2022-03-25

Worthy

• Epistemic Legibility – Aceso Under Glass

Horseshit

• Gas price stimulus checks proposals head to Congress

• Making Child Tax Credit Permanent Would Have 1k% Return on Investment

• Food bank users declining potatoes as cooking costs too high

• Comet is 16 miles wide and it could be heading towards Earth

  Comet Swift-Tuttle last entered our inner solar system in December 1992 and is not expected to come back until 2126,

• It’s hard to be a moral person. Technology is making it harder

celebrity gossip

• Julian Assange Marries Stella Moris in a British Prison

• Mackenzie Scott has given $3.8B to 465 organizations since June

Rank Propaganda / Thought Policing

• Invasion of the Fact-Checkers - Tablet Magazine

• What Ever Happened to the U.S. People's Convoy? - The Truth About Cars

• Patreon Social media platform now bans users for what they say off-platform | America's Frontline Doctors

• Russia state media turn to Rumble to get out their word

COVID / VaxCult

• NYC Mayor Eric Adams says professional athletes, performers now exempt from vaccine mandate

• Gov. Ducey announces Arizona is no longer under a COVID emergency.

• Omicron is trouncing the argument for “natural immunity” to Covid

• A revitalised art market must still navigate the ongoing impact of Covid-19

• If no one else is wearing a mask, should you?

• The data are now confirmed for the African Covid heterogeneity

• The Commission would like to hear your views – EU Digital Covid Cert. Regulation

• Lawsuit against Surgeon General over request for info on “Covid misinformation”

• White House diverges from CDC, focuses on aerosol COVID spread

• Trying to Solve a Covid Mystery: Africa’s Low Death Rates

• Morgue data hint at COVID’s true toll in Africa

• Quarantine Slaughterhouse: Non-COVID Deaths Spiked During Lockdowns – PJ Media

• The prevalence of adaptive immunity to Covid-19 and reinfection after recovery

Culture War / Tribal / Re segregation

• Sometimes People Legitimately Disagree on Difficult Questions

  The social justice movement absolutely sucks at challenging establishment power! To pick an obvious example, we’re coming up on two years since George Floyd’s murder. Our country was shaken by intense paroxysms of political anger. Our entire culture seemed to take time to genuflect before not just BlackLivesMovement but the entire “awokening,” the broader social justice movement and the nonprofits who profit off of it. And then… nothing happened. Nothing. There has been nothing like the systemic change demanded by activists in that period. And if you’re inclined to say that there hasn’t been enough time, I will remind you that a) people who say justice can’t wait are probably not in position to make that complaint and b) the MeToo movement is five years old, BLM is eight years old, and the broader social justice movement is much older than that. At some point you have to actually look at your serial inability to create change and ask hard questions.

• American poverty is too high for all kinds of people

• Some past Science News coverage was racist and sexist. We're deeply sorry

• MSNBC Piece Claims ‘Health & Fitness’ is New Gateway Drug to the Far-Right – Summit News

Edumacationalizing / Acedemia Nuts

• Income Share Agreements

TechSuck

• Inside China's electric drive for swappable car batteries

• Ask HN: What Happened to ESR?

Crypto con games

• Russia considers accepting Bitcoin for oil and gas

• Disney-Pixar Pals NFTs Rakes in $3.3M in 24 Hours of Launch

• Exxon Is Mining Bitcoin With Excess Gas: Report

Economicon / Business / Finance

• Nickel Halted Limit Up Again As Chinese Tycoon Begins Covering Giant Short, Sparking Fears Of Another Mega Squeeze | ZeroHedge

• Most Medical Debts to Be Removed from Consumers’ Credit Reports

• Oil Prices Tumble After EU Fails To Agree On Russian Import Ban

• Fertilizer Prices Surge as Ukraine War Cuts Supply, Leaving Farmers Shocked

• The Myth That Most Americans Hate Their Jobs

• Microsoft is tied to hundreds of millions of dollars in foreign bribes

• An Alleged Fraud Uncovered by a Short Seller Ends in Gunfire

• A return-to-office pain in the ass: Google is taking away its bidets

Gubmint / Poilitcks / Law Making

• Trump Sues Hillary Clinton, Says She 'Maliciously Conspired' To Weave Collusion Conspiracy Theory | ZeroHedge

  "Acting in concert, the Defendants maliciously conspired to weave a false narrative that their Republican opponent, Donald J. Trump, was colluding with a hostile foreign sovereignty," reads the lawsuit, filed in a federal court in Florida.

