2022-04-04

Worthy

• Why I'm in the Army Reserve–an explainer for my friends in tech

  we emphasise explaining the context two levels up. I may tell my soldiers to raid a compound, but I would also tell them that the reason for this is to create a distraction so that the Colonel can divert the enemy away from a bridge, and that the reason the Brigadier wants the Colonel to divert the enemy is so that the bridge is easier to cross. Not only do the soldiers then know why it’s important to raid the compound (so that others can cross the bridge), but they know that if for some reason they can’t raid the compound, creating any other diversion or distraction will do in a pinch, and if they can’t do that they can still try to do something to make it easier to cross the bridge. It lets everyone adapt to change as it happens without additional instruction if they aren’t able to get in touch with me. Again I think tech could possibly learn from that.

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• The Mystifying Rise of Child Suicide

• What happens when babies are left to cry it out?

• Are you a baby? A litmus test - by Haley Nahman

  It only recently occurred to me that what we actually needed was to grow up—get to know ourselves, learn to communicate. Trying to weasel out of all that with an app is, well, basically the entire value prop of Silicon Valley, but more importantly antithetical to growth.

  • HN thread

• Games must let us be proper villains again if they want us to make moral choices

Horseshit

• Tech companies are offering spiritual care to make employees more productive

celebrity gossip

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

Obit

• Estelle Harris, whose acting credits include 'Seinfeld' and 'Toy Story,' has died

Rank Propaganda / Thought Policing / World Disordering

• Thomas Piketty Thinks America Is Primed for Wealth Redistribution

• Stonekettle Station: When Fascism Comes to America

• Does Choice Cause an Illusion of Control?

• White victimhood fuels Republican politics

COVID / VaxCult

• Covid spike protein induces cognitive deficit and anxiety-like behavior in mice

• Shanghai lockdown triggers complaints as Covid cases rise

• Shanghai parents fear separation from kids after positive Covid test

• Effectiveness of SARS-CoV-2 vaccines in the post-natural infection world

• A Physician's Plea for Exemption: Full Text  ⋆ Brownstone Institute

• In Setback for India, WHO Disagrees With Govt Data on COVID Deaths

• Pressure builds to lift transportation mask mandates

• FDA Shuts Out Its Own Experts in Authorizing Another Vaccine Booster

• Tesla’s Shanghai factory stays closed as Covid restrictions remain in place

• Vaccine effectiveness of 2&3 doses of BNT162b2 and CoronaVac against Covid in HK

• The Latest Covid Misinformation Star Says He Invented the Vaccines

• Diet-related diseases pose a major risk for Covid-19. But the US overlooks them

Culture War / Tribal / Re segregation

• Politico falsely claims that Ketanji Brown Jackson will be 'first Black Supreme Court Justice' | The Post Millennial

Edumacationalizing / Acedemia Nuts

• Oberlin Colleges loses appeal in suit filed by local bakery

• Efforts to ban books jumped an 'unprecedented' four-fold in 2021

Media / ShowBiz / Advertising

• Elon Musk Takes 9.2% Passive Stake in Twitter

  • Elon Musk buys 9.2 percent of Twitter amid complaints about free speech

  • Twitter Shares Jump 26% After Elon Musk Takes 9.2% Passive Stake

• Trump's Truth Social app branded a disaster

  • Comment pointed out its doing a little better than Clubhouse at similar lifetime and signups points.

  • Two key tech execs quit Truth Social after troubled app launch

TechSuck

• Intel Doubles Down on ESG with Launch of Second-Gen Bitcoin Mining Chips

  Each of the chips will have a hashrate of up to 580 gigahash per second (GH/s) and power efficiency of 26 joules/terahash (J/TH), according to Intel's statement.

  At first blush, the hashrate of the new chips could be seen as lower than the initial report of up to 135 terahash/second (TH/s). The company, however, said that the hashrate is just for one chip and that several of them could be used to build a mining system with a much higher hashrate.

  The 26 J//TH power consumption of the new chip, however, makes it more efficient than Bitmain’s latest model, the Antminer S19 Pro+ Hyd., which delivers a hashrate of 198 TH/s with an efficiency of 27.5 J/TH. The miner is also more efficient than MicrtoBT’s Whatsminer M30S++, which brings 112 TH/s at an efficiency of 31 J/TH.

