2022-03-23

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• Video shows red truck driving through tornado in central Texas

• China Eastern crash: ‘Foul play at top of list’ says air crash investigator

• First Look At Tornado Damage In New Orleans; 1000s Without Power | ZeroHedge

Horseshit

• A Manifesto Against Sex Positivity

• What the Anti-Work Discourse Gets Wrong

• Illinois Town "Issues 62 Tickets to an Elderly Couple for Having Lawn Chairs in Their Front Yard"

celebrity gossip

• Mark Zuckerberg and Meta’s Leadership Take Remote Work to the Extreme

Rank Propaganda / Thought Policing

• Our Fundamental Right To Shame And Shun The New York Times

• Dissent From Within - by Jeffrey Carter

• Twitter suspends the Babylon Bee for telling the truth - The Spectator World

• The Great Reset - by Kenneth Drew - Taboo Topic

COVID / VaxCult

• Exercise could treat symptoms of long-Covid

• Swab, test, repeat: A 2nd rapid Covid test more than doubled result accuracy

• Alcohol Killed More Under-65 Americans Than COVID in 2020

• Covid-19: South Africa, Nigeria end PCR test for vaccinated travelers

• Pfizer used AI and big iron to design its Covid-19 vaccine

• Hillary Clinton, 74, reveals she has Covid | Metro News

• Italian study shows ventilation can cut school COVID cases by 82%

• Perspective | Why I’m stocking up on masks and tests

• Moderna to ask FDA to authorize Covid-19 vaccine in children 6 months to 6 years

  • Moderna announces results for Covid-19 trials in children 6 months to 5 years

• What's the Deal with Masks on Planes?

• Restaurants navigate another wave of changes with mask and vaccine requirements

Culture War / Tribal / Re segregation

• University of Washington IT Inclusive Language Guide

Edumacationalizing / Acedemia Nuts

• Contra Hoel On Aristocratic Tutoring - by Scott Alexander

• Watch What Happens When a Mother at a School Board Meeting Tries to Read Explicit Content Served Up to Students – PJ Media

• The Stress of College Admissions Is Largely Unnecessary

Media / ShowBiz / Advertising

• BuzzFeed's Mark Schoofs reportedly quits as losses force cuts

TechSuck

• Updated Okta Statement on Lapsus$ | Hacker News

• Starlink hikes prices due to inflation, even if you put down a deposit

• How the Nintendo Switch prevents downgrades by irreparably blowing its own fuses

  • HN thread

• Android’s Messages, Dialer Apps Quietly Sent Text, Call Info To Google

• Entering the Software-Defined Vehicle Era

• A Mysterious Satellite Hack Has Victims Far Beyond Ukraine

  The Viasat hack is arguably the largest publicly known cyberattack to take place since Russia invaded Ukraine, and it stands out for its impact beyond Ukraine’s borders. But questions about the details of the attack, its purpose, and who carried it out remain—although experts have their suspicions.

Economicon / Business / Finance

• It’s a Great Time to Hoard Nickels

• One in Three U.S. Workers Are Earning Less Than $15 an Hour

• Los Angeles gas prices hit average of $6

• Mortgage rates are surging faster than expected, prompting economists to lower their home sales forecasts.

• Higher-income people are worried about the economy

• UK faces worst recession since 1970s as soaring inflation expected

Gubmint / Poilitcks / Law Making

• Conspirators in Their Own Words › American Greatness

• Ketanji Brown Jackson Can’t Define What A Woman Is: “I’m Not A Biologist”

Law Breaking / Police / Internal Security

• Evan Neumann: US Capitol riot suspect gets asylum in Belarus

  • Jan. 6 prosecution: Enrique Tarrio's indictment already surfaced a chilling Capitol riot document.

• NYPD accused of illegally obtaining DNA samples from thousands of people

• Ex CafePress owner fined $500k for 'shoddy' security, covering up data breach

External Security / Militaria / Diplomania

• FBI: Hackers scanned networks of 5 US energy firms ahead of Russia warning

• Biden Should Punish Saudi Arabia for Backing Russia

• Team Biden Runs the Syria Playbook on Ukraine - Tablet Magazine

• U.S. admiral says China has fully militarized three islands in South China Sea

World

• Russian Stock Market Prepares for an Unusual Reopening

• Afghanistan girls' tears over chaotic Taliban schools U-turn

Health / Medicine

• Reporting bias makes homeopathy trials look like they work

• The illusion of evidence based medicine

• Medical Marijuana Leads to Addiction, Not Shown to Be Effective.

Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda

• What happened to the world's ozone hole?

• China Faces Worst Crop Conditions Ever Due to Climate Change

Ukraine War

• from MR

  • Russia and Poland

  • "Poland is preparing for an attack on Russia"

• Here Are All The Latest News And Developments From The Ukraine War: March 23

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• The Low-Down: Is Putin's Invasion Failing Because Russian Intelligence Embezzled Billions Intended As Bribes For Ukrainians?

• Hospitals Bombed and Apartments Destroyed: Incidents of Civilian Harm in Ukraine

• Prominent Russian Rabbi Supports Putin's 'Denazification' of Ukraine

• 20 days in Mariupol: The team that documented city’s agony

• How Ukraine’s Outgunned Air Force Is Fighting Back Against Russian Jets

• Why Putin won’t use nukes in Ukraine – Pass it on

• Russian state media accidentally releases 9,861 KIA toll in Ukraine, then airbrushes; rumors of a possible Kremlin coup – disinformation or real; even CNN sees red wave coming in US midterms; Coulrocracy (=government by clowns) | Spin, strangeness, and charm

• Putin, Biden Face a Dangerous Choice: How Does Russia Want to Lose?

• Russian general killed after Ukrainian forces destroy command post

• Cracks in the mainstream narrative on the Ukraine war wide enough to drive a tank through

• Exclusive: Ukraine 2022 spring crop sowing area could be halved – minister

• Larry C. Johnson: "The Ukrainian Army has been Defeated. What's left is mop-up", by Mike Whitney - The Unz Review

• Russia Sanctions Collateral Damage: Diesel Shortage Risk Worsening, EV Batteries, | naked capitalism

• Ukraine Unplugged from Russia and Joined Europe’s Power Grid with Speed

• Ukraine Confirms 9 Humanitarian Corridors Agreed To As Zelensky Says Mariupol "Like Armageddon"

• Dumping vodka, banning Dostoevsky: some anti-Russian protests are empty gestures

• Russia to switch European payments for gas supplies to roubles

• Russia destroys Chernobyl radiation monitoring lab, says Ukraine

• Russia will never want peace

• Ukraine president signs decree to combine national TV channels into one platform

• Watch: Stunning aerial footage shows Ukrainian city 'reduced to ashes'