Arnold Schwarzenegger and the U.S. Pierce Digital Iron Curtain

• Russia sets plan to steal $10B worth of foreign planes held in the country

• Isle of Man halts tax co-operation with Russia over Ukraine invasion

• South Africa's Ramaphosa Blames NATO for Russia's War in Ukraine

• Russian Missiles Hit a Fighter-Jet Repair-Facility – Closest Strike to Lviv

• What 'Americans' think the US should be doing about Russia's Invasion of Ukraine

• Neo-Nazis are exploiting Russia’s war in Ukraine for their own purposes

• Russia Has Attacked Lviv – This Western City Is Important to Ukraine's Defense

• Opinion: The Secret Cyberwar in Ukraine