• Production and supply-chain update - Raspberry Pi

Economicon / Business / Finance

• The ant trail of LNG tankers across Atlantic

• German Retail Chains to Increase Food Prices by 20-50% from Monday

• Great Resignation Isn’t Slowing and May Persist, Randstad Says

• Egg prices skyrocket 52% in TWO MONTHS as bird flu decimates commercial flocks: As many as 11 million chickens and two million turkeys have died this year

• Why People Are Adding a Second Shift at Night

Gubmint / Poilitcks / Law Making

• The Supreme Court Has Never Been Apolitical

• WhiteHouse.gov Tries to Conceal Another Biden Misstatement – PJ Media

Hunter

• GOP cries ‘we told you so’ on Hunter Biden

• Joe Biden ‘confident’ Hunter didn’t break law in dealings with Ukraine, China: Klain

• Ex-intel officer: Spy agency sought Hunter Biden laptop back in 2020 to see if family compromised | Just The News

World

• Viktor Orbán expected to win big majority in Hungarian general election

  • Hungary’s Viktor Orban scores crushing victory as Ukraine war solidifies support

• Pakistan president dissolves Parliament at PM’s request

• Most of Dutch rail network halted by technical problem

Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda

• Climate change could cost US budget $2T a year by the end of the century

• The new Pause lengthens: now 7 years 6 months – Watts Up With That?

• How to Convince People to Leave Homes at Serious Risk from Climate Change

• Birds Are Laying Eggs Earlier Likely Due to Climate Change

• Research suggests plastic bag bans may be backfiring in a way that makes complete sense once you think about it

• 'Tree of life' could help slow climate change

• IPCC scientists say it's 'now or never' to limit warming

• It’s over for fossil fuels: IPCC report

• Climate Change 2022: Mitigation of Climate Change

Ukraine War

• Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, April 3

  Ukraine has won the Battle of Kyiv. Russian forces are completing their withdrawal, but not in good order. Ukrainian forces are continuing to clear Kyiv Oblast of isolated Russian troops left behind in the retreat, which some Ukrainian officials describe as “lost orcs.” Russian forces had attempted to conduct an orderly retreat from their positions around Kyiv with designated covering forces supported by artillery and mines to allow the main body to withdraw. The main body of Russian troops has withdrawn from the west bank of the Dnipro and is completing its withdrawal from the east bank, but the retrograde has been sufficiently disorderly that some Russian troops were left behind.

  Moscow is attempting to concentrate reserves and some units pulled from the fight around Sumy to reinforce its offensive operations in the east but is encountering serious challenges in that effort. The Ukrainian General Staff reported on April 3 that Russian soldiers are resisting and in some cases refusing orders to enter or re-enter the war effort. The General Staff asserted that the two battalion tactical groups (BTGs) that moved from South Ossetia toward Donbas less than a week ago refused to fight and that plans to move them back to South Ossetia are in train.[1] The General Staff claimed that about 25 soldiers of the Russian 31st Separate Airborne Brigade refused orders to re-enter combat citing excessive losses.[2] The General Staff also asserted that commanders at various echelons in the Russian 3rd Motorized Rifle Division have refused to participate in combat operations.[3] We have no independent verification of these reports, but they are credible in light of the losses Russian forces have suffered and of independent reports of Russian soldiers killing commanders and commanders committing suicide from earlier in the conflict.

• Russian Army Executed Civilians

  • Ukraine’s President Calls Russian Assault ‘Genocide’

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• Battle of Kyiv (Thread)

• Rape as a weapon: scale of sexual violence endured in Ukraine emerges

• Ukraine accuses Russia of massacre, city strewn with bodies

• The long economic war against Russia: A plan

  From the fact that the Russians brought mobile crematoria and 45,000 body bags to an invasion they thought they were going to easily win, and distributed instructions for the digging of mass graves, it’s clear that mass killings like this were part of the invasion plan from the start.

  If we can tip the balance decisively toward EVs before China can reconstitute Russia’s defense industries, we can make sure that Russia’s hydrocarbon-funded war machine never gets fully back on its feet.

• Opinion: Is Putin banking on an endless war?

• Retired Army major general: The Russian military invasion has peaked

• Envoy points to Ukrainian shelling of Bucha following Russian troop withdrawal

• Russia threatens to cut off European gas supply

• Is Russia’s Military Running Out Of Equipment And Spare Parts? « Lawrence Person's BattleSwarm Blog

  we see ample evidence that field resupply has been negatively impacted by severe logistical difficulties. But “T-72s lack spare parts because the original factory was in Ukraine” doesn’t pass the smell test.

• 786.2 GB data leaked from data from the Russian state broadcasting company

• Almost 17,000 people have now fled Ukraine to Ireland

• Cyberattacks have yet to play significant role in Russia’s battlefield operation

• What Does Arming an Insurgency in Ukraine Mean?