2023-01-14

Worthy

• Too Many Pixels

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• Small Penises and Fast Cars: Evidence for a Psychological Link

• Dallas Zoo finds missing clouded leopard on zoo grounds

• The Economic Secret Hidden in a Tiny, Discontinued Pasta - The Bulwark

• NTSB: Cloud shot up vertically in front of plane before turbulence

Horseshit

• Should I Shave My Head? Reasons You’ll Be Glad You Did

• Does Refrigeration Kill Nutrition?

Musk

• Judge rejects Elon Musk’s request to move his upcoming trial to Texas

• Elon Musk-funded nonprofit run by MIT professor offered to fund pro-nazi group | Hacker News

• Despite Chaos, Cities Are Sticking with Twitter

Trump / War against the Right / Jan6

• How Police Exploited the Capitol Riot’s Digital Records | Hacker News

• McCarthy ‘Sends DC in Utter Panic’ After This Statement About January 6

Pestilence / Pox / COVID / VaxCult

• CDC, FDA see possible link between Pfizer’s bivalent shot and strokes

• CDC&FDA Identify Preliminary Covid-19 Vaccine Safety Signal for Persons Aged 65

• Pfizer Bivalent Vaccine Linked to Strokes in Preliminary Data

• CDC Finally Released Its VAERS Safety Monitoring Analyses for COVID Vaccines via FOIA

• Is Coincidence Now The Leading Cause Of Death?

• WaPo: "Are people dying with or from COVID?" We are overcounting Covid deaths and hospitalizations. That’s a problem Archive link

  • HN comments

• Nearly 60k people have died of Covid in China in past five weeks

Culture War / Tribal / Re segregation

• LAPD bans Thin Blue Line flag over complaint it represents ‘racist, bigoted views.’

Edumacationalizing / Acedemia Nuts

• 'The Science' Is Ruining Science | The Pipeline

• Ryan Bourne reports from the AEA meetings

  To summarize: there were roughly three times as many sessions featuring papers on each of race, gender, and climate as there were sessions on the topics of inflation or growth. For the conference as a whole, that means 13.2 percent of all sessions featured gender issues, 12.6 percent climate, 12.4 percent race, against just 4.4 percent for inflation and growth (some sessions featured more than one of these listed topics).

Media / ShowBiz / Advertising

• Substack is giving writers a license to print money

Crypto con games

• Why is SBF out of jail writing a bullshit Substack?

Economicon / Business / Finance

• Meme stocks start 2023 on a high note as investors re-embrace risk

• Permanent campers: Rising rents are pushing people to live on public lands

• JPMorgan claim they got scammed by startup they own that lied about its userbase

• BlackRock Introduces First Mass Layoff In Years After Losing $1.5 Trillion | The Daily Wire

• Worldwide Layoff Under Way at IBM

Gubmint / Poilitcks / Law Making

• How the New York Times sugarcoated Hunter Biden dodgy business deals

Law Breaking / Police / Internal Security

• Nixon Threatened to Reveal the CIA's Involvement in the Kennedy Assassination

• FORMER UVALDE POLICE CHIEF: I Left the Gunman Unhindered to Continue Killing the Children He Held Hostage, So I Could “Evacuate” The Children Who Were In No Danger Whatsoever

World

• World Bank: Lebanon’s crisis among world’s worst since 1850s

Russia Bad / Ukraine War

• Britain indicates it will send battle tanks to Ukraine

• Why Crimea Is the Key to Peace in Ukraine

Health / Medicine

• Routine vaccinations drop among U.S. kindergartners for the third year in a row

  • HN comments

Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda

• What Is The US "Gas Stove Ban" Really About? | ZeroHedge

  It’s not about gas stoves, and it’s not about asthma – it’s about “indoor air pollution”, and more importantly how they plan on “regulating” it. In one of those startling coincidences we’ve all got so used to witnessing in modern geopolitics, just as the US is talking about indoor air quality because of gas stoves, other countries around the world are doing the same thing for totally different reasons.