• Biden Casually Says Food Shortage "Going To Be Real" As Necessary "Price" Of Anti-Russia Sanctions | ZeroHedge

  • Biden Says to Expect ‘Real’ Food Shortages Due to Ukraine War

• Washington Post Says Asking KBJ Questions About Her Legal Rulings Is Worse Than Falsely Accusing Kavanaugh Of Rape

Law Breaking / Police / Internal Security

• Records show Reditus CEO amassed a fleet of luxury vehicles and 2 private planes.

  The owner of a lab that made hundreds of millions of dollars in taxpayer money for running COVID-19 tests has amassed a fleet of luxury cars and at least two private planes, WGLT has learned.

• LA police: Wearing expensive jewelry could make you a target

• Russian spies tried to hack into a Kansas nuclear power plant

External Security / Militaria / Diplomania

• North Atlantic Council Extends Mandate of the Secretary General

• Pentagon Is Slashing Annual F-35 Order by 35%

• Biden heads to Poland following emergency summits in Brussels

• Uranium, oil and technology: How Russia got stronger as Bidens and Clintons got richer   | Just The News

World

• EU clinches U.S. LNG deal, brushes off Russian rouble demand

• EU negotiators agree new rules to rein in tech giants

• China sees 'unprecedented' capital outflow since Russia invaded Ukraine

• Merkel's Legacy on Russia Casts a Shadow over Her Party

• Australia, New Zealand unsettled as Solomon Islands confirms China military deal

• F1 bosses ‘monitoring’ Saudi Arabian GP after missile attack

  + [Reports of huge fire at Aramco oil facility in Saudi
  

  Arabia](https://www.cnbc.com/2022/03/25/reports-of-huge-fire-at-aramco-oil-facility-in-saudi-arabia.html)

  • Saudi Arabia Grand Prix to continue as planned after 'attack' at oil depot

Health / Medicine

• A Nurse Faces Prison for a Deadly Error, Her Colleagues Worry: Could I Be Next?

• Half of women will get a false positive 3D mammogram, study finds

• Amid doctor shortage, NPs and PAs seemed like a fix. Data’s in: Nope

Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda

• I let a baby bird nest in my hair for 84 days

• Antarctic Ice Shelf, Almost as Big as Los Angeles, Completely Collapses

Ukraine War

• Mariupol: Why Mariupol is so important to Russia's plan

• Niall Ferguson On Misunderstanding History: "Biden Is Making A Colossal Mistake" | ZeroHedge

• Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, March 24

• Media watch: when parallel lines converge, stand clear!

  With respect to Russia’s supposed “history of using chemical agents against its enemies,” we can well imagine that the author had in mind the Novichok poisoning of the Skripals and of Alexei Navalny or the polonium poisoning of Alexander Litvinenko several years ago. These cases were proven only in the court of public opinion thanks to heavy pressure on the media from the British government. There is good reason to suppose that they were all MI6 operations intended to discredit the Russian government, not actual Russian attacks. Similarly the supposed chemical attacks on his opponents by al-Assad were very likely ‘false flag’ operations by one or another Jihadi group aided by Western intelligence operatives.

• Russia Facing "Total War" From West, Lavrov Says, Stressing 'We Still Have Many Friends' | ZeroHedge

• At Polish site, Ukrainians train to fly drones

• 60% of Russian missiles fail in the field

etc

• Putin's army stumbling in Ukraine. Did the West get Russia's war machine wrong?

• The conspiracy theories swirling around Pope consecration of Ukraine and Russia

  • Pope invites bishops to join him in consecration of Russia and Ukraine - Vatican News

• Defiant Ukrainian troops tell Russians: 'Go home while you're still alive'

• Russian spies indicted in worldwide hacks of energy industry

• Rift over Ukraine exposed as high powered UK delegation to India called off

• The west is rash to assume the world is on its side over Ukraine

• Anonymous claims it hacked Russia's central bank and will release files

• How Putin became the victim of his own lies

• Putin Doesn’t Realize How Much Warfare Has Changed

• Ukraine’s Three-to-One Advantage-the moral is to the physical as three is to one

• The Smaller Bombs That Could Turn Ukraine into a Nuclear War Zone

• Ross Douthat on the need for wartime dissent

• Cisco stops all services in Russia and Belarus

• Chechen Leader Says Hoisted Russia Flag At City Hall In Ukraine’s Mariupol

• Ukraine war latest: Ukrainian forces reoccupy towns near Kyiv, says UK defence ministry

• ‘Marshal Mud’ will slow not stop Russia’s onslaught

• Concern Turkey becoming Russia sanctions evasion haven ‘growing in Europe’

• Ukraine war: US, Nato prepare for Russian nuclear incident

• Ukraine War: Civilians abducted as Russia tries to assert control

• Putin Has Coup-Proofed His Regime

• Spotify is suspending its services in Russia

• Russian soldier reportedly runs over commander with tank in protest.

• "Biden is out there talking about what our troops are going to see in Ukraine"