2023-02-12

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• (May 2022) We Do Not Kneel - A Letter to My Newborn Son

Horseshit

• I Won't Be Watching the Super Bowl: I Think Football Is Too Dangerous to Exist

• Take your date to the grocery store

• How to make money on the Super Bowl

• Yellowstone Caldera Volcanic Power Generation: Volcanic Energy on National Scale

• Conspiracy Theorists Think Walkable Cities Are Open-Air Prison Dystopias

Rank Propaganda / Thought Policing / World Disordering

• Toward policy for open-source software as infrastructure

  • HN comments

• Censorship Operations: Covid, War, and More ⋆ Brownstone Institute

Musk

• One of Tesla’s biggest critics is funding a Super Bowl ad against it

• Super Bowl Ad Slams Tesla’s ‘Full Self-Driving’ Tech

Trump / War against the Right / Jan6

• Twitter made exceptions to racism policies to accomodate racist tweets by Trump

Pestilence / Pox / COVID / VaxCult

• For Older Americans, the Pandemic Is Not Over

• Why does the SARS-Cov2 genome end in aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa? (2020) | Hacker News

• America Forgot the 1918 Flu. Will We Also Forget Covid?

  • What if most of the damage from the Spanish Flu was done by well meaning doctors over prescribing their new medical miracle, aspirin? As the "Medical Establishment" rose to the level of an unassailable social Institution with the help of the new mass media, it was just convenient to never address the memories of the Flu, because that would require addressing the mistakes that were made then, too.

• Can you get two viruses at once?

  This winter's "tripledemic" is one of several recent odd trends among respiratory virus infections. Viruses, it turns out, can block one another and take turns to dominate.

Edumacationalizing / Acedemia Nuts

• Academia has a whiteness problem — Jonathan C. Hall

  The problem with academia is whiteness. Any and all common explanations for why institutions can’t seem to diversify, despite how much they say they want to, all take root in an academic culture that rewards individuals who take up and weaponize whiteness.

Media / ShowBiz / Advertising

• Amazon is the latest threat to Facebook as ad targeting suffers

• It's game day: Eagles, Chiefs to do battle in Super Bowl LVII

TechSuck

• Can Intel Come Back?

• PC CPU Shipments See Steepest Decline in 30 Years

Crypto con games

• Peter Thiel’s fund wound down 8-year Bitcoin bet before market crash

• Did Sam Bankman-Fried Just End the Era of the Boy Genius?

Economicon / Business / Finance

• “Hunger cliff” looms as 32 states set to slash food-stamp benefits

Gubmint / Poilitcks / Law Making

• Disney Officially Loses Control Of Reedy Creek Development In Landslide Florida Senate Vote

• IRS builds task force to explore running its own free e-file system

  • HN comments

External Security / Militaria / Diplomania

• PM ordered take down of an unidentified object that violated Canadian airspace

  • HN comments

  • US aircraft shoots down new airborne object over Canada

  • HN comments

  A CNN correspondent [0] just claimed that there were conflicting statements from the pilots that it interfered with their sensors as they approached it. And that they couldn't figure out how it was staying in the air.

  • Another UFO shot down over Canada by US

  • Third High-Altitude Airborne Object Shot Down By US Fighter Jet

• What we know about the unidentified object shot down over Alaska | CNN Politics

  But the pilots later gave differing reports of what they observed, the source briefed on the intelligence said. Some pilots said the object “interfered with their sensors” on the planes, but not all pilots reported experiencing that. Some pilots also claimed to have seen no identifiable propulsion on the object, and could not explain how it was staying in the air, despite the object cruising at an altitude of 40,000 feet.

• FAA Shuts Down Air Space in Montana Due to National Security

  • U.S. FAA closes some airspace in Montana for Defense Department activities

  • HN comments

• China preparing to shoot down unidentified flying object off China's east coast

  • China Spots Unidentified Object Flying Near Port City: Paper

• Now China Claims It's Tracking Unidentified Object Over Port City | ZeroHedge

• Objects shot down Friday and Saturday were balloons, Schumer says

  • Sen. Schumer says 2 objects shot down over Alaska,Canada believed to be balloons

• Alien Twitter is going wild over all of these "objects" being shot down

• WSJ's claimed balloon launch site in China geolocated

• Airspace over Lake Michigan restricted due to national defense

• Canadian search teams hunt for wreckage amid UFO anxiety

World

• WW2 Bomb Explodes in England

• Germany won't excavate WWI tunnel containing hundreds of soldiers' bodies

• Hackers interrupt Iran president’s TV speech on anniversary of revolution

Health / Medicine

• How to Get Healthier Dopamine Highs

• Kentucky sees its first infant anonymously surrendered at a baby box

• I Tried Ketamine to Treat My Depression. It Was Terrifying

Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda

• Climate breakdown could cause British apples to die out, warn experts

• Analysis-With cash infusion, developing nations boost sun-dimming research